Surprising Literary Congruences

[littlemanpoet]

The other day I was reading in the First Book of Samuel in the Old Testament Scripture (otherwise known as the historical books of the Hebrew Scripture), when a single phrase jumped out at me.

For the battle there was scattered over the face of the whole countryside, and the woods devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

(For those interested to read the context, it's to be found in 2 Samuel 18.)

As usual, the writers of these works mention stuff like this matter-of-factly, giving no further description, no explanation. My imagination took off, imagining trees reaching their branches down and strangling or crushing various folk. But the writer doesn't say 'how'.

This of course reminds of Shakespeare's MacBeth with which Tolkien was disappointed and aimed to better with his Ents and the moving forest.

Two types of responses to this are coveted:
(1) responses to the particular incident related here;
(2) other surprising, unexpected literary congruences that you may have run across here and there that reminded you of Tolkien in some way.

I wait with bated breath......