Bregalad

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Bregalad (Quickbeam) is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth.

The word "quickbeam" is an English dialect word for the mountain ash or rowan tree.

Bregalad was a relatively young Ent at the time of the War of the Ring, roughly "middle aged" and not nearly as old as Treebeard (though he was a full adult; there had been no Ent children since the disappearance of the Entwives). He guarded rowan trees, and as such he resembled a rowan himself.

His Sindarin name translates roughly as "Quickbeam" (from bragol "sudden" and galad "tree"). He received this name when he said "yes" before another Ent had finished asking a question; this showed that he was unusually "hasty" for his race.

At the Entmoot, Bregalad lived up to his reputation for hastiness; he was the first to decide to attack Isengard, since Saruman's Orcs had destroyed many of his rowan groves. Seeing that Bregalad's mind was already made up, Treebeard sent him to watch over Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took while the debate among the other Ents continued. He later played an important role in the attack on Isengard, nearly capturing Saruman himself.

Although Quickbeam does not expressly appear in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers film adaptation, there is a "Rowan Ent" seen in the film that many fans have taken to be Quickbeam pared down to a non-speaking role.

Ents

Beechbone | Bregalad (Quickbeam) | Fangorn (Treebeard) | Fimbrethil (Wandlimb) | Finglas (Leaflock) | Fladrif (Skinbark)