Apparently most people didn’t know this but this is relevant because Fran Drescher, who played Fran Fine on the Nanny, is currently the president of the SAG-AFTRA union, which is going on strike.
tolkien: fine. what about the other prophecy, then? shakespeare: “no man born from a woman can kill macbeth” tolkien: so … a woman kills him, because she is “no man”? shakespeare: no, you see macduff, was delivered via c-section, so technically he’s a man who wasn’t ‘born’ from a woman. get it?
tolkien:
(via @neverquiteeden ) You would be 100% correct, though it was at a younger age than high school would be. He was SO DISTRESSED at the fake-out about the trees and that is why we have Ents. He wrote about it in some of his essays, about how the wordplay was such a let-down from the wonder the prophecies inspired in him, and he used that to fuel his crafting of a story that could capture that wonder.
