Ents, os de la terre et Métamorphoses d'Ovide ?

[Hisweloke]

Je complète encore... Lettres, 247 (je souligne) :

(Yavanna) besought Eru (through Manwe) asking him to give life to things made of living things not stone, and that the Ents were either souls sent to inhabit trees, or else that slowly took the likeness of trees owing to their inborn love of trees. The Ents thus had mastery over stone.

Ce qui contraste avec la chanson de Barbebois dans LotR, "Ent the earthborn, old as mountains" – non loin de là où figurait nos curieux os de la terre...