Yes, but Iluvatar wanted the Elves to be the Eldest of the Children of Iluvatar (both "biological" (Elves and Men) and "adopted" (Dwarves and Ents)), so he told Yavanna that the Ents would have to wake up at least at the same time as the Elves, so as not to mess up his plan for the seeming greater good of Arda.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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