A
female Ent. This sort of creature lived in
J.R.R. Tolkien's
Middle Earth.
Ents and Entwives were created at the beginning of
time and roamed the
forests and the
lands. As they watched and tended their trees, they became more tree-like, as their trees became more life-like (
see Huorn).
The Entwives in their youth were called Entmaidens. With the Ents, they created
Entings.
As
Treebeard's (the oldest of the few remaining Ents) tale told, the Entwives grew to love
cultivation and
gardening as the Ents loved trees and deep forests. Soon the Entwives crossed the
Great River Anduin and were prosperous. They had many fields of
fruit and
harvest, and taught the other inhabitants of Middle Earth this skill of growing and cultivating. The Entwives became different from the Ents--instead of looking tree-ish with
barklike
skin and
mossy beards, they grew
brown and
bent from their work, with
sun-scorched
hair and rosy cheeks.
Darkness fell, and
Evil came, and soon the Entwives' crops and gardens were destroyed. The Ents, who visited these Entwives from time to time, came to find them nowhere in sight. The Ents searched
East,
West,
North, and
South to no avail. They were never found, but Treebeard believed that the Ents would find the Entwives when their land too was laid to waste, the time of which he believed was near.