Ah, the poor lost Entwives and the bare Brown Lands! One of the great tragedies in the margins of the bigger story.

I too hold out hope that even just a few of them survived, and had something to do with the good fortunes of the Shire--which, as Treebeard says, they clearly would have loved. Though how, I can't guess!

I like the notion of the two Entwives' bond . . . there is so much that can be read into the idea of the Ents as a people where the two genders go their seperate ways . . .