Ever been confused?

[Meela]

Has anyone here ever mistakenly made Tolkien references in everyday speech?

Eg. I was once talking about Jesus and i accidentally called his disciples the Fellowship.

[Mornie Alantie]

I was in a bible study and talking about how great the Bible was how much we don't know about it. It to the thing from the book and say, "its like how the LOTR descibes Gandalf, Even the ones who knows him the closest have only seen the cover page of him." Boy did eyes roll.

[Rynoah, the Overly-Happy]

When referring to the movie "Tunes of Glory", I said, "Tunes of Gondor". Took me a while to realize my mistake and by then I had quite a few strange looks heading my way.

[Elotareth]

What wrong with that, Mornie? (sorry, I don't know how to quote someone else and I don't want to write it out) Sounds like something I would say!

[Arwen_Evenstar]

I was talking to my brother, and i cant remember if i meant to say; 'I have a habit' or 'I have a hobbie,' But i said 'I have a hobbit.' I WISH!!! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Mornie Alantie]

I never said it was wrong. most people know how LOTR obsessed I am. I love random qoutes like that. Last night I was playing an internet game and I can't remember if it was just qoutes or I was saying something to them in elvish. That is so much fun and you don't get the strange looks!(which can also be funny)

[Arafangwen]

Oh, Meela! I've done that too! I also point out stuff from the books in a biblacle standpoint all the time, I get some really wierd looks at church, smilies/rolleyes.gif I guess I should stop doing that, it seems to confuse people who don't know what LOTR is, and that's really frustrating 'cause it's usualy a really good point too! smilies/biggrin.gif Oh well nothin' I can do about theyr ignorance. smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Eressië Ailin]

I am currently wrinting an essay on 'Why it is important to help others in their time of need' for English. Somehow, examples from LoTR seem to work themselves into my writing. smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Tinuviel the Nightingale]

I think I posted this somewhere else, but we're reading this play called 'The Merchant of Venice' by Shakespeare for English. There's this line that says, "All that glisters is not gold" and in the middle of my English teacher reading out the play I said Aragorn! Not realising that I wasn't saying it in my head. Needless to say, I got quite a few "woah she's off in her dreamland again" looks. smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Meela]

I went to the orthodontist's the other day, but everyone was being really slow getting ready to leave. So I turned round and said: "well?? are we going to the orthodontist's or not??" but it came out as: "Well?? are we going to Osgiliath or not??"

[Arafangwen]

HaHaHa, that's hilarious Meela! What's even funnier is that I said that yesterday too!

[One Axe to Rule them All]

Excuse Arafangwen, she's a little crazy, Emily, Down girl!

[the phantom]

A few weeks ago I was putting on my coat while day dreaming about LOTR, and my mother walked in and asked "Where are you off to?". I was just running up to school to pick up some papers, but my mind was so far gone that I said "I'm going up to Moria, I'll be right back".

My mom said "Moria?", and I said "what?", and she said "you said you were going to Moria". We just started laughing. smilies/smile.gif

[Arafangwen]

I was just in the kitchen and I was pouring a glass of water from a pitcher thingy and it came out a funny color so I asked my mother to "come look at the water", but apparently I said "Will you look into the mirror?" she had no idea what I was talking about! Then we burst into "Do the wave for Boromir the disco king!", and "Welcome Frodo of the Shire, one who has seen the pie!" But that's a different story entirely! smilies/biggrin.gif

[One Axe to Rule them All]

Yeah, that was good! i was right there when it happened smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[VanimaEdhel]

There is something in the way my art teacher says "Shadow" that makes my friend and me crack up. We keep saying, "Is it a Balrog? Made of shadow and flame? Is it?" I guess it's because he says it in a fairly melodramatic way...I guess it's a "have to be there" moment.

Then I said, "You've seen the eye, lidless, wreathed in flame." It was completely an accident to say the last part, but it's just reflex. My art teacher gave me a look, and my friend cracked up. Well, it's not a lidless eye with any flame, as I am doing an enormous drawing of my own eye.

[Arvedui III]

Hmm, i sort of have one
Somehow my art teacher reminds me and my friends of Iorth the healer. So, naturally, when she comes over to cheeck on what we're doing we start quoting her lines from the houses of healing to each other. Once I got genuninly confused (a state I'm in quite often) and asked her to bring me athalas insted of more paint. that got me some strange looks. smilies/biggrin.gif

[ April 15, 2003: Message edited by: Arvedui III ]

[sassyfriend]

Lol cracking up here!!!!!

[Nerwen]

Um... sassyfriend, you do realise you're replying to comments made over eight years ago?

[narfforc]

I'm confused now!

[Galin]

Well, if you always purposely mix Tolkien into your everyday speech you can avoid such mistakes! Example, a waitress answers a simple question:

'Yes we have bread: white and wheat'

Well, that's what she meant to say, but mistakenly (and embarrassingly) this comes out as: 'We have cram and lembas, and the latter comes in a mallorn leaf from the Naith of Lorien'

Simply start with introducing yourself as one of the Yavannildi and any such embarrassment will be avoided. Just think it through beforehand; just in case.

[Inziladun]

I need to remember this the next time telemarketers harass me.

"Disturb not the Nazgûl in the shower, or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will report thee to the FCC, where thy phones shall be devoured, and thy shrivelled wages be left naked to the IRS."

[sassyfriend]

Lol!!!!!! I hate Teleies!!!! Think that would be funny!