Close encounters with strange fans!!!!!

[Lush]

Has anything as weird as this ever happened to you?
I was standing in a FOUR-HOUR LINE at the DMV (I could go on an angry tangent here, but I won't), minding my business, and reading LOTR for the first time.
A man in front of me who looked suspiciously like a serial killer suddenly turned around, glanced at the book I was reading, and said:
"Ya know, it's funny that you're reading this, because you look exactly like Galadriel. I did these improvised sketches of her, and you could be the inspiration behind them, but I've never met you before. Would you like to come over and let me show them to you sometime? I mean, look at your eyes! Your forehead! Your cheekbones! If only you're hair was brigher. Maybe we could dress you up in a white gown!"
Needless to say, the only thing that prevented me from high-tailing it out of there was the fact that I had stood in line for two hours already, and didn't want to let the time go to waste.
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Does strange stuff like this only happen to me?

[The Fifth]

Serial killer? Galadriel? 4 hours? Nothing that strange has happened to me, sorry.

[ June 29, 2002: Message edited by: The Fifth ]

[Samwise]

Yike. Me, neither.
Aragorn tended to Sam and Frodo. Sam's wound was not deep, but it looked ugly, and Aragorn's face was grave as he examined it. After a moment he looked up with relief. "Good luck, Sam!" he said, "Many have recieved worse than this in payment for the slaying of their first Orc. "
The Beginnings of My First LOTR Based Story smilies/smile.gif (http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/187925)

[NazgulNumber10]

yes he dresses you up then puts you in a well to later use you skin in a female body suit. Lush, that was buffalo bill!!!
that didn't make sense unless you've seen the silence of the lambs, but then again, who hasen't?
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[Starbreeze]

Oh creepy! Nope, nothing like that has ever happened to me, thank goodness! The closest I've got to that is when I dressed up in Elven clothing with my friends as hobbits, and on the train we had about 7 people reciting lines from the film and books at us.

[Lush]

I just attribute it to madness at the DMV. People go nuts there on any given day. Though a Tolkien-nut was a first for me.

[dragongirlG]

Oh, Lush, how scary!

Nothing has happened to me. I think I might have freaked out my English class by showing them the One Ring that I got from a bookmark, but that's about it.

[Lush]

Buffallo Bill didn't dress up his victims, he dressed up himself.

[NazgulNumber10]

you seem to know alot about buffalo bill.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
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[Catherine]

Lush thats really scary that something like that happened!! Thats really strange! smilies/eek.gif

[Lothiriel Silmarien]

Hey Lush, why didn't you go over, he seemed like a very nice man smilies/wink.gif
That's freaky though! smilies/eek.gif

[ July 01, 2002: Message edited by: Lothiriel Silmarien ]

[Lush]

It had to have been the single-most weird thing that happened to me all winter. And the more I think about it, the more it gives me the creeps. I mean, at first I thought he was just being cute. But...eh...you know...Who knew that Tolkien could be used for sinister purposes? Heh.
And blimey, how could I forget? That very same day, a little boy spoke Elvish to me. Fortunately, he didn't invite me over to his house to practice his language skills. Yeesh!

[ July 01, 2002: Message edited by: Lush ]

[NazgulNumber10]

HURRY! lock your doors! the sleepers awake!
lush, those people.....
(nn10 gets some coffee and calms down)
what was i talking about
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[Nevfeniel]

That very same day, a little boy spoke Elvish to me Did you reply? smilies/smile.gif

[Lush]

I didn't reply, because I had no idea what he was saying, and was exhausted from standing in line, and freaked out by the people in it. The kid was just like, "Oh, you're reading my favorite book! Mueghk ghoekahdh laghoristoile..." Or whatever it was he was babbling. I'm sure he was saying something really nice though. Maybe. smilies/smile.gif
Looking back on this incident, I am beginning to feel increasingly sorry for the people who acted in PJ's movie. They will probably have encounters like these for the rest of their lives. Ah, me...

[Galadrie1]

wow, Lush, that's really creepy!

The only thing like that that's ever happened to me (though it's not nearly as scary) is when i was getting a tour of my new high school, one of the teachers had pictures of Arwen (from the movie) all over the walls in his office. I just thought that was kind of strange...

[Lush]

The teacher probably a scholar the aesthetics of the human face. smilies/biggrin.gif Nah, he just had a thing for Liv Tyler. Though it's a little weird for a teacher to be expressing himself like that in front of young studens...

[Lady_Galadriel]

all those are really creepy... I've never had something like that happen to me, but something less creepy.
today I went to the public library with my sis and brother. my brother and i were walking down one of the rows and saw a Lotr poster of frodo. it said "read. make it a hobbit." well my brother, (who has never seen lotr) asked me who that was. i replied frodo. then all of a sudden this short kid came over and started rambling on to me about lotr. he like never stopped. it was scary

[Nevfeniel]

I am beginning to feel increasingly sorry for the people who acted in PJ's movie. They will probably have encounters like these for the rest of their lives.
I can just imagine it- Elijah Wood, age 75, walking down the aisle in the grocery store, minding his own bussiness, when suddenly, a group of half-crazed 60-year-old women rush up to him saying, "Look! It's Frodo! Wow, you're a lot taller in person! Do you really have hairy feet? Why didn't you keep that hairstyle? We stopped buying gold rings because of that movie, and we're soo glad we did; we don't want to be enslaved. Hey, where are you going?" As Elijah Wood runs as fast as his 75-year-old legs can carry him.
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[Uruloki]

LMAO! That picture of a 75 yr old elijah is gonna stick in my mind all day..........

Nothing as weird as what happened to you has happened to me but on this one forum there was this one apperently really rich guy that said when he left colledge he was gonna go into a buisiness with his uncle to create an elven haven. I think thewy are gonna create a parc type thing (some kind of holiday camp) where people can come and be elves for the weekend. Interesting, yet strangely attractive idea, though quite weird!lol

[Samwise]

Ack! When he's 75, I'll be 85...... smilies/tongue.gif Heh, he'll probably still look like a cute little kid to me..... smilies/rolleyes.gif
"Oh, Mister Frodo, that's hard!" said Sam, shivering. "That's hard, trying to go without me and all. If I hadn't a guessed right, where would you be now? " http://www.freak-in.com/~fof/quiz/seana.jpg http://www.freak-in.com/~fof/quiz/elijah.jpg

[ July 03, 2002: Message edited by: Samwise ]

[Losthuniel]

that elf haven is a cool idea, but ui have a feeling it would be highly over-commercialized. w/e

[QuickSlash]

o.O Shows you to never go to the DMV alone. I am in a small, not very Tolkien-crazed area, so I have never had any freaky experiances. o.O

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Freakish. Well, I've heard from someone else that some girl put on her site: Pippin just got back and told me Legolas had gone to war and was badly hurt. Please please pray for him I know God will help him.
Come on! Now THAT is creepy. Praying for someone who isnt even real?
(Thanx to elentari II [heh heh] for that bit of info)

[Gorwingel]

Yes the DMV is a scary place, all the people who work there always seem like disgruntled state employees (which they probably are) I was so happy after I got my drivers license just because I would never have to go back there for a very long time.
Well back to the topic...
I am so sorry that happened, that is weird, and freaky smilies/eek.gif . I would have ran far away from there. I have thankfully never had anything like that happen to me. The only encounters with Tolkien fans have been very casual. (Gosh, I hope none of the people on this site are like that smilies/rolleyes.gif )

[Bekah]

Elijah Wood 75??? I would be...*does rapid calculation*...umm...roughly 66 yrs old. More or less. When I had a crush on him I worked it out exactly but I've forgotten now. Oh well.

Horse-maiden - I, in turn, recieved that piece of info from Shy Hobbit. Scary though.

The guy who accosted you, Lush, might have been nice...you never know...not that I would have trusted him.

I've never been to DMV, nor do I know what it stands for. I live in NZ. Anyone mind explaining?

Nothing that creepy has happened to me...and as for people who freak others out with non-stop talk about LOTR - I'm probably that person. smilies/biggrin.gif

~ Elentari II

[ February 10, 2003: Message edited by: Bekah ]

[Samwise]

The DMV is the Department of Motor Vehichles, where one in the States goes to get driver's liscences and take written driver's tests and the like...and they are notorious for their looooooooooooooooooooooong lines. smilies/tongue.gif
When Little Mr. Wood is that old...eh...I'll be way older! smilies/wink.gif

[Bekah]

Oh, thanks!! That should help me, 'cos now I'll know what people mean when they refer to DMV. smilies/smile.gif

Don't rub my age in. Just because I'm a lot younger than you... smilies/biggrin.gif

~ Elentari II

[Samwise]

Sorry, didn't mean to. It's just that knowing the Little One is as young as he is makes me feel old.

[Bekah]

It's alright. Gotta go, though.

~ Elentari II smilies/smile.gif

[Tar-Palantir]

Samwise, plenty of years left to feel old, so don't start overly soon!

Bekah, if my math is right that makes you 12, is that correct? I would never have guessed it, you come across more mature, that's great. I think I was still playing with GI Joe at that age... smilies/redface.gif

Lush, that guy was obviously insane... you look nothing like Galadriel... http://www.reefaquariumguide.com/forums/images/smilies/new/queen.gif

[ February 11, 2003: Message edited by: Tar-Palantir ]

[Bekah]

No, just thirteen. I was born on 14 December 1989. Heaps of people reckon I'm older than I am, even, or rather especially, those who've actually seen me. smilies/biggrin.gif

~ Elentari II, whose family is insane.

[Bekah]

Actually, Tar-Palantir, your maths would be wrong. I said if EW was 75, I'd be 66. That leaves an 11 years difference. EW is 22 now. 22 - 11 = 13.

~ Elentari II

[Naurwen_of_Lothlorien]

22-11=11...

sorry just thought I put that in...

yours apologetically,

Naurwen.

[Sapphire_Flame]

That's so creepy, Lush, I'm sorry! smilies/eek.gif

Actually, I'm the one scaring everyone else with my LotR insanity. If I got my friends on this site you'd hear some interesting stories.......

[Bekah]

Now you see how bad my maths is. I meant that there was a 9 year difference, and 22 - 9 = 13. Gee, I'm really dumb sometimes...

~ Elentari II

[Naurwen_of_Lothlorien]

It happens to the best of us, Elentari smilies/wink.gif . My maths isn't great either...I'm more of an english person...but anyway, that's off topic. Lush, that must have been pretty creepy, but he might have just been being friendly! I, personally, would take it as a complement, although I would have politely turned down his kind offer.

Yours un-mathematically

Naurwen

[ February 11, 2003: Message edited by: Naurwen_of_Lothlorien ]

[ February 11, 2003: Message edited by: Naurwen_of_Lothlorien ]

[Beren87]

That very same day, a little boy spoke Elvish to me

I do that all the time, I like to watch people stare.

And you do look a bit like Galadriel..hmm....

[Bekah]

I agree with Naurwen. I mean, you couldn't exactly go along with his offer, 'cos you never know with some weirdos...but he didn't actually assault you or do anything horrible. He seemed like he was just being a friendly LOTR-fan. Although I would, as Naurwen suggested, politely turn down his offer of using you as a Galadriel model. It'd be a nice offer if you actually knew him well.

~ Elentari II

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Hm.....EW is 22....im 14....22....minus 14.....is.........erm...CALCULATOR!
Lol jk. But yeah being me SUCKS because I look like im 12! Whenever i ask people how old they think i am they say "Uhhhh 12?"grr angers me!
BUT i still havent had any LotR experiences. Well, except for once when I screamed "AI AI A BALROG IS COME!" at my friend and dove into the snow. Dont ask.
Hey why are those people staring at me?

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Exsqueeze me, i didnt notice! Dontcha hate it when that happens?

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

I know this i VERY off topic but I just had to post:
IM A SHADE IM A SHADE!!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Eressië Ailin]

Everyone I know says I look just like Arwen, but it is probably just because I act like her.

~NOTE~ I get sort of claustrophobic when I am surrounded by Orli fangirls

I had this really weird dream like last week, and I was surrounded by all of these Orli fangirls. I am more of a Viggo fan mysef, but these girls were babbling on and on about him! IT DROVE ME INSANE!!!!!

[vanwalossien]

Oh Lush, that would've freaked me out! I haven't had any weird experiences like that, but my friends have had some... On a sleep-over I lit my face with my torchlight and exclaimed "The light of Eärendil!". I got some strange looks smilies/rolleyes.gif And I refer to most knives as Narsil, especially if they're broken. Not to mention that I go all Gollumish if someone tries to take something away from me. Hmm, I'm gonna try that "ai ai a balrog is come" next.

[ February 12, 2003: Message edited by: vanwalossien ]

[Iarwain]

Ah, the wild tangents people can dream up. What year will this Elijah Wood frenzy take place in, and how exactly do you know that he'll be alive then? Also, how will you possibly be able to recognize an actor that you saw (roughly) fifty years earlier. For your sakes, I hope that the obsession wears off with the bursts of hormonal activity going on within you right now.

Ok. That's done with. Lush, that sounds absolutely frightful (in a thrilling kind of way). If that man didn't have perverse intentions in mind, I really feel sorry for someone who's intrests are so limited that he would use Lord of the Rings to pick up girls. Just think of the things that saying "you look like galadriel" would imply in pre-movie years. What a pickup line. smilies/smile.gif smilies/wink.gif

Anyway, I've never had any experience with obsessive fans (sadly) in fact, my experience with Tolkien fans in general reality is limited to some four people.


Master

P.S. It's funny, but this is only my second post in Mayhem (now mirth). Visits are so rare, I've only recently taken notice of the Forum itself.

P.P.S. Sorry about the opening paragraph, I didn't realize that there was a second page...

[ July 04, 2003: Message edited by: Iarwain ]

[purplefluffychainsaw]

Dud, I normally AM the freak who goes and attacks random people with LotR stuff. Like on Neopets the other day I was seriously considering starting a post up in elvish, but then I realized I didn't know enough. Hmmm... Maybe that's not such a good exaple. A better one is the time we were writing cards in church (Do not ask. Just DON'T) And I wrote mine in elvish. Ah, if only I had seen the girls face. That could have been highly amuzing... smilies/wink.gif

[Olorin]

Wow, that's really... weird. I would have been really scared. smilies/eek.gif Nothing like that has ever happened to me, thank goodness. smilies/smile.gif

[Arafangwen]

Wow Lush! That would kind of scare me, but at the same time, I would be thrilled that someone thought I looked like an elf. I have had something kind of like that happen to me, some friends and I were passing notes in church(don't ask) and we were passing them to random people that we didn't know(definetly don't ask), and I wrote something in Quenya, and when the note got back around to me, someone had written back in Sindarin! I thought that was really cool.

[steve]

Poor you Lush...

The only experiance I had with a strange Tolkien fan was when I started talking to myself, I seem to scare other Tolkien fans away when we get on the subject of LotR hehe

[Samwise]

Like on Neopets the other day I was seriously considering starting a post up in elvish, but then I realized I didn't know enough.

Really? LOL...well, if ever I'm in the Neopets message boards (I'm not on there too often, and mostly I go to "Newbies"...)and I see a post that looks like Elvish (I'm not too good at it, either) smilies/wink.gif, I'll have a good guess who posted it! smilies/wink.gif

Pobodies Nerfect
I like that. smilies/biggrin.gif Got to remember that one...
{EDIT}
...and to post something on topic, the only oddball Tolkien fan I know is ME, 'cause I'll be by myself and start quoting Sam lines (book and movie) whenever the mood strikes me. smilies/wink.gif There's no one else in the house who's an LOTR/Tolkien fan, so no one else would get it. smilies/frown.gif

[ July 12, 2003: Message edited by: Samwise ]

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

*sniffle* Somebody liked my sig!
Sorry, but it's gone now. smilies/wink.gif

Er...one time I was discussing the concept of a LotR musical with this guy, and he started singing. He said, "Oh, yeah! Gollum would be like this: Myyyyyyy Preeeciouuuuuuuuus! I've loooooost my PRECIOUUUUUUS!!!!" and he would not stop! It was starting to scare me, even though I knew he was just doing it to bug me.

[Finwe]

I had gone to the TTT premiere dressed as an Elf/Ranger with my friends, and the manager happened to see me swinging my fake spear around and yelling random Elf battle cries. Apparently, he was extremely impressed with my "skills" and I got a winter job that just entailed walking around in costume at the movie theater and talking in Sindarin! I mean, how lucky can you get!

[Galenfea of Mirkwood.]

Finwe, you are so <i>lucky</i>! I'm going to use that as argument in favour of taking my bow to the RotK premiere, my Mum won't let me, she says I'll get arrested. smilies/frown.gif
Back on topic: I think I'm the only LotR fan in my town, apart from a guy who was sitting accross the row from me during TTT, who had the ring inscription tattooed around his arm.

[steve]

You saw someone with the ring inscription tatooed around his arm? That is waht I want to get done!(sorry it was off topic i just had to say it, all apolagies mr barrowwight sir)

[Lucinda]

Hmmm, I have the same problem, horse maiden. People always say I look about eleven, instead of 14, but say I sound about 20 on the phone.
My only strange experience is that I know someone who insists everyone calls him Frodo. If you call him Kerry, He dosnt respond

[Gorwingel]

At Comic-Con there were these three fans that I kept seeing. I think they were sisters, maybe triplets, because they all looked alike. They all had red hair, and I could always recognize them because they all dressed the same! Every day they had coordinating outfits: same pants, same LOTR related T-shirts, same LOTR related hats, pins, buttons, LOTR tote bags, and of course the ring on the chain around the neck (I have seen so many people wearing the ring at conventions. It actually kind of annoys me; I don't do it because I want to go against the grain).

Some people may think that what I am talking about it not freaky, but I thought it was. It wasn't like they were young or anything. They were probably really nice people, but I just thought that the whole dressing alike thing was kind of weird.

[Amarantha_Daisy]

Just had to revive this thread becaue something creepy happened to me today... It wasn't with a Tolkien fan, but it did happen in that section of the bookstore...

I was in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy section with my friends, looking at Tolkien, of course, smilies/biggrin.gif When this middle aged guy comes up to us and says "What are you cute girls doing in the science fiction section?" Now, you have to think about it...We're three 16 year old girls, and this scetchy older guy comes up to us like that... creepy! He was grinning and was like "This is the man's section! We never had girls over here before!"

...It was creepy for us, anyway. Needless to say, I stopped lingering, grabbed my books and headed to the cash register. Hmph... *shudders*

[ October 13, 2003: Message edited by: Amarantha_Daisy ]

[THE Ka]

Very strange nothing on that level has happened to me before...( even though i'm a scorpio and considered a people magnet). Your insident at the DMV sound scary to me yeesh! *shiver* well, the closest i've ever got to that was when last year i, unfortunately, broke the tibula in my right ankle and of course had to go get x_rays. well, in an x-ray room they might sometimes put picutres up right? well, when i went into this x-ray room what a shock i got! all over the walls (and i MEAN all over from top to bottom) there was pictures of Gandalf EVERYWHERE! i don't know about you but, the older gentleman who was in charge with x-rays might of had a fetish... a really big fetish. Iwas lucky to get out of there without going crazy! i mean, having 50 some odd Gandalfs peering at you out of the darkness can even make a Ka flip... smilies/eek.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/smile.gif

"Into the belly of the beast..." "And, out the deamon's *** ..."
- Laura Croft Tomb Raider

[Samwise]

Per Aramantha_Daisy's experience:
Eeew. Creepy.

Ka:
Whoa. Wish the things on the walls in the last Drs. office I was in were that interesting! smilies/wink.gif


[ October 13, 2003: Message edited by: Samwise ]

[StarJewel]

A couple weeks ago, this weird looking guy comes up to me while I am walking my dog. He said my greyhound looked "Like one of those Warg things in TTT". I got kind of upset, as I took it to be an insult to my precious pet.

[lothlorien]

Wow both of your incounters sound creepy
and there are no other words for it.
I haven't had anything that creepy happen to me (probably not on topic) I am usually driving my friends and family insane with my obsession today a friend got me started on middle earth and I went on about it all day she was like will you shut up geez you never stop. But only a few obsessed people live in my area so it's very unlikely for anything strange to happen. Today about 5 times at school if found topics relevent to lord of the rings.
That's really strange
Lothlorien

[Orominuialwen]

Whoa! Some is this stuff is very creepy! smilies/eek.gif Normally, I'm the rather scary fan who goes up to random people. For instance, I was sitting in English class, and I see that the girl sitting in front of me has a copy of RotK in her backpack (the backpack was sitting there open, btw, it wasn't like I was going through her stuff). So I started talking to her about RotK just out of the blue, asking her how she liked it. She gave me a freaked out look, like I was losing my mind or something, and tolk me she hadn't started to read it yet. So, if you meet a strange fan who is a girl with very curly hair, it's probably me- if you are talking about LotR, I will butt into your conversation whether you know me or not! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Arwen Evenstar]

Hey, DragongirlG! That is so awesome! I got my One Ring off a bookmark too! I found a silver chain at home and now wear it around my neck. When people ask me where I got it, I tell them, "Off a bookmark," casually. Yes, I get some VERY strange looks. smilies/evil.gif smilies/wink.gif smilies/smile.gif Arwen

[mark12_30]

Lush, I vaguely remember something somewhat similar happening to me... I think. Not nearly as psycho. But yeah, a long conversation that was a little too friendly.

For me it's usually airports or airplanes. That's when I take LotR with me everywhere I go (it's my home away from home; nothing makes a hotel room feel cozier than reading about Mordor...) Anyway, I've sat next to a few people who got chatty about my book. Some of the conversations were fine. Others, I was mighty glad they ended.

Of course, ending unappealing conversations while on business travel is easy for me. "Yes, I'm on my way to a navy facility." Shuts 'em right up. Can't imagine why. smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Finwe]

I think my strangest LotR experience would have been when I yelled "Crebain from Dunland! Hide!" at my school, and dove into some bushes as a flock of crows flew overhead. My friends and I were walking back from the school library when I decided to do it. Those bushes were so PAINFUL that I had scratches all over the place!

[Rilwen Gamgee]

He was grinning and was like "This is the man's section! We never had girls over here before!"

Hey, I go to that section all time! I see nothing wrong...

Anyway, back on topic. I was in the computer lab at my highschool, on the 'Downs and was talking to my friend about "LotR". This guy a couple of computers away says, "I see you're a 'LotR' fan" and he comes over and reads the back of my "LotR" shirt. Then he starts asking me who my favorite character is and everything. I never saw the guy again, but I was quite surprised to see another "Ringie" at my school! smilies/smile.gif