Treant
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Treant is a popular character type/race found in newer-strategy/RPG computer games.
Treants are supposed to be an un-copyrighted version of J.R.R Tolkien's Ents, and are thus sentient trees with human characteristics. They are typically portrayed in a role similar to Ents as protectors of the forests and antagonists to industrialization and despoiling of Nature. In D&D, they are typically allies of druids and fey, opposing malicious races such as orcs.
Ents appear to have been inspired by the talking trees of many of the world's folklores. See tree (mythology) for more information.
The name comes from combining Tree and Giant, and should be pronounced as a mixture of the two (app. Tree-yant).