Annoying experts

[The Saucepan Man]

KoG, I believe that H-I was describing SPM as the example of an ITF. (Er, that is, Ideal Tolkien Fan).

Not sure that I'm all that happy at being cited as some sort of "benchmark" on a thread dealing with annoying experts. I can be annoying, but rarely (I hope) in the contect of discussing Tolkien, and I am most certainly no expert.

That aside, I would respectfully decline the honour of "ITF". Quite apart from anything else, I firmly believe that there is in fact no such thing as an ideal Tolkien fan.

As for being middle-aged, well gee thanks! I like to think that I have a few more years yet (although, alas, all too few).