How many of you...........and which?

[Samwise]

Seeing as how this is an LOTR site for LOTR fans, I'm assuming that many of you have LOTR-themed screen savers or desktop backgrounds on your computers.
I change my BG rather frequently, but as of the moment, this is my desktop BG:
(after editing post:
EEK! That pic turned out WAY too big! smilies/eek.gif
If you'd like to see what I have for my desktop background, go HERE (http://hometown.aol.com/sst205/myhomepage/lotr.html)It's the pic of Hobbiton that you see if you scroll down a bit, on the left.
"There's Mr. Baggins, now, that I work for. He told me that they were sailing and he knows a bit about Elves. "

[ July 31, 2002: Message edited by: Samwise ]

[ August 22, 2002: Message edited by: Samwise ]

[Nevfeniel]

I used to use a Lothlórien screensaver, but my mom *made* me download a Frodo one. I tease her about being in love with him, but she just says, "Do you have to be in love with someone just to get their screensaver?" smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Samwise]

Your mom....that's funny. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Li'l Mr. Wood's a cutie, but in the sense of the cute kidlets at the preschool I work at.... smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/wink.gif
My mom actually likes the Hobbiton desktop--I was afraid she wouldn't. I change my desktop/screensaver sort of regularly, and I was surprised when she said she liked "Hobbiton". Other LOTR pics she's looked at and said, "What is that?" smilies/frown.gif Or to that effect. Sigh. What I'd really like to have as a screensaver is my VERY favorite picture of "Sam" and "Frodo" (as seen on the page to which the link is above--it's on the right with the caption--"My two favorite Hobbits!" Sigh. Maybe one of these days...
smilies/frown.gif
For one thing, there was a lot to do up in the Bag End garden, and he would have a busy day tomorrow, if the weather cleared. The grass was growing fast. But Sam had more on his mind than gardening. After a while he sighed, and got up and went out.

[Lothiriel Silmarien]

Yeah, I had the Lothlorien one, but my dad didn't like it. How could you not, it's so beautiful! And I downloaded Rivendell also, and for the screensavers, I downloaded, Aragorn smilies/wink.gif , Legolas, and the Wizards. Oh, and Hobbiton too! They're so nice.

Samwise, I have a great picture of Frodo and Sam! It's so good! And I'm going to try to find the picture now, and when I find it, I'll send it to you. When you get it, I think you can add it as your background, but you have to right click, then go to the set as wallpaper thing. I'll see if that can work, let me find the picture now! I had it in my favorites box, but when we re-installed aol, it deleted EVERYTHING in my box. I had like 200 things stored in it!

[Amanaduial the archer]

lij wood practically defines the word cute! (even though his eyes can rival my sisters in freakiness....although his probably dont change colour...)

*sigh*...erm, Im sorry what, were we talking about? Oh yes...
I have a frodo SS, but where do u ppl get them?

[Lothiriel Silmarien]

Samwise, I've found the picture!!!! It's small though. Maybe it can be re-sized, but it's a great pic, nonetheless!

Aman, there's tons of places to get them, if you need help, send me a PM.

Samwise, here's the web address, if it doesn't work, let me know. http://img-fan.theonering.net/middleearthtours/images/fs1_tos.jpg

[ July 31, 2002: Message edited by: Lothiriel Silmarien ]

[Arie]

::sighs:: sadly my mom does that too-she "likes" frodo but doesn't want to admit it!!!!-isn't that awkward smilies/rolleyes.gif

[amyrlis]

I have the Two Towers movie poster as a background and my screen saver is the shadowy dark rider on the road, with the "Thus the third age of Middle-Earth began..." text fading in and out. Both of these are from the Official Site.

[Lady_Galadriel]

My backround is saruman on his throne, thingy, with his staff pointed out... and he is saying "i hate dusting"
My mom made me use that one... she thought it was funny...

[Samwise]

LOL---Lothriel, that's the picture I was talking about!!!!! It's my very very very very VERY favorite pic of the two of them--It's just sooooooo sweet!!! It is, indeed, on my pic site with the footer: "My two favorite hobbits". Sigh......

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

[Lothiriel Silmarien]

That's right it is on your site. Oh well. I know, I love that picture!!! I tested it out to see if it could be set as wallpaper, and it could but there was one problem. It was a dozen of the same sized pictures, not just one big one of them. Oh well!

[Gorothlammothiel]

I think I can help there Lothiriel Silmarien, if you have lots of the same (little) pictures, go into properties and somewhere on the right there should be a drop-down menu. You can selcect centre, tile or stretch, you've probably got it on tile, try centre smilies/smile.gif

[Mrs. Frodo Baggins]

I have a Frodo background.
I might have to go hunt for a screen-saver...

[Lothiriel Silmarien]

Oh thanks Gorothlammothiel! smilies/biggrin.gif I even went to properties, but I always seem to miss the obvious!!

[ArwenBaggins]

I have a Sean Astin Background, but I cant find any screen savers.

Here it is:
Sean!!!!! smilies/biggrin.gif (http://http://us.imdb.com/EGallery?source=ss&group=0120737&photo=02.jpg&path=pgallery&path_key=Astin,+Sean)

If you cant get the site, Ill just post the pic.

[Samwise]

smilies/frown.gif Aw....couldn't get to it. smilies/frown.gif
"And after all, sir," added Sam, "you did ought to take the Elves' advice. Gildor said you should take them as was willing, and you can't deny it. "

[Melephelwen]

I change my background often, to all sorts of LotR-things. Right now it is one with "J. R. R. Tolkien s The Lord of the Rings" in the middle an pictures all around in a big mix. I would call it a dream picture of FotR... Btw, I used to have a lot of Legolas ones, but they got boring after a month. All alike and only obne hot actor instead of ... two?
And I need to tell this: When i got my newest background my brother came over ansked if it was a Star Wars-background!!!?!!!?!!! I've tried to educate him, but it obviously didn't work *sigh* smilies/rolleyes.gif

And I'm going straight away to find a LotR screensaver, in case anybody want to know... smilies/wink.gif

[maleliel]

Well, call me sad but I've got a Legolas background and a Frodo screensaver! smilies/rolleyes.gif I'm a teen for God's sake! I got my from the official movie site! smilies/smile.gif
Anyway! I like them!

[Ms. Took]

I have a pippin background, and a two towers SS.

[The Green Ringwraith]

Mom and dad think I'm too obsessed with LOTR so they'd probably go ballistic if I put my ickle Pippin on my desktop! *sigh*

[randycarrot]

We have a two towers backround at the moment... and i don't know what screensaver cuz it's never on! I like the Aragorn and the Hobbit screensavers.

[Samwise]

Ah, don't feel bad. I can't seem to find any LOTR screensavers ('course I admit, I haven't looked really hard, 'cause I don't think my mom would appreciate it like I would)......
"For you, little gardener and lover of trees," she said to Sam, "I have only a small gift." She put into his hand a little box of plain grey wood, unadorned save for a single silver rune upon the lid.

[Gamgee]

well, this is my background:my desktop (http://thesilentman.nexen.net/Images/hobbits.jpg)
I figured I'd put a url, cuz I think the picture is a bit large. It's of all the hobbits, because Sam and Pip are my favorite Hobbits, and it's hard to find a picture of them both, and my mom kept looking at me funny whenever I put up a picture of Sam alone, then I had that picture of Frodo and Sam that is so cute and adorable, but then I figured I would just put a pic of all the hobbits on there, then I found this pic, and I took it, and the good thing is, it's got Bill the Pony in it too smilies/smile.gif

I made my own screensaver, it's that one that comes on your desktop called "my pictures screen saver" and I just loaded with a bunch of pics of hobbits.

smilies/biggrin.gif everytime my screen saver comes on I sit and look at it and drool, then my mom gives me a weird look and shakes her head...hehe smilies/biggrin.gif

[ August 18, 2002: Message edited by: Gamgee ]

[Raefindel]

I have a Legolas desktop that I got from one of the millions of fan sites. It is a collage of ME maps with Legolas overlaid on them. My kids think I'm wierd.

[Brinniel]

Though I've used LOTR desktops before, I have to admit I have a fairy one right now. (please don't hurt me!)But I do have 58 LOTR pics (mostly hobbits) saved to my computer and I use them as a screensaver in a slideshow form.

[Gimli Son Of Gloin]

That figures Raefindel smilies/wink.gif. I don't have an LotR desktop, my pic is the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. and my log off sound is the Marine's Hymn. From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli...

[akhtene]

Both my desktop and screen saver are Sauron's eye on black background. Just because I quite appreciate dark things, both in colour and ...
My daughter thinks it's cool (thought she would prefer to see Harry Potter there) And my husband believes it's just some weird pattern.

[Pennthangeil]

I have a Pippin desktop (although I never see it because of my web browser smilies/rolleyes.gif )
And I have a Aragorn screensaver. Both VERY cute.

I got them fromnull (http://lordoftherings.net)

[PeregrinTook]

I have the Eowyn screensaver from LordoftheRings.net, but I change my desktop rather frequently: I make all (well, most) of my LotR backgrounds from the many many many many many pictures I've saved... I also have little moving pics on the desktop... these are a few of them:

http://www.councilofelrond.com/modules/XForum/images/avatar/pippin4_icon.gif

http://www.councilofelrond.com/modules/XForum/images/avatar/frodo5_icon.gif

http://www.councilofelrond.com/modules/XForum/images/avatar/aim_pippinrocks.gif

[LePetitChoux]

I have the ABSOLUT FELLOWSHIP picture on mine. Makes me giggle each time.

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

My desktop is the ringwraiths from www.lordoftherings.net (http://www.lordoftherings.net) go there if u want screensavers and stuff and my SS is Conceptual Art of Middle Earth. It's a collage of many different paintings of different places in ME. Lothlorien is gorgeous.

[nevlhachien]

my desktop wall paper thingy is of Legolas but i think i am going to search for some different ones sometime soon. i like change. i re-arrange my room about once every month. bla i am so bored(i've said that on like every post i've posted today!) smilies/biggrin.gif
namarie
-Nevie

[Lindril Arvilya]

I am ashamed. My computer broke down, so I no longer have either my background or my screensaver. In fact, I'm having a hard time getting new ones, so I've improvised in the meantime with a WDTSF background and a boring twisty screensaver... that'll change soon enough.

[Pookabunny]

My wallpaper changes ALL THE TIME. I'm partial to the spoofy ones, so right now my wallpaper is:


F:\engrishttaragornofalfred.jpg

ROTFLMAO smilies/biggrin.gif

[ February 03, 2003: Message edited by: Pookabunny ]

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

hm...red x's certainly seem popular
i like ABSOLUT FELLOWSHIP..heh heh im on the library computer so maybe ill put that one on here....mwahahahaha

[Pookabunny]

Hee hee, the Absolut ones ROCK!

I like this one, too:

F:\absolutpower.jpg

(I would have though Sauron to be a Goldschlagger fan!)

[ February 03, 2003: Message edited by: Pookabunny ]

[Gorwingel]

Me and my sister's computer desktop is always changing, the one thing that has stayed the same is the screen saver. We have used the Legolas one from the official website for about the last 8 months, I like it the best. The wallpaper is always Orlando Bloom (as I have told before, my sister is a major Orlando Bloom fan), which I don't mind, because at least it is LOTR related. She changes it all the time, right now it is a black and white picture of Orlando Bloom from a magazine wearing jeans, a black blazer, and a sweatshirt, actually it is a very good looking photo. smilies/cool.gif

[vanwalossien]

I have a Samwise bg I found at lordoftherings.net and a screensaver where I can put in pics from my PC, so there's well, many Lotr-pics there.. Samwise; that 'My fave Hobbits'pic is adorable, but there Elijah really does look like he's in preschool... smilies/wink.gif

[Inderjit Sanghera]

I have one of the Last Alliance.

[Samwise]

Re:Van's comment about "Little Mr. Wood":
Preschool.... smilies/tongue.gif being a preschool teacher, I don't think he looks THAT young, but he does have quite the boyish face. I don't refer to him as "Little one" for nothing. smilies/wink.gif

[Vardamar]

I have this cool screen capture of the prologue on the DVD. Its the sceen where you see the company of men marching towards the orcs, at the beginnig of the battle. My sisters got one of the Balrog.

[vanwalossien]

Samwise: He looks like he's at least eight, so a little too old to be in preschool maybe, but how can he possibly be 22?

[Samwise]

I made my own screensaver, it's that one that comes on your desktop called "my pictures screen saver"
Mine is, now, too--and though not all--the MAJORITY of the pics are either of the Hobbits or 'Lij and Sean.
*A bit OT:*
Recently, on my LOTR Yahoo! site, someone posted a link to BABY pictures of both 'Lij and Sean!!!! There are more baby pics of 'Lij, but both are SOOOOO DARLING !!! There was one of Sean captioned "Very Baby Sean" where he was maybe a few months old and asleep in his mother's arms. I about melted. I've got to put that in "My Pictures" so it will be part of the screen saver.... smilies/biggrin.gif

[Samwise]

Van:
How could he be 22?
I do NOT know... smilies/wink.gif

[Neferchoirwen]

I had the Hobbit hole with Gandalf coming to visit Bilbo...But my brother changed it to a picture of Mike Portnoy's drumset. smilies/frown.gif I appreciated it after about a few days...

And about the Elijah Wood phenomenon discussed almost a year ago...my mom likes ELijah's face too!

But I saw a cool screen saver of the Fellowship in Moria, where one of the entrances was glowing with bold shafts of light. Another monitor had Frodo and Legolas' faces interchanging. In fact, all of the computers in the Literature department where I study has LotR screen savers!

[Brinniel]

Here's an update since I lasted posted here nearly a year ago:

My desktop is currently a collage of Eowyn I created and I now have 71 LOTR pictures in my file. smilies/smile.gif

[Meela]

Before my hard drive collapsed I had a lovely picture of the Fellowship as my desktop picture. Unfortunately someone changed it to a pic of Vin Diesel. Fortunately Marton Csokas was also in the picture.

[Oddwen]

Currently, in OS X for a desktop picture I have Frodopeep from the LordofthePeeps website. I'll tell ya, Elijah Wood don't have nothin' on the actor they picked for their version. smilies/wink.gif And for screensaver a bunch of random floaty pics, most of which are captioned screenshots from TTT and FotR trailers that I downloaded.
And in OS 9, desktop is the same bunch of pictures, while the screensaver is "Dark Rider" from the official site.

[Aragost]

Mine desktop is the Eye of Sauron. No black around it only red flames. I got it from

[Sirithheruwen]

I used to have a Nazgul descktop, but then we moved the fam comp downstairs, and my dad made me change it. It's just my luck to have anti-lotr parents. smilies/frown.gif Oh well, I'm used to it. I have an uncle that loves LOTR, but he lives in another country. smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif Back to the subject...no I just have a plain blue desktop. BORING!!!

[Samwise]

Plain blue.....? Aw, man...

This has more to do with my screen saver than my desktop, and while it's not REALLY LOTR, hey, it's an actor!

I have a "My Pictures" screen saver, and I recently added a family picture of the Astins, which includes their baby girl. It is TOO adorable! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Alatáriël Lossëhelin]

My wallpaper and screen savers (both on my home PC and work PC) are all LotR. I have probably in excess of 600-700 different photos of the different characters/actors/LotR artwork/parody photos, etc. I usually change out weekly: one week all Elijah/Frodo, next week all Orlando/Legolas/Will Turner, then Sean/Sam, Viggo/Aragorn, Sean/Boromir...well, you get the picture.

[steve]

I got 2 screen savers, one is a clip show of all the charachters from both movies. the second one is a joke i made, i turned lotr into the matrix useing pics from the movies

[Raefindel]

I got my screen saver from This site. (http://www.oblonline.de/index3.htm)

They have lots of cool ones.

[Amarantha_Daisy]

For a background I currently have a lovely picture of Galadriel. Of course, it won't be there long, I change my background every few hours ...I'm so sparatic...

I don't have a LotR screensaver, I just have a default Windows one. I couldn't find any LotR ones I liked, but you know what? I'm gonna go find one now... Or make a "My Pictures" one... smilies/wink.gif