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That it turned out to just involve regular men with branches stuck to their heads annoyed JRR Tolkien so much that he created the race of Ents.



I heard the same about caesarean ("none of woman born") becoming a human woman and a male hobbit ("No man can kill me!").


I don't know if that's true, but I want it to be true, because the very same thing pissed me off when I read Macbeth in high school.




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