cosmology of a sense of what's going to happen. but i want to talk about that gifts of god, what punishments of god are not gifts. i'm quoting tolkien there. there are elves and men, which are children of the luvatar. >> and the elves lives forever. >> elves live forever. they are part of the world. >> whom do we know who is an expert on all things lord of the rings? folks, when i spent my entire teenage areas reading tolkien. i knew i was preparing myself for something important. why else would i ignore all my class work, abandon sports, and achieve a paleness i have yet to shake off? >> your mom had studied theater, wanted to be an actress. >> yes. she was going to carnegie. >> was that something that -- and she was then in haiti for