After I've Been In America For A

Strangely Enough, The First Time I Tried To Read [the Lord Of The Rings] I Was On Holiday In Florida. I Dropped It In The Pool My First Day There. If That's Not A Pippin Thing To Do, I Don't Know What Is.

Life In La Is Not Lying In The Sun For Months. It Is Having A 4pm Meeting And Leaving At Noon To Sit In Traffic For Four Hours. Its Not Glam.

I Wasn't Into Tolkien At School Really. But The Story Is Timeless, The Themes That It Touches On Are Contained In Cultures All Around The World. The Innocent On A Quest, The Pretender, An Inanimate Object That Holds Evil - It's Really Strange That These Themes Are There In So Many Different Countries' Folklore.

To Play One Of The Main Characters In It, It's Not The Kind Of Thing You Don't Do. Oh, I'd Rather Not Play Pippin In Lord Of The Rings... In Fact, I'm Trying To Think - What Else Would You Rather Do, You Know? I Can't Actually Think Of Another Job That I'd Rather Do.

After I've Been In America For A While, I Get Homesick For Scotland.