Who were the Ents based on?
Ents, also known as Onodrim (Tree-host) by the Elves, were a very old race of Middle-earth. They were apparently created at the behest of Yavanna after she learned of Aulë’s children, the Dwarves, knowing that they would want to fell trees.
Where did Tolkien get the idea for Ents?
Tolkien noted in a letter that he had created Ents in response to his “bitter disappointment and disgust from schooldays with the shabby use made in Shakespeare’s Macbeth of the coming of ‘Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane hill’: I longed to devise a setting in which the trees might really march to war”.
Are the Ents America?
Ents as the United States After all, when Europeans first settled on the continent, it was largely untouched wilderness. So, Ents turn out to be the perfect symbol for the US. And in several conversations with Ent leader Treebeard, Hobbits come off as decidedly British.
Did the Ents go extinct?
They almost certainly went extinct after the War of the Ring; with the loss of the Entwives, they have no way to reproduce. The Entwives, LONG before the Third Age, moved from the forests on the western side of the Anduin to the fertile plains on the eastern side of the Anduin.
Who do the Ents represent?
1 They Were Created Because of the Dwarves Of course, there are plenty of environmental messages tucked inside of the entire trilogy, and the Ents are a continuous conduit for these messages. They defend the forests, and are outraged by the industrial, brutal world that Saruman represents.
What happened to the Brown Lands?
The land was ruined by Sauron as a defense against the advance of the Allies, and the Entwives were driven away. When the Fellowship traveled by boat down the Anduin during the War of the Ring, on the eastern shore they could see nothing but barren, withered slopes without even scrub or grass.