[NewCenturions]

"a wealth of useless Tolkien knowledge"

Not at all - it's quite a noble hobby! I have learned much.

[JenB]

Well, thank you! Now if only I could use it to become rich, powerful, or famous - I might persuade my mother that I had not wasted all those hours I spent rereading LotR instead of diagramming sentences or such. (I had a good sense of priorities; math was important, and so was learning how to write, but geography and 'soft' subjects could be put off for a good reason. Like Tolkien.)