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Sunday 27 September 2020

As a schoolboy, JRR Tolkien felt…

As a schoolboy, JRR Tolkien felt “bitter disappointment and disgust” that the woods did not actually march on the villain’s castle and Shakespeare’s prophecy was revealed as a rhetorical trick (Macbeth). Later, Tolkien made a point of writing a story where the trees performed as advertised.

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