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J.R.R. Tolkien's tree shepards in Lotr were an original idea of walking sentient trees, even though they got their name from the Anglo-Saxon name for giant. The main inspiration for the these living logs was from his bitter disappointment of Shakespeare's scottish play, Macbeth, where a prophecy is given that Great Birnam Wood will go to High Dunsinane. Tolkien had high hopes to see trees marching on to battle, when the prophecy was instead just a play on words. He had longed to create a point in time, where the trees themselves would then march to war as he had hoped in his school days, which then came to be with Treebeard and the other Ents.
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