Do ents lay eggs?
 

or more accurately seeds?

Do ents give birth like people and animals or plants with seeds ab pollen and such...

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I cant say that it is recorded (if it is please correct me!). My guess then is that yes, they do lay some sort of seed that grows until it is strong enough to walk, or something like that. But I doubt that an ent would lay an egg...

Entish reproduction
 

If Ents use pollenation to reproduce, surely they don't need actually to find the Entwives: they could just stand in an area and release pollen into the air, then cross their fingers. I think that the close personal ties between Entish couples like Fangorn and Fimbrethil indicates something more personal than airborne particles, but that's just some hastily applied logic. Tolkien is, of course, silent on the subject.

An interesting question, but like the mystery of the Entwives, there is no sure answer.

I thought of this only last week and came to the conclusion, that maybe Entings are saplings sprung from shoots when the roots of Ents and Entwives become close.

Does that make any sense?

Pollination might not be completely out as some plants are not asexual, and need a male/female plant in order to successfully produce fruit e.g. some varities of Pear. Also some do not pollinate indiscriminately (if Ents did, then there would be no Ent couples as the Entings could have any number of fathers), but need assistance, such as some pansies and tomatoes.

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So is that a Pear of Ents?

Maybe a young Enting could be the Apple of his father's eye?

Maybe his daughter would blossom too

I'm sure she would, as she'd be a Berry beautiful child. Though she Wood be turned Bark-ing Conkers when she discovered her Roots.

Word! Or, to put that in the Sindarin, "Bêth" ;)

Or perhaps even a chip off the old block ... :eek: ;)

lovely answers...really just great....you guys went BANANAS about this thread ;)

perhaps its a mix between human reproduction and pollination using flwers except with physical contact(tryng t stay vagu yet descriptive) like ahug or somethng like they use pollen but it has to physicly be transported

not just my theory

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I thought it was because he's 2,000 years old and has Latin as his first language (D+D+D+D).

I feel strangely drawn to Lalwendë's (or is that Alan's?) theory about Entish pollenation, but I think it would still be rather random. Maybe the answer would be a swarm of trained bees, but that's beginning to sound weird and twisted, prompting my immediate silence.

I gt it it explans ent anatomy and why the ents need the wives

each couple plants two seeds one ent one entwife the two sprouts grow togeth into one being( each sprout is a leg and once cmbined mae a body and arms and all that good stuff...

One would think that 'something' had to take place between the Ents and the Entwives - the fact that there are no Entings due to the lack of Entwives makes me believe that the male and female had to be together to start a new life. Could it be - hey, this is Middle Earth - that the two lay hands on a tree that both had chosen and instill a soul or new life into the tree? This idea springs from Treebeard's lighting his hall and empowering the ent draughts and that he says that some trees became entish and some Ents became treeish. On the other hand, that would be like a shepherd choosing a sheep to become a...well...kid.

Could it be simply that the Entwife plants an acorn in the earth and the Ent instills as above?

We could ask Treebeard about the details, but I suspect he has forgotten, burarum.