• TheSlad@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Its been a while since I read LotR but didn’t the entwives just fuck off to a different forest cause they got tired of dealing with the ents’ bullshit? And the ents are all like “we should go looking for them” “yes we should” and then they just don’t cause theyre too lazy. I’m pretty sure they even mention knowing exactly where the entwives went.

    • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      So it’s implied that the entwives (if I remember correctly) live near the shire. They say the trees in the deeper parts move, and some even speak.

      Of course, in the books, the shire is decimated and attacked, and similar to the other commenter I believe this is another example of the magic leaving the world of middle earth.

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      3 months ago

      The entwives were likely all burned by Sauron’s forces in the second age, it’s just part of the general trend of the world’s magic fading.

    • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      What happened to the entwives is legitimately a source of great debate and mystery to this day as Tolkien never provided a conclusive answer during his lifetime. On purpose, I might add, because people kept asking him, and he enjoyed keeping the answer to himself.