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07. Treebeard is also known as "The Eldest" because he is the oldest being in Middle-Earth.
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He may be the oldest Ent, but he is not the oldest being in Middle Earth. That honor goes to none other than good ol' Tom Bombadil. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
It may be worthy to note that Ent language (which Elentari correctly identified as Entish), takes an extremely long time. Words as simple as "hill" or greetings as simple as "hello" or "good afternoon" take many hours to say in the long, creaking, unhasty droll of the Ents.
The Ents were created by Yavanna, one of the Valar, to watch after her beloved forests, which she felt were threatened by Melkor and by her husband Aule's creations, the Dwarves, who were ever in need of natural resources for their work. They befriended the Elves who wandered the forests in the First Age and woke up sleeping trees. Of old they had wives, known as (go figure) Entwives, and their offspring were called Entings. As Treebeard relays in short to Merry and Pippin in
The Two Towers, the Entwives abandoned the Ents many long years ago, and the Ents sought in vain for them but eventually began to discontinue their searches. It is never stated by Tolkien whither the Entwives went (although I have my own theories [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ).
The last big deed of the Ents that we know about is their sack of Isengard.
Hope that helps!
<font size=1 color=339966>[ 6:19 PM December 09, 2003: Message edited by: Lord of Angmar ]