You know you have Tolkien fever when....

[Elvenglass]

Ok today during my english test I was going to write "similar" and instead I wrote "silmarillion"....oops! So funny though! I burst out laughing during the middle of the exam and all the other students gave me funny looks...Does that happen to anyone else or am I just really really wierd?? smilies/smile.gif

[Enedhil]

Every time i go to write/type 'earth' I have to restrain myself from preceding (<--right word?) it with 'middle', or vice versa. smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Aprylien]

I started to suspect Tolkien fever recently when I started ending sentences with "and no mistake" and referring to my husband as "my hobbit". (Can't help it...he's cute, short, and has big feet and curly hair!).

[Rosa Underhill]

I named my rat Dr. Meriadoc Bramwell Livingston (Doc or Mr. Merry for short) and I oft call my guide dog "Ida Gamgee". (I did it this morning right before we left the house since she was in harness and she went nuts with excitment. BTW, out of harness she's known as "Ida Wilde".)

My friends claim that "track 1" of my brian goes something like: hobbits, Frodo, Sam, hobbits, hobbits, Tolkien, hobbits... smilies/biggrin.gif

[Elven Maiden]

When I was telling some friend about the game Zelda and I accidentally called the bad guy Gandalf instead of Ganandorf...she gave me this really weird look. After I said it again, she wrote 'Ganandorf' on my forehead-in ink-so I'd remember. It didn't work. smilies/evil.gif

[Aralaithiel]

I know I have it! I am Episcopalian, and am a lay reader. I asked my rector if for Pentecost when we read John 3:16 in a lot of different languages if I could read it in Quenya. Boy did I get a weird look! smilies/biggrin.gif
I also got a hold of the Lord's Prayer in Quenya, and have been reciting it when we say it in church. My husband is very worried about me for some strange reason! LOL!

[Yaish]

Ever since coming here, I cant visit my favorite tech site without expecting Goldberry to do a hardware review of the new Pentiums. Any other computer nerds might want to check out Toms Hardware.

[Bad Fairy]

I think people here at work belive Im in the later stages of Tolkien fever. No 1. Because Im always on this site reading and posting and talking to you guys. No 2.Because I insist on carting several large Tolkien books to and from work every day to read during my lunch break. No 3. Because Im getting the one ring for Valentines day. And last but by no means least No 4. because I must make at least 100 references or comparisons to Tolkien every day.

Im suprised they've put up with me for so long actually smilies/biggrin.gif

[Gayalondiel]

I've definately got tolkien fever, I knew it when, instead of my usual (joking) threats, I told my bloke
I'll crush you like a troll on a burrahobbit!

He's threatened to disown me. smilies/smile.gif

[Glenethor]

You know you have Tolkien fever when:

You've seen the movie 20 times like I have. As it is Tuesday, and the film will be discounted all day, I will make it 21 this afternoon.

I am also going to go buy Unfinished Tales today, and re-read the Silmarillion.

Almost the only thing I have been listening to...just a sec..ok, just turned on iTunes...for the last two months is the FoTR soundtrack.

It seems the Academy of Motion Pictures has Tolkien Fever too. 13 Academy Award Nominations!!!!!!!!
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Never laugh at live Dragons

[Iarbariel]

you know you have tolkien fever when you find it hard to "wake up" and live in the real world.....*sigh If anybody accidently stumble over elves while you're walking in the forest; let me know :-)

[Starbreeze]

You know when you have Tolkein Fever when:

You dress up as various species (orc, elf, hobbit etc) whenever possible

You wear your hair in an elf style NON STOP and get nicknamed elfgirl or Legolas (Matt, if you are out there I am a girl, I do not have blond hair, and I am definately not graceful!)

You learn Elven languages and speak only elvish to everyone.

You get taken to the doctors when your parents are worried about your sanity and the way you have obtained a sword and insist on challanging EVERYONE.

You answer only to your elven or hobbit name, not to your real name.

You learn Enya's May it be, the song in "The Breaking of The Fellowship" and the words in "The council of Elrond" and sing them at the top of your voice as you walk, as gracefully as possible, down the street (without having too much to drink).

You spend every waking minute (and several sleeping ones)posting messages here, and in every other Tolkein forum, and surfing looking for more Tolkein related sites.

You get LOTR ringtones, screensaver, desktop, icons, t-shirts, bags, books, pencils, erasers, etc. and parade them around at school/work

You listen nonstop to the soundtrack and other, pre-film, songs relating to Middle Earth.

You try and work out which of the people you know are a) hobbits b)elves c)men and for the people you don't like d)orcs.

You count down the days till the next film.

Your birthday/Christmas/Easter list consists of: The one ring
LOTR photobook
LOTR insider's guide
LOTR etc etc etc

You see the film every day and twice at weekends and holidays. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Starbreeze]

Oh, and you make your own LOTR and Tolkein website.

[Gayahithwen]

Ok, I have diagnostiged (?) myself and I have Tolkien fever.. not very badly, but bad enough.. I allready answer when someone calls me my elven name and I'm trying to learn quenya... and I do have a LotR site.. so I guess I have Tolkien fever.. uummm.. another one:

..When you dresses up in a grey cap and runs around in the forest, eating some cookies you've named "lembas"
..When you are trying every ring that "crosses your path".. could this one be magical then?
..When someone of your friends ask: "What is this LotR thingy?" you have a two hours long lessons prepared for him/her

[Enedhil]

"..When you are trying every ring that "crosses your path".. could this one be magical then?" - I get the shock of my life if my shopping companion tried on a ring and suddenly disappeared! smilies/eek.gif *Then I'd throttle them for it, and dance around shouting "precious!precious!"* smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif *thinks we should all be admitted to the specialist 'Tolkienitis' ward* smilies/wink.gif

[Rosa Underhill]

(This goes more with the "You know you're a rabid Jurassic Park fan when..." list of mine, but it can be switched to apply here.)

...You've ever created a LotR parody and/or crossover. (Give Barrow-Wight some time and, hopefully, he'll put of the picture I did of Frodo on that mystical, on-so-fabulouse, dino-ridden island.) smilies/biggrin.gif

[Lush]

You know you have Tolkien fever when in class the teacher wants to know the name of the famous Prussian alliance-master who will be indirectly responsible for WWI, and you (after snapping your head up from the LotR that's lying oh-so-conspicuosly on your desk), look around in confusion and mutter "Bilbo?".... smilies/biggrin.gif
But wait, it gets better. The very next day, as you are once again preoccupied with the
LotR in the very same class, the question regarding Alexander III's most famous minister comes up, and you, caught unawares once again, snapped out of your reverie (involving Legolas, no doubt smilies/evil.gif ), say something that sounds suspiciously like "Valar?"...
Thank God my teacher has a sense of humor, or I would've had the book shoved down my throat by now.

[ February 12, 2002: Message edited by: Lush ]

[Elvenglass]

Wow this is great, I'm not alone! Hmmm my family is starting to get scared because I spend so much time on this site! Also I asked my history teacher if I could hand in my essay written completely in Quenya..He also gave me a funny look...Keep the replies coming!!

[Daegwenn]

In Theatre Arts class, I had to memorize a monologue and present it in class...I found a good one--that was normal, it had nothing to do with LOTR...I got up to the front of the class, forgot it and winged it with whatever popped into my mind--which happened to be Lord of the Rings orientated. No one knew what i was talking about.

I ran after my Boyfriend crying, "My precioussss, we will have it, yes we will my precioussss."

My school sweater has my name, Daegwenn, on the sleeve.

I almost got kicked out of the theatres for talking too much...I was just trying to inform my friends who Elrond is...and Gandalf...and Aragorn...and Boromir...and Legolas...and Galadriel...and-well...you get the point.

I am known at Magic the Gathering tournaments for my elf/archer deck-dubbed proudly: My Legolas deck.

[Glenethor]

You people scare me!

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Oh, and my dear departed cat was named Bilbo. The cat I had before him, all black, was named Sauron. People would look at me curiously when I'd call 'here Sauron! Nice kitty!'

[Aralaithiel]

How about when your college notes were in Feanorian Tengwar, and you take phone messages for the docs you work for in it as well?
And...instead of hello, you say "Mae govannen"?
Yep...I got it bad!!!!!!!!! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Maltagaerion]

I must have had this fever for quite a while then because all these years I've named my hard drives after Elvish dwellings. Currently I have 3 hard drives in my computer and they are named 'Lothlorien', 'Nargothrond', and 'Menegroth'.

This is a tradition I intend to carry on a long long time smilies/smile.gif

[Rhudladion]

Well, 9 friends and myself meet once every 6 weeks around a fire (sometimes on a mountain we call Weathertop), smoke pipes, drink beer, and discuss Tolkien. We read pasages and converse in a fashion much like we do here. We call ourselves The Dead Inklings.

Also sometimes when I'm thinking about Tolkien, or when I get really excited about anything, I say aloud, "Oh Elbereth! Ah Gilthoniel!". Would you believe I always shudder down the spine feeling delighted and courageous?!

Also, my wife told me a few days ago that she is worried about me and thinks I am obsessed.

Oh yeh! One more. One of the guys in our group gave his daughter the middle name Eowyn. I'd say he and I both have it bad! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Glenethor]

Saw it for the 21st time last night. Drag, though, the frickin cinema has moved it to one of its smaller screens (still not as bad as some small screens, but still: no surround sound. I went and complained to the management just as Frodo and Sam were leaving the Shire.). It's a travesty, I say! The most nominated film this year knocked out of the large room by....Ahnold in 'Collateral Damage.'

GAH!

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[Sindalómiel]

Originally posted by Glenethor:
<STRONG>Saw it for the 21st time last night. Drag, though, the frickin cinema has moved it to one of its smaller screens (still not as bad as some small screens, but still: no surround sound. I went and complained to the management just as Frodo and Sam were leaving the Shire.). It's a travesty, I say! The most nominated film this year knocked out of the large room by....Ahnold in 'Collateral Damage.'

GAH!

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My local cinema moved it to the tiny screen after TWO weeks! GRRR!

And on the LOTR fever, I told my friend to meet me on Ormonde Parade, and later when she was making sure she remembered where to go she said it was Orlando Parade... someone's been watching too much Legolas.

[Glenethor]

Yeah. I also had to persuade the dolt to turn up the volume a notch and add some bass. There were speakers up the sides of the walls, so I asked why the surround sound system wasn't enabled, I was told "theatre two doesn't have surround sound." smilies/rolleyes.gif

Then what the $&@&&!!!! are those speakers doing sitting attached to the walls on either side??????

Mutters under breath: Stupid git

Oh, I long for the glory days of the non-cineplex world. There was a theatre in Montreal, the Imperial, a grand old theatre with balcony, balustrades, the whole nine yards. Deemed unprofitable by one of those big faceless corporations and turned into a rep theatre the last time I was there a few years ago. Probably office space by now.

GAH!

Sorry. Rant mode off...

[Iarbariel]

Makes me happy to see that i am not alone about this tolkien madness :-)
LotR RULE!

[avarrogion]

The fewer started when i start calling my irritating younger bro GOllum...then i start buying the other books like Hobbit.
Anyway how long did LOTR lasted in your cinemas?In Malaysia it is still playing smilies/eek.gif

[Gayahithwen]

I just came up with some more:

..when you have great fun coming up with different endings to the movie trilogy and is telling them to those of your friends who haven't read the books
..when you post in a "you know you have Tolkien-fever when.."-forum
..when you are trying to convince someone to read the LotR-series, and when they won't, you walk of calling them Gollum..

[Glenethor]

You know you have Tolkien fever when you go ordering around the hapless staff of some cineplex. And I am an imposing figure too (6'4" 270 lbs), with a sharp glare in my blue eyes when I am not a happy camper.
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However, as I am paying $8.00 for the priviledge, I have no problem with asking that the film be shown properly.


BTW, there were some cool props at this place. There was a black banner, torn, looking well used, with a nice lidless 'Eye' on it. Looked like it could've come off the set of the movie. The windows (doors) leading into the place are lined with Dwarvish Runes. Quite cool, actually. Too bad the people who run the place are cultural Philistines.

[Starbreeze]

Oh yeah, and:
In science, when you are asked about chemical equations and what you should minus from Hydrogen Chloride to make Hydrogen, you say "Minus Tireth, miss?" and get confused when you get funny looks.

Also in science, you misread Argon, the noble gas, for Aragorn, the noble man!
And Mineral ORES for ORCS!

[Gorothlammothiel]

I'm definately diagnosed with Tolkien fever. Every day i am reminded of this and have made many mistakes when in lessons concerning LOTR, luckily for me though my English teacher is also self-diagnosed. I have been called "legolas" on more than one occaision and answer to "Gorothlammothiel" frequently. I'd also like to add that you know you have Tolkien fever when:
Teachers are asking what all the scribles are on your books "well that's not German" and replying "no, it's Quenya" getting funny looks and also when you begin to draw out characters and symbols over test papers..... smilies/smile.gif

[Mithadan]

I don't have Tolkien fever, says the poor self-deluding fool with more than 1200 posts who has now been reading the books for almost 30 years.

[Aralaithiel]

Hey Rhudladion! Let's get your wife & my husband together. He's terrified that I have gone mad! Especially when I mutter incoherently in Sindarin or Quenya! smilies/smile.gif

[Elvenglass]

Ahh I did it again!! This time I was trying to write simile and ended up writing silmarillon. Oh well I guess I'm hopeless!! Heh heh

[Nazgûl Queen]

<center><font color="red">I know I have Tolkien fever...
My best friends and I now all have elven names, speak simple elvish and have a story about our lives in Middleearth which I KNOW is true!
I've managed to get my best friends to read the books, only one of whom had read it before the movies.
When one of my other friends told my to say that LotR sucks, me and Tinuviel leapt and atacked her until she said sorry...

[Daisy Sandybanks]

Okay, I know that I have Tolkien fever because, welll, every since I saw the movie (in like what, Nov. Dec.... can't remember when it came out) I haven't been able to go ONE day without mentioning somthing to one of my friends about LOTR. I really haven't! All my friends beleive I have a problem..... the sad thing is that I think I do....

[Starbreeze]

And....(there is more!)

You know that you are fevered when:

You spend a whole day actually AS Gollum, muttering about your precious and adding multiple "s"'s to every thing you say or write (You know, I actually did this!)

Then spend the next day as an Elf, take up archery, wear beautiful clothes, learn to walk gracefully etc. (I also did this!)

[Aralaithiel]

Daisy...you do not have a problem! Your non-Tolkien friends are the ones with the problem! LOL! smilies/smile.gif

[Arwen]

ok so U know when u have Tolkien fever, when you are in a night club, convincing every guy that u are actually called, 'Arwen Elvenstar' and they ask u 'how do u spell that ?'

and when you find yourself adding 'ses' and 'sss' on the end of everything (Gollum style)

[Joy]

When you walk around all day trying to figure out the meaning of Tolkien's languages. Really, I do this. I speak Japanese, Spanish, English(of course), studied Latin, Greek and Hebrew in HS and Bible college.

When the only places you go on the web now are Tolkien related.

[Elven-Maiden]

Whenever you say "Aragorn" you bite your tongue, resisting the urge to say "Son of Arathorn"

When you shudder every time you see a golden ring. It may be The One Ring.

When you wonder if that guy in history class just might be an elf... smilies/wink.gif

[Elvenglass]

Whenever you say "Aragorn" you bite your tongue, resisting the urge to say "Son of Arathorn"
It's so true! I do that all the time! My poor misguided friends are being to get a little bit scared! lol! Oh well at least I can wow them with my Quenya knowledge!

[Nazgûl Queen]

<center><font color="red">But wait... theres more! (And I've done all of them regularly)

When you plan to get yourself a sword... and a black cape... and the one ring... so you can truly be a Nazgul...

And when whenever someone wants to take something from you you hold it close and hiss "It came to me, my own, my love, my preciousssssssss"

When you spend all day at LotR sites, reading LotR, speaking Quenya and worshipping Tolkien.

When you want a statue so you can make a Tolkien Shrine.

[Aralaithiel]

I already have a Legolas shrine! smilies/wink.gif I got the Legolas action figure (complete with dagger slashing AND arrow launching action smilies/biggrin.gif)
Must kiss the Legolas doll every morning and night!!
OK...I am defintely sick! smilies/evil.gif

[ February 15, 2002: Message edited by: Aralaithiel ]

[shieldmaiden]

Well, before I thought that i was just a hudge fan of the book, but since yesterday when i looked around my room, I realised that it is not so. I'm a looney fanatic. Why? Because yesterday I got a giant movie stand up with Gandalf, Galadriel and the fellowship, you know, the one that they put in cinemas, I don't know where to put it, it's stands in the middle of my room like a portal. My sister makes fun of me and says that I could put candles and flowers in front of it. I have heaps of other Tolkien related stuff : posters, the one ring, different book editions,soundtrack, screensavers, I even make clothes with cirth and tengwar runes on them but this might be too much.
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Well, my friends think that I'm obsessed, but I don't care, i'm not the only one.

[ February 15, 2002: Message edited by: shieldmaiden ]

[Glenethor]

You people scare me!
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I scare me! Thank God I am too lazy to actually start learning Elvish in one form or another. That laziness is all that is saving me from slowly going over the edge like some here (says the guy who's seen the movie 21 times....)
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[Starbreeze]

Also:

When you go out and buy

Three rings and long evening dresses
Seven rings and an axe
Nine rings, a black cloak and a large black horse.

I have not, however done this!

[Starbreeze]

Oh, yes

Or you buy just one ring, and a really scary mask, then boss every one around.

[Aralaithiel]

Starbreeze, it sounds like you are re-writing "The 12 Days of Christmas"! Hey...that just gave me a song idea! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Starbreeze]

What makes you say that, Aralaithiel?
On the first day of fever I dressed up as an elf
On the second day of fever I dressed up as an orc...

I really haven't a clue what you mean! Lol

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[Raefindel]

Let's raise a glass of Miruvor and toast the fevered Tolkien-atics! We are a small lot, but we are proud! Here! Here!

[Rose Cotton]

The thing with me is I can NEVER stop talking about LotR. My friends will be talking about sports, boys, etc. and than all of a sudden I start talking about something Tolkien related. And I do catigorize people based on Tolkien charicters.

[Starbreeze]

We may be a small lot, but our numbers are evr growing! Hey Rose! Finally someone else!
Yesterday I was walking down down the street and I saw these people having an argument, they reminded me so much of orcs that I couldn't help laughing - I got some very strange looks!

You know you have Tolkein Fever when:

You swear that the new teacher at school is an elf - the way he walks, the way he talks, his ears!

You are sure that your brother is gollum.

You swear that the man across the street from you is a troll, especially the way he never comes out in sunlight!

[the_master_of_puppets]

Daisy: i know exactly how u feel! Ever since i saw the film (now 6 times!!) and read the books i dont think a day goes passed when i dont mention it 2 someone! Of coarse, this is as the person above said, their problem not mine! I am a fanatic, a huge fan, but i wouldnt say i was unhinged because of it! We all come 2 'ere (this site i mean) because we share a passion 4 one thing: Tolkien's work. And the number of people we meet every visit does JRRT a major credit, and lets each of us know we do not stand alone as near-obcessive fans! lol. After all; we cant all be weird in these numbers!! can we...

[Gorothlammothiel]

I think perhaps we are not weird....just different. What is "weird" anyway? If people see us as weird then more fool them for not appreciating what we,and so many others, do. If people truly believe we are, then so be it. I have no problem being so, as i have been most of my life, i'm not afraid to admit that i am obsessed with LOTR and such of Tolkiens work........

[Starbreeze]

We are not weird, it is the people who aren't obsesses who are weird!

[Joy]

Some days, well like today, all I do is set with the books in my hand trying to figure out how to speak Elvish. I think I am going to take a course in Quenya. Just wish this was accepted at my college smilies/frown.gif

I was thinking that next time I have to give an audition for a play, I am going to read Namarie, or either sing it.

[Elven-Maiden]

I went out, and bought nearly all of the Burger King LotR toys. smilies/biggrin.gif Legolas isn't as cute as in the movie though.... smilies/wink.gif

[Starbreeze]

You can buy Legolas!?! smilies/evil.gif

[Aralaithiel]

Yeah Starbreeze, something along those lines. Or maybe...
On the first day of Tolkien fever, the obcessed fan bought for him/her, the one ring with Elvish script.
On the second day of the fever the obcessed fan bought for him/her; 2 impish hobbits and the one ring with Elvish script.
OK...I think you get the idea...
And NO! YOU CANNOT BUY LEGOLAS! I MARRIED HIM!!! Bwahahahaha! smilies/evil.gif
miruvor? Where????? Must have miruvor, my preciousssss...

[ February 18, 2002: Message edited by: Aralaithiel ]

[Starbreeze]

I like your version much better!
I can't buy Legolas? Oh ****** (scuse my language!). Oh well, I 'll just have to dream! smilies/rolleyes.gif
Deciding not to choose is still making a choice.

[Elven-Maiden]

Sorry girls, but I OWN the Legolas Burger King doll! smilies/wink.gif Oh yeah!

he's sitting right next to my computer, even as I type this! smilies/tongue.gif smilies/tongue.gif smilies/tongue.gif

[the_master_of_puppets]

who agrees with me there should be a National Tolkien's Fanatic's Day? All of us Proud Obcessives could spend the day in their own way honouring the greatest novel(s) of our previous centuary.....

basiclly an excuse to sing/speak in elvish 2 each other, dress up and go about as our fav. lotr characters and all that: and do it with other people just as proud 2b obcessive as ourselves!

or do u all think im taking it too far? coz if we all get together we could so do that smilies/biggrin.gif

[Elven-Maiden]

Originally posted by the_master_of_puppets:
<STRONG>who agrees with me there should be a National Tolkien's Fanatic's Day? All of us Proud Obcessives could spend the day in their own way honouring the greatest novel(s) of our previous centuary.....

basiclly an excuse to sing/speak in elvish 2 each other, dress up and go about as our fav. lotr characters and all that: and do it with other people just as proud 2b obcessive as ourselves! </STRONG>

That's an awsome idea! Count me in! smilies/biggrin.gif

costume... hmm... I'm thinking Elven princess, the perfect match for the Prince of Mirkwood. Oh Legolas... smilies/wink.gif

[the_master_of_puppets]

thank u! some1 like my idea! and i call shotgun on being pippin! lol..

[Gorothlammothiel]

Thumbs up for that great idea......a Tolkien fanatics day, you can count me in for certain, although the rest of the world might not appreciate it so.....but who cares.....our day, for us, not them.......

[outcast125]

I personally prefere to have many fevers, not just the one, as then they never takover one wholely. It also makes for interesting dreams, I have found myself before now in a world crossed between TheSims computer came, Harry Potter's Hogwarts school seching for a ring bearing elven script, on a broomstick carrying a bow and arrow and a wand.

I think that that alone qualifies me for mad status let alone all ym other "problems" smilies/smile.gif

[the_master_of_puppets]

I think im gonna post this Fans Day thing up as a New Topic...if ur 4 it then just put ur name down under that i guess....if we get enough people maybe we can make it offical!!!

[Starbreeze]

Wow! I'm scared! We filled up 2 pages of stuff we do to do with Middle Earth etc. and now we are thinking about a Tolkien DAY? Wow! This is better than I thought!

[Glenethor]

May I just point out that 'obsessive' is an adjective, not a noun? Only reason I know that is that someone walked into one of those 12 step groups...(HEY! WE NEED ONE OF THOSE! Well, some of us, anyways... smilies/wink.gif and someone identified as 'Hi I am so and so and I am an Obsessive.' To which, someone in the peanut gallery replied an Obsessive WHAT!?

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I may go to the movie for the 22nd time today. May. I can hardly walk, and I am thinking of getting on a bus for 45 minutes, and then sitting in a theatre for 3 hours? (rolls finger in circles beside left temple). I think I should just go crawl into bed...
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[ February 19, 2002: Message edited by: Glenethor ]

[Aralaithiel]

You may own the BK Legolas doll,Elven-maiden, but does yours have dagger slashing AND arrow launching action? smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif
Heheheheheeeee! Mine does! And, he looks exactly like the movie character! smilies/biggrin.gif
If I dressed up for fanatics' day, they would ship me across the street to the mental hospital! smilies/tongue.gif

[ February 19, 2002: Message edited by: Aralaithiel ]

[dragongirlG]

eh...when you're studying astrology you name the Silmaril as one of the brightest stars...

and

when your teacher asks you to recite a random poem the only thing you can think of is one of the songs/poems from LOTR...

and...
if you have to computers right next to each other you download desktops of movie scenes and simply sit there staring at the screen smilies/smile.gif that's from my friend

[Lush]

I have a little blue star that a fortune-teller gave me hanging on my rearview mirror. The other day, I picked a friend up to go to dinner, and as we were pulling out of his driveway, he caught the star in his hand and said, "this is pretty."
To which I immediately replied: "Isn't it? It's the light of Earendil!"
...My friend just stared at me for the remainder of our drive.

[Glenethor]

What the heck. May as well hobble out to the movie. It may be gone next week.

[Rose Cotton]

[QUOTEWe are not weird,...[/QUOTE]
Well if this is weird than weird rocks!!!

[Raefindel]

Amen! Sister!

[Elven-Maiden]

Originally posted by Aralaithiel:
<STRONG>You may own the BK Legolas doll,Elven-maiden, but does yours have dagger slashing AND arrow launching action? smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif</STRONG>

Oooh! I gotta get me one of those! smilies/wink.gif Nah, I'm just kidding, you can keep him, I'll go find my own elf smilies/wink.gif

[Starbreeze]

Where do you get the figures from?

[Aralaithiel]

I ordered my Legolas from the Toys R Us website, which is run by amazon.com. He comes in a set of 4 figures, and you get Frodo, Lurtz, The Witch-King, and Legolas. I also got Arwen with Asfaloth - the horse's "galloping" action is a riot!
Yes, this adult still plays with toys! I refuse to conform to society! I will never grow up! Weird rules!!!! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Daegwenn]

I am constantly thinking of stories to come up with...and I am very tempted to make a story about Tolkien-aholics. ^_^

As for the Tolkien day, sure! Count me in...and if we get a day off of work then really count me in. *thinks about telling her teachers and boss that she can't make it to work because its a religious holiday--Tolkien day* Yup. That would be fun.

Other symptoms for Tolkien addicts are:

You sit with your friends, that are equally as obsessed, and when someone walks by, debate if he/she looks like a hobbit, elf, man, dwarf, orc, troll, etc.

When someone asks you the date, you reply 'The first of Solmath...'

Saying goodbye, hello, or basically anything comes quicker to you in Quenya than in your native language.

You can call someone an idiot in more than two languages...one of those languages is Quenya.

You were the only one laughing in the theatre when Bilbo says, "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." Or you can quote along with him.

You are convinced that your brother must have been an orc in another life.

If you tilt your hand to the left somewhat, you're boss reminds you of a hobbit.

Your sketch books are crammed with doodles and drawings that have been inspired by Tolkien's books.

Hmm...I think I may think of others later.
~~Daegwenn

[Alchrivëwen]

Im going in and out of the Fever and im only 13! guess how bad Ill be when i hit highchool and collage

[Enedhil]

(self) "Hi, my name is ___________, and i'm addicted to Tolkien"

(group) *polite applause*

(TA group leader)"Now, ________ can you tell all of us here today, how/when/why you became addicted to Tolkien?"

heheheh smilies/evil.gif

[Gorothlammothiel]

Very amusing Enedhil, may i ask if you are a diagnosed TA? smilies/smile.gif

[Vilya Elathelas of Rivendell]

I'm a diagnosed TF. So're two or three of my friends. well, one of them's only an LF, but still...

Um...when, in conversation with one of your other tolkeinite friends, you accidentally call your science teacher "Mr. Elrond" because you just saw the movie the night before and his name is only missing the n anyway and only has a few added letters.

Said friend stares at you like you're smoking something unnatural.

Any chance you get, you say the following lines and variations on them:

"Our business is our own!"
"If you want him, come and claim him!"
"I will do it, though I do not know the way."

This last one IS a variation.

Your school is being renovated, and they're putting in new doors. So when a friend says they only need to put in one 'more door' you scream and cry "Mordor? Where? I'm afraid of MOrdor!!!"

The best English vocabulary words are ones that have to do with the sky or come from the latin words 'to rule', 'to find', 'to bring' and/or 'to bind.'

hope this qualifies. If this is baing sick, let it last forever!!

smilies/biggrin.gif

[Daegwenn]

*sniffles* I have been addicted to Tolkien since I was a kid...*sniffles* I-I just can't help myself...I-I get the shakes and-and I can't control myself...they say the first step to solving your problem is-is *sniffle* admitting you have one...But-but-but I don't have a problem...people say that I do but I don't!!*bursts into tears* It's not a problem!!

*blinks* Whoa...must be the cough medicine...

~~Daegwenn

[Starbreeze]

Hi! My name is ummm, Galadriel? No, no, that can't be right... Arwen? Umm, ok lets skip tha bit.
Any way, I found that I was a TA when I was nine. I came here only because I was told to by all the hobbits, no i mean people in my science class. I do NOT want to be cured. Please, please don't cure me!
I am an elf. Elves are not meant to be cured of their elvishness. No, i mean i'm a human, no thats not right, a hobbit? orc? argh no! not one of them...dwarf then?...ent?

[Nazgûl Queen]

Hi, I'm Morauko and I'm a Tolkien Addict....
I also do not want to be cured... without my Tolkien addiction I would not be able to remain the Nazgul Queen!

Can you help me NOT be cured?

[Gayahithwen]

I'm actually sure that my little brother is gollum.. or at least his descendant!! The only problem with that theory is that if my brother is a descendant of gollum, I have to be that as well! eek! Oh anyway, I does not want to be cured either.. and what happened to your red text, queen of the nazgûls? I'm curious.. ^_^

[Tarlondeion Of Gondolin]

I was writing an essay on some medival war, or something and I wrote Gondorian Knights rather than German knights and it was pretty embaressing when she asked me out loud in class what it meant.

[Raefindel]

The worst part of my addiction is that noone understands me except you people here! I mean, it's not like I speak in a foreign language, is it? Well... is it? smilies/tongue.gif

[Gorothlammothiel]

Not so much a foreign language Raefindel, it's just that those who aren't TA's, don't understand us. Take counsel in the fact that the Barrow-Downs are a refusge for those of us who are in the same position as you... smilies/smile.gif
We are all alike in here......

[Sindalómiel]

In class on Wednesday we were answering questions on places in Australia and I wrote Caradhras instead of Karratha. Hope I don't try sending people to Caradhras once I actually get a tourism job...

[Starbreeze]

Originally posted by Gayahithwen:
[QB]I'm actually sure that my little brother is gollum.. or at least his descendant!! QB]

Hey! My brother IS gollum! He is thin and kinda grey looking, he sits muttering to himself about his precious (gameboy) and has a kinda Gollumish appearence.

[Daegwenn]

My English teacher looks like Gollum and speaks like him but I think my english teacher has more hair...he stutters a lot too.
~~Daegwenn

[Raefindel]

You know you're a Tolkien-Adict when you are still on this site at 1:30 am and there's noone else to talk to.... Hello? Anyone out there?...Hello?... smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Gayahithwen]

Hey, what about me then? Can't stop being online, so instead of getting offline and away from the BD, I sit up untill 4 in the morning, when finally my dad notices me and tells me to go to bed.. ^_^ and thats not even unusuall..

[Alchrivëwen]

could some1 help me? Im going crazy because I can't stay in the fever, how can I be a completely tolkienated person

[Gayahithwen]

make some Tolkien-ish clothing, start wearing them and get out in the forest in the search for elves.. learn elfish and never speak any other language ever again.. ^_^ if you do this, and find the elves, please tell me, and I'll do thesame

[Alchrivëwen]

OMG I love you Gayahithwen but I will take your advice and maybe you can help me

[Gayahithwen]

me? I can't even walk in an elven way.. ^_^ but if there is anything I can do, I'll do it for you.. after all, I'm just a little novice/newcomer... but I might try to follow my own advice some day or another.. when I've learned enough elvish..

good to feel someone likes you

[Anarya SilverBranch]

Once I accidently called my teacher, Mr Bebeau, Mr Bilbo. And I constantly call my friend Fran, Frodo accidently.

[Daegwenn]

More Tolkienite thingies:

--Fact--
There is a town in Manitoba, Canada called Gimli...^_^ Would you move there and claim the town was named after the dwarf??
(It is as cold as the lakes of hell--all two seasons: Winter and Not Quite Winter)

My own personal thoughts:

doesn't the one ring look like a wedding band...subliminal messages?? JUST JOKING!!!

The design for my Prom dress is based around what Galadriel wares in the movie...My friend is making it for me...^_^

Sincerely,
Daegwenn

[Daegwenn]

More Tolkienite thingies:

--Fact--
There is a town in Manitoba, Canada called Gimli...^_^ Would you move there and claim the town was named after the dwarf??
(It is as cold as the lakes of hell--all two seasons: Winter and Not Quite Winter)

My own personal thoughts:

doesn't the one ring look like a wedding band...subliminal messages?? JUST JOKING!!!

The design for my Prom dress is based around what Galadriel wares in the movie...My friend is making it for me...^_^

Sincerely,
Daegwenn

[Elvenglass]

There is a town in Manitoba, Canada called Gimli...^_^ Would you move there and claim the town was named after the dwarf??
(It is as cold as the lakes of hell--all two seasons: Winter and Not Quite Winter)

Are you serious?? ...must go looking for town named after Gimli.....And I live in Canada so I can handle the winter!! lol! Wow I am so impressed that so many people are posting on this forum thing! Yay!! There are so many of us!

[Starbreeze]

I love my Tolien Fever! My ears have really strated going pointy!

[Airetauriel]

You know you're addicted when you sleepily pull any item of clothing from your wardrobe, pull it on and plod downstairs, to be greeted by...

You look very elvish today....

Yup, I've done that one. Doesn't help, possibly, that I have long, long, wavy hair, that is worn almost always with some kind of plait....a fashion choice, you understand.

You come downstairs, looking elvish, have lembas for breakfast, tick off the day on your Tolkien calendar, check these forums for any news, surf awhile looking for Tolkien related sites. Feed the cat called Gandalf and pass the field with horses on your way out, who you have nicknamed Snowmane and Shadowfax. Get to work, look nervously at your boss who wears a plain gold ring, bite back a Mae Govannon in greeting....

In the evening, a trip to the local pub....The Prancing Pony. Get called 'Lord of the Treks' by all your friends, tell them all they're a load of Uruk-hai, go home and seek solace curled up with Gandalf on the sofa, reading Tolkien, in the belief that noone understands you....

Ah Elbereth! Gilthoniel! Now I understand. This is the ending.

Airetauriel

[Gayahithwen]

You actually did all that? LoL
I'm not obsessed at all, compared with you.. I'm just giving all my teachers elven names.. Thats not really obsessed.. If I actually put up my hand during a lesson, and ask a question in quenya, refering to the teacher with his elven name, then I'd be really obsessed.. ^_^

[dragongirlG]

may have been posted already...

Whenever you see an eagle in the sky, you yell, "It's Gwaihir! He's going to rescue Gandalf from Zirikzigil!"

Whenever you see two or three eagles in the sky, you point and yell, "It's Gwaihir with his brother Landroval and Menuseld the Swift! They're going to rescue Frodo and Sam! Take me with you, Gwaihir, I want to see Mount Doom!"

[Gelmir]

Why would you go all to the trouble of getting Gwaihir and going to mount doom, I have been to mount doom, it hurts, espcially when lava comes from the top, you could lose your arms, beleive me it's painful, a couple of orcs took mine off and hit me with them, ouch! :( but now I'm dead, I grew my head, arms, legs, hands and other limbs, it's sooooooooooooooooooo good to be dead, wouldn't you say? Any hoo, come off looking like a complete lunartick, and get to the real story... :rolleyes:

Oh dear I'm getting Tolkein Fever, ah well!

[Encaitare]

Wow, this was an old thread! But I am going to put my answers anyway.

You know you have Tolkien fever when....

-you are taking notes on Spanish history and write "Catherine of Aragorn" instead of "Aragon"

-you write "Elven" instead of "Eleven"

-you write perfect Tengwar... everywhere. On your hand, your crappy pocketbook, your desk, your notes... etc.

-you answer your cell phone, "Hello, you've reached the Prancing Pony, how may I help you?"

-whenever someone says the word "stairs" you say "up, up, up, up, up the stairs!" and other things like that.

-you make a shirt with the White Tree of Gondor on it, which on the back says "Seven stars and seven stones and one white tree"

-you write notes to friends in Tengwar so other people can't read them; you write the whole of Galadriel's Lament on your arm in Tengwar out of sheer boredom

-you say that people who curse are "orc-minded" because it says so in the appendices... I guess that makes me orc-minded too... wah.

That's all I can think of now that apply to me!

[Morsul the Dark]

I was recently playing some board game and I was in the guys rear arc so my little tank or whatever got a attack bonus and i said "HA my tanks in your rear orc!..no wait orc...damn it arc your rear arc!"

And at work one guy had a good sized beard and instead of saying have a nice day it slipped I said "may your beard never witter" also I hum the movie soundtrack

But as Encaitare said she writes tengwar I can't however I had the anglo-saxon alphabet down and I'm working on tengwar

[Isowen]

I do that a lot! I had a science exam and I think the question was something to do with making wine and fermenting etc. I was supposed to write the word "wine" and put "brandy" in front of it to make "brandywine"! My science teacher, who has apparently never read lotr, was shocked and thought I was an alcoholic and announced to the rest of the class that I was writing about brandy and wine. when i explained what had happened, he let me redo the answer and told me I had Tolkien fever! So when i saw the title of this thread, I just had to read it!