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[edit] What is a traditional ent
This article is of poor quality. It states what an ent is and than it says it's very different from a traditional ent?! what is a traditional ent and what kind of ent did I just read a description of? --60.40.63.114 05:13, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
This is explained in the etymology section. I completely missed it myself, and was complaining about it before I noticed it. I am adding a link from "traditional ent" to the etymology section to make it more clear (since at least two users have now apparently suffered from selective blindness in regards to the etymology section...) --Jaysweet 20:43, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Why the move?
Tolkien Ents are overwhelmingly what people think of when they hear Ent. Tolkien popularized modern usage of the term. Practically no one even knows that there's any other use. Why disambiguate? There's not really enough material between Ent (Middle-earth) and Ent (fiction) to require that it be divided into two articles. -Aranel ("Sarah") 13:16, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Requested move
Tolkien's Ents are overwhelmingly what people think about when they hear Ent today. According to standard disambiguation procedures, the article on Tolkien's Ents should be what people get when they go to an article of that name. Actually, I'd prefer to see Ent (fiction) merged back into one article on Ents—none of the articles is big enough to require a split. -Aranel ("Sarah") 20:23, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
- Comment: An obvious case of primary disambiguation, indeed. It is, however, important to preserve the history of the article. I suggest to simply revert splitting the original, the sad remains of which are currently located at ent (fiction), and to move it back to ent. -- Naive cynic 21:20, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
- I don't actually know why it was moved in the first place. I haven't been able to find any discussion. -Aranel ("Sarah") 01:52, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
- Support. Should be non-controversial. Josiah Rowe 00:54, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
- Support, obviously. ENT should redirect to Otolaryngology. — Knowledge Seeker দ 00:32, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
- Support and I agree with Knowledge Seeker. Jonathunder 00:40, 2005 September 3 (UTC)
This article has been renamed after the result of a move request. I also fixed the lost history. Dragons flight 07:56, September 4, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Wont?
I the "In tolkien's works" section there's this phrase: "They were apparently created by Eru Ilúvatar at the behest of Yavanna after she learned of Aulë's children, the Dwarves, knowing that they would be wont to fell trees." what does this mean? In wiktionary it says wont is "One's habitual way of doing things". If this is what wont means then the phrase doesn't make sense to me.
in oxford gendaiei eijiten wont is defined as: "old-fashioned, formal: in the habit of doing sth"
- It means that the Dwarves would be in the habit of felling trees to feed their forges. Yavanna was concerned that because Aulë was only interested in the things he could make, so also the Dwarves would only be interested in the things they could make. She believed that they would only see the trees as a source of fuel, not as something to enjoy in their own right. — db48x | Talk 17:50, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Film Adaptation
I've noticed that other LOTR articles have a section on how various characters are portrayed differently in the films then the books. This article might also benefit from one. One diff, for example, is the fact that, in the book, the ents decide to attack Orthanc at the end of the entmoot, while in the film, Merry and Pippin trick treebeard into finding the destruction before they decide to act. Prometheus-X303- 14:30, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
