Answer by Bill for Tolkien's history of Elves singing and Ents walking and...
There's at least some reason to think the opposite. A key piece of evidence is from The Two Towers:Treebeard recounts the ancient song of living creatures to Merry and Pippin:Learn now the lore of...
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Elves are Likely (Just) Older than EntsFourth optionThis seems to be the correct sequence from my take on the information from the answer I accepted (see my comments below that answer also) along with...
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Ents were likely born at the same time as ElvesElvish speech and songThe Elves awoke without speech or song:By the starlit mere of Cuiviénen, Water of Awakening, they rose from the sleep of Ilúvatar;...
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Ents are likely older than ElvesOn at least two occasions, Tolkien notes that the Ents are the oldest sentient race in Middle-earth (bold is my emphasis, italic is Tolkien's):That is a long and yet...
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While not specifically answering when the Ents started to talk, this quote from Tolkien mentions that the elves didn't know where Ents came from, implying they actually existed before they sang to them...
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BackgroundGandalf, when prompting Théoden to get him to understand from his memory who might have brought the forest to fight the Orcs at Helm's Deep, states (bold added):It is not wizardry, but a...
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