[The Saucepan Man]

I had not seen the connection between the Ents and Birnham Wood in Macbeth until I read another thread on this topic. However, I was interested to hear the comments of one old chap in the cinema, in the row behind me, on TTT. He was clearly not familiar with the works of JRRT, but was muttering something about the Ents' destruction of Isengard being marvellous and quoting the Birnham Wood lines from Macbeth.

I had previously made the connection between the prophecies concerning the fate of the Witch King of Angmar and Macbeth ("no man of woman born" etc). Having studied Macbeth for 'O' Level English, I recall that Shakespeare was himself drawing upon some older source for this kind of prophecy. Alas, the passing of years is such that I cannot now recall the identity of this source. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]