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well, you can't argue with Inked on that one .....
it'd take too much time very interesting questions here though ... i, too should go read LOTR's ... oh wait, of course i am ... chapters 'the passing of the grey company' and 'the muster of rohan' for the discussion project ... coming soon! (still no word when it should be expected though .... calling car 51! ) they speak (ents) so should have lungs ... but i guess since they are so obviously tree-like, drinking water etc (well that settles it, heh , that narrows it down a bit ) ... and etc ... i'd guess they photosynthesise oxygen into their lungs and have a storage area for the night time ... or that they breath normally! hope that's conclusive enough for you all Inked: Quote:
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Ooops! Sorry 'bout that! Got info updated finally. Can you make October 9? If not, I'll extend it a bit.
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10-01-2005, 06:57 PM | #24 |
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(ot post) yeah, or the 10th for safety.
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Well, we know that Yavanna created the Ents in response to Aule creating the dwarves, except that she first petitioned Manwe for the privelege, right? Then Manwe created the Eagles.
I always saw the Ents as essentially trees that have "woken up" or become intelligent and capable of moving and speaking and responding to the acts of men, dwarves, wizards, elves, orcs, etc. If this is true there would be no difference between the way Ents and trees function chemically. Any tree could do the same thing if they were just "woken up" and wanted to keep on acting entish. Then, if trees in Middle Earth function the same way they do in our world in which chemical analysis is possible, I would assume that Ents do the same. Though I can't say for sure that they do! There seems to be something magical in the nature of Middle Earth that might change things. Another question to consider is, did the Two Trees function the same way? |
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but how do they breath at night with no light to photosynthesise and when they are active walking, hoo-humming or in battle etc or whatever ... all using up supplies of oxygen?
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Should probably be it's own thread though - as we're already bogging this one down by getting off of the ent respiratory thingee. Uh... sorry inked... about going all scientifical with the two trees as well...
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mmm... that kinda glows too, could be something here Elanor ...light, liquid, oxygen ... fermented oxygen in liquid form? maybe a slow realeasing oxygen drink? Interesting ...
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No, no; an Ent drinking carrot juice would be more like an Ent Vampire!
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Maybe they were some form of lesser Maiar. There are many creatures in Tolkien that we do not know what they are. Like Tom Bombadil for instance.
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eru's words were that he would "summon spirits from afar" to inhabit existing trees and eagles... so one would think that they were physically the same, yet inhabited by conscious spirits
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Sure, they don't appear to have eaten vegetables (at least not that we are shown), but that's just because they didn't need to, not because it was somehow offensive to them.
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