![]() ![]() Treebeard, called by Gandalf the oldest living Ent and the oldest living thing that walks in Middle-earth, is described as being around 14 feet (4 m) tall: Sindarin Onodrim means the Ents as a race. In Sindarin, one of Tolkien's invented Elvish languages, the word for Ent is Onod (plural Enyd). Tolkien borrowed the word from a phrase in the Anglo-Saxon poems The Ruin and Maxims II, orþanc enta geweorc ("cunning work of giants"), which describes Roman ruins. The word "Ent" was taken from the Old English ent or eoten, meaning "giant". Inspired by Tolkien and similar traditions, animated or anthropomorphic tree creatures appear in a variety of media and works of fantasy. ![]() Akin to Ents are Huorns, whom Treebeard describes as a transitional form of trees which become animated or, conversely, as Ents who grow more "treelike" over time. At the time of the War of the Ring, there are no young Ents (Entings) because the Entwives (female Ents) were lost. The Ent who figures most prominently in the book is Treebeard, who is called the oldest creature in Middle-earth (a description also given to Tom Bombadil). The Ents appear in The Lord of the Rings as ancient shepherds of the forest and allies of the free peoples of Middle-earth during the War of the Ring. Their name is derived from an Old English word for " giant". Tolkien's fantasy world Middle-earth who closely resemble trees their leader is Treebeard of Fangorn forest. Onodrim, Shepherds of the Trees, Tree-folkĮnts are a species of beings in J. Treebeard and Hobbits by Tom Loback, 2007
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