Entwives

I greatly enjoyed learning more about the Ent race during class time last week, and find is specifically interesting that the female Ents, the Entwives, have somehow disappeared. In The Two Towers, this is something that Treebeard explains. I did a little more research about the Entwives and just thought I would share it here. The Entwives were created by Yavanna along with their male counterparts, the Ents. The Entwives left the Ents in order to start a garden in the Brown Lands before the Third Age, as they preferred to look after smaller plants such as bushes, fields, fruits, flowers, and vegetables. The Male ents were responsible for caring for the larger trees, which they strongly resembled. When Treebeard went looking for the Entwives, he could not find them. It is never explained what exactly happened to them in any of Tolkien's literature, but it is assumed that this is something Tolkien wanted to leave as a mystery, but it is possible they were destroyed along with their gardens following the rise of Sauron. The Entwives have a very unique mythology because their destruction is never explained and they were truly interesting and beautiful creatures.

-Melian