[manticore]

The lasting question after reading LOTR, for me at least, has always been - what really happened to the Entwives?

[sunback]

defently joined poison ivy

[Cadfael]

I am convinced I married one!!! :D

I also chat to one on MSN a lot to I think!!!

oooops, I am going to get it now.....

[manticore]

it all depends...try shouting Fimbrethil! at the top of your voice on Sunday afternoons and see if she flinches

[Cadfael]

To be serious for a mo....

Is it not that the Ents looked after forest and the Entwives got bored and started to look after gardens... and help man with agriculture... 'They tended shrubs and other such stuff...".

So... if the forest have ents... every garden and plowed field will have an Entwife... very much reduced from their former glory... and maybe not easy to see... but the entwive will tend the garden....

[Mithfânion]

Well I actually have the answer to your question, but it's not in the poll :)

Still interested?

[Loque]

if you are serious then YYYYYEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!! this one has been bugging me for ages...

[manticore]

Originally posted by Cadfael
To be serious for a mo....

Is it not that the Ents looked after forest and the Entwives got bored and started to look after gardens... and help man with agriculture... 'They tended shrubs and other such stuff...".

So... if the forest have ents... every garden and plowed field will have an Entwife... very much reduced from their former glory... and maybe not easy to see... but the entwive will tend the garden....


like house-elves, etc. nice. or like dryads.

[Mithfânion]

Tolkien sort of answers the Entwives question in his Letters, which I've read, being the proficient Tolkien-adept that I am ;)

What it comes down to is that the Entwives "were most probably killed" during "Sauron's scorced earth's policy". In the Second age, you may recall that Sauron, when he learned that the Elves had learned of his plan's to rule them through the One Ring and never intended to use the Three Elven Rings, he set flame to the lands of Eregion and Eriador, where the Entwices apparently lived. They had left the Ents for a while, to live on different soil, but were probably killed during Sauron's policy. Tolkien also offers that they may have been enslaved....

[manticore]

wasnt there something about them going south? I thought that might have meant they moved to the lands south of Gondor

and what about the moving elm tree seen on the borders of the shire right in the begiinning?