Dear Mr Tolkien

[fainiel]

I totally love you for being so verbose that you put 251 words on my dissertation without me having to think of anything original to write. Thank you thank you thank you.

I am less keen on your view that men and women can never be friends without sex getting in the way, but I am prepared to forgive you this as long as I find something else that can be quoted either from The Lord of the Rings itself or from your letters, that will take me up to 6000 words and thus over the half way point (my dissertation has to be 10 - 15000 words, I'm aiming for 12000).

Here's to more incredibly long 'cannot be edited in anyway without spoiling the meaning' passages!

Love,

Fiona.

P.S. Legolas and Gimli: were they?