In Popular Culture
The Fall of Troy has a song entitled "The Last March of the Ents" on their self-titled debut album released in 2003.
Robot Chicken featured Ents in four separate skits. One featured an Ent being cut down with a chainsaw. Another featured a member of The Surreal Life, in a parody of Lord of the Rings, relieving himself on an Ent, which angered it, prompting it to step on him. Another had a forest ranger showing kids a sap faucet, and tried to get sap out of it, unaware that he was really touching an Ent. A fourth featured several Ents running, and a girl shouting "Run, Forest! Run!!", parodying the famous quote from the film Forrest Gump.
Treebeard's song, "In The Willow-Meads of Tasarinan", was sung by William Elvin to the music of Donald Swann on their 1968 recording: The Road Goes Ever On, released on Camedon. The lyrics and music were published in a song book by Allen & Unwin.
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In other fantasy and role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons (D&D, see plant creatures), EverQuest, Thief 2: The Metal Age, Magic: The Gathering, Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Square Enix's Final Fantasy series, Warlords series and the Warcraft PC game series, Tolkien-like Ents are known as "Treants", "Dendroids", "Treemen", "Woodskins" and "Treefolk", for trademark reasons, much like Hobbits are only referred to as Halflings in such works. Similar creatures are also depicted in the MMORPGs RuneScape, Rift and Rubies of Eventide, as well as the real-time strategy game Myth: The Fallen Lords, among other games. Wesnoth has units based on the fictional race wose (similar to ents). In some incarnations, these tree-people are very close in spirit to their Tolkienesque forebears, although others, like D&D, have explored the concept of corrupt trees and tree-like monsters (akin to Old Man Willow and the Huorns of Fangorn). For instance, in the MMORPG Shadowbane, Treants are mid-level monsters.
In Heroes of Might and Magic series ent-like creatures exist in the III and V parts as a part of elven alliance, however in the fifth part, due to copyright infringement issues, their look was changed between the beta phase and the retail version, making them quadrupedal instead of bipedal.
The Wood comes alive to save the Narnians in the final battle of Prince Caspian, which was written by C. S. Lewis, a fellow member with Tolkien of the Inklings. In the film adaptation of the book, these trees resemble Huorns more than Ents.
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