I can understand that, my best friend and I were the same way.

[ He listens to her, rapt in attention. He hadn't expected her favorite books to be high fantasy, and he finds it cute that she used to play pretend with Q. He had a whole shoebox underneath his childhood bed, full of sketches of him and Bucky on adventures; he was going to write a comic one day-- but maybe that's a story for another time. ]

And I... really love Tolkien. The Hobbit's a favorite of mine, and the other ones are good, even if the Silmarillion reads like a textbook.

Did you know he studied linguistics? Made a bunch of languages, based 'em off of Finnish and Welsh, but they didn't make sense because there was no history, right? So he wrote the whole world full of books just so... he could have a whole language tree.

[ He only says that because he thinks she might be interested, since she likes dead languages. Though, well, Steve had never had the talent for learning those - he only profited on the work from others' passions. ]

--I've never heard of Fillory and Further. Is it at the library?

[ He thinks he might pick it up and do a little light reading. If they're drawn to the same sorts of fiction, he'd trust her recommendation. ]