Inte ens Tolkien själv var helt säker på vad som hände med entiskorna, även om han tyvärr delade er uppfattning om att de
antagligen dött ut, om man ska tro
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien:
Tolkien (s. 179) skrev:
I think that in fact the Entwives had disappeared for good, being destroyed with their gardens in the War of the Last Alliance (Second Age 3429-3441) when Sauron pursued a scorched earth policy and burned their land against the advance of the Allies down the Anduin (Vol. II p. 79 refers to it). They surviverd only in the 'agriculture' transmitted to Men (and Hobbits). Some, of course, may have fled east, or even have become enslaved: tyrants even in such tales must have an economic and agricultural background to their soldiers and metalworkers. If any survived so, they would indeed be far estranged from the Ents, and any rapprochement would be difficult - unless experience of industrialized and militarized agriculture had made them a little more anarchic. I hope so. I don't know.
Tolkien (s. 419) skrev:
As for the Entwives: I do not know. I have written nothing beyond the first few years of the Fourth Age. [...] But I think in Vol. II pp. 80-81 it is plain that there would be for Ents no re-union in 'history' - but Ents and their wives being rational creatures would find some 'earthly paradise' until the end of this world: beyond which the wisdom neither of Elves nor Ents could see. Though maybe they shared the hope of Aragorn that they were 'not bound for ever to the circles of the world and beyond them is more than memory.'.
Jag hoppas verkligen inte att entiskorna förslavades av Sauron, det vore ett fruktansvärt öde.