O seguinte não é a sua forma final, embora carregue a maior parte do que eu gostaria de dizer, vou editá-lo nas próximas horas, enquanto eu encontrar tempo.
Tolkien fala sobre a morte de Ents em sua carta de 1944 para seu filho.
So ends the Middle Age and the Dominion of Men begins, and Aragorn far away on the throne of Gondor labours to bring some order and to preserve some memory of old among the welter of men that Sauron has poured into the West. But Elrond has gone, and all the High Elves. What happens to the Ents I don't yet know. It will probably work out very differently from this plan when it really gets written, as the thing seems to write itself once I get going, as if the truth comes out then, only imperfectly glimpsed in the preliminary sketch. ....
Letter 91
Embora ele afirme que virá depois, ele nunca vai discutir a morte de Ents. Alguns usuários na internet afirmam que os Ents são Maia devido à Carta 247 a Colnel Worskett
O argumento é que, uma vez que são espíritos enviados por Eru, eles devem ser Maia. Isso significaria que eles estão ligados ao mesmo destino que o Maia, que é coberto aqui . No entanto, eu discordo, do capítulo de Barbárvore em The Two Towers ele discute como Ents envelhecem eles se tornam mais semelhantes a Tree. Barbárvore diz de si mesmo“No one knew whence they (Ents) came or first appeared. The High Elves said that the Valar did not mention them in the 'Music'. But some (Galadriel) were [of the] opinion that when Yavanna discovered the mercy of Eru to Aulë in the matter of the Dwarves, she besought Eru (through Manwë) asking him to give life to things made of living things not stone, and that the Ents were either souls sent to inhabit trees, or else that slowly took the likeness of trees owing to their inborn love of trees. (Not all were good [words illegible]) The Ents thus had mastery over stone. The males were devoted to Oromë, but the Wives to Yavanna.”
Letter 247
And I do not sit down. I am not very, hm, bendable.
E mais tarde diz do Quickbeam
Barbárvore ainda parece sugerir que alguns simplesmente se tornam mais "arvoresca"He could bend and sway like a slender tree in the wind.
Some of us are still true Ents, and lively enough in our fashion, but many are growing sleepy, going tree-ish, as you might say.
TTT
Como nota final. Uma das coisas finais que recebemos na morte e Ents é a seguinte passagem. No entanto, isso parece ser sobre a morte natural, em vez daqueles que (podem ter) morrido nos incêndios na Batalha de Isengard
Why are there so few, when you have lived in this country so long?’ asked Pippin. ‘Have a great many died?’
‘Oh, no!’ said Treebeard. ‘None have died from inside, as you might say. Some have fallen in the evil chances of the long years, of course; and more have grown tree-ish. But there were never many of us and we have not increased.