The Ents WANTED to Fight #shorts #tolkien

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Fangorn and the ants wanted to go to war. Just to clarify, Fangorn is Treebeard's name in Elvish, and the forest was named after him, and he is one of the oldest living things in all of Middle Earth. In the Lord of the Rings movies, the ants are portrayed as passive, deciding to weather the storm as they have always done. And it takes Pippen tricking Tree Beard into going south and witnessing the devastation that Sarman has wrought upon his tree friends for Tree Beard to finally call the other ants to fight. In the books, however, the ants are fully aware of the damage that Sauron is doing to the forest, and they begin to rouse and become angry. Before Antmoot even begins, Treebeard laments the loss with this line. Many of these trees were my friends, creatures I had known from Nut and Acorn. Many head voices of their own that are lost forever now. There are wastes of stump and bramble where there were singing groves. Antmoot still takes a long time however around 3 days because as we know it takes a long time to say anything in old and tish and we never say anything unless it's worth taking a long time to say. But Tree Beard recognizes that the young, hasty hobbits are getting restless, and he dismisses them to hang out with Quickbeam, a younger, hastier ant who has already decided that he wanted to go to war because Saramon's orcs had destroyed his beloved rowan trees. After 3 days of deliberation, the hobbits hear the ants chanting and marching. They had decided of their own accord to go to war. Treebeard tells them, "Of course it is likely enough, my friends," he said slowly. Likely enough, Flood, we are going to our doom. The last march of the ants. But if we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway.

[00:01:52]Sooner or later, that thought has long been growing in our hearts. And that is why we are marching now. Now at least the last march of the ants might be worth a song. When the hobbits inquire about how they plan to get into Orthank, they are told, "Maybe you have heard of trolls. They are mighty and strong. But trolls are only counterfeits made by the enemy in the great darkness, in mockery of ants, as orcs were of elves. We are stronger than trolls. We are made of the bones of the earth. We can split stone like the roots of trees, only quicker, far quicker, if our minds are roused.

[00:02:45]And then Treebeard sends the horns off to Helms Deep to deal with the orcs as the ants have business with Eisenard tonight. What do you guys think about the decision to make the ants into more pacifists? And what other changes should I cover on this channel? Let me know in the comments below.