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Originally Posted by Thinlómien

You ask me questions that confuse me...

Sorry - it's not intentional. Sometimes confusion follows me like a hungry Warg.

Heavy music listeners = people who listen to heavy/ metal music. My category for the music is quite wide; I count bands like Nightwish as well as Iron Maiden and such.

That's what I thought, but when you wrote "heavy music," I, being somewhat older and mostly out of touch with the current trends, just thought that maybe you were referring to something else and not heavy metal music. Plus your definition and mine (Quiet Riot, AC/DC, Def Leppard, etc) may differ.

Another more obscure definition of "heavy music," as we're also discussing Tolkien, may be some classical music or stuff by some physicist turned composer that may be above the heads of the many. One never knows, and so I asked.

Meaning? = What do I mean by academic people??? Well, most of of age Tolkien-fans I know are either university students or people who have an university degree at something.

Okay, so you're just stating that many Tolkien-lovers that you know have extended education and nothing more (i.e. have high IQs or something). Is that because many people you know have degrees or are students, or of the group that you hang out with, those with degrees/are students like Tolkien? See the difference? Not that I'm asking you to do a study or provide scientific results or something, but just want to note the difference.

Thanks for this thread.