Ents at war!

[Keneldil the Polka-dot]

Yavanna to Manwe:

Would that the trees might speak on behalf of all things that have roots, and punish those that wrong them!'

Manwe to Yavanna:

When the Children awake, then the thought of Yavanna will awake also, and it will summon spirits from afar, and they will go among the kelvar and the olvar, and some will dwell therein, and be held in reverence, and their just anger shall be feared.

Yavanna to Aule:

'Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril.'

Spirits among the olvar = ents, yes? Looks like they have been battling one dark lord or the other for at least as long as anyone else.

I've always thought the story of the Entwives was pretty sad.