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0 pointszimpenfish1mo ago0 comments

> When he quoted Tolkien, my heart stopped.

I wonder if meeting Colbert played any part in that.

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wowoc1mo ago· 3 in thread

I doubt it, there is a much simpler explanation: virtually all English-speaking Catholics dig Tolkien.

Lewis and Tolkien hanging out at pubs in Oxford remains the apex of nerdy Christian geekery.

I had a look and yeah, Popes quoting Tolkien does seem to be a thing, at least in the last couple of decades.

girvo1mo ago

It’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!

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