Entwives and the Shire

[Niniel]

Tolkien didn't know it himself:

I think the Entwives disappeared for good, being destroyed with their gardens in the War of the Last Alliance when Sauron pursued a scorched earth policy and burned their land against the advance of the Allies down the Anduin. They survived only in the 'agriculture' transmitted to Men (and Hobbits). Some, of course, may have fled east, or even have become enslaved: tyrants even in such tales must have an economic and agricultural background to their soldiers and metal-workers. If any survived so, they would indeed be far estranged from the Ents, and any rapprochement would be difficult- unless experience in industrial and militarized agriculture had made them a little more anarchic. I hope so. I don't know.

Letters of Tolkien, no. 144.

 

[DurinLongBeard]

Here is a thread that debates Ents and Entwives in the Shire

Hope it helps!

 

[Turin]

Stupid Entwives. Why did they leave the Ents anyway. They paid for there mistakes and so did the Ents. And how do Ents reproduce?

 

[Niniel]

Readthis
Though I still have a hard time imagining it.

 

[DurinLongBeard]

lol hahahaha!! Thats really funny!

 

[Goldberry]

Ahem, if I remember from the book, Treebeard said he was not bendable enough to sit down, but he could lie down.

 

[Turin]

Well I guess no one knows the answer. Except Tolkien.

 

[Lantarion]

Originally posted by Goldberry
Ahem, if I remember from the book, Treebeard said he was not bendable enough...

Haha, then I guess anything else than cross-pollenation as a method of reproduction is out of the question..

 

[Nenya Evenstar]

I am weird in a certain way that I don't really want to know what happened to certain things like the Entwives. I like the unanswered questions and the mystery that surrounds them and I almost hate to make a decision about stuff like this because it would destroy that "magic" for me.

I've always considered the tree-man that Hal saw to be an Ent, but a male Ent. I don't know how true that is though. I've always considered Old Man Willow and certain trees in the Old Forest to be a sleepy Ents as well. I don't think the Entwives are ever glimpsed in the stories as more than far off memories. I like to keep them that way and not really know whether or not they meet their matches or not.

 

[BlackCaptain]

'But what about these Tree-men, thse giants, as you might call them? They do say that one bigger than a tree was seen up away beyond the North Moors not long back.

...

'But this one was walking, I tell you; and there ain't no elm tree on the North Moors

Now I know this can't be Ents because Fangorn says that the Ents don't go there. Is this some conspiracy left un-conspiritated by Tolkien?!

 

[Anamatar IV]

Actually, Treebeard said the Old Forest in the Shire would be a place Entiwives would like.

If you want, also see these threads:

http://thetolkien.forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9937

http://thetolkien.forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10626
and

http://thetolkien.forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6476

 

[Lantarion]

This thread deals with this issue, as do many others like it..
In there I think I say that the 'walking tree' that Sam's friend or cousin saw was either a Huorn or an Ent. It couldn't have been an Entwife, because in many places it is stated that the Entwives were all killed off by Sauron.
And even if an Entwife or two had survived, I believe that over time they would have turned into Huorns, like Fangorn had witnessed happen to many of his old friends.
And it couldn't have ben an Entling (which was another suggestion I made before), because there were (suposedly) no Entiwives around, and even if there was there were no Ents to know about them.
Phew.

And yes, Anamatar; but it doesn't indicate whether it was an Entwife that Sam's friend/cousin or not..