Tolkien evaluation action
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Father Francis: Well, boys, I was right. She's an enormous beast, with great scaly feet and the most prominent pair of tusks I've ever seen. She's chewing, on what I can only assume is the femur of a small boy. On the other hand, there is cake.
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Robert Gilson (Young): Gentlemen. A thought. You know what the trouble is with all these legends Tolkien reads?
J.R.R. Tolkien (Young): Enlighten me, Robbie.
Robert Gilson (Young): They don't have any women in them. I'm not talking about pale, shivering maidens sitting in towers. I'm talking about plump, *red-blooded* women... The women of Southern Europe. Women with large flagons of wine on their heads.