This is funny!

[Frodo Baggins]

I was sttting at a stoplight the other day when I saw a truck that said "Little Guy Movers" It made mw thing of hobbits as furniture movers! How funny! Just iamgine hobbits trying to move a piano! LOL

[MallornLeaf]

<font color="white"> Ok, thanks for sharing smilies/smile.gif!

actually, that would be funny but my first reaction to reading that was... what the heck?

[The Silver-shod Muse]

When you think of hobbits at a stoplight, you've probably spiraled down the obssession tube like the rest of us. smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/biggrin.gif .

[ June 25, 2002: Message edited by: The Silver-shod Muse ]

[The Fifth]

Hobbit #1: *tries to pick up a chair* Unnnnngggh! Hey, Otho, can ya help me here? Hobbit #2: *assists #1* UNNNNNGGGGGH! *cracking sound* Owww! I threw out my back! Hobbit #1: Drat.

[Aldagrim Proudfoot]

LOL That's great!

[The Silver-shod Muse]

Fifth, what on earth does your sig mean? I'm laughing at it and I don't even know why.

[ June 26, 2002: Message edited by: The Silver-shod Muse ]

[Tigerlily Gamgee]

My, my, Frodo. I do that too if I see anything that makes me think of LOTR. Sometimes I mess up street names (on accident).
One funny thing right now for me is that at my work we have a 19th century game for kids and it's called a "bilbo catcher". So, I spend the catching catching bilbos I guess smilies/smile.gif

[Uialellethwen]

O, that is hilarious! LOL! Ai... My mind wanders to LOTR a lot. I'll be sitting in a movie theater, watching a boring movie that my friend or relative dragged me to, and I'll start to think of what is happening in the movie in a Middle Earth setting with the characters from the book acting it out. It's odd, but I always laugh. Even when the movie is a tear jerking drama. LOL!

[The Fifth]

My sig is just a thing about crutons I made up one day.

[merlilot]

Why crutons?

I have hobbit attacks all the time. That's not strange here?

[Bramblerose Gamgee-Took]

LOL, I could just imagine then trying to move stuff.
Hobbit 1- Urgh! I cant lift it.
Hobbit 2- *wipes brow* Yeah. You want to get a beer insted?
Hobbit 1- Of course! *drops table on the ground*

Oh dear, my mind has gone again. I always have strange hobbit attacks, as they are called. I guess it is normal then smilies/biggrin.gif

[ June 27, 2002: Message edited by: Bramblerose Gamgee-Took ]

[Daniel Telcontar]

Hobbits look at the piano.
Hobbit 1: Alright, we better get on with it.
Hobbit 2: Come on, I stand here, and then you ever there. Ready? Now push.
Hobbit 1: Push, Push!
Hobbit 2: I am pushing!!
Hobbit 1: Stop!
Both of them step away from the piano.
Hobbit 2: How far did we push it?
Hobbit 1: 20 centimeters. Lets go get lunch.
Hobbit 2: Thought you would never ask!

[Aldagrim Proudfoot]

Tigerlily, where do you work that you have a thing called a bilbo catcher?

[Neferchoirwen]

Hi everyone! I have finally resurrected from being alive (in other words, I'm back at the Downs after 3 months).

Actually...I think Hobbits would make efficient furniture movers. They'd be quite amusing to watch while they're at it.

and Merl? ...how do you actually get a Hobbit attack?

[Child of the 7th Age]

About seeing things that remind you of the books and this website.....

My son has a tutor who lives on a street called "Birdwood". I was turning the corner the other day to pick him up, looked at the street sign, and that darn sign said "Birdland"....I'm sure it did! I got this image of Birdland who was just then playing a dolphin in one of our RPGs. I started to laugh and almost crashed into the street pole. Then I looked up and the sign said "Birdwood" again.

I know Birdland can morph into different shapes so maybe she changed that crazy street sign too!! Don't put it beyond her.

sharon, the 7th age hobbit

[ June 27, 2002: Message edited by: Child of the 7th Age ]

[Jeli Baggins]

Hey everyone! Enough teasing! I think personally, me and some of my lad friends would make great movers! (Except we would take plenty of breaks to go eat and drink! Maybe even party)<--Right about that part! smilies/wink.gif

[merlilot]

You want me to explain Hobbit attacks? Well, whenever I hear certain words (suck as took or pint, in particular), I am reminded of an instance of that word with a Hobbit. And they are always funny. I will bust out laughing for no apparent reason. One time, I was reading out loud and the sentence was like 'He took a bath', you know, took in that context, and I said Took, as in Pippin's last name. My friends haven't let me forget that one yet.
Or I will see a carrot and think of the line by Merry in the movie. It's in my sig.

You know, random things that remind me of Hobbits. Usually at odd times. But I wouldn't have it any other way. smilies/cool.gif smilies/wink.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Nevfeniel]

Once, someone asked me why I always link LotR to everything, and I said, "Hobbit-er, habbit." smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Birdland]

Child - LOL!!!

"She's here, she's there, she's everywhere!
So beware...BIRDLAND!"

If you slip and say "Birdland" in front of the tutor, just tell her you were having a Charlie Parker moment. Yeah...that'll work.

I had a "Hobbit Attack" today, too. My boss got promoted, and we all went to lunch together for her last day. (WAAAAH!) Everyone was raving about the great fish that this restaurant serves, and Birdie (Carol in my real life), is sitting there thinking "Fisssssh. Nice fissssssh."

Luckily, I managed to control myself.

[Laredith]

hehehe, while watching Spiderman, my mind kept wandering to LotR. (something like "my gosh! The green goblin is really a ringwraith! Ai!" or "WHY DOESN'T SOMEBODY KILL THAT SPAWN OF UNGOLIANT!!!")

[Frodo Baggins]

Now Silver shod muse gimmie a break. HAHAHAHA I link all things to LOTR. And yes I get hobbits attacks.


THE FIFTH!!!! Welcome to the downs!!! Ummmm.. The fifth what??

Speaking of street names Tigerlily, there is a street in my town called "Shrider". I at forst thought it said "Strider" oh well. smilies/rolleyes.gif

[ June 27, 2002: Message edited by: Frodo Baggins ]

[ June 28, 2002: Message edited by: Frodo Baggins ]

[Tigerlily Gamgee]

Aldagrim Proudfoot ~ I work at a museum & on of my jobs is to dress in period clothing and play games with children. The bilbo catcher is just one of the many games, but it is my fav (for more reasons than just the name - it is quite challenging too - you have to catch a ball on a point or a flat surface... we call it "advanced cup & ball").

[Niphredil Baggins]

This was no delusion: one day last spring I saw a truck with pictures of orcs and Gandalf, and a poem: one thing to rule them all, one thing to find them, one thing to bring them all and in the shadows bind them... the truck had some would-be graduates as passengers (they have these strange habits in Finland I'm not even trying to explain) and the one thing was, as the last line revealed, knowledge. I'm telling this only to increase the Baggins density of this thread.

[mystra]

hi! thats such a great thought! bet it would take about 20 of them to lift a chair! oh and elrond from chat- *mystra bows to elrond.
smilies/biggrin.gif helloooooooo! anyway.... smilies/smile.gif every time i see a crow i think (or yell out!) "crebain!"
byeee! luv mystra. ps. plus ive started braiding my hair like an elf! actually it resembles elrond's hair!!

[Frodo Baggins]

I as well mystra. Whenever I see a crow I wonder if it is sying on me.

[Galadrie1]

i've had so many lotr attacks i can't remember them all. one i remember is at school there were different tecniques for folding paper or something on the chalk board left up from some art class. one of them said "Gimping" and every time i looked at the board i was SURE it said Gimli!! another time i was writing an email to my friend about how i had memorized all sorts of useless stuff and actually wrote "I really need to get some hobbits" (instead of hobbies).

[Gimli Son Of Gloin]

Hobbit 1 "Groan, This won't budge!"
Legolas "OOF! CAN"T MOVE IT!"
5 elves together "IT WON"T BUDGE!"
Dwarfling "Goo goo! Light! *picks it up with ease and carries it away*

[Nevfeniel]

*Elrond arrives with a forklift* Oh, am I too late?

[Starbreeze]

Hehe, funny.

[Gandalf_theGrey]

This just happened last night.

In a restaurant with a friend who reminds me very much of a Hobbit, I couldn't resist doing a Gollum impersonation. You see, I had ordered catfish, she ordered beef stew. So I went into the "Nice fissssshhhhh" routine. Within minutes, my Hobbit friend called the waitress over, complained that the stew was lousy, sent back the stew, and had them bring her out a plate of catfish instead! smilies/smile.gif

Gandalf the Grey

[The Fifth]

Hi Frodo Baggins! I am not new.. but I am Ringwraith No. 5, nice to meet you. You're all more obsessed than me; it will be a while before I got hobbit and LOTR attacks..

[Gimli Son Of Gloin]

For some book report we(my class) had to pretend we were a character from the book we were reading. The teacher wouldn't let me bring an axe to school, so I couldn't be Gimli. So I was Pippin, my second favorite character. Well, when I went up in front of the class, I was suposed to say say what I liked doing. I replied to the interviewer "Eating! All hobbits love eating! Oh, and ale, I drink ale."(at this point my paranoid teacher got a little concerned, but said nothing) Oh I almost forgot! I smoke weed."

Well, I accidentally left out the <em>pipe</em>, appently my teacher thought I was talking about marajuana(spl?). She got up and screamed an "UH!". She then screamed at me to get out of the class and report to the principal. I went without argument because I knew when I explained it would make my teacher look <em>really</em> foolish. It was hilarious. I never got a chance to explain right away, and a note went home to my parents. My dad, having read The Hobbit, thought it hilarious and sent to school with a solemn note saying

"I can't believe my child's behavior! I will flog him at once! I will flog him three times a day! I will send him to bed without dinner! I will whip him!

Sincerely Yours,
Concerned Father

When she read the note, my teacher got all sorry and called my father saying <em>not</em> to flog me. It was soooooooooo funny. My dad was laughing so hard when the teacher hung up. That was the best joke we ever played.

[ June 29, 2002: Message edited by: Gimli Son Of Gloin ]

[Morquesse]

Oh my gosh, Gimli! http://216.40.201.38/contrib/blackeye/lol.gif http://216.40.201.38/otn/realhappy/xxrotflmao.gif

Yeah, I've had a few LotR attacks, too. Like there's this sign that says "blah blah Ent." and I'm thinking ents! smilies/biggrin.gif Also, since my dad has seen LotR, We sometimes say something about Second breakfest. smilies/biggrin.gif
~M

[Daniel Telcontar]

Gimli, that was really funny!!!! I would wish my teachers were the same, so I could pull a trick like that. Although I doubt they would ever believe I even smoke normal cigarettes.

[Ithaeliel]

Gimli, I think I'm dying!!! Oh... oh... oh my gosh... *bursts out in a fit of laughter* That'd be so great!! Good thing you're evil!!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/evil.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/evil.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/evil.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/evil.gif

[NazgulNumber10]

good one gimli. Me and a friend earned the nickname "leafheads" last year.
About the hobbit thing, well i've been to a restaurant called the hobbit. Good food. But only 3 meals a day smilies/mad.gif
smilies/evil.gif

[Gimli Son Of Gloin]

lol

There's this girl in my class who jas manners, and says please and such, by is a total jerk, a liar, a vandal, an *** , and everything. She gets really ticked off whenever someone insults her. She stole my pencil, and as usualy refused to give it back. I muttered "You have nice manners for a theif and a liar." She got <em>so</em> mad! She then cursed me out really, really loudly. it wouldn't be very funny except for one thing. IT WAS SILENT READING!!! Everythings all peaceful to the teacher and everyone else, and then all over a sudden "YOU &#^%%* ^&*&^ YOU YOU BIG &&^^( YOU &^^% &%^%$&&*%^$&%*&%&()*^(&*%^%(*&%%#$%#*&$^$#&^%$%^#^&$%^#$^$*%)*(&_&*(%&^%&*%&^$%&%%&%(*&%*&%^&$^$#%^#*&$*%&^%*&$&$&^%&^$$^&(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

It was pretty funny... I got my pencil back and the girl got suspended. smilies/biggrin.gif

[ June 29, 2002: Message edited by: Gimli Son Of Gloin ]

[Lady_Galadriel]

lol! I am always getting lotr and hobbit attacks. like yesterday a bunch of my friends and i (and lots of peeps we didnt know) had a lockin at the mall. We all stayed up all night doing crazy stuff. But at around 4 am they were getting tired so we decided to chill for a while. naturally i grabed lotr and began reading. but even before that i could think of a guote or saying from lotr to go along with everything someone said. and i kept thinking i saw words like hobbit and strider, and also ring, in the display cases. it was a crazy night...

[NazgulNumber10]

gimli that's just like the girl jen i spoke about in page ten of the are you writeing serious fantasy thead. I hate people like that!! DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE FLOWERS DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE. DI DIE DIE. DIEITY DIE DIE.
DIE
smilies/evil.gif

[*Varda*]

I'm just in the hobbit... sorry habit of going 'ohmygod Lord of the rings!' every time i see the word lord or ring. Also many other things but after midnight so can't think of them right now... need...more...miruvor...

[Nevfeniel]

PAAAAAGE TWOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Hehe, sorry. Anyhoo, today I showed my friend my new reproduction of Evenstar (!) and I accidently (no, really! It was an accident!) called it my precioussssss. Her grandmother freaked out. It was quite amusing.

[Brinniel]

LOL! Funny, Gimli! I can think of a teacher at my school that would probably be that gullible.

I've had LOTR attacks myself. I just finished another fantasy book that I kept comparing to LOTR. Two characters described as smaller men reminded me of Frodo and Sam, another reminding me of Merry. Other characters reminded me of Gandalf, Gimli, Boromir, Sauron, and the Ringwraiths. I thought I was going crazy, but the beginning of that book seemed so similar to LOTR. It was a good book too. :)

[Nevfeniel]

What book was it?

[Brinniel]

The Sword of Shannara, which is the first book to the Shannara trilogy. It's a really good book and I recommend it to all fantasy lovers. Almost as good as LOTR. Almost.

[Nevfeniel]

I've heard some people say that that book is almost exactly like LotR to the point of plagarism. I haven't read it yet, so I don't have a personal opinion, but I think I'll probably read it when I finish the Sil and Unfinished Tales.

[Brinniel]

Yeah, many people don't like it because of that. That is the majority of opinions at one thread. My opinion of the book can be found here (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultmatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=000928#000020). Right now I'm looking forward to reading the next edition to the Shannara trilogy.

[Brinniel]

My link doesn't seem to be working, so just look for it under the topic Terry Brooks.

[Samwise]

Ah, Mister Frodo...
#1, I MISS YOU!

#2, I think "hobbit" every time I go out to my garden (particularly when I see those lobelias I told you about....)
When this slender bridge had been made the company passed over, some cautiously and others more easily. Sam shuffled along, clutching hard, and looking down into the pale eddying water as if it was a chasm in the mountains.

[Rose Cotton]

Haha! Gimli, that's priceless! Go you (and your Dad)

Anyway...I always will read somthing that says habbit and will think it says hobbit. Then I will always jump ten feet in the air whenever the word 'ring' is mentioned.

I was going to this bookstore and the jewlery store right next to it was called:
Galadriel's Jewlery. smilies/eek.gif

Then I saw this movie where the Mother calls her child 'precious' and whenever she says that I imedialy think of Gollum.

[Nevfeniel]

Galadriel's Jewlery At least it wasn't Sauron's Jewelry. That would REALLY make me worry.

[dragongirlG]

LOL, there's a restaurant called Gandalf's in Charleston, South Carolina. It serves seafood.

[ July 30, 2002: Message edited by: dragongirlG ]

[Lothiriel Silmarien]

The Sword of Shannara, which is the first book to the Shannara trilogy. It's a really good book and I recommend it to all fantasy lovers. Almost as good as LOTR. Almost.

I love that book too! Yes, ALMOST as good smilies/wink.gif smilies/biggrin.gif I finished reading that one, the Elfstones of Shannara, and the Wishsong of Shannara. Now I'm on the First King of Shannara. I probably should have read that one first, but oh well! They all reminded me of the Fellwoship too! Balinor Buckhannah- Boromir. Allanon- Aragorn (Gandalf too, considering he was the leader and he had 'magic' too) and the list goes on. Durin surprised me though. He was an elf, but in Tolkien's books, Durin was a dwarf!

[mystra]

i read part of the sword of shannara (?)

it was ok......

EVERYTHING in my life around me i compare with or think about lotr

help!!! my life is fading! smilies/biggrin.gif

when i wrote fading i thought of the writing on the ring..... see? obsessive! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Lothiriel Silmarien]

Myst, I do the same thing! Don't worry, it's normal. Well, normal to us LotR obsessed people smilies/wink.gif I even bought the One Ring! I never take it off..

[Caradhras]

Hey~
Carzy crazy crazy!!! I haven't been here for two weeks I feel so lost and left behind!!!! smilies/frown.gif Waaaaa!!! Laters~!