The Lord of the Rings Just Crushed a Popular Entwife Theory

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Both in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings novel and in Peter Jackson's trilogy of film adaptations, the treelike Ents who aided the story's heroes were all male. The Lord of the Rings featured few women overall, but in the Ents' case, there was a lore reason for their absence. The female Ents, known as Entwives, lived separately from the others, as they had differing views on how to best care for nature. While the male Ents allowed plants to grow wild, the Entwives preferred to arrange them into orderly landscapes.