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Old 02-01-2007, 11:11 PM   #1
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Tolkien Treebeard's fate

I can't recall what happens to Treebeard and the Ents at the end of the books, besides they just go about their everyday lives without orc rubbish. Presumably, they never find the Ent Wives, which is pretty sad...but let's not talk about the Ent Wives, that is a whole different can of worms, haha. What do you think happened to Treebeard and the Ents? Any official notes from Tolkien that anybody knows of?
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Old 02-01-2007, 11:45 PM   #2
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may i say the great fangorn forest bush fire....
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Old 02-02-2007, 02:17 AM   #3
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Maybe they wandered to the West and disappeared when all other legends did, possibly meeting the Entwines in the forests of the Blessed Realm...

Or maybe they all became, year by year, decade by decade, century by century, more treeish and faded away...
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With Tolkien's style I think the latter is probably right Lommy. It's sad, but somehow more 'real'.
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Great topic! Let me add a question (or two)... Are the Ents considered to be immortal (like the elves), or just extremely long-lived? As such, would they be welcome in Valinor?

As I recall from the Silmarillion, Eru had plans for the "souls" of elves and men (granted, his plan for men remained a mystery, but it is enough to know that there WAS a plan) and even the Dwarves were taken care of after Aulë's little coup d'etat... but is there anywhere in the works of Tolkien a mention of the afterlife of the Ents?
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Old 02-02-2007, 11:04 AM   #6
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Tolkien

I'm not fluent with the Silmarillion, so unfortunetly I'm not sure! I would imagine so though, I mean that would just be bias if Eru didn't allow Ents to the Blessed Realm. We don't know that for sure, but say Eru did let the Ents in...that poses another question- how would Ents even get there?

From my guessings Ents were immortal, unless being cut down, burnt, and such. So maybe, like Thin said, time goes on, the world gets stale, and the Ents fade and become "treeish". Would the soul of that Ent then travel towards the Blessed Realm, its time on M-e being over?
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