"There have been no Entings -- no children you would say, not for a terrible long count of years. You see, we lost the Entwives." "How very sad!" said Pippin. "How was it then that they all died?" "They did not die!" said Treabeard. "We lost them, I said. We lost them and cannot find them." "It is rather a strange and sad story," he went on after a pause, "When the world was young,…