- Christine O'Donnell, Tolkien scholar
September 16, 2010 – Ms. O’Donnell has already found her way into pop culture, including not a few Facebook status updates from friends of mine who don’t follow politics. It would be odd indeed if this woman’s unbending attitude toward sexual purity, and English paper-level analysis of “Lord of the Rings” were the things that finally shocked the larger culture into some sort of understanding that the Tea Party Senate candidates are a fringy lot.