The wrong end of the stick?

[eleanor_niphredil]

Has anyone that you know said something totaly stupid about LOTR? My friend saw the first bit, loved it, but must have missed someting:

My friend: Yeah, first there was this boy and this big tall dude.
Me: gandalf?
my friend: Yeah, but he died, I mean really died, in real life. He had a beard I think. Anyway, they went on a quest to find a ring, because it would give them power. Then the dude left, and three other boys joined the first one. They got chased by big black guys, and then captured by an ugly man. Finaly (and this is the best bit), they went and stayed at this really pretty hotel.
Me: HOTEL?
My friend: Yeah, a hotel, with bridges and waterfalls and stuff. It must have been a very high class hotel, and was run by this other dude, with a dress. Emlon or something.
Me: Elrond.
My friend: Yeah whatever. Thats all i saw, but it was dead good anyway!
Me: (falls on floor lauging)
My friend: Are you okay? Whats wrong, should I get a teacher?

Ever had an encounter like this?

[the phantom]

I try to stay away from people like that.

But I really enjoyed reading about your encounter. When I say lol, I mean it! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Inderjit Sanghera]

My god did that guy have an I.Q of 10? (No offence) I've never met anyone who has said something so stupid about LoTR. Amazing.

[Airehiriel]

Unfortunately not everyone absorbs the movies like a sponge like most LotR fans. Or watch it a million times to soak in every detail.

I guess we just have to feel sad for those poor, wretched creatures. Those without Tolkien.

[eleanor_niphredil]

Just remember this is my best friend! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Meela]

today i was out shopping with my mum, and we saw this weird guy with bleached blonde dreaklocks, and my mum said, something like, "Hey, he looks just like Boromir" and started laughing at him. and i was like, "Er... dont you mean Legolas?" and it turned out that was who she meant. me? i was just appalled that she could get boromir and legolas mixed up!! shes seen the movie enough to know the difference!!

ok... rant no. 2! smilies/biggrin.gif girl in my english class: likes lotr, seen movie, still manages to mess up big time:

1) that blonde girl kills the ringwraiths in the 3rd movie (meaning eowyn killing the witch-king- im sure u all know smilies/smile.gif)

2) those trees were so cool! (no, not lothlorien, the ents. the ents who specifically stated that they were NOT trees!! smilies/mad.gif )

k, done ranting smilies/biggrin.gif

[Elanor]

I remember years ago, my father and I were reading LotR out loud, and my mother kept coming in and out of the room. He had just read out the bit when Arwen sent Aragorn the banner, "I send thee what I have made for thee..." and my mum chips in with "What is it, a cake?"

I can't read that bit without thinking of that. smilies/smile.gif

[ February 25, 2003: Message edited by: Elanor ]

[Meela]

*rolls on the floor laughing

a cake? what are they goona do, catapult it into enemy lines? smilies/biggrin.gif

[elven maiden Earwen]

LOL! The flying cake of doom!!
Sorry no offense but they are idiots when it comes to LOTR.

[Eressië Ailin]

I was showing my friend tons of pictures of Aragorn (cuz I'm obsessed with Viggo) and this guy comes over to us and he said,

"Oh!! That's that guy from that one movie!! Wait, I think another one just came out... What's it called again? It has to do with a ring and a tower or something... Oh, I know!! Isn't it The Two Rings?"

[Rynoah, the Overly-Happy]

The two rings? A cake?! *has a good long laughing fit*

i was just appalled that she could get boromir and legolas mixed up!!

I'm appalled too. smilies/eek.gif

My favorite encounter was with my brother. I was watching FotR, which he has never seen all the way through, and he walked in. The gist of it follows:

Bro: "Aren't these guys trying to destroy that ring?"

Me: "Yeah."

Bro: "Then why is that guy trying to steal it?"

Me: "Because his city is going to fall and he thinks the ring will save it."

Bro: "... a ring? What's that gonna do?"

Me: "It's a Ring of Power."

Bro: "So? When you put it on you become invisible. How's that gonna save your city?"

Me: *getting irritated* "Go away. You're making me miss Boromir."

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Oh, my! Cake? Two Rings? WOW!
Well, my sister said something that made me want to shoot an arrow into her back.

Sis: (on the phone) No! I'm not watching Lord of the Rings!
Me: It's so good, Trina! Watch it!
Sis: No way. It's just like Harry Potter. It's the exact same thing.
Me: smilies/eek.gif smilies/mad.gif smilies/eek.gif smilies/mad.gif AAAGHH! PREPARE TO DIE!!

[Shy Hobbit]

We finally got my Dad to watch it Friday night..first he saw Gollum and said that the author must have had an evil imagination. Then when Frodo was confronted by the Ringwraiths at Weathertop, he says "If I were him I'd throw the Ring at them!" smilies/eek.gif

Guess my Dad would not have made a good Ringbearer...

Kids are fun though. My nephew is ten and Mom finally let me show FOTR to him. Towards the end, when Frodo is standing at the river holding the ring, my nephew says "DON'T drop it, kid!" Hehe...

BTW My dad never finished the movie. He fell asleep during the Council of Elrond smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Sadbh]

I've had several trauamtizing experiences with Lord of the Rings, and all of them my best friends or immediate family members.

Once, I had the following exchange with my grandmother:

Me: Did you know that C.S. Lewis and Tolkien were actually good friends?

Grandmother: Yeah *insert smiley chuckle* Two goons!

At this, I became beyond hurt that my grandmother would betray me so. I was so wounded I was forced to stomp from the room with an exxasperated sigh and seek refuge in my bed room. smilies/wink.gif

I also had the following exchange with my friend:

Me: So have you seen the new movie? (It would be pointless to ask if she'd read the books. She's a star wars type.)

S: Yeah.

Me: Who's you're favorite character?

S: Guess.

Me: Frodo?

S: Who?

Me: (slowly) The short hobbit who carried the ring to Mordor.

S: Huh?

And that was the general gist of the conversation.

My lord, there must be someone in Alaska besides my mother who will have a decent conversation about Lord of the Rings with me! smilies/rolleyes.gif

[peonydeepdelver]

I forced my mom to watch FOTR and TTT cuz I want her to see ROTK, since I'm hoping it'll be incredibly sad (she loves tragedy and sad stuff)

Me: ...so Gollum led Frodo and Sam to the Black to Mordor where they have to destroy the Ring, but it was too heavily guarded.
Mom: Who's Gollum?
Me: smilies/mad.gif The skinny guy that says preciousss.
Mom: Oh, I thought he was ET. Now who's Frodo?
Me: smilies/mad.gif smilies/mad.gif The wimpy hobbit that you think needs braces.
Mom: Oh yeah! Now, where did the trees go? I mean, they were at the tower, then there was ET, and no trees!
Me: smilies/mad.gif smilies/mad.gif smilies/mad.gif THERE ARE 4 HOBBITS! WIMP, SAM, PIPPIN, AND PIPPIN'S FRIEND! PIPPIN AND MERRY WERE WITH THE TREES!
Mom: Oh, I thought Pippin was in the Hobbit. Did you know that I named a cat I had once after him? I thought it was a cute name for a cat. (she never read the book, she just said she was reading the inside flap of the hardcover)
Me: smilies/mad.gif I KNOW!
Just so you know, we went to the 8:30 show and didn't get home till like 12:30 AM. This is basically my mom's character list.
Frodo: Wimp
Sam: Sam or Sean
Merry: Pippin's friend
Pippin: Pippin or my old cat
Aragorn: the guy
Boromir: the evil guy
Legolas: Blondy Boy that never runs out of arrows
Gimli: the short guy with the beard down to his knees
Faramir: the other guy
Haldir: the mean blond guy that dies
Galadriel: Snow White (she finds the seven dwarves getting the Rings funny)
Sauron: the Dark Lord
Saruman: Christopher Lee or the evil wizard that works for the Dark Lord
Wormtongue: the guy with no eyebrows or the guy that works for the evil wizard that works for the Dark Lord
Gollum: ET or Naked Boy
Gandalf: the good wizard that comes back to life or Ian McKellan

Ugh, moms sometimes.

[Naurwen_of_Lothlorien]

Okay this probably sounds stupid compared to some of these but I thought it was hilarious.

I had just gone to see TTT with my friend and her cousin and we all agreed it was very good. Afterwards we went to Pizza hut and began talking about our favourite parts.

My friend: I like the part with Arwen when she goes to sail to the land of ever lasting death.

Me: *choke*

My friend: Ooops Hahahahaha

Of course she realised the mistake but I still wonder how she made it in the first place. smilies/wink.gif

[Meela]

everlasting death...

well, thats one to avoid...

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Just for whoever said that their friend thought Rivendell was a hotel (sad)...click on the link. http://humor.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fgreenbooks.theonerin g.net%2Ftookish%2Ffiles%2Fcartoon.html
Then scroll down and click on the one that says Rivendell Apts. (I saw that, cracked up, went to Barrowdowns, opened a random forum, and what do I see? Heh. Look at the other ones too, some are funny. I like "stupid elf" the most. Not that I want to dis Orlando or anything!! smilies/evil.gif

[Rose Cotton]

*rolls on the floor laughing*


Me: HOTEL?

Did he even realize that this doesn't take place in modern times?

"Oh!! That's that guy from that one movie!! Wait, I think another one just came out... What's it called again? It has to do with a ring and a tower or something... Oh, I know!! Isn't it The Two Rings?"

Why are the Lord of the Ring movie titles the ONLY ONES people can't seem to remember?

Bro: "So? When you put it on you become invisible. How's that gonna save your city?"

Actually, I don't blame him for thinking that. I mean. Tolkein never really explains how the ring is used in warfare.

And I can't help but smile when I hear:

"That blond guy was cute."

smilies/wink.gif

[nevlhachien]

you all have such funny things! luckily none of my friends are as stupid as some of yours. but some of them are. i'll think of all of them later and post them tomorrow. naked boy. that is funny. i started laughing while reading these and i am in school so i got some nasty 'are you crazy' looks. i g2g. be back later!

-nevie

[Rynoah, the Overly-Happy]

Boromir: the evil guy

I'm laughing, yet shocked and appalled. Evil? *cackles, pauses, and glares*

Here's the best one ever:

During one of my rampant "Boromir Obsession" moments, I was watching FotR; the part where the Fellowship come up over the hill between the two rocks to a crescendo of music. When Boromir appeared, I cat-called loudly. Boromir is behind the horse in that scene. My mother poked her head in from the kitchen, took one look and screeched, "Boromir is a horse's rear!" She had to run fast to get away from certain destruction. Now it's a running inside joke.

[Meela]

*rolls on the floor laughing*

Boromir, winner of 2003's Rear of the Year...

[Mithril]

Sadbh, I'm a Star Wars fan, too, but I've read LOTR. Just so you know. smilies/smile.gif
I do know a lot of people that have no idea what they're talking about when it comes to LOTR. My sister for example. I'll start talking about the movie and when I name a character, she's like "Who?" and I have to describe the actor or actress to her.
Luckily I have other friends who know something about it. One of my friends knows enough about it to know when he saw TTT that I would be mad about Faramir in the movie.

[nevlhachien]

i forgot what i was going to say!!! oh yeah heres one.

We were watching the movie 'Ghost and the darkness' in my world geography class. I noticed that the actor that played the doctor looked a lot like Theoden from TTT. when my teacher has stopped the movie i said to a few of my friends 'that doctor guy looks Theoden!' and they are like 'who?' and one of the people i said that too has read the books and seen the movies. so i am like 'Theoden from TTT' and she looked at me weird. so i said 'Theoden, the king of Rohan. the oldish looking guy.' finally she got it, or acted like she got it. that made me mad cuz i figured she would know. and she pronounces Theoden wrong.

and that reminds me...... one day in my spanish class, after a test, we got time to do whatever we wanted, and these two guys sitting near me were discussing rotk. i was just sitting there drawing a picture(of an elf) and listening to them. one of the guys was reading rotk and he was telling the other one about it. this was like a week ago so i cant remember everything. but the guys were pronouncing every name in the book wrong! and everytime they said something wrong i would whisper the right way to myself. it bugged me so much!!! they pronounced Minas Tirith 'minus turuth' and Eowyn 'eeeowine' and Theoden 'theeoden' and they couldn't remember Galadriel's name! they called her 'that one chick with the weird mirror'!!! there was more but i dont remember. i probably have more crazy stories but i cant remember them now.....

-nevie

[eleanor_niphredil]

One of my dads friend referes to Frodo as "Toto". Hes not being funny, either...

[Brinniel]

The most common mistake I know of is when people call the movie The Twin Towers (and that happens quite often). Aargh! smilies/mad.gif I can't stand when people do that! How can you possibly forget the name of a movie AFTER you have seen it?!

[Sadbh]

smilies/redface.gif Sorry, Mithril. I wans't trying to imply that Star Wars fans can't be LotR fans, too. It's just that I don't think this particular friend would consider reading the Lord of the Rings until she's read every last Star Wars book. Oh, I don't know, I keep telling myself to be quiet, but it never works. smilies/wink.gif

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Ugh! Just remembered!
I am in RCAC (cadets) and i was talking to one of the girls and the topic turned to lotr.

Me: Didja like it?
Her: Yeah, it was good. I liked the bow-guy.
Me: BOW-GUY?!?!?!?!?

[Bekah]

smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif

It's scary to know that there can be such ignorant people...the best I have - it's not good at all - was, having come out of the theatre, I overheard someone saying "I've never been so bored in all my life."

Why watch it then?

Shy Hobbit, I pity you...likewise eleanor nipthredil. And the rest of you, too.

~ Elentari II

[nevlhachien]

I just thought of something. My sister (never seen the lotr movies but knows some about them cuz i talk bout them alot) insists on calling frodo 'froto' and legolas 'legless' and it annoys me so much. oh yeah, and my sister is 20. so immature.

[Eressië Ailin]

Oh, I just remembered when my orthadontist was asking tons of qquestions, so I answered one of them just to make her shut up.

O: Have you seen any movies lately?
M: Yeah.
O: Like what?
M: The Two Towers.
O: Which one is that?
M: Uhhh... Lord of the Rings...
O: Never heard of it. Is it good?
M: The book is better...
O: Oh, I know!! Isn't it the one with the kangeroo?

[Meela]

Kangaroo???

where did that come from?

the only link between Lord of the rings and a kangaroo is that the wargs bear a v. slight resemblance to them

[Manardariel]

omg, that is sooo funny. The kangaroo!!
Imagine Boromir in Moria. Not "The have a cave-troll". "The have a KANGAROO". *rofl*

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

What is this new devilry?
A Kangaroo. A demon of the ancient world. This foe is beyond any of you. RUN!

As a giant DOMO Kangaroo bounds towards them

Gandalf: Fly you fools!
Kangaroo: He's going to get gas at DOMO....
Frodo: NOOOOOO!

[Annunfuiniel]

The recent number of (Finnish) Cosmopolitan had a picture of Liv Tyler and the following caption(my translation): "L.T. chose this outfit for the opening of the movie Twin Towers..." I almost dropped off my chair of amazement: how can they print that! smilies/eek.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif I so should be their editor! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Marillanna Sarnie]

These are funny! I don't feel so alone!

I went to see TTT with a friend of mine, and she asked me this during the movie....

Friend: Hey, you know that wizard guy?
Me: Gandalf?
Friend: Yeah, do he and that blonde chick (Eowyn) get married?
Me: EOWYN?!?!? smilies/eek.gif
Friend: yeah
Me: ..........no.

GANDALF and EOWYN? That disturbed me...... but then again, what is an age difference of a millenia or two matter when True Love is involved? smilies/evil.gif ........ smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Rynoah, the Overly-Happy]

Imagine Boromir in Moria. Not "The have a cave-troll". "The have a KANGAROO".

*dies!* Mom'll love to hear that one. *pads off laughing herself to tears*

[eleanor_niphredil]

Why does everyone assume that a kangaroo would be evil? Why cant the ring bearer be a kangaroo? he could keep the one ring in his little pouch!

*ROFLHAO*

[peonydeepdelver]

Oh. My. Giddy uncle. I officially hate my mealth teacher! Today, we somehow got a little off topic and were talking about the Odyssey (okay, a LOT off topic).
Health Teacher: And the Ring of Fire, that trilogy you're all reading now, that's like a modern day Odyssey. Yes, who here has read The Hobbit And The Ring of Fire?
Me and my two friends: smilies/eek.gif Uhhhhhhhh... *raise hands*
Health teacher: Yes, a very good book, isn't it? I think they made a movie of it, The Hobbit and the Ring of Fire.
smilies/mad.gif I HATE HER! Well, everyone does... smilies/rolleyes.gif

Oh, and Rynoah, I like Boromir too, my mom just calls him the evil guy. smilies/wink.gif

[nevlhachien]

i was talking to my friend one day during our PE class and we got talking about TTT movie. i can't really remember the conversation, but i remember that we were talking about Gandalf. I said something to her about Gandalf the White being the same person as Gandalf the Grey but she did not believe me. she kept saying that they were totally different people. so i had to explain to her the whole thing with him. after about ten minutes of argueing she finally believed me. it was so frustrating because she thinks she has to be right. Sometimes i wonder if people actually pay attention to the movie......

[the guy who be short]

Why does everyone assume the kangaroo is a person? in my opinion, it is the kangaroo of doom. the ringbearer must ride it to Mordor then push it in! hmmm... gollum biting off a finger with a kangaroo on it...

[Tinuviel the Nightingale]

I was defending Lotr against my evil friend who thinks it is exactly like and worser (not a word, I know) then Harry Potter, when my other friend said " No Lotr is heaps cooler. Except for those doggy things"
Me: Do you mean the wargs?
Friend: The what?
Me: The brown things. The ones that look like giant dogs
F: What? Oh no, I meant the things that ride them.
M: Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

So you see, my friend thought Orcs were giant dogs. smilies/rolleyes.gif