Rory Kinnear's Tom Bombadil looking at The Stranger in Rings of Power Season 2
Episode 4 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2, “Eldest,” gave fans pieces of lore from J. R. R. Tolkien’s texts that we never thought we’d see adapted, never mind in live-action. However, despite Tom Bombadil’s appearance being an incredible adaptation of a character sadly exempt from both Ralph Bakshi’s animated project and Peter Jackson’s trilogy, it was the Entwife Winterbloom appearing that was the biggest shock and deepest cut seen yet in the adaptations of Tolkien lore.
This story is similarly told in the book by Treebeard in a chapter of the same name, though not even in Tolkien’s expanded texts like The Silmarillion do we see or hear of them. Whilst it is possible they could be somewhere, perhaps even the Shire, as is mentioned in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers text, in one of Tolkien’s letters published in The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Tolkien assumes they were destroyed by Sauron.
1 The Entwives Disappearance Sadly Reflects the Destruction of Nature As seen in Episode 4, Winterbloom and Snaggleroot are distraught at the destruction of the trees by the Orcs, killing Wildmen without mercy and almost murdering Arondir , Isildur, and Estrid . Seeing this kind of anguish reminds us of a mother and father losing their children, displaying how the wars between Orcs and men leave nature caught in the middle.
Overall, the Entwives’ inclusion is not only a great look into the unseen lore of Tolkien's texts, but a stark reminder of the future of not just Middle-earth, but our own world too. The Entwives serve as a warning about the destruction that war can have on the environment and how, as the dominant species, we need to care for the planet in the role of shepherds of the forest and carers of gardens.
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