I knew a girl who was the very definition of a jewish american princess except, um, mexican, but anyway, all her friends were also the very definition of such except, you know, actually jewish. Anyway, girly girls. Read romance novels. Spend a considerable amount of time buying clothes. Anyway, then my friend discovers
Lord of the Rings when the first movie comes out, gets the book, then absolutely gets obsessed with it. It was a lot of "mwuahahaha!" on my part as a drove her into the depths of geekdom.
Reminds me of a recent Penny Arcade comic.

Wondering if Kaidan is a closet geek. Actually think he's a closet nerd, not so much willing to talk about Gandalf as he is theorizing about quantum physics.