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Prophecies and Walkin' Trees: That time Shakespeare annoyed Tolkien.
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It's a little known fact that the Ents of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings were actually inspired by the author's extreme dislike of a scene in Shakespeare's Macbeth. Paul talks the prophecies of Macbeth, their influence on LOTR, and Tolkien's brief use of prophecy himself.
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Polanski, Roman. Macbeth. UK/USA: Playboy Productions and and Caliban Films, 1971.
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. The Riverside Shakespeare. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Return of the King. London: Harper Collins, 2010.
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