Library: Radagast and The last of the Entwives

For a time after the seige of Orthanc and the subisquen expulsion of Saruman the white, the Ents stayed in the lands around Isengard, and tended to the forest that had been used so brutally to feed the fire of industry. Infrequent and slow entspeak may be, there was no mention of the Entwives amung the ents, though each could tell that the others longed for their company. Treebeard thought long and hard, as he was known to do. One day in the early spring, while visiting Gwaihir, he told an old friend "I fear we may never see the Entwives again. - - - The first leaves were falling as Gwaihir, mightiest of the eagles flew over Mordor. It had been a long time since he bore Frodo and Sam from mount doom, and even longer since he had bore Beren and Lúthien from Angband. There was not an inch of middle earth the he had not flown over, and very little he had not seen. One thing he had not seen for an age were the Entwives. He wondered if Treebeard was right. Though he had once though that he himself would never again see Radagast who had been missing since before being summoned by the council of Rivendel. In the past he had often visited with the brown wizard, and once more he was on his way to see the Malar. Radagast had sent a raven to Gwaihir summoning him to the lands in the east. Radagast's message was short. "Found Alatar and Pallando. Found something else. Come to Haradwaith." - - - Radagast was not like the other wizards. The five had been sent in order to aid the free peoples of middle earth against the might of Sauron. Gandalf and Sauruman stayed in the west to try and council the elves and men of Middle Earth. The blue wizards had traveled to the east to try and stir up the men of the east against Mordor. Radagast had been sent by Yavanna and had far more interest in the plants and animals of middle earth, than the afairs of men and elves. He loved everything that grew, and tended to the forests of Middle Earth. And now Radagast had left his home and his beloved trees behind because he heard a whisper from the forest of fangorn, something interesting. He had traveled accross Middle Earth and made his way into the east to find the blue wizards. He had found them, and confirmed that which he had hoped. He stood and watched the horrizon for Gwaihir. At long last the great eagle flew down and bowed before the old wizard. He had sent for him, and for the other great eagles for a reason. To carry himself, and his charges, back to the west. Back to Isengard. For in the east, the blue wizards had found the Entwives. - - - Treebeard wandered the young forest. There were so many saplings growing, and he felt a fathers pride, a pride he had not felt in many an age. There were no more entings, the last had been born long before the 2nd age. He knew that without any young, the ents would eventually dwindle and turn treeish, and this saddened him. His branches weren't as limber as they used to, and his bark was turning dull and brittle. The frost made his knotts ache, and his last leaf had fallen many a autumn ago. A shadow crossed his path, and he was not sure what to make of what he saw. For it looked as though some fairy spirit had escaped his knowing in all these long years, one that had the body of an eagle, with the branches of a tree, and the head of an old man. Ready to spend the next age thinking of a name for this spirit, as all decisions should not be rushed, he almost didn't notice Gwaihir gently lower a shrub to the ground. Radagast was on his back, and he called to Treebeard. "There's someone here who wanted to see you." - - - There were very few Ents left, and fewer Entwives still, but for the first time since the the war of the last alliance when the Entwives had gone missing there was hope for the Ents. Radagast was happy as he headed for the far west, to return to the Malar and Valar. He felt sucessfull in his endevors in Middle Earth. After all, how does a little war over some silly ring compare to the race of Ents.

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Library: Radagast and The last of the Entwives