What's the most embarrasing LOTR related thing that ever happend to you?

[ArrowOfGreenleaf]

I was wondering if any of you had an embarrassing thing LOTR related ever happen to you. Believe me... I have.

My mother and I were running errands one day and we passed this guy sitting on a fence post. He had long blond hair (slightly wavy though) pulled back and was fiddling with a guitar. My mom said "Hey look! There's Legolas!" I was like. "Not quite." And then as we were driving away she began to tease me saying. "Oh Legolas! I finally found you! You and your beautiful flaxen hair!"
Needless to say.... the guy did NOT look like Legolas and I got kind of irritated. not quite Legolas if ya know what I mean.....

The other time was when my little sister accused me of having a crush on Legolas. (Sure... not that far off the mark, but there's not need for her to know that.) smilies/wink.gif

-ArrowOfGreenleaf

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Hello ArrowofGreenleaf smilies/smile.gif

I've had too many to count, but most of them happen when I start reciting LotR lines out of place smilies/tongue.gif

~Menelien

[Rynoah, the Overly-Happy]

Mom's entire "Boromir is a horse's rear!" stint was slightly embarrassing, but we laugh now. I can't think of anything else at the moment.

[Anything but Arwen]

Stuff like that happens all the time to me..

Although, I reckon, the time when I had spent ages *****ing about Arwen, was riding a white horse, which was spooked by a black one...and I fell off o.O Oh well...it was funny at the time...

[Galadriel9]

A lot of embarrassing things have happened to me when I have been thinking about LotR instead of doing something else that I should've been doing...like in my French lesson today, I was thinking about how the RotK movie might finish and suddenly I heard my name being spoken, and Mr French blokey-guy asked me a question in French and I just translated it instead of answering it....ok, you don't wanna hear about my sad life any more!!!

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

I remember Boromir the Horse Rear! smilies/biggrin.gif

Welll...nothing really. I got stared at for writing in Runes which made me uncomfortable but thats it.

[Meela]

I don't think anything embarrassing has ever happened to me... I don't get embarrassed if I'm in the street yelling lines from Lotr and pretending to defeat balrogs and get funny looks from passers-by.
My mum embarrasses me by dancing and singing to the music they play before the films start in the cinema. We were seeing Lotr on one occasion, so I guess that could count.

[Helkahothion]

I said to my teacher that Gollum ate my homework. She was not pleased. I don't even have a goll.. eh dog.

[Meela]

Actually, I think I may have once woken up after dreaming about fighting orcs, and sometimes you wake up at the point where you're talking in the dream, and you finish the sentence out loud. I may have done that and woke up mumbling something like, "Slaughter those orcs, Aragorn!" I get pretty embarrassed in case someone hears me from the next room.

[Sapphire_Flame]

I said to my teacher that Gollum ate my homework.
I've done that. That, and scribbling Tengwar all over the board has not earned me great favor with my English teacher. o.O

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

and scribbling Tengwar all over the board has not earned me great favor with my English teacher. o.O Hey, we've all done it smilies/biggrin.gif

~Menelien

[Sapphire_Flame]

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[Helkahothion]

Actualy I did not do that. I did write that my teacher was a stupid ***** on the blackboard. Does that count?

Lol, I kinda expected that that word would no come trough the filter hehehehe smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[ May 09, 2003: Message edited by: Helkahothion ]

[Sapphire_Flame]

Yeah, it counts. smilies/biggrin.gif

[ElenCala Isil]

hmm nothing really embarrasing happens.. though, I have scribbled all over the white board in elvish! I've also written 'FRODO LIVES' in giant bubble letters across the board.. I got a lot of stares.. smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[steve]

In orchestra i wrote "do the wave for boromir the disco king accrost the board" and in english class we were all told to bring in poems to read to the class so i decided to recite the lament for boromir, useing diffrent voices for gimli legolas and aragorn...

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

I've also written 'FRODO LIVES' in giant bubble letters across the board.. I actually quoted somebody's signature (sorry, somebody) and wrote on the board "Frodo most certainly does live!" smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/tongue.gif

~Menelien

[Everdawn]

One day when i wasnt listening in Geography, my teacher asked me a questions about what land mark was in the north east of some country, i have no idea what it was, but i looked up from my desk and answered automatically.."grey havens" My teacher looked at me strange, but he makes allownaces for my insanity..

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Friday in class we were reading about some place called "Moriah", so the moment we got to it, totally automatically, me and 3 guys (not 3 guys and I smilies/wink.gif) said at the same time: "Moria!" And then we all turned red as the class stared at us going "what?" smilies/rolleyes.gif Ignorant mortals.

~Menelien

[Helkahothion]

said at the same time: "Moria!

I had that one to. Moriah is a mountain in the story of Abraham.(I believe, the story when this guy has to sacrafize his son). He goes up to the mountain Moriah. Well a guy said that and I suddenly prompetd: Watch out for the watcher. Most of the kids got it. The teacher did not. He is the one where I wrote down he was a stupid *****.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Oh! Thats exactly what we were studing! The biblical story thing... but when we popped off with "Moria", everybody looked so clueless, it wasn't even funny. But my friend ot the gist of it pretty quick and gave ma quick punch on the back. Luckily, she doesn't know how to do it so it hurts... MUAHAHAHAHA smilies/evil.gif smilies/wink.gif

~Menelien

[Helkahothion]

I could teach her smilies/evil.gif

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Lol, but sorry, your help is not needed just now smilies/wink.gif . If I really wanted to I could teach her myself, but what would she use it for excpet punching me? WHere's the logic there? smilies/tongue.gif

~Menelien

[Helkahothion]

but what would she use it for excpet punching me? WHere's the logic there?

That's why I added the evil smiley dummy.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Oh, okay. Now, tell me please, do you have any friends not too great at punching who need tutoring? smilies/evil.gif smilies/tongue.gif smilies/wink.gif

~Menelien

[Helkahothion]

NOt really. They all do Tai-kwandao

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Hehehe. Maybe I should try that... punching people is fun smilies/wink.gif ...
On topic- I was outside at 3am today with my mom and I ran down the street whispering Nazgul! in my loudest whisper. Pathetic, isn't it?

~Menelien

[Tinuviel Took]

Okay to begin with, I have low blood sugar and whenever I haven't eaten in while and I am getting pretty hungry, I have always had a tendency to get kind of strange and I'm afaid adding LOTR behaviour to this hasn't work very well.
The embarrassing thing is that now when it happens, my sister or a few of my friends are able to recognize the behavior before it gets very far. All I have to do is be a little obnoxious, start wispering about my precious, or showing my teeth a teeny tiny bit and they start saying things like "stop being Gollum, Tinuviel(my mother has this thing about writing my real name on the internet)" or "you are NOT an Uruk-hai, quit baring your fangs"

[Sapphire_Flame]

*snigger* Nice, Tinuviel. smilies/biggrin.gif

I got a good one yesterday. In my religion class we were talking about king Solomon, and I, as usual, was only half paying attention, so when my teacher mentioned his name I looked up and said, "Don't you mean Saruman?" Everyone looked at me like I had absolutely lost my mind.

Which I have, of course. smilies/tongue.gif

[Helkahothion]

LOL. I had that once. But I did not say it out loud. (thank god)

[legolas luver*1]

Once my sister & I were singing about Gimli. The words were 'burning Gimli'but by mistake we said 'doing Gimli.' No one was around but it was still embarrasing.

Then we were picturing the fellowship NAKED!
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Sam!!!

[Aduoreiel]

Well, whenever I mean to say "habit" I saw Hobbit, or it just comes out all weird (like hoo-habit). smilies/wink.gif Um, what else? Oh yeah...Halloween 2002. I found an Arwen costume at the costume shop, so I decided I'd go as an elf. I was walking down my 6th grade teacher's driveway when I tripped flat onto my face. Oh the horror! smilies/redface.gif

[Everdawn]

we dont have halloween in Australia... I wish we did, an excuse for more chocolate..

The fellowship naked! AHHHHHHHHHH!
*pauses at teh thought of Aragron and Legolas, then proceedes to hide under a table*

[Morgul Queen]

once I wrote on the bottom of my SOS exam in elvish (language and Tengwar) something about my Teacher smelling as bad as an Orc (you can just tell I had been looking at the Insults in Elvish thread that morning), He asked me what language it was, I said Quenya, and He said...Are you part Quenyan then??? Needless to say,I fell off the chair laughing.


Then another Time (the almighty car-crash joke) some-one said that 'that Tolkien dude died in a carcrash last night'.

Yet another case of the fall off the chair laughing syndrome.

AND if anyone else is interested, I Started cracking up laughing in ICT today while reading alliwantisanelfforchristmas(AKA al)'s stories. That one was detention worthy...

[purplefluffychainsaw]

We ahve mini tablet PC's in class (We're testing them for the year 7's) ANd they have the inet on. So needless to say I spend the whole lesson on the net... (Like now!) I always have to be carful when reading amuzing things in case of giving the game away. Also yesterday in church we were making little cards for people who had come over from over countres to do something... and I accidently sighed one in elvish... The boys who were sitting at my table took one look at my writing and hair and started yelling at their top of their voices: "SHE'S AN ELf!" As I am a hobbit I was NOT amuzed and as there was a seriously fit guy on the table it was even worse. And went we left they kept tryingt to check if my ears were pointed. It was so embarasing... smilies/mad.gif

[Everdawn]

LOL... "Part Quenyan".... arent we all?

[Sapphire_Flame]

and He said...Are you part Quenyan then???
smilies/biggrin.gif *dies*

[Melephelwen]

I got stared at for writing in Runes which made me uncomfortable but thats it.
That's just cool! I wish I could get people staring for that sort of stuff, instead of just my behavior... smilies/rolleyes.gif

Anyways, I would say everytime I accidently quote someone. One day I just felt like imitating Gollum (the "We be nice to them, if they be nice to us" one) and so I did. Never mind I did it in class... And people just keep looking weird when I ask my ring for something. The first two days I wondered (so yeah, I blushed a bit smilies/redface.gif ) but now I'm just proud of being special. smilies/tongue.gif

[bad things always happen to me]

My Graphic design teacher always calls me 'elf-kin' and i have no idea why...probably got something to do with the fact i'm in the room every lunch time looking at LOTR stuff on the internet smilies/smile.gif
Also, one time, we were in music and me and my friend (who also happens to be an LOTR fan) were given some question sheets, the teacher told us to put our names on them and we bother put our elvish names on them, at the end of the lesson he said 'i want to speak to Tanhilwen and Rinfennas after the lesson' he had no idea it was us but needless to say he wasnt too pleased as it was some sort of quiz we had to do. >.<

[Sapphire_Flame]

Hey, bad things, I love your signature. TIG!!! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Mirabella]

The other day, I was coming home frome the mall with my best friend, and we were pleying a lices-plate game while wating for the bus, and we saw one that was "###-ELJ", and we said "Elija" at the same time. Needles to say, we got some pretty strang looks.
( sorry if I spelt it wrong smilies/biggrin.gif ) smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Tinuviel the Nightingale]

This particular thing happened an hour ago at school (which I am at right now, you see).
In science someone was doing a presentation on cyclones/hurricanes and I, shamefully wasn't listening properly. She said something about the 'eye of the storm', and my brain naturally assumed the 'eye of Sauron' so I got very excited.
As a result, I knocked my pencil case off my desk and got many dirty looks. I was red for a while, but I got over it.

[Sapphire_Flame]

That sounds like something I'd do, Tinuviel! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Helkahothion]

Yesterday: I saw a kid that was all dirty from playing. He was tired and was bend over and all. So I called him Gollum. He laughed. So did I smilies/biggrin.gif

[Tinuviel the Nightingale]

*Gasp*! A Gollum kid?! Where?! Where?! Oh. Not here. *Pouts*.
Sapphire Flame: Yes that happens a lot doesn't it?

[Sapphire_Flame]

Yeah...kinda sad really. smilies/confused.gif Oh well, they'll have to learn to live with it. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

Pardon me while I revive this thread...

[ElenCala Isil]

Every lunch, I was in science, here at the 'downs usually looking at crazy captions or make your own crazy scenes with pics, and I nearly fell off my chair laughing, which called for a bunch of strange looks from the TA's that were there. I always get strange looks for writing in the dunes, or Quenya.. I'm used to it.

And to top it all off, in Social Studies, someone stole my ring *GASP!!!* smilies/eek.gif So, I resorted to chasing them around the room screaming "They stole it from uss. My preciousss. Curse them. We hates them! It's ours it is, and we wants it back!" and such. My teacher had just walked in the room, strange looks from her smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

and I nearly fell off my chair laughing
That's happened to me too! I was reading the Stupid Ring Parody (http://www.stupidring.com), and me and my friend were laughing so hard that 1) we almost fell off our chairs and 2) the librarian had to come over twice to tell us to be quiet. That's also happened while reading "Make your own crazy scenes with pics".

Abedithon le!

[Rilwen Gamgee]

During the passing time between P.E and lunch, I had for some reason been carrying my backpack, as well as two other of my friends' backpacks. We were crossing the street (with plenty of people around) between the gym and lunchroom and my friend grabs her backpack off my shoulder. I had been pretending to be Sam carring Frodo up Mt. Doom, so I start to yell at the top of my lungs: "No! Give back Mr. Frodo! I'll carry him up Mt. Doom if it breaks my Gamgee back!" My friends never let me carry their backpacks anymore... smilies/biggrin.gif

[Elvanui]

At our school they play music in the hallways but it is always bad music like NSYNC. So one day I gave them the FOTR CD and they actually played it!!! Me and all the other nerds had a blast acting out sceens in the hallway and swordfighting with pens and the such...but everyone else just kinda looked at us oddly. ANd then I went to my first class with a big grin on my face and got evil stares from these two preppy people in my class. It turns out that must people find the Ringwraith music scary...I can't imagine why...

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Me and my friend were "sparring" with locks of horsetail hair (they'd just clipped it) and we were like "FWAH! FWAH! FWAH! OWWWWW!!" Because we'd punched each other's knuckles by accident. Then people started laughing at us.

I wish MY school played music at break and lunch.

[Sapphire_Flame]

Me and all the other nerds had a blast acting out sceens in the hallway and swordfighting with pens and the such...but everyone else just kinda looked at us oddly.
smilies/biggrin.gif Right on, Elvanui! Gotta love it, scaring non-fans is always great! smilies/evil.gif

I went with my family to see a movie the other day, and I wore my Fellowship cloak (as is my way when going to movies smilies/tongue.gif ), and on the way out all these people were staring at me and talking (like "OMG, she looks so weird!") It was great!!!

ONLY 191 DAYS UNTIL ROTK IS IN THEATERS!!!

[Finwe]

Haha! My school also plays music during lunch and break times, so once I asked them to play The Bridge of Khazad-dum on my FotR CD, and me and my friends were sparring with yardsticks out in the halls. We even have video footage of it! Of course, I did manage to kick everyone's butts!

There was also another time when I and my friend were walking down a road to her house, and the typical flock of crows flew over head. I jumped into the bushes, pulling her with me, and the next second, the crows seemed to all get diarrhea where we had been standing! They completely let it rip, and thankfully me and my friend were in the bushes.

[Sapphire_Flame]

Yikes!! smilies/eek.gif That was a close one, Finwe! Never let anyone tell you that LotR's never done anything for ya. smilies/wink.gif

[Duncariel]

Ahhh... Embarassing moments, got plenty of those.

For all you "frodo lives" peeps out there-
I'm one of those people that writes "I wish he would die" on the board after. *checks for exits*
I was once reading TTT while I was walking down the road and walked right into a pole. oops. smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

I was once reading TTT while I was walking down the road and walked right into a pole. oops.
I feel your pain. smilies/wink.gif I've done that about five times....

[purplefluffychainsaw]

I was once reading TTT while I was walking down the road and walked right into a pole. oops

Yeah, opps! I spend most of the morning walking to school with my non-LotR-liking freind (Apart from the boys smilies/mad.gif ) and I normally spend all of the half hour talking about my latest LotR dream etc. Then we'll get to school and she'll go. "Sorry? I wasn't paying any attention / You know I havn't been listening to you?" And the worse thing is I've done it every day since I got into LotR! I just don't learn...

[Finwe]

*is nursing several bruises and scrapes*

Just this morning, when I got back from my driving lesson, I was out walking around my neighborhood while reading Return of the King. I had just got to the part where Theoden got crushed by Snowmane and just couldn't put the book down. As I was doing that, I walked right into a pile of lumber sitting by the sidewalk, tripped, fell flat on my face on top of the book and on top of the pile of lumber, and got myself thoroughly stuck. Of course, I also had to explain my predicament, in my limited Spanish mind you, to a group of construction workers who just got there.
Naturally, once I got up, I checked my precious book first. Thankfully, it received the least amount of damage, and I'm covered from head to toe with bruises and scrapes (my face got protected by the book).

One word: Ow.

[arianrod]

Alright, before I share, let me just explain that I was on vacation and was very hyper. I think I was on a sugar high... These aren't so much embarrassing as they are just funny...

My first one is kinda like ArrowOfGreenleaf's story, except it wasn't an elf. My dad and I were driving down this road and I saw this guy walking down the street in the opposite direction that was bald but had a huge, bushy brown beard that went down to about his waist. He kinda hobbled about and was quite chubby to top it off.
We yeilding for a short red light and I stuck my head out the window and shouted at the guy "Hail, Gimli, son of Gloin!" The guy kinda looked around for a second and dad pulled me in and took off. Now I wonder why he did that?

Alright, same trip, different day, the family was driving to see some farm or something in the middle of nowhere. The roads were small and constantly went from two laned one way to two laned two way streets. As we were driving, we came up to these signs that said "Pass with care" and "Do not pass" alternatively. Happy day, happy day!
So, of course, everytime we came up to a sign that read "Do not pass", I took it upon myself to yell "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!" to anyone I saw. This included my dad, my mom, my sister, squirrels, people crossing the street, the cars next to us; y'know, just to make sure they saw the signs. For some reason not everyone found it as entertaining as I did. What strange people...

[ June 14, 2003: Message edited by: arianrod ]

[ June 14, 2003: Message edited by: arianrod ]

[Sapphire_Flame]

Right on, arianrod!!! I've so gotta do that "you shall not pass" one next time my family goes on vacation! smilies/biggrin.gif

[sassyfriend]

Lol!!!!!!! I got a good one when i had my dog Shyann who was a lab mix she took after a squrrial and I swear I felt like Aragorn being dragged over the cliff by a warg. Shyann almost planted me face first in a fence doing that!!!!! :O

[Galadriel55]

...Aragorn being dragged over the cliff by a warg...

Blasphemy!!!

Sorry. I speak for the books. That will be my new motto. :p

Some of my embarrasing LOTR moments were when I started speaking about it, giving examples from that book or just saying an idea, to a bunch of people who have no clue what I'm going on about.

And there was this story with me carrying a ginormous volume around at school last year: it was LOTR, TH, The Sil, and COH all together in one book. Worse though, it was a Russian translation that I borrowed from the library. Since it didn't fit in my bag I carried it around in my hands and everyone had to stare at me. It was: a) a humungous book, b) a Russian book c) a (non-text-) book, which is not a very common thing to see someone carry with them all day, d) from the library (who borrows books from the library these days?).

At least my reputation as a bookworm got established right then and there. :) But really, I could have done well enough without all the questions and stares.

[sassyfriend]

I borrow books from the library. I really do have to get lotr in book form again!!!!!

[Galadriel55]

I borrow books from the library. I really do have to get lotr in book form again!!!!!

Yes, you do. :p ;)

And I meant that High School students in my school hardly ever get anything from the library, or even read anything that is not homework... well, we don't do that either. I don't do that... I read non-compulsory books instead... :D

[sassyfriend]

;) I am totally obessed!!!!!!

[Bom Tombadillo]

Blasphemy!!!

Sorry. I speak for the books. That will be my new motto. :p

And "Blasphemy!" will be mine.

"Who's Tom Bomb - " "Blasphemy!"

"Who's Glorfind - " Blasphemy!"

"Balrogs have wi - " "Blasphemy!" :D

And I borrow books from the library all the time. Well, I used to. I don't get to go as much now . . . :(

Back on topic, I was discussing a certain Bible verse (I forget which one) and ended up trying to explain an archaic use of a certain word. Of course, my mind went blank and the only example I could think of was from Lord of the Rings. I got some funny looks from everyone but one friend who is also a Tolkien fan, but it was worth it.

I also shout "You cannot pass!" at random times (usually succeeded by "Ow! My [enter body part here]!" as the "Balrog" decides that yes, he actually can pass).