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

[Tinuviel of Denton]

When your best friend who is a sci-fi/Star Wars fan calls you elf-maid or Tinuviel.

When you answer to both of those better than to your real name.

Your little brother calls your name a few times (at least, I think he did) then says Tinuviel to get your attention and it works.

When you've trained your three-year-old sister to answer to Elfie.

When you can think of things to post on this thread.

[Lëowen]

You spend so much time here that you can name 104 BDers without looking at anything. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Meela]

And pick out the Denethor-obsessed one? *giggles* I believe almost every user can do that by now. The newbies pick it up straight away, it seems smilies/biggrin.gif

[Lëowen]

I suppose it helps that I've been here since January (on my other account). And yes, Meela, you are on the list. smilies/wink.gif


~You're up at midnight thinking of things to put on this list. (but forget them all by morning) smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Duncariel]

No kidding.

I've had the BD withdrawal symptoms all week. Finally found a computer after a whole week of the shakes. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Duncariel]

I was listening to a group of guys talking about Orlando Bloom yesterday, and they said one of his lines wrong.

~ "there is a fell wind on the air"

When it was supposed to be

~ "there is a fell voice on the air."

I just about attacked him right there. Instead I just did some rather loud rewording from the other side of the room. Been ranting about Ignorant mortals for a couple of days.

[Mariska Greenleaf]

I was reading in a magazine yesterday about the interests of the people today, and it was mainly about the interest in fantasy stories, like lotr and Harry Potter.

It was kinda interesting, but then it was talking about the similarities between Harry Potter and Frodo...

They called Frodo:
"de oersaaie hobbit"( in dutch)
translation: the dead-boring hobbit

I'm still recovering...
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So, you know when you're obsessed with lotr, when you are making a fuzz about something like that, I guess... smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

When you're watching showjumping and a white horse comes on and you yell, "Noro lim, Laurin! Noro lim!"

Yep. Got Dec. 17 all planned out.

[Nureldawen]

You know your obsessed when you say....


I thought it was "Norolim Asfaloth. Norolim"


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[Tinuviel of Denton]

It was.

My little sibs don't even call me by my real name anymore. Now that's progress!

[Nureldawen]

no kidding? smilies/smile.gif i wanna see how many people will call me nureldawen. that's my barrowdowns-given name.

[Elennar Starfire]

When you do your friend's hair elf-style when you go to Pirates of the Caribbean.

The ents go marching three by three, the little ones (hobbits) stop to talk to a tree...

[Tinuviel of Denton]

no kidding? smilies/smile.gif i wanna see how many people will call me nureldawen. that's my barrowdowns-given name.

Here's a tip: don't answer to whatever your real name is. Ask "Who's that?" It worked for me!

When your mother actually sits up to make sure you get off the Downs because she knows that once you see that hypnotic black and green screen you will be sucked into a time warp and not realize that hours are passing in the real world.

When all of your posts on this thread apply to you and aren't just things other people have done. I am a very sad case...

[Sapphire_Flame]

Here's a tip: don't answer to whatever your real name is. Ask "Who's that?" It worked for me!
I will be implementing this plan immediately. Thanks for the tip, Tinuviel!!! smilies/biggrin.gif

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

couldn't read all these through so don't know if someone has said this...

when you see/kill a spider you scream: Gilthoniel! A Elbereth! or Aiya Eärendil elenion ancalima!

i did that last night, i killed a spider by myself(i afraid them)! i squeezed it under a book smilies/biggrin.gif

[Finwe]

You kill spiders, and run at them madly, waving flashlights and screaming, "A Elbereth Gilthoniel! Aiya Earendil Elenion Ancalima!" and get very strange looks.

You try your hand at designing bags, and tear off the brown leather on a perfectly good black leather briefcase with brown leather trimming, all the metal decals, and put tons of red acrylic paint and gold sequins everywhere, and call it your Harad bag.

You are wondering whether you should come out with a line of clothing that just has Elf and Ranger clothes.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

You are wondering whether you should come out with a line of clothing that just has Elf and Ranger clothes.

Your response to the above is: That would be awesome! Can I help?

Your mother gets home from picking your younger sis up from her meeting and asks "Where is everyone?" Your older sis says, "Tinuviel's on the Barrow-downs." Your mother says, "Of course." The exact same thing happens later that evening when your dad gets home from his meeting.

You used to wear your hair in a ponytail for convenience, but you've designed an elvish hairstyle that is even more convenient and now wear it constantly.

[Finwe]

Of course you can help! I'm still wondering whether I should sell the bag that I just made. But I'm not sure if anyone can take that bag anywhere. After all, it's black leather with red paint and gold sequins.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Well, if you want to sell it, you'd have to make more of them and patent them so no one can steal your idea. Except us Downers of course. smilies/wink.gif

[elfearz1]

these are great guys! I am not worthy of your obssessiveness!

you know your obsessed when...

you have dreams in Elvish (I did, it had subtitles too, pretty cool.)

your friends think you actually believe your an elf and your married to Frodo (I am!)

you qoute the Lay of Gil-galad randomly

when you go for a walk w/ a friend and you qoute one of bilbo's songs that he wrote during The Hobbit (guilty!)

that's all I can think of right now

[Kaiserin]

You know you're obsessed when you obstentatiously make remarks about how different the movies are from the books, whilewatching the movie for the zillionth time.

You know you're obsessed when you advise your lady friends to wear elven-inspired gowns at their weddings. And then you tell them,"You'll look just like Galadriel"

You know you're obsessed when you have the trilogy in non-film version covers and put them on display... but when someone wants to borrow them, you lend out your "extra copies" which have the actors on the fronts.

[Finwe]

When you sing your baby brother to sleep with the Lay of Gil-galad and the song, "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" and he loves it.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

You know you're obsessed when you obstentatiously make remarks about how different the movies are from the books, while watching the movie for the zillionth time.

That is so much fun, but I didn't wait til the zillionth time. More like the first. In the theater. smilies/evil.gif

[elfearz1]

That is great! Welcome to the downs by the way,Kaiserin!

let's see, you know your obsessed when...

there are ants (or any thing you don't like) and you squish them saying "they are enemies of the dark Lord Sauron!"

hehe It made sense at the time smilies/tongue.gif

[ July 17, 2003: Message edited by: elfearz1 ]

[The Elusive Spirit]

You know you're obsessed when you have you sister, brother, and three cousins singing the hobbit drinking song and a song about Gladriel to the toon of "Sponge Bob Square Pants". I'm also trying to learn elvish.

[Cinderella]

You know you're obsessed when you have the trilogy in non-film version covers and put them on display... but when someone wants to borrow them, you lend out your "extra copies" which have the actors on the fronts.

Oh dear god... I've just done that...today... smilies/eek.gif haha as a matter of fact I do it constantly. I have my huge hardcover copies then the movie ones that I carry around with me...

You know you're obsessed when you start to consider naming your future son Samwise and future daughter Elanor...

[Meela]

I'm getting a spare copy of Lotr soon. A proper copy, not the split copies. Preferably hardback. But there is no way I would ever lend my books out. They're too precious to me.

I waste too much money on magazines. I bought 3 copies of one magazine recently becuase it had a Rotk article in it. One copy was to keep for reading, and one was to cut the pictures out of. Then I realised that there were two back-to-back sides of great pictures, and I couldn't decide which I wanted on the wall. So I had to go out and buy a third copy just so I could have both sides on my wall. They do that on purpose, putting the best pictures back to back. It's evil.

You know you're obsessed when you start to consider naming your future son Samwise and future daughter Elanor...

I've shortlisted Sauron. Only a true obsessive could inflict that name on a poor, innocent baby.

[Cinderella]

I've shortlisted Sauron. Only a true obsessive could inflict that name on a poor, innocent baby.

So true, but I'd rather be Sauron than Grisnakh! Or even worse, what if your LOTR obsessed parent named you Saurumanofmanycolors!

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

The ents go marching one by one...

You people are stalking me. You just have to be. It's sad but true that most of us are only posting things that we've actually done. I am, for one. Let's see...

You know you're obssessed when you...
-Can always make yourself hyper by thinking LOTR thoughts and dancing around (yes, it's sad, but I do this).
-When you put little signs up on your wall in Tengwar.
-When you go around the grocery store with your mom chanting "precious" under your breath (I did it today!)
-When you are standing around and all of a sudden you say "One gross!" for no particular reason.
-When you write stuff in tengwar with your finger all over the film of ice on an icecream container.
-When your friends think you're a hobbit.
-When you think the highest compliment is being referred to as a hobbit or an elf.

That's all for now. I'll probably do more later and come back to post it.

[Sapphire_Flame]

-When you put little signs up on your wall in Tengwar.
Quit spying on me!!! smilies/wink.gif Bonus points if you've done this at school. (and double bonus points if what you write is some obscure insult and you refuse to translate. smilies/evil.gif )

You're obsessed when you:
~sign your elven name more often than your real name.
~have Middle-earthean dates written in on your calender.
~are counting down to RotK, and have been from the exact instant that you saw Towers for the first time.
~instead of bringing your "assigned reading" to youth camp during the summer, you bring a copy of Fellowship.
~have the general reputation as "that LotR chick" or "the elf girl".
~you sign all your posts (everywhere) in Sindarin.

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Naming my children (if I ever have any) after Tolkien's characters? But of course! Only all the names I currently have listed come from the Silm. The ones from the trilogy are too well-known now. I don't want it to be said of my children that they were named after a movie.

-When you think the highest compliment is being referred to as a hobbit or an elf.

Definitely! Ah, how wonderful to be called (yes, my little sis actually calls me this) "an elvish hobbitish cat!" I love cats, and I love Tolkien, so next to Tinuviel, that is my favorite nickname.

Oh, and Luthien: Quit stealing my posts! smilies/wink.gif

[ July 18, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]

[the guy who be short]

When you put little signs up on your wall in Tengwar.
Tengwar and Cirth! But on my door.

When you get really happy when an English teacher says she's read the LotR 27 times and recommend this site to her. (unfortunately she said she's not that obsessive yet... but then why would she read it every year??)

When you're in science and as a class are deciding what movie to watch. Sir holds up a copy of FotR and says "This is too long really, but anybody wanna watch it anyway?" Before I say anything at least half the class has turned around and yelled "No, Jay."

[Mariska Greenleaf]

...when your bedroom looks like a shrine, dedicated to lotr.
Complete with: posters, pictures, songbooks, a game of chess, little statues of the Argonath...
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[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

Oh, and Luthien: Quit stealing my posts!

Steal your posts?!?! Me?!? I would never do such an awful thing as that! smilies/wink.gif smilies/evil.gif


You know you're obsessed when you start to consider naming your future son Samwise and future daughter Elanor...

Of course I'm going to do that! Who wouldn't? Other names on my list are Beren, Luthien and Peregrin (it's a real name!). I might only do LOTR middle names, though. I don't know what my family would think with 13 children with LOTR names running around. Oh, and what do you suppose ours spouses will think of all this (when we marry, I'm assuming most of us here are younger)? Or is it a given that freaks such as us can only marry other obssessed LOTr freaks? In that case it would be a sort of an exchange: "Dear, I know you like the name Fingolfin better than Beleg, but the Next one can be Fingolfin." "Okay. Or can we just name our daughter Eowyn?" Either we'd have to have a lot of kids,or else the said children would have to have many many many names.

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

You know you're obsessed when you have the trilogy in non-film version covers and put them on display... but when someone wants to borrow them, you lend out your "extra copies" which have the actors on the fronts.



Doesn't everyone have extra copies? I have my very dear one volume edition with the Alan Lee picture of the tents in front of the Black Gate on the cover, and then I have the old boxed set my dad practically gave me, and those are for lending and taking with me to school.

You're obssessed when you call every object that gets in your way or doesn't do what you want it to "vile fiend of Morgoth".

-You spend time on the Barrow-Downs when you really should be doing other things (guilty as charged!)

-When you're proud of your obssession.

-When you'd rather live in Middle-Earth than anywhere else.

-When you get all of your friends obssessed.

-When you create little clubs where everyone is an elf (and I was Luthien!!)

-When you're at a party or campout and you randomly decide to roleplay something from LOTR (complete with sticks for swords!), and even though all of the other people are girls, you want to play a guy so that you can fight (Aragorn, or a hobbit, or perhaps a girl who fights, like Eowyn, sometimes even an orc).

-When you go to get a shot, and you think: "If Frodo and Sam could go to Mordor, I can live through this shot".

-When everyone thinks Middle'Earth is all you ever talk about.

-When your parents say that you talk about LOTR at least once a day.

-When you amuse yourself by playing through your extended Fellowship DVD in slow motion (that is fun!).

Okay, I'll stop now.
I would make people call me Luthien, but I'm pretty happy with my real name. It's really not that bad.

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

One more...

I know I'm obssessed with the Downs when I have the last post on every forum in Middle-Earth Fun and Games (that's the Quiz Forum, the Quotes forum, and ME Mirth), and I grin and laugh, very proud of my achievment.

[Sirithheruwen]

You know you're obsessed with LOTr when...
1)You answer your friend's questions in Elvish by mistake.

2)You sew a picture of Legolas on your pillow.

3)You won't eat watermelon because "mellon" is friend in Elvish.

4) Your parents send you to your room when you mention LOTR.

5) You found about 20 clubs at school and get all your friends involved too.

6) When you watch the movie every weekend.

7)When you have every picture of LOTR floating around the world wide web on your hard drive.

8)You call your dad "Old Gaffer."

9) When you have a baby, the doctors overhear you say "He has gandalf's nose."

10) You go without food or water for a few weeks to really sympathize with Gollum (and end up in the hospital.)

[ July 18, 2003: Message edited by: Sirithheruwen ]

[ August 08, 2003: Message edited by: Sirithheruwen ]

[Vuelve]

As soon as school starts you are going to ask the library lady it you can buy the copy of TTT from the shool because its a hardback from the 70's. smilies/eek.gif mussst have my precioussss.

You friend asks you if you want a disco ball coin bank.You agree quickly while the phrase "Do the wave for Boromir the Disco King" runs through your head.Then you can't wait to get home so you can tell everyone on the 'Downs about your find. smilies/tongue.gif I got a disco ball smilies/tongue.gif


~Peace~Love~&~Happy~Posting~

[Rilwen Gamgee]

~ When you think someone is watching you, you look around suspiciously and say, "The passage south has been watched!". smilies/eek.gif

-you change the words of songs to be LotR related.
I've changed the lyrics from the Veggie Tales song, "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything", to "The Hobbits Who Don't Do Anything".

~ When you decorate your back yard like Lothlorien.

[Meneltarmacil]

I am not guilty of this, but some of you definitely are.

If somebody (usually a little kid) tries to cut you in line, you scream "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!!!" at the top of your lungs.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Well, Luthien stole my post. Again. Now I don't have anything to post but this:

My three-year-old sis looked at me at dinner tonight and said, "You're not (my real name), you're Tinuviel." Is that not the coolest thing?

[ July 18, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]

[Duncariel]

You're obssessed when you call every object that gets in your way or doesn't do what you want it to "vile fiend of Morgoth".

I do that! I've often whispered "foolish incompetent mortals" at people under my breath, or even loudly when they won't get out of my way.

~ when your grandmother buys you the cheaper version of the ring for Christmas, and you wear it enough that the gold is wearing off smilies/frown.gif This is enough to make a soul die.

~ when your friend tells you that if you mention the 'Downs one more time, she's gonna throw you out the window to the buzzards

you've stollen all of my really good ones, Dang it!

[elfearz1]

when people do things that I can't understand why the heck they would do it, I always throw my hands up and mutter

"Amin n'rangwa edanea" (I don't understand these humans)

[Everdawn]

When you can get through an entire day's conversation by quoting the book or movie.. Really hard when you go out to lunch. (apparently they dont serve "Lembas,elvish way-bread, one bite is enough to fill the stomach of a full grown man" anywhere in Brisbane smilies/biggrin.gif )

[Ascalótëion]

Guilty as charged with 'Amin n'rangwa edanea'...

[Eressië Ailin]

When you're proud of your obssession.


GASP! Is there anyone who isn't? It would be an insult to all LoTR fandom if you were ashamed!

A while back I made some 'Save the Ents!!!' t-shirts for Earth Day. (PICS~ FRONT (http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-7/163908/SAVETHEENTS.jpg), BACK (http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/163908/SAVETHEENTS1.jpg), and SLEEVE (http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/163908/SAVETHEENTS2.jpg)). I am now the proud founder and president of the Ent-Huggers Society of RMS. Sad, isn't it?

[Duncariel]

Hey, that's pretty neat, I want one of those... I've seen an ent, ya know...

[ July 19, 2003: Message edited by: Duncariel ]

[the guy who be short]

When you think you've seen an ent.

[elfearz1]

those are very good! *applauds* I'd buy one, if you were selling them!


When you pause the movie to get a drink etc. even though you've seen the movie a million times and you have it memerized.

[Meneltarmacil]

When you think you've seen an ent.

I have seen a billion people's posts that say they've seen an ent. Next person who posts this, could you tell me, where and when you saw it and what it looked like?

Thanks.

[Meela]

I saw an ent a few months back, across the river on the bank amongst the trees. It looked like... well, an ent... literally a walking tree. It was kinda blurred, but I definitely saw one. Normal trees don't walk. Or won't.

[ July 19, 2003: Message edited by: Meela ]

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

I've got to try the "amin n'rangwa edanea" thing. Must go and get more obssessed so that I have things to post on this thread!

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

Oh! I have a good one that I do: Every movie I watch I mentally compare to LOTR, and that is what I judge it by.

[Cinderella]

When you actually bother to read a list of signs that you're obsessed, relate to ALL of them...and then post about it... smilies/biggrin.gif

How about when you not only have your nice copy, spare copy, and your movie cover copy, but you also have a copy to keep by your computer for quick reference for the Downs

[elfearz1]

Every movie I watch I mentally compare to LOTR, and that is what I judge it by.Oh, I'm totally guilty of that!

When you actually bother to read a list of signs that you're obsessed, relate to ALL of them...and then post about it... I know. he he smilies/biggrin.gif I keep thinking of more and more that apply to me. I don't know whether to be proud or worried...probably worried, but I'm very proud.

This is kinda long and I hope it makes sense...
When you go on vacation, because you can't be away from your obsession for more then a couple of hours you tape a bunch of pictures of characters on the inside top of your carry-on or make-up case or whatever you have. (like a mini-shrine to imitate the one in your room kinda) That's going to be me in a week. I'm already starting to work on it!

[ July 19, 2003: Message edited by: elfearz1 ]

[Eressië Ailin]

Elfearz~ Thanks! I was actually selling the shirts for a time, but I got overrun with all the orders, so now they're only for EHSoRMS members.

Meneltarmacil~ As Meela so bluntly put it (not that I could do a better job), Ents look like... well, Ents. They're walking trees. I saw one on some camping trip a couple months back.

[Elen Ilúvitauri]

When the characters of LOTR Talk to you in your head...

OK, either that or im mental.

[Galenfea of Mirkwood.]

-Can always make yourself hyper by thinking LOTR thoughts and dancing around (yes, it's sad, but I do this).
-When you put little signs up on your wall in Tengwar.
-When you go around the grocery store with your mom chanting "precious" under your breath (I did it today!)
-When you write stuff in tengwar with your finger all over the film of ice on an icecream container.
-When your friends think you're a hobbit.
-When you think the highest compliment is being referred to as a hobbit or an elf.
smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif
OK, which of my school friends are you?
I do all of them! smilies/eek.gif

[Daewen]

When you pronounce the world "celebrate" like "kelebrate"

When you see words such as "lithium" or "berontium" as "Luithien" and "Beren"

You start to steal vegetables with your shortest and most Scottish friends

When you go to see a (non-LOTR) movie with your friends, they have to restrain you from running towards the advertisement for ROtK

You tend to break out in LOTR songs at any given moment

You IM backround and buddy icon are LOTR related

You call your best friend Frodo and she calls you Sam

You want a personalized licenseplate that says "Asfaloth" for you car

---I do all of these I am proud to say, and I believe I am truly, madly, and deeply obsessed---

[Meela]

When you pronounce the world "celebrate" like "kelebrate"

I got some pretty weird looks when I did that the other day.

When you go to see a (non-LOTR) movie with your friends, they have to restrain you from running towards the advertisement for ROtK

Soon they'll start carrying a rope so they can tie me to a seat. And a gag to silence my squeals of excitement.

You tend to break out in LOTR songs at any given moment

Another use for the gag.

[Orominuialwen]

When you change the words of nearly song you know so they're about Tolkien.

When you discuss High Kings of the Noldor with your little brother late on school nights instead of going to bed.

When you tell your brother "Mind the howling Sons of Fëanor" instead of "Goodnight."

When you boycott and want to sue Robert Jordan for copyright infringement because he plagerizes words from Tolkien, even though everybody tells you that you would never win.

When you have the Verse of the Rings and A! Elbereth Gilthoniel written out on your school binder. smilies/biggrin.gif

When you correct anyone who pronounces Sméagol like SMEE-gull instead of Smay-uh-gall. smilies/mad.gif

When you start reciting Sindarin poetry aloud so you don't have to listen to annoying people.

You can recite most of the dialog in FotR along with the soundtrack.

When your Social Studies teacher asks you to write about an example of a civil war, and you do the Kin-Strife.

When you have to write about your nicknames for Language Arts, and you put down Orominuialwen, Mûzklash the Mauler, and Thuringwethil.

When all your poetry is Tolkien-related.

When you want to take fencing and archery because you have a secret ambition to be a sheildmaiden.

When you make up skits showing the meeting of the movie Chicago and Morgoth, Gothmog, Treebeard, or the fighting Uruk Hai. smilies/tongue.gif

Whenyour school needs a new mascot and you consider suggesting the Fighting Uruk Hai as one (this was my aunt, not me).

That's all for now, although I'm sure I'll think of more later! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Eressië Ailin]

When the characters of LOTR Talk to you in your head...

Don't worry Elen Ilúvitauri, you're not mental! I have voices in my head too (heh. not like that means much)! His name is Erik (y'know... Erik... the Phantom of the Opera!!! Him! Surely you know who he is!). And my Muse lives in my head too. Her name's Serina. She's a ventriliquist. Like Erik. I'll shut up now.


Back on topic:

You know when it gets a little too quiet and you randomly shout things like "HAZMATS!!" (don't ask)? Well, the other day I was at my friend's sleepover and it was too quiet so I yelled, "Make Middle-Earth a friendlier place, hug a balrog today!" Weird looks. Then, "What? I am a man of yellow colors. Shhhh! They're watching us..." Even weirder looks. "Ummmm... I put the error in the word...um...TERROR!!!" After that, Serina told me to shut up. So did Erik. I did. For the time being.

"Monica," my friend asked, "are you sure that you're alright?"

And then I started singing. "It's creepy and it's kooky, mysterious and spooky, there's just one thing to do-ee...the ring must be destroyed!"


Y'know, I'm not too sure of my mental condition anymore...

*EDIT: I just realized that I narrate my own life in my head as it's happening. I creep myself out...

[ July 20, 2003: Message edited by: Eressië Ailin ]

[elfearz1]

When you finally find the recipe for Lembas and you make them right away even though it is 10:00 at night. smilies/cool.gif

[the guy who be short]

When you pronounce the world "celebrate" like "kelebrate".

Oh dear. I did that in my head as I was reading your post.

On copyright infringement - I thought Tolkien made up words, such as twain, an (for if) and thrall. I looked these up on dictionary.com and they are all actual historical words. So maybe he's not plagiarising.

[Duncariel]

When you think you've seen an ent.

Dost thou doubt us, GWBS? I saw my ent (I call it "my ent" because that's the one that "I" saw) when I was camping a couple of weeks ago. And, yes, they look remarkably like walking trees...

When you pronounce the world "celebrate" like "kelebrate".

I do that with every word that starts with a "c". smilies/biggrin.gif

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

OK, which of my school friends are you? I do all of them!

I'm the one with sort of chestnut-brown hair. smilies/evil.gif Not sure. The only way to know would be to ask which school you go to, which you don't have to answer if you wish to keep it a secret. smilies/wink.gif

When you pronounce the world "celebrate" like "kelebrate"

I should try that! It would be a sure way to recognize an obssessed Tolkien freak.

Your IM backround and buddy icon are LOTR related

My buddy icon is Sam!!!!! *much grinning* smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

When you want to take fencing and archery because you have a secret ambition to be a shieldmaiden.

I've always wanted to take up archery, fencing, and horse-riding...

Only one this time: You don't think you could truly be good friends with someone who doesn't appreciate Tolkien.

Okay, two: Almost all the gifts you give your friends for birthday, Christmas, etc, are LOTR-related (I've given copies of The Silmarillion, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, a glass goblet from Burger King with Frodo on it, two Cedco(r) daily LOTR calendars, and I think a bookmark).

Alright, last one: When you come to the Barrow-Downs almost every day! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Tinuviel of Denton]

When the characters of LOTR Talk to you in your head...

And I thought I was the only one!

I saw an ent. Actually, I think it was an entwife. She was rather distant, but I would swear that I saw a tree-like figure bending over the plants in a gardenish spot. When I got there, she was gone, but there were strange impressions in the dirt.

On the subject of coming to the Downs every day, my parents have threatened to change my password so that I can't get on. Oh, the horror!

I just realized that I narrate my own life in my head as it's happening. I creep myself out...

You do that too? Does it sound like a fantasy novel in your head as well?

When your best friend just looks at you and rolls her eyes when you start randomly listing all the types of arrows that are used in fantasy books and comparing them to each other.

When you make armor with said best friend. I'm so excited, my armor is almost finished!

[ July 20, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]

[the guy who be short]

Alright, last one: When you come to the Barrow-Downs almost every day!
Almost? Almost? SINNER!

Duncariel, wherefore dost thou speak in olde English? Art thou one of the Noble Order of the Faeriewordweavers?
And, to be honest, I do doubt you. I believe ents did exist, but they have all died now. All of them have gone treeish or else went off into the west.
And everybody knows the entwives were captured and turned into trolls by Sauron. (Well, it's my opinion.)


When absolutely anything happens, you say "So it begins"

[Elennar Starfire]

Or when you talk to the pictures on your lotr calendar, and they reply in your head.

GuiltyGuiltyGuilty of most of the things you have said, the rest I am going to do as soon as I get the chance!

Edit: oops, I forgot there was another page when I posted this. I was responding to Elen Iluvatari.

[ July 22, 2003: Message edited by: Elennar Starfire ]

[Finwe]

I saw an Ent in my aunt's back yard (she lives in Freehold, New Jersey). It looked exactly like Treebeard, and I thought I saw it look at me!!!! It looked exactly like a walking tree with beady little eyes, that's all that I remember.

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

Almost? Almost? SINNER!

Well, what am I to do if my parents won't let me get on every day? And I DO go on vacation (regrettably with no computer access). Yes, I know you were kidding. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Tinuviel of Denton]

And the same goes for me.

(Stop it, Luthien! Or I will have nothing to post!)

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

So sorry! I suppose I shall have to restrain myself, and leave this thread. Except I love this thread, so I suppose I will just stay here and steal your posts. smilies/evil.gif Evil me. Very evil. Feel the evilness.

[Lyta_Underhill]

It is interesting to see that so many of you have seen Ents before! Good show, Tinuviel of Denton and Finwë (father of the Exploding Fire Elf! smilies/wink.gif ) I, too, have seen an Ent in a dark forest very late at night. It looked at me, but that is about all it did. I knew it, and it knew me! It didn't say anything or do anything really, or perhaps it just did it very slowly, but it was most definitely an Ent!

Cheers,
Lyta

[Duncariel]

Duncariel, wherefore dost thou speak in olde English? Art thou one of the Noble Order of the Faeriewordweavers?


I often speak in words such as these, and am constantly threatened with a long and rather painful death at the hands of my consorts.

I suppose you have warrant to doubt, but as you see, I am not alone. Then again, I talk to the trees in my backyard, so maybe I AM alone.

[Eressië Ailin]

Ah, but you are not alone (cue Phantom of the Opera Overture). Lol, I talk to trees all the time. Actually, I tell them not to be so treeish... *walks off, murmering something about needing therapy*

[Mariska Greenleaf]

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When absolutely anything happens, you say "So it begins"
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So do I! Very frustrating for my family and friends, but I can't help myself

You know when you're obsessed...
when all your computer passwords are lotr related... smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/wink.gif

I just saw an Ent walking past the window!
ok, now I really need help smilies/eek.gif

[the guy who be short]

when all your computer passwords are lotr related...
I never realised... but that is true! How scary.

You people must understand that ENTS ARE EXTINCT. Therefore, you cannot see them. You're probably seeing aroused Huorns in my opinion.
You have a bad effect on me... soon I'm gonna go into the nearby woods looking for a Huorn. That is scary.

[Sirithheruwen]

When your parents can quote the movie: And they have never even seen it!

When you call your friend's grandma an elf just because she has a lot of trees around her house.

O btw, I've seen an ent at my friend's grandma's once. (Yup, the same friend's grandma!) I said "Hey, look at that!" (She didn't see anything.)

(I actually have used the clear rubberbands before! Hey! Don't laugh! smilies/frown.gif )

All my passwords are LOTR orriented too!!! This is freaky!!! smilies/eek.gif

[ July 22, 2003: Message edited by: Sirithheruwen ]

[Duncariel]

You people must understand that ENTS ARE EXTINCT

Are you sure? Although, I suppose that we may all be seeing huorns, or I'm just gone off my rocker, but it certainly looked like an ent.

Every time that I talk with someone on the net, my screen name is always Tolkien related. As is my e-mail, and my passwords, and everything else that I even look at...

[Feared Half-Elf]

ENTS ARE NOT EXTINCT!!!!!!!!!!! YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THIS PIECE OF INFORMATION!!!!!!!!!!! I SAW ONE, AND MY DISTINCLY ANTI-LOTR BROTHER AGREED!!!!

~when you scrap your old e-mail address for a lotr related one. (not guilty, yet!)
~when every time you go on the internet, your brother goes, I bet I know which sites you'll be on, then recites them all perfectly.
~when your brother races you to the computer, and when he loses, he walks off muttering HP curses under his breath.


This is just an insight into the strange world of my brother.

Sorry I haven't posted for so long, my mum banned me from the computer and I couldn't find a way to sneak on that she hadn't thought of and prevented. Bummer! smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Elennar Starfire]

I just realized that I narrate my own life in my head as it's happening. I creep myself out...

I'm not the only on who does that! YAY! smilies/biggrin.gif

I have not seen an ent (or huorn) yet, but I'm looking...

When you yell "Do the wave for Boromir the disco king" in your math class and get many wierd looks. (I got my friend to do the wave last weekend, even though she had no idea what I was talking about.)

Eressie Ailin: The Phantom talks to you??!!? I'm jealous!

I swear you are spying on me! All of you!

[Lyta_Underhill]

You people must understand that ENTS ARE EXTINCT. Therefore, you cannot see them. You're probably seeing aroused Huorns in my opinion.
You have a bad effect on me... soon I'm gonna go into the nearby woods looking for a Huorn. That is scary.

Who is this who knows the unknowable? Ents and Huorns feel different from each other; it was an Ent, not a Huorn. I'd have been nervous if it were a Huorn! *note to self* must memorize that rhyme of Tom Bombadil's Frodo used in the barrow...*

Cheers,
Lyta
(in denial of denial)

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Well, I can't see where this post is going, because suddenly this page is blocked. So all you crazy obsessed people hurry and fill this page up so that I can read more.

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

When you yell "Do the wave for Boromir the disco king"

I've meaning to do that for a long time (I followed that thread from page one, even though I contributed seldom), but I've never found the right time and place (ideally at a time when everyone will be creeped out).

-When your IM screename is your name in elvish (that's me! smilies/biggrin.gif ) and everyone you give it to asks, "What does that mean?"

[Eressië Ailin]

I've meaning to do that for a long time (I followed that thread from page one, even though I contributed seldom), but I've never found the right time and place (ideally at a time when everyone will be creeped out).

No matter when you do it, eveyone will be creeped out. Yu're not really supposed to think when you say it; you're just supposed say it. See, I didn't get much sleep for a loooong time while I was working on the loooong BDers sigs document. That explains why I start having spasms and yelling random sigs. All you have to do is spend a lot of time here, and it'll become natural for you to randomly yell random things such as, "SPOOK THE SPOOKISH SPOOKDOM TO SPOOK THE SPOOKED SPOOKERS!!!"

[Princess*Buttercup*Of*Rohan]

hhmmmm ok heres one

-When you type out the road goes ever on in tolkien font then print it out and tape it around your doorway
-one of your "friends" calles you hermione and you get highly offended and think they can do no worse but then they say..why are you mad? she was in lord of the rings! and you dont speak to them for a week

thats all I can think of for now...it makes me sad that I have done most of the stuff in this list..yes sad but highly re-assured that i have people that are just like me. smilies/smile.gif

.:*Buttercup*:.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Yay, I can see this thread again!

Buttercup, I don't blame you for not speaking to them for a week. They thought Hermione was in LotR!? Those poor ignorant souls.

When you spend so much time on the Downs that people who aren't in your family say "of course" when they ask what you're doing and you reply "I'm on the Downs." It's so much fun to make them roll their eyes like that.

When you can name all of the Tinuviel names that you've seen on the Downs at a moment's notices.

When after only one day helping out at VBS, people recognize you from your elvencloak. That made me very happy!

[Galenfea of Mirkwood.]

When you not only pronounce "celebrate" like "kelebrate" but start automatically thinking 'right, Celeb means Silver so what does Rate mean...'

[Elennar Starfire]

"SPOOK THE SPOOKISH SPOOKDOM TO SPOOK THE SPOOKED SPOOKERS!!!"

I yelled that at school once too. smilies/biggrin.gif I love getting weird looks! But it's actually "Spook the spook of spookish spookdom..." You left out a spook.

Next year I probably will yell many more random sigs in the hall or in my classes. And on the first day I'm planning to go with pointed ears,(must get rubber cement or clear rubber bands....) elf hair, and possibly a shirt that says "Do the wave for Boromir the disco king!" What a great way to start high school! smilies/cool.gif

[Eressië Ailin]

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"SPOOK THE SPOOKISH SPOOKDOM TO SPOOK THE SPOOKED SPOOKERS!!!"
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I yelled that at school once too. I love getting weird looks! But it's actually "Spook the spook of spookish spookdom..." You left out a spook.



Really now? Last time I checked (which wsas like, over a month ago lol) that's all Rynaoh had... *looks it up* You're right... She *has* changed it...

[Duncariel]

Ah! I've lost my post. A plague upon it.

I can't wait for the first day of school so that I can wear my cloak and show off my recently grown out hair. Woopee!

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

I'm planning to go with pointed ears,(must get rubber cement or clear rubber bands....) elf hair, and possibly a shirt that says "Do the wave for Boromir the disco king!" What a great way to start high school!


I should do that too! Except at my school ninth grade is still junior high. Hated school... rats rats rats rats rats rats rats...

I love saying "Spook the spook of spookish spookdom to spook the spooked spookers" to people. Even random people. Except I have a friend who gets kind of annoyed when I do weird things like that because she says people will shun me. But how will I find a BDer if I act normal?

I just thought of another one: Not only have I written out Rynoah's sig on school papers, I once got really bored and wrote the second verse of "Sam's song in the Tower" (one of my favorite LOTR poems) out around the corners of my science notes, turning to a different corner for every line. I just found it again recently and it brought a grin to my face. (I just noticed! I'm a Shade! Yay! smilies/biggrin.gif )

[elfearz1]

bahaha today I bought a shirt with leggy on it and I was holding it up and displaying it for everyone (in the mall) I started to yell. "Do the wave for Boromir the disco king!" but I ended up laughing and all I got out was " do the wave!".... I still got some pretty strange looks.

I also tried to explain the barrowdowns to my friends and no one understood. They didn't know what a Forum and a thread was. smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Duncariel]

I once got really bored and wrote the second verse of "Sam's song in the Tower" (one of my favorite LOTR poems) out around the corners of my science notes, turning to a different corner for every line

I have done that! Only it was the Song of Luthien (or something like that, I can't find the name). I walked around Campus during a conference shouting it at the top of my lungs. If you want weird looks, that's a good way to get them.

[Finwe]

Try walking around your school yelling the drinking song at the top of your lungs. Now THAT is guaranteed to get you strange looks, especially when you skip along the halls, arm in arm with your friends.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

The Lay of Leithien. Don't ask me why it's spelled that way, it's only a song about my tragically doomed romance...

When all your computer passwords are LotR related...

*gasp* How did you know that? Are you spying on me?

Word of advice to all those people who are planning to wear a cloak to school: Don't. Unless you don't use a backpack because they are absolute he** to manage both cloak and backpack. I've tried it.

When you're looking forward to shouting "Do the wave for Boromir the Disco King" in the middle of your school lunchroom. (Crowded school lunchroom; there are 2500+ at my school...how fun to freak all of them out at the same time!)

Edit: How cool, Finwe! I'd do that, only I don't have any friends who'd be willing to do that with me... smilies/frown.gif

[ July 24, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]

[Duncariel]

The Lay of Leithien. Don't ask me why it's spelled that way, it's only a song about my tragically doomed romance

Does it start with "The leaves were long, the grass was green" ? I think that the Lay of Leithien is longer than the one I have memorized, either that or the one in the book is only a partial.

Edit: Hey, look! We have six pages now! Woopee!

[ July 24, 2003: Message edited by: Duncariel ]

[Elennar Starfire]

Try walking around your school yelling the drinking song at the top of your lungs. Now THAT is guaranteed to get you strange looks, especially when you skip along the halls, arm in arm with your friends.

Or in a grocery store, with elf hairdos. smilies/wink.gif

Does it start with "The leaves were long, the grass was green" ?

No, thats the poem Gimli says about Moria.

[Duncariel]

That was wonderfully smart, Elennar. In a sarcastic way, of course.

[elfearz1]

When someone mentions something about fish you either:

quote the riddle in the Hobbit "alive without breath, as cold as death..."

or say "give it to me raw and wiggling!"

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

Several more things I've done recently:

-When you go around muttering to yourself in a Gollumic manner and call your self "my Precious". Ex: "We don't like nassssty zucchini, do we? Oh no, Precious, we don't."

-When you talk to the tree in your backyard, hoping it will awake and become an ent.

-When you go walikng in a woodsy area and you and your friend pick out a tree to be "Treebeard".

-When you randomly memorize LOTR poems for fun, and recite/sing them whenever you get bored (especially when walking by yourself, ex: walking home from school).

[elfearz1]

When you start throwing away (good) clothes and clearing out drawers to make room for your collection (totally guilty!)

[Meneltarmacil]

When you stay up to ungodly hours of the night making posts on the Downs.

I am guilty of that right now! (I put this post in at quarter past midnight! smilies/biggrin.gif )

[ July 25, 2003: Message edited by: Meneltarmacil ]

[Tinuviel of Denton]

-When you go around muttering to yourself in a Gollumic manner and call your self "my Precious". Ex: "We don't like nassssty zucchini, do we? Oh no, Precious, we don't."

Scares my sis to d.eath when I do that. She says she worries about me...I wonder why?

And I wish that I could get to threads before Luthien does. I'm tired of having so little to post.

[ July 25, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]

[the guy who be short]

When you randomly memorize LOTR poems for fun, and recite/sing them whenever you get bored (especially when walking by yourself, ex: walking home from school)

So true. Except for me, its especally when I'm walking to, not from, school. But... recite? RECITE? You must sing them! They're so much better when you put a merry tune to them.

When you have learnt a mode of Cirth (Angerthas Moria) and a type of tengwar (Mode of Beleriand).
When your diary is in a mixture of those two alphabets. (Not guilty yet, but I will be).

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

But... recite? RECITE? You must sing them! They're so much better when you put a merry tune to them.

Oh, come now, guy who be short, you know very well that for some of the poems it was explicity stated that they were chanted or spoken, not sung. I have a tune for most of them, except one or two where I can find no suitable tune, but would you truly sing The Ring Poem, or Aragorn's poem (All that is gold does not glitter...)? And what about those songs which require mournful tunes instead of merry ones? Hmmmm? Would you sing Sam's Song in the Tower in a happy voice? smilies/wink.gif

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

And I wish that I could get to threads before Luthien does. I'm tired of having so little to post.



I think it has something to do with the times of the day that we're usually online. I'm on in the afternoons and evenings, and you seem to favor late evening and night. So I get here before you everyday, and consequently, since we're clones or something, I post everything that you had done and were planning to post. Very creepy, but seemingly true. smilies/smile.gif

[Tinuviel of Denton]

'Late' does not describe the unholy hours I keep...

Anyway, back on topic.

When you have joined several RPGs, post in Mirth and Novices frequently, and occasionally Books, and thus have no time to sleep. Yet you continue to come to this site.

I swear, there is no understanding some people... smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Diamond Green]

You know your obsessed with lotr when...

You read the books to your dogs!
(I did that last night, and they seemed to enjoy it quit a lot smilies/biggrin.gif )

[Meela]

I looked out of the window today and saw that it was a clear blue sky. And I said to myself, "Hmmm... I wonder what the weather's like in Edoras at the moment..."

Obsessed, or just plain crazy? smilies/smile.gif

[Tinuviel of Denton]

I think a little of both.

When you are at home instead of at the pool because you wanted to stay on the Downs. Besides, the constant staring at the computer is making you extra-sensitive to light.

When you have absolutely no time to sleep because you're reading the books (for the 17th time), playing in two RPGs, and trying to keep up with the D.T.s in the Books. (That's Doctors of Tolkienology)

When you 'kelebrate' because their is no post of Luthien's between your last two posts on this thread!

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

[Rilwen Gamgee]

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-When you go around muttering to yourself in a Gollumic manner and call your self "my Precious". Ex: "We don't like nassssty zucchini, do we? Oh no, Precious, we don't."
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Scares my sis to d.eath when I do that. She says she worries about me...I wonder why?

You're all spying on me! I know it!

~ When you make your own Shire callendar. smilies/biggrin.gif

~ When a moth for some reason lands on your finger and you try to talk to it in Elvish and ask if it knows Elrond.

[Lëowen]

When you randomly memorize LOTR poems for fun, and recite/sing them whenever you get bored (especially when walking by yourself, ex: walking home from school)

I did that when my mother dragged me on a three hour 'boat tour'. She thought I was crazy because I was repeated muttering the Lay of Leithian to myself. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

When you 'kelebrate' because their is no post of Luthien's between your last two posts on this thread!



Hey! smilies/biggrin.gif

When a moth for some reason lands on your finger and you try to talk to it in Elvish and ask if it knows Elrond.


I think I've done that a few times. What I do know is that my best friend was chasing a moth around her house once to catch it and do this very thing (I was there, it was kind of funny).

Okay, now to add to my list (more things I've done recently):

-When you decide that you actually prefer "kelebrate" to "selebrate".

-When you talk to your parents about "kelebrating" and they give you weird looks.

-When you start talking about the Barrow-Downs (once again to your parents), you get ignored, and they start talking about something different.

-When you get really bored and go through your dictionary finding words that would be pronounced differently in the Elvish languages than in English, and pronounce them the Elvish way (ex: read through all the words starting with "ce", "ci", "ai", and "ei". It's fun. You all should try it. You come up with some really crazy things.)

-You see a bottle of vitamins at the store and get all happy because it says "Sam-e" (S-adenosylmethionine).

[Lëowen]

When you decide that you actually prefer "kelebrate" to "selebrate".


I should start saying that...I already say 'kelery' instead of 'selery'. The scary thing is that my parents actually know what I'm talking about when I say that.

[the guy who be short]

Oh, come now, guy who be short, you know very well that for some of the poems it was explicity stated that they were chanted or spoken, not sung. I have a tune for most of them, except one or two where I can find no suitable tune, but would you truly sing The Ring Poem, or Aragorn's poem (All that is gold does not glitter...)? And what about those songs which require mournful tunes instead of merry ones? Hmmmm? Would you sing Sam's Song in the Tower in a happy voice?

Not sung, but the ring poem and Aragorns poem have certain rhythms to them which I always keep. And all songs must be merry! (My friend shouted at me for singing the Lay of Gilgalad with a happy tune.)

You have started writing a diary for the first time in many years. The purpose of this is that it's in Cirth and Tengwar, and you want to show off your obsessedness at the BD.

When you walk past a beech in the spring you automatically start singing "When spring unfurls the beachen leaf..."

[Tinuviel of Denton]

I have to make a confession. Until yesterday (well, the day before that now) I did not own a copy of the Ext. Edition of FotR. This was not due to my own lack of desire, mind, but through my parents' lack. Finally, after waiting almost two years, I have it.

My sister began to regret buying it in the checkout line, though, because I started jumping up and down right there in the middle of the store. While that's not so unusual for small children to do, I'm 17 and so nearly an adul.t that it's very silly for me to be jumping up and down and chanting some ditty about getting the Ext. Edition.

Never mind that it's got the gifts, and fixes Galadriel and it has all these great deleted scenes...

[ July 28, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]

[Lily Bombadil]

At home, I have to wash the dishes. So, whenever I'm doing chores, I sing Middle-earth songs. It's relaxing.

I drew Thror's map a while back and, since it turned out nicely, I keep it in a frame on my wall.

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

At home, I have to wash the dishes. So, whenever I'm doing chores, I sing Middle-earth songs. It's relaxing.

I do that sometimes. I used to listen to my LOTR soundtracks while doing dishes, but I had to adjust the volume too much and it got annoying (the songs go from really quiet to really loud, and I don't my neighbors would appreciate hearing it, especially since my mom says you can hear it already if you stand outside of our front door).

And Tinuviel: I know how you feel. I did just about the same thing about a month ago. We didn't get the extended version until June. My parents like it a lot, they're just not as excited about it as I am.

[Elennar Starfire]

When your cell phone has a LotR ringtone.

I don't have a cell phone, but would use a LotR ringtone if I did.

[Maikadurwen]

when you dig a hole in the ground and live there smilies/tongue.gif

[the guy who be short]

When your cell phone has a LotR ringtone.
Ill extend on that. Your sister's friend gives your sister a mobile phone to borrow for a week. You also "borrow" it, put the LotR theme tune on it, and leave. smilies/smile.gif

When you make up songs about LotR.

When you subconsciously make up songs about LotR.
That really happened to me! I was playing on my gameboy (yes, I'm afraid I own one of those despisable things smilies/eek.gif ) when suddenly I realised that my mind had at that same moment been making up songs about Tom Bombadil. They rhymed and all! And I hadn't even willed it... that, mein freunden, ist obsessed.

[Duncariel]

When you go around muttering to yourself in a Gollumic manner and call your self "my Precious". Ex: "We don't like nassssty zucchini, do we? Oh no, Precious, we don't."

and brussel sprouts, and cabbage, and carrots, and......

When all of the little boys in you church don't call you by you real name anymore, but by your elvish one. (I have finally accomplished this feat, I'm so excited!)

Since you don't have a horse, you call your riding lawn mower Asfaloth. It's not quite the same feeling to go riding around the yard shouting "noro lim Asfaloth, noro lim!" to a lawn mower, but it'll do for now. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Tinuviel of Denton]

When you (yes, I really did this) write "Do the Wave for Boromir the Disco King!" in the personal profile of your college application.

Oh, and a bike works better for "noro lim, Asfaloth, noro lim!"

[ July 29, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]

[Duncariel]

I have done that on my bike, but then I had the revelation that you don't pedal a horse, so it just didn't do it for me. smilies/tongue.gif

[ July 29, 2003: Message edited by: Duncariel ]

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

Yes, there is something rather unsatisfying about yelling "Noro lim!" to your bike and then pedaling faster. Perhaps a car would work better (if only I could drive.....)

[Elennar Starfire]

I sometimes ride my bike to my friend's house, and once when I was leaving my friend (who is also obsessed) said "Arwen, ride hard, and don't look back," so of course I said "Noro lim, Asfaloth!" to my bike.

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

I fully intend to write out all the poems in LOTR in a little booklet for quick reference and easier transport and simply for amusement. But maybe I'm just weird that way.

[Duncariel]

Oooh! I have a new one. When you put something in Elvish on your liscense plate. (I haven't done this yet, seeing as I can't drive, but will some day) Maybe it could say something like Noro lim.

[Sirithheruwen]

When you grow your hair out so you can braid it like the Elves.

When you paint your room all white to look like Rivendell.

That's all I can think of for now, but I'll think of more...Honest!

[elfearz1]

When your on vacation and your posting on the downs (he he)

When your on vacation and you sit in the hotel room and watch the ext. version. smilies/smile.gif (it played in the hotel, how cool is that?)

When your cell phone has a reminder feature (where ever time you turn on your phone it can say something like "remember to pick up b/f at airport.) and you change it to say "Frodo lives!" and no one who borrows your phone is surprised when they see it.

When something good happens you start singing "Kelebrate something something holidays... kelebrate!" ( i'm not sure whether you'd get wierd looks for not knowing the words or because of the "k")

I'm guilty of all of those except the last. smilies/wink.gif not yet anyway

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

When your on vacation and you sit in the hotel room and watch the ext. version. (it played in the hotel, how cool is that?)


That is awesome! Every hotel should do that! Next time I stay in a hotel, I should just demand LOTR treatment. Just imagine the weird looks I'd get. smilies/biggrin.gif Or else I should take my beloved FOTR Extended Version DVDs with me, and pray that the hotel room has a DVD player in it... smilies/tongue.gif

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

(When you kelebrate because you set a new record: the lastest post in the Quiz, Quotes, ME Mirth, Movies and Novices and Necomers fora! Go me! smilies/biggrin.gif (I just did this!)

[Finwe]

When you "kelebrate" that your younger cousin named his cute little black dog Frodo.

I'm also guilty of the riding lawnmower thing. Just imagine the strange looks I got from my neighbors when they heard me yelling "Noro lim Asfaloth!" to the lawnmower.

[The Elusive Spirit]

Luthien, I have started a notebook with all the poems and songs from LOTR. I started earlier this summer and am now over half way through FOTR. You'd be surprised how long it takes to write some of the stuff down! Sometimes it takes me days for one song. I definitely recommend doing it though.

Back to the topic, my friend and I have decided that we want our graduation song to be the "Breaking of the Fellowship" on the movie sound track.

[Elennar Starfire]

I prefer to memorize them, because then you don't have to flip pages in a little notebook to find the one you want. Of course it takes longer to memorize them, though.

[Duncariel]

My problem with getting weird looks from my neighbors, is that I only have One neighbor. And they're old. I don't want to give them a heart attack or anything. They pay me to watch their dog.

When the little boys in your church refuse to call you by your real name anymore, (Yeah!) only your elvish one.

When you've done every obsessive thing that you can think of that's legal. smilies/frown.gif
It's a sad day in the USA...

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

When you've done every obsessive thing that you can think of that's legal.
It's a sad day in the USA...

That is very sad... I don't suppose stalking actors to get them to sign one of your copies of LOTR as if they were their character is legal, is it? (No, I have not done this... yet).

I thought of something interesting today: I wonder if one could go an entire day quoting LOTR? If anyone said anything to you, you would have to reply with an LOTR quote, and anything you said would have to be a quote. I wonder if you could do this and have it still be relevant to the conversation? My mom thinks you could, but she said "That's a little bit obssessive". smilies/biggrin.gif So I guess my parents acknowledge the fact that I am truly obssessed. smilies/biggrin.gif Ah... bliss!

[the guy who be short]

I thought of something interesting today: I wonder if one could go an entire day quoting LOTR? If anyone said anything to you, you would have to reply with an LOTR quote, and anything you said would have to be a quote. I wonder if you could do this and have it still be relevant to the conversation?
I tried that. It's very hard to keep on topic, and I failed. Not that I stopped quoting - I just made little sense. So that idea, while is may seem fun, is nigh impossible.

When you block your contacts on Instant Messenger so you can have peace whilst reading at the BD.

[Duncariel]

I thought of something interesting today: I wonder if one could go an entire day quoting LOTR? If anyone said anything to you, you would have to reply with an LOTR quote, and anything you said would have to be a quote.

You know what, that sounds rather challenging. I'll have to try that at school this year. (not during classes of course, but that would be interesting, too. Hmmm....)

[Elennar Starfire]

That would be really hard. It would be a little easier if book quotes and movie quotes are allowed. I think I will try it!

When teachers ask if you have a nickname, and you ask them to call you by your elvish name, and when they ask you how you got that nickname, you give them a long, detailed explanation.

That's quite a run-on sentence, isn't it?

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

It would be a little easier if book quotes and movie quotes are allowed. I think I will try it!

Oh, but they are both allowed. That does make it easier. Good luck with your quoting! smilies/biggrin.gif

[elfearz1]

That is awesome! Every hotel should do that! Next time I stay in a hotel, I should just demand LOTR treatment. Just imagine the weird looks I'd get.
I know! I was so excited when I saw it. I missed a little bit of it though smilies/frown.gif . Everyone in my family just rolled their eyes when they came in my room and saw me watching it.

ooh! My Gandalf on Shadowfax and Sam,Frodo, and ringwraith action figures came today!! smilies/eek.gif *explodes from excitement* smilies/biggrin.gif

ok, I have one....
When you always have microsoft word open because your always on the Downs and you check all of your post's spelling and grammer, so they don't end up on the typos page. smilies/biggrin.gif (I'm sure I make a lot of mistakes, anyway. smilies/evil.gif)

[ August 02, 2003: Message edited by: elfearz1 ]

[elfearz1]

Oh dear, I thought of another one...
you automatically say "Hullo" instead of "Hello" and yours friends are used to it.

[Elennar Starfire]

When you're playing cards, and you notice that two of the jacks look like Sam and Legolas, one of the queens looks like Galadriel, and one of the kings looks like Gandalf.

[elfearz1]

When you're playing cards, and you notice that two of the jacks look like Sam and Legolas, one of the queens looks like Galadriel, and one of the kings looks like Gandalf. heh heh heh

Oh my, I am begining to scare myself...

When you wash your hands a million times before using your books

you make people who have food/drink/dirty hands stay 10 feet away from your collection telling them everything is "worth more then your life" (I do this just about everyday. Some people get rather offended, can't imagine why...)

(this is similar to something someone else said) When you tell your sister for the millionth time the difference between Elves and "Elfs" and she is so tired of hearing it she threatens you with a spoon.

You email Fox news telling them that E.L.F. gives Elves a bad name. bahahahahhaha (I couldn't help myself smilies/evil.gif ) My mom was the one who told me anway, she said: "these people call themselves Elf! Come watch this news report, you love Elves." Something like that.

[Amarantha_Daisy]

Oh, Eru... I see way too much of myself on this site... smilies/biggrin.gif

Okay, here we go...
-When creepy little kids you don't even know tell you that you look like a hobbit *it was scary...*

-When the above happens and you take it as a compliment *I'm quite flattered...*

-When your friends refuse to walk on the left side of the movie theatre because that's where the RotK poster is, and they wouldn't want to be seen with you while you squeal and drool... *heh heh*

I love you guys, smilies/cool.gif It's so hard to find such Tolkien-appriciative people nowadays... Thank Elbereth for the Barrow-Downs!

[elfearz1]

Hi Amarantha! Welcome to the downs!

I love you guys, It's so hard to find such Tolkien-appriciative people nowadays... Thank Elbereth for the Barrow-Downs! I agree!

no one will walk with me in the movie theatre too, because I cling onto the poster (TTT, because no ROTK posters are up in our movie theatres yet.) and scream and jump up and down and my friends have to drag me away from the poster and pry my hands off of it.

smilies/biggrin.gif

[Raefindel]

I'm pretty obsessed. I baked a pie and cut the "Doors of Durin" in the top crust.

[Lëowen]

I taped four pages of construction paper together, then drew the Doors of Durin on it and taped it up on my closet door (my mom wouldn't let me draw on the door itself). It looks pretty cool, actually.

[Elennar Starfire]

My friend once asked a person who worked at the theater if they had any spare RotK posters.

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

When you're playing cards, and you notice that two of the jacks look like Sam and Legolas, one of the queens looks like Galadriel, and one of the kings looks like Gandalf.

Oh? And which ones would those be? smilies/smile.gif

you make people who have food/drink/dirty hands stay 10 feet away from your collection telling them everything is "worth more then your life"

I'm always nervous when I let my friends handle any of my books, Tolkien books in particular. There's only one friend I can trust wiht them, and that's because he's even more concerned about the welfare of books than I am.

When creepy little kids you don't even know tell you that you look like a hobbit

How about the opposite? When creepy little kids you don't know look like hobbits themselves! (We have a few of those at my church. One of friends says that one of the little kids looks like Gollum.)

I'm pretty obsessed. I baked a pie and cut the "Doors of Durin" in the top crust.

That's really cool! I should seriously try that. Perhaps on my birthday cake..... *wheels in mind start turning furioulsy*

And now for a few of my own! (All of which I have done)

When you go through those catalogs of special cakes at the grocery store, looking for a LOTR cake, and either think about how unfair it is that they have a Star Wars cake and a Harry Potter cake, but they couldn't be bothered to make a LOTR cake, or else you get all happy because they do have LOTR cakes, and you start thinking up a way to get one of those fo ryour next birhtday party. (Now that was a run-on sentence worthy of the Round-About Game thread).

When you're at a bookstore and your mom asks if they have any old LOTR posters (the ones that they hang up around the store) so that you could have one. They've never given me one, though. smilies/frown.gif

When you think it's a major accomplishment to get other people more obssessed.

When you get really excited that someone mentions Tolkien or LOTR in conversation, and start going on and on about that.

When conversation dies, you immediately say something about LOTR in hopes of starting a discussion about that.

You get all excited when they play a preview advertising the TTT DVD at Blockbuster, and you watch it three times while you're there. (I did that yesterday!)

When you watch a movie that has an LOTR actor in it, and that fact causes you great amusement.

When you do the above and you just can't see the actor as whatever character they're supposed to be, instead you think "Hey! There's Boromir!"

When you get really hyper after coming home from Blockbuster (see above) partially because you're so bored and partially because it's possible that you will get to see your favorite LOTR actor in another good movie (maybe I'm just weird).

When you really bored at said Blockbuster, so you wander around looking for LOTR movies (new or cartoon).

When you have time to kill at the library, so you wander around looking at Tolkien books that you already have for no particular reason.

Well, that was a long list! Long live LOTR-obssession! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

In hindsight, that may very well have been my longest post on this thread ever. I hope you all don't mind it's length! smilies/smile.gif

[Elennar Starfire]

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Oh? And which ones would those be?


The king of diamonds, the queen of spades, and jack of clubs(Sam), and the jack of diamonds(Legolas).

[Raefindel]

Lëowen You're mom won't let you draw on the door? That's a drag! I let my kids decorate their own rooms! One has an "under the sea" mural; one has an "indiana jones" sorta theme, Yes, inca stones painted on the wall; and the third has a castle in her room.

I would love to paint the Doors of Durin on my closet!

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

Thanks. I agree with you on the jack of clubs. It does kind of look like Sam.

[Elennar Starfire]

You might have a different type of cards. They always have different pictures on the royal cards and jokers. Also since I was typing that from memory I might have gotten them mixed up. I'll have to check, but I'm being kicked off the computer, so I can't tell you now, sorry.

[peony_foxburr]

Your next two vacations are devoted to Tolkien events in far and distant places...and you're working on a third.

You scour the Web for life-size murals of Middle Earth-esque wallpaper (the kind that you paste up, not for computer screens).

You wish you had the nerve to make your non-LOTR obsessed daughter a birthday cake with the Doors of Durin design! (LOL, Raefindel) Maybe "Happy birthday" in Elvish...

[Tinuviel of Denton]

You get ideas from this thread...

You have no time for any other computer related activity because you're too busy looking on all the threads that you post on on the Downs.

You sew beads onto your clothing as a hobby, and your latest three projects are both LotR related (the Nauglamir on a shirt and a Silmaril on a cape and your LotR initials on a hat).

You and Luthien are pretty much the only two people on the Round-about Game who are bothering to try to make really long ones.

Oh, yes, instead of listening to the radio on a long road-trip you listen to FotR audiobooks (the unabridged edition, of course!)

[ August 03, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]

[Lëowen]

Raefindel, my mom let's my draw on my walls, just not on the door. In fact, quite near to my closet is a Tolkien symbol, and the line 'One Ring to rule them all and in the darkness bind them' written in Elvish script (like on the Ring), in runes, and just in Black Speech. I think I wrote the entire Ring poem somewhere on my wall, too....

[ August 05, 2003: Message edited by: Lëowen ]

[elfearz1]

When you actually contemplate cutting up your $80 (don't know how to convert that sorry) choir dress (which you still need for this next year) because the material would make a good elven cloak.

[Maikadurwen]

when you play with the little frodo and sam figures of your birthday cake smilies/biggrin.gif guilty smilies/biggrin.gif

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

You get ideas from this thread...

Hey! I was going to say that! Stop it, Tinuviel! smilies/wink.gif

You and Luthien are pretty much the only two people on the Round-about Game who are bothering to try to make really long ones.

Go us! smilies/biggrin.gif

when you play with the little frodo and sam figures of your birthday cake

Where did you get those? I need some!

[Maikadurwen]

i got them at.................dum dum dum .............uh.............bi-lo smilies/biggrin.gif
im crazy arent i

i have just made my friend who despises lotr love lotr smilies/biggrin.gif yay

[Tinuviel of Denton]

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Hey! I was going to say that! Stop it, Tinuviel!


That looks awfully familiar...

Anyway, your mother is starting to call you Tinuviel, just so that she can be sure of getting your attention.

Your best friend made you a CD of her favorite movie music and three of the tracks are from LotR and even without the movie and/or the other tracks, when they come on you start playing the scene in your head. (even if the next track is the Jurassic Park theme...)

[Amarantha_Daisy]

-After wearing it and finding out that you're not invisible, you return your Ring to the store, claiming that it "doesn't work"

-You track down the factory your Ring was made in so that you can cast it into the firey chasm from whence it came

-You knock out some poor factory workers in doing so.

-You had to show this site to your doctor to prove that there really are others like you.

-You speak Elvish to the milk in the bottom of your cereal bowl, hoping it will show you the scouring of your hometown.

Heh heh heh... This thread gives me some great ideas...thanks, guys! smilies/wink.gif ...Hey! Wait! that's another!

-This thread isn't a warning to you, it's where you pick up ideas...

[Meneltarmacil]

When your friends refuse to walk on the left side of the movie theatre because that's where the RotK poster is, and they wouldn't want to be seen with you while you squeal and drool... *heh heh*
I cling onto the poster (TTT, because no ROTK posters are up in our movie theatres yet.) and scream and jump up and down and my friends have to drag me away from the poster and pry my hands off of it.
Well, I'm not going to go to the movies with YOU any time soon.

[ August 05, 2003: Message edited by: Meneltarmacil ]

[the guy who be short]

I have got te inscription of the doors of Durin on my bedroom door. I think I may as well get the rest of it as well, now.
It's true, I do get ideas from here.

When a large percentage of your friends are people who you met at the BarrowDowns.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

When a large percentage of your friends are people who you met at the BarrowDowns.

I'm not the only one!

When you know Downers better than you know the people in your classes at school.

When your little brother calls you by your elvish name, and it makes your day!

When you have two different threads for posting obsessions signs (this one and "Top Ten signs that you're addicted to the Barrow-downs.")

[elfearz1]

When you have two different threads for posting obsessions signs (this one and "Top Ten signs that you're addicted to the Barrow-downs.") heh heh smilies/evil.gif

When a large percentage of your friends are people who you met at the BarrowDowns. or when your sister starts calling the people on the downs your friends, because you talk about them more then the ones you have offline.

[Elennar Starfire]

I did get the cards mixed up! Its the king of hearts, the queen of diamonds, the jack of clubs(Sam, I got that right at least) and the jask of spades.(Legolas)
*hits self on head several times* owwww...

When you change the words of "oh christmas tree" to : (don't kill me, please, Meela!)

Oh Denethor, oh Denethor,
Your fireworks are such a bore.
All you have is burning kings,
They don't even have golden rings,
Oh Denethor, oh Denethor,
Your fireworks are such a bore.

Actually my friend did that, but she almost never posts here(only once), even though she is registered.(Tymezennith)

[ August 05, 2003: Message edited by: Elennar Starfire ]

[Amarantha_Daisy]

-When you start making obscure refrences to LotR with nearly everything you do.

Hey...the caramel on this ice cream looks like Boromir's hair color...

[Duncariel]

You had to show this site to your doctor to prove that there really are others like you.

Tried this, but my doctor still won't believe me.

When you go online at least twice in the same hour so that you can fake the computer into saying that you have only been on for half an hour.

When your friends refuse to evengo to the movies with you for fear that you will see an LotR poster.

My brother used to sit and watch me post on the Downs, now he just screams and runs away when I go in the internet.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

When you go online at least twice in the same hour so that you can fake the computer into saying that you have only been on for half an hour.

Heh, will have to try that sometime.

Your best friend, who likes sci-fi, has begun to get your random references to LotR.

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

When you know Downers better than you know the people in your classes at school.

Me too! The thing is, I wouldn't want to know most of the people in my classes very well..... smilies/rolleyes.gif

When you think the Barrow-Downs counts as socialization. (That one should really be on the other thread).

When your mom starts making obscure LOTR references to amuse you ("Hey look, here's a brochure for a class on knives! You would enjoy that, wouldn't you?")

When your mom starts bringing up random LOTR topics in conversation.

Another obscure reference one: Your mom has a joke with you about "pints", and you talk about pints often, even in front of other people ("Do you have your pint?" [Did you know that a normal-sized bottle of water is usually about a pint? smilies/evil.gif ]) or else showing each other coupons for pints (of icecream) and grinning evilly.

I seem to really be affecting my mom, don't I? And that's not even the beginning of it.

[elfearz1]

When your mom starts talking about how studly Aragorn is. smilies/eek.gif

Well, I'm not going to go to the movies with YOU any time soon. well! fine then! smilies/tongue.gif

[ August 06, 2003: Message edited by: elfearz1 ]

[Maikadurwen]

when you take the little frodo and sam figures off said birthdaycake in earlier post
to school with you (soooooo guilty) smilies/biggrin.gif

[Maikadurwen]

one does not simply walk into the prinipals offfice, there is evil there that does not sleep,the very air you breathe is a poisonious phume. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Elennar Starfire]

When your mom starts talking about how studly Aragorn is.

It's pretty scary when your English teacher does that, too.

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well! fine then!

I'll go with you, elfearz!

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

Take me! Take me! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Orominuialwen]

When the local Borders (a bookstore) is moving, your mom goes and buys the giant 3D cardboard cutout that looks like the cover of the FotR video for you and your brother.(YES, this is true! smilies/biggrin.gif)

When you tell everyone you know who has read LotR that they NEED to read the Silmarillion.
More later-gotta go.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

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I'll go with you, elfearz!

Luthien: Take me! Take me!

Can I come too? (Warning: I may attempt harm on anyone who gets between me and the poster!)

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

I believe we shall all have to take turns. Shall we go oldest first, or quickest first? I'll most likely be last either way. smilies/biggrin.gif (Hint: Yes, I do intend to quote a certain conversation about hobbit baths). smilies/smile.gif

[Finwe]

Smooth, real smooth Luthie! smilies/biggrin.gif

When your mom starts drooling over the Aragorn RotK poster too. (Be afraid, be very afraid.)

When you buy a cheap $ 24.95 sword in Mexico, with two back-to-back eagle heads on the pommel, and name it Soronnaro, and practice killing Orcs with it in your room. (Guilty!)

[Orominuialwen]

When you dance for joy because:
Someone said your little brother looks like Frodo
Your friend said the way you did your hair makes you look elvish
There's a place near the city where you live that sells and makes swords smilies/biggrin.gif and your mom says she'll take you there smilies/cool.gif
you find out there's a fencing club in your school smilies/smile.gif
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When you dress up as Arwen for Halloween and go trick-or-treating with your brother (Frodo), even though people say you're too old to do such things

When yu us eyour elvish name as an e-mail address even though most people have major trouble spelling it , let alone pronouncing it. :

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Hey, Oromin, glad to see that I'm not the only one who has an impossible to pronounce email address. (at least these silly mortals seem to think so. smilies/biggrin.gif )

When you never say 'thank you' in English (or whatever your national language happens to be) and nobody has to ask you what 'hanon le' means anymore.

When you introduce yourself by your elvish name, even though you haven't legally changed it yet.

[Orominuialwen]

When you "see" BDers more than your other friends. Maybe this should go in the addicted to BD thread. Oh well.

[Elennar Starfire]

you find out there's a fencing club in your school

Oh! I'm sooooo jealous!

No one can pronounce my elvish name properly either, I get called "pickley".
(My name translated into elvish is Poicalë)

When you get a blister on your finger from writing the lay of Leithian, because you don't have your own copy of HoME and the library copy has to be taken back in three weeks.

[Amarantha_Daisy]

My name translated into elvish is Poicalë

Hey Elennar, how *do* you pronounce that? Just curious...My Elvish isn't that great... smilies/frown.gif

-You've ridden a stuffed horse down the staircase while shouting "Noro lim, Asfaloth! Noro lim!" *guilty*

-You've recited "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" over the phone to a confused telemarketer. *guilty again*

-You buy your capris extra baggy and call them your "hobbit pants" *guilty thrice*

-You just got yelled at by your mom 'cause you have to do chores, and you muttered under your breath "auta miqula orcu" ...*I'll be back smilies/evil.gif *

[Elennar Starfire]

Hey Elennar, how *do* you pronounce that? Just curious...My Elvish isn't that great...

It's like poy cah lay.

[elfearz1]

...My Elvish isn't that great... oh don't worry. My pronounciation is horrible.

Also, good job for tormenting telemarketers, they bug me so much! smilies/mad.gif
I should try that sometime! I bet they wouldn't call here anymore. smilies/evil.gif


Oh, and you can all come with us to the movies! Except Menel who doesn't want to! smilies/tongue.gif *sniff*

[ August 07, 2003: Message edited by: elfearz1 ]

[ August 07, 2003: Message edited by: elfearz1 ]

[Nehani]

Okay, here be mine (enjoy):

You spend the whole of your luch period at lordoftherings.net waiting for Billy Boyd. One day, at my dad's office, we got Billy Boyd first off. Genevieve and I danced around chanting "Bill-y Boyd" over and over. I got really wierd looks from my Dad!

When ever you see a spider you scream "DIE MINION OF SHILOB!!!!" and attack it with a swifter (Genevieve just puts a dixie cup over it, and gets help, so cute!)

I have seen many ents, mainly ones that resemble hemlocks (lanky and thin) and spruces (burly) thought. They're very majestic up here (AK). I don't care what you say, I've seen many of them!

Okay, my friend wrote this, and I helped some. It goes to that one song (I don't know the name of)"...we took a little bacon, and we took a little beans, and we fought the bolddy British at the Battle of New Orleans"

In thirty nineteen we took a litte trip, along with all the Riders along the Mighty Anduin. We took a little Lembas and we took a lot of beer, and we met the Nameless Army on the Fields of Pelenor.

We loosed our arrows but the orcs kept a comin'. There wasn't neigh as many as there was a while ago. Frodo burned the ring and they comenced a runnin', on up the Poros River to the gates of Moradora (it had to fit!)
We all went back to Gondor, where Aragorn was crowned. Two sets of lovers married, and a new white tree was found.
(so yah, feel free to add on)

When ever I'm about to go onstage, I chant "Feanor give me streanght" It works too, it gets reid of all my butterflies!

Yah, I do alot of other things, but hose are the best!

Nehani fo the Entish Forest

[Duncariel]

-You've recited "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" over the phone to a confused telemarketer.

Oh, that is the coolest idea! You haven't copyrighted it or anything, have you?

Oh! I want to come with you too, elfearz! I haven't got anything else to do.

[Nehani]

Oops! I screwed up a verse. It goes like this:

So now we've won and the mighty quest is done. Frodo lost a finger and we all had lots of fun. Now we're back at Gondor, where Aragorn was crowned. Two sets of lovers married, and a new White Tree was found.

Toodles!

[Amarantha_Daisy]

Oh, that is the coolest idea! You haven't copyrighted it or anything, have you?

smilies/biggrin.gif Nope, go right ahead! It's highly recommended. I can just imagine the faces on these telemarketers when people start reciting to them in Elvish smilies/wink.gif Someday I hope to find someone who starts reciting *with* me...

Woo! Mondo-movie party!

[ August 07, 2003: Message edited by: Amarantha_Daisy ]

[maura baggins]

these are great

[Mariska Greenleaf]

-You've recited "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" over the phone to a confused telemarketer.

Don't you ever do that to me!!! (to understand, check "jobs" in the Barrowdowns)
smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/eek.gif

[Sirithheruwen]

When you name trees, and then whisper "wake up!" to them. I have friends Leaffingers and Greenlimb.

When you commentate your llife in your head. I do that constantly.

When you compare your life to Tolkiens.

When you compare your life to LOTR.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

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Don't you ever do that to me!!! (to understand, check "jobs" in the Barrowdowns)

Mariska, all you'd have to do would be to join in. You'd get to meet one of us Downers. That would be cool, but no one seems to live in my area...

When you chant "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" to calm yourself when your sister is being a brat. (amazingly enough, it works!)

[Mariska Greenleaf]

Mariska, all you'd have to do would be to join in.

I probably would... smilies/biggrin.gif

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

When your mom starts drooling over the Aragorn RotK poster too. (Be afraid, be very afraid.)


smilies/eek.gif Why does everyone's mom like Aragorn? That's getting a little creepy. My mom likes him for his character/ personality, so I guess that still counts. But everyone's mom liking Aragorn is just a little bit creepy.

you find out there's a fencing club in your school

I wish I went to your school! smilies/biggrin.gif

You've recited "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" over the phone to a confused telemarketer.

Must... do... now!

You buy your capris extra baggy and call them your "hobbit pants"

You just gave me a very good idea... now I know what to call the extremely baggy and somewhat short khaki pants I made in "Family Consumer Science" class a year and a half ago... (as long as you don't mind). smilies/smile.gif

[Duncariel]

I did the telemarketer thingie last night. They hung up on me. smilies/biggrin.gif

My mom has the same "fascination" for Aragorn that most do. But she seems to like Frodo more...someone please gag me with a spoon, or some other dull object. It's killing me. *falls on the floor*

[Amarantha_Daisy]

I did the telemarketer thingie last night. They hung up on me.

*cheers* smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/wink.gif That's great! Yeah...they hung up on me, too. But it was fun while it lasted! Gives you that nice, satisfying, I've-scared-someone-today feeling, doesn't it?

Mariska, all you'd have to do would be to join in.

Yes, please do! If you ever happen to call my house, you'll know it's me smilies/wink.gif Just recite with me. I'll say hi. smilies/wink.gif

[Who in all Felturn is that?]

You know that you are obsessed with LOTR
when you buy Tolkien book that cost $275

And when you can recite the whole movie.

guilty of the first but not the second

[Amarantha_Daisy]

You know that you are obsessed with LOTR when you buy Tolkien book that cost $275

Hi, Tinuviel's sister! Sorry, had to say it smilies/wink.gif Any-woo, which book was this that cost so much?! Was it a special, rare copy or something? That's expensive! smilies/eek.gif

Any-woo, back to the thread. I've been off-topic lately...

-When you name inanimate objects after LotR characters. *Say hello to Boromir, the origami penguin!*

-When you read this thread for ideas...

-When you read this thread for ideas and still have more to add

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Actually, she bought leather-bound, gold-embossed copies of the trilogy, the Hobbit, and the Silm. While I love the things, I would never manage to pay that much for them.

(She got very mad at me for the sister bit smilies/biggrin.gif )

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

Actually, she bought leather-bound, gold-embossed copies of the trilogy, the Hobbit, and the Silm.

Oh, I want them so bad! But they're too expensive for me... Maybe someday, when I have a well-paying job or something.

I've tried to recite the whole movie (FOTR) before, but there are certain parts I get stuck on, even after seeing it fourteen times. I guess I'll have to watch it a few more before I can recite the whole thing. I can recite most of it pretty well, though. I believe I can do almost the entire Council of Elrond scene!

So has everyone been greeting her as your sister, Tinuviel? smilies/tongue.gif I did that, too. I should do it again. Welcome to the Downs, Tinuviel's sister! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Elennar Starfire]

I've tried to recite the whole movie (FOTR) before, but there are certain parts I get stuck on, even after seeing it fourteen times.

Hey, I've seen it fourteen times too! Cool!

When you get blisters on the bottom of your feet from walking aroud barefoot, like a hobbit, and as soon as they heal you start walking around barefoot again.
(hot streets, owwie!)

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

walking aroud barefoot, like a hobbit

I love going barefoot! I only really do it at home or on grass, though. Shoes are evil! smilies/tongue.gif Yeah, if I'm in a field or something, I'm usually the first one to take off my shoes.

[Tymezennith]

Not sure about this one, but all well.
When somebody insults you, you fill your lungs and shout-sing, "These wounds they will not heal!" from TTT soundtrack

hehe... I scared the crap out of some guys who honked at me.

[Elennar Starfire]

I love going barefoot! I only really do it at home or on grass, though. Shoes are evil! Yeah, if I'm in a field or something, I'm usually the first one to take off my shoes.

I went to the Festival of the American West with Tymezennith and we walked around barefoot all day, in great skirts.
(But I stepped in something nasty, which was not very fun.)

[ August 09, 2003: Message edited by: Elennar Starfire ]

[Amarantha_Daisy]

walking aroud barefoot, like a hobbit

Yeah, I love walking around barefoot. Especially in my 'hobbit pants' and with mussed hair. It's short and brown, so it works. smilies/biggrin.gif

...I'm watching FotR right now... They're trying to enter Moria. heh heh... Hint, guys: Mellon! The password is 'mellon!!' ...Awwwww... poor Bill. Any-woo, back to the thread.

-Your friends and family refuse to watch the movies with you because you mutter the lines under your breath and point out things that "weren't in the books"

-You also comment on things from the Extended Edition's "Fellowship of the Cast" such as Dom's splinter and Sean's directing of the helicopters.

-You sleep with your Ring

-You dream of your Ring

-You don't know why people say those last two are "unhealthy" ... smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Tinuviel of Denton]

You attempt to tell a group of three-year-olds the story of LotR, and are confused when all you get is blank looks.

You design a sigil for yourself, based on the laws of heraldry in ME (working on it).

You embroider niphredil on your midnight blue cape with beads (that takes hours!).

[Galenfea of Mirkwood.]

Your littlest cousin (2) comes round and you decide to begin his education with the differences between an elf and a pixie (guilty as charged) and next time he comes you plan to start reading LotR aloud to him (also guilty as hell!) smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Finwe]

When the only way that your baby brother will go to sleep is if you tell him the story of The Hobbit.

When you swear that Bag End is in your backyard. (There's a hill-type thing in my backyard that slopes down in the front exactly like Bag End).

[the guy who be short]

When you spend your spare time thinking of stuff you've done to add to here.

You get annoyed because you had loadsa stuff to post here and cant remember it. You start hitting the computer.

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

When you spend your spare time thinking of stuff you've done to add to here.

You get annoyed because you had loadsa stuff to post here and cant remember it. You start hitting the computer.


I'm very guilty of both of these. You people know me too well. Stop it!

When you swear that Bag End is in your backyard. (There's a hill-type thing in my backyard that slopes down in the front exactly like Bag End).


Even better: I have seen hobbit holes! I'm not kidding! My dad has shown me houses with round doors, and I've seen underground houses, too. (I've never been inside one, though.) Once my friend showed me an underground house that looked very hobbitsy because it was built into a hill. I got very excited.

You design a sigil for yourself, based on the laws of heraldry in ME (working on it).


Where did you find the laws of heraldry? Where?

Dom's splinter and Sean's directing of the helicopters.

Oh? What do you say about them?

-When you say to your cousin's cat: "Have I ever told you the tale of Frodo Nine-Fingers and the Ring of Doom?" (Loose quote from RotK! Seriously!)

-When your friend's dog is named Sam and you recite all the Sam lines you can think of to it.

smilies/biggrin.gif

(Why am I writing only about pets? That's a little odd.)

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

When you get very excited that you just added a ninth page to this thread! Mwahaha! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Mariska Greenleaf]

When you go to the movies, and no matter what movie you are watching, everything reminds you of LOTR...

I've just been to Terminator 3, and for some reason I expected to hear the lotr filmmusic to start playing at any minute. smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif

[Nehani]

When the dog you're pet sitting does something really stupid (like runs into a wall for example) you say "You fool of a Took-Ruddy-Dog!" That got really cunfuzin after a while!:rooleyes:

[Amarantha_Daisy]

Oh? What do you say about them?

Well, at the part where Dom gets his splinter, I yell "Owch!" a bit loudly, and proceed to tell everyone in the room the story... And whenever there's a mountain scene I wave my arms like I'm directing helicopters and get funny looks from my parents... smilies/cool.gif

When you spend your spare time thinking of stuff you've done to add to here.
You get annoyed because you had loadsa stuff to post here and cant remember it. You start hitting the computer.


Yep. I'm guilty as charged smilies/biggrin.gif I hate forgetting things like that...

-Your siblings insist you speak Elvish to their friends, just to show off your geek-ness *I told him to go kiss an orc smilies/rolleyes.gif *

-You just barely escape death by making LotR comments while watching Harry Potter in a room full of HP fans... *Heh heh...Basilisk? No way. BALROG!!!*

-You walk to your friend's house barefoot, ignoring the scaldingly hot pavement and rocky backroads... *I'm gonna have blisters tomorrow*

-You get your mom to do the wave for Boromir the disco king. *I couldn't help myself! They were playing disco on the radio!*

[Tinuviel of Denton]

My computer's throwing a fit, so I can't give you a link, but there's a link to a site about the laws of heraldry in ME on the third page of RPG Resources in the Shire.

[Socialist]

When you dream of building and living in a hobbit hole.

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

Whenever you're in the cinema, just before a movie starts you always audibly whisper (so the entire cinema heres) "So it begins." Guilty.


I should do that! Do you mind if do? The only problem being that if I did no one would ever want to go to the movies with me ever again. I guess I would have to go with all of you then!

When you see "new recipe" on some packet of food (mmm... food) you instantly say. in your best Borrums voice, "What is this new recipe?" Will be guilty.

Once again, do you mind if I copy? The "what is this new..." thing is a really adaptable quote, I can't believe I haven't realized it's usefulness until now.

[the guy who be short]

Once again, do you mind if I copy? The "what is this new..." thing is a really adaptable quote, I can't believe I haven't realized it's usefulness until now.



I don't mind if you copy either of them. With the "what is this new..." one, I used recipe 'cos it rhymes with devilry. Better effect. smilies/smile.gif

This is the third time I'm typing this:

You go to Leicester with your family, taking four toothbrushes. When you return you notice there are only three. You go up to your dad, toothbrushes in hand, and say in your most mystical voice, "Three there are here, yet four set out from Leicester."

You don't get a weird look from your dad for this.

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

You don't get a weird look from your dad for this.

That's the ultiamte parent conditioning: when they're finally used to all the LOTR weirdness, and take it for granted, even join in!

[Elennar Starfire]

-You walk to your friend's house barefoot, ignoring the scaldingly hot pavement and rocky backroads... *I'm gonna have blisters tomorrow*

Owwie! That's exactly what happened to me, except I was walking home from my friend's house. I recommend getting blister pads, they help a lot!


Whenever you're in the cinema, just before a movie starts you always audibly whisper (so the entire cinema heres) "So it begins." Guilty.

When you see "new recipe" on some packet of food (mmm... food) you instantly say. in your best Borrums voice, "What is this new recipe?" Will be guilty.


Will be guilty of both as soon as I have a chance.

You go to Leicester with your family, taking four toothbrushes. When you return you notice there are only three. You go up to your dad, toothbrushes in hand, and say in your most mystical voice, "Three there are here, yet four set out from Leicester."

Nice!

I had a really good one, but I can't remember now! *Bangs head against wall*
owwww... Nope, I still can't remember, dangit!

Edit: I remembered! YAY!!

When people write things in your yearbook like: "Learn a language people actually know! Elvish is useless!" Or "Bye, LotR freak"

[ August 12, 2003: Message edited by: Elennar Starfire ]

[Amarantha_Daisy]

Owwie! That's exactly what happened to me, except I was walking home from my friend's house. I recommend getting blister pads, they help a lot!

Hmmmm... good idea. Barefoot is fun, but the results aren't so much...

You go to Leicester with your family, taking four toothbrushes. When you return you notice there are only three. You go up to your dad, toothbrushes in hand, and say in your most mystical voice, "Three there are here, yet four set out from Leicester."

smilies/biggrin.gif That's bloody brilliant! I wish I could come up with something like that at a moment's notice...

-You have 5 lists in your "Favorites" One for general LotR sites, one for LotR games, one for LotR Humor, one for LotR Fanfiction Archieves, one for LotR Message Boards, and one for LotR Humor. *heh heh...I book mark waaaaay too many sites*

-You're currently in debt to your mom because you just couldn't help yourself at Kay-Bee toy store. So...many...action figures... *But hey, now I have Boromir!*

[Rilwen Gamgee]

~ When you and your sister walk into a jewlry store at the mall and you immediately walk over to the "ring section" and start muttering to yourself in a Gollum-ish manner, until your sister has to drag you out of the store.

~ When you plan on wering your Hobbit costume to "RotK", even thought you know your family might not sit with you. smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Tinuviel of Denton]

When your best friend makes up her own language, just so that she can have comebacks to your random elvish.

When you're in line for a roller coaster, and it's a really long line, and you start talking to the in front of you. Somehow, you manage to get the conversation around to LotR, and educate her very thoroughly about why the movies are not the best source for LotR knowledge. You then explain to her exactly why HP is not a wizard...

You no longer get strange looks from your best friend when you say random things involving LotR. (It's best when it's a quote from the book only, because she doesn't know those yet.)

[Kaiserin]

You know you're obsessed when you continually attempt to write poetry with a prosopopoeia (or apostrophe) to any of the Valar.

You know you're obsessed when you insist on refering to yourself as an elf-friend.

You know you're obsessed when you complement pretty ladies by saying, "You look as worshipful as Galadriel".

You know you're obsessed when you've registerd in every LOTR-related site you can find.

[Amarantha_Daisy]

You no longer get strange looks from your best friend when you say random things involving LotR.

Yep...That's me. Although sometimes they'll roll their eyes and give me that "Here she goes again" look...

-When you can type "Lord of the Rings" faster than you can type your name smilies/wink.gif

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

*heh heh...I book mark waaaaay too many sites*


That's me! I have a section for LOTR things, a section for Barrowdowns things, a humor section which contains mostly LOTR humor, and a section for my favorite LOTR character (*coughcough*Sam*coughcough*). smilies/smile.gif

You no longer get strange looks from your best friend when you say random things involving LotR.

Ah, yes, one has made progress if one no longer receives strange looks. Although for some of us that stage is probably not that hard to reach. smilies/tongue.gif

I thought of a few more things I've done, so what could I do but share them with you all?

-When you notice little things written in Tengwar (done by other LOTR freaks), and you translate it. Response: "You can read that?!?" (I knew a guy who haad this necklace thingie that he carved elendili into, and so of course when I translate and we start to discuss the two meanings of the word, we get a couple of weird looks, "not agains", and "come ons" from the other people at our play practice).

-When you spend half an hour or so figuring out the characteristics of the an thennath poetic form, and write it all out as if doing a poetic analysis, instead of doing your homework (proof that anything is fun as long as it has to do with LOTR: I don't like doing poetic analysis. I liked doing this. Or perhaps it also has something to do with the fact that the only poem in an thennath that I know of is the poem about Luthien in FOTR). smilies/biggrin.gif

There! Were those long enough?

[Elennar Starfire]

When you try to write your own poetry in an thennath.

[Lëowen]

You start calling your friends by their Elvish names...and they actually respond. smilies/biggrin.gif

[elfearz1]

I think someone already said something similiar to this, but... I was swimming with my cousin in her pool and she said "Hey pass me the pig" (we had this wierd pig pool toy) and I replied "If you want him come and claim him! Nin o Chithaeglir, lasto beth daer
Rimmo nin Bruinen dan in Ulaer!" And then I was surprised when it didn't work. My cousin just stared...
smilies/biggrin.gif

[Tinuviel of Denton]

When you try to write your own poetry in an thennath.

You do that too? I thought I was alone...

Your dad reads FotR to your younger sibs, you're three rooms away, catch a sentence, and finish the scene in your head.

Your baby sister can say Laurelindorinan due to your persistence in teaching her.

[Elennar Starfire]

quote:
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When you try to write your own poetry in an thennath.
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You do that too? I thought I was alone...



I try. not succeed. My attempts are lousy. smilies/frown.gif

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

I try. not succeed. My attempts are lousy.

Yeah, same here. I'm sure I've done this, I just can't remember a specific instance (it sounds like something I would do). But it's really hard to get it right. The whole a,b,a,c,b,a,b,c thing is quite challenging (if anyone knows what I mean). smilies/smile.gif

[Lily Bombadil]

~I got two new kittens and named them nothing other than, Samwise Gamgee and Rosie Cotton.

~I like to dressup in Middle-earthen garb and swing a sword around. The other night I chopped off several inches of the pullchain on my ceiling fan doing that. Unintentionally, of course!

~I so long to build a hobbit-hole on my grandfather's farm in North Carolina. I also want to broaden the stream in his front yard and name it The Water. My sister thought this was dumb, but my mom says that lots of people build underground houses.

~I named the big creek on my granfather's farm, Bruinen. It has a GREAT place to act out the Arwen/Ringwraith scene!

[Lily Bombadil]

I carved the elf rune that Gandalf uses into a Magnolia tree in my back yard. By the way, I prefer to call them Mallorn trees. I also carved this rune at the rifle range (I call it Mordor). I wrote with a white rock on black rocks.

I think someone already said someone similar to this

I think it was me, Elfearz. I recall having done something liken to that while swimming with my sister & her friend.

[ August 15, 2003: Message edited by: Lily Bombadil ]

[Amarantha_Daisy]

~I like to dressup in Middle-earthen garb and swing a sword around. The other night I chopped off several inches of the pullchain on my ceiling fan doing that. Unintentionally, of course!

smilies/biggrin.gif That's great! I love to wear my cloak around...randomly... with my Ring and my "hobbit pants" ...So much fun.

--When you shape sugar cookies into LotR characters and act out scenes with them...

Heh heh heh smilies/evil.gif I sculpted the scene at the end of FotR with Frodo and Sam in the boat. *sniffles* I love that scene-it's one of my favorites. Makes me all teary...

The only thing with that is...the dough kinda melts in the oven...so the shape doesn't stay too well... Frodo and Sam kinda melted together to create a massive blob in the middle of half an Elven boat...

I have pictures! I was so proud smilies/biggrin.gif I should post them... I made Frodo, Sam, Boromir, Gimli, the eye of Sauron, and the boat scene. Heh heh... Sam kinda..broke. I dropped him... smilies/frown.gif but I ate the others. Yum.

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

I love that scene-it's one of my favorites. Makes me all teary...

Me too.....

I got two new kittens and named them nothing other than, Samwise Gamgee and Rosie Cotton.

Excellent! smilies/smile.gif

Well, a few more of mine (I keep forgetting the really good ones! Argh!):

-Yesterday I was randomly standing around and pretending to swordfight (even the sword was imaginary, mind you) in much the same way that Aragorn does in the movie. It was fun! smilies/biggrin.gif

-Many years ago, my class had fish in our room. Well, I fish-sat over the summer, and I named them all! There was Frodo, the young goldfish, and Sauron and Saruman, the little silvery ones, and I think the black-and-white ones were Gandalf and Sam or something like that!

-This isn't really about obssession as it is something that would make you happy if you're obssessed: When your parents actually seem to enjoy talking about LOTR with you! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Amarantha_Daisy]

-This isn't really about obssession as it is something that would make you happy if you're obssessed: When your parents actually seem to enjoy talking about LOTR with you!

smilies/biggrin.gif Yeah! That makes me happy. I love explaining LotR things to people, it makes me feel smart. And *that* is a rare thing! smilies/tongue.gif

--When you dress up like a hobbit/elf/ect, and prance around your house or in public- and it's not Halloween. smilies/evil.gif

--When you recite lines from LotR from the faintest resemblance. Like at my house...

My sister: *holds up object* It glitters!
Me: (complete with distant expression)All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost...
My Mom: (confused) What?
Me: (back down to Earth-unfortunatly) It's from the Lord of the Rings.
Everyone in room: *eye roll*

[steve]

You know your definatly obsessed when you put rogain on your feet so u look more like a hobbit (soon to be guilty of)

[elfearz1]

Your baby sister can say Laurelindorinan due to your persistence in teaching her. I did something like that. I was pet sitting for this talking bird and I tried to teach it lotr names.

That's great! I love to wear my cloak around...randomly... with my Ring I did that the other day. When I was doing my 'walk to rivendell' I got a lot of wierd stares. especially since everyone says I look a lot older then I really am.

When you shape sugar cookies into LotR characters and act out scenes with them when fotr came out on video I threw a party and wore bright yellow 'Tom' boots and made lotr themed food, which included bill the pony cookies (because I had a horse cookie cutter)

(I keep forgetting the really good ones! Argh! me too.
You know your definatly obsessed when you put rogain on your feet so u look more like a hobbit (soon to be guilty of)
smilies/biggrin.gif hahaha

Ok, you know your obsessed when.... you and your cousins make lotr parodies at midnight. We dressed up and all and I had my light and sound sting and I was fighting invisible orcs hahaha. My neighbors love us... smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Elennar Starfire]

-Yesterday I was randomly standing around and pretending to swordfight (even the sword was imaginary, mind you) in much the same way that Aragorn does in the movie. It was fun!

When I went to PotC with my friend, the film melted, and to pass the time while we were waiting for them to fix it we pretended to swordfight, with air swords, and I died. It was so fun!

[Amarantha_Daisy]

-Yesterday I was randomly standing around and pretending to swordfight (even the sword was imaginary, mind you) in much the same way that Aragorn does in the movie. It was fun!
When I went to PotC with my friend, the film melted, and to pass the time while we were waiting for them to fix it we pretended to swordfight, with air swords, and I died. It was so fun!

I love pretend swordfighting... I have not clue what I'm doing, though so it's basically just me waving my hand around like an idiot... But that's okaaaaay... smilies/biggrin.gif

I dressed up like a hobbit yesterday and scared my sister's boyfriend. I was speaking in Shire talk. "G'day, sir! Lovely day, isn't it? All bright and sunny and all; if you were to go out there you would sure melt on the pavement, and no mistake!"

That inspires me:
-You speak like a hobbit (or an elf...)
-You have dreams where you are Frodo *guilty sigh*
-You stay up till 3 in the morning reading LotR fanfiction. *Me?! No!*

[the guy who be short]

When you "borrow" pages from your Grans newspaper, cut out LotR characters from there, stick them on your wall, and pretend it never happened.
smilies/rolleyes.gif

[ August 16, 2003: Message edited by: the guy who be short ]