Motifs of Myth

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bluepal.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Motifs of Myth

The attack of the Ents was intentional as a Shakespeare reference anyway. JRRT said he was very disappointed when the Great Birnam wood did not really march to war, and he wanted a story where that happened for real.
Besides, as I mentioned aforehand, this is not a thread I'd want to discuss origins of connections in, nor do I want to discuss the questions of allegory or myth reception.
It's just that I discovered a couple of parallels myself and would like to discuss sucha and others you might come up with.

<h6> Like yapping dogs
Blind lead the blind
Those who chain the future
Are those time leaves behind
Is glory now gone?
A friendship worth of fiends
Is a rose without thorns. </h6></p>