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

[Maikadurwen]

http://www.ninecompanions.net/CASTPICS/thumbnails/Weaving2.JPG smilies/eek.gif
this is a tremdously scary pictue of hugo/elrond smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif

[ September 20, 2003: Message edited by: Maikadurwen ]

[Finwe]

HAHA!!!! smilies/biggrin.gif

I saw The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert right after I saw the Fellowship of the Ring, so quite predictably, when I first saw Hugo in full-on drag-queen attire I did a double take and turned quite green around the gills. Of course, then I started laughing at his antics, but that initial reaction of mine was just priceless!

[Arwen1858]

ok, I haven't read the other pages of this thread, so forgive me if this one's been posted already!!

You see the words 'Middle East' and constantly read them as 'Middle Earth'
*grins and blushes* (not that I'm guilty of that or anything!) smilies/biggrin.gif
Arwen

[Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1]

when you get annoyed when people don't pronounce the double "n" in "Yavanna".
Right...how precisely do you pronounce it??? I always say it like yav-anna (as in the name Anna). Oh well...

Ditto, Arwen...
-When you mishear absolutely everything as something LotR related
-When you can turn every single conversation to discussion of LotR (not that it always works...my friends are used to me now and can just as skilfully turn the conversation back again smilies/rolleyes.gif )
Again, not guilty of these crimes, of course!

[the guy who be short]

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when you get annoyed when people don't pronounce the double "n" in "Yavanna".

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You pronounce it right. Basically, the double "n" is pronounced as in "unnamed," rather than "name".

[Goldberry]

Shouldn't the "anna" part be pronounced as "onna" as in "stop" instead of "anna" like the name? Ah, well.

You know you are obsessed with LotR when, at the Pinchas Zukerman and NAC concert last night (which was absolutely wonderful by the way smilies/biggrin.gif) you see a violin player whos mouth and facial expressions look remarkably like Billy Boyd, and immediately start naming the other members of the orchestra after Middle-Earth people. Let's see, that cellist is Arwen except with blonde hair...and that violinist is Bilbo, and that bassist is Aragorn...yessss...

[ September 21, 2003: Message edited by: Goldberry ]

[Amarantha_Daisy]

I've been pronouncing it like Yah-vah-nah. Am I the only one? ...Ah well. I'd been pronouncing Legolas the wrong way for the longest time before I was corrected. Smaug, too...

-When you can turn every single conversation to discussion of LotR (not that it always works...my friends are used to me now and can just as skilfully turn the conversation back again)

Don't you hate it when they do that? smilies/wink.gif

Don't meant to dampen thy parade, but it's Gil-Galad WAS AN elven king." I should know, I've memorised it.

Yes, yes... I was just trying to come up with a proper title or something... I'm working on the memorization. I keep mixing up the second verse... smilies/frown.gif

How many people are baking a cake or something for Frodo and Bilbo's birthday tomorrow?! I'm making lembas to bring to school *trying a new recipe smilies/smile.gif * And I'm dressing as a hobbit, including my cranberry-red cloak smilies/wink.gif

[ September 21, 2003: Message edited by: Amarantha_Daisy ]

[Maikadurwen]

look at this resturuant hobbit resturaunt (http://http://www.hobbitgifts.com/menu.html)

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

How about when you get into a big fight with your dad because the lembas you just kleptoed the waffle-iron for tastes nothing like waffles? Not that I did that, of course. And then you get into a fight with your mother because while trying to explain why the waffle iron was being used for something that isn't a waffle, she completely mistook the identity of what I was baking...er... mistook the identity of what that person was baking... *hehe... clever me... they'll never know...*

Fea

[Finwe]

I and my friends are baking a cake, and dressing up as Hobbits tomorrow. I'm even going to bring my walking staff (all right, it's a shower curtain rod, but they can double as staffs!). It's a pity that we can't bring fireworks inside the school, or on school grounds. It would have been so much fun to pull off a Merry-and-Pippin and blow a tent off of the ground, while setting off a dragon-shaped firework.

Ah, well.

[Elennar Starfire]

Um, I hate to rain all over your parties, but Frodo and Bilbo's birthday is Halimath 22, not September 22. The Shire-months are not the same as our months. Frodo and Bilbo's birthday was a week ago. If you want to kelebrate tomorrow, I won't laugh at you, I just thought you might want to know.

I went shopping with my mom yesterday and got the pattern for my elven-dress! I'm so happy! Also, we rented FotR EE and TTT, and had a movie marathon! (Feel free to throw things at me, but I don't own any LotR videos. It's sad, really.)*dodges thrown objects*

There's a guy at my school who looks like Merry, and his name is Sam!

[Goldberry]

Darn, I didn't realize that time-translation thing! Ah well, I'm going to kelebrate tomorrow whether it's official or not...hehe. Thanks, Elennar, for letting us know...that means next year we can kelebrate on both 22 Halimath and September 22! *cheers* smilies/biggrin.gif

I've been pronouncing it like Yah-vah-nah. Am I the only one?

That's the way I pronounce it.

[Finwe]

Yeah, I figured that out. I had my "private party" about a week ago, and tomorrow is going to be the public kelebration (for all the non-Tolkienites at my school who don't know better, and think that Middle-earth runs on the same calendar as we do).

[Amarantha_Daisy]

Um, I hate to rain all over your parties, but Frodo and Bilbo's birthday is Halimath 22, not September 22.

...I thought it said "September 22," not Halimath in the book. Chapter 1 in FotR, "A Long Expected Party" ...second page into the chapter in my version. smilies/confused.gif

Either way, we can still kelebrate!

[Naz]

I went to the Hobbit restaurant!^ ^ Yummy food.... *_*

And I'm just gonna.... kelebrate??... today!

[Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1]

Shouldn't the "anna" part be pronounced as "onna" as in "stop" instead of "anna" like the name? Ah, well.

Ok, I'm assuming you're American (sorry if that is a terrible insult because you're Canadian or something...or neither lol), because if I say 'anna' with an American accent it sounds really broad, whereas our (English) 'anna' is like the American 'onna'.

[Goldberry]

Oh, I understand now, Elentari. Yes, you assumed right, I'm from over here in the colonies. smilies/wink.gif

[Orominuialwen]

My school fencing club started on Friday!! It was great, and I met another LotR fan there too! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif We were all sitting on the floor, and I hear this girl behind me say "I'm from the Shire." So I turned around and said to her "Do you like LotR too?" It turned out that she does, and she's heard of the 'downs! smilies/cool.gif Today she came up to me and asked me what my name on the forum was and told me she was gonna join.

Today I told everyone I talked to "Happy Hobbit day!" Did you guys know that today is official Hobbit Day (even though it's not really Frodo & Bilbo's birthday) and that this is Tolkien Week? Unfortunately, I have no hobbit costume smilies/frown.gif to wear to school. I tried to get my little brother to wear his Frodo costume to school, but he wouldn't, which is especially too bad because he looks quite a bit like Elijah Wood. I would have stolen said costume to wear, except my brother is a head shorter than I am. smilies/frown.gif

You know you're obsessed when:
You write Happy Hobbit Day on your hand

You put notes in the Tolkien books in your school library that say " If you know what Do the wave for Boromir the disco king means, please PM Orominuialwen" That was a great idea, Goldberry! We should all do this!

(edit)Yay! I'm a Haunting Spirit!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif *goes dancing about room for joy*

[ September 22, 2003: Message edited by: Orominuialwen ]

[Arwen1858]

When you go to see Secondhand Lions just to see the ROTK trailer. (I'm going Saturday. I really want to go Friday, but it's not going to work out)
When you've considered taking up archery, then decide while sitting in the theatre watchng TTT to definitely get a bow... then get a recurve so you can be more elvish (yes, I'm guilty of that one, too!)

[Arwen1858]

When you buy a knife (it's a flipblade) that you wear at all times, and can't decide if you should name it Sting or Glamdring.

When you name your closet the Mathom House.
(my closet has some clothes in it that I do wear, but other than that, it's full of stuff I'm not using now, but might possibly need sometime)

When shopping for clothes, you constanly look for clothes that look more elvish, then give up, and decide to make some yourself, so you can give them the desired elvish look.

[Ainaserkewen]

Nice Arwen, I want elven clothes to.

-When it's Sept. 22nd and you go around writing
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILBO AND FRODO!
Everywhere!

[Daewen]

When you begin to see LOTR things everywhere...and I mean everywhere. The laundry room, billboards, dishwashers, your dogs food dish...not that this has happened to me of course...

[Sapphire_Flame]

when you get annoyed when people don't pronounce the double "n" in "Yavanna".
Also, when you get annoyed when people don't know the difference between Sindarin and Tengwar.

I was trying to explain this, saying that Tengwar was the alphabet used for the Ring-spell, and this girl says, "Oh, so Tengwar is the evil language that the wizard talked about?" smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif Oh, the stupidity...

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[the guy who be short]

I was humming LotR quietly in maths (well, I thought it was quiet!), and when I looked up, three people were staring at me with big grins plastered on their faces.

When the above happens to you.

When you plan everything you're gonna post here about 5 hours in advance.

[Goldberry]

Congrats, Orominuialwen, on your Haunting Spirit-ness!*cheers* smilies/biggrin.gif

I wasn't able to bake a cake like I had planned for Bilbo and Frodo's birthday, because I was at my dad's house, and my step-mother is rather wicked about my Tolkien obsession. smilies/frown.gif Oh well, I kelebrated in school...

My school fencing club started on Friday!!
Oooh, you're lucky! If my school had a fencing club, I would join faster than you can say Caradhras. smilies/wink.gif

Also, when you get annoyed when people don't know the difference between Sindarin and Tengwar.
Also, when you hear people refer to Legolas as "that hot blonde elf" or "the hot dude with the bow and arrow." smilies/eek.gif That really bothers me.


I was humming LotR quietly in maths (well, I thought it was quiet!), and when I looked up, three people were staring at me with big grins plastered on their faces.
haha smilies/biggrin.gif


PS - Sapphire and Daewen, cool new avatars! smilies/biggrin.gif

[ September 23, 2003: Message edited by: Goldberry ]

[Arwen1858]

Oooh, you're lucky! If my school had a fencing club, I would join faster than you can say Caradhras.
I'mnot in school any more, but if I had a place to take fencing, I'd definately do so! I wish so much I could take fencing! I'd love to get a real sword. Seeing PotC didn't help any with my sword obsession! Now all my favorite movies have swordfighting.

When you look at your mom's wedding ring (which happens to be a plain gold band...) and think, I wonder what would happen if I were to cast it into th fire... Then start imagining Elvish writing on it.
Arwen

[Tinuviel of Denton]

--When a sci-fi club starts at your school, you go to the meeting and immediately insist that it has to be a sci-fi/fantasy club. It actually worked too. The cool thing is that I met a lot of other people who like LotR! And we might go as a club to RotK!!!

--When you write LotR-related things all over your homework.

--When you have to write an essay in English and one of the topics is to compare Beowulf with a hero (tragic or epic) you immediately start planning an essay comparing him to either Frodo Baggins or Beren Camlost. Doc is going to give me an interesting look, I think. smilies/biggrin.gif

--When you manage to turn the group discussion of Beowulf to a discussion of LotR, while the teacher is sitting about a yard away. (I didn't claim that it was a good idea...)

[Sapphire_Flame]

Also, when you hear people refer to Legolas as "that hot blonde elf" or "the hot dude with the bow and arrow." smilies/eek.gif That really bothers me.
ARGH!!! smilies/mad.gif smilies/eek.gif smilies/mad.gif That is so infuriating! Curses to the mindless Leggie-boppers!

*takes a moment to calm down*
PS - Sapphire and Daewen, cool new avatars!
Hannon le, mellon nin! You ought to read the series I got that from. It's called Dragon Knights; look in the "graphic novel" section at the bookstore...

Heehee, this was awesome. Last Saturday I was watching some of the BYU-Stanford football game on TV with my dad; and I was thoroughly bored (I hate football). But then, the BYU marching band started playing the Fellowship theme from LotR! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif It was so cool. My opinion of BYU has now risen a few notches...

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Orominuialwen]

Congrats, Orominuialwen, on your Haunting Spirit-ness!*cheers* Thanks Goldberry!

When you get quite happy when your brother tells you he someone wearing Arwen's pendant on the bus.
When you become very jelous of the girl in your school named Arwen (yes there is a girl named that- she's so lucky, and she's not even a LotR fan!)

[Elennar Starfire]

-When, while writing "go back to the kitchen," you almost write, "go back to the shadow."

-When you wear your mile-counter thingy to school so you can get to Rivendell faster. (I walk about 2 miles everyday at school!)

In my theatre class, we have to do pantomimes, and we got title suggestions papers, and one of the ideas was "The disco king," but I modified my paper a bit, it says, "The disco squid." smilies/biggrin.gif

What really annoys me is when people pronounce "Elennar" wrong. They keep calling me "Eleanor." smilies/mad.gif Mortals... smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Orominuialwen]

When you get very hyperly excited because Oddwen has a quote from you in her signature smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif - everyone please visit theLotR and Beatles songs thread (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=17&t=000742)

[Goldberry]

Oooh, you have a new avatar too, Orominuialwen! Very nifty. smilies/cool.gif

You know you are obsessed when you say "Thag you very buch" to people. This caused my friend to tell me I'm weird. Yay! smilies/biggrin.gif

When you get quite happy when your brother tells you he someone wearing Arwen's pendant on the bus.

I just ordered it; I'm so excited! I spent almost all the money I made over the summer on the pendant and my pre-order for the extended DVD...ah, well. It's definitely worth it. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Amarantha_Daisy]

When you get quite happy when your brother tells you he someone wearing Arwen's pendant on the bus.
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I just ordered it; I'm so excited!

Ooo! Lucky! I'm going to a Rennaisance Faire on Sunday, and if I have money leftover I want to buy it smilies/wink.gif I'm getting a job soon, though...So I'll get it eventually... I hope. I announced at dinner that I wanted to buy a $75 piece of jewelery from LotR and my sister called me a "dork" ... heh heh

-When you spend all Spanish class drawing Boromir instead of studying for that big test...

-When your dad tells you to "Get back here and do your chores" and you respond with "But...I did what I came here to do, and I thought I'd be off soon..." (Okay so it's not the exact quote, but I couldn't remember the whole thing... I'll have to watch it again! smilies/wink.gif )

Argh! My dad just told me that when he went fishing with his friends this little 10 year old boy came and was speaking in Elvish! And he just tells me this now?! I wish I could have met him...

[Arwen1858]

When you write music for the rest of "The Road goes Ever On" so you can sing the whole song instead of just thepart Gandalf sings in the movie.

When you watch the scene with Pip and Merry singing in FOTR EE 5 times, desperately trying to catch the words they're singing at the beginning of the song.

[Meela]

I could have sworn this was already here, but in case it isn't:

~ you know you're obsessed when you are planning to kelebrate Bonfire Night for all the wrong reasons.

*cackles and gets her matches and Denethor shrine ready*

[Sirithheruwen]

~ you know you're obsessed when you are planning to kelebrate Bonfire Night for all the wrong reasons.

*cackles and gets her matches and Denethor shrine ready*

Right Meela! I'll be looking for a very large blaze in the sky come Bonfire Night!

-When your dad tells you to "Get back here and do your chores" and you respond with "But...I did what I came here to do, and I thought I'd be off soon..." (Okay so it's not the exact quote, but I couldn't remember the whole thing... I'll have to watch it again! )

Or...When your parents ask you to do something you say, "I know what I must do...it's just...I'm afraid to do it." smilies/biggrin.gif

When you become very jelous of the girl in your school named Arwen (yes there is a girl named that- she's so lucky, and she's not even a LotR fan!)

Oooooooh...jealous jealous jealous jealous jealous!

ARGH!!! That is so infuriating! Curses to the mindless Leggie-boppers!

Alas, for I used to be one. *dodges angry tomatoes thrown at her* BUT NOT ANYMORE!!! HONEST!!!
*takes a moment to calm down*

Yes, I get quite exciteable very easily. *breathe in...breathe out...breathe in...*

I think that is quite a long post and definitly enough for one day (or one millenia) Here's one more:

^When you sneak on the computer when no one's home and go on for HOURS! (I'm actually doing that right now! smilies/wink.gif )

Byeness!

[Meneltarmacil]

--When a sci-fi club starts at your school, you go to the meeting and immediately insist that it has to be a sci-fi/fantasy club. It actually worked too. The cool thing is that I met a lot of other people who like LotR! And we might go as a club to RotK!!!

Whoa! Tinuviel, you just described the sci-fi/fantasy club at MY school frighteningly accurately. Are you sure you've never been to my school before? smilies/eek.gif

And yes, we went to FOTR and TTT the last couple of years and are planning to go to ROTK this year. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Arothir]

Here's one: When people think the Lord of the Rings is a trilogy, not a single novel. You then explain that it is six BOOKS long, and that it was published in three VOLUMES.

[Arothir]

Oops, I meant when you explain it's not a trilogy. How do you edit posts anyway?

[Goldberry]

You know you are obsessed with LotR when you put the Shire date on your school papers instead of "September 24" or whatever it happens to be.

Oooh, even more people with new avatars! Arwen1858 and Meneltarmacil, they are quite lovely. Maybe it's new avatar week or something... smilies/wink.gif

Edit: Yay! 300 posts to me! smilies/biggrin.gif

Arothir - To edit posts, click the hammer icon on the far right next to the orange date at the top of your post.

[ September 24, 2003: Message edited by: Goldberry ]

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

Hey everybody, sorry I've been gone so long. Did you miss me? smilies/biggrin.gif I shall now proceed to comment on just about everything everyone has said, so prepare yourselves for a long post.

Ya know what? In real life I'm pretty shy and quiet but on the Downs I'm more...outspoken. Hmm... Ah well.


I'm kind of like that, too. I'm not really that shy, per se, but I seem to be about my obssession (odd, that I should be embarassed about it or something, since I'm very obssessed and have been for let's see.... four years?).

When you talk in old English.


Isn't it a blast?

I'm going to leave notes in all the Tolkien books in the library that say that (except with Orominuialwen instead of Goldberry)

That is a very good idea! smilies/biggrin.gif I should do that! Hopefully sometime one of us will actually find one of those notes.

Guess what? You know how certain theaters will be doing a special promo of RotK, showing the Fellowship and Towers EV's on the 16th and then showing RotK at midnight? I JUST FOUND OUT THAT THE THEATER BY ME HAS BEEN CHOSEN TO DO THAT!!!!! *jumps up and down in hyper-ness* I'm so excited!

Wow! You're lucky! smilies/biggrin.gif How did you find out? I wonder if any of the theaters near me is doing that.....

I fell asleep last night, but I forgot to take my Ring off before I went to bed (I was *that* tired...), so I still had the chain around my neck. Then I woke up in the middle of the night and my hand had clenched around the Ring while I slept.

Very creepy. smilies/eek.gif

Well, that's my first post in a series of trying to get caught up. I guess I'll continue tomorrow or whenever I can.....

[Arwen1858]

Arwen1858 and Meneltarmacil, they are quite lovely. Maybe it's new avatar week
Thank you! I love that pic of Arwen! It's so pretty!

When you're doing research on the net, and read 'Sardinian' as 'Sindarin.' (happened to me this afternoon)

[Amarantha_Daisy]

Hey everybody, sorry I've been gone so long. Did you miss me?

I missed you, Luthien! Welcome back smilies/biggrin.gif

When you're doing research on the net, and read 'Sardinian' as 'Sindarin.'

I do stuff like that all the time... I read something today... what was it... Gah! I can't remember! ... Hmmm...

-When you write "Do the wave for Boromir the Disco King" on the extra paper in the art room, in hopes that a fellow Downie will find it.

_When you write your name in Tengwar on your hand... and science notes... and scetchbook...

[Finwe]

When you refer to your boyfriend as "the Elf" since he greatly resembles a Noldo, height, intelligence, technological skills, and everything.

When you choreograph a sword fight with your friend for the Renaissance Faire next school year at your school, just so you can use your very Elvish-looking sword. (Of course I really need to work on my upper-body strength too so he won't kill me or anything.)

[Amarantha_Daisy]

When you choreograph a sword fight with your friend for the Renaissance Faire next school year at your school,

Oooo! You have a Renaissance Faire at your school?! Lucky! I'm going to one this weekend, in Conneticuit. I can't wait for Sunday... I'm going to wear my Elvish dress... if I finish it. And I need ears...

I've spoken of my dress so many times... I'm such a show-off smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Meneltarmacil]

Oooh, even more people with new avatars! Arwen1858 and Meneltarmacil, they are quite lovely. Maybe it's new avatar week or something...
Thanks, Goldberry. I just thought that Aragorn avatar was looking kind of old, so I replaced it with the flame. Didn't know there'd be so many people with new avatars though!

[Arwen1858]

When you see something startling, you cry 'Ai! Ai!' like Legolas does.

we're getting close to having 300 posts in this thread! Let's keep it going!
Arwen

[Sapphire_Flame]

And we might go as a club to RotK!!!
NOT FAIR!!! Why are all the groups I'm in led by idiots? Example: for our activity in December, my young women's group is going to go to "enrichment night" with the Relief Society. smilies/redface.gif *boring...*. Meanwhile, the Teachers quorum (14-15 year old boys) are going to see RotK on opening day for their group activity! smilies/mad.gif smilies/mad.gif smilies/mad.gif IT'S NOT FAIR!!! WHY DO THE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERS HAVE TO BE SUCH LOSERS?!?!?! *mutter, rant, fume*

Yeah, I gotta get to class, so I'll be back later!

Abedithon le, a hebo gladhad!

~*~Aranel~*~

[Goldberry]

You know you are obsessed when all through English class while you are supposed to be doing more insultingly easy grammar lessons, you are staring at the lovely supply of The Hobbit books on the bookshelf. Then you start quoting lines from The Hobbit, which gets you some strange looks and questions. smilies/biggrin.gif

When we finally do read The Hobbit in class, I am going to be sure I read out loud for a lot of the time so people don't mispronounce names and such.

When you practically cry because you remember that it's only September 25, and for the past two days you had been thinking it was October, so it was a whole month closer to November 18. Yes, sometimes I have a little problem with months. smilies/tongue.gif

[Orominuialwen]

Hey everybody, sorry I've been gone so long. Did you miss me? I missed you Luthien!

When you have to write an essay about three imaginary friends for school, and you make up three hobbit lasses, Pervinca Oldbuck, Asphodel Bolger, and Marigold Proudfoot. In fact, you go on the Downs when you should be writing said essay (it's already a day late!)

When you're doing one of the new crosswords you see a clue that says "hottest steward" smilies/evil.gif and immediately think of Meela.

You get vey excited when you find out that the french word for Dwarf is Nain. smilies/cool.gif

Guess what! Apparently one of the guys who worked on translating stuff into Quenya and Sindarin for the LotR movies lives in my city and he's giving a talk at the public library in November smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif !!! Now if only a movie theater near me would show FotR, TTT, and RotK back to back for the premiere, my life would be almost perfect!

[ September 25, 2003: Message edited by: Orominuialwen ]

[ September 25, 2003: Message edited by: Orominuialwen ]

[Meela]

When you're doing one of the new crosswords you see a clue that says "hottest steward" and immediately think of Meela.

*giggles*

Today I turned almost all of my archaeology notes into Lotr references.

[Elennar Starfire]

I'm going to leave notes in all the Tolkien books in the library that say that (except with Orominuialwen instead of Goldberry)

Oh, I shall do that! Tomorrow, I think. (using the name Elennar Starfire of course!)

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Isn't it a blast?

Indeed, it is!

Guess what! Apparently one of the guys who worked on translating stuff into Quenya and Sindarin for the LotR movies lives in my city and he's giving a talk at the public library in November!!!

OHHHHH!!!! *Elennar is extremely jealous*
Is there any chance you live in Utah?

When you ask your dance teacher if there's any chance you'll be learning disco. (I shall do this tomorrow) Wave squid at the disco king!

If the reason for writing "TREES" on your hand is that Dom, being obsessed with trees, did that, then we, being obsessed with LotR, should write "LotR" on our hands. Once again, I am doing this tomorrow. Oh, I'm going to be busy!

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Meneltarmacil, I wish that I went to your school, but I don't because we have only had two meetings thus far. (tomorrow is the third)

--When you, being a cat lover, name every stray cat you see after a LotR character. Thus far, there's a Luthien, an Aredhel, an Idril, a Glorfindel, and a Tom Bom.badil wandering around. Only they don't know it yet.

--When you and some people you hardly know end up having a very loud discussion of LotR very much in public and you end up correcting about half of the pronunciations.

--When you can recite the movie.

--When you have decided that the guy you currently like must be a Ranger because he's unfortunately not handsome enough to be an elf, but he has the grey eyes, dark hair, and weathered look of a Dunedain. (But he certainly sings like an elf. Or an angel. Take your pick.)

--When you plan to call your boyfriend Beren and make him call you Tinuviel. (If I ever get a boyfriend, that is...)

--When you freak out because a sight with pictures of costumes from the movie has a nonexistent character mentioned by name and rant about it for about thirty minutes.

[Amarantha_Daisy]

When you plan to call your boyfriend Beren and make him call you Tinuviel. (If I ever get a boyfriend, that is...)

Ah, we can dream... It's as my Gaffer always says, "you have to plan for the future!" ...Although I doubt he meant it that way... "Dad, I'd like you to meet my boyfriend, Beren..." ... Don't worry, you'll find someone, love smilies/wink.gif

Hey Luthien_ Tinuviel, I got the colors on my braces in blue and gold! smilies/biggrin.gif Thanks for the idea smilies/wink.gif

-When you check the for new posts at the Downs before even checking your e-mail

-When you write your state's "standardized test" essay on The Lord of the Rings... *guilty as charged smilies/evil.gif *

Wow... I used so many emoticons in this post...

[Arwen1858]

-When you check the for new posts at the Downs before even checking your e-mail
sounds like me smilies/smile.gif

When you wake up in the middle of the night, and feel like crying because you woke up right before the best part of your LotR-related dream. (happened to me last night!!) Although, when I woke up enough to realize I wasn't really Arwen, I felt like crying because of that!

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[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

I missed you, Luthien! Welcome back

Why thank you all! I feel so special! smilies/biggrin.gif

When we finally do read The Hobbit in class, I am going to be sure I read out loud for a lot of the time so people don't mispronounce names and such.


smilies/tongue.gif

When you practically cry because you remember that it's only September 25, and for the past two days you had been thinking it was October, so it was a whole month closer to November 18. Yes, sometimes I have a little problem with months.

Only one more day until the RoTK trailer online, though. I think....

When you have to write an essay about three imaginary friends for school, and you make up three hobbit lasses, Pervinca Oldbuck, Asphodel Bolger, and Marigold Proudfoot. In fact, you go on the Downs when you should be writing said essay (it's already a day late!)


I did that, too! You get really weird looks for naming characters Myrtle and Estella.

When you're doing one of the new crosswords you see a clue that says "hottest steward" and immediately think of Meela.


Me too! smilies/evil.gif

When you ask your dance teacher if there's any chance you'll be learning disco. (I shall do this tomorrow) Wave squid at the disco king!

And this ties into one of mine: When you are writing a comic book for your own amusement, so of course you pull LOTR characters into it..... By the way, Elennar, everyone in my comic is doing the wave for Boromir the Disco King. Do you mind if I have someone say "Wave kings at Boromir the Disco Squid"?

When you, being a cat lover, name every stray cat you see after a LotR character. Thus far, there's a Luthien, an Aredhel, an Idril, a Glorfindel, and a Tom Bom.badil wandering around. Only they don't know it yet.


You should name one Beruthiel. smilies/wink.gif

When you have decided that the guy you currently like must be a Ranger because he's unfortunately not handsome enough to be an elf, but he has the grey eyes, dark hair, and weathered look of a Dunedain. (But he certainly sings like an elf. Or an angel. Take your pick.)


Captain Von Trapp, by any chance?

Hey Luthien_ Tinuviel, I got the colors on my braces in blue and gold! Thanks for the idea

You're welcome! It's so nice to know you inspired someone to do something obssessive....

Wow... I used so many emoticons in this post...

I do it all the time.... smilies/biggrin.gif

Now for my additions:

-When you relate everything in your English class to LOTR (Sam is a dynamic character, Gandalf is dynamic, Gwiahir is static....)

-I've worn my ring necklace every day but one for the past two weeks now (or something like that). I've gotten so used to it that I didn't even think to be self-concious going to the store and the library wearing it! That's progress! And a sure way to meet another Downie or get a chance to refer someone..... *plotting*

[Tinuviel of Denton]

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You should name one Beruthiel.

But I haven't seen a Beruthiel; they're all named after the character they most remind me of.

Luthien was grey and lovely, Aredhel was independent and unpredictable, Idril and Glorfindel were both gold tabbies, Tom was high on catnip, I think. But I haven't seen a depressed black cat yet.

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When you have decided that the guy you currently like must be a Ranger because he's unfortunately not handsome enough to be an elf, but he has the grey eyes, dark hair, and weathered look of a Dunedain. (But he certainly sings like an elf. Or an angel. Take your pick.)

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Captain Von Trapp, by any chance?

Not fair, Luthien, not fair. *blush*

And to make this an on-topic post...

--When you find yourself singing "The Road goes ever on" while walking home from school.

--When your best friend takes one look at you when watching the movie, before you say anything and just says "Don't." You cringe, but obey. (at least, I didn't do it out loud...)

--When you love your English teacher forever because he let you watch EE FotR in class one day. (Sadly, we didn't get to finish.)

[Meneltarmacil]

Meneltarmacil, I wish that I went to your school, but I don't because we have only had two meetings thus far. (tomorrow is the third)
You're probably better off where you are, since I am practically the only person at my school who knows anything about LOTR. smilies/frown.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

Is there any chance you live in Utah?
smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif I do! Whereabouts do you live, Elennar?

-I've worn my ring necklace every day but one for the past two weeks now (or something like that). I've gotten so used to it that I didn't even think to be self-concious going to the store and the library wearing it! That's progress!
Heh. I've worn mine every day since I got it, which was...about a year and a half ago. smilies/biggrin.gif In fact, when my youth group was watching the video about when we went on Trek, you could always tell who was me because of the Ring. smilies/biggrin.gif Go me!

~Whenever I'm in the library, there are always a bunch of guys there playing Magic: the Gathering, and I keep thinking I hear LotR refences when I know it's a different thing.

~My mom can't stand being in the room with me when I watch Fellowship, owing to the fact that I speak all the lines along with the characters. It drives her nuts. smilies/evil.gif

Abedithon le, a hebo gladhad!

~*~Aranel~*~

[Oddwen]

When wonder why you haven't posted on this thread yet-as you have all these amateurs beat by a mile.

When you find yourself angrily quoting the book at the screen- at the theater yet.
"It's yet we may Mr. Frodo, you mop-head!"

When you get very hyperly excited because Oddwen has a quote from you in her signature
Ah! I do have a reputation! smilies/wink.gif

When you feel uneasy about your new non-LotR signature.

[elf-girl-63]

He He He. Some of these are funny. How about:

-You go on a geography field trip and the scenery is like Rohan at the beginning of the 2nd movie and imagine Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli running round the hills. When you tell your friends, they finish your sentence for you.

-Returning from the said field trip, you notice a shop called Rohan and your said friends say 'We know Francesca.'

-A few nights later you are telling your mum about the said shop and she says she knows too! And its a chain of shops. You then ask for some clothes from this shop. (She laughs)

-In Maths, you are doing simultaneous equations but instead continually write 'Silm....'

-At school on a huge board you see the name 'Proudfoot' and are hyper for the rest of the day.

-Your dad calls your dog (named george) Smaugy and explain who that actually is.

-At a meal when your only brother is out at the cinema, you manage to turn every subject to LOTR and keep it there until you start eating again. The brother being out is good because he turns everything away from LOTR. Nasssty, isnt he precious?

I think thats it for the day. Hmmmm

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[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

] When wonder why you haven't posted on this thread yet-as you have all these amateurs beat by a mile.

Amateurs?!?! Have you read the whole thread, Oddwen? And the thread before that? And the thread before that? I thought not! Then comment not at will on our expertise. Obssessive is as obssessive does.

It's yet we may Mr. Frodo, you mop-head!"


Mop-head?!? Someone's got some explaining to do! smilies/eek.gif

And so as not to make this an irate post, we love ya, Oddwen. But please don't call people mopheads for no reason. He's very sensitive, you see. He's sniffling as we speak. And I'm running out of tissues. smilies/tongue.gif

[Oddwen]

Many pardons if I have offended you. *bows*
Mea Culpa.
Amateurs
I did not mean that in an offensive or belittling way. Just sarcastic. I have trouble being serious.

I dearly love Sam, and would never call him a mophead intentionally, it's just a temporary moment of seething against scriptwriters for not totally ruining but just twisting one of my favorite quotes so that it isn't anymore. I tend to take things out on the actors.

So, in short, forgive my arrogance, ignorance, and salty language, dear friends.

I would offer you an extra box of tissues, but I'm using them at the moment. smilies/tongue.gif smilies/wink.gif

[Arwen Evenstar]

You know you are obsessed with LotR when you canstantly insult LotR haters in elvish. Whan your room is plastered with LotR pictures. When you say "What in the Shire is that?!", "What the Mordor", "Namarie", "What`s it doing?! You stupid, fat Hobbit! It Ruins it!","Go kiss an orc!", and "By Sauron, I`ll get you!" HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Sorry, I`m a bit, ahem, I mean, EXTREMELY CRAZY!!!!!!!!) I also like to rehearse scenes out of the movies, just to annoy my brother and friends. smilies/smile.gif smilies/evil.gif

[Arothir]

When you're the only Tolkien fan at your school, and you get chills reading passages in the Lays of Beleriand. Also when you stop explaining the difference between LotR and HoME

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

So, in short, forgive my arrogance, ignorance, and salty language, dear friends.

I would offer you an extra box of tissues, but I'm using them at the moment.


Thanks for that Oddwen. smilies/wink.gif smilies/tongue.gif I am no longer offended in the least. You have trouble being serious, and I have trouble being sarcastic in writing. I suppose that's what smiley faces are for. What would we do without them? I look forward to hearing about your obssessive acts! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Arwen1858]

Returning from the said field trip, you notice a shop called Rohan and your said friends say 'We know Francesca.'


My whole family was in the van last week, and while we were out, I caused my mom to think I had gone insane. I saw a place called Mirkwood flooring and Interior!! So I started talking to myself about it, then just started laughing. My mom looked at me like I was crazy. Then again, I probably am! Most of us on here probably are smilies/tongue.gif

[Elennar Starfire]

Whereabouts do you live, Elennar?

Logan, I go to Logan High School.

hmm, obsessiveness...

I scared a guy today with a gollum imitation. Also at the pep rally (its homecoming week at my school, blah) I yelled "bado orch echado meleth" (go kiss an orc) at the cheerleaders. I don't lke the cheerleaders much, can you tell? (no offense if any of you are cheerleaders, I don't like the ones at my school)

[Naz]

--When you find yourself singing "The Road goes ever on" while walking home from school.

*guilty* ^ ^;;;

-When you start making a manga of a LotR Road Trip... ( ^ ^;;; )

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Elennar, what a wonderful idea! I should do that (it's homecoming week at my school too. Unfortunately, my school's name is not Logan. smilies/frown.gif )

--When your sci-fi club ends up discussing LotR across the room very loudly, with the actual sci-fi fans looking rather lost and bewildered.

--You shout "WAVE KINGS AT BOROMIR THE DISCO SQUID!!!" at the top of your lungs at random moments.

--When you almost physically attack someone who says she hates LotR.

--When your best friend is so used to that sort of thing that she restrains you almost before you act.

--When you write an essay for AP English comparing Frodo and Beowulf.

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[Everdawn]

When any word that starts Cele, you pronounce Kele

[Everdawn]

Returning from the said field trip, you notice a shop called Rohan and your said friends say 'We know Francesca.'

While in Sydney on my holiday i was sailing on the harbour and i saw another little sailing boat called The Hobbit I went nuts! My mum just rolled her eyes.

[Elmirwen]

You know your obsessed with LOTR when, while sitting up in a tree at two in the morning(just like the elves of the golden wood *sigh*), you decide to assign everyone you know an "inner middle-earth character" ...then take a year to decide on one for yourself... Eyown was my final choice...

[Arvedui III]

Here's a couple:

You know you're obsessed with LOTR when you get marked off on an English paper for misspelling 'mellon'.

You know you're obsessed with LOTR when your fencing equipment has names like 'Orcrist', 'Anduril', and 'Bill the Pony'. And other fencers who haven't read the books start calling them by their names.

[Arwen1858]

When you and your friend go to see a movie just to see the ROTK trailer. smilies/smile.gif (only 12 and a half hours left til we go!)

[Sapphire_Flame]

Logan, I go to Logan High School.
Phoo. I live down in Riverton (near Sandy), and go to Riverton High School. (Methinks they have a hard time coming up with original school names here...)
Also at the pep rally (its homecoming week at my school, blah) I yelled "bado orch echado meleth" (go kiss an orc) at the cheerleaders. I don't lke the cheerleaders much, can you tell? (no offense if any of you are cheerleaders, I don't like the ones at my school)
Heh, I so gotta do that sometime. smilies/evil.gif I hate cheerleaders. And there are some guys at my school that do look like orcs, so...
When you start making a manga of a LotR Road Trip... ( ^ ^;;; )
Wheee! smilies/biggrin.gif Right on! You'll have to let me see some of it later.

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

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[Elennar Starfire]

(Methinks they have a hard time coming up with original school names here...)

Indeed. People can be so uncreative.

And there are some guys at my school that do look like orcs, so...

*gets mental picture of cheerleaders making out with orcs* EEEWWWW!!!!! That was disturbing! Poor orcs! smilies/evil.gif

The notes I made to put in Tolkien books say:

Wave squid at Boromir the disco king!
www.barrowdowns.com (http://www.barrowdowns.com)
PM Elennar Starfire!

I included www.barrowdowns.com (http://www.barrowdowns.com) for the people who don't know about it yet, so they can come here too!

Edit: It turned into a link! weird!

You know you're obsessed when you notice that if you move one space in 'one ring to rule them all' you get 'one ring to rule the mall.' You then proceed to parody the entire ring poem by moving spaces, and writing things how they sound. It's pretty dumb, but here it is:

Three rings for the elven king sunder the sky,
Seven for the dwarf lord sin their halls of stone,
Nine former tall men doomed to die,
One fort he, dark lord, honest dark thrown,
In the land of more door where the shadows lie.
On erring to rule the mall,
On erring to find them,
On erring tub ring the mall,
A din the darkness bind them,
In the land of more door where the shadows lie.

I was tired. When I'm tired my brain does weird things. (like thinking my math teacher sounds like a bagpipe, and bagpipes look like turkeys. smilies/eek.gif so I thought about turkeys shouting math problems at me, instead of doing my assignment.)

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[Naz]

When you see something reading "Nolo News" you think it says "Noldor News". ^ ^;

Sapphire-- IF we ever get a new scanner or get this old one to be undead, then I'll be able to show the LotR road trip manga.

Oh, & a question: Even though I wasn't around when Boromir was crowned Disco King, can I still have something on the side of my binder that says in all caps DO THE WAVE FOR BOROMIR THE DISCO KING!!! with a squid beneath it? (which has earned me 2 weird looks thus far^ ^)

Wow, I started a new page on this page!! ^ ^ eheheh...^ ^;;

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[Arothir]

I feel so stupid for asking this, but what's with this whole Boromir the Disco King? Could someone please explain it to me? You know you're obsessed with LotR when you go through the History of the Lord of the Rings and understand most of it too!

[Oddwen]

Go here (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=17&t=000522) and it will all be explained to you. The madness starts on page three.

You know you're obsessed when:

You get a job at BK solely for the fact that they are going to promote FotR.

You keep all frycartons, tray liners, cups, etc. from said promotion.

The owner of the store gives you first dibs on said promotional posters.

You cry because you are not eligible for the contest held at BK.

You are asked "Hey Alice, anything new on the LotR front?"

You constantly wonder why a Nazgul was not featured in the "Ring of Power" BK toys, and Celeborn was.

You kept a running countdown on FotR and TTT.

Said countdown was spoiled because someone kept either taking your doodled napkins down, or writing "evil" on them.

You only want your driver's licence so that you can drive yourself to the theater to see RotK. (I've got til the eleventh!)

You are going to make a LotR spoof starring the dog.

Umm...that's all the ones I can think of at the moment.

[Amarantha_Daisy]

When any word that starts Cele, you pronounce Kele

Or when you read that post and pronounce it "kele," having to go back and re-read it a couple times to figure out what you did wrong smilies/wink.gif

You know you're obsessed when you notice that if you move one space in 'one ring to rule them all' you get 'one ring to rule the mall.'

Elennar, I hereby swear to recite that line whenever I walk into a mall smilies/wink.gif That poem made me crack up! smilies/biggrin.gif Ahhh... the things you can do when you're half-awake....

IF we ever get a new scanner or get this old one to be undead, then I'll be able to show the LotR road trip manga.

Ooo! I'd like to see it, too, Naz! Manga fan, eh? Me too ^_^

And now for some of my own...

-When you hear the word "namae" in Japanese class and mishear it, thinking it was "namarie"

-When, to get you to go shopping with her, your mom says "They might have LotR action figures!" Because she knows it'll pique your attention

-When you write your friend's birthday card in Tengwar, and she doesn't know it... smilies/evil.gif

-When, whenever you get that look in your eyes and take a deep breath to squeal something about LotR, your friends clamp their hands over your mouth, knowing what's coming.

-When you start squealing uncontrolably when you see the shiny new RotK posters at your local movie theater. *squee* They only had the Aragorn one at first. Now they have them all! ...Needless to say, my friends refused to associate with me...

[Meela]

I saw a Rotk poster at the cinema this evening. I sat down and stared at it for about 20 minutes, a weird vacant grin on my face.

[Orominuialwen]

Is there any chance you live in Utah? Sorry Elennar, I live in Wisconsin. But you're welcome to come the 1000+ miles here and visit! My mom can't stand being in the room with me when I watch Fellowship, owing to the fact that I speak all the lines along with the characters. It drives her nuts. Mine too! Especially since both my brother and I recite the lines at the same time (he's just as obsessed as I am) I saw a place called Mirkwood flooring and Interior!! There's a place called Lothlorien Co-op near where I live, and a Bag End Sound Productions as well. You know you're obsessed with LOTR when your fencing equipment has names like 'Orcrist', 'Anduril', and 'Bill the Pony'. And other fencers who haven't read the books start calling them by their names. You're a fencer too? So am I, but I just started very recently, so I haven't gotten to work with a blade yet.

~You call a piece that you are forced to play in orchestra that you hate "Morgoth's Minuet." The cool part was that I shared a music stand at the time with the only other LotR fan I know (although she's not nearly as obsessed as I am), so she actually undestood what I meant.

~You plan to skip your school's Homecoming dance and go on the Downs instead. Wait- to make it sound better, I could call it HoMEcoming! smilies/wink.gif

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[Sapphire_Flame]

*gets mental picture of cheerleaders making out with orcs* EEEWWWW!!!!! That was disturbing! Poor orcs!
*SNORK!!!* smilies/evil.gif
IF we ever get a new scanner or get this old one to be undead, then I'll be able to show the LotR road trip manga
Yay!!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif
Manga fan, eh? Me too ^_^
Right on, Amarantha! We gotta start an LotR-manga forum somewhere...
Especially since both my brother and I recite the lines at the same time (he's just as obsessed as I am)
Dang, that's not fair. Why does my brother have to be an anti-LotR person? *pouts*

And I did the same as Orominuialwen, skipping my school's homecoming game (heck, every game) to get on the 'Downs and watch LotR repeatedly. Football so can't compare to a nice bloody orc-slaughter. smilies/evil.gif smilies/wink.gif

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Arwen1858]

When you go to see a movie just to see the ROTK trailer, then walk around the mall so you can look at the LotR books and magazine articles and go to the weapons store on the other side of the mall to see all the LotR swords! (it was so much fun!)
Arwen

[Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1]

There is a Rohan shop near where I live! Wow, man, this chain must be pretty widespread, because I live in Jolly Olde Englande...

Anyway...when you write your friend's title in their maths book in tengwar so they don't understand it (only mine was a mix of bubble writing and tengwar because I couldn't remember all the letters).

Also when you make everyone's birthday card by hand putting pictures of their character in it (I named everyone after a character smilies/rolleyes.gif ) and writing it all in tengwar lol.

And writing Elvish in someone's 'happy book'.

And what is a homecoming game?
And aren't we lucky, there aren't any cheerleaders here...cheerleading isn't very common in England.

EDIT: Looks like Rohan is just widespread in England then... smilies/rolleyes.gif

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[Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1]

Hey, elf-girl (whatever number it was...sorry, I forgot). I did think that actually...sorry...hehehehe. I did try to reply BUT YOUR PM BOX IS FULL! But yeah...

When your friends run screaming down the cloisters because one of your friends declares they will turn into my clone... smilies/frown.gif smilies/wink.gif smilies/tongue.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/smile.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Sirithheruwen]

During volleyball pracice, you manage to get everyonne to serve at the same time when you stand at the net and yell "VOLLEY!" smilies/smile.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/wink.gif smilies/cool.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Elennar Starfire]

Even though I wasn't around when Boromir was crowned Disco King, can I still have something on the side of my binder that says in all caps DO THE WAVE FOR BOROMIR THE DISCO KING!!! with a squid beneath it? (which has earned me 2 weird looks thus far^ ^)

Of course you can!

When you go to see a movie just to see the ROTK trailer, then walk around the mall so you can look at the LotR books and magazine articles and go to the weapons store on the other side of the mall to see all the LotR swords!

There's a weapons store at your mall?!?!?! *Elennar turns an interesting shade of green*
I am soooo jealous!!!

(only mine was a mix of bubble writing and tengwar because I couldn't remember all the letters).

I bet that looks strange...

And what is a homecoming game?

Well, it's a football game, I am not sure exactly what 'homecoming' means. People get very excited, and there's a dance, and people wear school colors (I protested, my school colors are red and gold, so I wore green and silver, a much nicer color combination, in my opinion) and act like idiots at the pep rally. (of course, people act like idiots at pep rallys anyway, they just act like bigger idiots at homecoming time.)

And, lucky you, you get to live in England! *turns green again*

Football so can't compare to a nice bloody orc-slaughter.

So true. I just had an interesting thought...Football players as orcs! Hmmm, I shall have to write a parody. Cheerleaders, umm...what should they be? orcs are taken, so perhaps they could be goblins? Share your thoughts!

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Right on, Amarantha! We gotta start an LotR-manga forum somewhere...

There seem to be many manga fans here! I need help, does anyone know how to draw curly hair? (hobbits, of course!)

Sorry Elennar, I live in Wisconsin. But you're welcome to come the 1000+ miles here and visit!

I'm planning a road trip with a friend, (when we can drive, not for a few years smilies/frown.gif) Maybe I will be able to visit! We're going all over... Gonna be so fun!

Elennar, I hereby swear to recite that line whenever I walk into a mall. That poem made me crack up! Ahhh... the things you can do when you're half-awake....

Next time I'm half-awake, I will do the riddle of Strider! Or maybe something else, I don't know yet. It'll be just as cheesy, I promise!

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[Tinuviel of Denton]

s, umm...what should they be?

Cheerleaders should be Keebler elfs. Those are the most evil things on the face of Middle-Earth.

--When you spell the word 'gray' in the English manner, 'grey,' rather than the American manner because you've read the words Gandalf the Grey so many times.

--When your best friend (who designs and makes costumes) says she'll let you borrow one of the dresses she's made that looks like an elvish dress to wear to RotK premiere, but only if you don't talk about LotR for a while. You actually decide that a dress to wear to the opening night is worth it.

--You dance with glee when someone tells you that you look like an elf.

--Your best friend got tired of you not wearing make-up and just doing your hair in a ponytail, so she convinced you that you would look more like an elf if you wore your hair down and made it wavy. She was right!

--Your best friend tries to convince you that jeans don't look elvish and that you should wear a dress.

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

--When you spell the word 'gray' in the English manner, 'grey,' rather than the American manner because you've read the words Gandalf the Grey so many times.


I like grey so much better than gray.... it just looks better....

--You dance with glee when someone tells you that you look like an elf.


You're so lucky! smilies/biggrin.gif I hope someone tells me that someday soon! The closest I've ever gotten is that I look elvish, and one person thought I looked like Liv Tyler (I don't really, nut I took it as a compliment, because Liv Tyler plays Arwen, as we all know, and Arwen looks like Luthien, so it could indirectly mean that I look like Luthien if one stretches things a bit.) smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Goldberry]

When you hear the word "namae" in Japanese class and mishear it, thinking it was "namarie"

Amarantha, you are so lucky! I really want to learn Japanese.

Today I was in K-Mart and they were playing TTT on a TV, mostly to advertise the TV. So naturally, I stood there for a half hour watching the movie, until my dad came and dragged me away.

When you constantly are abiding by "WWGD?" (What would Gandalf do?) or whichever character.

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

Amarantha, you are so lucky! I really want to learn Japanese.


Yes, me too.


Today I was in K-Mart and they were playing TTT on a TV, mostly to advertise the TV. So naturally, I stood there for a half hour watching the movie, until my dad came and dragged me away.


Ahh, yes, they once showed FOTR on a large TV at some furniture/household stuff store that I was dragged to. Needless to say that made me happy.

[Arwen1858]

--When you spell the word 'gray' in the English manner, 'grey,' rather than the American manner because you've read the words Gandalf the Grey so many times
I do that all the time! I like the way it looks much better if it's written as 'grey.' Of course, being American, I have gotten a few strange looks writing it that way, but who cares? I like it better! smilies/smile.gif

--You dance with glee when someone tells you that you look like an elf.

Oh!! Lucky you! I wish somebody would tell me that!

When you stand in front of the mirror and try to convince yourself that you really do look like an elf. (I have done that before...)

[elfearz1]

wow, I haven't posted here in a while. smilies/frown.gif I guess I'll have to do some obsessive things today so I have something to post. Stupid life always getting in the way of quality 'downs time. smilies/mad.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

does anyone know how to draw curly hair? (hobbits, of course!)
I usually just draw wavy lines instead of straight when I'm doing hobbit hair. It really depends on how tight you want the curls to be.

Heehee, I am wearing my hobbit costume at school today, and have gotten a total of 15 weird looks already (and it's only lunchtime!)!!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif Go me!

Abedithon le, a hebo gladhad.

~*~Aranel~*~

[elfearz1]

well I guess I got my wish of having more time to spend here. smilies/rolleyes.gif (I'm home sick and let me just tell you, I feel terrible!)

Anyway, before I went home sick I had to write my vocab words in sentences and one of them was conjur so of course I quoted Gandalf. "Bilbo Baggins, do not take me for some conjurer of cheap tricks."

[Goldberry]

Get better soon, elfearz! *does a get-well dance* smilies/tongue.gif

This week is homecoming week at my school too. Bleah! smilies/rolleyes.gif I found it quite funny when on the morning announcements, the girl trying to say "Pep Rally" mispoke and said "Prep Rally." smilies/biggrin.gif

Anyway, to get back on topic: You know you are obsessed when, every time you see the French word eleve (meaning student) it looks like "elves."

I got so mad today when I heard two ditzy, loud, and very preppy girls referring to Aragorn as "that hot guy from Lord of the Rings with long brown hair and the sword." smilies/mad.gif

Oh yes, I forgot - I got my braces dark blue and silver, the Noldor and Last Alliance colours! smilies/biggrin.gif

[ September 29, 2003: Message edited by: Goldberry ]

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

I'm home sick and let me just tell you, I feel terrible!

I'm a little bit sick, too. smilies/frown.gif But, I don't have to do school today, so I guess I'm happy! smilies/smile.gif

This week is homecoming week at my school too. Bleah! I found it quite funny when on the morning announcements, the girl trying to say "Pep Rally" mispoke and said "Prep Rally."


I've done that before, and I adopted the term. It really is a Prep Rally, so that's what I call it. They should have LOTR rallies instead. smilies/tongue.gif

[Elennar Starfire]

This week is homecoming week at my school too. Bleah! I found it quite funny when on the morning announcements, the girl trying to say "Pep Rally" mispoke and said "Prep Rally."

Hah! people keep doing that at my school too! It isn't homecoming week anymore, and I am glad!

I was reading this topic at school(my school won't let me log on, so I can't post, but at least I can read it!) and the girl sitting next to me asked me what I was reading, after I laughed out loud, and so I explained all about the 'downs. Then she said it was stupid! smilies/mad.gif Vile fiend of Morgoth...

A friend did something mean today. It was after lunch and we were walking around, and suddenly he said "Return of the King comes out tomorrow." I was half asleep at the time, so I believed him for a second and freaked out. He started laughing at me. NOT NICE!!! Elennar does not like to be tricked when she's half asleep. It makes her very annoyed.

In typing class we had an assignment to type ten things that we would tell younger children about life, I said, as a few of them:

Beware of Denethor with matches!
Eenie, meenie, miney, moe, catch a steward by the toe. If Meela hollers, RUN AWAY!!!
WAVE SQUID AT BOROMIR THE DISCO KING!!!
What would Gandalf do?

[Orominuialwen]

When you see something reading "Nolo News" you think it says "Noldor News". ^ ^; I get really excited every time I watch the news because they always have a commercial for this one place and I think it's called Ainu Saoln, but then I am forced to calm down when I realize it only says Aniu Salon smilies/frown.gif .
And I did the same as Orominuialwen, skipping my school's homecoming game (heck, every game) to get on the 'Downs and watch LotR repeatedly. Football so can't compare to a nice bloody orc-slaughter. It's not just the game I'm skipping, it's the dance too. I've never been to any of my school's footballl games. The only way I would even consider going to the dance was if they were going to do the Springle Ring- then you wouldn't be able to keep me away! smilies/biggrin.gif But I do do Irish Ceili dancing (it's a kind of folk dance), and I think the Springle Ring must be a lot like that.

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--When you spell the word 'gray' in the English manner, 'grey,' rather than the American manner because you've read the words Gandalf the Grey so many times.

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I like grey so much better than gray.... it just looks better.... That is so true. Also I like to spell aluminum the British way (aluminium) because it looks and sounds way cooler.

--You dance with glee when someone tells you that you look like an elf. Someone told me once that the way I did my hair made me look like Arwen (that was what I was trying to do). On the same note, I become very proud when people who don't even know my little brother, or about our obsession, come up to me and tell me he looks like Frodo (this has happened twice). He does look like a cross between Elijah Wood and Paul McCartney (when he was younger).

I'm home sick and let me just tell you, I feel terrible! Hope you feel better soon elfearz and Luthien!

They should have LOTR rallies instead. Exactly! smilies/cool.gif

~When the girl who sits in front of you in algebra asks you what Do the wave for Boromir the Disco King means (because it's written on the front of your notebook), you tell her it's something someone made up on a website you like. Except she said Boromir like Bore-om-er, so you tell her that he's a character from Lotr. She tells you that she doesn't like LotR, she only likes love stories smilies/mad.gif smilies/mad.gif , so you whisper bado orch echado meleth at the back of her head during the whole class.

[Naz]

Get better soon!!

Ah... I miss Japanese class...

"Namae wa..."

"EE?! NAMARIE?"

"Shizuka ni ****e kudasai!"

"^ ^;;;"

Yay! More manga fans! Though I warn the-- the LotR Road Trip manga is drawn kinda... messily. ^ ^;;

Also recently whenever I get annoyed, I say "By the Valar!" Or other times too... ^ ^;;; Is this like a swear word...? - -;

[ September 29, 2003: Message edited by: Naz ]

[Arwen1858]

When you get highly annoyed hearing people talk about Santa's elves, and seeing the Keebler elves, because, as we all know, that's not what elves are really like!

Also, at the risk of sounding ignorant, what is manga?
Arwen

[Elfwine]

-When you take on the name of a created character who lives in the world, the time frame of Middle-Earth, and have all your friends, teachers and relatives revert to calling you it. Personal experience. Myself, you ask? No. A friend of mine. My apologies if it's been said!! smilies/frown.gif

Oromin! I sent you a p-message, and I'm sure you'll receive it next your on, but I've decided to pester you about it anyway. smilies/biggrin.gif I hope no one here minds me barging in thus. *scratches head, grinning lop-sidedly*

Ah, yes, and Arwen, manga would be Japanese cartoons/comics in a nutshell. No need to feel ignorant.

[ September 29, 2003: Message edited by: Elfwine ]

[Amarantha_Daisy]

I need help, does anyone know how to draw curly hair? (hobbits, of course!)
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I usually just draw wavy lines instead of straight when I'm doing hobbit hair. It really depends on how tight you want the curls to be.

Agreed. smilies/smile.gif I do the same. Or if you want it to be a bit less wavy, you can just make a few little curved hairs popping out, to make it seem a bit messy. It kind of looks like hobbit hair... It's hard to explain this without drawing!

Heehee, I am wearing my hobbit costume at school today, and have gotten a total of 15 weird looks already (and it's only lunchtime!)!!!

Congrats! Have you gotten any double-takes? Those are fun smilies/wink.gif Unfortunatly, most of the people at my school are used to me dressing funny...but I can always get funny looks from people who don't know me smilies/biggrin.gif

(I'm home sick and let me just tell you, I feel terrible!)
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I'm a little bit sick, too.

Awwww... Get well soon! *offers chicken noodle soup*

Yay! More manga fans! Though I warn the-- the LotR Road Trip manga is drawn kinda... messily.

Aw, quite all right. It's the thought that counts. The love and caring you put into it! smilies/wink.gif I'm sure it's great!

Also, at the risk of sounding ignorant, what is manga?

Nah, you don't sound ignorant. Manga is one of those things that, if your familiar with it, you know what it is. If you don't, you'll probably never hear about it. smilies/wink.gif Do you know what anime is? It's those Japanese style "cartoons" for lack of a better word. Anime is Japanese animation, and manga is/are Japanese comic books. They kind of go hand in hand. The style is really what sets it apart. Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z, and Princess Mononoke are some examples you may have heard of.

Any-woo, so that I don't get in trouble for being off-topic... smilies/wink.gif

You know you're obsessed when your head snaps up at even the slightest refrence to Tolkien

My dad was watching tv, channel surfing, when he caught the last couple secounds of a commercial for FotR on the Encore channel. All I heard was the last few notes of the theme music, no words or anything, and my head just snapped up, and I saw "New Line Cinema" ...My dad laughed. He found it quite funny. Mua ha ha ha... Tolkien senses tingling!

[Elfwine]

You know you're obsessed when your head snaps up at even the slightest refrence to Tolkien

Heh, not only will my head snap up, but I often find my feet wandering, with a mind of their own, in the general direction of the Tolkien-related words/music. I think I've, or we've all got that one down. ^____________^

-When you spend most of your leisure time sitting on your rump in front of the monitor screen clicking the endless links and posting messages at places like this, The Barrow-Downs, and eventually get to know the other members of the site better than you know the friends you share a relationship with in person.

[ September 29, 2003: Message edited by: Elfwine ]

[Orominuialwen]

Hi Elfwine!! I got your PM. (In case any of you are wondering, Elfwine and I go to the same school- we discovered each other at fencing club smilies/biggrin.gif )

~When you start smiling uncontrollably because two people on your bus are talking about their friend who they say looks like a hobbit. They said she was taking weight training, so that by the time she was done she would probably look like a dwarf. They were considering telling her to grow a beard smilies/biggrin.gif !

~When your family gives a wooden Noah's Ark to a little girl at your church and she puts Noah lying down in the bottom of the boat and you say "Look! It's Boromir!" The cool thing was that nearly everyone in the room knew what I was talking about! smilies/cool.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

Congrats! Have you gotten any double-takes?
Indeed! smilies/biggrin.gif It was great, I love getting weird looks.
the LotR Road Trip manga is drawn kinda... messily. ^ ^;;
It's all good. My stuff usually looks kinda messy too... ^^;

When you watch the NEW ROTK TRAILER (!!!) about twenty times on your computer... and then another twenty even though your mom has told you to get off and work on homework. smilies/biggrin.gif

Dude, if anyone here hasn't seen that trailer, GO NOW!!! It is so awesome! And you get to see Shelob! Wheeeeee!!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/evil.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/evil.gif

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Tinuviel of Denton]

--When your favorite thing that happened to you today was that your economics teacher asked about the Barrowdowns so she could tell her LotR obsessed daughter! SQUEEEEE!!!

--When you see a man with an elvish looking shirt is "Wow, it's an elf; I wonder if he's a LotR fan." and your second is "That guy looks like Reynion" (he's a char in one of the RPGs I'm in here.)

--When you have an argument with someone about whether or not elves scar.

--When you and another fantasy fan (unfortunately not as LotR-obsessed as I) spend a class period deciding on what to do to the Keebler elfs.

And I have to go, because my lunch period is about over. I have more...

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

Hope you feel better soon elfearz and Luthien!

Thanks so much, everyone! I'm not sick anymore, not really, but now I have a lot of pain in my mouth from nasssssty braces. Horrid things. smilies/mad.gif smilies/frown.gif I bet braces are a torture method invented by orcs or something. Except that wouldn't make sense, because then they would have better teeth.

When you get highly annoyed hearing people talk about Santa's elves, and seeing the Keebler elves, because, as we all know, that's not what elves are really like!

Ah, yes. Santa's stunted little pixies are creating trouble yet again. We should tell everyone that there is no Santa, only Father Christmas, and then refer them to the Father Christmas Letters, the letters of the true Father Christmas. And about Keebler elves: I have a frisbee that says "I believe in elves", and it hs a Keebler elf on it. I try to focus on the caption and ignore the image.

-When you spend most of your leisure time sitting on your rump in front of the monitor screen clicking the endless links and posting messages at places like this, The Barrow-Downs, and eventually get to know the other members of the site better than you know the friends you share a relationship with in person.


Definately.

When your favorite thing that happened to you today was that your economics teacher asked about the Barrowdowns so she could tell her LotR obsessed daughter! SQUEEEEE!!!

Congrats! smilies/biggrin.gif

Unfortunately, I haven't gotten the chance to do many obssessive things lately. There's not much of a way to be obssessive around other people and scare them if you're homeschooled. Except I intend to decorate my notebook with LOTR and BD things, so I guess that counts. Well, and I think about Sam every time I eat potatoes. Does that count? smilies/biggrin.gif

[Goldberry]

Yay! My Arwen pendant just got here in the mail! smilies/biggrin.gif

The same girl that was talking about Aragorn as "the hot guy with brown hair and a sword" said today that she saw a picture of Viggo and thought he was incredibly ugly in real life! smilies/eek.gif smilies/mad.gif

You know you are obsessed when, on another insultingly easy English grammar worksheet where you have to make up sentences containing certain parts of speech, every single sentence contains a LotR reference. Or, for just about anything in school that you can write about anything you want to.

I hardly know anything about Manga or anime, but I've seen the whole Nadia of Blue Water series and I loved it. hmm...*scratches head and wonders how that has anything to do with the discussion* smilies/tongue.gif

[Failivrin]

you are told in english that you are to prepare a presentation speech about ANYTHING you like. and yours is on....TOLKIEN YAY! you know that it will end up being about half an hour long as you will have to show slides of him, his maps, his family, oxford university etc, tell the whole class about how sad his childhood was and then cry when you inform them how he triumphed over adversity to become the greatest author of all time (cue fierce, challenging look around the class) and OF COURSE you will have to read excerpts from his books (all of them), give the class a brief crash course in elvish and inform them how funny he was and how much you wish you had been alive when he was. then you cry again because you realise you will never meet him.

-you cry atleast once a month when you realise tolkien is dead.
-ritualistically kelebrate his birthday and mourn the day he died.

[Sirithheruwen]

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When you get highly annoyed hearing people talk about Santa's elves, and seeing the Keebler elves, because, as we all know, that's not what elves are really like!
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Ah, yes. Santa's stunted little pixies are creating trouble yet again. We should tell everyone that there is no Santa, only Father Christmas, and then refer them to the Father Christmas Letters, the letters of the true Father Christmas. And about Keebler elves: I have a frisbee that says "I believe in elves", and it hs a Keebler elf on it. I try to focus on the caption and ignore the image.


See my siggy. It's another way to get wierd looks! Yay! smilies/biggrin.gif

Unfortunately, I haven't gotten the chance to do many obssessive things lately. There's not much of a way to be obssessive around other people and scare them if you're homeschooled. Except I intend to decorate my notebook with LOTR and BD things, so I guess that counts. Well, and I think about Sam every time I eat potatoes. Does that count?

Mmmmmm..... potatoes.....

Yay! My Arwen pendant just got here in the mail!

Yay! Lucky you!

you are told in english that you are to prepare a presentation speech about ANYTHING you like. and yours is on....TOLKIEN YAY! you know that it will end up being about half an hour long as you will have to show slides of him, his maps, his family, oxford university etc, tell the whole class about how sad his childhood was and then cry when you inform them how he triumphed over adversity to become the greatest author of all time (cue fierce, challenging look around the class) and OF COURSE you will have to read excerpts from his books (all of them), give the class a brief crash course in elvish and inform them how funny he was and how much you wish you had been alive when he was. then you cry again because you realise you will never meet him.

Teehee! I've done AT LEAST three Tolkien reports, and I've pretty much done everything you've said here, except a crashcourse in Elvish, as I have not yet had the privelige to learn it myself. And, yes, i did start crying during mine... smilies/frown.gif...it's just so emotional telling about his death, and his tombstone (!I couldn't leave that out!) *While typing, Siri bursts into tears*

Oh, and speaking of Siri...
You know you are obsessed when...you see a resturant called Siri Thai III, you completly freak out! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/eek.gif smilies/biggrin.gif There's a resturant named after me! (Ok, not exactly, just let me have my fun!)
*Siri floats off in little bubble. Bubble pops* smilies/rolleyes.gif

[ September 30, 2003: Message edited by: Sirithheruwen ]

[Naz]

LotR Road Trip manga synopsis-

SO FAR!

Character intro, Ary almost kills em, Frodo throws up, nasty question from Gimli to Leggy resulting in yelling, Boromir going crazy with Merry & Pip ALREADY, & Meela (or at least her fist) making an apperance! Four words: SEXY STEWARD & CRTOSSWORD PUZZLE. smilies/biggrin.gif

[elfearz1]

Thank you everyone! I finally got medicine after a week and a half of feeling sick smilies/rolleyes.gif

...you force yourself to do the walk to rivendell even though you feel sick. smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Elfwine]

~When your family gives a wooden Noah's Ark to a little girl at your church and she puts Noah lying down in the bottom of the boat and you say "Look! It's Boromir!" The cool thing was that nearly everyone in the room knew what I was talking about!

Funny! You know, that's gotten to me. Whenever someone dies, or when I think about death - sending someone down a waterfall in a rowboat, or off onto a lake on top of a bundle of sticks, standing by with a flame tipped arrow to eventually shoot at and burn them comes to mind first before cremation (ok, kind of the same) or burial.

And yes, Orominuialwen and I met in the first, and hopefully last seven-minute session of fencing club. Speaking of fencing club, remember to bring your slip in so we can be fitted and actually start! smilies/biggrin.gif

--When you scoff at people you dislike, spitting Elvish curses at them that not only merely offend them, but deem them Dwarfish, or of the like...or vice versa, depending on your stand point....

[ September 30, 2003: Message edited by: Elfwine ]

[Maikadurwen]

ok i have a history of modern music class first period okay so anyhoo.
we are learning about elvis presley
well i had to write a paper or notes or something like that.and on my paper the whole way through it is says ELVISH PRESLEY
and i got funny looks when my friend goes why does it say elvish presley i love getting weird looks.

[Finwe]

When you demand to meet one of your best friends' father just because he is reading the Silmarillion (and has the old '79 paperback edition) and is getting into Lord of the Rings.

When you give your entire Calculus I class heart attacks by squealing like a baby Nazgul when you receive said news.

When you give said friend a huge, Aragorn-sized hug and tell him that you love him forever (even though your boyfriend is standing right behind you!)

[Elennar Starfire]

Thankyouthankyouthankyou for the tips on curly hair! I drew Rosie today, and she is the prettiest manga person I have ever drawn! I wish I looked like that... Now I am going to draw Sam, and I will try to post my finished pic. (Hopefully I can convince my dad to let me use the scanner) I have to figure out how to do hobbit bodies though. A chibi-ish style should work. Not exactly chibi, a mix between regular manga and chibi. I like chibis, but I don't much like their faces.

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

Wow! All these posts since I was on the BDs something like six hours ago! This thread will be closed soon. Who gets to open the new one? I think we'll be the only thread to have a version four. How many versions do you think this thread will have?

you are told in english that you are to prepare a presentation speech about ANYTHING you like. and yours is on....TOLKIEN YAY!

YOu just reminded me.... (thanks so much for reminding me of another obssessive thing I did.... last year. In my speech class we were supposed to give speeches about a famous author. smilies/biggrin.gif I really wanted to do Tolkien, or C. S. Lewis if I couldn't have Tolkien. But the teacher had me do someone I didn't know very much about. smilies/frown.gif so I didn't get to do Tolkien after all (I gave a speech on E. B. White). But someone else in my class gave a Tolkien biography speech, so I listened carefully and mentally corrected them and thought about what I could have done better. smilies/tongue.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif

See my siggy. It's another way to get wierd looks! Yay!

My compliments, because I actually got that from your siggy. I read it and thought that was veyr clever, so I decided to adopt the term for my use, if you don't mind.

Mmmmmm..... potatoes.....


Mmmmmm.....

Now I am going to draw Sam, and I will try to post my finished pic.

For my sake: make it good. Make it very very good. Work on it as hard as you can. If only I had a scanner, I could show you all my pictures of the hobbits from my weird anime-ish drawing style comic book thing. I have some really cute ones, especially the one of Pippin standing on his head and Sam looking at him questioningly. And the ones where Sam is daydreaming about potatoes. Those are the best.

[StarJewel]

I knew I was obsessed when I began thinking in Elvish. Yes, actually re-translating my biology lesson into Sindarin. It gets worse: I accidentally wrote some stuff for my english class in Sindarin. My teacher thought I was on drugs.

[the guy who be short]

I got my braces dark blue and silver, the Noldor and Last Alliance colours!

And I was wondering what colour to have them! Which was which? Blue for Men and Silver for Elves or vice versa?


When you were having a picnic in Maths and your teacher was handing our Haribo sweets, you took the yellow ring with the red jewel. Instead of eating it, you put it on your finger and proclaim you are: "Gandalf, wielding Narya, to Rekindle hearts in a world grown cold." You keep the ring on until midday (when you get hungry) and keep on showing/telling people.

I hav many minor things to tell, but they have become so commonplace I see little point. Such as being called dwarf and considering it a compliment or doing your book report on LotR.

[Sapphire_Flame]

...squealing like a baby Nazgul...
Aw, cute!!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

I'm starting to consider all the obsessive things I do to be completely normal. smilies/eek.gif Creepiness. There must be something wrong here....

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Failivrin]

routinely you go into every books shop and assess their tolkien collection (nothing weird about that). one day you visit your local and head of course to the tolkien shelves, obviously, and find that all your lovely books (you assume that one day they will be yours) are GONE, so you screech and demand to see the manager.

you work in said book shop for your work experience and are delighted to find that one of the employees is a tolkienite. you spend hours discussing the various merits of the books and the movies, every once in a while staring longingly at the hardback complete box set of LOTR illustrated by alan lee and inform said new friend that one day, when you are rich that shall be yours.

[Sirithheruwen]

My compliments, because I actually got that from your siggy. I read it and thought that was veyr clever, so I decided to adopt the term for my use, if you don't mind.

Not at all Luthien_Tinuviel

I got my braces dark blue and silver, the Noldor and Last Alliance colours!

I did too, except I screwed it up. They didn't have any silver, so I substituted white, and it looks really retarded. oh well, there's always next time.

Haribo sweets

Mmmmmmm... Haribo sweets... That's my one weakness-that and potatoes.

Well, I havn't done anything TOO obsessed lately, but maybe I have. (???) Well, now that I think about it, I probably have, but you can ask any of my friends. I scare them so much, I think they're scarred for life. smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/tongue.gif smilies/evil.gif

[Arwen1858]

When, after being rather touchy about the fact that you're short for several years, you finally get over it, realizing that you're really tall, compared to a hobbit, and actually sometimes wish you were just a tad shorter, so you could say that you are one. smilies/smile.gif

[Arwen Evenstar]

When you are constantly saying things like, "What in the Shire is that?!" "What the Mordor?!" " By Sauron, I`ll get you!"
And when your room is plastered with LotR pictures. smilies/smile.gif

[Elfwine]

When you are constantly saying things like, "What in the Shire is that?!" "What the Mordor?!" " By Sauron, I`ll get you!"

Yes, yes! Though I prefer using 'Elendil' when in such sayings. "For the love of Elendil, man!" in a posh English accent is what usually comes. Though once, in a football game, I ran down the field and yelled "Elendiiiiiil!" ...and I scored a goal. *shrug* Hey, it works.

Ah! I mean soccer. Football, soccer, same thing. It's getting to me.

[elfearz1]

Ah! I mean soccer. Football, soccer, same thing. It's getting to me.
wow, I'm confused now. football and soccer are very different, atleast in America they are

ah! When I came on today the J.R.R. Toklien theme was up. That was the theme that was up the first time I came to the 'downs long,long ago (on a different name) ah, memories!
smilies/smile.gif

back on topic: people always ask why I wear a plain gold ring around my neck and I give them a long lecture filled with many quotes. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Amarantha_Daisy]

routinely you go into every books shop and assess their tolkien collection

Heh heh... I do this at every bookstore I enter... I know where the Tolkien books are at all of the local bookstores... And they're convieneantly placed next to my other favorite section, the manga smilies/wink.gif *winks at the manga fans* Any-woo, you're lucky! I wanted to work in a bookstore, but I'd have to drive there, but I don't have my license. And my mom doesn't want to "go out of her way" to drive me...

Haribo sweets

Hmmm... I've never heard of them, although with all this praise they seem to be getting, I'm curious...

Well, now that I think about it, I probably have, but you can ask any of my friends. I scare them so much, I think they're scarred for life.

Heh heh... so are mine. Don't worry, they heal quickly from all the LotR refrences smilies/evil.gif smilies/wink.gif

When you are constantly saying things like, "What in the Shire is that?!" "What the Mordor?!" " By Sauron, I`ll get you!"

I've been saying "By the Valar" a lot lately...

people always ask why I wear a plain gold ring around my neck and I give them a long lecture filled with many quotes.

Everyone thinks mine is a promise ring... You know, the kind guys give girls as a symbol of their relationship? ...People ask me "Who's ring is that?" and I just say, "Oh, it's the One Ring. From LotR..." and they give me funny looks and walk away...

Any-woo... Another thing! My friends were poking fun at me today, about my LotR obsessive-ness, and I put my hands over my ears and said "Not listening...not listening!" Like Gollum... I laughed because they didn't catch the reference smilies/tongue.gif

[Finwe]

Try screaming "ELENDIIIIIIL!!!!!!" right before you dive off your diving board and into yoru pool. It's quite fun!

[Meela]

Try screaming "ELENDIIIIIIL!!!!!!" right before you dive off your diving board and into your pool. It's quite fun!

That must be the best obsessive thing I have seen on any of the three threads smilies/smile.gif If I could dive, I would certainly try it out!

[the guy who be short]

football and soccer are very different, atleast in America they are

Good point? Why did the Americans steal the British word and give it to a completely new sport? Are they just trying to confuse everyone? And do they *gasp* not have Haribo sweets?

At my school, some kids have started handing out "gnome passes" to certify that you are a gnome. I found out that the German word for gnome is same as the word for dwarf and I am therefore a dwarf! I danced.

[Sapphire_Flame]

When you are constantly saying things like, "What in the Shire is that?!" "What the Mordor?!" " By Sauron, I`ll get you!"
Heehee. smilies/biggrin.gif My sayings are "What in Mordor is that?" "Na in Velain!" (that's By the Valar, for you non-Sindarin-scholars) "Dear Eru!" And of course, when someone is being especially irritating: "Mibo orch!" (*Kiss an orc!*)

Heh, I wrote "WAVE KINGS AT BOROMIR THE DISCO SQUID" on my hand today and drew a little squid next to it. I have confused many people... smilies/evil.gif

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Failivrin]

you see a very large moth at the window and are scared at first, but then you realise the significance of this creature and say, 'no! you helped gandalf, i like you!'

you spend literally atleast an hour assess the tolkien collection i nsaid book shop and almost cry with ahppiness when you find it has over flowed on to TWO bays rather than just the one!

your friends become annoyed with you for spending over an hour in front of said bays

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

routinely you go into every books shop and assess their tolkien collection
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Heh heh... I do this at every bookstore I enter... I know where the Tolkien books are at all of the local bookstores...


smilies/biggrin.gif Me too! Even if I'm not buying anything that day, I still go to look. They're all.... precious to me. And I preivew and caress and whisper to the ones I have yet to own (HoME 7 onward), and the beautiful editions of the ones I do have. I even visit the Tolkien sections in the library for absolutely no reason, even when all they have are the books I already own and I don't plan on checking any of them out.

Try screaming "ELENDIIIIIIL!!!!!!" right before you dive off your diving board and into your pool. It's quite fun!
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That must be the best obsessive thing I have seen on any of the three threads If I could dive, I would certainly try it out!


Really, Meela? I'm not sure I agree, but...... I scream Elendil when playing games, too! (Most recently was actually quite a while ago, since I get very little physical activity, and I hate team sports.... I was playing Capture the Flag).

Good point? Why did the Americans steal the British word and give it to a completely new sport? Are they just trying to confuse everyone? And do they *gasp* not have Haribo sweets?


I have no idea why we did.... we're kind of dumb that way. That's why one has to call it American football. And no, we do not have Haribo sweets. smilies/frown.gif Sad, isn't it? I have had my share of them when I lived in Europe, but here we are regretfully without them. They might be at a specialty store, though. And Amarantha, since you were wondering, they're wonderful German candies (mostly gummies) that are widely distributed in Europe, although in my experience, the best selections are (of course) in Germany, but the UK might have a wide selection, too.

At my school, some kids have started handing out "gnome passes" to certify that you are a gnome. I found out that the German word for gnome is same as the word for dwarf and I am therefore a dwarf! I danced.


Good for you! smilies/biggrin.gif But gnome passes?!? Quite odd, I say. Why owuld anyone want to be a garden ornament?

[Finwe]

Haha! I have a friend who can do the Gollum jump so well that I actually think it's Gollum dressed in my friend's clothes. It's quite scary at times.

[Orominuialwen]

~When you feel rather sad because you haven't gotten to post for the past three days. smilies/frown.gif

~When you have convulsions of hyper-ness when you finally get to see the RotK trailer, even though it took more than an hour to download, and then you had to download Quicktime, so it was almost 2 days after you got the trailer that you could watch it.

~When you have to write an essay on how one person changed the world for the better in three ways, even though your teachers desperately try to convince you that it will be too hard and that you will have to do way more work than everyone else (yeah right!)

~When you do your hair like Arwen for picture day at school smilies/wink.gif

~When you and your brother randomly yell "Hado i phillin!" at times.
I think we'll be the only thread to have a version four. How many versions do you think this thread will have? I think at least six. Hopefully more! smilies/smile.gif

~When part of the essay you have to write about your imagiary friends goes like this: If everyone thinks she is wierd for wearing a cloak and sword to school and putting clear rubber bands on her ears to make them pointy, then she thinks that it's their problem. She isn't afraid of shouting "You shall not pass!" to the entire hallway.That was about Marigold Proudfoot. Sound familiar? smilies/wink.gif smilies/wink.gif ...

[ October 02, 2003: Message edited by: Orominuialwen ]

[Arwen1858]

When you imagine that your gold ring with a sapphire on is Vilya.

If we keep this going, soon we'll be on part Four!

[Finwe]

When you harbor a sneaky suspicion that Gandhi was actually a very redeemed Gollum.


(Sorry if this offended any hard-core Indians. Just to let you know, I am Indian myself, so no offense was intended).

[Elennar Starfire]

Something weird happened today. Before I tell you what it was, you need some background info, or you will not understand it. I have a friend who calls me a geek every day at least once. She also likes to call me ditzy. (I can be extremely ditzy sometimes) Today, she said that "square" means geek, so she was calling me that. Then she called me a "ditzy square". I immediately noticed the similar sounds to "disco squid". I was laughing so hard and she had no idea what I was laughing about!

In my math class I started talking with the girl who sits next to me, and naturally I turned the conversation to LotR, and she actually was interested! One of the few people who doesn't get majorly annoyed when I start talking about LotR. smilies/biggrin.gif

The only other thread that I know of that is close to having four parts is crazy captions. It's on part three right now, even though it says 'Crazy Captions (again).'

[ October 02, 2003: Message edited by: Elennar Starfire ]

[Beanamir of Gondor]

If you don't get this, just watch TVLand at four o'clock in the afternoon. I loved the Favorite Things song, so I wrote this!

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip
Nine men came to Lord Elrond's home
And formed the Fellowship
The wizard was a mighty magic man
The elf could walk on snow
Four hobbits, Gimli, and two men
Braved Caradhras' blow.
[WHOOSH! Change key]]
The journey started getting rough
The Balrog sure was mad
Gandalf's death left Sam and Aragorn
And Celeborn really sad.
{Change key again]
Setting off on the river Anduin
The orcs gave them no fear
But the breaking of the Fellowship
Was the death of Boromir!

Elanor, get yerself an email so I can talk to you during Chem class!

By the way, I wrote one for the Two Towers- I'll toss that in tomorrow.

[Orofaniel]

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

....I surf all day on the internet to find new Tolkien/LotR sites with discussion forums.

....my posters fall down from the wall in the middle of the night and I get up just to paste them up again. (I mean, come one...that's bad...especially when your bed is your best friend and your pillow is your other 'mate'... smilies/smile.gif)

....I search every single site on the web to find some 'inspiration' to the LotR costume you're going to make.

....I'm willing to sleep outside to get premiere tickets, even though it will be snowing...(I'm sure there will, it always does, that time a year smilies/smile.gif)

....I get addicted to certain LotR sites *cough Barrowdowns cough*. And when I've got a virus on my own computer I just have to take the bus to the library every time I have tons of homework, waiting on your desk. smilies/eek.gif

....My LotR soundtracks/books/other accessories are precious, and NO one is to touch them...when I say NO one, I mean absolutely no one... smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/evil.gif

....I'm getting annoyed about things they did 'wrong' in the movies, hoping one day that perhaps I could make 'em better....and that I'll make FotR better which means that I will include Tom Bombadil. I'm afraid the whole case with Tom Bomabadil kind of annoys me. I think they did a BIG mistake letting him out from the LotR movie(s).(But I have to say that the movies are pretty good…)

....I try to learn Quenya, when no one around me can speak it. So the thought of me knowing it, speaking it etc, is really...um...obnoxious, because I will not be able to 'use' it. So, many would probably say it's waste of time. But I don't think it is because I'm....um...a fan...wanting to know more about the languages. Is that so bad? (I know the answer: Nu-Uh.... smilies/smile.gif)

*~*
All of this wasn't that bad, was it? smilies/evil.gif

Anyways, that's all I cam up with..(for now! smilies/smile.gif)

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[Meela]

my posters fall down from the wall in the middle of the night and I get up just to paste them up again.

Happens all the time. Sometimes I just go back to sleep and wake up next morning to find a giant Legolas on top of me.

My LotR soundtracks/books/other accessories are precious, and NO one is to touch them...when I say NO one, I mean absolutely no one...

Definitely! I'm turning into a right little Gollum where my books are concerned.

I went into a store today and had to bite on my lip to stop me from screaming out loud when I saw that they were selling Rotk action figures. I've already got the stationary smilies/smile.gif

[the guy who be short]

Wow... and I always thought America was so great. But you have no Haribos, and supposedly you have no crisps! Argh!

About the Gnome Passes: They were originally given to annoying short people (how I acquired one) but then they became a sign of... er... Gnomliness. Everybody wanted one, and so the Elder Gnomes (of whom I am one) started distributing them on a larger scale. 6 teachers have them, and many many pupils. Son we will have a Gnome Party.


You know your obsessed when you stop fearing spiders just because you know they are nothing compared to Ungoliantë or even Shelob.

When your braces will be blue and yellow in honour of Tom Bombadil.

When you constantly talk about LotR, prompting another fan to come up to you and say "You're a LotR freak, arn't you? So am I." (I gave him the BD site address.)

When you are playing hockey and the biased referee (a kid) gives the other team a foul because you keep talking about elves. smilies/mad.gif

When one of your long term goals in life is to read LotR once a year.

[Arwen1858]

Definitely! I'm turning into a right little Gollum where my books are concerned.
Me too! I also talk a lot like Gollum when nobody else is around. Ya know, they say talking to ones self is one of the first signs of insanity... what if you talk to yourself like Gollum??

When one of your long term goals in life is to read LotR once a year.
I just made that goal, too! Although, knowing me, and how fast I read and how much I love the books, I'll probably actually read them more often!
Arwen

[Orofaniel]

When one of your long term goals in life is to read LotR once a year.
My oh my..that's MY goal as well!!! Scary! smilies/wink.gif

[Beth the Elf]

I covered two out of the 4 walls in my room with LotR pictures (and i'm still adding on) ,i have a big 4 foot 3d FotR DVD display that a store let me have and i have my own Ring, which i got off a bookmark smilies/smile.gif

[Rilwen Gamgee]

My! I've missed quite a lot of obsessiveness!

I ran down the field and yelled "Elendiiiiiil!" ...and I scored a goal.

I should suggest that to some of my school's footbal players. smilies/smile.gif

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Try screaming "ELENDIIIIIIL!!!!!!" right before you dive off your diving board and into your pool. It's quite fun!
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If I could dive, I would certainly try it out!

smilies/biggrin.gif Me too, Meela!

~ When a girl in your French class walks up to you to see what the cover of your binder says and sees the index card that you wrote "Frodo Lives!" on with the One Ring in the background and half of the Ring script on the bottom (I couldn't fit it all on the index card). So she asks what it means you recite the whole Ring poem. She still didn't understand it after that, but I got a weird look anyway! YAY! smilies/smile.gif

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[Elennar Starfire]

I try to learn Quenya, when no one around me can speak it. So the thought of me knowing it, speaking it etc, is really...um...obnoxious, because I will not be able to 'use' it. So, many would probably say it's waste of time.

My friend got annoyed with me for learning Elvish because, "No one actually speaks it!" So I started learning Gaelic, because Elvish is based on Gaelic. (I'm still working on Elvish though.)

Wow... and I always thought America was so great. But you have no Haribos, and supposedly you have no crisps! Argh!

Yeah, a lot of people seem to think that. Personally I think England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand are much better. America really isn't as great as most people seem to think. (Not that I hate it or anything, I just like other places better.)

but then they became a sign of... er... Gnomliness.

And what exactly is 'Gnomliness'?

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I ran down the field and yelled "Elendiiiiiil!" ...and I scored a goal.
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I should suggest that to some of my school's football players.


If the football players at my school did that, I might actually go to a game once in a while!

I have made progress with my mom, she started quoting today, and I didn't quote first! This is a good sign.

~When you are playing a game on the internet in which you are given six letters, and have to try to make as many words as possible from these letters, and you try to do 'Eru' and other LotR related words, even though you have already tried them with a previous set of letters, and they didn't work.

[Goldberry]

Wow, I have missed a lot of obsessiveness too!

guy who be short - Great idea about the blue and yellow braces! smilies/biggrin.gif

Today for social studies class, we had to come up with four qualities that we think the ideal person would possess. So naturally, I took a mixture of all the characters we know and love: loyalty for Sam; determination for Aragorn, and so on.

When one of your friends asks you if you are going to the bonfire and the pep rally you say, "no, I think I'm going to watch FotR instead." This causes her to roll her eyes at you. smilies/smile.gif

When you read something Orofaniel said, "Is that so bad?" as "Is that so hard?" (Gandalf to Bilbo) and have to go back and correct yourself.

I haven't been very obsessive lately. smilies/confused.gif Or maybe I've just stopped noticing the obsessive things that I do because they become normal. Who knows... smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Naz]

Happens all the time. Sometimes I just go back to sleep and wake up next morning to find a giant Legolas on top of me.

O_o;;

Hey next time we play flag football (american), maybe I should try the "Eeeeleeeeeeendiiiiiilll" thing... smilies/wink.gif

[Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1]

- you read this thread and decide that you are 'not obsessed enough' so you vow to be more obsessive in the future

- you print off 70 pages of sindarin to learn a language that a lot of people don't even know exists

Ok, so I am the first point...but where on earth do you find all the Sindarin????????? I didn't know Tolkien left so much vocab lying around.

Hehehe I can just imagine going into school wearing a hobbit costume. Well not me personally, seeing as we have school uniform...woah *imagines the looks she would receive on the train* smilies/rolleyes.gif

Hmm I must do that personality quiz...

Oooh...when your friends are so used to you linking every conversation topic under the sun to LotR that they start to do it themselves...whether or not they have read the books or even seen the films smilies/biggrin.gif .

EDIT: I just went back and read this page more thoroughly...somehow I seem to have missed most of it last time
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Fancy not having haribo! You poor, poor, people. And how dare you nick the name yet leave the sport behind??? smilies/eek.gif smilies/mad.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/evil.gif smilies/biggrin.gif
And what is this thing about the disco squid? And Boromir the Disco King??

[ October 04, 2003: Message edited by: Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1 ]

[Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1]

You are most like
The Dwarves

As the halls of Moria show, Dwarves like building and inventing.
The world exists to be explained and analyzed. You prefer to work quietly without interruption. Time alone is important and solitary activities refresh you. You have a tendency to introspection. In your desire for clarity in life, you may have the tendency of being remote or even "heartless". You like keeping your options open. Closure is probably not one of your strong suits.

As the foil to Aragorn, Sauron clearly embodies the evil side of this personality.

Traits: Pragmatic, autonomous, ingenious, resolute. On the dark side you could desire power and domination.



Ok, I've worked out why I hadn't read that stuff...I was reading page 4!!!!!!!!

[Elennar Starfire]

Fancy not having haribo! You poor, poor, people. And how dare you nick the name yet leave the sport behind???

And can you believe that some people think I'm weird for wanting to live in England? (Or Ireland, or Australia, or...I won't annoy you with a list of all the places I want to go. It's a very long list.)

[Daewen]

You've gotten a reputation at the local army surplus store as the lord of the rings girl who really wants to buy a sword. (they won't sell you one unless you're over 18 though smilies/mad.gif )

You sing Tom Bombadil songs while prancing through the woods walking your dog.

During your schools homecoming game, you cheer not for your team, not for the opposing team, but for numenor.

Also, during the said homecoming game, you scream at the players not to act like pansy elves and tackle someone for eru's sake.

[Orominuialwen]

Guess what! Apparently one of the guys who worked on translating stuff into Quenya and Sindarin for the LotR movies lives in my city and he's giving a talk at the public library in November !!! Now if only a movie theater near me would show FotR, TTT, and RotK back to back for the premiere, my life would be almost perfect!WELL GUESS WHAT NOW! I just found out that a theater near where I live will be showing the EEs of FotR and TTT before the Rotk premiere smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif!!! I guess it really does pay off to live in the capital of your state!! Btw, sorry for quoting myself.

I'm starting to consider all the obsessive things I do to be completely normal. Creepiness. There must be something wrong here.... There's nothing wrong, Sapphire_Flame, they ARE completely normal!

routinely you go into every books shop and assess their tolkien collection
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Heh heh... I do this at every bookstore I enter... I know where the Tolkien books are at all of the local bookstores... Me too! I was in a bookstore in the mall with my beat friend, and I got very excited over their large Tolkien section. I even convinced my friend to get an application to work there so she can use the employee discount to buy me books smilies/evil.gif !

I have done more obsessive things, but I have completely forgotten them at the moment, which is what always happens when I post. Grrrrr...

[Tinuviel of Denton]

--When you braid a crown of 'niphredil' and wear it.

--When you dance like Luthien whenever you have an excuse, ie, all the time. (Like in the living room, onstage at school, down the road...)

I know that I've done more obsessive things lately, but I can't remember any of them!

[elf-girl-63]

WOW! I'm not as obsessed as some of you, but here's a couple more.

-Not only do you assess the Tolkien collection in every bookshop/library but make sure it looks pretty and they are in some kind of nice order.

-You are watching TV, when the Scottish Widow ad comes on (you have to be British to get this). You tell your mum that you want 1, she agrees, and tell her its because you can look elvish and like you are from Lothlorien. She laughs.

-Your dad is in the hearing of this conversation and even he understands what you are talking about even though he's never read any of the books or seen either film.

-You manage to explain the whole plot of ROTK and the end of TTT (the bit they missed off the film) to your friends in 10 minutes. AND you keep them interested.

-A guy in Yr 11, who occasionally talks to you knows on MSN Messenger knows you as Aragorn because of your never changing display pic.

-You play a game with yourself to see how quickly you can link ordinary words to LOTR. Paris--Eiffel Tower--Two Towers--LOTR (that was obvious though)

-You get sad when your friend won't let you talk about LOTR on MSN cos he's the only close friend who's read it.

-You have to bribe said friend with spilling his secrets if he doesn't let you talk about LOTR.

[Arothir]

I say it in Sindarin,"Hannon in Velain."

Wasn't the Sindarin word for Vala Bala. Wouldn't it be Balar, like in the Isle of Balar? Or maybe Belain, I can't remember

[Failivrin]

-you are endeavouring to get atleast one volume of LOTR in many MANY languages and kick yourself when you go to a country and don't buy one. so far i have TTT in swedish and french, and the whole thing in english and german. i went to poland and didn't buy it smilies/mad.gif

-you squeal with delight while reading teh chapter names in said german version because the titles are so adorable AND they have stuck close to it (in french they changed flotsam and jetsam to something that was only one word so OBVIOUSLY it wasn't the same whereas in german it looks pretty good)

-you advise people who only speak english as a second language to read the original english version even if they don't understand it.

-you order said versions from the countries even if you don't go there (next one is going to be ROTK in russian i think).

[the guy who be short]

And what exactly is 'Gnomliness'?

Basically, you have a gnome pass, you fit in with the other gnomes. You are gnomely, and you possess gnomliness. Only Gnomes may attend Gnome Parties, or Gatherings. I am an Elder Gnome (I got that position by bribary smilies/evil.gif ) so I can give out Gnome passes.


You know you're obsessed when half the stuff on here hardly seems obsessed to you.

When you create campaign missions on computer games based on LotR, I made a Helm's deep mission on Age of Empires.

[Elennar Starfire]

(in french they changed flotsam and jetsam to something that was only one word so OBVIOUSLY it wasn't the same whereas in german it looks pretty good)

And in the Spanish version, 'Baggins' is changed to 'big bag'. Hah.

[ElenCala Isil]

When you're favourites file on the net is filled with sites on how to make a hobbit costume. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Orominuialwen]

Though once, in a football game, I ran down the field and yelled "Elendiiiiiil!" ...and I scored a goal. *shrug* Hey, it works. ~When, while walking in a park with your family, getting miles to Rivendell, you charge twice at poor, unsuspecting passerby, and yell "Elendiiiiillll" in your loudest voice. It was immense fun, although my brother bodily restrained me to keep me from doing it more than twice smilies/mad.gif smilies/frown.gif .

[Everdawn]

-When you hear the word "namae" in Japanese class and mishear it, thinking it was "namarie I was thinking that myself...

You are obsessed when you start comparing every movie to LOTR, and finding that there arent many movies that do...

...I was watching FOTR the other day with my seven year old cousin, when it came to the part with Elrond telling Isuildor (sp?) to cast the ring into the fires, my cousin Jacob just looks at me and says, "Why doesnt he just push him in?" Now im thinking Surely if the kid gets it, Elrond is either really smart ot REALLY stupid. Im agreeing with the latter....

-When you are sitting around all day and mutter ou tof nowhere, "If only Sauron had a playstation." and then spend the next hour thinking baout what would have happened if he did.

-You watch anyother movie and keep expecting Aragorn to pop up from somewhere. (Ok i was watching Ned Kelly at home and i was thinking just when Orlando BLoom says, "If anyone could get an old man to share is daughter with three larakins like us, id be-" I half expected him to say "Aragorn")

...and im spent.

[Arwen Evenstar]

Sorry, but how did "Wave Kings at Boromir the disco squid!" or, uh, whatever, get started? smilies/confused.gif smilies/confused.gif smilies/confused.gif

[Arwen Evenstar]

My version of eeny meeny miny mo is:

eenie meenie miny mo,
catch a Hobbit by the toe,
if he yells,
get a star,
name it ________, (I prefer Pippin smilies/smile.gif )
and throw it far!

(bows and scurries off to annoy brother with major obbsession.) smilies/wink.gif smilies/smile.gif smilies/evil.gif smilies/smile.gif smilies/wink.gif

[the guy who be short]

When you change your MSN screen name to "Hey dol! Merry dol! Hop along my hearties!" just to get people to inquire about it. Then you give them the history of Tom Bombadil! smilies/evil.gif

[Failivrin]

you scare people away on msn when you tell them the entire history of your username on their MB (Idril) right through from the book of lost tales, the early Sil, teh sketch of the mythology to the published silmarillion and then give them the old english and both elvish versions. you get annoyed at them because you were only dispensing a little background information to help them understand...

[Orominuialwen]

~When you play the LotR soundtracks so loudly , your whole bedroom vibrates.

~When you write all your ME names on a foggy window

~When everyone tells you to shut up beacause every time you hear a song that you know a LotR parody to, you sing the LotR version while the original is playing

~When you have learned more about English grammar from your Quenya lessons (and french class) than you have in English class, and English is your native language. (yes I know that's just sad)

~When you have imaginary conversations with real downies in your head (guilty, very guilty!)

Edit:When you write a list of thing to post on this thread so you won't forget as many smilies/smile.gif !

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[ October 05, 2003: Message edited by: Orominuialwen ]

[Goldberry]

When you have learned more about English grammar from your Quenya lessons (and french class) than you have in English class, and English is your native language. (yes I know that's just sad)

Me too! I always know grammar before we learn it in English class because of my Quenya lessons.

Or...when you have learned at least as much from Tolkien and the BD's than you have from school.

[ October 05, 2003: Message edited by: Goldberry ]

[Orominuialwen]

when you have learned at least as much from Tolkien and the BD's than you have from school. Exactly!

~When you wonder how anyone could be part of a non-Tolkien related forum

[Arwen1858]

When you nickname your two dogs Slinker and Stinker. smilies/tongue.gif I did that today. It really fits their personalities!

[Naz]

When driving all around Eru's green Arda when your Dad & cousin were looking for motorcycle dealerships (that ARN'T OPEN on Sundays!!) for almost 4 hours, you commented how you felt like a Ranger (to which my cousin said, "A Ranger in a car?")

[Arwen1858]

When you hear common, everyday words, and automatically start quoting a LotR line that has that word in it. Then, quote the rest of the scene that line is from. Or, just ramdomly start quoting your favorite scenes, even if they have nothing to do with what you've been talking about. Every time I see the word 'intelligence,' I start quoting, 'Anyway, you need people of intelligence on the mission... quest... thing.' 'Well, that rules you out, Pip.' Then I'll start quoting the scene from the part: 'If by my life or death I can protect you, I will,' and then finish the scene. smilies/rolleyes.gif
Arwen

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Wow! At last I've finished reading the whole thing! Those were fun! And you gave me real good ideas! By the way, can I join you guys?

Wala lang!
->The True Son of Finrod

[Sapphire_Flame]

Wasn't the Sindarin word for Vala Bala. Wouldn't it be Balar, like in the Isle of Balar?
That's true; the word for Valar in Sindarin is Belain (Balan singular). You are, however, failing to take into account the mutation caused by having the word "in" (the) in front of it. It causes the B to mutate to V.
During your schools homecoming game, you cheer not for your team, not for the opposing team, but for numenor.

Also, during the said homecoming game, you scream at the players not to act like pansy elves and tackle someone for eru's sake
*SNORK!* smilies/biggrin.gif The next time my dad drags me to a football game I'm going to use those...

~When you're visiting your grandparents house and end up talking to your younger cousin for an hour about the LotR: TT video game for GameBoy Advance as you both happen to have the game.

~During same visit, you wow everyone with your amazingly awesome hobbit "senior portrait" that you had taken as your school picture this year. smilies/biggrin.gif

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

PS: Awesome avatar, Tinuviel of Denton!

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[elf-girl-63]

-When you're name on MSN 'All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost' and then practically fall in love with a year 11 because 'that's LOTR isn't it?' before you've even said hi! smilies/biggrin.gif

Also, how many people do you know who don't even know what LOTR stands for? I've told my friends about 20 times each and they jus get it smilies/rolleyes.gif

[the guy who be short]

When you have one of those spinny-chair thingies and you're spinning round and round and round in glee because Elijah Wood and Sean Austin are coming to a town just 20 miles from you AND YOU'RE DAD IS TAKING YOU TO SEE THEM! I know I sound an Elijah-bopper, and I know they're not the real Sam and Frodo, but still - *bouncebouncebounce* is the closest I can come to describing it!

[ElentariGreenleaf]

Forgive me if these have been said.

--You do the Froo/Hobbit/Chicken dance at a bonfire or disco

--You read your LotR book at a party, then follow it when your friends take it away

--You attack your friends for taking your book

--You caress the book at refer to it as 'The Preciousssssssss ssss sss'

--You see a car and a horse near to each other and choose to ride the horse to work

--People with long blonde hair make your heart jump and you begin to get out your notebook and pen, then realise they are NOT Legolas, and leave. Later you seem to recall that there was also I very Dwarf like person standing next to 'Legolas'. You are obviously dilusional ^_-

[Naz]

guy who be short-- thou art LUCKY!! Tell us about it when you see them mayhaps? That must be so cool! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Elennar Starfire]

~ During a get-to-know-you game in which you have to tell two truths and a lie about yourself, and everyone else has to guess which is the lie, you say as a truth that you can speak elvish, because you know that they'll ask you to speak some, and you want to show off your obsession. I told them to 'bado orch echado meleth.' (go kiss an orc) I did not translate it for them. smilies/evil.gif

Guy who be short: LUCKY!!!
*Elennar once again turns an interesting shade of green*

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

I enjoyed your ideas about the costume. I would love to try that, but since I travel two hours from home to school, some anti-LotR people might mob me.

You know you're obsessed with LotR when...
~When you have a quote for every ocassion. Like when we went tot he beach, I just stood there, the waves at my feet, and I sang "To the Sea."

~When you read the book once a month, and because of that, your reading speed increased so much. I'm like able to finish everything, from Silm, The Hobbit, down to the Trilogy in just two days!

I'm sorry if my additions stinks. It's just that...never mind. I'll just try to be more obsessed.

Wala lang!
->The True Son of Finrod

[the guy who be short]

When you almost die becasue Elijah Wood and Sean Austin left yesterday. I didn't even get to meet them! smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif That is obsessive because 've gone into withdrawal and am not talking to anyone. Also, I am nearly crying. Why, cruel fate? WHY?

[Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1]

Awww you poor, poor guy. I am almost crying for you. (Another sign of obsession lol).

~When you are walking to the station with your friends and suddenly you start laughing. Your friends automatically look around to see what LOTR related thing it was you were looking at, and just go 'Oh.'

[Sapphire_Flame]

Aw, I'm sorry, guy! smilies/frown.gif That really sucks. *feels depressed on guy's behalf*

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Goldberry]

Me too! smilies/frown.gif smilies/confused.gif Maybe fate did it because...who knows, maybe you would have gotten in a car crash on your way to see them or something...but since I "don't believe in any of this fate crap" anyway, I'll just shut up with my feeble attempts to cheer you. smilies/rolleyes.gif

And Nilpaurion Felagund - Your additions don't stink at all! It still takes me at least a couple months to read the trilogy. But I've never really been a speed-reader.

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[Sirithheruwen]

Awwwwwwww, that totally stinks guy! smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif I'm so sad, I just used up all my smilies for you. one for every tear I cried.

You know you're obsessed when you had a vary loud discussion (Ok, Ok, argument) with your friend about wizards. She said dumbledore was a wizard, but at first I said no, and then she said yes, and then I settled it when I said "yeah, but he's not an Istari! So ha!" And this is the funny part! She said "Well, how do you know?" I laughed so hard at her!!! *giggles remembering total blank look* Ooh, bad me! I totally take advantage of my frineds.

I'm still trying to figure out if the theater nearest to me is going to play the LOTR special. I've sent about 50 e-mails to the store website, but no response. They've probably blocked my e-mail though. Ahhh, oh well, I'll just go to the nearest one that does, even if it means driving a million mmiles away. ( I doubt it will come to that, but you never know!!!)

[Elennar Starfire]

Oh, how sad, Guy! smilies/frown.gif I'm not crying, my eyes are watering! I have allergies! smilies/wink.gif

~When, in math class, your teacher starts doing 'eenie, meenie, miney, moe,' and just as he finishes saying 'meenie,' you shout 'DENETHOR!' Just imagine all the weird looks I got... smilies/biggrin.gif

~When your goal is to do at least one new obsessive thing a day. Notice I used the word new. This means that I do many more obsessive things every day, I just don't post them all because they have already been posted.

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[Lily Bombadil]

You know that you an you High School acquaintances are obsessed when....

On the drama float in the town parade for the fall production of The Hobbit, you all sing:

Hey! Ho! To the bottle I go,
To heal my heart and drown my woe!
Though rain may fall and wind may blow,
And there still beeeee many miles to go!
Sing to the sound of the pouring rain,
And the stream that roles from hill to plain!
But better thand rain or ripplin' brook,
Is a malt cold beer and save this Took!

and...

Rock and pool is nice and cool.
So juicy sweeet!
I only WISH to catch a FISH!
So juicy SWEEET!!!!

[Amarantha_Daisy]

Awwwww! Guy who be short, I'm sorry! smilies/frown.gif I can imagine how you must feel... *hugs* That must be torture... By the way, I love your "location": "my comfy chair, harbouring dark thoughts against you al- Oh, hi there! : waves :" smilies/biggrin.gif Brilliance...

Wow! At last I've finished reading the whole thing! Those were fun! And you gave me real good ideas! By the way, can I join you guys?

Sure! smilies/biggrin.gif We love converts! smilies/wink.gif *does the convert dance*

Also, how many people do you know who don't even know what LOTR stands for?

I had to tell my friends a million times before they actually got it smilies/rolleyes.gif

I haven't posted in a while, so...

-When you hear the word "wise" and immediatly think "Sam"

-You spend your free time in classes writing LotR alliterations, hoping to revive the Alliterative verse! (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=17&t=000660)thread.

-You are more sad about the Jokes (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=17&t=000456) thread being closed than about anything else lately smilies/frown.gif

-You're more afraid of embarassing yourself in front of fellow Downies than in front of people at school/work ect...

[Arwen1858]

When you see the last name of an author named Gilbreth, and think, 'Oh, cool! His name is a cross between Elbereth and Gilthoniel!!'

[Amarantha_Daisy]

When you see the last name of an author named Gilbreth, and think, 'Oh, cool! His name is a cross between Elbereth and Gilthoniel!!'

Heh heh... Arwen, strangly enough, that's the first thing I thought when I saw it. Didn't even finish the post when my mind made that connection smilies/wink.gif

[Meela]

~When, in math class, your teacher starts doing 'eenie, meenie, miney, moe,' and just as he finishes saying 'meenie,' you shout 'DENETHOR!' Just imagine all the weird looks I got...

*rolls on the floor laughing* smilies/biggrin.gif

[Feared Half-Elf]

When you try to teach your three-year old cousin two poems, ie, All that is gold does not glitter etc and the Lore of the Rings. Three rings for the Elven-kings under the sky...

[Arwen1858]

When you dance around the house singing Pippin and Merry's song from the Green Dragon, or when you just repeatedly act it out (I do both)
When you talk like Gollum to other people over things, or when you talk like Gollum to yourself when nobody's around (I'm guilty of those, too!)
Arwen

[elf-girl-63]

When your mum compares LOTR to community enterprise (don't ask) in the car and you are hyper and begin to hyperventilate. 15 minutes later you calm down.

[the guy who be short]

When you spend a third of your lunch break explaining the Black Spech to you're school nurse.She says obsessions are good.

I was going to give Elijah a gnome pass... and talk to him in Quenya so he wouldn't understand... Anyway, thanks for all the support, and I'm fine now.

[Mr. Bilbo Baggins Esq.]

You know you're obsessed with LotR.....

~When, inspite of the fact that you're a girl, Bilbo Baggins is your role model and you use his name on the Barrow-downs Forum.

Sound familiar? Yep, that's me!

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[Sapphire_Flame]

She says obsessions are good.
Not fair; why can't I meet kewl people like that?

~When you plan on buying tickets to the Special Showing of the Trilogy the day they are available (TOMORROW!!!). For peeps who don't know where to find them go HERE (http://www.lordoftherings.net/index_news.html). You can find out about buying tickets and which theaters are participating! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Orominuialwen]

During a get-to-know-you game in which you have to tell two truths and a lie about yourself, and everyone else has to guess which is the lie, you say as a truth that you can speak elvish, because you know that they'll ask you to speak some, and you want to show off your obsession. I told them to 'bado orch echado meleth.' (go kiss an orc) I did not translate it for them. I did that too! Except, unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to speak any elvish. Although I did get asked whether there were any swear words in elvish smilies/eek.gif!
Sorry that you didn't get to see Elijah and Sean, guy smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif .

To get back on topic, here are some of my own:
~When you can recite all the dialog along with the trailer and watched it 4 times yesterday, causing your homework to be neglected.

~When you meet an old friend at fencing and imediately ask her what she thinks of LotR. She tells you that she thinks it's boring, but that she is a HP fanatic smilies/mad.gif smilies/mad.gif smilies/mad.gif . You suddenly find that you don't really have anything to talk with her about

~When you have nearly convinced your parents to let you go to the showing of all of LotR, despite the fact that it's a school night and they thionk you'll get deep vein thrombosis from sitting down for 9 hours straight. You will be happy to stay up late on a school night- LotR is way more educational than school, anyway!

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[Sapphire_Flame]

..from sitting down for 9 hours straight
Point one: It would be more than 9 hours, as Fellowship and Towers will be shown in their extended versions.

Point two: There will be restroom breaks inbetween movies. smilies/biggrin.gif

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Elennar Starfire]

LotR is way more educational than school, anyway!

Indeed.

In my theatre class, we have to read books out loud to practice voice stuff. (I can't remember the fancy name for it) Technically we're supposed to read a small book, (It's only supposed to take 3-5 minutes, but that's why I'm just reading the first bit of the book) but I decided to do The Hobbit, because it is a children's book. But then I saw Roverandom at the school library, checked it out, and decided to read the first part of that instead. Roverandom is a nice story! So, maybe not quite as obsessive as it could be, but still, it's Tolkien!

I think, 'Ai Eru' all the time! And reciting A Elbereth Gilthoniel is a good way to relax when you want to hurt some idiot badly.

Welcome to the 'downs, Mr. Bilbo Baggins Esq!!! Mae govannen, and enjoy thy death!

[ October 08, 2003: Message edited by: Elennar Starfire ]

[Tinuviel of Denton]

I am truly surprised that this thread is not yet closed. But, I'm glad too.

--When you go without lunch to make a post on your RPG that closes today. smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif (Fall of Greenwood the Great, if you're wondering, and you should all read it!)

--When you shout tell an annoying guy in your Art class to 'bado orch echado meleth.' (Do I really have to translate that? Haven't you seen it often enough?)

--When you do the same thing to an annoying guy in physics.

--When you nickname the little g.irl who plays Gretl in your school production of Sound of Music "Aurë" (Sun in elvish and I can't remember which one at the moment).

--When you are glad of an opportunity to walk the three miles home from school because you want to get closer to Rivendell and you want to be like the elves who could walk anywhere and still be fresh at the end.

--When you spend half of your computer time in Economics on the Downs (I still got the assignment finished, though. Most of it...)

--When you try to buy stocks in the Barrow Downs (stocksquest, unfortunately not real stocks) and are somewhat depressed when they aren't available.

[Rilwen Gamgee]

~ When you are reading an assigned book in class and you notice the word "Aragon" and immediately think it says "Aragorn". smilies/wink.gif

~ When you think you hear Ents talking outside your bedroom window. It was so creepy! I heard a sort of deep rumbling noise that sounded like an Ent's voice.

YAY! I'll probably be able to see the Extended versions of the "FotR" and "TTT"! smilies/biggrin.gif I won't get to see "RotK" though, because it's on a Tuesday... smilies/frown.gif

[Lily Bombadil]

You know you're obsessed when you hang off the grey margin of the stage in drama class, tap your friend, say "Fly you fools", and slip down into the "shadows".

[Orominuialwen]

Point one: It would be more than 9 hours, as Fellowship and Towers will be shown in their extended versions.
Point two: There will be restroom breaks inbetween movies. I know- this was just my dad being paranoid! smilies/biggrin.gif ~ When you are reading an assigned book in class and you notice the word "Aragon" and immediately think it says "Aragorn". My best friend keeps calling him that! I paitently (or not so paitently) tell her that Aragon is a region of Spain and that Aragorn is the guy in LotR. She thinks he's hot, but she can't even get his name right! Although I suppose it's better than "that hot guy with long hair"

~When you try to draw a Silmaril, but with your nonexistant drawing skills, it comes out more like a clamshell.

~When you're *gasp* stranded without a book and you've finished your test in algebra early, you decide to practice drawing leaves, of course compulsively labeling each one Lassë

~When your motto (or one of them anyway) is
There can be no triumph
without loss
No victory
without suffering
No freedom
without sacrifice
It's just so darn cool! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

~When people at fencing club talk about a move someone invented called "The Flying Fool," you always think they're saying "Fly, you fools!" smilies/smile.gif

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[Nilpaurion Felagund]

*does the convert dance*


I'd love to know how you do that one... smilies/biggrin.gif

-You are more sad about the Jokes thread being closed than about anything else lately


Nooooooo! smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif But, you know I grudgingly admit BW's got a point(and it's pointed at me...)

When you talk like Gollum to other people over things, or when you talk like Gollum to yourself when nobody's around (I'm guilty of those, too!)


I don't know whether to thank you guys or feed you to my man-eating Ent. I've picked up that horribly social-life-destroying(but eeriely satisfying) habit. smilies/tongue.gif smilies/tongue.gif smilies/tongue.gif

She says obsessions are good.


*encouraged to continue with his obsession*

~When you have nearly convinced your parents to let you go to the showing of all of LotR, despite the fact that it's a school night and they thionk you'll get deep vein thrombosis from sitting down for 9 hours straight. You will be happy to stay up late on a school night- LotR is way more educational than school, anyway!


Hey! I did that once with Star Wars!(at home, that is) But I'm still here, still alive(or am I? Mwahahahahaha!) Maybe I'll wait for RotK and get another chance to have a clotted leg vein...But this country of mine sucks! No extended version, and they're not showing RotK 'til next year! Stupid Christmastime film festival...
*goes on to cry*

~ When you are reading an assigned book in class and you notice the word "Aragon" and immediately think it says "Aragorn".


Ever read the first Time article about the LotR movie? They said "Prince Aragon"! Why, the nerve of those uneducated...

Anyway, here is my addition:

You know you're obsessed with LotR when you convinve yourself that elves do exist, to the point that you think MI5 might be hiding them all in a warehouse or something. You plan to join MI5(after you graduate, that is) just to see them...

Wala lang!
->The True Son of Finrod, and of Amarie the Vanyar

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[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

So, would someone tell me why it is that when I have a chance to post, there are only a few posts, but when I don't, you all have filled a whole page without me and moved on to another?!?!

Anyway, I seriously need to get caught up. This post will be a long one, I hope it's worth it.

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My LotR soundtracks/books/other accessories are precious, and NO one is to touch them...when I say NO one, I mean absolutely no one...
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Definitely! I'm turning into a right little Gollum where my books are concerned.


Me too! But then, I'm like that about all my books and stuff in general.

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When one of your long term goals in life is to read LotR once a year.
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My oh my..that's MY goal as well!!! Scary!

Yes, me too, and so far I'm doing well.... This year will be my fifth reading.

My friend got annoyed with me for learning Elvish because, "No one actually speaks it!" So I started learning Gaelic, because Elvish is based on Gaelic. (I'm still working on Elvish though.)


Lucky! I want to learn Gaelic!

Yeah, a lot of people seem to think that. Personally I think England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand are much better. America really isn't as great as most people seem to think. (Not that I hate it or anything, I just like other places better.)


Very true. And I live in America! I feel so treacherous! Hahaha, treachery is fun! smilies/evil.gif

guy who be short - Great idea about the blue and yellow braces!


Good color coordination, but for anyone else who was thinking to try this, I would warn against it. Yellow starts looking brown by the end of the month- not very nice.

Today for social studies class, we had to come up with four qualities that we think the ideal person would possess. So naturally, I took a mixture of all the characters we know and love: loyalty for Sam; determination for Aragorn, and so on.


smilies/biggrin.gif

And can you believe that some people think I'm weird for wanting to live in England? (Or Ireland, or Australia, or...I won't annoy you with a list of all the places I want to go. It's a very long list.)


Or Scotland, or the Czech Republic, or....

Btw, sorry for quoting myself.


Not at all. I should try that sometime...

When you dance like Luthien whenever you have an excuse, ie, all the time. (Like in the living room, onstage at school, down the road...)


Ah, yes, of course. I thought that was normal?......

[Finwe]

- When you come up with the perfect game for your school's Renaissance Festival, "Destroy the Ring." Basically, what it involves is, you find a riddle, and the answer to that riddle leads you to the next one, and so on and so forth, until you finally get to this little volcano where you drop the One Ring, and this cloud of smoke goes, "POOF!!!!" Meanwhile, these people in long black cloaks are chasing you around, and if they catch you with the One Ring, you get put in "jail" for 10 minutes.

[Arwen1858]

Finwe, that sounds like a really cool game!

~ When you are reading an assigned book in class and you notice the word "Aragon" and immediately think it says "Aragorn".
I do that, too. My dad works with some chemicals at his work, and one of them is Argon. So when we went to see TTT, he kept calling Aragorn Argon! And he called Gimli Gimlik. It was kinda funny. smilies/smile.gif

When you see matches and lighters and automatically think of Meela and Denethor smilies/smile.gif
When you hear the word pyromaniac and the first thing that comes to mind is DENETHOR!! I almost shouted it out at the dinner table when I heard that word... but thought better of it. My Mom wouldn't have been too thrilled with me...

[Everdawn]

When you say goodbye to your friends you say "suilad" and they look at you and you say "did i say that?" and they go "yeah dude." and then you nodd and say: "Well, i cant help it can i?"

True story, happened to me this afternoon. smilies/redface.gif

[the guy who be short]

When the following happens...:

German teacher (Frau Joch): Anybody know the German word for mirror?

(dull silence)

Mrs Joch: anybody?

(silence. someone yawns.)

Mrs Joch: The German word for mirror is "Die Smeagol".

(Everybody in the class swivels round to stare at TGWBS who (not failing them) starts giggling uncontrollably.

[Finwe]

- You spend $30 on the Ring of Barahir from Tolkientown.com and hope to Elbereth that your dad doesn't ask what that random package is for you.

- You constantly look on eBay to see if any of the cast members of LotR are on sale. (Hey, you never know! They could need some extra cash!)

- When you've written about 100+ poems, fan fics, and ficlets somehow involving Middle-earth or Middle-earthian names.

- When your English teacher lets you help plan your school's Renaissance Festival just because you have so many great ideas to make it more LotR-themed.

[Sapphire_Flame]

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My LotR soundtracks/books/other accessories are precious, and NO one is to touch them...when I say NO one, I mean absolutely no one...
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Definitely! I'm turning into a right little Gollum where my books are concerned.

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Indeed, indeed! In fact, once my mom threatened to take my books ( smilies/eek.gif ) and I very nearly burst into tears (and actually did, when she followed through on the threat smilies/frown.gif ). For the next week, I refused to speak to her, only muttering under my breath "She stole our precious, we hates her forever!"

Happily, she didn't hear me, and I did get my books back. smilies/biggrin.gif
- When you come up with the perfect game for your school's Renaissance Festival, "Destroy the Ring." Basically, what it involves is, you find a riddle, and the answer to that riddle leads you to the next one, and so on and so forth, until you finally get to this little volcano where you drop the One Ring, and this cloud of smoke goes, "POOF!!!!" Meanwhile, these people in long black cloaks are chasing you around, and if they catch you with the One Ring, you get put in "jail" for 10 minutes.
Oh, that's brilliant, Finwe! I'll have to use that idea sometime.

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Goldberry]

Haha, guy! I wish my school had a German class. smilies/frown.gif

Well anyway...when you are half-asleep in social class, but then the teacher says something about the Mauryan empire (pronounced like Moria) and you snap back awake.

When you've made it your trademark to draw a miniature Minas Tirith on the back of every test paper you have. The teachers always give it strange looks, since I do it every time. smilies/biggrin.gif

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[Sirithheruwen]

You know you're obsessed when...you stay up until five in the morning (on a school night might I add) reading--AND finishing--The Book of Lost Tales, Part I while proceding to eat a Halloween size bag of Dumm Dumms, a nutri-grain bar, and about a quart of vanilla ice cream. *groans as stomach makes funny noises* smilies/tongue.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/smile.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

When the following happens...:
German teacher (Frau Joch): Anybody know the German word for mirror?

(dull silence)

Mrs Joch: anybody?

(silence. someone yawns.)

Mrs Joch: The German word for mirror is "Die Smeagol".

(Everybody in the class swivels round to stare at TGWBS who (not failing them) starts giggling uncontrollably.


TeeHee!!! That's brilliant TGWBS! Although I'd have to say that almost everyone in my class would do the same thing!

I have another one of my own: When the following happens:

In music class, we are putting on little skits and my friend has to "yellow pus in a sore." My fiend asks the music teacher how to say it and she says, "Like gollum." She had no clue what she brought upon herself. me and my other obsessed friend (not pus) ran around the stage screaming and dancing and quoting Gollum/Smeagol and singing and doing cartwheels. My already scared music teacher then is I'm sure scarred for life now because we practically leap on her snarling and begging her to give usssssss the part, yessssss my preccioussssss... smilies/tongue.gif

[Finwe]

- You do something horribly inane at home, and your mother threatens to take away your LotR books, and you burst into tears and start saying, "The thieves!!!! The filthy little thieves!!!! They stole our precious!!!!! Filthy little Baggins!!!!!!" and your mom takes the books away for a week. When she finally gave them back to me, she told me that I should go into either acting or the clown industry (so I could scare little kids). I didn't know whether to take the last part as an insult or a compliment, so I just kept quiet.

[Orominuialwen]

German teacher (Frau Joch): Anybody know the German word for mirror?

(dull silence)

Mrs Joch: anybody?

(silence. someone yawns.)

Mrs Joch: The German word for mirror is "Die Smeagol".

(Everybody in the class swivels round to stare at TGWBS who (not failing them) starts giggling uncontrollably. Heh heh heh. Did you know that the word for dwarf in French is "Nain" ? smilies/wink.gif

~When you hear someone at school talking about seeing RotK, you immediately ask them if they know that the EEs of FotR and TTT are going to be played in your city. They look at you strangely. You are delighted because you love wierd looks.

~When you spend your extra time in school writing the Shire date on every day in your planner.

~When you and your mom are discussing famous first lines of books, you of course say that the opening line of The Hobbit is your favorite. Your mom says she prefers the opening lines of Pride and Prejudice and A Tale of Two Cities, but you still think The Hobbit has the best one smilies/biggrin.gif

[Lily Bombadil]

You know you're obsessed when you are reading in your I.P.C. textbook and read the following like this:

Gadolinium>> Gondolin
anion>> Aniron
Thorium>> Thorin
Bohrium>> Boromir

[Lily Bombadil]

You know you're obsessed when you buy a wizard charm for your bracelet at the town fair because it looks like Gandalf. Then you spend free time at school walking it across your desk and saying in a small voice, "You cannot pass!"

[Lily Bombadil]

Every day at lunch and in the mornings, you greet your friends with, "Mae govannen." And when you and your best mellon part ways at her 6th period reading class, you always say, "Namarië."

[Lily Bombadil]

*You are eating your Wild Thornberrys crunch berries and wonder why they don't make LotR crunch berries.
*You post more than two consecutive times on this message board.

[Elwen_starmaiden]

When you see matches and lighters and automatically think of Meela and Denethor
Or the word flammable for me smilies/biggrin.gif

[Elennar Starfire]

Oh, so many posts since the last time I was here! (yesterday) smilies/wink.gif I must catch up!

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My friend got annoyed with me for learning Elvish because, "No one actually speaks it!" So I started learning Gaelic, because Elvish is based on Gaelic. (I'm still working on Elvish though.)

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Lucky! I want to learn Gaelic!



I can call my sister a brat in Gaelic now! It's 'abaisd'. Don't try to pronounce that unless you have looked up proper Gaelic pronunciation, or you will get it wrong. Gaelic pronunciation is weird...Knowing Elvish pronunciation helps a lot though!
Seriously, Elvish and Gaelic are so similar! In Celtic mythology there is someone named Govannon. I don't think I need to point out what exactly that looks like! Also there is a goddess named Eriu. And now I know where Arianrod got his nick! Arianrhod. Gaelic stuff is sooo fun!!! smilies/biggrin.gif

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Yeah, a lot of people seem to think that. Personally I think England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand are much better. America really isn't as great as most people seem to think. (Not that I hate it or anything, I just like other places better.)

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Very true. And I live in America! I feel so treacherous! Hahaha, treachery is fun!


Yep, I live in America too!

Hmm, there was something else I was going to quote, but now I can't find it! smilies/confused.gif

~When someone asks you to borrow The Hobbit, and, being the nice person you are, you let them, but say, "Be careful with our preciousss, yesss."

[Sapphire_Flame]

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*wails in despair* I just went to buy tickets for the Trilogy Tuesday thing on December 16th, and they were already SOLD OUT!!! smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif And the tickets only came on sale today!

Waaa, my life sucks right now... smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif

DEATH! DEATH TAKE US ALL!

~*~Aranel~*~

[Elfwine]

Oromin, Polly? Yeah. That's what I thought. Crazy, crazy girl. Gotta love 'er.

-When people ask about the callouses on your fingers and palms from playing the cello and the guitar, you look at them, sigh, shake your head and tell them that "skill with the blade does not come easy, nor fast, though years in the wilds can speed up the learning process."

-When you are reading The Pearl, one of the most horrible pieces of literature in the world (I lied, it's not that bad), for English class, and on a discussion day, accidently refer to the pearl as the Ring.

M'bah. That's all I can think of now.

[Arwen1858]

Elennar, I really want to learn Gaelic, too! Are you learning Irish Gaelic, or Scottish? I want to learn Irish.

When you walk down the street, in the rain, singing Pippin and Merry's song from the Green Dragon. Unfortunately I didn't get any strange looks, because everyone else was in out of the rain.
When you walk through Wal-Mart singing the same song.
When the word ring always makes you think of the one ring

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

~When you try to draw a Silmaril, but with your nonexistant drawing skills, it comes out more like a clamshell.


When I do my pathetic attempt to draw the Two Trees, they end up looking like sundae cones.

When you dance like Luthien whenever you have an excuse, ie, all the time. (Like in the living room, onstage at school, down the road...)


I did that at my sister's(Lhunardawen) dormitory, and got three weird stares! smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif Enjoyable! I must look like a deranged homosexual or something, but it's fun. Takes out all the Gollumity in me(did I just invent that word?)

When you've made it your trademark to draw a miniature Minas Tirith on the back of every test paper you have. The teachers always give it strange looks, since I do it every time.


I do a big Ring Inscription on the front page of my test booklet. I get several deductions for that. Oh, the torment of an LotR freak...

...she told me that I should go into either acting or the clown industry (so I could scare little kids). I didn't know whether to take the last part as an insult or a compliment, so I just kept quiet.


Mom tells me the same thing, too, whenever I get that irresistible feeling to speak elvish, or do my Gollum thing. I never care. It's part of who I am... smilies/biggrin.gif

It's time to contribute to this thread...

~You run around your sister's school, shouting, "Come hither, mansbane, and get a new name!" Got four weird stares for that... smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif

~When you find yourself locked outside your house, you knock hard, and shout in a Nazgul voice, "Open, in the name of Mordor!" That should get them up...

~When you do nothing obsessive all day, because you spent your entire waking day at BD! (Did that yesterday!)

Wala lang!
->The True Son of Finrod, and of Amarie the Vanyar

[Annalaliath]

Your freind Cym warns her boyfriend not to talk to the other anti sexual LOTR fan in the area.

She is surprised that you havent mentioned LOTR all day cause you are obbsessing over your newest crush, and your Gothic angst.

You run around the club dance floor , Literlay, yelling " Frodo Lives" Over and over again. the DJ coments something about a " Perky Goth." Your other freind Sarah looks at you and just coments something about your head and a meatcleaver. All the While sparky is laughing his head off. Next time you plan to run around screaming " Do the waave for boroamer the DIsco King!"

[Failivrin]

you and a friend give endearing names to the actors you really like in LOTR eg beanie is sean bean, kelley is ian mckellen, morty is viggo mortensen and ChrisLee is...well, you can guess that one.

you then compile a quiz that consist of questions such as 'do you like tolkien?' 'do you like johnny depp?' do you like[insert above actors]?' etc and give it to everyone you know. when asked why they are doing it you tell them 'so we can decide if we like you'
'can't you do that by my personality?'
'NO'

if they get an answer wrong you give them a week to 'think over their mistake' and then give it to them again. you vow never to stop until everyone has answered every single question correctly

[Rilwen Gamgee]

It's part of who I am...

Right on! smilies/biggrin.gif

~ When you try to open the refridgerator by saying "Mellon!" at your church youth group spagetti dinner, but it doesn't work. A girl came up and opened it for me and gave me a weird look. smilies/smile.gif

NO! I can't think of any more obsessive things!!! smilies/eek.gif

[Elennar Starfire]

Elennar, I really want to learn Gaelic, too! Are you learning Irish Gaelic, or Scottish? I want to learn Irish.

Irish. I will PM you some links!

~When you become very excited when you discover that there is a type of tomatoe called 'Brandywine', and that your dad is growing some in the garden. (They taste really good, by the way.)

Oh, dear, all my Gaelic studies are affecting my brain, instead of typing 'w' I have started typing 'bh' sometimes, and all because in Gaelic, 'bh' is pronounced as either a 'w' or a 'v'.

[Orominuialwen]

I have a set of teach yourself Gaelic tapes, but I don't know whether they're for Irish or Scottish.

~When you encounter someone who says they think LotR is boring, and that they liked The Hobbit, but gave up in the middle of reading TTT, you are forced to tell her Bado orch echado meleth and Mîbo orch. smilies/biggrin.gif You say you will tell her what these mean when she reads LotR. smilies/evil.gif

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[elfearz1]

when you write on your hand "I <3" really big and everyone says "oooh, who do you like?" and you point to the tiny writing that says "lord of the rings"

I love that, gets them everytime smilies/biggrin.gif

[Oddwen]

Well, I've returned to BK to support my RotK habit.

My brother mentioned that I really liked LotR, and now he keeps getting called "Samwise Gamgee" because his name is Sam. We are going to call the perpetrator (Ron) "Elrond".

A man stopped in tonight, his name was "Wightman". I immediately thought of our dear ol' Wight. smilies/biggrin.gif

[lothlorien]

Hi I have just signed up and I came across
a few boards by accident. I have only just begun my obsession with Tolkiens work and I am driving my family insane with my obsession. My friends and family members started insisting I stop reading tolkien
(Have you ever been on one of those really long car trips that take like 8 hours)
well we were on one of those and my sister asked me where abouts Mina's Morgul was and I told her about the ages of middle earth and the Geography of middel earth eventually 6 hours later my 2 sisters were staring of into space and my father stopped the car and said IF YOU DON'T STOP TALKING YOU'LL WALK THE REST OF THE WAYso I had to stop right at an interesting part to.
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[lothlorien]

I spelt that wrong I mean middle earth
anyway I am not going to stop reading tolkiens work they may take my books but they'll never take middle earth away NEVER!!!

[Finwe]

You say to your boyfriend, when he's slightly late for your date at the movies, "Le abdolen.... You look terrible!" and both of you burst out laughing.


(I'm so lucky that he's so understanding!!!!) smilies/biggrin.gif

[Failivrin]

you're so lucky finwe smilies/smile.gif

gaelic (irish) pronunciation confuses me so much that i don't even bother trying to spell the words now (i have never tried to seriously learn it...yet). my friend is half irish and has lots of irish cousins, some with easy names- sinead, meabh etc- and then she has ones with complicated names that i can never spell. the worst of these is caiombhe which is pronounced 'kweeva' then her friend is called pr. 'keeva' which, confusingly, is spelt the same way smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Finwe]

Eck! That doesn't sound too good.

You catch yourself daydreaming about translating Beowulf into Quenya (or Sindarin) during your Spanish class.


(That one truly scared me!!!! smilies/eek.gif )

[Arwen1858]

When your sisters try to take your 7up bottle (which has 100 points to go towards liquidloot.com, I might add) and you take it from them, and start going, 'It is mine... My own... My precious!!!'

[lothlorien]

You know your totally obsessed when you
learn how to speak both elvish languages and then you try to get your best friends to learn to speak elvish also. Even when some of them amazingly HAVEN'T SEEN THE LORD OF THE RINGS MOVIES AND WON'T READ THE BOOKS!!! smilies/eek.gif I just don't understand that girl sometimes.

[elf-girl-63]

- You but a bracelet cos it looks kinda elvish but don't say anything aobut why you bought it to your family. When your brother notices so dance round.

-You see a postcard of a painting and think the artist is Arwen Undomiel because of the signature. On closer inspection it is actually Vernon SOmebody! smilies/wink.gif

[Finwe]

When the following lines make you bawl like a baby:

There can be no triumph
without loss
No victory
without suffering
No freedom
without sacrifice

[Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1]

And can you believe that some people think I'm weird for wanting to live in England?
Er...and the problem with England is...? I mean, apart from the weather and all... smilies/biggrin.gif


Mrs Joch: The German word for mirror is "Die Smeagol".

(Everybody in the class swivels round to stare at TGWBS who (not failing them) starts giggling uncontrollably.

Oh yeah, once in PHSE we were watching a video on alcoholics anonymous, and someone called it a fellowship- at which everyone swivelled round and looked at me.


And all I have to do is draw a leaf with a green pen on my german homework and my teacher knows who's it is. So I don't actually need to write my name and form.
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When you give your friend the history of ME...and it takes up the entire 9 hour coach journey. By the end of it everyone is looking at you, thinking 'What a freak'.

You get marks deducted for drawing on the front of the test? We don't!
I finished my geography exam early last year (well the first paper anyway) so I was drawing a scene from ME on the spare lined paper we had. And after the exam my friend went completely panicky because she thought she had missed a page out and forgotten to draw something!

[Arwen1858]

You but a bracelet cos it looks kinda elvish but don't say anything aobut why you bought it to your family.
I've done that before about stuff smilies/biggrin.gif There's a necklace at Wal-Mart I really want to get because it looks very Elvish, I just haven't told my mom why I like it so much.

When the following lines make you bawl like a baby:

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There can be no triumph
without loss
No victory
without suffering
No freedom
without sacrifice


I've done that one before, too. I cry quite a bit watching the trailer. I think my mom really wondered why on earth I got so emotional over just a trailer... but then again, this isn't just a trailer, is it?

[Elennar Starfire]

Er...and the problem with England is...? I mean, apart from the weather and all...

I don't know what they think the problem is! They're just weird.

~When you see a sign at school that says "Wear your PJs on Friday!" You start laughing, and wonder how that is possible.
Oh! I just had a funny thought! PJ Pajamas! Just think about it for a while, I'm sure some of you will find it funny! (I am tired, so, sorry if it is actually really stupid.)

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

I've been doing a few weird things over the weekends, and I'd love to share them...

~I saw this ATM camera thing, so I stopped in front and said, "I'm a Barrow-Downer! If you are, PM Nilpaurion Felagund!" Then I realized that the thing doesn't take any sounds...Oh, well smilies/rolleyes.gif

~I was stuck in a crowded train, leaning on the door. When the door opened, people kept pushing me outside the door. I thought to myself, "How I'd love to have my sword right now..."

~Then, I reached church, and this girl saw me Reading BoLT I, and said, "You know, that's just a fad, with the movie out..." A fad, huh! What I wouldn't give to have my sword... smilies/mad.gif smilies/mad.gif smilies/mad.gif

So, here's some more I thought of:

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

~Instead of doing the Eowyn challenge, you do your own; Fingolfin challenge: March to Middle Earth.

~You get that irresistible urge to go to the public address system and say, "I see YOU!!!" or "I'm a Barrow-Downer..."

Wala lang!
->The True Son of Finrod, and of Amarie the Vanyar