#JRRTolkien's novel The Two Towers employs #rowans as the signature tree for the Ent, #Quickbeam. The forest of #Fangorn, where Quickbeam & other Ents live, is populated with numerous rowans that were said to have been planted by male Ents to please the female #Entwives. Quickbeam declares his fondness for the tree by saying that no other "people of the Rose ... are so beautiful to me," a reference to the rowan's membership in the family #Rosaceae.