The Long List of the Ents [Dutch translation]

Learn now the lore of Living Creatures!

First name the four, the free peoples:

Eldest of all, the elf-children;

Dwarf the delver, dark are his houses;

Ent the earthborn, old as mountains;

Man the mortal, master of horses;

Beaver the builder, buck the leaper,

Bear bee-hunter, boar the figher;

Hound is hungry, hare is fearful...

Eagle in eyrie, ox in pasture,

Hart horn-crowned; hawk is swiftest,

Swan the whitest, serpent coldest...

Add by Treebeard:

Ents the earthborn, old as mountains,

the wide-walkers, water drinking;

and hungry as hunters, the Hobbit children.

the laughing folk, the little people.

• Artist:J. R. R. Tolkien