You know you're obsessed with LOTR when ...

[Eressië Ailin]

Rilwen~

I know you didn't ask for the pics. But I stole your idea, and I thought you might want to see the pics. But they're not working, are they?

[Helkahothion]

They are, I can see them.

[Lily Bombadil]

Helkahothion,
Are you from the U.K.? Just curious. I'm also wondering how green it was up Legolas' nose.
Oh!
~You know you're obsessed with LotR when-
You call your boyfriend Beren & he calls you Tinuviel. Vice/versa.
OR
You call your boyfriend Aragorn, Strider, etc, etc. & he calls you Arwen, Undomiel, Evenstar, whatever. Vice/versa.
~You call your dad Gaffer or My Gaffer to others.

[Lily Bombadil]

I forgot:
Your swift to anger father sets a quota on the amount of times you can say "Frodo" in one day.
Once I talked so much about LotR with my cousin & sister that my "Gaffer" (he he) said we weren't allowed to say "Frodo" any more in front of him that day. He also basically said if we didn't stop he was going to beat our @$$&$. If you see what I mean.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

I crawled up his nose...

Helka, I did NOT want to know that. I guess I deserve it for asking though. However, I shall refrain from asking how in ME you fit a computer in there.

I turned 17 yesterday and my best friend gave me another cloak. My other one is only about knee-length, but this one is long and white and hooded and I'm going to wear it to school tomorrow. That should be interesting.

[ May 12, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]

[ May 13, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]

[Annalaliath]

you put runes on al your diskets, and mainly on the one you use for your English portfolio. Hope the bord doen't flunk me.

I live in NM! anyone from NM?! I hate it here as anyone can see from the shiprock NM as Mordor on Earth. How come there is no one from NM. Acctually this is funny, in my serch fro help to put on a LOTR convention here in NM i emailed this British group and they sent me thier South American contact! i had to e-mail them back telling thenm that I needed their North American contact and not to worry people mistake us all the time for Mexico even people in our own.

Any way back to topic. yopu make friends and family Mirrors with Elvish inscrptions on them for any major holiday or birthdaythat requires presents.

you think that our gift giving traditions should be like that of Hobbits and you intend on pratcing them.

you get excited over the Frodo action figure, and buy him, then you want to buy the gandalf one that is in an obscure corner in a Wal-Mart close by.

[Sapphire_Flame]

NONONO. There is not mother in it. It's baar moeder. I don't know the english word but the latin word is Uturus
Heh, I know. I'll have to ask my grandpa about it for reals, unless you want to be nice and tell me... smilies/smile.gif

Lemme put something on topic...
~You're obsessed with LotR when you correct your Sunday School teacher, telling him/her that it's not Solomon, but Saruman. smilies/biggrin.gif *guilty...*

[Vuelve]

I've done these recently:

-You do the whole "nassty nassty, hurtss usss, hurtss usss ect.." in your best Gollum voice when your teacher hands out suckers in class. (I said this to my teacher on accident once, completely random thought, It just came out. Needless to say I got in trouble.)

-You sprinkle pieces of paper in a bowl and ask fellow classmates if they would look into the mirror. (Got a lot wierd looks and "What mirror?" from this one. I guess it just isn't the same effect without the picher. smilies/wink.gif)

***I just thought that everyone would like to know that the all famous "Do the wave for Boromir the disco king!" is taking the world by storm.I started it with some of my fellow LOTR loving classmates and today I got half my class to do the wave.(I didn't say for Boromir the disco king though, but DISCO WILL PREVAIL!!!!)

[ May 12, 2003: Message edited by: Vuelve ]

[Sapphire_Flame]

I just thought that everyone would like to know that the all famous "Do the wave for Boromir the disco king!" is taking the world by storm.
YES!!!!! DO THE WAVE!!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Arafangwen]

Do The Wave!!!!

~You've cristened the touch light above your bed Eärendil(It's a star of course!)

~You respond better to your elven name than the name your parents gave you

~You've gotten your three year old sister to respond better to her elven name than the one your parents gave her

[ May 15, 2003: Message edited by: Arafangwen ]

[Sapphire_Flame]

You've gotten your three year old sister to respond better to her elven name than the one your parents gave her
I'll have to try that with my little cousins. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Arafangwen]

I'll have to try that with my little cousins.

You really should! smilies/biggrin.gif It takes a little time, and they really have to want to learn it and respond to it for it to work.

~You've read the appendix more than three times over and giggled gleefully everytime you see the part about the Barrow Downs

~When someone else is watching the movie you can quote the words from downstairs, even though you can hardly hear the music

~You are currently trying to teach all three of your younger sisters how to speak Quenya and Sindarin

~All your sibblings call you by your elven name, knowing it's the only way they'll ever get your attention

[Elennar Starfire]

When you learn to play may it be on the recorder.
I have a mood ring, (not a one ring unfortunately smilies/frown.gif ) and when people want to see it I say "nooo itsssssss my precioussss."

[Rilwen Gamgee]

Rilwen~
I know you didn't ask for the pics. But I stole your idea, and I thought you might want to see the pics. But they're not working, are they?

Alright. The pictures are working now, btw. I like it!

[ May 13, 2003: Message edited by: Rilwen Gamgee ]

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

I keep trying and trying to find LotR addicts except me in MA, but am largely unsecessful. [Edit: How can that be? Both my time and your time?]

I was on at what was 1:16 by my time. And then I stayed on, so I was still on at 1:16 by your time smilies/biggrin.gif

~Menelien

[Arafangwen]

~You check the times that the threads were most recently posted in so you don't have to go in them to check and see if anyone has posted in the past two minutes

~Your schoolwork on the computer is constantly covered by a black and green screen which your mother calls "Mount Doom"

~You read all the fan fiction you have time for(and tons you don't have time for)

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

You can't see your walls anymore.

~Menelien

[Sapphire_Flame]

You can't see your walls anymore.
Would you people quit spying on me?!?!?! smilies/eek.gif

[ May 13, 2003: Message edited by: Sapphire_Flame ]

[Bekah]

When you learn to play may it be on the recorder.

No, but I did learn to play it on keyboard. Consequently I got a little sick of it.

~ Elentari II

[ May 14, 2003: Message edited by: Bekah ]

[Sapphire_Flame]

Could you amplify a bit, please Helka?
Heh, I looked up what he said, Bekah, and I don't think you want to know. smilies/eek.gif

[the guy who be short]

i learnt it on recorder and keyboard! neh!

[SilverEmbers]

Your obssesed with lotr when-
~You start to think in elvish~
~ you insult people in elvish~
~you freak out whenever the keebler elves appearon tv("THOSE ARENT ELVES! THERE MUTANT GNOMES OR SOMETHING!")
~ Your pets are named merry, pippin, frdod, same, eowyn, aragorn and gollum~
~Your asked to say grace at christmas and you pray to elbereth instead of god (oopsie)
~your friends call you the elf girl~
*guilty of all of the above lol,*

[Arafangwen]

~You're sick and are convinced that Elrond is coming to help you

~You're convinced that since Elrond has not come, he must be sending Legolas in his place to make you feel even better smilies/biggrin.gif

~At the doctors office, he askes you what's wrong and you reply "I am wounded, and I shal never heal." You get some really weird looks from that one

*guilty smilies/biggrin.gif *

[Helkahothion]

Heh, I looked up what he said, Bekah, and I don't think you want to know. smilies/eek.gif

I could do worse smilies/evil.gif

~you punch down people for calling Gimli a viking-guy. *guilty*

~You keep repeating during Harry Potter and the chamber of secret's that Dobby os not a real elf*guilty*

~You claim to know more about Lotr that the entire school does*guilty, but at my school that claim is easely made, since their are no other Tolkien lovers that go as far as me.

~You write Lotr names on you're school bag with typex.*guilty*

[Sapphire_Flame]

I could do worse smilies/evil.gif
I know. smilies/wink.gif I did get that translated, BTW. Try Sindarin insults next time; they're harder to find translations for.

~You're obsessed when, for your final solo in choir you sing May It Be or In Dreams.

~When, after the above performance, you get offended when nobody knows what the song is from.

*guilty of both the above...*

[Bekah]

I do the Dobby one. Also I got really irritated all through the Faerie Queene. It was a compulsory read-aloud, and Mum seemed to delight in emphasising the 'and that elfin knight...' Grrr! St. George just ain't no elf.

You're obsessed when, for your final solo in choir you sing May It Be or In Dreams.

That I should be so lucky!! We're doing horrible music at choir right now. And I don't get to do solos. (Mind you, only two other woman get to do those.) smilies/rolleyes.gif

I drove my whole family crazy by playing those two songs and Aniron and then singing with them, all the while taping the result.

Which wasn't very good. smilies/redface.gif

Cheers,

~ Elentari II

[Sapphire_Flame]

We're doing horrible music at choir right now.
I'm sorry, Bekah. smilies/frown.gif I lucked out with this, because my teacher said we could pick any song we wanted for the final. I assure you, though, that I can sympathize with having to sing crappy music. smilies/eek.gif

[Elennar Starfire]

When you find out that supergluing your ears into points is not a good idea.

Try rubber cement! you have to hold it for a while, but it is probably much easier to undo than superglue.

[Sapphire_Flame]

I believe it!!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[ElenCala Isil]

I learned to play the bridge of Khazad-dum and Lothlorien on the organ and piano.. ehh may it be too!

*You start spouting off random lines from the book and/or movie for no good reason* *Guilty... very very guilty smilies/biggrin.gif *

[Elennar Starfire]

When you read this topic and go "guilty... guilty... guilty... gonna try that...guilty..." smilies/evil.gif

[Helkahothion]

When you read this topic and go "guilty... guilty... guilty... gonna try that...guilty..."

Hahaha, I could not agree more.

[polices]

I am completle guilty of every single charge! smilies/eek.gif

[ElenCala Isil]

yes..
reads through thread muttering "Guilty, guilty, guilty, gonna try that, guilty guilty, guilty, guilty...oh, someone found out I was guilty..." 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 18, 2003: Message edited by: ElenCala Isil ]

[Tinuviel the Nightingale]

When you run up to every single twisted old tree, scream "Treebeard!" and throw your arms around it.

[Arafangwen]

*You have a manditory doctors appointment in 15 minutes and the office is an hour away and guess where you are smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

When you read this topic and go "guilty... guilty... guilty... gonna try that...guilty..."
"guilty...guilty...gonna try that...guilty...guilty...guilty...why are all you people spying on me?..." smilies/biggrin.gif

[Arafangwen]

*You have decided that "The Road Goes Ever On and On" is the only song to sing on horse back

*Movie night is now LOTR night

[Helkahothion]

why are all you people spying on me?..."

*puts goggles away*

Sorry I was just checking if yous started translating and proofreading yet. smilies/biggrin.gif

~you poke trees in the forest until they move.

~beckon a white horse to carry you to Rohan.

[Sapphire_Flame]

Helka, check your PM's!!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/wink.gif

[Arafangwen]

*You have decided that cutting your hair is a very bad idea because the elves have long hair and you want to be an elven maiden

*You have begun to walk toe to heel so as to appear more graceful

*You get so happy you almost faint when you are complemented on looking as an elven maiden

*Your LOTR obsessed friends refuse to let you talk about LOTR around them ever again

*You're convinced that you are the female reincarnation of Denethor(even though you don't belive in reincarnation)

*Every time you see someone propose on tv, you call out that the ring is not rightly theirs, and that it's your presciousssss

[Bekah]

*Every time you see someone propose on tv, you call out that the ring is not rightly theirs, and that it's your preciousssss.

Okay, that - that is scary!!! smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif

I think you are obsessed even by the standards of a self-professed obsessed LOTR freak.

That kind of rhymes... smilies/rolleyes.gif

~ Elentari II

[Rilwen Gamgee]

*Movie night is now LOTR night

Too true, too true... smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Annalaliath]

Your math instructor is named Golum and you can't contain yourself. but instead of blurting out what your thinking you write it all on your syllabus. Then you wonder why anyone would name their child that.. Then you realize he’s from southern Europe, and understand. Of course you could not understand him in class because of his heavy accent.

[ May 20, 2003: Message edited by: Annalaliath ]

[Tinuviel of Denton]

You shout "noro lim, Asfaloth, noro lim" when you're riding your bike up a tall hill (on my way to Rivendell and rehearsal for, of all things, The Hobbit!).

Speaking of the Hobbit, have I mentioned that the guy who adapted it should be shot? He made Bilbo kill Smaug, turned Elrond into a woman named Elfrida and Gandalf is and I quote "court wizard."

The directors get a leetle mad at me because I go absolutely ballistic at this one line Thorin says,
I'm going to start up a chain of sausage factories. Colonel Oakenshield Enterprises, the first with the Vurst!

I'm actually cast as Gandalf, and I fix lines to make them more like the book, I made my own staff, on which I'm going to paint Elvish runes in silver as soon as the director's friend finishes staining it.

Oh, yes, and in my computer class, for our finals, we have to do an animated movie, and guess what mine's about? LotR of course. smilies/biggrin.gif

[ May 26, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]

[Sapphire_Flame]

You know you're obsessed with LotR when, instead of signing "Have a great summer" in your friends' yearbooks, you write, "DO THE WAVE FOR BOROMIR THE DISCO KING!!!"

Quite guilty of this one, and there are now many extremely confused people wandering around my school... smilies/biggrin.gif

[Elwen Tinúviel]

Greetings, all!

[I'm quite new here so this'll be one of my first posts! smilies/biggrin.gif ]

Well here goes......

You know you're obsessed with LOTR when..
- You study and are actually becoming relatively good at Elvish (Sindarin *and* Quenya)

- You prefer saying "mae govannen" to "hi" and "namarie" to "bye"

- You think a compliment (on your dressing) is "you look very Elvish"

- You can really explain in detail to people about the histories of ME, LOTR characters and the Elvish language

- You start to infect others with your LOTR mania

- People remember you as the "Elf"

- You can write in more than one mode of Tengwar -- Quenya, Sindarin, Sindarin mode of Beleriand and English..

- You write your Elvish name on your textbooks in Tengwar

- When bored and falling asleep in class, you find scribbling in Tengwar helps keep you awake.

- You have a whole folder in your computer dedicated to Elvish and another dedicated to pics from the movies


I admit, I'm guilty of all of the above.
smilies/tongue.gif

[ June 03, 2003: Message edited by: Elwen Tinúviel ]

[Sapphire_Flame]

First thing: Welcome to the Downs, Elwen!! smilies/biggrin.gif

Second thing: I admit, I'm guilty of all of the above.
And I am guilty of most of them. smilies/wink.gif Don't worry, you're among friends.

197 DAYS UNTIL ROTK IS IN THEATERS!!!

[ElenCala Isil]

Everytime you see a spider, you tell others by shouting out "Beware! The spawn of Ungoliant is upon you!!!"

instead of signing "Have a great summer" in your friends' yearbooks, you write, "DO THE WAVE FOR BOROMIR THE DISCO KING!!!"

Actually... I didn't write do the wave for boromir the disco king in yearbooks (just at the bottom of all my tests and worksheets etc. smilies/biggrin.gif )
I did however sign "I nyëni ëa or úr! Sí man?!" smilies/evil.gif smilies/evil.gif smilies/evil.gif

[the guy who be short]

You have to do a powerpoint project on Trigonometry for your maths homework. The entire class is going to see this, and it may be posted on the net. You still sneak Gandalf and Saruman into there!

[Elvanui]

Ma Govanna, everyone!
I gave myself pointy ears with my sister's fake nail glue-she is now embarrassed of me. The hopelessly obsessed also:
*get a perm b/c of hobbits(done)
*write "Elves Rule!" in yearbooks(done)
*get weird urges to go outside and sing and dance under the stars
*get happy when people finally figure out that you are and Elf
*wear the LOTR outfit you made OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE!
*it is your heart's deepest wish be a loremaster and live in Riverdell (loremaster: almost, Rivendell, unfortunatly not)

[ElenCala Isil]

You have to do a powerpoint project on Trigonometry for your maths homework. The entire class is going to see this, and it may be posted on the net. You still sneak Gandalf and Saruman into there!
How did you know?!?!?!?!?!

[Samwise Gamgee]

Well - how about when you find yourself philosophising and writing essays "for fun" about Lotr

Also I look at Lord of the Flies and think - well - my friends could tell you what comes to my mind

[steve]

You definatly know your obsessed with LOTR when you have something to post on this topic

[Tinuviel of Denton]

I didn't have to do a powerpoint for a math class (Thank the Valar!!!) but I did make a powerpoint explaining the differences between real elves and annoying things like the Keebler "Elves" (I call them elfs, so as to not confuse the two.)

[raci]

-You save up £120 to pay for very overpriced rings from the movie in special presentation boxes then find out that the shop Forbidden Planet has run out of stock! You then proceed to throw crockery against the wall and have to give your parents all your savings to buy new plates (that last bit happened in my head so I didn't have to lose my cash)

-You think that all LotR fans should have a special country so that you will not have pesky time differences, be separated by miles and be stuck in a school that has an elf hating policy (need I go on?).

Helkahothion - my penfriend lives in Holland in a place called Den Dungen. Have you ever been to De Eftling (sorry can't remember spelling). She doesn't like LOTR though dammit!
smilies/smile.gif

[ June 05, 2003: Message edited by: raci ]

[Sapphire_Flame]

*write "Elves Rule!" in yearbooks
*or you write "Hobbits Rule!" (that was my friend's sig for yearbooks this year. I got "Do the Wave!" smilies/biggrin.gif
*wear the LOTR outfit you made OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE!
*waves hand enthusiastically in the air* Oo, oo, I do that!!!

~You're obsessed with LotR when you collect Yu-Gi-Oh!/Magic: the Gathering cards, and you have a specific pile for LotR-looking cards. (guilty; my Yugi-LotR cards get me interesting looks during Duels...,)

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

You know you're obsessed with LotR when:

-you carve "Frodo Lives!" into wet cement

-On the "Additional Comments" section on your survey you write "Fissh! Give us fissh! You keep nasty chips. Fissh!"

-At the beginning of Mississippi Burning (NEVER watch that movie EVER) you spaz because Brad Dourif is in it and you're like "OH MY GOSH WORMTONGUE!!! Mwehehehehe!"

[Tasslehoff_55]

ok maybe i don't watch the movie all thye time or calculate the Ml
But 4)You're really annoyed that the spell checker on your word processor flags "prrrrreecciiooussss" as wrong.

well, on almost all of my e-mails, to my friends, therteis a bit at the end about Z ,me, muttering something calling an exploded pen prreecciouuss(inside joke about the pen) and chanting somethin about killin filthy whiteses. my other claim to obsession is i watched the movie only once(!!!!!!) so far (TTT) and i know almost all of gollum's freaky lines to himself and near the end and stuff. that and i was so hyped iwanted to talk to my littler sister, 11, about changes to Faramir in movie and was very mad when told to shut-up. all the way home, 30 mins.
BUT I HAVE A CLAIM TO FAME PEOPLES!!!!

my best-friend married gollum, we made 2 entire stories about it and parts are incorporated into French assignments..... hahahahahaha!!!!!!!! smilies/biggrin.gif too bad i don't know any legolas fans so i could freak 'em. oh while you can't get it all in life. smilies/mad.gif

[ElenCala Isil]

You watch the MTV movie awards, telling all your friends every detail of the bond between Frodo, Sam, and Gollum, up until the second they win for best team ^.^ yes, I did just do that...hehe

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

When you actually start drooling over Brad Dourif in sunglasses in Mississippi Burning. *whistle*

[Salix]

-You actually own "Elven boots" (and people notice!)
-When you write you name in runes on a friends chalkboard the friend can tell that they are runes. (Unfortunately he thought the were 'elvish' and I was writing in the runes mostly used by dwarves. smilies/rolleyes.gif )
-You no longer need a cheat sheet to translate runes. (Working on it)
-In your spare time you translate every name, place and word you can think of into runes.
-Your little sister won't let you wear the outfit you made outside of the house. smilies/mad.gif
I nyëni ëa or úr! Sí man?!
Can I ask for a translation? Our yearbooks came yesterday. smilies/evil.gif
On the "Additional Comments" section on your survey you write "Fissh! Give us fissh! You keep nasty chips. Fissh!"
Next survey I get I'm going to try that. Or write real/fake spoilers eg. Gollum's little 'Precious' quotes. smilies/evil.gif Or Sam in the chapter 'The Choices of Master Samwise'.
smilies/evil.gif
When you read this topic and go "guilty... guilty... guilty... gonna try that...guilty...
I need to read all the way through the thread, but so far...

[Antien]

this happened two minutes ago...

I was holding the cat. Salix said
"Precious! Precious! give me the precious! If you don't give me precious She will hurt you!"

Our cat is a girl, but it still freaked me out...i was thinking of giant spiders. Mmmmm...giant spiders...

oh, and salix, a scrap of green cloth doesn't count as you making a costume, and ALMOST ALL my friends were there. not all of them are LOTR obsessed. And we went to laser tag!

Anyway, now that i might be tall enough, me and a really short friend (coughsillabubcough) are going halloweening as elves. we are already looking for costumes, but they won't be ready nearly on time...i don't know how to use a sewing machine...

You know you are obsessed when you try to set yourself on fire, then remember you forgot your large, spherecle (how do you spell that?!) stone in the house...

i havn't really read what was above, but it's past 12:30 (here), i have to go to bed. but first to the mirror of galadriel (staring into a sink full of water until i'm sure i see something).

[ June 07, 2003: Message edited by: Antien ]

[Sapphire_Flame]

At the beginning of Mississippi Burning (NEVER watch that movie EVER) you spaz because Brad Dourif is in it and you're like "OH MY GOSH WORMTONGUE!!! Mwehehehehe!"
Or if you spaz because Brad Dourif is in Alien Resurrection (good movie, all should go watch it) and you scream "OH MY GOSH, he has eyebrows!!!" smilies/eek.gif

smilies/tongue.gif smilies/wink.gif

[Elalia]

Yay!!!!!
So many posts, its not just me then!!!!!!

Love Elalia x

[Galenfea of Mirkwood.]

*get weird urges to go outside and sing and dance under the stars
*get happy when people finally figure out that you are and Elf
*wear the LOTR outfit you made OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE!
You write your Elvish name on your textbooks in Tengwar
You prefer saying "mae govannen" to "hi" and "namarie" to "bye"
You think a compliment (on your dressing) is "you look very Elvish"
You have a whole folder in your computer dedicated to Elvish and another dedicated to pics from the movies

Are you lot stalking me? smilies/wink.gif

[ElenCala Isil]

I nyëni ëa or úr! Sí man?!
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Can I ask for a translation?

The goat is on fire! Now what? smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Theoric Windcaller]

When you see your father's golden wedding ring on you run frantically out of the house yelling, "EVIL! EVIL!"

I loved #4

[*Lúcëwen*Elerína*Eruiel*]

*You can't wait to go on an all work mission trip so that you can get away from your family that won't let you talk about LOTR

*Your family doctor now responds to being called Elrond

*Everyone tells you that obsessed is not strong enough a word to describe your "relationship" with LOTR

*You've lost count of the elven dictionarys on your computer

[Annalaliath]

As you clean out your horrably dirty car, you find LOTR books galor. Your Strider figurine's sword, your Legolas action figure white knife, and frodo's box.


You buy a all the cool Elvish dresses at the second hand store. Oh wait a second you buy all the Elvish dresses at the second hand store(I am a poor student)!

Your coworkers at your new job think that you are cool, little do they know....... "What is it, My Presssoussssss? Isss it nicesss, My Precousssssss....." And you happen to work in a federal building..... No Actually I listen to the TT soundtrack as I stand at my copier.

[ June 07, 2003: Message edited by: Annalaliath ]

[the guy who be short]

Iluvatar save me! We're studying Italy and on the map I read the name of a city called Turin. You know what i thought.
Whilst pouring a glass of water from a silver coloured pitcher, you know of what I thought.
There were some kids running round on a wooden floor and it sounded like the drums in the deep to me!
And lastly... for tech your theme has got to be Under the Sea. Your told to make a spider graph of things under the sea. The first things you put are: Ulmo, Uinen, Uin, Osse!
(By the way, if you're wondering, my project is gonna have Uin the whale and the ship of the moon, with "Under the Sea" in angerthas runes on there!
Ah, me.

[Bekah]

In "The Last Templar", I found people going to Buckland...

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

You know you're obsessed when your friend starts making old man jokes about Billy Boyd and you throw them out the window.

[Sapphire_Flame]

You know you're obsessed when your friend starts making old man jokes about Billy Boyd and you throw them out the window.
*snork* smilies/biggrin.gif

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Boy, a weekend away ( smilies/frown.gif )really leaves a lot of stuff to catch up on. Good thing I read quickly.

Your best friend isn't speaking to you because she is sick of LotR. (it's not quite that bad yet, but getting scarily close.)

You're already a Wight with 151 posts, and you only found this site at the end of March.

You say Mae Govannen and Namarie or Suilad instead of Hello and Goodbye.

Your best friend, who doesn't like LotR, makes you a Galadriel cape for your birthday, because she knows that you'll love it.

You wear said cape everywhere. And I do mean everywhere.

[ June 09, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]

[Bekah]

You're already a Wight with 151 posts, and you only found this site at the end of March.

Shouldn't you be a Shade by now? I joined on the 20th of January, and by the beginning of Lent I'd already written somewhere around 350 posts.

Mind you, the beginning posts were mostly senseless and off-topic. [OT right now: If anyone finds a post like that hanging around, please alert me of the whereabouts of it so I can edit/delete it.]

Cheers,

~ Elentari II

[Sapphire_Flame]

You wear said cape everywhere. And I do mean everywhere.
Sounds like me with my Fellowship cloak. smilies/biggrin.gif My mom is getting thoroughly sick of me wearing it everywhere; I think she may be banning me from wearing it in public soon...... (cheaw, like that'll stop me! smilies/tongue.gif )
You're already a Wight with 151 posts, and you only found this site at the end of March.
Here's something I find odd, and RPG's could be responsible for this: I registered here last September, and Helka registered last October, yet he has twice as many posts as me (at least). Hm...

[ June 09, 2003: Message edited by: Sapphire_Flame ]

[Rilwen Gamgee]

~ you write the One Ring poem in Tengwar on the pants legs of all your jeans
~ you attempt to play the Shire music on the piano
By the way, does anyone know where I can buy LotR sheet music?

[Tinuviel of Denton]

I'm not a Shade because I have to sneak onto BD. Sort of. My family thinks I spend too much time here.

My best friend is speaking to me again. YAY!

Back to topic...

When someone mentions the Keebler Elfs (they are NOT Elves!!!) you go ballistic and give them a lecture on how they are different from real elves and should all be destroyed.

You get really mad when someone calls Gollum a Goblin, when everyone should know that he was a Hobbit-like creature.

You can't not go without mentioning LotR and it's driving everyone you know crazy.

You use as an element in [i]all of your online screenames.

You use examples from Tolkien when you have to come up with something deep and philosophical to tell someone.

You don't know the football/baseball/any sport-at-all scores and you are caught by surprise when you find out that your school won State Championship, yet you can tell down to the day when the RotK comes out. (when you are not sleepy, that is. smilies/wink.gif )

[Finwe]

You find that Gil-galad is becoming more of your father than your biological father is.
(I swear, it's true! He's my alter-ego Aredhel's father!)

Your mother has to refuse to drive you home until you take off your black Nazgul cloak after you come out of Driver's Ed.

You speak Quenya and Sindarin so much at home that your parents are trying to learn it just so they can speak to you again.

[Sapphire_Flame]

When someone mentions the Keebler Elfs (they are NOT Elves!!!) you go ballistic and give them a lecture on how they are different from real elves and should all be destroyed.

You don't know the football/baseball/any sport-at-all scores and you are caught by surprise when you find out that your school won State Championship, yet you can tell down to the day when the RotK comes out.

I'm so guilty of these... smilies/biggrin.gif Everytime a Keebler commercial comes on everyone in the room flees because they don't want to here me going on about how they aren't real elves. smilies/rolleyes.gif LotR-illiterates.... And I never pay any attention to the sports at my school; LotR is much more important! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

Abedithon le!

[the guy who be short]

Hmmm, this one is interesting.
We were playing tennis in PE, and I am terrible. I never hit the ball and it always goes past me. So, as the ball was coming at me, I lay down my racket, held out my hand and yelled "You cannot pass!"
The great thing was I caught the ball, so it really didn't pass!
Then, when I had to serve, I said: Now that it comes to it, I dont feel like parting with it. Its mine...etc.
Then, another time i hadta serve, I held the bal in my hand, put my hand over it, and said: the power of Isengard is at your command, Sauron, Lord of the Earth.
Then, when I hit the ball, I yelled "Die Orc!"
I really need help.

[Feared Half-Elf]

You know when you're obsessed when you braid two sections of your hair back elvish-style and wear it to school. All my friends call me elf-girl because I do it so often. there are a few more colourful names too...

When all your friends say the quote you were thinking of because they know exactly which quote you use in every situation as you say them so much.

When you try to make your own One Ring and fail miserably because yourbrother refuses to make the band, even if you pay him vast amounts of cash, so you have to resort to a shop-bought one.

When you replay the Legolas shield-surfing scene over and over again, music and actions included.(even my Legolas-loving friend is getting sick of this one)

When you refuse to take your 'elvish' bracelet off when your teacher tells you to because it's 'against school rules', TOUGH!!!

smilies/biggrin.gif

[Bekah]

I'm not a Shade because I have to sneak onto BD. Sort of. My family thinks I spend too much time here.

Join the club. You think I'm allowed on here half the time I am? smilies/wink.gif

~ Elentari II

[Sapphire_Flame]

When you refuse to take your 'elvish' bracelet off when your teacher tells you to because it's 'against school rules', TOUGH!!!
Okay, help me out here. Why on earth would wearing jewelry be against school rules? Do you go to a private school or something? smilies/confused.gif

[Feared Half-Elf]

Sort of. It's a grammar school and just about everything is against school rules. I've got a certain teaher that is just iching to tell me to undo my elvish hair every time i see her. There's 101 rules that say you can't do this or wear that, it's soooo annoying. We're very tempted to launch a protest.

Which one did I think of earlier? Oh yes.

You know you're obsessed when you start re-writing the entire TTT and Rotk in a simplified version with another main character! I haven't actually told anyone about this apart from one close friend, it's too sad!

[Sapphire_Flame]

You know you're obsessed when you start re-writing the entire TTT and Rotk in a simplified version with another main character!
Copycat. smilies/tongue.gif

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Your mother is threatening to make BD unaccessible except during the hours of six and seven AM so that you will get up in the morning. Now that is scary. Only an hour on BD a day!? Valar save me!

Instead of "what in the world" or "what on earth" you say "What in Middle-Earth"

Your sister, who spends time on BD herself, thinks that you spend too much time here, and will sit there for hours staring at you so that you go to bed at "a reasonable time" smilies/rolleyes.gif

Sadly, I am very guilty of all of the above.

[Lëowen]

You know you're obsessed with LotR when you draw a huge Tolkien symbol and the Elvish writing from the Ring on your wall.

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

You know you're obsessed when:

~On the blackboard you write "Frodo Lives!" one day and "Frodo most certainly DOES live!" the next

~All you have to do is look at your other LotR-crazed friend and start bobbing up and down, and she knows you're thinking about the Drinking Song. Seriously, we did this today!

[Arafangwen]

You know you're obsessed with LOTR when-

~ You're going on a mission trip and guesss what book was the first to go into you luggage

~ You're leaving for said mission trip VERY early in the morning and guess what you're reading VERY late into the night

~ You've had a stranger walk up to you and ask if you were a ringie only because you looked like one.... smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Annalaliath]

You name your newest zip disk Annalaliath, and write it in tingwar. YOu have named your old zip disk Lord of the Floppies, and the "brief case" that you instructor has you create for class is named "the breif case carried by the Lord of the Floppies."

All your e-mail correspondence these days is realated to LOTR in some way.

Tolkjien is the first place you go in the library or the bokstore. Even before you go look at Ansil Adems stuff.

You install Alice just to help give you parents the excuse that you are doing something differnt(even if it envolves a very twisted game....) other than LOTR or the BD.

[Dimple Took]

You know you are obsessed with LOTR when:
1. You and your best friend greet each other in Elvish.
2. You have a FOTR day calandar and you have cut out and saved all the pictures.
3. You spend your spare time watching FOTR.
4. You are printing the FOTR and TTT movie scripts off the internet.
5. You stay up late at night reading the ROTK because it's summer and you can.
6. You ARE going to see ROTK @ midnight on December 17th, and they would have to send you home tied up in a sack to stop you.
7. You are making a cloak and a t-shirt to wear to this said premiere.
8. You even think about altering your apperance LOTR-style.
9. You think in LOTR quotes.
10. You beat up Harry Potter kids. (Melkor, Morgoth, Sauron, J.K. Rowling...BLATANT PLAGARISM!!!! Grrr...)

[Feared Half-Elf]

Sapphire Flame, YOU'RE WRITING A SIMPLIFIED VERSION OF THE LAST TWO BOOKS!!!!????

You're the first person I've found. *Hands's Sapphire_Flame a inspirationary (insert item name here in the hopr it helps you!)* smilies/smile.gif

OK, yet another one, you know you're obssessed when you chase your brother madly around the garden wearing a bikini because he nicked your Lotrs book which has all three books in it. He nicked it because, and I quote him on this, 'You read it far too much and it makes you sprout all those stupid quotes that I can't understand.' smilies/mad.gif

[Finwe]

The only way that you can get your baby brother to eat is by singing The Drinking Song (Merry and Pippin's). (I swear it's true! It's the only way he eats!)

The only way you can get your baby brother to go to sleep is by singing "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" and "The Fall of Gil-galad" to him.

[barandilwen]

i know im really obsessed with lotr because i...

watch the dvd everyday...

bring atleast one of the books with me everywhere...

bring my lotr pillow everywhere [even if im just going to another room inside our house!]

look at the poster atleast once a week...

keep lotr character pics in my wallet...

get hyper active in the malls if i see any of the boardgames related to lotr...

always tell harry potter fans that the stories are for kids and is not even a tiny bit closer to the exquisiteness of tolkein's books...

i dream of myself being a member of the fellowship...

and lots and lots and lots more!

[the guy who be short]

2. You have a FOTR day calandar and you have cut out and saved all the pictures
I thought I was the only one!

*All your dreams nowadays feature Lord of the Rings characters. Or songs.

*Youve memorised many many songs from LotR, including some very long ones.

*You door has an inscription on it in Tengwar and Angerthas, declaring "The door of Apaire, King of Dwarves. Speak friend and enter. Apaire of Middle Earth drew thee signs.

I honestly dont know what the big deal is about Harry Potter. Let them like what they want, We'll love what we want.

[Annalaliath]

you and your grandmothr make deals to safegaurd each others LOTR calenders.... (no realy we don't cut them up. we keep them and my grand mother may steal the first one I got. A very dear freind gave it to me. Alas she is no longer in contact.)

YOu drule over the LOTR action figures at KB toys.

You wish to find other Goths intersted in LOTR in your state, even those who think they are....(hey in the end we are all posers and sell outs, except for LOTR[I mean Tolkien fans] fans of cours).

[Sapphire_Flame]

Instead of "what in the world" or "what on earth" you say "What in Middle-Earth"
Or "What in Mordor?" That's mine. smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/evil.gif
YOU'RE WRITING A SIMPLIFIED VERSION OF THE LAST TWO BOOKS!!!!????
Kinda. More like a really, really extensive fanfic. I'm pretty much rewriting from the beginning of Book 2 through (and past) the end. And then a sequel. I've kept it as close as possible to Tolkien's original work, so you could say I'm writing a simplified version of them. smilies/wink.gif

~You're obsessed when you are already working on your costume for the Midnight Show of RotK.

~You're obsessed when you are already working on the invitations for you party for the said show.

~You're obsessed when your nicknames on all sites (and with most of the people you know) are all LotR related.

Abedithon le! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Annalaliath]

You threaten to go to a Star Trek convention in your Galadirel costume just because.

You notice the similarities(sp?) in Star Trek Nemesis to LOTR, and it makes you laugh, although you just can't understand why they would kill off Data.

You newest freind can't understand a word you say, cause he doesn't understand a bit of Tolkien.(smile and nodd, smile and nodd)

You have come to the comclusion that you are OBSESSED with LOTR, while you are knowledgeable about Star Trek.

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

[Feared Half-Elf]

I haven't got onto the sequel yet, I'm still somewhere in TTT. I think I'm still at Helm's Deep, because it takes me so long to come up with all the complicated elvish names! (My main new character is an elf and she has several brothers who come into it alot!)

You know your obssessed when your brother refuses to use your computer because it has Lotrs wallpaer, and groans everytime you come home from shopping with a new poster!

[Finwe]

You actually start becoming an Elf! (I swear to Eru it's true! I've started sleeping only two hours a night, my eyesight has improved, I can live on bread/crackers all day long, and I'm a lot quicker)

You slip in lines from LotR into just about every sentence.

[arianrod]

Sorry if I repeat any (good Eru, we have 9 pages of this... now that speaks for itself) but here we go:

When ordering a drink or cup of ice cream, you automatically ask if it comes in pints...

The only thing that keeps you from seeing TTT until you run your family into the poor house is the fact that they took it out of theaters so soon (nnooo!! my preciousss isss lossst!!)...

You have a sign on your door that says "Speak, friend, and enter" in Elvish and English...

You get 'ideas' from reading lists like these...

You attack anyone that doesn't use both sides of the paper and scream "Treebeard would be appalled!"...

When you're mad, instead of cussing you say the One Ring poem in Black Speech (example of when to do this: during the Academy Awards)...

You throw things at the television screen if LotR doesn't win a catagory in the Academy Awards, nearly distroying the monitor when they lose Best Picture (they just better get it for RotK or you will organize a hit group "and [they] will beg for death before the end!")...

When your door is jammed and won't unlock, you bang on it with a stick and yell "Edro, Edro! Open, open!"...

You walk up to automatic doors and say "Mellon!"...

You've gotten all of your friends hooked on LotR...

You insist that you're a hobbit, and even try to grow hair on your feet and give presents away on your birthday...

You go on to online Tolkien stores daily, just to visit all the wonderful things your parents won't let you buy because you're becoming "too obsessed".

Yup, guilty of all. And proud of it!

[Annalaliath]

You put rogain on you feet

I am a nerd..... I am a nerd.

The one thing that you realize from talking to people at school is that you are no longer interested in anything else other than Alice and LOTR.

You wonder if there is such a thing as a Gothic elf.( I mean in the dress)

Your father says that you should get out of the house from time to time and do something.

You are getting carple tunnel from the long Hours on the computer, and are getting fat from the long hours of boht comoputer and reading.

your mother finds a plastic ring on the ground. You tell her to name it Precious.

Tolkien is first, then Lawhead, and brooks. Then comes Tim Burtin.

You want to be an elf, as a matter of fact it is a lifes ambition, aside from the one of being a kinder.

[Telquellewen Greenleaf]

SIGNS YOU ARE OBSESSED WITH LOTR AND ANYTHING MIDDLE EARTH


1. You have at least 300 lotr pics saved on your computer.

2. Your hair is long so that you could style it in elvish. In fact, you go to school in elvish hairdoo everyday! *mine’s gone beyond my waist and is reaching down to my butt*

3. Your uncle told you that you got your high grades “by the grace of legolas” *my uncle really told me that. I couldn’t tell if he was joking with me or trying to insult me. In my mind, i’d say it’s by the grace of eru iluvatar*

4. You stay online *almost practically burning your computer- and your eyes* at, at least 5 tolkien sites for at least 8 hours a day (that is during vacation). *in my case 2pm to 1, 2, 3 or 4 or even 5am nowadays*

5. You socialize more with other tolkien fans on the net, and socialize less in real life.

6. In a restaurant, instead of asking for a mirinda… you asked for miruvor by mistake.

7. Your bedroom wall is covered with pics and posters of lotr *on mine, more than half is legolas’. Sigh…*

8. When checking your school notebooks, subject teachers in school have noticed your numerous doodles of elves etc. They complain that they also cannot understand more than half of what you have written (especially in math) because your notes are mainly in tengwar and sometimes in angerthas.

9. When going to the library, the librarian automatically asks you if you want to borrow: “the usual”

10. You have a mountain of magazines containing anything lotr, no matter how small. *in my case, it’s an orlando bloom pile. I buy a magazine even if the only thing about him in it is just his name! I also bought one even if the only thing about him in it was a picture of his face- just as big as your fingernail, where he was only part of a quiz question.*

11. You gave yourself a legolas action figure as a birthday present.

12. Your friends (not just on the net, but even in real life) call you by your elvish name.

13. Your computer constantly plays your cd of ttt soundtrack, then tomorrow the fotr soundtrack, the following day, ttt again and then…

14. You have fully narrated, from memory, the tale of tinuviel (the silmarillion version and the book of lost tales 2 version) to your parents, asking them which version is better.

15. You greet and to talk to your friends and relatives in elvish, when they ask you what you just said, you roll your eyes on them.

16. You always try sleeping like the elves do- hands folded upon the breast…

17. You write and email your friends and relatives in elvish too. (they don’t understand it but it’s the thought that counts)

18. You always use elf runes and dwarf runes when you type. Those are your favorite fonts.

19. You have plenty of dreams about lotr (most of them are weird though)

20. You have memorized the movie, the soundtrack, the dialogues, the prologue, everything! (due to watching it everyday)

21. You can talk about anything tolkien or middle earth for hours… even days! You have done this!

22. You have submitted a writeup in english class in elvish translation *which garnered me extra points, hahaha*

23. You look into the mirror expecting to see: “a great eye, lidless, wreathed in flame…”

24. On the school bus, you always sing: “the road goes ever on and on. Down from the door where…”

25. More than once, you used tengwar to write your name in a quiz. (your teacher knows who you are anyway) *on the third time, i got scolded*

26. In a quarterly examination, you used tolkien to represent english literature. Then, you also used tolkien in an essay in another major examination in comparison to other literary works such as beowulf, knights of the round table, romeo and juliet, etc. Etc. *i’m in the philippines, but we do have lessons like that*

27. You always win during costume parties. You are the elf. You even defy the theme- if there is a theme (like haloween or something,) they all expect you'd do that anyway! *but one time, i went as yavanna kementari. With the help of two of my close friends, we made a costume out of a net, a silky greenish-gray fabric, leaves and stuff… but my costume still turned out to be the best. There was this small vine with leaves that entwined with the braid in my hair perfectly, but it was kinda itchy*

28. You have seen fotr (the movie) for more than a hundred times, (since the two towers is not out on stores yet, but you have seen it in theatres for 5 times anyway)

29. You watch other movies (old or new) that contain lotr actors in them. *have you watched the movie hamlet with ian holm in it?*

30. The poems about elves, middle earth, and tolkien that you submitted as a class requirement in english, have been published in the school paper.


sad to say that my parents still have'nt allowed me to change my name legally...

*gee, i’ll probably remember some more later…*

[Telquellewen Greenleaf]

ohh! i forgot... your friends tell you that you sleeptalk in elvish *this is true*

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Welcome to the Downs, LegolasLover. Post wisely. (Don't follow my example, in other words. smilies/wink.gif)

When you see a movie that is definately going to give you nightmares due to your already overactive imagination, your instant solution is to go to this site and read these topics. I actually did this tonight. I can't quite remember what it was that so scared me now.

Your younger sister (Who the heck is that? is her nick here, BTW) who doesn't really care for f*ntasy *nd prefers horror and monster stories, finally registers on BD so she can figure out what you're so excited about.

You call you baby sister, at varying moments, "Elfie," and a bunch of other Tolkien-related names (none of which can I remember at this moment due to lack of sleep).

When you watch Matrix Reloaded, the first thing you say to your sister is "Here comes Agent Elrond."

You randomly shout "Do the wave for Boromir the Disco King" and freak out passersby.

Edit: Excuse the odd spelling, something is wrong with my computer.

[ June 15, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]

[the guy who be short]

You cut up some of your mums plastic flowers' stems and sharpen the ends. You then use these as arrows. You have also made a bow from rulers, sellotape and an elastic band.
You also use your 18inch ruler as a sword. (So helpful that it has a metal edge... smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/evil.gif )
On top of that, you use a large stick as a staff. And a stick with a pine cone on the end as a mace (well, until you cut off the stem to make another arrow). Ok, this is beginning to scare even me now.
Your friend only has to show you his one ring to get you to do what he wants. Because we must obey the preciousss.

Finwe, you are the only person here who has worried me so far. smilies/smile.gif smilies/wink.gif smilies/tongue.gif

[Annalaliath]

When your mother gets you angery you put on loud music and read LOTR. No matter where you open it to, you just read.

ypu dream about your Tolkien club posters.(they actually exist, here (http://www.angelfire.com/freak/elffreak/wisecounsi.html),.....

[Arestevana]

YOU KNOW YOU"RE OBSESSED WHEN...

You read these posts and find out most of them apply to you.. smilies/tongue.gif

You criticize the movies constantly, saying they are an insult to Tolkien's writing, but have them memorized anyway.

You hold secret councils with your friends.

You quote the appropriate passages from Moria when going or condsidering going through a tunnel, over a bridge, over a mountain, or through severe weather (preferably snow).

You find yourself answereing the question 'what's today's date?' in S.R. and using the hobbit's month names.

You find yourself becoming overly possessive of random objects, calling them mathoms and hoarding them.

You become overly possessive of a single random object, calling it your precioussss, speaking only to it, taking it everywhere with you, and quoting LotR at anyone who attepts to pry it from you.

[the guy who be short]

a stick with a pine cone on the end as a mace
The pine cone is now severely broken as a result of you using your "Sauron mace" to whack elves and men (the door and the wall).
I really scare myself.

[Finwe]

You nearly kill the gardener as a result of practicing archery in your backyard. (Poor guy!)

You climb up onto your roof during a garden party that your parents had for their friends, and started screeching "Precioussss...My Precioussss..." over and over again.

You do almost all the things that have been mentioned on this list.

You are starting to resemble a Hobbit since all you do is sit in front of the computer, read, watch LotR, and eat lembas bread.

You try to carve the tip of your ear into a point and give yourself a skin infection. (I realized that Swiss Army Knives are NOT good for self-mutilation! It took a month to heal!)

Try to sneak in a photograph of the Professor in your little shrine thingie on stage when you do your Indian Classical Dance debut. (I tried! I honestly tried!)

Claim that you are no longer Hindu, you are Valarin and your parents can no longer make you go to temples.

Have a shrine to all your action figurines in your room, and light candles on all the anniversaries of special days in the Tale of Years.

Oh dear, I'm starting to scare myself.

[Sapphire_Flame]

Oh dear, I'm starting to scare myself.
Welcome to the club. smilies/wink.gif
5. You socialize more with other tolkien fans on the net, and socialize less in real life.

28. You have seen fotr (the movie) for more than a hundred times, (since the two towers is not out on stores yet, but you have seen it in theatres for 5 times anyway)

Above and beyond guilty of that first one; except when I can find someone at school who's just as obsessed as me.... only happened once, kinda sad, really....

Also guilty of the second one, and I can improve on it....

~You are obsessed when you go to see Two Towers 5 times in the first two weeks after it came out. *I can even count off mine: opening day, the next Saturday, the next Monday, then Friday, and Saturday.* smilies/biggrin.gif Go me!

Hey! Happy 700th Post to me!!!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[ June 16, 2003: Message edited by: Sapphire_Flame ]

[Finwe]

You start singing "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" in the middle of the theater because you just met a Tolkien Scholar from Houston who also came to see TTT.

[the guy who be short]

You shoot your friends with your home made bow. smilies/smile.gif I hope they dont mind pain. smilies/rolleyes.gif
Finwe, how can you be turning into an elf and a hobbit? smilies/cool.gif
(havent actually done this one): In football, you purposefully kick the ball about ten metres wide of your friend just to provoke the reply: "you cannot pass"

[Sapphire_Flame]

In football, you purposefully kick the ball about ten metres wide of your friend just to provoke the reply: "you cannot pass"
*snork* smilies/biggrin.gif

[Vuelve]

"The list goes ever on and on,
Down from the topic where it began.
Now many pages the list has formed,
Post on it the obsessed-ones can." smilies/wink.gif

~You go to the craft section of Walmart and walk up and down the fake flower isle for hours.When asked what you are doing you tell people you are "Wondering the paths of Mirkwood", just like Bilbo. smilies/eek.gif

EDIT~You have officially proclaimed December, "Ringer Month", and have already started making preperations for the "festivities".

[ June 16, 2003: Message edited by: Vuelve ]

[Finwe]

Well, when I meant hobbit, I meant that I'm starting to get slightly on the pudgy side unless I start exercising. Pretty much all I do is sit in front of the computer, watch LotR or LotR-related things, and read Tolkien-related books.

As for the Elf part, it's in one of the earlier posts, use the nifty thing called a scroll bar on the side of the page.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

I am now officially scared.

A Swiss army knife for elven ears? That's just...frightening. (of course, who am I to talk? As soon as I have the money, I'm going to have Elven ears by way of plastic surgery.)

Your best friend has you to even mention LotR, ever. She is sick and tired of "My preciousss" and "You cannot pass!" What's scary is...so am I. (must read the Silm again to get more obscure quotes.)

[Annalaliath]

You absolutly have to buy the reservation of the TTT at Hastings, just because.

You are disapointed to see the Extended version in the Used DVD section of Hastings.

You are now obsessed with both LOTR and Alcie in Wonderland.

[Sapphire_Flame]

As soon as I have the money, I'm going to have Elven ears by way of plastic surgery.
Right on, Tinuviel! Those are my plans too! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Annalaliath]

Plasic Surgery! Dude. I guess I am lame, i was thinking more alomg the lines of the costume and theatre shop down the road. Then I can just buy prosthetics.

You decided to go to school in an Elf costume, just because you are borde(SP).

Not to mention you want of contacts and dental surgury(not for the crooked teeth, but to keep them from getting worse. Not to mention to lessen pain). Although you are thinking of just being of the race of man and pretending to be the decendant of Aragorn and Arwen.......

Youre obsessed grandmother keeps buying you elven and hobbit cloths, although she buys them in the wrong colors. I hate sparly stuff..... Although the last dress she baught was the right color,black, it me fits in the hips and is too big in the top!!!! I am turning into a Hobbit!!! AAAAHHHHHHH! I guess it can't be all that bad. I mean I am getting fat.

You are concidering cheacking out a copy of the Hobbit on tape and dubing a tape for your self at work....

[TolkienFreak14]

I always scare myself. And don't get plastic surgery, because it is dangerous, and if you died nobody would beable to see your elven ears....or you could do it and live and be a freak forever. Oh yeah! how you know you are obessed and crazy things I do.

1. You have a replica of most all the swords, rings, armour,bows, ect. from the books. (i brought my sword to school, i was suspended for a week)

2. people fear when they go even near you that they are going to have to listen you you ramble on about tolkien and books and ect.

3. You get very mad when people don't celebrate Middle Earth's holidays.

4. You go by the Shire's calender.

5. Everyghing you do is tolkien related and sometimes people just want to KILL you.

6. Your public library is always low on Tolkien books.

7. people now have a fear of crows, or at least a fear of you shouting "Crebain (or however you spell it) from Dundland!"

8. If an average non freaky non tolkien person read this (the whole topic) they would think everybody wrote this about you.


Okay, this is all i can think of, and i will post if i think of more. I know i can't spell, this stuff may suck, but it is all stuff i do so if you say this sucks i suck, if you make any comment about this paragraph at the end i will be mad..... *keeps talking*

[Salix]

When your playing cards with your family, and somehow you manage to misquote two movies at onece, and say (in Gollum's voice) "I'll get you my precioussss, and your little Ring too!"

[Annalaliath]

or, " Thief Baggins! we hates it forever, gllum" and " we wants it, my Precious, we needs it my Precious." All in the wicked witch of the West voice(belive me it is an inherated trait in my family).

[Finwe]

I have an idea! Why don't we all get together, kidnap a few plastic surgeons, and all get pointy ears?!?!?! That would be the perfect solution to all our problems.

Now, the only thing left is to get my hands on some height-increasing pills!

[the guy who be short]

Now, the only thing left is to get my hands on some height-increasing pills!

Dont worry Finwe! We Indians are generally short. In fact, we could be hobbits together!
I already have a bow (albeit a rubbish homemade one) all I need now is green or yellow clothing. Oh, and maybe a larger appetite.
This isnt a sign of LotR obsession, but its a sign of madness. Ive started talking to my arrows.
All fear the short Indian hobbits!

[Minyataurien]

You paint your closet door with glow-in-the dark paint with the likeness of the doors of Moria and claim it can only be opened in the moonlight...
You eat six meals a day...
You celebrate on March 25 because it is the downfall of Sauron...
You hold two ignorant birds in your hand and you shout, "Fly you fools!"...
You critize your dog by saying, "If only Huan could see you."...
Every time someone says Luther High School you think they are saying Luthien High School...

[Tinuviel of Denton]

This isnt a sign of LotR obsession, but its a sign of madness. Ive started talking to my arrows.


Started? I never stopped (talking to inanimate objects, I don't have arrows smilies/frown.gif )

Anyway...

When someone asks you to share your ice cream, you hiss "It's miiine. My preciousss..."

Ditto for cookies, candy, etc.

You pick up random, vaguely ring-shaped objects and start talking to them, calling them "Preciousss" (mustn't forget the "sss" part of that word)

When someone doesn't get your random Gollum quotes, you throw a fit and explain the whole saga from the Ainulindale to RotK. (Yes, I have done that. The poor guy was quite confused. smilies/evil.gif )

[Bekah]

quote:
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2. You have a FOTR day calandar and you have cut out and saved all the pictures
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I thought I was the only one!

Not by any means. I go pyscho if someone else touches my calender and I keep all the pictures in a little clear sheet. Eventually I'm going to scan most of them and do other things with my precious pictures.

There was something else someone said that made me want to shout "Comrade", but I've forgotten it.

I am definitely insane.

~ Elentari II

[Annalaliath]

Some kids at the book store are making fun of elves so you say Toroiel and walk off laughing as they look on perpelxed.

you nearly buy the twenty dollar FOTR game but decide that it can wait till after the oil change and insurance. But yopu vow that it will realy be after helping the BD but that is when I get paid.

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

couldn't read all these posts through so don't know if this is allready said:i do my notes using tengwar at school

[the guy who be short]

Started? I never stopped (talking to inanimate objects, I don't have arrows )
I talk to inanimate objects all the time. They listwen much better than people. And I also have no arrows. Read my earlier posts on page nine to find out about their creation!

[Maikadurwen]

you know your obseesed when you watch the movie and your saying the lines before frodo or anybody says them

[the guy who be short]

hello, Maikadurwen, welcome to the downs. Enjoy being dead smilies/smile.gif
You know your obsessed when writing that no longer sems strange to you.

[Maikadurwen]

you know your obsessed when you start thinking biscuts are lembas

your and your fellow lotr friends are pretending to kill orcs with popsicle sticks

when you wear a the one ring thats tied to the frodo and sam bookmark everywhere

when somebody mispronounces a word off the lotr books or movies you tell them off in quenya and them politley correct them

when you wont let anyone one on the computer because your too busy posting stuff on the downs
smilies/biggrin.gif ( ive done all of these guilty truly guilty)

[Maikadurwen]

mea govannen

[Maikadurwen]

you know your obsessed when accidentlly shoot your other lotr best friend with your homemade bow and arrows

when you are muttering the lines off the movies in your sleep

when you put clear rubber band s at the top of your ears to make them pointy smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/smile.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Lady_Galadriel]

when you put clear rubber band s at the top of your ears to make them pointy smilies/eek.gif

I actually did this, now my ears hurt!!!! smilies/eek.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/smile.gif smilies/frown.gif

Or when you refuse to take off your "one ring" neclace when people ask you to.

or when the password for your computer is mellon smilies/biggrin.gif

[Mippin]

Or when you refuse to take off your "one ring" neclace when people ask you to.
Yes, exactly... because if we takes it off.... they will steal our preciousss!!!!!

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

You know you're obsessed with LotR when you emit a Nazgul screech after someone says something bad about LotR.

[Meela]

You pretend/believe you are actually married to a character.

I am married to Denethor, obviously, and I actually do tell people this. Our second child and first daughter was born just a couple of weeks back.

[Maikadurwen]

you know your obsessed when you go explore the woods behind your house thinking its mirkwood

[Mariska Greenleaf]

you are truly obsessed with LOTR when:

-you're wondering why your teacher doesn't turn to stone when the sun rises.

-At a party you start dancing like Frodo at Bilbo's birthday party.

-You get plastic surgery to have pointy ears.

sorry if any of these were allready done...
smilies/cool.gif

[Feared Half-Elf]

elen sila lumen omentilvo, Maikadurwen, and welcome to the downs!

Yet another lame one!

You know your obssessed when you keep muttering songs in elvish, with the melodys that you made up! (I've had some very strange looks from strangers in the street. Who blames them?)

When you write elvish insults to your teacher on the board in the mornng!

[Feared Half-Elf]

Hey, I though i was the only one! I'm 'married' to Legolas, if you haven't guessed by now.

[Maikadurwen]

ME TO IM "MARRIED" TO FRODO

[Duncariel]

Or when someone mentions Santa's Elves...

THEY'RE GNOMES, DANG IT!

[Lindril Arvilya]

Our second child and first daughter was born just a couple of weeks back.

Oh Meela, congratulations!


You know you're obsessed with LotR when.... you compliment other people on their obsessions

[Maikadurwen]

you know your obssesed when you spend as much time as i do on this website

when you watch tv instead of whatever your watching you start seeing frodo and the the other members of the fellowship on the screen

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[Mippin]

Or when someone mentions Santa's Elves...
THEY'RE GNOMES, DANG IT!


PRECISELY!!! smilies/tongue.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

You'll watch any movie that has any actor from lotr, even if it's easterling # 15 or so, and make connections to lotr...

you are completely convinced that absolutely everything is related to LoTR...with good reason-it is!

[maikafanawen]

You're obsessed (with the movie) when you twist every other movie you watch by giving the characters nicknames from LOTR. Like in Finding Nemo when Nemo is about to be captured and he screams you scream "NAZGUL!!" when the diver pops up! Heh, heh, no?

-Maikafanawen

[Lady_Galadriel]

You know your obsessed when your boyfriend asks you to tell him something nice, and in your sweetest voice, you reply in elvish...

[Dimple Took]

You know you are obsessed with LOTR when... you get in chat fights with Harry Potter fans.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

To get rid of an annoying five-year-old, you:

Imitate Gollum, asking, "Does it have it? Where is it? We wantsss it! Give it to usss! Give usss our Preciousssss!" while frisking him.

Start shouting at him in Elvish, calling him orc, troll, and a few other things best left unnamed.

Freak him out with your monologue about how he distinctly resembles Gollum and should watch out for short, fat, fifty-year-olds with hairy feet and magic rings.

Poor child...

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Or when someone mentions Santa's Elves...
THEY'RE GNOMES, DANG IT!



I'll go you one better. I give them a whole lecture on the difference between "Elves" and "elfs." You see, Elves are noble, wise, fair, tall, and they do not make toys or cookies. They do not dress like clowns, and they are immortal. Elves often have a sort of magic (though not precisely magic persay in Tolkien), they do not act like fools, and they are REAL!!! Elfs, on the other hand, are creatures with no fashion sense whatsoever, they often do make toys or cookies, i.e. Santa's elfs or the Keebler elfs, and, frankly, they do not exist. They are but figments of some poor deranged soul's imagination.

[Mippin]

ok Tinuviel.. I do that too... but I also make refrences to gnomes... heh smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

You know you're obssessed when you think it would be cool if you had hairy feet/ is cool that you do (I know people whose feet have hair on them). smilies/biggrin.gif

...when you get into deep philosophical discussions about the relationship between the works of Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.

...when you marvel at how HP fans can live with themselves.

...when you have zoned out, then you randomly hear something LOTR-related, come back down to earth, and look around excitedly, hoping to join in a Tolkien discussion, only to find out that whatever you heard had nothing to do with Tolkien at all (wow, that was a long run-on sentence).

...when your typing skills are derived mainly from multiple posts here at the Downs.

...when you draw diagrams of human ears in relation to elf ears and hobbit ears (in correct proportion and life-size, no less).

...when you spend your free time trying to furhter solidify your precious images of all the characters that you had before the movies came out.

...when in English/lit. class you're supposed to connect something you just read to previous reading, and all that comes to mind is Tolkien.

...when most to all of your private jokes have something to do with Tolkien.

...when you could hug a hobbit.

Wow! That was a long list!
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But believe me, I have done every single thing on this list (some of them many times).
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[the guy who be short]

you know your obsessed when accidentlly shoot your other lotr best friend with your homemade bow and arrows
Yes... accidentally. Well, he did say I could shoot him!

EDIT: This isnt on-topic enough for a new post, but I finally found out how to shoot really far with my bow! smilies/biggrin.gif The price? I lost my best arrow. smilies/frown.gif To make it worse I only had 6 in the first place.

People you dont know very well come and ask you questions about how stuff works in LotR (such as Gandalf dying). Also, you inspire 3 people to learn dwarf runes, and are getting more. And random people come up to you and ask if you can write in runes, and when you reply yes they go off mumbling about freaks. smilies/biggrin.gif

Its scary cos basically everything Ive posted is true, and Ive actually done it. My friend asked how many of the things on the list I had done, and now Im gonna give her a long lecture smilies/biggrin.gif

[ June 21, 2003: Message edited by: the guy who be short ]

[Feared Half-Elf]

Since when did I shoot anyone accidently? It's always on purpose!

You know your obssessed because when your freak of a younger brother watches HP of DVD, you run away screaming and refuse to come out of the garden shed until he finishes!

[Tinuviel of Denton]

...when you have zoned out, then you randomly hear something LOTR-related, come back down to earth, and look around excitedly, hoping to join in a Tolkien discussion, only to find out that whatever you heard had nothing to do with Tolkien at all (wow, that was a long run-on sentence).

I swear, you are stalking me. I do that, especially when my mother complains about my spending time here.

(And if you think that was a long run-on sentence, check out the last page of the Round-About game. Now those are long.)

[Maikadurwen]

youare obsessed when you start eating 6 meals a day like the hobbits

when you greatly desire pointed ears

when you put rogaine on your feet to make them hairy as like hobbits as well

i only do the 2nd one smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/confused.gif

[Vuelve]

~You have started developing bags under your eyes that strongly resemble Gandalf's because you watch FOTR and post on the Downs instead of sleeping like you should. smilies/redface.gif

~Peace~Love~&~Rings~

[vey]

all of these were truly funny smilies/biggrin.gif

[vey]

All of these were truly hillarious smilies/biggrin.gif

[vey]

you know your obbsessed if.....
~your WORST ENEMY makes a comment of your obbsession being bad and you scream"I ALWAYS KNEW THAT YOU WERE A URU-KAI!"
~IF YOUR PARENTS ACT ANNOYED WHEN YOU TELL STRANGERS THAT"I WILL GIVE YOU THE 1 RING IF YOU ASK IT OF ME"(HOLDING UP A RING YOU GOT OFF A BOOK MARK)THEN AS THEY REACH OUT YOU SAY"YOUR SO NOT READY FOR THE BURDEN!" AND CALMLY WALKOFF MUMBLING"I WISH THE RING HAD NEVER COME TO ME" smilies/rolleyes.gif

[vey]

1.WHEN ON HALLOWEEN YOU CONSTANTLY SCREAM AT YOUR PARENTS"WE MUST GET OFF THE ROAD!"
2.YOUR IN DETENTION AND TELL YOUR BUDDIES AS THE PRINCIPAL WALKS IN"THEY HAVE A CAVE TROLL!"
3.IF YOUR PARENTS HAVE TO TAKE YOU TO A SHRINK BECAUSE,YOU WOULD OUT OF THE BLUE GET IN A CAR(YOUR PARENTS)AND SHOUT"NOROMIE ASFOLATH"AND YOUR PARENTS ARE MISTAKIN FOR RINGRAITHS AS YOU SCREAM"IF YOU WANT ME COME AND CLAIM ME!" smilies/biggrin.gif

[The Barrow-Wight]

And with that very loud trio of posts I declare this topic closed.

You are all obsessed!!!

[Artalwen]

You're obsessed when...

...you've read the book so much that you've accidently begun memorizing it, and can rattle off a few chapters.

...you think to yourself "I bet I can find the real middle earth"...and wish you could find it so you could live there.

Lol, I'm guilty of the ears thing(afore mentioned), and my second one. smilies/smile.gif

[ElenCala Isil]

you know so much about all the actors that people start believing you know them personally

[Lëowen]

~You've memorized at least 14 poems/songs from the books (Not just LotR)

~When at horse-back riding you yell 'Noro lim, Asfaloth, noro lim!' at your horse. (It works, too)

~While on a cruise, you recite Legolas' 'Sea poem' from RotK for no apparent reason.

~While on that same cruise, you discover that the Captain's name is Rocco so you call him 'Captain Horse' for the rest of the cruise. (Rocco means horse in Quenya)

[Galenfea of Mirkwood.]

You know you're obbsessed when:

Some girl you've never seen before taps you on the shoulder and asks if it's true that you can speak elvish (I replied with 'shut up' in Sindarin. She was very impressed, especially when I told her that I'd said 'yes, my lady' smilies/evil.gif)

You go through your sister's HP books, crossing out the word 'elf' wherever it is misused and repacing it with 'pixie' (she caught me at it and tried to make my parents make me rub it out. smilies/wink.gif)

You converted your cousin from HP to LotR. (I think she was just so sick of not knowing what I was talking about)

You pose in front of mirrors with a bow.

[vey]

WHEN YOU,CLAIM THAT YOUR BIOLOGICAL PARENTS
ARE ELVES
WHEN YOU CONSTANTLY REPEAT THE LOTR LINES ALLOWED IN PUBLIC.
GUILTY,GUILTY,GUILTY smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/wink.gif smilies/tongue.gif

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Vey, is your caps lock key jammed?

~Menelien

[vey]

It was yesterday. smilies/frown.gif

[Yavanna228]

Thank you, vey, for not writing in capitals anymore. See, you do get the hang of things after awhile, right? smilies/smile.gif Keep up the good work and improvement.
Peace

[Maikadurwen]

her caps lock key was jammed i called and asked her

[peonydeepdelver]

when you put clear rubber band s at the top of your ears to make them pointy

Sorry since this is off-topic, but I was watching this humane society cop show on Animal Planet (which is like my fave channel smilies/tongue.gif ) and they took in a Rottweiler that hadn't had a docked (shortened) tail, and the previous owner had tried to dock it him/herself improperly by putting a tight elastic around its tail smilies/frown.gif Fortunately the dog didn't need its tail amputated.

Yeah, that was very off-topic. Oh well. To make up for it, here's some obsessive stuff I do.
I have both soundtracks and on the FOTR one I know what music goes with every part (like "oh, this music goes with the part when they go through the Argonath), etc.
I have both soundtracks memorized.
If my dad calls me I say "What orders from Mordor, my lord, what does the Eye commmand?"
I constantly say "Fool of a Took" when my brother does something stupid.
I bought the Merry and Pippin action figures (with sword winging action! smilies/biggrin.gif ) What can I say, they were so cute in plastic....

[ June 23, 2003: Message edited by: peonydeepdelver ]

[Duncariel]

When you actually look plastic surgery for the ears up on the internet. (Dang, that's expensive)

I'll go you one better. I give them a whole lecture on the difference between "Elves" and "elfs."

I have actually done this, but I almost got detention 'cause I did it to my teacher. Bad idea.

[ June 23, 2003: Message edited by: Duncariel ]

[ June 25, 2003: Message edited by: Duncariel ]

[Lady_Galadriel]

You know your obsessed when instead of keeping a diary or journal, you use that expensive journal book you bought to store all the poems, songs, and versus by Tolkien

[the guy who be short]

You are all obsessed!!!

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The Barrow-Wight



And you arent, mister I-just-decided-to-start-up-a-great-and-famous-site-on-the-net-about-Tolkien-cos-Im-not-obsessed-with-him? smilies/tongue.gif

A general notice to everybody - A lot of what you say can be posted on the quotes thread (forgotten the exact name smilies/wink.gif ) So that will hopefully turn this thread into a more action thread, as in we write about things we do rather than say. I find them a whole lot more interesting by the way.

[Sapphire_Flame]

I bought the Merry and Pippin action figures (with sword winging action! smilies/biggrin.gif )
Right on!!! I've got those too; my friend gave them to me for my birthday last year.

~All your friends know exactly what to get you for birthday/Christmas/etc.

~Your parents never ask your opinion on what movie to go see.

**Oh, and there are some people who are LotR fans and HP fans, so watch it or me and Helka will come and get you. smilies/evil.gif **

[Elvanui]

FYI: it's easier to get pointy ears by using cosmetic glue; like the kind used for fake fingernails and eyelashes. It looks fairly good and is relatively painless, at least compared to rubber bands.

*I'm not obsessed with LOTR..I'm obsessed with fantasy in general!*

I too, get annoyed when Santa's "elves" are mentioned...they are imps or something

I make references to LOTR all the time. ie I'll see a bridge and want to do the Khazad Dum scene (of course, my non-LOTR friends sometimes don't get it)

getting in long conversations about why swords are soooo much better than guns

Make honest attempts to dress and act Elvish(like buying shirts with flowing sleeves or a general ethereal feel). Ask the person you are shopping with if you look like an elf.

-Elvanui

PS...what is wrong with liking other books (ie Harry Potter)...just because it isn't Tolkien doesn't mean it can't be entertaining.

[Duncariel]

getting in long conversations about why swords are soooo much better than guns

This is probably the subject that I get into the most argument with other people about. I am a firm believer that we should take all of our guns and weapons of mass destruction out onto an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and blow them all up. Conventional warfare and working plumbing all the way! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Finwe]

- you beg your mom to put you in archery lessons so that you can surf down stairs on top of a metal shield, while shooting arrows like Legolas (guilty!)

- you persuade your also LotR-obsessed friend to train her horses with Elvish commands

- let out a Nazgul screech whenever someone insults LotR or Tolkien

- you answer in fluent Sindarin when someone asks you the way to a classroom at school

- you randomly speak in Sindarin to your friends and in the hallways to anyone who'll listen

- you create entire speeches in Quenya and Sindarin for your speech class, when the assignment is to create a speech in another language (except English!)

[Tinuviel of Denton]

what is wrong with liking other books (ie Harry Potter)

Absolutely nothing. Unless said book is THE STUPID AND MORONIC HARRY POTTER!!!

Sorry about that. Had to get the shout out of my system.

Anyway...

It has gotten to the point that my sibs can finish the LotR quotes that I start. (As one of them is only three, that can get rather amusing)

I spend the day on the Barrowdowns and when my sisters say, "Let's go swimming!" I actually stay home, which is very strange as I think I should have been born a mermaid or an elf. One or the other.

[Galenfea of Mirkwood.]

What's wrong with HP?
(apart, obviously, from the house-goblins) smilies/confused.gif smilies/wink.gif

[Meela]

Why do people have to get so cranky about house elves? There is more than one type of elf.

And anyone who answers with "Yes, Teleri, Noldorin, etc." is dead smilies/smile.gif

[ June 25, 2003: Message edited by: Meela ]

[Sapphire_Flame]

Right on, Meela. smilies/wink.gif

You're obsessed when you find it hard to think of a topic of discussion with your friends that doesn't involve LotR in any way, shape, or form.

This also applies if you can take any other thing that your friends are talking about and connect it to LotR in some way.

[Arwen Melian]

I know this is a bit off topic guys but let me give you some advice on how to deal with those people who can't disdinguish between "elven" and "elfin." Do what I do. Whenever people say that elves are short ...I say that during the middle ages , when Christianity took over...the christians didnt want anything to come jeopardize the authority of God. THerefore they had people start believing that elves were short and less powerful. Because ,previously Norse and Celtic people believed they were tall and beautiful. I cant stress this enough you people who don't know the difference( not any barrowdowners of course). And believe me ....whta I sya is true...it's in books.

[Arwen Melian]

Sorry for the typos and grammer....I'm doing ten things at once. smilies/smile.gif

[Sillabub]

-you run around screaming 'AI! AI! A BALROG HAS COME!!!

-You suddenly notice during the third watching of FOTR that Merry has a mole near his chin...(NO, I WAS NOT STARING AT MERRY!)

-You declare yourself an official Tolkeinite and study for your degree in tolkeinology

-LOTR always somehow works it's way into the conversation...

yeah, so that's it for now....(MUAHAHAHAHAAA!)

[barandilwen]

i know ive posted a reply in this forum but it seems that i cant find it anymore... smilies/mad.gif smilies/frown.gif

[Feared Half-Elf]

My college doesn't do Tolkienology, i must complain some day soon... smilies/wink.gif

[ June 26, 2003: Message edited by: Feared Half-Elf ]

[Maikadurwen]

you learn to speak quenya and sindarin

[Duncariel]

I got in another Harry Potter elf fight the other day. Man, Potter fans drive me crazy. No offense, just the ones that I happen to know, the crazed kind that run around hurling spells that don't work at people who don't care.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

What's wrong with HP?

Besides the fact that Harry is the stupidest person on the face of the planet, Rowling can't write and that IS NOT MAGIC. Nothing.

Anyway...Can we please stop mentioning those books?

You know you're obsessed with LotR when you can relate everything in your daily life to it.

Your best friend makes costumes. When you help her make a suit of sci-fi armor, you say, "Let's make some for me." The design comes out looking like a cross between Haradrim and Elves. Very cool, by the way.

When annoying guys ask your name, you respond with either Tinuviel or Luthien. And tell them that you are close to 5000 years old. (At the moment, I can't seem to reckon out how old she would be were she still alive and in this world.)

[Finwe]

- You tell annoying guys that your father is a 6'4" Elf who kills half the population of cities for fun.

- You claim that your ancestors were High Kings and demand that anyone who is your subordinate call you "First Ruling Queen." (Hey, I get a strange kick out of it!)

- It gets bitterly cold, and you start trying to herd random groups of students across stretches of sidewalk, yelling "If Fingolfin could do it, I can too!"

[arianrod]

I went to a concert last Friday and bought one of those yellow glow sticks and held it up in front of me while saying "Aiya Eärendil Elenion Ancalima!" You have to be obsessed to see the Phial of Eärendil in a neon glow stick...

[Maikadurwen]

your obssesed when you pretend to have point ears and hairy feet
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[Sauron_the_Abhorred]

I like tolkiens books more than n-e-thing, but i do KINDa like harry.p, but the darn fans of hp drive me crazy.....they run around doing the spells on each other, its so stupid....the bad thing is, every single person i meet says i look exactly like harry potter.... smilies/mad.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/mad.gif smilies/redface.gif

[Duncariel]

the bad thing is, every single person i meet says i look exactly like harry potter....

Priceless.

Meela, I don't have a problem with HP. In fact, I have more Harry Potter fan friends than LotR, so I have a few good reasons to be annoyed with it. Especially when they get the spells wrong.

But Tolkien's still better. smilies/evil.gif

[Meela]

I'm really sorry. I'm deleting the post.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

You have to be obsessed to see the Phial of Eärendil in a neon glow stick...

Don't you mean the Phial of Galadriel? smilies/wink.gif

I know what you mean there. When a sink full of dirty dishes and soap starts to resemble Galadriel's mirror, you have got problems...

When you pitch a fit because your mother will not let you wear your Elven cape to your younger sibs VBS family night because your other younger sis scared some parents with Nazgul cape. *grumbles something about small-minded s*

[Lyta_Underhill]

- It gets bitterly cold, and you start trying to herd random groups of students across stretches of sidewalk, yelling "If Fingolfin could do it, I can too!"
BWAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!
You know you're obsessed when you find this funny and everyone around you stares and asks, "Who's been golfing?"

Actually, the worst obsession offense I have committed is my insistence that I HAVE seen an Ent, and I am perpetually searching for them in the woods around my home! (I've said this since 1998, actually, and I DID see an Ent! Really!)

Cheers,
Lyta

[Aredhel Idril Telcontar]

Mwahahahahaha!!! These are so great!! smilies/biggrin.gif!!. Ok, I'll give it a try...

-When you believe you are Feanor/Maedhros/Maeglin etc. come back *twiddles her thumbs and starts humming innocently*

-When you dress up as Legolas for Halloween. Including a plastic bow and suctioncup arrows. And wig. *Been there, done that*

-When you sing In Dwimordene, in Lorien, seldom have walked the feet of Men etc.*Been there, doing that now*

Ok, don't have more now, have to go do some more weirdness smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Duncariel]

My three friends and I were gonna wear our capes to school for Halloween, but as I go to a Private Christian school, and we don't celebrate Halloween,(it's very obviously evil, oh brother...) they wouldn't let us.

[Maylin]

Ill hum the soudtrack to myself at times and ive got an entire world based around middle earth in my head ( yeah, ive twisted middle earth into 1 VERY LARGE contenient)

HP doesnt really bother me, ill read the books, but what i hate is when you have commercials and such making it look lkie the best books ever written, though they clearly arent.

[Yavanna228]

I've actually done none of the things that I'm about to mention... smilies/smile.gif
Read LOTR through 37 times. (Tolkien Rocks! thread)
Watch the FOTR movie at least once a day. (the neighbour girl does this)
Every thing you touch becomes inscribed with 'Do not mess with Mirkwood!' (neighbour girl again)
Peace

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Um...will you think I'm strange if I say I have done those things, Yavanna?

[arianrod]

Don't you mean the Phial of Galadriel?

*slaps forehead* ahhh... I knew something about that sounded funny. Sorry about that! You know what I meant... smilies/smile.gif

[Elvanui]

I sing in Elvish alot...until my sister yells at me to shut up.

I attempted making an Elvish dress...it ended up looking both Rohirric and hideously deformed. I think my mom needs to help me fix it.

I braided my hair a la Legolas several times during the school year...and to my delight many people noticed and understood (hurray for nerdy friends!!)

LOTR addicted me hopelessly to fantasy. I am bored reading anything else

Everyone says I look like I'm in a trance when I'm listening to the sountracks(but that is true for any of my music)


And as for Harry Potter..not all people who enjoy those books run around casting spells at each other(I'm sorry I feel the need to defend myself). Nor does it diminish my Tolkien obsession. LOTR and HP are two very different universes...and I find it sad that fans on both sides feel the need to attack each other to prove that their fantasy series is "better" than the other, when in fact they are both great stories in their own rights. Harry Potter simply tends to be on the lighter side while LOTR is deeper and more symbolic. Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to inject my 2 cents (okay more than that) into this discussion.

[Celandine03]

Hi! I'm kinda new to this forum.

I have most of the FOTR soundtrack memorized.

I think Tolkien and Howard Shore are/were geniuses.

I get really annoyed when people relate LOTR to HP.

I've never read or saw HP, but I get so annoyed when I see the books out on display at every stinkin bookstore, and a poster for the movie at every stinkin movie store. smilies/mad.gif

[Lily Bombadil]

Welcome Celandine03! I'm Lily Bombadil. (Frodo's REAL wife. I'm Tom Bombadil's adopted hobbit daughter. And I actually believe that, too. See? I'm obsessed!)

About shooting friends with bows, well... I shot the cat. ON ACCIDENT!! (Don't worry! He lived!)

I have more to say, but this Big Person claiming to be my father is making me leave now. O, sorrows & woe....

[Feared Half-Elf]

I prefer the Lotr movies, but I like the HP and Lotr books. They're two totally different worlds and don't need to be compared. (I think the HP movies are dreadful. Where in ME did they find those actors. Actors? I meant kids!)

You know you're obssessed when you make Lembas from a recipe on the internet and then try to feed it to your hamster to make him a little more active! *Been there, bought the t-shirt!* smilies/smile.gif

[Everdawn]

... when you are walking in the bush and yell suddenly to your friends "where is gollum?" expecting the creature to be leading you through.

[Yavanna228]

Um...will you think I'm strange if I say I have done those things, Yavanna?
Not at all. I'm just saying that I haven't gotten to that point yet. smilies/smile.gif
Peace

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Ok, I'm officially ridiculously obsessed.

The other day, I had nothing to do, a pen in hand, and no one will ever guess what I found myself doing. I wrote the entire "Rings" poem on the inseam of my jeans. (The inseam because it's easier to reach when you're sitting down.) Now, starting at my right ankle, one could (if I'd let people look) read:

(right leg)
Three Rings for the Elven Kings under the sky
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
(left leg)
In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie
One ring to rule them all; one ring to find them
One ring to bring them all; and in the darknes, bind them.
ITLOMWTSL (I ran out of room)

Now that is sad. smilies/rolleyes.gif

[ElenCala Isil]

I'm not sure if this really actually counts... but spending hours upon hours at lordoftherings.net refreshing it just to hear everyone and actually being able to name who they are just but them saying Hello (or Hi, or G'day or not saying hello at all) is kinda obsessive smilies/biggrin.gif but fun nonetheless!

[ June 30, 2003: Message edited by: ElenCala Isil ]

[Celandine03]

I have a friend Samantha who most everyone calls Sam now. I noticed a month or two ago that when I would say "Bye Sam" to her in the hall at school, that it sounded a bit weird. I realized not that long ago that it sounded different because I was saying it the way Frodo does!

Also, my friend collects the little plastic busts of the Fellowship characters from this little vending machine thing, but she could never get Legolas.
So one day we were at the mall and came across the machine, so I went first.(she figured I'd probably have better luck) I only put in enough for one, but I accidentally got two, and both of them were Legolas.
So I gave her one and I kept the other, but she was still mad that I had gotten two Legolas', so I said, "Just think of it this way. I was meant to find it, and so you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought."

[Aduoreiel]

You know you're obsessed or definitely a big fan when you feel psychical pain if a person insults LOTR, even if they are halfway around the world, or in space.

:-) hehehehe

[Sapphire_Flame]

The design comes out looking like a cross between Haradrim and Elves. Very cool, by the way.
You wouldn't mind posting some pictures of it, would you? *looks hopeful*

spending hours upon hours at lordoftherings.net refreshing it just to hear everyone
Guilty.... smilies/rolleyes.gif

When you are already planning what you're going to do for the First Show of RotK. I've been planning my party since Towers came out: my costume, the invitations, even what time we'll be arriving at the theater!

Abedithon le! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Maikadurwen]

lily bombadil i an frodos really real wife and vey is legolas' wife smilies/biggrin.gif

[Finwe]

I think I'm also guilty of spending hours planning my costume for the first show of Return of the King! All of my friends are going, and we're going to dress up as the cast. I'm going to probably end up being a young Elrond, since I can't find any old-Elf robes, I can only find tunics/leggings and stuff.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

You wouldn't mind posting some pictures of it, would you? *looks hopeful*

Wish I could. But, there is the small matter of file size, and the fact that I have no site to place it upon. If you PM me with your email, I could send it to you that way.

(Sorry that this post is off topic.)

[Meela]

I think the HP movies are dreadful. Where in ME did they find those actors. Actors? I meant kids!

I thought they were super. Especially Neville.

I'm not sure if this really actually counts... but spending hours upon hours at lordoftherings.net refreshing it just to hear everyone and actually being able to name who they are just but them saying Hello (or Hi, or G'day or not saying hello at all) is kinda obsessive but fun nonetheless!

Its the most fun thing I can think of doing!! I have wasted countless hours on that site smilies/biggrin.gif

When you are already planning what you're going to do for the First Show of RotK.

Yup, my costume planning is well under way. I'm learning to embroider specially. I hope the cast and crew realise how dedicated we are smilies/smile.gif

[Lëowen]

You spend so much time here that your mother gives you a limit on how long you can be online a day. smilies/mad.gif

[Meela]

Oh yeah, that is the worst! I've been threatened with a ban from this site smilies/frown.gif

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Exactly! I had one too many all-nighters, and now I am literally thrown off the 'Net at midnight. It does make for some interesting jokes though. *thinks of a certain pic she made... smilies/rolleyes.gif*

[Elennar Starfire]

- when you get mad at your little sister for using a scooby doo bookmark in TTT and let her borrow your Eowyn/Eomer bookmark because a scooby doo bookmark absolutely should not be in a Lotr book!!!! smilies/mad.gif

(yes, I did that)

you are all spying on me, aren't you? smilies/biggrin.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

How true, Elennar. smilies/wink.gif You can only use an LotR bookmark in and LotR book! Anything else is practically a sin.

***When you check LotR.net every day to see if they have new RotK stuff up.

To all of you who haven't checked lately, go there now; the new teaser poster is up!!!

Abedithon le! smilies/biggrin.gif

[ July 01, 2003: Message edited by: Sapphire_Flame ]

[Finwe]

My parents have tried banning me from using the Internet, but it didn't work. I use it anyway when they're at work, so they realized that there was absolutely no point in banning me from it, since I was going to find ways to get on this site anyway.

[Elennar Starfire]

You can only use an LotR bookmark in and LotR book! Anything else is practically a sin.

well, I do use these neat japanese braid things that I make as bookmarks, but I think that's OK because they're really cool looking, especially when they're color-coordinated to match the book! smilies/tongue.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/cool.gif
At school I try to always have an extra one, just in case something like that happens again.

you know you're obsessed when...

-you change the words of songs to be LotR related.
*starts singing* The ents go marching one by one...
actually I'm stuck on that song, if anyone has any ideas, share them please?

-when you can type your elvish name faster then your real name-or you consider your elvish name your real name.

when I get kicked off the computer and start getting Barrow-downs withdrawal symptoms, I go to the library and use the computer there.

[ July 01, 2003: Message edited by: Elennar Starfire ]

[Sapphire_Flame]

The ents go marching one by one...
lol!!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif My mom and I sing that every time we go to see Towers! Unfortunately, we're stuck too. Sorry! smilies/frown.gif

***When you have "orc prophet of doom" signs all over your bedroom door. Like this: "The Ent is near!" and "The world is coming to an Ent!"

***When you can't see your walls (or ceiling) because of all the LotR pics you've put up.

Abedithon le! smilies/biggrin.gif

[peony_foxburr]

...when you are a nurse, and see that someone has given their baby a name which means "Precious" in Thai, and you collapse in giggles...(and you try to explain why to your colleagues, and THEY DON'T GET IT)

[Duncariel]

I have a half an hour time limit on the net. Sucks.

I saw an ent yesterday! I swear! I was camping in the woods, out looking for firewood, and I saw an ent. Nobody believes me... smilies/frown.gif

[Tinuviel of Denton]

I believe you, as I had a similar experience myself...

When I ask to get on the computer, my sibs all say "Let me go on first. If she goes to the Downs, she'll never get off!" Music to my ears.

[Arafangwen]

*When you accidently write your elven name on a letter to a non-ringie and have to erase it for your real one(what is that anyways?).

*When you go to deposit your checks at the bank, you accidently sign them in your elven name(Whoops!) and have to have your employer write you a new one.

*When people you just meet call you, and I quote "elf-obsessed-LOTR-junkie"

I'm so proud of myself!

[Galenfea of Mirkwood.]

You see elves walking down the street (swear that woman I saw from the bus was an elf, she had pointy ears!)

scenario: you are sitting at the computer, engrossed in making a desktop picture (click here and click on backgrounds if you're interested (http://www.Galenfea.co.uk)) and someone says "Ring" and you immediately spin round and go huh? what? smilies/biggrin.gif

guilty guilty smilies/wink.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

That webiste is brilliant, Galenfea! Love the backgrounds, especially! smilies/biggrin.gif

***You know you're obsessed with LotR when your obsession starts rubbing off on people. In my case, these people are my little cousins. smilies/tongue.gif

Example: I was babysitting my cousins last week, and I asked them what movie they wanted to watch. They thought for a minute, then one of them said "I want to watch Lord of the Rings!"

Another example: My cousin has given his son, Adam, the nickname Adam Bombadil.

I love when I do this to people. *must continue spreading LotR insanity.....* *runs off to plot*

Abedithon le! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Kates Frodo Temp]

I swear these are original, but if someone has already used them, let me know:

You know you're obsessed w/LotR when you've scratched "PJ must die!" on the back of the theater seat in front of you with your One Ring while watching TTT.

You know you're obsessed when you get together w/Tolkienite friends just to RIP THE MOVIES TO SHREDS!!!!!!

You know you're obsessed when you can make comments like these and still be dying to see RotK! smilies/smile.gif smilies/wink.gif

[Meela]

You know you're obsessed when you get together w/Tolkienite friends just to RIP THE MOVIES TO SHREDS!!!!!!

That is so much fun!! After the first viewing at the cinema, I think thats all I do!

[ElenCala Isil]

How about whenever you hear the song "American Pie" you start singing along, but only with the words to "Middle-Earth Sky"

So bye, bye, to that good Shire sky.
Got a journey now before me
And I must say good-bye
To hobbit folk drinking whiskey and rye.
But this won’t be the day that I die.
This won’t be the day that I die.

smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif the whole song is here (http://fan.theonering.net/writing/stories/files/andelin_mesky.html)

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

I have wasted countless hours on that site
Wasted?!? Wasted?!?!? Never!

*ahem*
You know you're obsessed when:
~you believe that Middle-Earth is out there, and that you will find it one day.
~the guy at Wal-mart says "You can't get contacts until you're 16 or over! Why didn't you tell me you're 14?" and you reply "Because Master did not ask!" (I am seriously going to do this if he says that!)
~you are going to dress up as a hobbit for halloween and make your own prosthetic feet and ears
~you already know exactly what you are going to do on December 17th
~you cried when you couldn't get to the theater to see TTT

[Nureldawen]

You know you're getting your family/friends obsessed when.....

Your mother tells you "I love you. And I would never trade you to the orcs."

Your sister cusses a nameless orc out for hurting Aragorn.

Your father tries to show how much more he knows about LOTR than you.

When you ask your friends for advice, and their first suggestion pertains to middle-earth.

Your sister is rarely at home, but she knows a good amount of hobbit songs.


::blushes:: All of those r me!!!!

[Nureldawen]

One I forgot;

Your sister says, (when i tried to sleep on the tiny loveseat in the den), "you're taller than an elf, and that wouldn't fit a hobbit!!"

[Nureldawen]

Goodness! I keep coming up with more!


When you see a LOTR movie with ANYONE in your family, it's a matter of which one of you points out something that either wasn't in the book, or something they left out. (so many times, my sister beat me to the punch. smilies/wink.gif)


btw; i keep saying "my sister", because i have 3 sisters. the oldest one likes lotr. next one really likes them, next one LOVES them, and i am obsessed! see a trend? smilies/wink.gif i shudder to think how obsessed a younger sibling would be, if i had one.

[Sapphire_Flame]

you already know exactly what you are going to do on December 17th
Right on, Horse-Maiden!!! smilies/biggrin.gif Nice to know I'm not the only one!

Oh, and Nureldawen, Welcome to the Downs!!! Enjoy being dead. smilies/tongue.gif

Abedithon le!

[the guy who be short]

when I get kicked off the computer and start getting Barrow-downs withdrawal symptoms, I go to the library and use the computer there.
On my first day of a week on holiday I started getting BDW symptons. smilies/frown.gif And I could go get a computer in Tenerife smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif

[ July 07, 2003: Message edited by: the guy who be short ]

[Kates Frodo Temp]

Ya know you're obsessed when your 3 week vacation is devoted to this site! I'm loving this!!! smilies/smile.gif smilies/smile.gif