Chatting with a friend of a friend, it turned out that he was a fellow Lord of the Rings fan. As I enthusiastically started asking what he thought about the literature he admitted that he’d not yet read the books, adding “But really you know you prefer the films too, they’ve got Orlando Bloom and you’re a woman.” He was unconvinced at my claims I was in it for the elvish linguistics and continued to mansplain my true interests to me.
