informations about Ents

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Technically, it wasn't the Ents that killed the Dwarves, they were led by Beren Erchamion and other Green-elves. This is a much-abridged version of that event.

After Thingol received the Silmaril, it began to affect him just as it had affected its previous owners. He became greedy and overpossessive of it, and would never give it up. He summoned Dwarves from the Blue Mountains to set the Silmaril in the Nauglamir, a necklace, for a promised price. Once they had done the work, Thingol met them in the treasury, and then refused to pay them, or was extremely rude to them, or somme such thing, the story differs. Anyway, the Dwarves were so enamoured of the Silmaril that they slew Thingol, who, unwisely, was alone, and razed Menegroth. Grief drove Melian to leave Doriath, and travel back to Aman. They stole a lot of treasure from the treasury, and set off back to their home. Meanwhile, Beren and Luthien had been living right across the river Ascar, and had heard of the fall of Thingol and the departure of Melian. Beren, the Green-elves, and the Ents set out after the Dwarves, and ambushed them on the riverbank, destroying them. Beren took the Nauglamir and the treasure, and Luthien wore the Nauglamir until her dying day. The rest of the tale, and of the final Fall of Doriath, is for another day.