Movies
The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, The Hobbit, The Return of the King (animated), The Lord of the Rings (animated) Serenity, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Braveheart, Kingdom of Heaven, Underworld, Lucky Number Slevin, Hero, The Matrix, The Order, Fight Club, Bottle Rocket. Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Music
30 Seconds to Mars, Aaron Sprinkle, As I Lay Dying, Andrew Osenga, Aunt Betty's, Beanbag, Blindside, Blue October, Booley, Breaking Benjamin, Celldweller, Chasing Furies, Chevelle, Circle of Dust, Coconut Records, Coldplay, Common Children, Cush, Damien Jurado, Dead Poetic, Deitiphobia, Duke Special, The Echoing Green, Elliot Smith, Evanescence, Finch, The Flaming Lips, Fold Zandura, Frank Lenz, From Autumn to Ashes, Further Seems Forever, Glisten, Honey, Ian Keaggy, Iona, Jesse Sprinkle, Jimmy Eat World, Living Sacrifice, LSU, Massivivid, Matthew Perryman Jones, mewithoutyou, Mike Knott, Mortal, Muse, MuteMath, MxPx, Nodes of Ranvier, Phil Keaggy, Plumb, Project 86, Puller, Radiohead, Robert Deeble, Saviour Machine, Seven Head Division, Showbread, Sigur Ros, Six Feet Deep, Smashing Pumpkins, Snow Patrol, Spoken, Starflyer 59, Strung Gurus, Taylor Allen, The Juliana Theory, The Normals, The Postal Service, The Promise Ring, The Smuggling Mexicans, The Toast Brothers, The Violet Burning, The World Inside, Thrice, Tool, U2, Underoath, Union, Unwed Sailor, Viva Voce, Weezer, Zao
Books
The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The History of Middle Earth Series, The Book of Lost Tales 1, The Book of Lost Tales 2, The Lays of Beleriand, The Shaping of Middle-earth, The Lost Road and Other Writings, The Return of the Shadow, The Treason of Isengard, The War of the Ring, Sauron Defeated, Morgoth's Ring, The War of the Jewels, The Peoples of Middle-earth, The Children of Húrin, The Paradise War, The Silver Hand, The Endless Knot, Youth of the Apocalypse: and the Last True Rebellion, Green Rider, First Rider's Call, Firebird, Fusion Fire, Crown of Fire, Augustine's Confessions
Interests
Linguistics, Archaeology, Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology