Like the roots of trees, but far more rapidly, Tolkien's Ents could break stone. Some recalled the ash: tall straight grey Ents with many-fingered hands and long legs some the fir (the tallest Ents), and others the birch. Some recalled the chestnut: brown-skinned Ents with large splayfingered hands, and short thick legs. Some Ents, such as Treebeard, were like īeech-trees or oaks. Quickbeam, for example, guarded rowan trees and bore some resemblance to rowans: tall and slender, smooth-skinned, with ruddy lips and grey-green hair. Ents vary widely in personal traits (height, heft, colouring, even the number of digits), having come to resemble somewhat the specific types of trees that they shepherded. 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, "Man-like, almost Troll-like", and clad in something that might have been tree-bark, with seven toes, a bushy, "almost twiggy" beard and deep penetrating eyes. Inspired by Tolkien and similar traditions, animated or anthropomorphic tree creatures appear in a variety of media and works of fantasy. Corey Olsen interprets the song of the Ents and the Entwives as a myth which warns of the dangers of apathetically isolating oneself in nature, whereas the Ents' song "In the willow-meads of Tasarinan" is a lament. Scholars have seen his tale of the Ents as a myth, mostly without analysing it. Commentators have seen this as wish-fulfilment, as he disliked the damage being done to the English countryside in his lifetime. Tolkien stated that he was disappointed by Shakespeare's handling of the coming of "Great Birnam Wood to High Dunsinane hill" he wanted a setting in which the trees would actually go to war. 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 that time, 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. 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 of Middle-earth who closely resemble trees their leader is Treebeard of Fangorn forest. Onodrim, Shepherds of the Trees, Tree-folkĮnts are a species of sentient beings in J. Treebeard and Hobbits by Tom Loback, 2007
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