Concerning Tolkien (and the Fact That I'm Not a Geek)

According to T.A. Shippey (who wrote J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century), Tolkien believed "that a taste for philology, for history of language in all its forms, names and place-names included, is much more widespread in the population at large than educators and arbiters of taste like to think...what he felt, Tolkien said, was:

'grievance that certain professional persons should suppose their dullness and ignorance to be a human norm; and anger when they have sought to impose the limitation of their minds upon younger minds, disuading those with philological curiosity from their bent, encouraging those without this interest to believe that their lack marked them as minds of a superior order.'"

So basically, what Tolkien said was that I'm normal. Yet another reason for me to love him: he said I'm not a geek.