Entish procreation

[rajpoot]

Weird topic warning :freak:

So my friend and I have been making our way through her new Blue Ray collection and were watching LotR Two Towers, when this scene with Treebeard, Merry and Pippin comes up, where Treebeard tells them they lost the Entwives and so there haven't been any Entings since a long time.
Suddenly she turns and asks me how do the Ents procreate (she hasn't read the books so she thought I'd know).

Needless to say I was stumped and just make a joke at that time. But it got me thinking, that how do the Ents make babies?

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Weird topic warning :freak:

So my friend and I have been making our way through her new Blue Ray collection and were watching LotR Two Towers, when this scene with Treebeard, Merry and Pippin comes up, where Treebeard tells them they lost the Entwives and so there haven't been any Entings since a long time.
Suddenly she turns and asks me how do the Ents procreate (she hasn't read the books so she thought I'd know).

Needless to say I was stumped and just make a joke at that time. But it got me thinking, that how do the Ents make babies?

There are many actual plants which produce sexually - the Ents make Gardens for the Entwives, so I presume that when they are together they both come into bloom and then shake each other's leaves.

Or something.

[Lemur]

Most flowering plants are into third-party or group sex with other species (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinator).

Face it, plants are kinky and weird.

[rickinator9]

Plants are different from trees though. They stole half of my nickname with their pollinator

[Lemur]

Plants are different from trees though.
I'm pretty sure trees are a kind of plant, in much the same way that lemurs are a kind of mammal.

(But we ain't no stinkin' simians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosimian).)

[Gregoshi]

Who knows, maybe Merry and Pippin are covered with Ent pollen.

[Monk]

The same way the Ainur procreate: singing/old entish. Hit the right note and it knocks up every Ent-wife within earshot.

Aww yeah.

[Gregoshi]

The same way the Ainur procreate: singing/old entish. Hit the right note and it knocks up every Ent-wife within earshot.
Our way is so much better.

[Lemur]

Hit the right note and it knocks up every Ent-wife within earshot.

Aww yeah.
There's a recorded example of this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0I6mhZ5wMw

[Secura]

Needless to say I was stumped and just make a joke at that time. But it got me thinking, that how do the Ents make babies?

I see what you did there! :wink:

I always thought that Ents procreated through pollinating, which leads one to wonder what would have been asked of Merry and Pippin; had there been female Ents around, a Hobbit pollinator would surely have been better than a mere insect or bird.

[Whacker]

I see what you did there! :wink:

I always thought that Ents procreated through pollinating, which leads one to wonder what would have been asked of Merry and Pippin; had there been female Ents around, a Hobbit pollinator would surely have been better than a mere insect or bird.

There are some disturbing implications for what it means to be covered in tree pollen. :dizzy2:

Edit - YouPollen.com.

I'm done here, I'll get my coat.

[rajpoot]

Personally I've been thinking about something a lot more exotic, like an Ent and an Entwife standing in the the field like two tree with their roots twining below the ground, and out pops an Enting from the ground. A lot more poetic.
But I re-read Tolkien's description, and he states that the figure was more human/troll like than a tree. Covered in bark that might have well been his raiment instead of his skin.
The image of a walking tree I think comes from the movies rather than the book.


I see what you did there! :wink:

I was expecting a barrage of rotten fruit and shoes but thank you :grin:

[Kagemusha]

Gah! I misread the title being: "English procreation".:on_shame:

[rajpoot]

Gah! I misread the title being: "English procreation".:on_shame:

Well I'm pretty sure the twining and various forms of pollen are common.

[CountArach]

Gah! I misread the title being: "English procreation".:on_shame:
So did I.

Cold and lifeless.