as a younker he was enjoying relating to an 5yo on the famdamily farm. In explaining the LOTR he pointed out how gopher mounds cannily looked like hobbit houses, and deer traile looked like hobbit roads and expanded upon same. The same eve, there was across from town the usual carny organ which was loud enough to sound an echo around the surrounding vegiscape.
Unfortunately the parents were raging atheists, if you didnt see it, smell it it didnt exist
Now the kid was verociously stating that he ha seen hobbits, and heard elvish music
Skip exits stage left