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#Hobbits were cultivated by the #Entwives

#Hobbits were cultivated by the #Entwives

#Hobbits were cultivated by the #Entwives

#Hobbits were cultivated by the #Entwives

#Tolkien #Ents #Entwives #Winter

Ent:

When Winter comes, the winter wild that hill and wood shall slay;
When trees shall fall and starless night devour the sunless day;
When wind is in the deadly East, then in the bitter rain
I'll look for thee, and call to thee; I'll come to thee again!
Entwife:

When Winter comes, and singing ends; when darkness falls at last;
When broken is the barren bough, and light and labour past;
I'll look for thee, and wait for thee, until we meet again:
Together we will take the road beneath the bitter rain!
Both:

Together we will take the road that leads into the West,
And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

#JRRTolkien's novel The Two Towers employs #rowans as the signature tree for the Ent, #Quickbeam. The forest of #Fangorn, where Quickbeam & other Ents live, is populated with numerous rowans that were said to have been planted by male Ents to please the female #Entwives. Quickbeam declares his fondness for the tree by saying that no other "people of the Rose ... are so beautiful to me," a reference to the rowan's membership in the family #Rosaceae.