A student inquired: "Is it true that J.R.R. Tolkien actually caused the Greek debt?"

No, this is wrong! On the contrary. It was the blasphemer Peter Jackson who caused the Greek to fall into poverty. He scammed them! He sold them 435,222,134,756,435 copies of his horrible Hobbit trilogy on extra-expensive extended edition Blu-rays!

The Greek farmers had planned to use the sharp-edged blu-rays to cut up olives and compress them to olive oil. It was a clever idea. But it didn't work! All olive oil produced with them had a very sour and nasty aftertaste! They had to throw it all away. It is a tragedy.