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> When he quoted Tolkien, my heart stopped. I wonder if meeting Colbert played any part in that.
by zimpenfish 5mo ago
> When he quoted Tolkien, my heart stopped.
I wonder if meeting Colbert played any part in that.
- wowoc 5mo agoI doubt it, there is a much simpler explanation: virtually all English-speaking Catholics dig Tolkien.
- jimbokun 5mo agoLewis and Tolkien hanging out at pubs in Oxford remains the apex of nerdy Christian geekery.
- zimpenfish 5mo agoI had a look and yeah, Popes quoting Tolkien does seem to be a thing, at least in the last couple of decades.
- girvo 5mo agoIt’s a whole thing. The priest at my high school was way into Tolkien and, more interestingly to me as a teenager: the Wolfenstein series of games!
- Aeolun 5mo agoThe priest at your high school? This is a set of words I’ve never heard in the same sentence. Where was this? If you don’t mind me asking.
- girvo 5mo agoAustralia! Catholic high school, though in practice amusingly secular
- zimpenfish 5mo agoI went to a school run by monks[0]. Technically at least two were also priests (although I wasn't sure of the distinction then and I'm still not sure decades later.) [0] Alas, a dodgy branch of monks who have since encountered many legal issues around child care, etc., as have at least one of my teachers.