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You can use one to deflect the other; Tolkien was so disappointed by the twist in Macbeth that he wrote the Ents.



Ah, I didn't know that. "I guess you are referring to "Burnham Wood is come to Dunsinane"?


Yep. And he also mentioned that the c-section aspect of the other prophecy felt weak, so he used a much simpler method of defeating “no man”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_influence_on_T...




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