Something I wrote in highschool after the English teacher seeded our minds with Simon and Garfunkles "I am a rock, I am an Island". This is the origin of the specific nickname I now use. Contributing factors include my dad recording "The Hobbit" onto tape when I was young, and the fact that I decided to take Latin as my language requirement in highschool since I thought it would be useful to a scholar such as myself (I neglected to consider that neither history nor taxinomy were particular interests of mine at the time).

Note that the above is important enough that the repetition of it at the start of the poem is fully intentional.