Entish

This article is about the language of the Ents . For the scene from the film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers , see ' Old Entish (scene) "Old Entish (scene)") ' . Entish or Old Entish was the slow, sonorous, rumbling and ancient language of the Ents . In ancient days, after meeting the Elves , the Ents developed the desire for a spoken language. The language that resulted from this desire was unlike any among the other races of Middle-earth. It was slow, sonorous, agglomerated, repetitive, and extremely long-winded. The lore-masters of the Eldar made no attempt to represent it in writing, as its many vowel-shades and tonal distinctions were far too numerous to do so.[[1]]( The Ents found Quenya to be a lovely language and adapted it after their fashion to everyday use, along with its vocabulary to Entish grammatical structure.[[6]]( The individual words were easily understandable, although they formed lengthy run-on sentences of redundant adjectives. When Treebeard said " Taurelilómëa-tumbalemorna Tumbaletaurëa Lómëanor" [[7]]( , he wanted to tell Merry and Pippin that "there is a black shadow in the deep dales of the forest", however, the literal translation is "Forestmanyshadowed-deepvalleyblack Deepvalleyforested Gloomyland".[[6]]( Additionally, when Treebeard described the Orcs, he said "evileyed-blackhanded-bowlegged-flinthearted-clawfingered-foulbellied-bloodthirsty," and added some Quenya: morimaite-sincahonda ("blackhanded" and "flinthearted").[[3]](