To Val, she says "I read it over the summer after my second year, when there wasn't really anything else to do. I'd read Narnia the year before. I think I liked Lord of the Rings better, but that may have been because it took me longer to get through . . "

To Ron, she says, "Um. Well, there was this one character, Faramir . . ."

Her eyes do not go starry as she says the name. Not at all. You are surely hallucinating.

She waves her hand suddenly. "It doesn't matter. We need to find someone who knows the Lord of the Rings much better than I do."