User talk:Dusk, The Flametree

Trees?

One may wonder what it means to be an ent, and many people believe that the ents are a "magical" species that have "magical" attributes. However, ents are no different from elves, humans, and dwarves in terms of humanoid races. The ents may look and sound different, but they are the same as any other race, and should be treated as such. They are not magical monsters, or even trees, they are a humanoid race with their own culture, customs, and beliefs! Dusk, The Flametree (talk) 10:51, 22 June 2026 (CDT)

Genesis

Yavanna, Queen of Earth and all things growing, interjected at the creation of mortal, sapient beings such as elves and humans. Worried by the acts of mortals who could fell trees and disrupt the balance of nature for their own purposes, Yavanna pleaded for the creation of the ents who could defend and speak for the forests. Ilúvatar, also known as the one, heard the wish and thus created the ents. Dusk, The Flametree (talk) 10:52, 22 June 2026 (CDT)

Awakening

Ents had awoken around the same time as the elves. Interestingly, the elves were the first race to begin interacting with Ents. They had taught them language, enriched their culture, and settled alongside one another. Ents took a particular liking to language, and developed their own slow-tongue language known as Entish. Dusk, The Flametree (talk) 11:16, 22 June 2026 (CDT)

Flourishing

In the elder days, Ents had been far more numerous. Due to the earth being vastly more forested, Ents had greater dominion over the land. Ents and Entwives had lived together, cultivating forests, gardens, and orchards. Dusk, The Flametree (talk) 11:40, 22 June 2026 (CDT)

Chronology of Races

The chronology of the ancient races is often disputed, but in my own ancient memory, very clear. The elves had awoken first in Cuiviénen, then the Ents, then dwarves, and finally man. This list does not include monsters and/or other races due to the sheer amount of context that would be required to list them, so I have kept it simple. Dusk, The Flametree (talk) 12:10, 22 June 2026 (CDT)

The Coming of Men

Here my telling parts ways from the common histories, for what follows is the memory of my own people, and few beyond Napias have ever heard it told. Man awoke last, as I have said, and in the first days there was peace between our kinds. But Man is industrious beyond any other race, and grows in number faster than a forest can grow in girth. In the early ages of their strength, they came to the western coasts hungry for timber, and they felled the great woods of Minhiriath and Enedwaith to raise their fleets and their harbors. Chief among these was the port of Lond Daer, built upon the ruin of forests my own forebears had shepherded since the Awakening. Dusk, The Flametree (talk) 15:45, 30 June 2026 (CDT)

The Great Felling

Of all the sorrows in my memory, this is the one that still aches the deepest. The Men of those days did not see the forest as we do, as a gathering of living things each with its own slow voice, but only as timber to be measured and taken. They came not with malice but with appetite, which is in some ways worse, for malice may be reasoned with while hunger cannot. Axe by axe and league by league the old woods came down, and the ents could not shepherd trees faster than Men could fell them. Whole groves I had known since they were saplings were gone in a single season, and the silence they left behind was a thing I have never grown used to. Dusk, The Flametree (talk) 15:46, 30 June 2026 (CDT)

The War of the Forests

The ents could not stand idle while their charges were cut down, and so we resisted. But an ent is slow to wake and slower still to muster, while Men are many and swift. As the ents began to fall, the woodland elves came to our aid, and the elves in their turn called upon the dwarves of the nearby halls. Yet numbers, and iron, and fire carried the day. Let it be understood this was no war of the great kindreds, only of those few families who had made their homes in those particular woods. The wider peoples lived on elsewhere, untouched, and never learned the fate of this small and stubborn band. Dusk, The Flametree (talk) 15:46, 30 June 2026 (CDT)

The Long Sailing

What remained of us fled west, beyond the reach of Men, until the western shore itself stopped our flight and there was nowhere left to run but the sea. It was a bitter lesson that saved us, for to cross those waters we had to learn the building of great ships, and that craft we learned from the very people who had driven us out, having watched their fleets rise from the bones of our forests. So the dwarves shaped the hulls, the elves read the stars, and the ents gave of their own slow-grown wood for keel and mast, which is no small offering for one of my kind to make. We sailed long and far past any map then known, until at last we came upon an island green and steaming at the far edge of the world. That place we named Napias, and there our long flight ended. Dusk, The Flametree (talk) 15:47, 30 June 2026 (CDT)

Settling

Napias was unlike any land we had known: hot beyond reckoning, drenched in green, and thick with a mana so abundant that the very air seemed to hum with it. We who had fled in mourning found, in time, that we had stumbled into a kind of paradise. Here a strange thing happened that had never happened in the elder world, for being penned into so small and bounded a place, the ents could no longer drift apart into the long solitudes our kind had always kept. We settled close, ent beside ent, and built among the elves and dwarves a true and lasting society, the first the ents had ever truly known. For thousands of years no ship came and no word reached us, and in that long seclusion we became a people apart, no longer the scattered shepherds of the old forests but something the wider world has never seen. Dusk, The Flametree (talk) 15:49, 30 June 2026 (CDT)