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Originally Posted by Morsul the Dark

Does anyone knowthe history of dwarves and ents... what I mean is ents were created to prtect trees from dwarven axes...and yet i do not recall any sign of the two duking it out in fact dwarves live in the mines for the most part and you really dont hear about them wastefully destroying forests...

so did they ever battle or did the ents just appear and kind of lay low not doing much until that fated day of basicly taking out saruman

From The Silmarillion (Of The Ruin of Doriath):

Thus it came to pass that when the Dwarves of Nogrod, returning from Menegroth with diminished host, came again to Sam Athrad, they were assailed by unseen enemies; for as they climbed up Gelion's banks burdened with the spoils of Doriath, suddenly all the woods were filled with the sound of elven-horns, and shafts sped upon them from every side. There very many of the Dwarves were slain in the first onset; but some escaping from the ambush held together, and fled eastwards towards the mountains. And as they climbed the long slopes beneath Mount Dolmed there came forth the Shepherds of the Trees, and they drove the Dwarves into the shadowy woods of Ered Lindon: whence, it is said, came never one to climb the high passes that led to their homes.