It had been many a year since the defeat of Sauron, the High Elves had passed over the sea and the woods of Lothlorien were now empty and peace had been restored to Middle-Earth, but Treebeard(or Fangorn as others might call him) and all the Ents of Fangorn forest were in deep sorrow. How dearly they missed their Entwives, they thought about them night and day, nothing could rid them the thought of their lovely wives.
One fine day, in the middle of June, Treebeard had just woken up and had a drink out of his bowl, he had gone about 300 'Ent-strides' as Pippin would call them, and he saw Bregelad in the distance. He walked over with his long, thick legs striding ever further. He looked at Bregelad and he seemed to be in deep thought.
"Hoom, Bregelad, hmm, what seems to be distracting your thoughts?" Treebeard asked him.
"I am just thinking about my entwife of old, it seems that lately that's all I can think of" he replied quietly.
"Hoom, that also has been on my mind" he walked off to have a good, long think.
A few hours later he came back and found Bregelad in the same place he was before.
"I have been thinking, long and deep, and I have decided that it is time we went searching for our Entwives again, it is time to call for another Entmoot and decide what we are to do" Treebeard said slowly.
Treebeard went for a walk all over the Fangorn forest, it took him many days, but he found many of the old Ents and he spoke to them of his plans and arranged for a meeting.
Treebeard and Bregelad walked to Derndingle, and waited for the others to arrive.
He sent out 3 loud calls, and got many replies.
In a few minutes, Derndingle was occupied by about 3 dozen Ents, all different from the next.
"Welcome my friends, now the time has come, for us to talk and decide whether we are going to look once more for our Entwives, I know that we have all of late been sidetracked by our thoughts of them, and I have been thinking and that is a sure sign that we must go on a search to find our long-lost partners.
If you all agree on this, there are terms, if you go on this journey, you will search for the Entwives until there is nowhere left to look, and you cannot leave the group alone, if you wish to come back here, then you must be accompanied by another Ent" Treebeard explained.
There was a silence and the only sound was that of the groaning of the earth under their feet.
"Well," Treebeard said, "what do you all say?"
"I will need to think for a while, but if I find no reason to stay then I will go with you" said Finglas (Leaflock in the language of men).
So Treebeard gave him time to think, they all stood and thought till they could think no more, after about 8 hours, Finglas spoke up.
"I have made my mind up," he said, "I will go on this search with you, but I doubt we will find them, if we do I will return to Fangorn forest with my Entwife and the Ents will forever more be joyful and filled with peace."
"Then it is decided, we will go on our search for our Entwives, but first I will give you all time to go and have a good sleep and drink enough water to keep you searching for many years."
Every single Ent went off in their own direction and had a wonderful sleep, full of dreams of their wives.
The next day, all the Ents met and set off on their journey for the Entwives.
