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You may have picked it up from Shakespeare. In Macbeth, he is given the prophecy
“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until
Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill
Shall come against him”
Macbeth takes this to mean he is safe if the forest never grows near his castle.
That's amazing! You're right, I must have read something like the following and combined the two in my mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_influence_on_Tolkien
Thanks for this. I was not aware of the direct attribution by JRR, but it doesn't surprise me.
So much of English lit is inspired by Shakespeare.