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Meriadoc61 · 04-18-2001, 11:13 AM

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/vilya.jpg" align=absmiddle> What part did I want expanded?

This is an easy one for me...I have always wished for the Ents to find the Entwives.

I read a commentary years ago by a gentleman whose name now eludes me who said something to the effect such as that Ents would never find the Entwives because they had evolved to a new point where they were reproducing asexually via the Ents and Huorns. I disagree with this conclusion, though, and here is why.

As the tale winds down virtually everyone has a "happy ending," per se, except the Ents. Treebeard keeps reminding Merry and Pippin to send him word should they hear of the Entwives in the Shire, and when they first met and desribed the country they came from, Treebeard questioned them about this repeatedly because he thought their land sounded as if it would appeal to the Entwives.

I think JRRT left the finding of the Entwives out either accidentally or he possibly wanted to carry it into another tale. I believe the former may be true. I know Treebeard said that it was foreboded that they would not find each other until they had both lost all they had, but I do not know that this foreboding is necessarily carved in stone. The reason I believe it was left out accidentally is because while Sam is at the Green Dragon debating with Ted Sandyman in the very first chapter of LotR, one of the points Sam brings up is his cousin seeing a Treeman as big as an elm walking up on the North Downs. Sounds to me like an Ent, doesn't it?

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04-18-2001, 11:13 AM	#33
Meriadoc61 Pile O'Bones Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 15	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Newly Deceased Posts: 10</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/vilya.jpg" align=absmiddle> What part did I want expanded? This is an easy one for me...I have always wished for the Ents to find the Entwives. I read a commentary years ago by a gentleman whose name now eludes me who said something to the effect such as that Ents would never find the Entwives because they had evolved to a new point where they were reproducing asexually via the Ents and Huorns. I disagree with this conclusion, though, and here is why. As the tale winds down virtually everyone has a "happy ending," per se, except the Ents. Treebeard keeps reminding Merry and Pippin to send him word should they hear of the Entwives in the Shire, and when they first met and desribed the country they came from, Treebeard questioned them about this repeatedly because he thought their land sounded as if it would appeal to the Entwives. I think JRRT left the finding of the Entwives out either accidentally or he possibly wanted to carry it into another tale. I believe the former may be true. I know Treebeard said that it was foreboded that they would not find each other until they had both lost all they had, but I do not know that this foreboding is necessarily carved in stone. The reason I believe it was left out accidentally is because while Sam is at the Green Dragon debating with Ted Sandyman in the very first chapter of LotR, one of the points Sam brings up is his cousin seeing a Treeman as big as an elm walking up on the North Downs. Sounds to me like an Ent, doesn't it? </p>