Ainu/Fea

[Mister Underhill]

This quote from The Silmarillion suggests that Ents, and probably Eagles too, have fëar:

And Manwë said: 'O Kementári, Eru hath spoken, saying: "Do then any of the Valar suppose that I did not hear all the Song, even the least sound of the least voice? Behold! 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. For a time: while the Firstborn are in their power, and while the Secondborn are young." But dost thou not now remember, Kementári, that thy thought sang not always alone? Did not thy thought and mine meet also, so that we took wing together like great birds that soar above the clouds? That also shall come to be by the heed of Ilúvatar, and before the Children awake there shall go forth with wings like the wind the Eagles of the Lords of the West.'

(Side note: *shock* -- Eagles, the Eldest "race"!)

Also, in Letter 131, Tolkien refers to the Ents as "rational creatures" which, in Tolkien vernacular, usually signifies a soul (putting aside the soul/spirit distinction).

[ September 09, 2002: Message edited by: Mister Underhill ]