Dans Ents, Elves, and Eriador, The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien (Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky, 2006, ix-xxvi, 316 p.), Matthew Dickerson et Jonathan Evans avancent également l’idée d’un écho du devenir d’Éowyn dans l’histoire des Ents femmes - en prenant soin de le situer sur un plan « mythique » (p. 218) :
Éowyn of Rohan and Faramir of Gondor devote their lives to the health of Ithilien, a land bordering Mordor that has also scarred by war. As if declaring herself a handmaiden of Yavanna – or perhaps even a mystic manifestation of Yavanna herself - Éowyn announces, “I will be a healer, and love things that grow and are not barren” (VI/v). Her pledge gets at the heart of stewardship in an age of environmental devastation, and also at the importance of life in Tolkien’s ecology – not only human life, though certainly this is included, but “all things that grow”. (…) For such a tenacious, zealous, and skilful character to turn from the practice of warfare to the art of nurture, growth, and healing of the environment is a momentous development – a shift from thanatos (“death”) to bios (“life”). Attentive readers may be encouraged. Nor is Éowyn alone in her commitment. Faramir; to whom she is wed at the end of the tale, responds with a pledge of his own : “Let us dwell in fair Ithilien and there make a garden. All things will grow with joy here, if the White Lady comes” (VI/v). The reader is left with little doubt that theses things can come to pass. Among other things, at a mythic level, this represents a reconciliation of gender differences that divide the Ents from the Entwives, fulfilling the tenuous prophecy in Treebeard’s song that begins, “When Spring unfolds the beechen leaf” (III/iv)
La partie en gras : « À un niveau mythique, cela représente, entre autres choses, une réconciliation des différences de genre qui séparent les Ents des Ents femmes, accomplissant la prophétie ténue chantée par Sylvebarbe et qui commence par "Lorsque le Printemps fera éclore la feuille du hêtre" ».