"Lord of the Rings" creatures

The answer

ENTS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ENTS answer page.

Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• ELVES (1 uses in xd)
• ORCS (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ENTS

Every other clue in this collection answered by ENTS, most used first.

• Tolkien creatures - used 104 times, most recently in 2026
• Tolkien tree creatures - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Sinus docs - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Tolkien's tree creatures - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• Sinus specialists, for short - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Noun suffixes. - used 11 times, most recently in 1967
• Tolkien forest creatures - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Middle-earth creatures - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• Laryngitis docs - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Sinusitis docs - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Treebeard's kin - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Tolkien tree giants - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Tolkien's "Shepherds of the Trees" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Up to the task - ABLE, used 397 times
• In the thick of - AMID, used 377 times
• On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
• From the top - ANEW, used 355 times
• Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times
• Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times

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