The Lost Wives of the Forest: Tolkien's Most Heartbreaking Unanswered Question

Who Were the Entwives?

We have to understand what was lost. The Ents those ancient, slow-speaking shepherds of the trees were not always alone. Long ago, in the earliest ages of Middle-earth, they had companions: the Entwives, female counterparts who shared their world but not, as it turned out, their nature.

Where the Ents loved the great wild forests to…