What Happened to the Entwives? Middle-earth Explained

The mysterious disappearance of the Entwives in Middle-earth baffled characters and readers of Tolkien’s works. In this video, I endeavour to explore the main main possibilities and explanations concerning their disappearance. Thank you all so much for watching, let me know what you all think about the Entwives in the comments below! As always, a great thanks to the online artists whose visual works made this video possible! If you are one of the artists, please let me know and I will post your name and a link to your work in this description!

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[Dustyholes]

Before this video starts I want to make my guess!
My guess is that they just can't find them lol

[paulthiessen]

Reminds me of my wife’s great grandfather when he was very old. He said his wife had gone to a certain village to work there. But in reality that was where she was buried. His failing mind dealt with it that way I guess.

[Alexs.]

My hope is the Entwives came back west in the fourth age and made Mordor green and beautiful after it was free of Sauron and his orcs. The name of Mordor erased forevermore. Just a thought.

[easonliu]

'What happened to the entwives?'
'I can't remember'-Treebeard, Best husband ever.

[tomsawyerpiper]

...I’m sorry, how did they die?
Die? No, they did not die.
We have lost them, and now we cannot find them.”

[TheGeekMonster]

One of my favorite, sad tales in all the lore! That line, "Come back to me, and say my land is best" just gets me every time.

[naofumi]

Tom Bombadil might know what became of them. They might even be in the old forest.

[Omidan]

The fact that we don’t know their ultimate fate really adds to the real-life feeling that Middle-Earth has always had. Not every angle has to have a full backstory to explain every detail. Really nice video!

[Sindraug]

Since Sam's cousin supposedly saw a walking tree and Treebeard asks whether Merry or Pippin had seen any in the Shire, noting that they would have liked it there, I believe that Sam's cousin did indeed see an Entwife.

[thomastheturtle]

My theory is that the ent wife's got lost way far in the East and they longed for the ents as well

[joelleblanc]

I read online a post from a fellow whose father met Tolkien and was told the entwives "might be" in the forest bordering the Sea of Rhun.. he uploaded a screenshot of a Middle Earth map, where Tolkien wrote a note indicating where they went. I'll see if I can track down the link...

[damien]

The way treebeard reacted to the stories of merry and pippin of the shire makes me think there’s entwives there. Seems like foreshadowing to me

[Amiramekki]

Awhh this so sad. Ents looking for the entwifes but they can't find them. Poor Treebeard

[Dustyholes]

Lets go! The quality of my Sunday night has just incredibly improved

[cleavland]

Its well known in the appendices that the Ent wives got sick of the same old, repetitive joke the Ents kept telling about having morning wood.


It got seriously old.

[SectionSpectre]

You are doing the work of the Valar, truly the greatest Loremaster of the greatest stories ever told.

[sunwukong]

I like how every video ends with a moral, it truly ties it all together. The next video sounds epic, and this one was very good!

[DiracComb.]

Well, I think it says something about college when you don’t have time to watch one of your favorite YouTube channels until now. Still, I am glad to see one of these again.

Yoystan, I see the logo’s changed slightly, and the channel’s grown, that’s awesome. Keep it up in the new year.

[libertygoss]

Well met! I foresaw this in the live chat! Yet again another amazing video! Keep up the good work Yoystan!

[radu]

Since you included some awesome screenshots from Lord of the Rings Online, I remember that apart from the quests in the Brown Lands involing the Gardens of the Ent Wives, there was one other occasion where the developers gave their idea what happened to the Ent Wives. There was a deed in the Old Forest, where you could find 8 Flowers that had something to do with the Entwives. So I looked it up and this is what Goldberry had to say about it in the game:


"Greetings, Traveler. You have seen an unusual breed of flower that grows within the depths of the Old Forest? Their origins are most unusual.
As the old tale goes, eight Entwives came into this forest from the distant south many years ago and took shelter here beneath the boughs of the Old Forest. But darkness was everywhere in the lands in those times, and Tom thought it wise that the sisters should pass into the heart of the forest where no evil might reach.
The flowers I speak of mark the places where each of the Entwives disappeared into the weave of the forest, and it is possible to understand their nature in those places.
Only Tom knows when or if they will ever awaken from their slumber, and he will not tell even me!"

I think the developers are doing a great job of taking something left unclear/vague in Tolkien's works and putting their own spin on it and make awesome quests.