"this includes you, Conrad, and your bizarre folk zealotry"

The problem is, Ruth, that Conrad lives in his own little self-constructed world of fakelore that has more resemblance to Tolkein than reality. I bet he also believes that the world is flat, that he has fairies at the bottom of his garden and that he is some great wizard. I've come across people like him before and their state of mind usually stems from reading too much Lord of the Rings. taking too many halucinogenic substances and listening to The Moody Blues Threshold of a Dream. I've started to find all this extremely amusing now - I'm waiting for threads from him on what to wear when entering an enchanted forest and how to disarm a Balrog.