hi joy! been out of the boards for too long--i missed you guys [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
got some tough questions there, girl. in the case of the ents, from a more or less contextual reading of "of aulë and yavanna" in the silm, the ents were incarnations of trees which are creations of yavanna, but their spirits or 'fea' like all other fea are invested by eru illuvatar. i'd go on a stretch here and surmise that manwë, in constant communion with the mind of eru, was speaking out of foresight about the eventual 'awakening' of yavanna's trees.
no idea about them trolls, though. which brings to mind another question: do orcs, trolls and other evil subcreations of morgoth have fea? not sure this has been asked here...
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