I see, now that opens up a third interpretation too though which only makes it worse, that interpretation being that the prophecy was a load of horse shit the whole time
I mean maybe it was one of those troll interpretations where it's technically true but only because the person who wrote it knew what would ACTUALLY happen and worded it funny to trick people, kinda like "No man born of woman can harm me!" Like yeah, technically true but clearly meant in a way for the witches to fuck with MacBeth.
So IDK maybe the profit knew a lady would kill him but said "MAN" to trick him into being overly confident when dealing with humans.
fun fact, the "I am no man" line is specifically a response to Macbeth's "no man of woman born" line, because Tolkien thought Macduff being cut from the womb was a lame way around it, and thought that a woman should have killed Macbeth instead
I see, now that opens up a third interpretation too though which only makes it worse, that interpretation being that the prophecy was a load of horse shit the whole time
I mean maybe it was one of those troll interpretations where it's technically true but only because the person who wrote it knew what would ACTUALLY happen and worded it funny to trick people, kinda like "No man born of woman can harm me!" Like yeah, technically true but clearly meant in a way for the witches to fuck with MacBeth.
So IDK maybe the profit knew a lady would kill him but said "MAN" to trick him into being overly confident when dealing with humans.
fun fact, the "I am no man" line is specifically a response to Macbeth's "no man of woman born" line, because Tolkien thought Macduff being cut from the womb was a lame way around it, and thought that a woman should have killed Macbeth instead
Tolkien being surprisingly woke about Shakespeare, who'da thunk it?