«Ever read The Lord of the Rings? I knew it! You look like a reader, you have that kind of face. Remember they had a race in there — the Ents? Tree people, all of them male, who had lost their women. Oh, yes, you know what I’m talking about. …It was, like, a challenge from nature. Just like the Ents, we had our wives taken away, and we just got left here to fend for ourselves.»