|
Post by LadyOfRohan on Feb 16, 2004 22:10:33 GMT
I think that the walking tree in the Shire from FotR must have been an entwife. I used to have a whole theory about this, but I forgot most of it oh well.
|
|
|
Post by Tishamet on Mar 31, 2004 4:37:02 GMT
I voted not sure, but I had forgotten about the thing that Mirkwood archer saidin the very first post...I wanna change now. I do think they still exist...
|
|
~Dandrë~
Rohan warrior
Dreamer
Posts: 149
|
Post by ~Dandrë~ on Jan 22, 2006 2:56:43 GMT
Yes, but don't forget the Huorns. They weren't the same as Ents, though they were certainly alive and animate in a way that the trees in our world are not. I think Tolkien may have put the walking tree there simply to make us wonder, "could it be an Entiwive?" But I think it's far more likely that it was, in fact, a Huorn-type creature, like those of Fangorn forest that helped in the Battle of the Hornburg. I think the story of the Ents really shows us the dangers of immortality. (since the Elves were too busy getting killed in all their battles to do the same ) In the timelessness of their existence, the Ents sort of forgot how to live. When the Entwives left, it wasn't a sudden "ok, goodbye. We're going to go someplace else and leave you stupid Ents for a change." It was a gradual- almost unperceptable- movement apart. Kind of like the fading light from a sunset. And in the inattentiveness that came from ages of existence, they simply "lost" each other. History blends into the present for the Ents, in a way that it can't for mortal creatures. So by the time the Ents finally realize that the Entwives are gone, it's like being hit with something closer to mortality than they had ever known before. I think this startling realization is what makes them most willing, in the end, to help in the battle against Saruman; in aiding the world outside their own sphere of immortality. I think that yes, the Entwives are no longer alive. Either dead or fallen "asleep" (turned treeish), perhaps gradually becoming Huorns or even normal trees. It's sad, in a way, but I like to look at it as a cost of immortality. You finally lose consciousness to the reality of living. Does this make sense?
|
|