Over the course of three pages and a recited song, Treebeard explains that Ents and Entwives once lived together, until their interests began to diverge; their “hearts did not go on growing in the same way.” Where Ents wandered the great forests and attached themselves to the great-growing wild trees like oak and elm and birch, Entwives preferred to craft ordered gardens to live in, growing fond of apple and cherry, of fields of grain and gardens of herbs. The Entwives befriended humans and taught them agriculture, while Ents remained merely a legend to them.