Comment by pvaldes

An ant-eater! quick, save the children and move them to the secret bunker!. We'll rejoin you later in Helm's Deep!

Like that sounds much less depressing to me. Or think about it like Spartants. Most ants do not live very long lives in any case.

> "no queen to mate with"

Ant males would never mate in a dirty bunker when there is the entire sky for this kind of romantic bussiness