Treebeard's ultimate fate is not known. While he aged very slowly and was extremely long-lived, he was not immortal. However, he still held some hope for finding the Entwives, as he asked Merry and Pippin to watch for them near the Shire, and to bring word if they were to find them. However, Treebeard lamented that forests may spread once more, but the Ents would not, predicting that the few remaining Ents would remain in Fangorn Forest until they slowly dwindled in number. After the War of the Ring Īfter Aragorn was crowned king, he promised Treebeard that the Ents could prosper again and spread to new lands with the threat of Mordor gone, and renew their search for the Entwives. Once Isengard was cleansed, Treebeard remained to guard Saruman, but was ultimately unable to keep him, due to the power of Saruman's voice and the fact that Treebeard could not bear to imprison any living thing. The Ents also broke the dam wall which had starved the once green and beautiful Wizards Vale of all its water, flooding Saruman's pits, mines, and machines of war. Leading the attack, Treebeard helped to bring down Isengard's walls and utterly destroy them, save the tower of Orthanc and Saruman himself who sat in his tower. After three days of deliberation, they decided to attack Isengard, in an event known as the Last March of the Ents. Upon learning that Saruman was cutting down the forest to power his war effort, an angry Treebeard called all the Ents together for an Entmoot. However, they were brought into the war when Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took escaped from Saruman's Orcs, became lost in Fangorn Forest and befriended Treebeard. When Sauron's shadow began to spread across the land again, Treebeard and the Ents remained in Fangorn, continuing to tend the trees, and taking no part in the affairs of Men, Elves and Wizards. Treebeard, Finglas, Fladrif, Quickbeam, and around fifty others remained, of varying ages. Some in their old age became still and silent, almost tree-like as they slumbered. Treebeard finding Merry and Pippin, by Raoul VitaleĪs the years passed and with no Entings, due to the loss of the Entwives, the number of Ents decreased. The two would talk, discussing various subjects, with Saruman gathering information about the forest itself, and in particular its intertwining paths. With the arrival of the Istari in the year TA 1000 of the Third Age, Saruman came to Fangorn and befriended Treebeard, and would often visit him. I am not altogether on anybody's side, because nobody is altogether on my side, if you understand me: nobody cares for the woods as I care for them, not even Elves nowadays." - Treebeard in The Two Towers Treebeard (right) finding Merry and Pippin, by Ivan Cavini Third Age and War of the Ring " I do not like worrying about the future. But after the loss of the Entwives, he and the remaining Ents dwelt in the Forest of Fangorn, isolating themselves from the outside world. In the time when Middle-earth was merely a giant forest, Treebeard roamed the land, presumably with his love, Fimbrethil. He was so old that he remembered the time of Elves teaching the trees to speak, recalling how they wanted to talk to everything. Treebeard was believed to be the oldest Ent who ever lived. Treebeard will do." - The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Book III, Chapter IV: "Treebeard" Before the Third Age Fangorn is my name according to some, Treebeard others make it. The Ent, I am, you might say, in your manner of speaking. Treebeard, by Soni Alcorn-Hender " Hrum, now, well, I am an Ent, or that's what they call me. 2.2 Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.2.1 Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings.
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