How far would you go?

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Boy! I'm just full of ideas, aren't I? Not all of them are good, but still. Anyways, how far would you go to make yourself look like a character from LotR?

I think that I might dye my hair that golden blonde that Merry's is. Or maybe let it grow and dye it either dark brown (Arwen) or light blonde (Galadriel). I just wish that it was curly. I also wish that my eyes had a definite colour to them. They're shade-shifter's, they are.

[Taure Leafsilver]

I already have most the qualities of an average hobbit. Im 14 and I'm only 4'10", my shoe size is 8&1/2-9 and I'm sorta chubby. (I'm the girl with glasses on my avatar)So the farthest I'd have to go to be a real hobbit is grow hair on my feet, which my friend talked me into doing for ROTK.

[eleanor_niphredil]

Your avatar doesnt work for me, by the way.

I would do anything! I am currently growing out my hair to waist length (the length before I cut it).I is already the same colour as Eowyn's hair, and varies between dead straigt and wavy. It also varies in colour without me dying it or anything, but that is just a mystery to me smilies/biggrin.gif
I would love to be Eowyn. I am training to use a sword, though when I do it I daydream about killing orcs and tend to get a bit violant.
The only thing that I want that is not about Eowyn is pointy ears, which you can buy on-line at Tolkien town, but which my mum says are a waste of money. Ah, well. Someday!

[doug*platypus]

I'd consider squirting some noxious liquid into my eye to look like Sauron.

Foot hair implants would be cool, but probably expensive. Does Regaine work on your feet? I remember Bart Simpson tries a hair growth formula on his chin to grow a goatee, but it never seems to happen. Maybe it's a hormonal thing... in which case my feet will probably look hobbity in twenty years, anyway!

[Meela]

i already look like just about everyone...
i have gollums mouth, which maybe i should just try to get rid of

[Arwen_Evenstar]

Would anyone go as far as plastic surgery? For pointy ears, say?
That'd be cool, but very disturbing at the same time.... smilies/frown.gif

[Meela]

i was gonna shave my eyebrows off so i could be more like grima (or as a tribute)

[Lossentilien]

I'm growing my hair to my waist. Unfortunatly it's only halfway down my back and doesn't grow very fast. My eyes change colour too, sometimes green/brown, green/blue, greenish yellow etc.
Often wear my hair slightly Elvish style. Would wear Elvish inspired clothes if I could find them anywhere.
Want to learn swordfighting, but can't find anywhere to do so. Am considering taking up horseriding again, used to be pretty good.

[Naldoriathil]

How do your eyes change colour, is there something your not telling us?! Presumably with contact lenses, otherwise I think you should a Doctor. Or I'm just not thinking it through very well.... smilies/frown.gif

[Eruwen]

Well, I have the look to be part Elf and part Hobbit. What I mean is, I am tall and everything like an Elf, but I have big feet like a Hobbit {Well, according to my sister}. I have thought about getting contacts to get my brown eyes changed to bright green. I am already growing out my hair really long. I would consider getting surgery to make my ears pointed, but I would much rather just wear some fake ones around all day. {I would actually do that}.

[Lossentilien]

It depends on what I'm wearing/weather/lighting etc.
I know lots of people who's eyes do that as well. Contacts'd be cool though.

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

I have NO idea what colour my eyes are! First they were blue when i was a baby, and NOW theyre a mishmash of colours!! I need a definite answer!! Waah!!
I think that for RotK i might dress up as an elf. My hair is about shoulder-length right now so it may be long enough for that. I dont know though.
AAARGH!! I CANT WAIT UNTIL DECEMBER 17!!

[Galadrie1]

I need a definite answer!! Waah!! Just call them Hazel. smilies/smile.gif

Anyway, if my height and my hair were both about four inches shorter, I'd be a hobbit. It's kind of creepy how much I'm like one, actually.... smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/smile.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

I have gone to some lengths to look like a character already. I'm trying for the whole hobbit look, which works mostly, 'cept I'm too tall. smilies/frown.gif I always just say that I've had *way* too much Ent-draught. But, yeah, I have brown hair, green-blue-grey eyes (depends on weather, what I'm wearing...), and my hair can be very curly with little or no provocation. The only thing I have to figure out is the ears and the feet. smilies/confused.gif

But, yeah, I am definately dressing up for RotK. I've already got The Cloak (found the Fellowship Cloak pattern on the 'Net), and the Ring, Sting, and a shirt. Only a few more finishing touches and I'm ready!!!!!!! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Vardadurwen]

Well I used to have shorter hair, and my friend called me a hobbit because I'm fairly short. However, now that my hair is growing, I'm wearing it more in elvish styles. But now that TTT is out, I'm definitely all about Eowyn. However, my hair is dark brown, more like Arwen's (grr) than Eowyn's. I don't think I would dye it lighter either, because the roots growing out wouldn't like that great, but oh well.

I used to dress like a hobbit...well, like the guy hobbits do, with their shants and vests and such. And I can get my hair to curl the way hobbit women do.

Hey, Horse-Maiden, my eyes change colour too! They go from emerald green, to hazel, to orange, to brown! So don't worry, you're not the only person with bizarre eyes. Besides, having eyes that change is awesome...some kind of...elvish power maybe?! haha

[Eressië Ailin]

Everyone I know sats that I look like Eowyn, but I just need to curl my hair (I'm getting a perm next week). Wish I could take up swordfighting, but I can't find anything. I'm already a great rider.

[ February 15, 2003: Message edited by: Eressië Ailin ]

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

!!!idea!!!
Next time I go horseback riding Im going to buy a sword, Anduril or Sting or some sword and brandish it as I ride, pretending to slay Orcs as I go along...
Wish I was a hobbit...

AAH! Im not alone!!!
*nances furiously*

[Gorwingel]

I would not really do anything serious, the only thing I am actually considering doing is growing my hair out. I am planning to make the green velvet dress that Eowyn wore (because it is just so beautiful smilies/biggrin.gif ) and my hair is way too short for her charater. If I was to get the right look now I would have to get extentions, or wear a wig, and dye my hair. I think if I grow it just a little longer, and dye it, it will look fine, I will also have to make my hair wavey in a way.

[Duncariel]

I think surgery for ones ears would be interesting, but to the extreme. You'd get some great looks though. My friend and I dressed as elves for TTT, but my hair still isn't long enough, probably never will be, *sighs*.......oh well. My eyes change colour with what I'm wearing, is this becoming a trend? December 17 is too far away.

[Carlas]

I would love to have pointy ears(i wouldn't go as far as plastic surgery)! And I want to go to Scotland, and try to get that accent! smilies/wink.gif

[Brinniel]

As much as I would like to have pointed ears, I would never have surgery to get them.
And I don't think I'd grow my hair out. The last time it was at my waist, I was seven. I have extremely thin hair, so long hair on me isn't that great looking (though I am a bit curious what my hair would look like long today). I couldn't really grow out my hair anyways because I'm a dancer and it's a major hassle if you have to slick back long hair into a bun all the time.
One thing I am planning to do is learn to swordfight. I've been wanting to for some time now, but only just found a place that does lessons. If my parents let me, I hope to start summer or fall.

[Maylin]

Yay!!! There are other people who's eyes change colour!!! Though for some reason or another, my eyes are green in the mornign when I wake up, grey all teh rest of the day, and bluer later. (though my friend once said that my eyes turn green when I'm mad:-D)

I prefer talking like a LotR character to looking lke one, though I would wear Elven garb if I found any.

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Ah, yes. The accent.

[balrogman]

My hair looks like hobbit hair but im too tall to be a hobbit, so im gonna grow it more and go for the aragorn look. im almost 15 so i have to wait a while to get the stubble but o well smilies/tongue.gif . The only diff will be that i will wash my hair lol smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Vardamar]

I have tried and failed so far.
First I attemped to "pull a Legolas" so to speak, and walk on snow. Didnt work smilies/frown.gif

Next I tried to grow my hair long, but it went all curly and I had to cut it. smilies/frown.gif

When ever I try to walk HObbit siltent my joints creak smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif

[InklingElf]

Let's see I haven't tried to get anywhere but let's see how far I can go by examining myself as I am: I have very dark-brown hair like Tyler's, it is also wavy (though I have to grow it a bit longer cause it's only just below shoulder's length). My eyebrows are like hers too. Well I haven't got blue eyes, but I have dark-brown ones. and height? well I'm 13 going on to 14 in April and i'm about 5'2; quite a disadvantage cause I'm Asian and not an elf. :shrugs: Ahh well, if you're trying to be an elf, height and pointy ears are disadvantages (for most people).

[ February 17, 2003: Message edited by: InklingElf ]

[Bekah]

I tried to answer to this thread earlier, only I had to go to bed before I sent my post, and in the morning...oh well.

Anyway, I'm about 5'2". I think. Less than 5'3", anyway. But, if I stand on tip-toe, or if I have my (inch-thick soled) shoes on, I can look down to my father. Yay!!! *ahem* Anyway...

I used to have long, honey-blonde hair which went about half-way down my back, though I was going for waist-length...until (da da da dum) "avoidable circumstances". So I had to get my hair cut to about a centimetre long. And then...it started curling. Nasty, tricksy hair. Just when I wanted long, wavy, golden hair - which I had - I got short, curly, golden/mouse-brown hair, depending on the light. I've managed to get it to shoulder-length now, and it's not so curly, but I can still get an Albert Einstein look if I brush my hair forward and then fling it back. It's really weird...

Oh, and I have tricksy eyes, too. But not as weird as orange eyes sound. No, they were blue originally, and now they have a bluish-greyish-purpleish colour. Or one of the first two, sometimes.

What else...I have glasses. smilies/frown.gif No Middle-earthean creature wears glasses, except Balrogs. (I'm joking!! smilies/eek.gif ) So, I better stick with the race of man. Too short to be an elf, and too tall to be a hobbit. My hair is...unruly, which I suppose is hobbit-like, only I want to be an elf. My eyes - when I'm not wearing glasses - are elvish. I'm an elf!!! smilies/rolleyes.gif

If there was any way to make my hair grow faster, I'd do it. I'd worry about the other things later.

My mother's friend had a pointy ear. Only one, though, and it was natural - the other was normal.

What country are you from, InklingElf?

Sorry for all my rambling. Namarie, noldonyar!

~ Elentari II

[Edited to correct a smilie]

[ February 17, 2003: Message edited by: Bekah ]

[Lossentilien]

What is it about Scottish accents?? Some of them are absolutly horrible!

All of you who are too short to be Elves:
why not be half-elves? Then you could say that one of your parents was a short human. smilies/wink.gif I have one pointy ear too, so that's my excuse, although I think I'm over 5'5.

It's good to know that there are so many people who's eyes change colour.

I'd learn swordfighting if I could find anywhere to learn.....

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Dunno. I guess it's just my Scottish blood running freely in my veins once again.
LoL!! Funny avatar, Lossintilien (sp?)

Damn the glasses! I'm currently vying for contacts.

[Goldberry]

yeah, my eyes change colour too. and they always have these strange reddish streaks around the pupil . . . . . . heh heh heh, maybe i have Sauron blood in me! smilies/evil.gif

anyway, i try to walk silently like a hobbit, but I'm not quite as silent as an elf.
ever since i became LotR obsessed, I have found that I'm always acting like Aragorn! i think its a definite improvement.
smilies/biggrin.gif

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

I've found that I started running like an Elf, using proper English, and just giving people evil stares when I am angry (such as Legolas does). Wow, and I am more of a hobbit person too!

[Gorwingel]

Since becoming LOTR fans, me and my sister have developed a sudden urge to develop Proper British Accents smilies/wink.gif

[Bekah]

So do you wear glasses too, Horse-maiden? BTW, I didn't have glasses until...um...I know it was after I left school...sometime in 2001? That was when I cut my hair, too. And I'm home-schooled now. In fact, we're having a visit from ERO right now. Education Review Office. Nasty, tricky people. Actually, I just said that because I like the words. The guy's fine. Why don't I just apply those words to my blasted computer glasses, whose lenses keep on falling out? Stupid glasses. Costs too much for contacts, though, and I have bi-focals. smilies/frown.gif

I like your idea of being a short half-elven person, Lossie...and I do wish I could visit Scotland some day. My sister is named after the island Iona, and I have 3/4 Celtic - Irish and Scottish - blood in me. Campbell blood, too. Crooked mouth. And I think there must be some Cameron blood because apparently I'm starting to get the crooked nose that my mother has. "There was a crooked woman..." smilies/biggrin.gif

I wouldn't go as far as plastic surgery...anyway, look at Michael Jackson. Not that anyone would be crazy enough to try to look like him. And surgery costs heaps, and you might as well buy an elvish ear mould and a lot of gelatin. Heaps. Tons of it. Because those ears don't last long...

The strange thing is, all those people who managed to look like noble men/women, or elves, or hobbits, or dwarves - don't look anything like them anymore!! Liv Tyler doesn't look like an elf, nor does Bloom...Viggo is clean shaven and doesn't look Aragornish...Bean isn't clean-shaven, but he looks nothing like Boromir - apart from the face - Elijah and Dom and Billy and Sean don't look like hobbits....why?!?!?

Apart from the fact that they need to look normal to star in other films. smilies/biggrin.gif

Lots of love,

~ Elentari II

[InklingElf]

>points hurredly at Lossentilien<That's the cool Avatar I was talking about smilies/wink.gif

Bekah: I was born in the Philippines (an archipelgo a slight bigger than Japan). I lived there for 9 years and spoke the language (called Tagalog), so basicaly English is my second language. I moved to the US---San Francisco,California. I've lived here for 5 years (this is my 5th year), and I'm going to apply for citizenship soon.

[ February 18, 2003: Message edited by: InklingElf ]

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

YAY!! My eyes, though WEIRD, have a definite colour now!! They're sea-on-a-stormy-day blue near the outsides, and then they turn to green and eventually a splash of yellow around my pupil. Blue-green-yellow. Wow!
I have two questions:
1. What is thank you in Elvish?
2. What, exactly, is nancing? I know it's Elvish dancing, but how exactly do you nance?
Anyone, feel free to answer!

[Bekah]

Ooh!! I asked that question, and someone answered. Sorry, I forget which thread it was, but it is kind of like being very graceful. Like egotistical peacocks. I don't think I'm explaining very well...

~ Elentari II

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Egotistical peacocks? How clear it is now!.....LoL!!
Oh, my throat! I feel like the Ringwraith's voices!

[Nuranar]

like being very graceful. Like egotistical peacocks.

You have no idea how much that seemingly random phrase made me laugh!

*back on topic* I haven't read the thread in question, but...would 'promenade' be a word that would work? Stately, graceful, and all that sort of thing?

[Lossentilien]

Thank you in Sindarin is le hannon. But in the movie they say hannon le, so I guess you can use either.
Not sure what the Quenya is...

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Le hannon, Lossentilien.

[ February 20, 2003: Message edited by: Horse-Maiden of the Shire ]

[Bekah]

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like being very graceful. Like egotistical peacocks.
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You have no idea how much that seemingly random phrase made me laugh!

*back on topic* I haven't read the thread in question, but...would 'promenade' be a word that would work? Stately, graceful, and all that sort of thing?



Thanks. I'm not sure whether I'm being sarcastic or not, it's hard to tell with me... smilies/biggrin.gif And no, I don't think promenade is quite the word. Sorry. I think the peacock idea wasn't so good...one of the other examples was George Bush. smilies/biggrin.gif I think dancing would be about the best description. Except that nancers 'dance' during everyday activities. Legolas walking on top of the snow? I hope that's good enough...

But people, could we please keep on track, 'cos otherwise the Barrow-wight is not going to like this thread - which means he'll close it.

My eyes are different again, btw. smilies/rolleyes.gif

So, let's see...I would definitely make myself an elvish wardrobe, probably using Galadriel's as my model. To be more like an elf. smilies/wink.gif

Love,

~ Elentari II

[ February 21, 2003: Message edited by: Bekah ]

[Cúdae]

Let's see... I have red hair, I'm tall and muscular, I like dark colors, and I have a sword which I use with my left hand.

I'll go for the female version of Maedhros look.
That's frightening.

I wouldn't go far enough to have surgery done to make myself look like a character, but clothes and costumes are fun. I have a gorgeous Arwen costume my aunt made for me. I don't look like Arwen though which ruins the whole effect. smilies/smile.gif

As for the eyes... I am still unsure of how eye color can change. Mine are dark, dark green. Although, I have heard that they are black in some lights (which has the tendency to frighten people).

[Purple Elf]

I have wanted to look like an elf for as long as i can remember!


My hair is waist length and i am growing it longer it is dyed red atm but it is all different shades as i have changed my colours a lot, so all the (now) varying shades of blond streaks (from previous coloured highlights) are different reds which looks kinda cool.

I have always said i would never have plastic surgery, but pointy ears hmmmm

I think i have the height, just, 5" 9' and a half, got to remember the half! and im kinda skinny so i think that works.

At the moment i am pushing my style towards being more elven, i think now im a sort of urban Elf, but then im Art studenty aswell.

About eye colours changing though that is pretty elven, just take Orlando's eyes! Blue, Brown what the hell are they!, they change in the film! mine are blue with yellow centres!

so keeping on topic how far would i go well im going further with my style but pointy ears hmmmm, don't tempt me frodo!

ooo also i got a comment that i looked like liv Tyler the other day yay!! smilies/biggrin.gif

[ February 22, 2003: Message edited by: Purple Elf ]

[eleanor_niphredil]

Tolkien Town sells cheapish elf ears that I really want, but my mum says that she will not allow me to spend my money on rubbish.

Yellow centres? You drunk or something?

I go to Scotland reguarly and when ever I do, the accent stays for about a week. Then I sound like Billy Boyed, and I love it!

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Oh! You are soo lucky! I wish I could go to Scotland regularly. For how long do you go?

[The-Elf-Herself]

Well, my eyes don't change color, they're just green-grey-brown all the time. However, when I wear certain shades of clothes, they'll bring out a certain color in my eyes more than the others, causing them to look as if they changed. I'd never get plastic sugery for pointed ears, but then I already have slightly pointed ears. Whenever I style my hair in elvish fashion, they look very pointed, very weird because I'll look at a picture of myeslf and [i]know[i/] I wasn't wearing prosthetics and yet I look like I am. I already have three "elf dresses", my friends and I are into costuming and sewing our own everyday clothes. I'm growing my hair out, but I was doing that before the movie. My Mom always kept it cut short when I was a kid because it's easier to take care of, so I never knew until I grew it out how nice it was. It's a silky uniform brown, but has these odd auburn and blonde highlights. I'm going to grow it out to waist-length, then donate it to Locks of Love. Okay um, I'm tall, about 5'8'' and muscular. I've taken fencing for the past four years, it's nothing like lethal swordfighting but it's better than nothing.

[Rosseiliantiel]

I have already bought pointy ears, some elvish-looking clothing, and I have dark brown hair almost to my waist, so I could be Arwen except for one thing: I HATE movieverse Arwen. I like Eowyn's character better but I'm about as likely to dye my hair blonde as have my hands removed. Oh well.

[Bekah]

My hair used to be blonde. It's going mouse brown now, neither Galadriel-/Eowyn-like nor Arwen-like. smilies/frown.gif But I'm not going to dye it, for several extremely good reasons. Which aren't relevant here. But oh, I wish my hair would go back to golden or darken enough to be like Arwen. smilies/rolleyes.gif

~ Elentari II