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

[miellien]

...when you finally get your 2 year old to sleep through the night, and you spend half the night on the BD!

[Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1]

Ok, you're really going to think this one is weird...
I was cutting up my steak pie last night for dinner and I suddenly thought 'this smells like the Barrow-Downs forum'.
That kind of gave me a shock...I mean, how can a forum have a smell????

Actually, that thing about PJ PJs made me laugh. smilies/biggrin.gif Maybe they should be called PJ's PJs??? Ok, I can't stop laughing now!!! But hang on, that's what PJ's PJs are actually called (does this make any sense whatsoever? Probably not...) smilies/tongue.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

~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...
Oooo, I hate people like that! smilies/mad.gif You feel like you want to tell them the whole history of the thing, but you don't want to waste your breath explaining something so amazing to someone without brains. *sigh* What is the world coming to?

~When you skip your school's pep assembly to go into the library and play on the 'Downs. smilies/biggrin.gif *I'm doing this now, bwahaha... smilies/evil.gif *

Heh, PJ's PJs... *snork* smilies/biggrin.gif

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Finwe]

*snicker snicker* PJ's PJs! That's marvelous! Perhaps we should design some so that the Barrow Wight can sell them to make money for the site.

You spend a grand total of 36 hours over the weekend looking for a LotR/Renaissance themed outfit for Halloween/Ren Faire/Premiere of RotK when you really should be working on your SAT/PSAT work. (I'm guilty, but it worked! I have a great Mercenary costume!)

[Arwen1858]

When you're watching a baseball game, while looking at LotR sites on net, and they talk about Fenway Park, and since you aren't really paying much attention to what they're saying, you hear it as Finwe.

[Elennar Starfire]

Maybe they should be called PJ's PJs??? Ok, I can't stop laughing now!!! But hang on, that's what PJ's PJs are actually called (does this make any sense whatsoever? Probably not...)

Now you have made me laugh all over again, and my mom is giving me weird looks. PJ's PJs! I love it! But, what do they look like? (My friend has pajama pants that have the eye of Sauron on them, and she got them before the movie came out! Is that weird or what?)

~When you wonder if elves ever sneeze

~When you know who Figwit is and how he got his name

I started making my elven dress! It will be dark blue. I am planning to wear it to school. Getting weird looks at my school is hard, I only got one for wearing a Starfleet uniform! Maybe they're all getting used to my oddness, and I will have to do something drastic! Like, after I learn Irish dancing, I can bring my friend's CD player (which plays very loudly) and a celtic CD, and start dancing in the middle of the gym during a pep rally. That would be fun! Then I would steal the microphone, and yell "Wave squid at Boromir the disco king!" Oh, fun thoughts!

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

You have firmly decided that you will never be caught without your sword(my Telpelin, my preciousss...) for reasons stated above...it also doubles as a kitchen knife, great for chopping coneys...

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

[Sapphire_Flame]

~When you wonder if elves ever sneeze
Whoa, do they sneeze? smilies/eek.gif smilies/confused.gif Da's weird...

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Failivrin]

having been alerted to the elves sneezing question you start wondering if they did, how they would sneeze. would they put their hand to their nose and make a gentle 'atchoo'? would they turn away from you? would the take out a tissue from a beautifully embroidered drawstring purse? i think the last one.

hey finwe, one person DID do irish dancing in an assembly once! since we live in england i don't think it was that weird and people always used to show things in assembly. funny all the same though....

i envisage PJ's PJs (haha) as being blue and white striped. i am seeing him at the moment coming downstairs in hte middle of the night to get a glass of milk in them smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Finwe]

You use a sword to kill a spider. This is the whole story. I was practicing that move that Eowyn does with her sword in my room, when suddenly, in the next room, my younger brother (who is 8) started screaming, "SPIDER!!!! SPIDER!!!!" Naturally, I rushed over to check, and sure enough, this HUGE spider was crawling down the wall. Compared to most house spiders, this one was like Shelob! It was a tarantula as big as my hand! So utterly scary! Anyway, I took one look at my sword (in my hand) and another at the spider, decided to take my chances, and swung at the dratted thing with my sword. Sure enough, I caught it right across the middle, squashed it, and put a nice gash in the wall. Now, there's a big smear of very questionable substances on the wall, with a big cut in the middle. I'm hoping that my parents don't notice it for a while, but if they do, I can use the excuse that, "Just because Frodo and Sam were inept at killing spiders doesn't mean I have to be! I just saved him (my little brother) from Shelob!"

[Elennar Starfire]

Dia dhuit! (That's hello in Irish!)

PJ's PJs got me in trouble at school today! I was reading this,(They won't let me post at school, isn't that annoying?) and got to that bit, and started laughing, quite loudly, until my teacher told me to be quiet.

i envisage PJ's PJs (haha) as being blue and white striped. i am seeing him at the moment coming downstairs in hte middle of the night to get a glass of milk in them

Ha! That is so funny! *starts singing*

Bananas-in pajamas-are coming down the stairs.
Bananas-in pajamas-are coming down in pairs.

Has anyone else seen Bananas in Pajamas? That's what I thought of, because the banana's pajamas are blue and white striped.

Abot elves sneezing, I have no idea if they ever sneeze. They don't get sick, but that doesn't mean that they never get dust up their noses! I have a funny mental picture of an elf sneezing violently, like I do. I mean like: ACHOO!!! and getting thrown forward by the force of the sneeze. I almost always hurt myself when I sneeze. My sneezes were once described as 'explosive'.

Ok, I will stop talking about sneezing now. The word 'sneeze' is starting to look weird to me.

[legolas luver*1]

You have tons of action figures,hava a wraith sword, 2 bookmarks, a magazine picture of Gandalf, the one, & are on the downs every day!! smilies/eek.gif

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Has anyone else seen Bananas in Pajamas? That's what I thought of, because the banana's pajamas are blue and white striped.


Ha! COFLGOHAHA! I just see it now...

Pete Jackson, in pajamas, just walking down the stairs...

Ok, I will stop talking about sneezing now. The word 'sneeze' is starting to look weird to me.


Try looking at the word "choir" for a long time. That, too, will get really weird. In fact, every single word I look at for so long gets weird(except Elvish! Go Quenya! smilies/biggrin.gif )

By the way...I saw this vacant giant ad, and I am severely tempted to buy the space(I have not, and will not have, any cash, so that defeated the temptation) and put a giant Barrow-downs ad or something...but then...do I really want another being to skip reviewing his upcoming Calc test and go to the Downs instead?(Hey, that's what I'm doing now... smilies/evil.gif smilies/evil.gif smilies/evil.gif )

Yours, if you want to smilies/tongue.gif
->The True Son of Finrod, and of Amarië the Vanyar

[Arwen1858]

In fact, every single word I look at for so long gets weird
Same with me. Also, if I say a word too many times, it looks and sounds weird.

When trying to sneak through the house at night when everyone else is asleep, you tell yourself, 'I'm an Elf... I'm an Elf... therefore I can walk through the house soundlessly.' I tell myself that smilies/smile.gif

Oh, and I really like the bit about PJ's pjs!!

[Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1]

Same with me. Also, if I say a word too many times, it looks and sounds weird. Yeah, same.

Also, when I'm walking around, like in school or something, I try walking like Aragorn, then Legolas...and I work through the Fellowship... smilies/rolleyes.gif

[elf-girl-63]

When you are sooooo bored waiting for a bus cos you had to go to Homework Club to d oIT coursework, you suddenly see a car with part of a registration plate which is ENT and driving very very slowly. The bus arrived v soon by the way.

[Failivrin]

ahhhh, bananas in pajamas. that was great. but PJ would be almost breaking the buttons off his PJ's, he is not so slimline as the bananas smilies/wink.gif

[Naz]

I put the RotK wallpaper of Ary with Anduril on my computer in art & this one boy was all mocking: "Ooh, Lord of the Rings!" Makes you wanna say: "You know, shut up! *points to Ary* Cause this guy could kick your butt any day!"

smilies/evil.gif bwahahaha...

[ October 15, 2003: Message edited by: Naz ]

[Arwen1858]

When someone says the word 'diminish' and you start going, 'I passed the test. I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain... Galadriel.' I did that to my sister a few minutes ago.

[Orominuialwen]

~When you are forced to do a standardized writing assessment in school, you write about why you think Tom Bombadil is a Maia. When the following lines make you bawl like a baby:

quote:
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There can be no triumph
without loss
No victory
without suffering
No freedom
without sacrifice

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-------------------- I know! They're just so beautiful. 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. You're so lucky!!! I draw leaves on all my papers and am strangely compelled to label them lassë, but my teachers seem to have taken no notice smilies/frown.gif . What makes it worse is that I have to write my whole name, which is quite long, despite the fact that there is no one else in my school with my first name, in fact I've never even met anyone with my first name! smilies/mad.gif

[Amarantha_Daisy]

Hee hee! smilies/biggrin.gif PJ's PJs! *sings the Bananas in Pajamas song*

....*Do* Elves sneeze? smilies/eek.gif Failivrin, I agree. I can just imagine an elf taking out this little tissue from a little hand-sewn pouch...

The word 'sneeze' is starting to look weird to me.

Heh heh....I love it when that happpens. Confusing, but fun smilies/biggrin.gif If you look at your thumb for a really long time, it starts looking wierd, too... *stares at thumb*

-When you start seeing things from LotR in random places (Although I think we all do this already smilies/wink.gif But today I thought I saw a girl wearing the Evenstar necklace...)

-When you switch between Sindarin (or Quenya smilies/wink.gif ) and English randomly.

-When you start comparing places here with places in ME.

This morning my front yard looked so much like Bree! It was raining and it was really windy, and it just....loked like Bree. Then my sister did this weird screech that sounds *just* like a Nazgul! It was freaky...

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Hey! I've finished the thing. Hope you like it...

P. Jackson, in pajamas, just coming down the stairs.
P. Jackson, in pajamas, sporting the blue striped pair.
P. Jackson, in pajamas, we'll chase him here and there.
Come, we'll make you king, because your movie's quite a fare...

When trying to sneak through the house at night when everyone else is asleep, you tell yourself, 'I'm an Elf... I'm an Elf... therefore I can walk through the house soundlessly.' I tell myself that

Me, too. I think so Elvish that I walk around quietly everywhere...some people think I'm trying to be a burglar...Oh, well, non-educated fools... smilies/rolleyes.gif

Haven't done anything new yet, so Namarië!

Yours, if you want to smilies/tongue.gif
->The True Son of Finrod, and of Amarië the Vanyar

[ October 15, 2003: Message edited by: Nilpaurion Felagund ]

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

There! I've done one!

You know you're obsessed with LotR when your cellphones filled, not with heart-warming messages from loved ones, but with post materials, quote ideas, and just funny things said on the 'Downs.

By the way, do you have any plans for Random Band-Aid week?

Yours, if you want to smilies/tongue.gif
->The True Son of Finrod, and of Amarië the Vanyar

[Annalaliath]

When you are thnking about your freind's demon possessed sword and suddenly you wonder how the sword narsil would feel.

You are constantly tring to defend Tolkien around the mindless idiots around you.

Yesterday I met a person in my animation lab and I think I started to talk about LOTR after the SCA was braght up and so on and so forth.

I made my freind Jon go and look for my elvish to elglish dictionary out of my car. I was going to put elvish runes all over my ea pot that we are making in class but it took too long for him to comeback. I will have to live without the beutiful letters.

I watched the Hobbit the other day, and I liked it.

Needless to say I want a working well balanced sword to learn how to use. So I can be a Ranger!!!! Either that or a realy ugly elf.

[Salix]

-When you're supposed to be writing a timeline about the Unification of Italy and you notice that the capital of Sardina is a place named Turin...
-Wehn you have a substitute watching you so when you pick up your copy of TTT and open it, then the substitute asks what you're doing with your book open. smilies/rolleyes.gif
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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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You're so lucky!!! I draw leaves on all my papers and am strangely compelled to label them lassë, but my teachers seem to have taken no notice . What makes it worse is that I have to write my whole name, which is quite long, despite the fact that there is no one else in my school with my first name, in fact I've never even met anyone with my first name!
I just write my first name with the first inital of my last name because I am the only person in the school with my first name. However, I have met 3 others with my first name. For a while, I was writing the date according to the Shire calendar, but I was having problems putting the date on every assignment.

[Arwen1858]

Me, too. I think so Elvish that I walk around quietly everywhere...some people think I'm trying to be a burglar...Oh, well, non-educated fools...

Sometimes, when I'm jumping down off of something, or just when I walk too loudly, I think, 'Why did I do that?! An elf wouldn't do that!!' I think that's another sure sign of obsession smilies/biggrin.gif
Arwen

[Failivrin]

you spend literally hours explaining to morons exactly WHY it is essential to learn Elvish and that IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT IT MAY NOT BE USEFUL (a point which, actually, i disagree with); it is the music and joy of learning another language that you live for.

i also like to walk around really quietly. i give myself marks out of 10 eg if the person hears me 0 if they don't notice until i speak 10, if they notice when i am a metre behind them 4...

[Duncariel]

You really know you're obsessed when you keep coming back to little sites like this one, even when you've been gone for ages....

[Arwen1858]

When most of this stuff sounds normal to you
When your third thread on the subjuct reaches page 14

We'll probably have to start part 4 soon!!
Arwen

[Naz]

This morning my front yard looked so much like Bree! It was raining and it was really windy, and it just....loked like Bree. Then my sister did this weird screech that sounds *just* like a Nazgul! It was freaky...


Some mornings outside it'll have an Elvish-y glow... blue-purple.

This morning the Moon was still in the sky, so I yelled skywards, "Tiiiiliiiiooon!!!" Wonder if he heard me. smilies/wink.gif

[kittiewhirl1677]

When you ask your frind why she keeps closing the door and she says, "I guess it's just a hobbit... - er, habit..."

[ October 16, 2003: Message edited by: kittiewhirl1677 ]

[Elwen_starmaiden]

"I guess it's just a hobbit... - er, habit..."
I did that too!

When you see a person in your class reading ROTK and feel like you made an accomplishment, even though he doesn't even know you.

When that same guy has a conversation about it with this ignorant fool across the room who pronounced Gollum go-lem and was about to correct (and insult) him but your teacher came back.

Sometimes at school I feel like I'm surrounded by idiots smilies/rolleyes.gif

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

...when your friend asks you why you're closing the door and you say "it's just a hobbit- er, habit." smilies/tongue.gif (Hey, it works both ways...)

-Menelien

[Finwe]

You literally drool over the ad for the Lord of the Rings: War of the Rings game. (I am SO glad that my friends didn't see me) smilies/biggrin.gif.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

We'll probably have to start part 4 soon!!


Yay! Part four! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif

This morning the Moon was still in the sky, so I yelled skywards, "Tiiiiliiiiooon!!!" Wonder if he heard me.


I shout "Isil!" when I see the moon, especially when it's full, which remind me of the times that my friends and I observe the stars from their rooftops. Ah, memories...

Which reminded me...

You know you're obsessed with LotR when you call stars by their elven names. "Oh, look, there's Menelmacar! And there's red Borgil!"

Sometimes at school I feel like I'm surrounded by idiots


I don't know what's worse: that, or being surrounded by people ignorant of the wonderful works of JRR Tolkien. Maybe we need our own country... smilies/wink.gif

Yours, if you want to smilies/tongue.gif
->The True Son of Finrod, and of Amarië the Vanyar

[Everdawn]

When your father catches you playing with his 200 year old antique Arabian sword and your conversation goes osmething like this..

Me: This sword is too big for me...
Dad: To do what?
Me: Kill orcs...
Dad: I see...

Or when you argue with your teacher in English to critique LOTR as it IS a documentary, becuase in your mind the events did actually happen!

[Arwen1858]

When you decide you must be turning into a hobbit, because you've been really hungry lately, then realize you must be the only hobbit to ever live who didn't like mushrooms. Then you realize you're talking like this stuff really did happen! (That's because it did, right?)

When you start believing that it all really did happen.

[Naz]

Maybe we need our own country...

smilies/biggrin.gif Ooh! Yeah we do^ ^

[Elennar Starfire]

Then you realize you're talking like this stuff really did happen! (That's because it did, right?)

Of course it did! Who could possibly think otherwise?

In Irish dance class yesterday I slipped, then said that I was as graceful as a dwarf in a tree. ('Twas my fault for wearing socks on a wooden floor)

When you wonder how elves dance When you want to learn to dance like an elf

[the guy who be short]

You know you're obsessed with LotR when you call stars by their elven names. "Oh, look, there's Menelmacar! And there's red Borgil!"
Too true... so often I have gazed at Valacirca.

When you bow to everybody you meet and say "My your beard grow ever longer." Somebody asks you the correct dwarvish response so you quickly flick through the Hobbit! (I haven't found the response yet... anyone?)

[Tinuviel of Denton]

--When you have supersonic hearing for LotR. I met a rather cool guy that way...

--When said guy lends you an Elvish/English (sadly, I don't have one of my own due to being a poverty-stricken high-school student) and your reaction is to dance around the room squealing.

--When you make said guy sign up on the Downs (HI, ONIGENE!)

--When you translate both your name and the name of the guy you have a crush on into Elvish (and no, that is not the same guy as the guy who lent me the dictionary).

--When you translate the name of your best friend into Elvish, even though she doesn't like it...

--When you occupy yourself by writing LotR fanfiction.

[Everdawn]

-- When your boyfriend cant understand you becuase you speak to him in Elvish half the time... (Sad but True, he just doesnt understand smilies/wink.gif )

When you can hold your breath throughout the ROTK trailer, without becoming dead, becuase its just so exciting you can't breathe!

[Orominuialwen]

In Irish dance class yesterday What kind do you do, Ceili or step? I've been doing Ceili (pronounced KAY-lee) for 9 years now, and I think it's very hobbitish. If you're taking step, I would suggest trying Ceili as well (it's immense fun!) smilies/smile.gif --When you have supersonic hearing for LotR. Me too! That's how I met Elfwine. Plus, today in fencing, I got distracter by someone saying the word Gandalf when I was supposed to be practicing advancing and retreating.

~When you recite Aragorn's speech from the trailer for your friends at lunch. Later, when you are bored in Algebra, you write the speech on the back of your hand (it was really hard to fit the whole thing!)

~When a line in the song Light my Fire by The Doors reminds you of Meela- "and our love become a funeral pyre" smilies/evil.gif There is a hilarious parodie of this song (and lots of others too!)
here (http://ringil.cis.ksu.edu/Tolkien/Humor/RedSOW/) (scroll a little more than halfway down the page and click on "Come on, Denny, Light That Pyre"

[ October 17, 2003: Message edited by: Orominuialwen ]

[Arwen1858]

When your local used book store is having a sale, you get really excited, hoping to expand your very small collection of Tolkien. Then, when they don't have any, you almost cry.

I know I thought of another one earlier, but I forgot it. I'll post it later if I remember.
Arwen

[Sapphire_Flame]

Maybe we need our own country...
Right on. I'll design a flag. smilies/biggrin.gif
--When you occupy yourself by writing LotR fanfiction.
~When said fanfiction, which started out as a short story, has now turned into a novella of 84 pages (and counting, I have five chapters left...)

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Arwen1858]

When you're so used to signing your posts on LotR forums with your LotR-related name, you forget to sign your real name on e-mail
I keep trying to sign my name as Arwen on e-mails, and catch myself just in time. Some people who aren't LotR fans would think either I've gone crazy(or crazier) and forgotten my own name, or that somebody other than me was writing an e-mail from my address.

[Everdawn]

-When you say that someone "is very Balrogish-looking."

-- And when one of your friends has a virtual baby for home-ec, and they name it Frodo, yet you ask her who the 'father' was and she says "Gandalf"... Man it was so very very wrong...

[Rilwen Gamgee]

~ When you're at the grociery store with your mom and spot some Sunkist soda cans with Samwise on them and IMMEDIATELY buy them (while shrieking with glee, of course!). I plan to buy 7Up cans with Frodo on them next time I go! smilies/biggrin.gif

~ When you sleep with any one of your Tolkien books under your pillow.

~ When you bring AT LEAST one Tolkien book with you on family car trips.

then realize you must be the only hobbit to ever live who didn't like mushrooms

I've begun to worry I'm really not a Hobbit, because I don't like mushrooms. smilies/eek.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[ October 25, 2003: Message edited by: Rilwen Gamgee ]

[elf-girl-63]

~You decide that all the residents on Ferny Lee Street are evil.

~You keep saying 'For Tolkien's sake!'

~Your friends find your obsession so usual, they just don't even raise an eyebrow any more.

[Arwen1858]

~ When you bring AT LEAST one Tolien book with you on family car trips.

I have to bring all of the LotR books smilies/biggrin.gif

When you're convinced that your computer hates you, because for over 24 hours it will connect to any site you want, except for the 'Downs, and feel very saddened because you can't get on and talk about LotR with all your LotR-obsessed friends, or talk about your obsession. Then, you feel like dancing for joy when you can get on again, and find out that you weren't missing anything, because the problem was with the site, not you.
Arwen

[Elwen_starmaiden]

When you're convinced that your computer hates you, because for over 24 hours it will connect to any site you want, except for the 'Downs, and feel very saddened because you can't get on and talk about LotR with all your LotR-obsessed friends, or talk about your obsession. Then, you feel like dancing for joy when you can get on again, and find out that you weren't missing anything, because the problem was with the site, not you.

I almost had a heart attack when it happened
smilies/eek.gif

[Failivrin]

when you are on another message board smilies/eek.gif (it's non- LOTR, never fear. actually it's a smashing pumpkins one, anyone else likethem?) and you start a thread about learning elvish, hoping that one of the other 4 or so tolkien fans is learning it too. you almost cry when someone who you normally like spells tolkien's name wrong and doesn't apologise. so to counter him you write a VERY angry reply about how you do NOT like it when people insult JRRT, ESPECIALLY when they don't know anything about him and tolkien was your first and will forever be your greatest obsession, no matter HOW much billy corgan i listen to. you also add that if he was in the same room as you, you would physically attack him for his rudeness. maybe even slice his head off. actually no, just tie him up with some elvish rope smilies/wink.gif

you are not worried that all of this thread would check you into a mental home free of charge.

[ArcticWyrm]

I wrote the Legend of the Great Rings onto all my school supplies...Notebooks, Book Covers, Desks... smilies/tongue.gif null

[Elwen_starmaiden]

~When you go psycho because your father bought you all new copies of the Hobbit and the Trilogy because your last set was ugly, and surprises you with a copy of the Silmarillion too. I'm still happy about it even though it was a day ago. smilies/biggrin.gif

~When you do an excited shriek everytime you see the ROTK trailer, no matter how many times you've seen it.

~When other people around you have already moved on to another subject and you suddenly make a LOTR comment out of nowhere because it just popped into your mind. I do that a lot. smilies/biggrin.gif

[elfearz1]

...when you are playing Oregon Trail and you type in lotr characters names for all the people.

[Amarantha_Daisy]

When you're convinced that your computer hates you, because for over 24 hours it will connect to any site you want, except for the 'Downs, and feel very saddened because you can't get on and talk about LotR with all your LotR-obsessed friends, or talk about your obsession.

I nearly died... smilies/eek.gif

~ When you bring AT LEAST one Tolkien book with you on family car trips.

Heh heh... I do that. And sometimes I bring more than one, just in case. On our last vacation I brought the Silm. smilies/biggrin.gif I was reading the Tale of Luthien and Beren during the whole car ride there...and in the hotel...and on the way to breakfast...

-When you and your friends name gourds after LotR characters (That was a bit odd...Yet fun!)

-When you write more e-mails daily to online friends than to school-friends smilies/wink.gif

-When your mom buys you a ring from her vacation and you automatically love it because it's very "Elvish."

[Duncariel]

Maybe we need our own country...

An Elvish commune, out in the middle of the forest where they filmed Lothlorien, with a super high wall so that no one can come and take us away.

We had this discussion once......

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Indeed we did. I think we decided that Meela would be in charge, but she said she would only accept about 30 people. We'll have to start more than one. Hey, we can have one for Lothlorien, one for Eryn Lasgallen, one for Imladris, one for Numenor, one for the Shire...

--When you spend most of your afternoon looking at Tolkien books at Hastings, even though you already have them.

--When you about died (again) when your computer couldn't access the Downs. I was so glad to find that it was forum problems, not me problems.

--When you compare characters in Star Wars with LotR.

--When your best friend doesn't even blink when you start talking in Elvish.

[elfearz1]

When you write more e-mails daily to online friends than to school-friends
guilty

When you about died (again) when your computer couldn't access the Downs. I was so glad to find that it was forum problems, not me problems.
oh good! I was so worried. I nearly had a heart attack!

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

[Meela]

Yep, I was planning to set up an Elven commune. If you're willing to help pay for the land where we can build it, you can join. And I'll accept as many people as want to join.

[Naz]

We were playing the LotR TCG yesterday, & when my dad played his foil Boromir he called him Boromir the Disco King, & I did the Wave. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Failivrin]

the most exciting thing that has happened to you all day is finding out that you can vote more than once for LOTR for the big read, YAY! god man i'm so excited. from now to april i shall log on every time i connect and vote at least 10 times

[Maethorien]

You confuse the people who sit next to you by pointing to illustration of the doors of Moria in your copy of FOTR and saying "I can read that," and when they don't believe you, saying, "Ennyn Durin aran Moria: Pedo mellon a minno."

[Elennar Starfire]

What kind do you do, Ceili or step?

I don't know, what's the difference? smilies/redface.gif <--I think that's embarrassed, isn't it?

"Come on, Denny, Light That Pyre"

That's so funny!

~When you come up with ideas for song parodies during math class. (You inspired me, Orominuialwen!) Here's one:

Land of Gondor-Land Down Under

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Right on. I'll design a flag.

Can I help? I'll draw Celtic knots!

When you're convinced that your computer hates you, because for over 24 hours it will connect to any site you want, except for the 'Downs, and feel very saddened because you can't get on and talk about LotR with all your LotR-obsessed friends, or talk about your obsession.

I at first thought my internet was having a problem, but I could go to other sites, so I sniffled (a lot) and kept trying about every hour to see if it would work, until my mom took me to the library. Then I checked again when I got home.

smashing pumpkins, anyone else like them?

Yeah!

[mclainy_mouse]

- When you are over at a friends house and are talking to her little brother, who is four and he asks you something completely none related to LotR (I don't remember what he really asked unfortunately) and you mistake it for "Do cats exist in the shire?" and then go off into an entire speech about LotR and the shire, something the poor little four year old knows nothing about, and tell him that cats very well should exist in the shire and by that time he has run off to his mother or someone..

- Or when your friends little sister is sitting on the couch watching TTT and suddenly you go off into a very long and boring speech tosomeone who hasn't read the books about how the movie was done very badly then point out each and every mistake and the tell her how it should have been done and then tell her your secret plan to hunt down PJ. I feel sorry for these people of whom I share my LotR knowledge..

[Arwen1858]

When you have perfected the accents of all the characters from the movie. And you talk like that to yourself so much, you accidently slip into using one of the accents even when you aren't trying!! Once I told my sister something about
tom-ah-toes, and I never say it that way, unless I'm reciting lines from the movies. I find myself saying things with an accent without trying at times. (I'm an american, and from the South, so I normally sound nothing like any of the characters!)
Arwen

[Orominuialwen]

I don't know, what's the difference? That's okay Elennar- I've been doing Irish dancing longer than I haven't, so that's how I know. Ceili is sort of like square dancing, in that you have a partner and there is not so much footwork involved. Step dancing is like Riverdance, where you have to keep your upper body straight and do a lot with your feet, but don't interact with he other dancers so much. In my opinion, Ceili is a bit morew Hobbitish (but that's just what I think) When you're convinced that your computer hates you, because for over 24 hours it will connect to any site you want, except for the 'Downs, and feel very saddened because you can't get on and talk about LotR with all your LotR-obsessed friends, or talk about your obsession. I know! I was so worried, and then I thought it was just my computer messing up because I have the 'Downs set as my homepage, because I keep getting this virus that makes my computer freeze up whenever I go online. So I did a search to see if a link from another site would take me to the 'Downs, but to no avail. smilies/frown.gif I'm so glad it's working again!! smilies/smile.gif ~ When you bring AT LEAST one Tolkien book with you on family car trips. I bring my one-volume edition of LotR and my copy of the Silm on all my trips- I even took them to camp.

~When you make up LotR related acronyms for the letters on your parents' license plates- my mom's is Dunedain Love Valinor and my dad's id Numenor Under Luinil(sp?)

I have utterly forgotten all my other things to post, so bye for now!

[Finwe]

Meela, how much money you need? In exactly two years, I'm willing to spend all I've got in helping to build an Elven commune. (By then, I will have graduated from high school.)

[Arwen1858]

When while you're playing a game of chess, you keep thinking, 'The board is set; the pieces are moving.' Then you notice that the knights look a lot like the emblem thing for the Rohirrim, and proceed to name the knights Arod, Hasufel, Snowmane, and Shadowfax smilies/biggrin.gif I did that a little while ago.
Yay! We made it to page 15!!!
Arwen

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Whew. *wipes perspiration off forehead* Well, I'm back...

Then you realize you're talking like this stuff really did happen! (That's because it did, right?)

When you start believing that it all really did happen.


Of course, it did. Would we be wasting our time(and committing social suicide) for fiction?

When you bow to everybody you meet and say "My your beard grow ever longer." Somebody asks you the correct dwarvish response so you quickly flick through the Hobbit! (I haven't found the response yet... anyone?)


Oh, yeah, but I prefer the eagle-talk...or maybe Aurë entuluva!. I don't know how to respond to that yet.

~ When you bring AT LEAST one Tolien book with you on family car trips.


I bring every single Tolkien book I have to school(a small collection so far) so I can trick people:

Random human: Hey, what's your course?
Nil: Tolkienology.
RH: No way!
*Nil shows him the bag containing 6(Silm and The Hobbit are sent away to friends, in hope that they will see the light...) Tolkien books)
RH: Whoa! They have a course like that here?

Hehe...another one is born... smilies/evil.gif

When you're convinced that your computer hates you, because for over 24 hours it will connect to any site you want, except for the 'Downs...the problem was with the site, not you.


When that happened, I tried suicide. I looked at Telpelin and said, "Hail Telpelin, song of silver. You've killed many cockroaches, rats, and assorted critters. How about sending me to Mandos?"

~When other people around you have already moved on to another subject and you suddenly make a LOTR comment out of nowhere because it just popped into your mind. I do that a lot


Our minds are so attuned to LotR, we can never separate it from ourselves. That explains the LotR side comments...the extra sharp hearing...the suicidal feeling when you are unable to connect to the 'Downs...and to all the obsessions we do here.

We had this discussion once......


Yeah, I read that part...but its time to put discussions into reality.

If you're willing to help pay for the land where we can build it, you can join.

OK, I've got a bank account in the Cayman Islands standing by. How much do you need?
*wrestles with the freak who typed the above-mentioned words*
I'm sorry about that. The rich kid part of me just took over. The one with the house whose doorknob is the size of Russia...oh, well... smilies/rolleyes.gif

When while you're playing a game of chess, you keep thinking, 'The board is set; the pieces are moving.' Then you notice that the knights look a lot like the emblem thing for the Rohirrim...


...and the rooks look like Minas Tirith, Minas Morgul, Barad-dur, and another white tower...probably Calmindon.

My additions:

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

~more than 3 days away from another LotR-obsessed people(except my sister...she's tooo busy to be obsessed) drove you to the brink of...monogamy? matriculation? mad...mad...madness! There's the word!

~you read a part of LotR which happens today(two days ago, I re(to the nth power)read "The Council of Elrond" and the first few paragraphs of "The Ring Goes South."

Yours, if you want to smilies/tongue.gif
->The True Son of Finrod, and of Amarië the Vanyar

[Arwen1858]

I just played a game of chess against the computer, I was white, and when it started attacking me (well, my pieces anyways), I kept telling it, 'I will not let the white city fall! Nor our people fail!' Not that I'm obsessed with LotR or anything...

[Everdawn]

--When you realise after all this itme, your horse really does look like Brego, so you spend the next few hours trying to ask him to take you to Aragorn..

[Meela]

I don't know how much we'll need. Considering I was planning to buy a patch of forest in New Zealand, I think we're talking quite a few thousand £/$/whatever.
I'll look into it.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Is €700 trillion enough, including infrastructure costs?

Yours, if you want to smilies/tongue.gif
->The True Son of Finrod, and of Amarië the Vanyar

[Donnoliel, Elven Warrior Princess]

when you get a free plastic gold ring that barely fits over your index finger from a frodo figurine and you wear it everywhere and in p.e. when told to take it off you roar and yell no! no! its my precious! and you attempt to bite the p.e. teachers neck.

[Telchar]

You know you're obsessed with Tolkien when you spend so much time posting on The Downs that your wife, to get your attention shouts DARO!!!!!

[Miriel Undomiel]

You know your obsessed with LotR when:

~you try convincing your mum and stepfather to let you sleep in a tent the whole weekend so you can get premier-tickets to Return of the King! smilies/frown.gif they think i'm a stupid little kid (I turned 15 october 18. smilies/biggrin.gif ) and they think I'm gonna be raped or somethin' (in the middle of the city, with loads of people to watch me!!)

~When you dream that you're acctually in the movie! It was so weird! we were at a mall, and a troll with really big head ran after us smilies/eek.gif I was really scared!!

[Sapphire_Flame]

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Can I help? I'll draw Celtic knots!

Sure! Anyone else with thoughts can post 'em here.

And Meela, I'll be more than happy to donate to the purchase (just as soon as I have some money... ^^;;; )!

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

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[Failivrin]

NZ would be really nice. can i join? i am willing to contribute and i will teach everyone to be graceful (if they so desire)

-you take great pride i nthe fact that due to having done ballet all your life you have a nice posture and are graceful (my own words smilies/wink.gif ) and tell everyone wh oasks about your hobbies 'i do ballet which makes me graceful; like an Elf'

-you attack people who tell you they thought Elves were things that lived in flowers

-if someone tells you that someone else said that LOTR the book wasn't that good you kick the messenger as well for good measure.

-you have an insatiable desire to silence all the non- tolkienites in the world.

but of course once a community is established that won't be a problem *dances with glee*

do you think Elves dance with glee?

[Sapphire_Flame]

do you think Elves dance with glee?
Maybe. But I'm sure that if they do, it's a very graceful sort of dance.

~You're obsessed when you take the time to wonder about things like that. smilies/biggrin.gif

~You're obsessed when you sign e-mails with your Elven name and don't bother to correct yourself. (guilty)

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Amarantha_Daisy]

I just played a game of chess against the computer, I was white, and when it started attacking me (well, my pieces anyways), I kept telling it, 'I will not let the white city fall! Nor our people fail!'

Heh heh... Brilliance!

Last night we had potatoes with dinner, and evey time my mom said "potato" I responded with "Po-ta-toes! Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew!" ...She said it a lot, but eventually stopped when she found out what I was doing. smilies/tongue.gif I tricked her into saying it a couple times...
"Hey mom, can you pass me those?"
"The potaoes?"
"Po-ta-toes! Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew!"

....heh heh heh.

-When you are reluctant to lend anyone your books even if they could be a possible convert, and you know they won't ruin them. *I just let my friend borrow FotR...It's never been out of my sight before! *sniffle*

-When you download clips of characters saying "Mae govannen" (http://www.theargonath.cc/sounds/desktop/desktop.html) so that they can welcome you when you turn on the computer

[Meela]

-you attack people who tell you they thought Elves were things that lived in flowers

I still believe that that is the correct type of elf... *is attacked*

[Elennar Starfire]

And you talk like that to yourself so much, you accidently slip into using one of the accents even when you aren't trying!!

I do that all the time! It sometimes scares my friends.

Ceili is sort of like square dancing, in that you have a partner and there is not so much footwork involved. Step dancing is like Riverdance, where you have to keep your upper body straight and do a lot with your feet, but don't interact with he other dancers so much.

I guess I'm doing Ceili then! It is rather Hobbitish.

~When you make up LotR related acronyms for the letters on your parents' license plates- my mom's is Dunedain Love Valinor and my dad's is Numenor Under Luinil

I can't think of anything LotR related that starts with a y, drattit! smilies/mad.gif

-you attack people who tell you they thought Elves were things that lived in flowers

Those ignorant orc-spawn!

~When you have nightmares about evil people trying to destroy all things Tolkien. (The 'Downies all got together and we beat them! Then it was a good dream.)

[Arwen1858]

-When you download clips of characters saying "Mae govannen" so that they can welcome you when you turn on the computer
Thanks for the link!
When I turn my computer off, it says, "I regret to announce this is the end. I am going now. I bid you all a very fond farewell." I want to put more sounds on there, I just haven't done it yet. I'll probably put somebody saying Mae Govannen on there later.
Arwen

[Arwen1858]

I have another one smilies/smile.gif
When you're talking to a friend on the phone, and a commercial comes on tv showing these huge mountains covered in snow. You suddenly burst out, 'That looks just like Caradhras!!!' Well, it did! It looked just like the same mountains they showed in FotR and the beginning of TTT. Thankfully she's a huge fan, too, so she understood smilies/biggrin.gif

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

to get your attention shouts DARO!!!!!


I shout Daro! to stop any form of mass tranportation I'm riding on. It stops them, it gets a few weird stares...what more could I want?

-you attack people who tell you they thought Elves were things that lived in flowers


In my country, the word of Elf is the same as the word for Dwarf, hence, when I tell people I'm an elf, they respond, "Oh, those tiny bearded things?" I attack them.

do you think Elves dance with glee?


Definitely!

~When you have nightmares about evil people trying to destroy all things Tolkien. (The 'Downies all got together and we beat them! Then it was a good dream.)


A portent of things to come! We need to hasten the creation of that haven! By the way, on which Elven conclave will it be based? Eldamar, Menegroth, Rivendell, or Lorien?

By the way(again)...

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

~you fidget constantly. At first you don't know why. Then you realise you haven't read Silm for a long time. Time to reclaim what's mine...

~you hate your country, just because they confuse Elves and Dwarves(Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! I need to immigrate!)

Yours, if you want to smilies/tongue.gif
->The True Son of finrod, and of Amarië the Vanyar

[Everdawn]

nd, I think we're talking quite a few thousand £/$/whatever.
I'll look into it.
If the NZ dollar is anything like the aussie dollar(and i think the aussie dollar is slightly infront), you ought to get anything you want for around one pound, Forest, buildings, you name it!

[Arwen1858]

when just the mere thought of going to see RotK, even if it is 8 weeks away, sends you into a frenzy. I keep getting really excited. I can't wait!!!!!!

[elf-girl-63]

Where do you live person who wants to emmigrate? I would to, that is just disgraceful!!! A few additions...

~ Your French book is covered in a map of M-E. Your friend goes 'WHy've you got a map of that hobbit-land on your book?'. You enter into a lengthy speech aobut the peoples of Middle-Earth.

~ You go on a Geography field trip and take FOTR with you. Your friend asks why 'Oh well, its got maps in it hasn't it?' That was kinda embarrassing smilies/rolleyes.gif Nevermind

~ You ask your Mum for some copies of the trilogy for CHristmas/You Birthday because your brother is the one who acutally owns them. They've been on my shelf for years though!!!

~ You liken absolutely everything possible to LOTR, its a habit now.

[Meela]

You know you're obsessed when in law, you match every case to Lotr in some way. Actually, I spent the session going into Denethor overload because of this case:

A man killed his violent, tyrranical father, who was abusing the younger son. The elder son had been away for eight years, and returned home to protect his younger brother.

Likens to Denethor, Faramir, and Boromir, only Boromir never clubbed his dad over the head with a sledgehammer...

[Sapphire_Flame]

Likens to Denethor, Faramir, and Boromir, only Boromir never clubbed his dad over the head with a sledgehammer...

Yikes! smilies/eek.gif Where the Mordor do you find these things, Meela?

By the way, on which Elven conclave will it be based? Eldamar, Menegroth, Rivendell, or Lorien?

I vote for Lorien. But that's just me. smilies/biggrin.gif

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Failivrin]

i would vote Eldamar, but that didn't turn out so good, so maybe Rivendell.

- every so often you sigh and say 'i wish it was december'

[Orominuialwen]

~When you write things like "Frodo lives!" and Do the wave for Boromir the disco king on your shoes and waterbottle. I can't think of anything LotR related that starts with a y, drattit! How 'bout yrch? Or Yavanna? When I turn my computer off, it says, "I regret to announce this is the end. I am going now. I bid you all a very fond farewell." Is that one on the site? I couldn't find it. smilies/confused.gif

~When you keep wanting to call Elfwine (the 'downie you know in real life) Elfwine in non 'downs situations instead of her real name.

~When you realize that nearly everyone at your orchestra concert is dressed liike Queen Beruthiel-- lots of black clothing, and some silver jewelery

[Elennar Starfire]

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A portent of things to come!


You think? Scary thoughts! It wouldn't be the first time I've dreamed the future, though. I very much hope it was only a dream.

By the way, on which Elven conclave will it be based? Eldamar, Menegroth, Rivendell, or Lorien?

I vote for either Lorien or Rivendell.

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Thank you! Yavanna Needs Apples!

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Ya'll forgot Doriath, Beleriand, and Gondolin. I vote for Gondolin. (Turin...yummy!)

--When you actually care about such things.

--When you spend half the afternoon writing fanfiction and the other half daydreaming about your 'Ranger.'

--When you hum The Road Goes Ever On while walking through the halls at school.

--When you assign a member of the Fellowship to each family member. There are actually nine of us! My dad is Gandalf, because he is "subtle and quick to anger" (but when he's not mad, he's an old softie); my mom is Boromir, because she's strong and likes jewelry (no Rings of Power though. Not that I've discovered anyway); my older sister is Aragorn, because she's just...like him (as in similar to him, not identical. For one thing, she's prettier smilies/wink.gif ); my 15-year-old sis is Gimli, 'cause she's short and has a bad temper (but no beard); the eleven and ten-year-olds are Merry and Pippin--they're always together; my brother is Frodo, because he's crazy; my three-year-old sister is Sam, 'cause she's loyal and sweet; and I'm Legolas, NOT because I'm a rabid fangirl (heaven forfend!) but because I'm an elf and he was the only one left anyway.

That's all for now.

[Amarantha_Daisy]

By the way, on which Elven conclave will it be based? Eldamar, Menegroth, Rivendell, or Lorien?

I vote for Lorien, too!

~When you write things like "Frodo lives!" and Do the wave for Boromir the disco king on your shoes and waterbottle.

I did something very similar today smilies/biggrin.gif I wrote "Do the wave for Boromir the disco king" on a piece of masking tape then I taped it to my shirt and wore it throughout school... Heh heh heh...

--When you hum The Road Goes Ever On while walking through the halls at school.

Guilty... smilies/tongue.gif I also sing "Gil-Galad was an Elven King" and anything of Tom Bombadil's while waiting for the bus. My sister hates that, but hey. She has a cd player.

Oooo! I'm also making a statue-thing of Luthien for my ceramics project smilies/biggrin.gif We had to make a figure, and I thought the image of Luthien dancing would be absolutely perfect...

That's gotta be obsessive... When you incorperate LotR into your school-work...

*mega squee* It's my 200th post!

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[Finwe]

When you make Treebeard for your Art class (we were doing ceramics), and it turns out so pretty that a Jewish friend of yours offers to buy it for $400!!!!! (Hmmm.....)

I'm seriously considering selling it, so anyone who is interested, PM me about it. We will have to work out the details about payments, shipping, etc.

[Arwen1858]

When you decide that your clear crystal pendant that sparkles different colours when the light hits it contains a small bit of the Light of Earendil, and decide when people ask you about your necklace, that's what you'll tell them smilies/biggrin.gif I wear it all the time, and I think it looks elvish.

[the guy who be short]

That's gotta be obsessive... When you incorperate LotR into your school-work...



Not really, I do it all the time. Just yester, I began some English work (a summary of Romeo and Juliet) "It began with the mourning of Romeo..." I then continued that way "A last alliance of Montagues and Capulets," and then when I got bored of that I wrote like JRRT; "And he took up his sword, and Tybalt was slain."

And the bowing and "May-your-beard-grow-ever-longer"ing have got me lots of weird looks, especially from my teachers. The thing with teachers is that they don't expect you to be insane to them, so they give the best "weird looks."

Time to close this thread methinks. Huzzah! Part four!

[Sapphire_Flame]

When you hum The Road Goes Ever On while walking through the halls at school.
Right on. smilies/biggrin.gif I do that, but more often I can be heard humming Merry and Pippin's drinking song from the Green Dragon. smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Feared Half-Elf]

~When you bow to anyone if they laugh at your joke or you're saying goodbye.

~When your writing five Lotr related stories simultaneously (sp?).

~When you're playing Rollercoaster Tycoon on your PC and call your best rollercoaster "Do the Wave for Boromir".

~When another rollercoaster is called "Elven Archer".

~When you engrave all your school stuff (using a compass) with elvish and tengwar.

Thats all for now, people!
Vanya Sulie!

[Failivrin]

i write like tolkien in real life.

for instance, in my last essay for english entitled 'how does golding portray piggy's and simon's deaths differently?' (yes we are doing lord of the flies and every time i hear lord of the my heart leaps, only to crash back down to earth) i got bored and started writing, 'one would be hard pressed to find a more unsympatheitc or helpless deathscene, from this it is evindent that golding heartily dislikes piggy and all that he stands for'. i have an extensive vocabulary anyway, but i thought that was extraordinary. anyway, i got A+ which was highest in the class, so writing like JRRT does pay off

[elfearz1]

(yes we are doing lord of the flies and every time i hear lord of the my heart leaps, only to crash back down to earth) I did that too! Sorry you have to read that book. Good message but soooo boring.

[Elennar Starfire]

The first time I saw that book I freaked out. "Lord of the Flies? Is this some Lord of the Rings parody?"

~When you try to say "I want to see Michael Jackson moonwalk," but you accidentally say "Peter Jackson." Though that could be interesting... I think I want to see that too! For the opposite reason.

~When you nearly cry because your elven dress won't be ready in time for your school's halloween dance, and you will have to wear either your pirate costume or your Starfleet costume. smilies/frown.gif I so wanted to be an elf.

When you spend half of math class coming up with new siggys to use when you get bored with the one you have. I estimate I have enough to last me a year now, and I will keep thinking up more!

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[Amarantha_Daisy]

When you decide that your clear crystal pendant that sparkles different colours when the light hits it contains a small bit of the Light of Earendil

I have this cute little vial of really fine glitter that I call my Light of Earendil smilies/wink.gif It's so cute! And it fits perfectly in my hand, so I can hold it up and say "A Elbereth Gilthoniel!" ...Heh heh heh. It was originally sold to be "fairy dust" but hey-now it's my Eru-glitter smilies/tongue.gif

(yes we are doing lord of the flies and every time i hear lord of the my heart leaps, only to crash back down to earth)

Heh heh.... same here

When you spend half of math class coming up with new siggys to use when you get bored with the one you have.

Alright! Thanks for the idea...now I have something to do in math class! smilies/biggrin.gif

~When you try to say "I want to see Michael Jackson moonwalk," but you accidentally say "Peter Jackson."

smilies/biggrin.gif Funny-ness! Heh heh... I'd love to see Peter Jackson moonwalk...

I was bugging my friend today by reciting poetry in Sindarin...She was trying to watch tv. Heh heh heh. smilies/tongue.gif

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

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You think? Scary thoughts! It wouldn't be the first time I've dreamed the future, though. I very much hope it was only a dream.

(Whew! Multiple quotes. Anyway...)
Somehow, I'd love to see that fulfilled...we'd get to meet each other then smilies/biggrin.gif ...but then, we have to fight evil men...orcs...things...

Ya'll forgot Doriath, Beleriand, and Gondolin.


Gondolin, yeah. Thanks for the reminder. But Doriath is represented by Menegroth...I don't think we'd be able to buy a plot of land the size of Doriath(let alone Beleriand!)

That's gotta be obsessive... When you incorperate LotR into your school-work...


So far, the only way I incorporate LotR into school-work is...I write my notes in Tengwar!(mode of Beleriand)

Huzzah! Part four!


Huzzah!

--When you hum The Road Goes Ever On while walking through the halls at school.


Where do you get the tunes?

Anyways...

~when you'd rather flunk Trigonometry than not post at Barrowdowns.

~when you prefer writing in Tengwar to the Roman Alphabet.

Yours, if you want to smilies/tongue.gif
->The True Son of Finrod, and of Amarië the Vanyar

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[Meela]

There's a copy of Lord of the Rushie River on the shelf, and all that is shown is Lord of the R. How agonising is that?! I keep thinking we have a cool illustrated version of Lotr on the shelf...

[Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1]

When you hand in your work marked Elentári Greenleaf, with a leaf in green pen beside it...ok, my biology teacher will not have a clue as to who's it is...maybe by the process of elimination though...

When you write your Work Experience Logbook in Angerthas so that your supervisor can't read it... smilies/evil.gif but now I can't either! (Well I can...but at the rate of a year 1...I ought to know, I had to listen to them reading!)

I've managed to do som German homework on Lord of the Rings, my English Speech on LotR, my book talk on LotR, I am doing my textiles coursework on LotR, I have done my English essay on LotR...

[Arwen1858]

Where do you get the tunes?
I found out that you can sing both the bath song and the farewell song from FOTR chapter A Conspiracy Unmasked to the tune of Pippin and Merry's song they sang at the Green Dragon in FOTR EE. It's fun to sing those, and even change the words a little to fit whatever you're doing at the time!
Arwen

[Arwen Evenstar]

When you cry at night because your mom threatened to take away your LotR books and movies if you don`t start doing beter in school.(IT WAS JUST A STUPID B!!!!!)
When you have a chance in school to get a penpal and almost scream when there aren`t anybody from New Zealand who wants someone from the U.S.
When your convinced that your Geography teacher is an orc or something because she tried to take away your TTT book because you were reading it in class. (She didn`t take it because I gave her a look that would make Elrond scream. smilies/evil.gif smilies/evil.gif smilies/evil.gif ) smilies/wink.gif

[Arwen Evenstar]

When your frien first introduced you to LotR, you imediatly become so obsessed, that she gets sick of it and dosen`t talk about very often anymore. smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif
When your reading this and listening to the TTT sound track. smilies/wink.gif

[Aethelwine]

Mae govannen all you crazy LOTR-obsessed people! smilies/wink.gif

I’ve read this entire thread, as well as number one and two. I’ve been meaning to post some of my own obsessiveness for quite some time now, but (I don’t know why…) I never did. But still, here’s some (not all by far!) of it:
There in the order they pop into my head, and some, most, are fairly old

You know you’re obsessed with LOTR when:
• You pop anything LOTR-related in any conversation, no matter what it’s about. (This seems to be a trademark for us Tolkienites, ey? smilies/wink.gif ) My friends no longer give me weird looks though…
• After you read the ‘What’s the worst that could happen?’-thread, your so worried and depressed (about the changes in FOTR and TT, and what PJ might changes in ROTK), that when you call your best friend (who had never read anything from Tolkien, while she says she likes good books!) you start ranting about all the changes, mainly Arwen / Glorfindel, Faramir, the Ents, the elves at Helms deep, and so on. She had seen FOTR, but not the TT, so besides ranting, I got to explain the story to her. You go on and on about it, even though I had to ask her what the time to meet each other the next day.
• With your rambling about LOTR, you’ve made said friend so curious, that the next day when you’re going to town together, she helps you hunt for LOTR-books. (I did some other obsessive thing on that trip, but that something different all together). And the moment she got her salary, she brought her own copy of The lord of the Rings! I love her, she’s a great friend. For know I have someone to discuss hobbits, elves and so on with.
• You try to pursue said friend to join the Barrow Downs. To bad she’s an internet-hater, so it’s going to take some time. But I will win! I will not let the White City fall! smilies/wink.gif
• When somebody you don't know (or know) comes to pick up your little brother, and he is walks barefoot, you immediately think: “A Hobbit!!!"
• When you are supposed to write down: 'That was also the time that Hitler came to power', and you almost mistake Sauron for Hitler.
• When you agree with everything that has been said on this thread, as well as all the others!

I’d say that’s enough for now, don’t you all think?
*silence*
Hello-oh?
*comes out of her little corner, still nibbling on her lembas, and sees everyone a sleep, because of her constant, stupid I might add, rambling*
~Deep Sigh~
Everybody, weak up! *pokes everybody awake with her pokey pokeystick of doom*

Yeah, I’ll stop now… *sheepless look*

Just one more question, please: Could anybody give me a link to that thread about a LOTR-community? I can’t find it, but I would really like to read. And enter. Oh, my vote so far goes to Rivendell (if you can’t choose Edoras of Minas Tirith, that is).

Thanks a whole lot!

Navaer!

Aethelwine.

[Elwen_starmaiden]

Woohoo, page 16, um I think part 4 will be needed soon.

Last night we had potatoes with dinner, and evey time my mom said "potato" I responded with "Po-ta-toes! Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew!" ...She said it a lot, but eventually stopped when she found out what I was doing. I tricked her into saying it a couple times...
"Hey mom, can you pass me those?"
"The potaoes?"
"Po-ta-toes! Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew!"


Omg, after reading that post (and ROFL) the next day one of my classes was having sign ups for different dishes we could bring for a party we were having. Then my friend (who's not obsessed...yet) said " Maybe I should bring mashed potatoes." and I instantly said "Po-ta-toes! Boil'em, mash'em, stick'em in a stew!" Yeah, quite a few stares on that one.

My contributions:
~when you're watching your favorite show Smallville and at one point Lex Luthor is talking about this samurai sword that he owns that apparently was forged in the fires of Mt. Fuji, and you thought Mt. Doom, and almost yelled " That's an evil sword!"

~later on you think about it and almost imagine Gandalf coming in and throwing it into the fireplace to see if it was authentic. The thought made you laugh so hard you got even more stares during quiet time in Algebra. I need to stop doing that.

~You're planning on making a collage in memory of all who passed away in the books, even the villains. I might just save time by adding a picture of Helms Deep, just cut out all the elves since they weren't supposed to be there.

By the way I vote Lothlorien!
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[Arwen1858]

When your sister asks you 'If you could eat anything in the world for lunch what would it be,' and you say the first thing that pops into your head: 'Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish.'

When, after doing something stupid, you think, 'An elf would never do that! And I call myself an elf...'

When watching another movie, you keep finding ways it might have something in common with LotR. Of course, the fact that it was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, so it had JRD in it didn't help any!

When you are able to find LotR references in anything.

When talking about books with a friend, even though you've already talked all about LotR, you still can't keep yourself from turning the conversation back to LotR anyways.

[Orominuialwen]

Po-ta-toes! I do that too!
~Every time you see this one license plate, you start to giggle because it says PJSCOOP smilies/biggrin.gif
~When you start crying because the trilogy is all sold out where you are smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif

I wonder when we'll be on Part 4 (16 pages is pretty long!)

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

~when you're watching your favorite show Smallville...


Well, I've got a few comments on that: Do you think Clark Kent's an Ainur from outside Arda? Just a silly random thought.

When, after doing something stupid, you think, 'An elf would never do that! And I call myself an elf...'


Yeah...it's tough being an elf. Why, for crying out loud, I only got 210 out 300 pts. on our Archery class! I bitterly reproached myself for that *You stupid Elf! And you expect to kill Orcs with that score?*

Well, to add some more...

~when you think Josh Groban looks like Pippin...
~when, while passing by an appliance shop, you see some mountains that look exactly like the opening scene for TTT. You stop, then realised it wasn't. "Oh, well," you sigh, and move on...
~when you are in a rush, you shout "Noro ve sulë!" You got two weird stares from a couple passing by. smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif

Yours, if you want to smilies/tongue.gif
->The True Son of Finrod, and of Amarië the Vanyar

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[Elwen_starmaiden]

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Well, I've got a few comments on that: Do you think Clark Kent's an Ainur from outside Arda? Just a silly random thought.



Hmm, never thought of that. But what would explain the kryptonite weakness?

~When you start crying because the trilogy is all sold out where you are

I feel your pain, I even checked right when they went on sale. It's not fair! smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif

[Arwen1858]

Yeah...it's tough being an elf. Why, for crying out loud, I only got 210 out 300 pts. on our Archery class! I bitterly reproached myself for that *You stupid Elf! And you expect to kill Orcs with that score?*
Yep! I know how ya feel. I'm trying to learn to shoot (I have a recurve bow), and I get really frustrated when I miss, because an elf wouldn't miss!! I'll never be able to kill orcs in battle...

[Arwen1858]

~when, while passing by an appliance shop, you see some mountains that look exactly like the opening scene for TTT. You stop, then realised it wasn't. "Oh, well," you sigh, and move on...

Would that by any chance be a Pepsi commercial with Sammy Sosa and Jason Giambi? I was on the phone with a friend when I saw that commercial start, and I burst out, 'That looks like Caradhras!!' Then told her I saw mountains on tv that looked *just* like the ones in FotR and the beginning of TTT. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Everdawn]

You know you're obsessed when in law, you match every case to Lotr in some way. Actually, I spent the session going into Denethor overload because of this case:
A man killed his violent, tyrranical father, who was abusing the younger son. The elder son had been away for eight years, and returned home to protect his younger brother.

Likens to Denethor, Faramir, and Boromir, only Boromir never clubbed his dad over the head with a sledgehammer...




I must think to do that Meela... Though i do admit thinking how i could defend an Uruk-hai at a Gondorian trial. (Though i doubt they wouldnt kill him before capture)

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Where do you get the tunes?

I have to admit, I got it from the animated version. The tune for that song isn't too bad, but the rest of the songs in the animated one, well, better not to go there. All the other songs I hum, I make up a tune for them. (Although I did use the tune from the Pippin/Merry EE bit for the bath song)

[Elennar Starfire]

There's a copy of Lord of the Rushie River on the shelf, and all that is shown is Lord of the R. How agonising is that?! I keep thinking we have a cool illustrated version of Lotr on the shelf...

How dreadful! Is there a sticker on it or something that covers the rest of the title?

She didn`t take it because I gave her a look that would make Elrond scream.

That's got to be a seriously evil look! I must learn that look! How do you do it?

[Failivrin]

LOTR is winning the big read! and i screamed, making my mother laugh. YAY! off to vote again...

[Failivrin]

LOTR is winning the big read! and i screamed, making my mother laugh. YAY! off to vote again...

[Aethelwine]

Failivrin, what that big read? And, more important, were can I vote for LOTR???

But anyway, nobody's got the link to that thread about a LOTR-community? smilies/frown.gif I can't seem to find it myself! And I really want to read it... smilies/frown.gif

You know your obssesed with LOTR when:

You attempt to walk on snow like Legolas.

You talk to people in Sindarin and Quenya all the time. When they ask you to explain what the hell you were saying, you refuse... smilies/evil.gif

You are convinced you little brother comes straight for either Mordor or Sarumans dungeon (I can just imagine the scene...)

You can easily talk about LOTR for two hours, or more...

That's all for now, folks!

See ya!

Aethelwine.

P.S. So nobody's got the link? *sob*

[Orominuialwen]

(My apologies if I have already posted this, but I can't remember if I did or not)
~When you find a large quantity of yellow leaves on the ground that look very much like Mallorn leaves, so you pick up a whole bunch and put them in your book (unfortunately non-LotR related), and also put one in your hair, thus prompting several very "observant" souls to say to you "Did you know that there's a leaf in your hair?" In fact, the leaves are currently sitting all dry and brown and shrivelled on your desk because you just can't make yourself throw them away.

~Every time you are on a computer in a public place, you change the screensaver so it says "Frodo lives! Visit www.barrowdowns.com (http://www.barrowdowns.com) if you love LotR" in the hopes that you will introduce people to the 'Downs


Edit:Yay! I'm a wight!! *Oromin does a dance of happiness even though she's in a public place right now* Weird! I created a link without trying.

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[Arwen1858]

~Every time you are on a computer in a public place, you change the screensaver so it says "Frodo lives! Visit www.barrowdowns.com (http://www.barrowdowns.com) if you love LotR" in the hopes that you will introduce people to the 'Downs
Instead of "Frodo Lives," You could put "Do the wave for Boromir the disco king!!" Just a thought smilies/biggrin.gif

When you do Frodo's chicken dance in the middle of your kitchen, then start dancing the steps Rosie dances in the movie, and don't care that your sisters are standing there watching you thinking you've finally gone over the deep end.

When your sister asks you what you want to eat, you say, 'Tomatoes, sausages, nice crispy bacon,' just like Merry says it.

[elf-girl-63]

~ You are sat down and see a pair of scissors of the floor. You pick them up, open them and run your finger along the blade and whisper 'Still sharp' even though they don't cut you. To make you feel better, you get a red pen and draw some blood on your finger tip.

He he he. I got 'Tales from the Perilous Realm' from my library yesterday. I've not started it yet though!!!

[Failivrin]

aethelwine, the big read is this big televised competition going on in the UK to find the nations favourite book. LOTR made it to teh final 21 (of course) and the panel were very rude about it on the programme, which made me even more resolved to vote as many times as i could. it is currently winning and you can vote here: www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread (http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread)

vote as many times as you can and vote from every computer you get your hands on to make sure that LOTR wins. i can't wait to see the look on those witless people's faces when it wins smilies/biggrin.gif . if it doesn't, i just don't trust the poll.

-when you talk to you Tolkien books and tell your mother that the books spoke to you saying you needed another bookcase.
-you spend 1/2 an hour staring at the map of beleriand in the bookshop but decide not to get it 'because you would need 2- one to put on the wall and one to keep for posterity and the nasty little man just stole the other one'
-you are delighted when said nasty little man picks up the map of beleriand, tales from the perilous realm and roverandom in turn and then decide you don't like him (he stole my map smilies/evil.gif ) but resolve to meet his friend (somehow) who he is buying them for.

[Arwen1858]

When you decide to eat tomatoes and sausages for lunch because hobbits like that. I would have had nice, crispy bacon, too, but we were out of bacon. smilies/rolleyes.gif
Arwen

[Jack]

When the first thing you do on the Internet is get on BD. You ignore personal e-mails until people think you are dead and they can't get ahold of you because your phone line is tighed up... smilies/smile.gif

[Elwen_starmaiden]

When you're happy that your teacher allows you to eat in her second period class, perfect timing for your second breakfast! Now what about afternoon tea?

[Amarthol]

When I'm in conversation with my sisters and every once in a while we quote somtething from LOTR, then answerit with another something. smilies/cool.gif

[Orominuialwen]

Instead of "Frodo Lives," You could put "Do the wave for Boromir the disco king!!" I know, I should, I just didn't think to at the time. I did put notes in the Tolkien books in my shcool's library that said "If you know what Do the wave for Boromir the disco king means, then PM Orominuialwen" vote as many times as you can and vote from every computer you get your hands on I did vote despite the fact that I'm American, and I just had to randomly pick a region on there because they don't have anything to select that's out of the British isles. Anyway, I looked at the rules on the site, and it says that each person can only vote once a week. So instead of voting constantly, I'll just encourage all the people I know who can be trusted not to vote for some other book *coughcoughHPcough* . For instance, I won't ask my mom to vote, because I know she might be "tempted" to vote for Pride and Prejudice instead (it's a good book, but nowhere near LotR in greatness)

Anyway, back on topic...

~When you go to this talk at a bookstore that was about how to write fantasy, you were very happy that he talked a lot about LotR, but corrected his pronunciation under your breath (he said Tolkien like TOLL-kin instead of TOLL-keen, which is one of my pet peeves) Anyway, this guy's name is Philip Martin, and his book is called The Writers Guide to Fantasy Literature. It's good except for the fact that there's a chapter about HP in it. smilies/mad.gif

~When you play SimCity, you name your city Doriath and make the mayor be Thingol.

~When you want to make a shirt that says Got lembas? on it.

[Arwen1858]

When you feel like pounding your head on the wall because you had a good obsessive thing to post, then forgot what it was. smilies/rolleyes.gif I'm sure I'll remember later! Probably as soon as the computer gets turned off.

[Arwen1858]

aha!! I remembered it!

When you crack up laughing whenever you hear the word 'disco' because you can't stop imagining Boromir dancing around the room, and you want to shout out, 'Do the wave for Boromir the disco king!!!'

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

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Well, I've got a few comments on that: Do you think Clark Kent's an Ainur from outside Arda? Just a silly random thought.

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Hmm, never thought of that. But what would explain the kryptonite weakness?


Hmm...allergies?

Would that by any chance be a Pepsi commercial with Sammy Sosa and Jason Giambi?

That commercial does not exist in my country.(my, I say, because I own it. Anywhen...) It was just some weird landscape shots...the one they show on appliance centers, to show how good the colors on the TV are...

~When you find a large quantity of yellow leaves on the ground that look very much like Mallorn leaves...


When I see things like that, I sing Namarië while playing in the leaves. Either I look like an overgrown 7 year old, or a totally depressed Elf.

When the first thing you do on the Internet is get on BD. You ignore personal e-mails until people think you are dead and they can't get ahold of you because your phone line is tighed up...


Guilty. I've cut off all outside correspondence(except on BD), and make silly excuse why I'm not at the house. *I'm meeting a friend...her name's [any random BDer], so I can't see you...* smilies/evil.gif

When you're happy that your teacher allows you to eat in her second period class, perfect timing for your second breakfast! Now what about afternoon tea?

I must admit: Having this sem break has made my appetite(sp?) grow to hobbit-like proportions. When I'm not on the 'Downs, I eat, watch LotR, read LotR, or sleep.


~When you want to make a shirt that says Got lembas? on it.


Ooh. smilies/biggrin.gif Tell me when you have one!

Back on topic...

~when you drooled over an LotR poster, or would have, had your parents not been in a hurry.

~when you play Lego, even if it is not LotR-related, you give each character LotR names.

~when you pass by the theater, and suddenly you see the name Elf. You stop, then say, "Oh, Jenna Elfman." Whatever.

Yours, if you want to smilies/tongue.gif
->The True Son of Finrod, and of Amarië the Vanyar

[Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1]

When everytime you hear the word Legoland or even Lego, you immediately think of Legolas. Whe n you drive past Legoland too, for that matter.
When your favourite number is eleven, because in German it it 'elf'!!!!!!!!!!

About the Big Read, I started a thread on it in the books section. I manage to vote around 5 times on each computer. You? I would do all the ones at school, but I'm on half-term, darn it.

WHAT IS THIS WHOLE THING ABOUT BOROMIR THE DISCO KING????????????????????????? I want to know!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not knowing is beginning to kill me...come on, I'm an Elf, this is serious!!!

[the guy who be short]

I started a Big Read thread in N&N a looooooooong time ago.

You know you're obsessed when you're scared that people will find out about the BD. If they do, it will surely be shut and all of us will be carted away to the nearest lunatic asylum! I am very scared.

When you get your non-obsessed friend quoting.

When you give said friend a "Leaf of Lorien" you find on the floor, and are happy because he keeps it!

[Ainaserkewen]

When everywhere you go, you are surrounded by LOTR...ex:
Cadet activity: Survival excercise, meaning we go out in the bush, eat packaged food for a weekend.
LOTR: Friend Corry, finds long stick with roots attached, names it Gandalf staff, and himself, Gandalf the white(He's albino) wields the staff and does a skit on LOTR. "You shall not pass" and whatnot.
Weird: Every-bloody-one whistling Howard Shore score under their breath, got quite anoying after awhile.

Everyone asking LOTR questions to me all weekend. Didn't mind this, but the whistling, I started to threaten to put on my ring and rip off their lips.
Fun weekend though.

[Arwen1858]

Elentari, I'll find you the link to the disco king thread later when I have time. I didn't know what it was at first, either, cuz I wasn't around here then.

When you start crying looking at RotKpics because you are so attached to the characters and feel their pain, and know how much they'll have to go through in the next movie.

[Arwen1858]

When your little sister is running through the house with something you were using, you yell after her, 'Thief!! She stole it from us. She stole... our precious!!!' It wasn't really my precious or anything, it just seemed to fit smilies/biggrin.gif

[Failivrin]

Elentari: it's rougly seven for me. and half term is both a curse (lack of computers) and a blessing (LOTR exhibition). my mum is the librarian at my school and i vote from all 6 library computers as often as possible. i'm convinced they're so old the system won't catch me smilies/biggrin.gif

back on topic:
-a friendly sword (ok drumstick) fight from pirates of teh caribbean (i was jack, of course) becomes a full blown re enactment of both LOTR and PotC. you gather a crowd and ask them to guess the film (we had dialogue too), challenging them to a dual when they guessed wrong (stigmata, anyone?)

[Maethorien]

You know you're obsessed when you go to a store and notice they're using TTT as a demo tape on one of their television sets. You spend the next 20 minutes standing there watching. That is, until your parents get impatient and drag you away. And it was just getting to my favorite part, too!

[Amarantha_Daisy]

When the first thing you do on the Internet is get on BD. You ignore personal e-mails until people think you are dead and they can't get ahold of you because your phone line is tighed up...

Ahhh.... For me? So true smilies/wink.gif

-When you draw pointy ears on your stick figures

-When you work Elvish movie quotes into everyday conversation. Heh heh.

I walked outside to talk to my mom, and it had that heavy humid feeling in the air. Like it was going to rain, you know? So I said. "It's going to rain. I smell it in the air. A han noston ned ‘wilith..."

Guess what?! I'm using the BD in my art project! Heh heh... The theme I chose to use is "internet friendships" and I want to prove *through art* that internet friendships are a good thing, since they're usuallly stereotyped as bad... Wooo! I love you, my online friends! *group hug*

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Elentari, this may not make any sense, but I'm to lazy to go find the thread right now. A while back, someone (I think it was either Arafangwen or Arestevana. I may be wrong) started a thread called "Make your own crazy scenes with pics." The idea was to take those s from the movie picture sites and make totally unrelated scenes with them. Well, Oddwen (I think it was Oddwen) had someone (Aragorn, I believe) take disco lessons and an entire disco contest began. Boromir won, and now he is the disco king. DO THE WAVE FOR BOROMIR THE DISCO KING! Later, someone had Boromir eat squid (and then Merry and Pippin cause he thought they were giant squid) and someone took that and made "do the wave" into "WAVE SQUID AT BOROMIR THE DISCO KING!" Then Oddwen switched it around, and it became "WAVE KINGS AT BOROMIR THE DISCO SQUID!" And that is the story of Boromir the disco king.

Anyway, to get back on topic:

--When you have to make something out of clay in Art and all of your designs are LotR related. Dragon-related, mostly.

--When you are known by your obsession with LotR. (Hey, aren't you the g.irl who is crazy about those books...)

--When you read part of LotR for your theater class. Sadly, only about three of the people in it understood any of it. Stupid fat fressshmenses. We hates them, preciousss!

--When you lecture random people about why LotR is better than Harry Potter.

[Arwen1858]

You know you're obsessed when you go to a store and notice they're using TTT as a demo tape on one of their television sets. You spend the next 20 minutes standing there watching.
I've done that a few times myself! One store I know always has it playing, so whenever I go there with my mom, I always have to see where it is before doing anything!
Elentari: Here's where you can learn about the disco king! (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=17&t=000522&p=2) I believe it starts on page 2.

[Maikadurwen]

you are obbsesed when you run around your house in a ringwraith costume insanely.
and then you accidentaly run into wall during time of insane joy smilies/evil.gif

[Arwen1858]

We've made page 17!!!! Let's keep going so we can get to a part 4!

When every time you hear the word jelly, you can't help but say, '...and squash us like jelly!' Sometimes I say all of Bilbo's line there, but usually just that part.

When you have an identity crises because you consider yourself an elf, but you start seeing some hobbit tendencies in yourself.

[Finwe]

Whenever you hear the word "Ring" you automatically think that people are referring to the One Ring (no, those stupid people just HAD to be talking about the movie, The Ring!!!!)

When you see that your school bookstore is selling Rings (to hold stacks of notecards together) and you claim that your ex-English teacher (who runs the bookstore) is Sauron in disguise and is trying to corrupt the student body.

[Amarantha_Daisy]

When every time you hear the word jelly, you can't help but say, '...and squash us like jelly!' Sometimes I say all of Bilbo's line there, but usually just that part.

Hee hee smilies/biggrin.gif Stuff like that triggers my quoting, too. Random things, you know? Like my potatoes quoting fetish... smilies/wink.gif And I can't say "tricky" without saying "Wicked! Tricksy! False!" Then if people start looking at me I squint my eyes and murmer "my preciousss" under my breath...

When you see that your school bookstore is selling Rings (to hold stacks of notecards together) and you claim that your ex-English teacher (who runs the bookstore) is Sauron in disguise and is trying to corrupt the student body.

Hee hee! That would be funny... In a sort of human-corruption, end of the world kind of way!

-When you see your sister cleaning her bunny's cage and you snicker and say "There's only one way to eat a brace of conies..." smilies/evil.gif

[Salix]

You know you're obsessed when
-Someone in this mud you participate in (who happens to be in your grade, and goes to the same school as you) 'puts on the One Ring' and then you thwap him for being a moron.
-In that same mud, your title is 'Protector of Middle-Earth'
-And you managed to 'do the Wave for Boromir the Disco King', 'wave kings at Boromir the Disco Squid' and 'wave squid at Boromir the Disco King' on that very same mud.
-Since your friend runs that mud, you manage to convince him that the pre-packaged area with a part called 'Mount Doom' should be changed a bit. He's working on changing it, but he went the humour road. smilies/rolleyes.gif Ah well, at least he changed it.

(A mud is a 'Multi-User Domain. Text based adventuring.)

[elf-girl-63]

You go into a bookshop and see copies of the trilogy lying and looking all forlorn. You want to buy them but you relaise that you don't have enough money AND you've got exactly the same copies at home!!!

oops.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

You know you're obsessed when you're scared that people will find out about the BD. If they do, it will surely be shut and all of us will be carted away to the nearest lunatic asylum! I am very scared.


Would they dare? smilies/evil.gif

When your little sister is running through the house with something you were using, you yell after her, 'Thief!! She stole it from us. She stole... our precious!!!' It wasn't really my precious or anything, it just seemed to fit


Ahh, the Gollum side...Mine comes out when they try to draw my blood. "Ah! Don't hurtsss me with nasssty cruel steel!" smilies/rolleyes.gif

Wooo! I love you, my online friends! *group hug*


*hugs back*
By the way, online friends for me is a non-existent term. Except for one or two non-online friends, you're all the friends I've got. *another group hug*

When you have an identity crises because you consider yourself an elf, but you start seeing some hobbit tendencies in yourself.


...and some bits of Entish tendencies. "Don't be hasty!" Sometimes Orcish.

Anyways...

~when you do silly poems involving your Elvish self.

I did this a long time ago.

I'm a Prince of High-Elves from the West.
Of all the good Elves I'm the best.
I tried to be human
But this vision of Aman
Just sets me apart from the rest.

And I did one about me entering the wrong room, but I sort of forgot it...I'll try to recall it.

Yours, if you want to smilies/tongue.gif
->The True Son of Finrod, and of Amarië the Vanyar

[Naz]

When you think "Bellona Ave." says "Belladonna Ave."... ^ ^;

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[Sapphire_Flame]

Man, you guys make a lot of progress... o.O;;;

~When nobody has to ask you what you're gonna be for Halloween. They all automatically know. ^_~ With me, the start: "What are you gonna--" and then it hits them: "Oh, yeah, a hobbit." It's quite funny, really.

~Whenever you find out something about RotK or the Towers EV, you start screeching like a baby Nazgul and consequentally scare the living daylights out of everyone in the building.

~When you discover the Trilogy Tuesday is sold out at the theater nearest you, you start crying like a school-girl on prom night without a date and are completely inconsolable for days.

~When you think it's the coolest thing in the world that, on Halloween at school (or today, in my case), you and your friends have matched costumes without meaning to. In my ASL class, me, and my friends Kellie and Sean were all sitting at the same table; I was a hobbit, Kellie was an elf, and Sean was Aragorn. It was so awesome. smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Arwen1858]

When you go into the Harry Potter section at your local bookstore and put a piece of paper that says 'Frodo Lives' on top of the HP books smilies/biggrin.gif I did that just a little while ago!

[Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1]

When you are ulta-careful carrying a tray of drinks, because you think 'I am an Elf, I can't spill this!!!' Lame I know, but I can't think of anything!!!

What is the whole thing about Halloween? We never do anything...much less dress up as a Hobbit. I thought it was all about dressing up as witches and ghosts etc?

[Meela]

The traditional costumes are witches and ghosts, but as they don't feature in Lotr, I don't think we can expect anyone here to assume either of those appearances.

I'm dressing up as a witch.

[Tintalle]

When you:
- throw a a party every Sept. 22 when it's not your birthday
- tell people to go to Mordor instead of Hell
- tell your nieces that Harry Potter, all the superheroes, the bogeyman, or even Santa doesn't exist and scare them that a Wraith or an Orc will get them when they don't behave smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/evil.gif
- gather all your fellow LOTR crazy friends, play Monopoly, convert the real estate properties to places in Middle Earth, and literally fight over Shire, Rivendell and Lothlorien
- constantly consult Malbeth the Seer for your daily activities
- think your LOTR/JRR Tolkien stuff as your "precious" and won't let anybody touch it
- when you win a ticket to a Matrix Revolutions premiere and wish it was RotK instead
- ask your mom/dad to take you to a trip to New Zealand for your birthday (and watch RotK when it gets shown there, and brag to your friends when you get back because they still have to wait for a whole month before it gets shown in your area) ---> ooo, delusions, delusions smilies/biggrin.gif
- call the local radio dj, and tell him on air, never to say any word from LOTR if he doesn't know to pronounce it or even know what he's talking about smilies/mad.gif
- think Star Wars is just George Lucas's plagiarism for LotR smilies/biggrin.gif

[Arwen1858]

Welcome to the 'downs, Tintalle!!!!!

When you sit at your computer going back and forth between all your favorite LotR sites while listening to TTT soundtrack. I'm doing that right now.

[elf-girl-63]

I'm doing that too Arwen! AM on 'The LEave Taking ' on my CD.

~WHen you friend is making funny pics with quotes of ppl and asks you what your fave quote is he goes 'It's LOTR, isn't it?' Yes, Aragorn's poem in fact.

~Even if you're not reading LOTR, you have to just read a few sentences each morning to get you going.

~There was another one but can't remember it.

Oh yeah!!! You read the frame by frame analysis on onering.net and change your MSN name to the writing on it; 'There can be no triumph without loss etc...'. Your other friend asks whats it about. You tell them to go to the cinema and find out. LOL. No1 had any idea. ALtho later my friend guessed something to do with LOTR.

Ah well. Not v obsessive are they?

[Arwen1858]

When you get all excited that you found a program to download for free that will let you create a new skin for Internet Explorer, because you can make a LotR skin! smilies/biggrin.gif I made one of Rivendell, and it's so pretty!! Here's the link. (http://www.incredibar.com/home.asp)
I think you can make a skin for whatever browser you have. It doesn'thave to be IE.
Arwen

[Salix]

When the costume you wear has the perfect underdress for you to be Eowyn, but unfortunately, there is oh, 5 inches of snow on the ground and -10 out. smilies/mad.gif Now I'm just some random noble lady from mediaeval times. smilies/rolleyes.gif (And I am listening to a cd, but not TTT soundtrack because of my costume. I'm listening to a group of women singing mediaeval songs/poems)

[Aethelwine]

Thank you so much for that link, Arwen! I have a Legolas skin right now, and it's great! Don't know if my father's going to appreciate it so much, though...

You know you’re obsessed with LOTR when:

You have this song from Monty Python named : I've got a lovely bunch of coc, and every time you see it, you read: I've got a lovely bunch of orc... smilies/rolleyes.gif I'm innocent of course!

When your friends discover a disturbing development: You started to like dresses! Eowyns dresses, of course, and elvish ones, but still, dresses!!! smilies/eek.gif

You celebrate every new morning, because it brings you one day closer to the release of ROTK. (If you knew me, you would know I am NOT a morning person!)

You and you friends (who's just beginning her obsession, but don't worry, I'm working hard on it smilies/wink.gif ) have a new joke nobody understands (like always...): on this chocolate bar wrapping was an advertisement for a stunt so you can meet you favourite 'music celeb'. So of course I started laughing. When my friend asked me what was the matter, I explained. Now, we're always talking about singing silver!

You get really upset all the times you can't come up with obsessive things you have done, to post here. In fact, I think I do do a lot of obsessive things, but there just so normal to me, that I don't notice!
I feel much better now... smilies/wink.gif

I'm listening to breath of life right now, you now.

NaNa!

Aethelwine, friend of the elves.

[Arwen1858]

When your friends discover a disturbing development: You started to like dresses! Eowyns dresses, of course, and elvish ones, but still, dresses!!!
That sounds like me!! smilies/biggrin.gif My mom doesn't know what to do with me.I go from wanting to wear jeans all the time, and when I did have to wear something nicer, I liked skirts, not dresses, to now wanting to make myself dresses. Of course, they do have to look Elvish or like something Eowyn would wear. I realy want to get some chocolate brown material so I can make a dress like Eowyn's refugee dress. Oh, and have you seen this site before: LotR costume research (http://www.alleycatscratch.com/lotr/)
Wonderful, wonderful site!!!
Arwen

[Aethelwine]

Yes Arwen, that's what I meant! I always wear trousers, not even skirts, I hate them! Well used to... I still hate skirts, but I wouldn't mind to have Eowyns shieldmaiden outfit. Or her white wool dress (wich is actually cream! smilies/wink.gif ). No, wouldn't mind at all...

Oh, and have you seen this site before: LotR costume research
Wonderful, wonderful site!!!

Yes, I know of it. And I agree, it's such a good site! It's one of my favourite LOTR/Tolkien-sites! (beside the BD, of course! smilies/wink.gif )

You know your obsessed with LOTR, when it makes you want to make you own dresses, and wear them to!!! smilies/eek.gif

NaNa!

Aethelwine, friend of the elves.

[Linnamalle]

Arwen, that costume site was wonderful. Thanks!

I'm not much of a seamstress. I haven't sewn in ages, really. I just shop hard when I find stores with flowy, airy dresses... But now that I've seen that cloak pattern the the Fellowship cloak, hmmmm, I might sew just one thing. That grey material... One could line it with forest & woodland green, and get the camoflage effect just by reversing the cloak; green for summer, grey for winter...

I wonder... I've often toyed with the idea of actually finding a camoflage material, and making a cloak from that. But then, I like *not* being seen when I'm out in the woods.

Such happy thoughts! Thanks, Arwen!

[elfearz1]

I wore my costume today at school! yay! it looks like my icon sorta

[Finwe]

When you intend for your Halloween costume to be that of a mercenary (albeit a poor one, since I couldn't bring my sword to school) and realize when you get to school that you look rather like either Elladan or Elrohir, so you go around all day telling people that you are Elladan/Elrohir (whichever one strikes your fancy at that particular moment).

[Arwen1858]

When you get all excited because outside in the dark you see people walking from way down the street before anyone else in your family does... therefore you have elf eyes!! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Sirithheruwen]

When you are an elf for Halloween, and while taking your sisters trick-or-treating, you decide to dress up in your costume for the dance at your school. at every single house after they say "thank-you," you tell the person in the house "Namarie." I don't mean to brag, but my costume looked very good! I wore one of my Mom's old bridesmaid dresses and pinned a (fake) diamond pin at the neck. I also had ears.
When you insult people in Elvish (the only Elvish I know is insults). For example:
On halloween, at one of the houses we went to, the lady there said, "Boy those are gross!" She was talking about my ears! smilies/mad.gif smilies/eek.gif smilies/mad.gif I just smiled, gave a little bow and said, "Auta miqula orqu." (*I'm sorry, I know that's the Grey Elvish one, but I couldn't remember the real one*) smilies/evil.gif smilies/evil.gif smilies/evil.gif

[elfearz1]

when people ask you if you are a character from harry potter and you get very upset!! (grr)

and realize when you get to school that you look rather like either Elladan or Elrohir, so you go around all day telling people that you are Elladan/Elrohir (whichever one strikes your fancy at that particular moment).
<3 Elrohir <3

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[Elennar Starfire]

I have been gone far too long! Now to catch up.

You attempt to walk on snow like Legolas.

I have done it! It was warm for a while, and the snow on top melted, then it got cold again and the snow froze. It was so hard you could jump on it and not crack it.

~When you find a large quantity of yellow leaves on the ground that look very much like Mallorn leaves, so you pick up a whole bunch and put them in your book

Whenever I see Mallorn-like leaves, I say 'ai laurie lantar lassi surinen.'

~When you want to make a shirt that says Got lembas? on it.

I want one of those!

Wooo! I love you, my online friends! *group hug*

*hugs everyone*

Stupid fat fressshmenses. We hates them, preciousss!

Hey, be nice to me! <(~_*)>

You know you're obsessed when you're scared that people will find out about the BD. If they do, it will surely be shut and all of us will be carted away to the nearest lunatic asylum! I am very scared.


Hey, we could meet each other there!

- tell people to go to Mordor instead of Hell

I do it all the time!

- gather all your fellow LOTR crazy friends, play Monopoly, convert the real estate properties to places in Middle Earth, and literally fight over Shire, Rivendell and Lothlorien

OOOH!! Fun! Middle-Earth Monopoly! I must play it sometime!

~ When you write 'Frodo lives' on your fingers, one letter on each finger. I did it opposite hands, and noticed that on one hand the letters spelled 'Fooie.' It looked odd, until I put it with my hand that said 'rdlvs.'

~ When the RotK preview makes you cry. If the preview made me cry, imagine the flood at the theatre when I see the whole movie!

~ When you cry because your elf dress is not finished in time to wear it to school on Halloween. (I wore a cloak, though!)

~ When you want to modify the RPG you are in to a scene to perform in drama class.

~ When you use elf faces when typing. Like these: <(^_^)> <(~_*)> <(o_0)>

When people are talking about pink fluffy alligators, and you suddenly yell, "purplefluffychainsaw!" Got some weird looks for that... smilies/evil.gif

[Amarantha_Daisy]

When you use elf faces when typing. Like these: <(^_^)> <(~_*)> <(o_0)>

*squee* So cute! I'll have to use those! smilies/smile.gif

~ When you cry because your elf dress is not finished in time to wear it to school on Halloween. (I wore a cloak, though!)

Mine wasn't done either! In school, I just wore a creepy black dress with fishnets and carried around a scary doll... I ran home after school to finish sewing, and I got my Elven dress done in time for the party I was going to! smilies/biggrin.gif I'm still not technically "done" I still have to hem and fix up some details...

-When, at said party, you greet people with "Suilad! Mae govannen, mellon nin."

-When you spend the whole time at the party deciding exactly *which* elf you are... I was asked by a LotR friend of mine, but I didn't have an answer! By then end of the party, I settled on Aradhel, from the Silm. I love her story! smilies/smile.gif

[Arwen1858]

~ When the RotK preview makes you cry. If the preview made me cry, imagine the flood at the theatre when I see the whole movie!
I cry every time I see it, no matter how many times I watch it! And I know I'll be crying through the whole movie...

~When you walk like Galadriel every time you go down stairs, trying to look as if you're floating down them.

~ When you're walking through the store, and first walk like Aragorn, taking long strides, then walk like Galadriel, lightly like you're floating. I did that this afternoon. I stood behind my mom where she couldn't see me, because she probably would have wondered why on earth I was walking all these different ways, and made me stop smilies/biggrin.gif
Arwen

[Arwen1858]

When you stand in the middle if the aisle in front of the big screen tv at the store that is always playing TTT and quote all the lines along with the characters, rather enjoying all the weird looks you're getting from passersby. I don't know all the lines from TTT, but everytime I go to Sam's, the store I was talking about, I see the scene about taters and fish and chips! It's really weird! Last time, I watched a lot more than just that scene, but it always get to that scene when I'm in the store. So I get to quote along.

[Everdawn]

--- When you bet on a racehorse called Elvstroem on Cox Plate Race day, just becuase it sounded like an elf owned it..

-- Then you spend hours thinking whether the owners picked that name from LOTR

-- Then you go on the net and look everything up on Elvstroem...

Obsessed much?

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

When you are ulta-careful carrying a tray of drinks, because you think 'I am an Elf, I can't spill this!!!' Lame I know, but I can't think of anything!!!


Yeah! Elves should have perfect balance! Maybe I'll try my hand at tightrope walking...

~Even if you're not reading LOTR, you have to just read a few sentences each morning to get you going.


My slogan is "A chapter a day drives the HP fans away."

You attempt to walk on snow like Legolas.


Once, I attempted to walk on a sandy beach without my feet falling into the sand...I'm sorry to say I failed my Elven license test... smilies/frown.gif

- tell people to go to Mordor instead of Hell


I prefer go to Angband... smilies/evil.gif

When people are talking about pink fluffy alligators, and you suddenly yell, "purplefluffychainsaw!" Got some weird looks for that...


Hey! You too? Some things in my surroundings remind me of Downers!

And so...

~You model your room after...Mordor! Utumno is next! smilies/evil.gif

~BD reminds you of the Matrix. (Ooops, this is you know you're obsessed with the Matrix...sorry.)

~My greatest dream is to be called either Elenrod Felagund, Prince of Tirion or Hey! LotR freak!(I know, some of you had the distinction of being called such, but me... smilies/frown.gif )

Later days! smilies/cool.gif
->The True Son of Finrod, and of Amarië the Vanyar

[the guy who be short]

When, after you see a fireworks display, you immediately think: "That was worthy of Gandalf, that was," in a Sam voice.

When your book report is - wait, do I really need to finish that sentence? smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

When people you don't know come up to you and ask you to "speak elvish." You rapidly sing the "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" song, startling them.

[Tintalle]

Thanks Arwen!

OOOH!! Fun! Middle-Earth Monopoly! I must play it sometime!

Yeah, it was a blast. Especially when people GO TO Barad-dur. YOu can change the rules, so that it can fit the Middle Earth customs!!! smilies/biggrin.gif

When you go into a shop called THE PRANCING PONY out of curiousity (which turn out to be a trading card shop), and ask for Barliman Butterbur smilies/biggrin.gif . And "Butterbur" is now a new found friend

smilies/smile.gif smilies/smile.gif

[Finwe]

The only way your mom can ground you is by threatening to take your Tolkien books away. (Needless to say, I went completely crazy and Gollum-ish, and my Dad literally had to hold me back, because I was clawing for them! smilies/biggrin.gif)

[Elennar Starfire]

Mine wasn't done either! In school, I just wore a creepy black dress with fishnets and carried around a scary doll... I ran home after school to finish sewing, and I got my Elven dress done in time for the party I was going to! I'm still not technically "done" I still have to hem and fix up some details...

-When, at said party, you greet people with "Suilad! Mae govannen, mellon nin."


Amarantha, have you been spying on me?

"A chapter a day drives the HP fans away."

How about 'Quoting a chapter a day'? That would certainly scare them away! smilies/evil.gif

When people you don't know come up to you and ask you to "speak elvish." You rapidly sing the "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" song, startling them.

A guy in my math class asked me to speak elvish, and I did that, and he said I was scary because I sounded like Galadriel. I thought it was cool.

~ When you cry at Secondhand Lions because they didn't show the RotK trailer. That was the main reason I went! (Secondhand Lions is actually a pretty good movie, though) I want to see Shelob!!! smilies/mad.gif I did get to drool over Anduril on the poster, though.

[Failivrin]

-you post threads on any other MBs you belong to about Tolkien and cry and scream at teh people there and tell them they 'have no imagination' whatsoever. that seems to annoy them...

-you find some patterns for Evlish dresses and cry when you realise they are too big for you (i still haven't got over it)

[Arwen1858]

When you walk through the store singing 'The Road Goes Ever On' and Pip and Merry's song from the Green Dragon hoping a fellow LotR fan will hear you and say something about it.

[elfearz1]

when you're at the theatre and a preview for the rotk video game comes on and you have a heart attack thinking that it's a preview for the movie, but alas! you are mistaken and you are very disapointed smilies/frown.gif smilies/mad.gif

[Orominuialwen]

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Hey, be nice to me! <(~_*)> Yes, freshmen are nice people (well some of them anyway) smilies/biggrin.gif ~ When you cry because your elf dress is not finished in time to wear it to school on Halloween. Me too! I had no school on the Halloween or the day beore, so I sewed like mad on my Eowyn dress, but it didn't get done, so I had to wear last year's Arwen dress to go trick or treating (I kind of threw a fit about that). This whole thing happened because no one could take me to the fabric store untill the day before Halloween smilies/mad.gif grrrrrr


Now, back on topic...

~When you and your friend are making a list of evil people, HP gets put down before Sauron or Morgoth smilies/biggrin.gif

~When your friends know agout your obsession so much that 2 of the 3 birthday presents you got were LotR related (a book of the brothers Hildibrand illustrations and a bookmaks with the One Ring attached to it smilies/biggrin.gif ) My birthday will have been 2 months ago as of tomorrow, but I just got around to having the party. smilies/redface.gif

~When you know the shire date but not the "real" date

~When you are goig to wear your Eowyn dress (I will finish it by then!!!) to your best friend's party, even though it's not a costume party. smilies/smile.gif

[Mantauriel]

Your obssessed when you become like me: Only answer to Elvish, in Elvish, in Rivendell. My friends said it was to hard to learn elvish, so they only talk in sign language. Good thing I know that! ^_^

[Tinuviel of Denton]

I settled on Aradhel, from the Silm. I love her story!


If I ever get it finished, you'll have to read my fanfic on Eol and Aredhel. I love that story too!

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Yes, freshmen are nice people (well some of them anyway)

Oops! I didn't mean to insult fellow BDers, I was only referring to the 'stupid fat fresshmenses in my theater class. If you're a freshmen here, I say, "Nice fressshmensss!" smilies/tongue.gif smilies/wink.gif

I have to go make an RPG post, so I can't put up any of the obsessive things I've done since I've been gone. smilies/frown.gif

[Naz]

eheh.. I'm a freshman! ^ ^;;

haven't done anything obsessive as of late.. smilies/frown.gif

[Failivrin]

you print off lots of pictures and bore all of your teachers to death: 'this is aragorn's crown- i don't think it looks right, i mean, it was clearly described i nthe book- what do you think?' 'umm...'

-you get very mad when anyone from LOTR is parodied on TV- that happened today and he didn't even sound like Gandalf, that was the ridiculous thing!

[Amarantha_Daisy]

Amarantha, have you been spying on me?

Tee hee! smilies/biggrin.gif Who knows? Maybe it was *you* who was spying on *me* smilies/tongue.gif It would have been so cool if we were at the same party! Ah... if only...

If I ever get it finished, you'll have to read my fanfic on Eol and Aredhel. I love that story too!

Cool! I'd love to! Let me know when it's done! smilies/wink.gif

Oooooo! I saw a girl in school today who was wearing the Evenstar! *squee* And she was wearing this very Elven shirt that I'm pretty sure she sewed herself! I wish I could have talked to her, but it was in between classes, and I only saw her pass by in the hall... I don't know who she was...

Argh! The most horrible thing happened, though! When she passed through the hall, some stupid guy yelled after her "Halloween is over, you know!" because of her shirt! smilies/frown.gif It was so mean... I liked her shirt... Some people are just plain rude smilies/mad.gif

Wheee! Changed my avatar! I love my new one! *huggles avatar*

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[Orominuialwen]

~When you hear Elfwine talking to someone else in the hall between classes and you hear her say thwords LotR, you immediately turn around and say "What??" She says "Oh no! She's heard LotR!" You all laugh, including the girl she was talking to in the first place. smilies/smile.gif It would have been so cool if we were at the same party! I know! Imagine if we've all at one time or another stood right near a fellow 'Downie and not known it! If any of you ever run in to me, I'm the girl with very curly hair and LotR stuff written on her shoes. smilies/biggrin.gif some stupid guy yelled after her Curse him!!! smilies/mad.gif *sends Nazgul to get that guy and also sics Herman the purple monkey on him*

~When you and your brother have gotten every member of your immediate family (our parents) to read LotR. smilies/biggrin.gif My mom finished it a couple of months ago and my dad is partway through TTT smilies/smile.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

some stupid guy yelled after her
Gr. Stupid spawn of Morgoth. People that stupid don't deserve to be on the planet. Or the deserve to get ignored. Man, I hope we get that Elvish commune going soon! smilies/wink.gif

**When you plan to dress up for the release of the Towers EV, and the release of the RotK soundtrack. My friends and I are going to. Hopefully, we'll freak out everyone in our ASL and creative writing classes... smilies/evil.gif

Yay, new avatar! ^ ^

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Elennar Starfire]

Oops! I didn't mean to insult fellow BDers, I was only referring to the 'stupid fat fresshmenses in my theater class. If you're a freshmen here, I say, "Nice fressshmensss!"

OK, I'll forgive you. This time... smilies/evil.gif

Tee hee! Who knows? Maybe it was *you* who was spying on *me* It would have been so cool if we were at the same party! Ah... if only...

smilies/biggrin.gif

some stupid guy yelled after her "Halloween is over, you know!" because of her shirt!

Orc-Spawn! Vile fiend of Morgoth!
She should have sang "These wounds they will not heal!" very loudly. Scares people, it does, yesss, precioussss... Or she could just say "Bado orch echado meleth" or some such thing. smilies/evil.gif

If any of you ever run in to me, I'm the girl with very curly hair and LotR stuff written on her shoes

I'm a girl with brown hair that occasionally looks a bit like Aragorn's when I haven't washed it in a while parted on the side, glasses, and I am almost always wearing a celtic knot necklace. On December 17, I am planning to wear my elven dress to school, along with bandaid ears. If you think you see me, yell "Wave squid at Boromir the Disco King!"

I love your new avatars, Sapphire_Flame and Amarantha_Daisy! Very cute, both of them!

~ When you scare your whole typing class by squealing loudly while looking at pics from RotK. (EEEEEEEEEE!!! SHELOB!!! MINAS TIRITH!!! THE WITCHKING!!! ANDURIL!!! EEEEEEEEEE!!!)

~When for your monologue in drama class you are doing Galadriel's bit at the beginning of FotR. (I already have it memorized anyway!)

~When you start singing on the bus "you are lost, you can never go home" and it makes you cry.

[Arwen1858]

~When you're at Wal-mart back in the Electronics department and stop dead in your tracks when you see a preview for FOTR playing on a tv. Then you have to stand there glued to to tv until the nice, long preview is over, even though you of course have seen the movie itself numerous times, and are dying of curiousity to know why in ME they were showing a preview for FOTR. It turned out they were playing a dvd from a couple of years ago so it had a preview about FOTR being in theatres. It was such a cool preview, too!!! I unfortunately wasn't a LotR fan until FOTR had just come out on dvd smilies/frown.gif So I didn't have the privilage of seeing the previews before.
~When you are dreadfully sad that you weren't a fan early enough to get to see FotR in theatres, and they won't be showing Trilogy Tuesday in a theatre near enough for you to go, so you feel as if you've missed something really, really good. Which of course I did.

[Amarantha_Daisy]

I know! Imagine if we've all at one time or another stood right near a fellow 'Downie and not known it!

That would be great! ...In a tragic "Why-didn't-I-know-it?" kind of way...

If any of you ever run in to me, I'm the girl with very curly hair and LotR stuff written on her shoes
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I'm a girl with brown hair that occasionally looks a bit like Aragorn's


I'm the girl with short brown hair like a hobbit's and glasses *which may be gone soon...* who always wears the One Ring and who has a very...eclectic fashion sense.

I unfortunately wasn't a LotR fan until FOTR had just come out on dvd So I didn't have the privilage of seeing the previews before.

Awww... me, too. smilies/frown.gif I hate being a late fan! I missed out on so much... *sniffle*

Yay, new avatar! ^ ^

*squee* I love it, Sapphire_Flame!

*gets on soapbox/rantbox*
Argh... I had a...discussion with my friend today about literature...heh heh. See, she's an obsessive Anne Rice fan, and I (of course) am an obsessive Tolkien fan... We were arguing over who's better: Frodo or Lestat... She locked me out of my house, trying to make me say Lestat was better, but I didn't give in! I just whined and whined until she let me back in... heh heh smilies/tongue.gif

But that wasn't fair! She said Anne Rice is a better author than Tolkien, and she hasn't even read LotR! I have the right to argue because I'm reading The Vampire Lestat, but she has nothing to base her argument on! Argh! Okay...I'll get off my soapbox now...

*gets off soapbox/rantbox*

[Aethelwine]

*Bangs head on computerscreen* ARGH!!! I had so many ideas for this thread, but I dont remember them anymore! smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif

Gr. Stupid spawn of Morgoth. People that stupid don't deserve to be on the planet. Or the deserve to get ignored. Man, I hope we get that Elvish commune going soon!

Do you have the link to the thread? Or do you at least know the name, so I can search for it??? It drives me crazy that I can't read it!

~When you dream about living in a Elvish community what all you guys (and girls! smilies/wink.gif)!

some stupid guy yelled after her "Halloween is over, you know!" because of her shirt!

What a Nazgul! How stupid can you get?

~ When someone ****es you of by talking bad about LOTR. He knew it! (I think I told him to kiss and/or make love to half of Sarumans army...)

I'll be back!

NaNa!

Aethelwine.

P.S. Does anybody know the name of that thread?

~ When you keep on begging for the name of a certain thread... smilies/wink.gif

[andreadawn]

You know you're obsessed with LOTR when...I was walking uo Broadway the other day and I happened to glance up at one of those revolving newsstrips. As I looked up I saw the word "took" but read it as "Took"-thinking that there might be some news about LOTR I got a quick shudder,but just as quickly I realized my mistake. Oh well, back to real life again.

[Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1]

What's a freshman????

I tend to stop dead in the cloisters when I see/hear anything to do with LOTR....I was late for maths once (well I was going to be late anyway actually) because I stopped and read an entire science project that was on display...it was about technological advances and stuff, so this person did the special effects in LOTR as a case study!!!!!

[Sapphire_Flame]

*squee* I love it, Sapphire_Flame!
Thankies! ^ ^

~When you contemplate chucking an exacto-knife at a kid in your art class because he said, "Lord of the Rings is the stupidest movie I've ever seen" and "Anyone who says Lord of the Rings is better than Star Wars should get punched in the face."

grrrrrr..... smilies/mad.gif

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Elentari, a freshman (stupid and fat or nice) is a first-year in American high schools and/or universities (though I was referring to high school). Sophomore is second year, junior third year, and senior fourth year. Hope that answers your question.

I had stuff to post, but I need to get off the computer and go find OniGene so that he doesn't think I fell of the planet. (that could be an interesting experience though...)

[Naz]

When you think the sentence in your wellness book that says "some stores sell stylish exercise clothes" says "some stores sell elvish exercise clothes"...

[Elennar Starfire]

I unfortunately wasn't a LotR fan until FOTR had just come out on dvd So I didn't have the privilage of seeing the previews before.
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Awww... me, too. I hate being a late fan! I missed out on so much... *sniffle*


Yes, it is sad. I was a fan, but I couldn't convince my parents to let me see it in theatres, because they didn't think it would be good. smilies/mad.gif

But that wasn't fair! She said Anne Rice is a better author than Tolkien, and she hasn't even read LotR! I have the right to argue because I'm reading The Vampire Lestat, but she has nothing to base her argument on!

I can't stand when people do that! It is not fair at all.

Do you have the link to the thread? Or do you at least know the name, so I can search for it??? It drives me crazy that I can't read it!

I think it was just discussed a little on the other 'You know you're obsessed when...' threads. I don't know of anywhere else it was mentioned.

When you think the sentence in your wellness book that says "some stores sell stylish exercise clothes" says "some stores sell elvish exercise clothes"...

Don't we all wish... *sigh*

~ When you carry an Eye of Sauron marble with you everywhere. (No, it wasn't called that, it was called a 'striped marble' but it is orange and half of it has no stripes except for one down the middle, so I call it an Eye of Sauron marble.)

[Orominuialwen]

~When you start singing on the bus "you are lost, you can never go home" and it makes you cry. I have the sheet music to that. smilies/smile.gif quote:
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I can't stand when people do that! It is not fair at all. I know two girls who haven't even finished LotR who say it's a bad book. One of them is nice, so I'm trying to convert her into a LotR fan, but I think the other one is a lost cause (she's a total HP obsessee- and to think that she was one of my best friends)

~When you have discussions with your brother about whether there is gravity in the Void *Bangs head on computerscreen* ARGH!!! I had so many ideas for this thread, but I dont remember them anymore! smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif That just happened to me! grrrrrrrr...

Edit: I remembered!! smilies/biggrin.gif
~When your French pronunciation has become rather messed up because you keep trying to pronounce things like in Quenya

~When you are constantly on the lookout for elvish /celtic knot jewelery- where do you people get it?

~When talking to yourself, you refer to yourself as Oromin rather than your real name

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~When you try to blow smoke rings because it's cold enough to see your breath outside, but it doesn't work (I just tried smilies/frown.gif )

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

[Salix]

Earlier today, in math class, I was graphing 1/x²+1, and the guy next to me remarked that it looked like a speed bump, to which I replied that it was a speed bump. Then he said it was the speed bump of doom, so I said 'The one speed bump to rule them all!', and we both laughed quite a bit, especially when we thought of the mental images (I mean, come on, Frodo carrying a concrete speed bump? Or trying to fit the speed bump on the Council table? I guessed that it would crush half of the Council. smilies/biggrin.gif Or Isildur trying to cut a speed bump off of Sauron's hand.) Eventually, the guy next to me remarked that you couln't get much more of an unwieldy item, and then we came up with the idea of a solid gold anvil. No one is gonna steal that! smilies/biggrin.gif I eventually remarked 'No we know what the Fellowship was for.' Yeah, I was bored and it was the second math class in a row, and ROTK was sitting on my desk, so can you blame me?

[Miriel Undomiel]

Hi hi!!!! smilies/biggrin.gif I'm so happy!! Yesterday I got a dog!!!! YAY!!!! She's so beautiful... I wanted to call her Luthien, but no one in the family could pronounce it smilies/frown.gif So we landed on Lucy. Close enough, so I'm happy!!

My life is very good theese days, because I JUST GOT TICKETS TO THE RETURN OF THE KING ON SEPTEMBER 17TH!!!!!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

But I don't get all this fuss about HP being as bad as SARS... I LIKE the books, but ofcourse I LOVE LotR!!! So don't get me wrong... smilies/rolleyes.gif HP can't be compared with LotR......

Namarié

[Miriel Undomiel]

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

~in math class you read 'Ringenes Herre' (means LotR) but it said 'pengene hadde' (means the money had...)
I jumped, and the girl next to me looked really weird at me smilies/biggrin.gif
Weird looks are cool!!!!

~I also read Gollum in my notebook, but I was SO wrong about that one smilies/biggrin.gif

Namarié

[ November 09, 2003: Message edited by: Miriel Undomiel ]

[elf-girl-63]

I read things wrong all the time.

~Silmutaneous equations
~Namarie instead of name's or something.

Also, whe ur ever correcting ppl on things. Here are some common mistakes

~Hobbit Land- they mean Middle-earth not even the shire!!!

~Those small things that don't wear shoes ie Hobbits

~My friend always calls Aragorn Aragon and i always correct here. Aragon's a place in spain!!!

~Pointy-eared people. Elves u silyl people

~And have you noticed how many people get Sarumon and Sauron mixed up? smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/mad.gif

omg omg omg!!! seen new poster for rotk. lots of people on it. may have 2 buy it 2 join my collections of aragorns!!! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

When you nearly faint when you see the Towers EV clip...feature...things up on LotR.net. smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif So kewl!

Dang! I just forgot all my other ones!!! smilies/frown.gif *mutter, "school's melting my brain...", grumble...*

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Finwe]

When you screech like a baby Nazgul when you see the Two Towers EV clips on www.lordoftherings.net (http://www.lordoftherings.net)

AI ELBERETH! AI ELBERETH! AI ELBERETH!!!!!!!! Have I got the news for you!!!!!!!!! I get to be the Ranger in the tavern for my school's Renaissance Festival next Friday!!!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif I've even got a slightly Renaissance-y version of Strider's costume, and my friend says I even look like a Ranger!

[Arwen1858]

~when you have a folder on you desktop that you use to keep stuff that you 'need,' but rarely use, and you name it 'mathom house'

[Amarantha_Daisy]

Salix, that's funny smilies/biggrin.gif Owch... a pure gold anvil? Heh heh, poor Fellowship...

~when you have a folder on you desktop that you use to keep stuff that you 'need,' but rarely use, and you name it 'mathom house'

Heh heh, I have a box in my closet with stuff like that, and I call it my mathom box. smilies/wink.gif

-When you do the "December 17th dance" in the halls at school (I was randomly kelebrating...don't ask!)

-When you...Argh! I knew I had another one... ...*thinking* ...I forget. smilies/frown.gif Oh foo.

[Sapphire_Flame]

When you do the "December 17th dance" in the halls at school (I was randomly kelebrating...don't ask!)
Oh well. I'm gonna ask anyway. What's the "December 17th dance"?

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Arwen1858]

Heh heh, I have a box in my closet with stuff like that, and I call it my mathom box.
I forgot to mention this one:
~When you name your closet 'The Mathom House' Aside from my clothes hanging in there, all the stuff I have shoved everywhere is stuff I will need someday, but never really use now smilies/biggrin.gif
Arwen

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Hi! I missed you guys...almost fell into an apoplectic(sp?) shock. Anywhen...

When people you don't know come up to you and ask you to "speak elvish." You rapidly sing the "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" song, startling them.


Namarië is also good, although quite long. Took me a few months to memorise.

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Thanks, Elennar for that good(demented, but good) idea! smilies/biggrin.gif

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*hugs back*
By the way, online friends for me is a non-existent term. Except for one or two non-online friends, you're all the friends I've got. *another group hug*


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I know! I only have 3 close friends who are my own age. I seem to get along fine with people who are older than me, but when people my age see me, they tend to think "Run! Hide! Very scary person with weird hair!"


Orominuialwen, are you some sort of a long- lost sister? Seler nin!

~When you know the shire date but not the "real" date


My cellphone's clock is on Gondorian date, BD time.

some stupid guy yelled after her "Halloween is over, you know!"


~When you contemplate chucking an exacto-knife at a kid in your art class because he said, "Lord of the Rings is the stupidest movie I've ever seen" and "Anyone who says Lord of the Rings is better than Star Wars should get punched in the face."


Death. Death. Death. smilies/evil.gif

Wheee! Changed my avatar! I love my new one! *huggles avatar*


Yay, new avatar! ^ ^


smilies/biggrin.gif

~When you are dreadfully sad that you weren't a fan early enough to get to see FotR in theatres, and they won't be showing Trilogy Tuesday in a theatre near enough for you to go, so you feel as if you've missed something really, really good. Which of course I did.


Me, too. smilies/frown.gif

~when you have a folder on you desktop that you use to keep stuff that you 'need,' but rarely use, and you name it 'mathom house'


My room's full of mathom...partly the reason why it looks like Mordor.

OK...
~When you mope around, because it's your freaking sembreak. So you decide to drown your sorrows by finishing the books again(4th time this year...I think)
~You commemorate the day you first finished LotR.(Yay! January 13 is approaching!)

Later days! smilies/cool.gif
->banakil on mumakil

[Leighann]

Hate to say that i did not read most of the post so I am sorry if i repeat anything

~ you know your obsessed when...
* you know all the lines in the movie

* you give your friends elvish names without their consent, then they just sorta stare at you until you call them by their real name...::true story::

* when you get an out of uniform day and you realize you have no LOTR shirts, so while watching the movies you run, get a white shirt, and a permanent marker, and write "Frodo Lives" all over it :: ^.^ ::

* when you crack funny LOTR jokes like
" four hobbits walk into a bar..." and no one gets what your talking about

[Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1]

My friend always calls Aragorn Aragon and i always correct her. Aragon's a place in spain!!!
Oh, I swear there isn't much difference between them...unless you're a person who has a really strong 'r'....

Elentari, a freshman (stupid and fat or nice) is a first-year in American high schools and/or universities (though I was referring to high school). Sophomore is second year, junior third year, and senior fourth year. Hope that answers your question. Ahh, thank you!!!

And have you noticed how many people get Sarumon and Sauron mixed up? Yup, someone did that yesterday...but she was trying to get it right, so we were very tolerant... smilies/biggrin.gif

And I can't think of any additions...darn it!

[Finwe]

You annoy the people at the theater when you go to see Matrix III, by quoting the character's lines along with the characters in the RotK trailer that shows before the movie.

[Sapphire_Flame]

Good one, Finwe!

When you plan to camp out in front of Best Buy in order to get the RotK soundtrack the second it comes in. *bwahaha, I have my tent and sleeping bag ready...*

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Failivrin]

you go to see matrix revolutions for teh trailer and you:

1. lie there watching it in a trance because it is SO amazing.
2. almost die when aragorn comes o ne screen (i'm going through a 'i'm completely in love with aragorn' thing)
3. plan what you are going to say if anyone laughs at it WHILE watching the trailer (now that's mulit- tasking smilies/tongue.gif )

[Maethorien]

You know you're obsessed when you say TVIF(Thank the Valar it's Friday!) instead of TGIF.

[Sapphire_Flame]

Heehee! smilies/biggrin.gif I just saw a car in my school's parking lot with the license number 111 RRT. So kewl!

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Elennar Starfire]

~ When you paint your fingernails to say 'Frodo Lives' and are sad because you don't have enough fingers for an exclamation mark.

~ When you also paint your toenails to match, even though no one will ever see them, because it is winter.

~ When this is the first time you have painted your fingernails or toenails for three years, but you decided RotK is a special occasion.

Why does Crazy Captions get a new thread when it is only 14 pages long, yet this one is 18 pages long? I am confused about this.

[Finwe]

When you screech like a baby Nazgul when you see a car go by your school bus that says "Bilbo" on it. (I wanted to stick my head out of the window and yell, "Bilbo Baggins!" and pray that a little man wearing a gold ring sticks his hand out and waves. Oh wait, he'd be invisible then. Never mind!)

[Laitoste]

Hi everyone! I'm new here-this is my first post in a forum EVER. Yay me!

Anyway, here goes!

When you like your middle name better than your first because it sounds more "Elvish". My middle name's Elizabeth. I also like it because in the movie Elizabeth, Cate Blanchett plays Elizabeth, and she's Galadriel! That mean's 'm connected to LOTR!!!

When you listen to your brother play video games, and you hear "have a taste of dwarven magic" you immediatly think of Gimli. Then, later, you hear your brother ask your cousin, "Should I be Fatty?" and nearly crack up.

When your mom thinks you need a therapist because all you talk about has something to do w/ LOTR. My mom thinks I need a therapist, even though my dad was also obsessed w/ LOTR when he was my age. And he actually had a friend who liked it too.

When the only reason you go to church for a few weeks is because you're watching FOTR in youth forum (and in January we get to watch TTT! Yay!)

When nobody at school talks to you because they don't like 2-hour lectures on why TTT was an awful movie (from my viewpoint, although I'm adjusting to the horrendous changes. I can't have the normal DVD because I want the EV and my mom will only let me buy one. That's the only reason why I don't have the EV FOTR.)

I seriously have scared quite a few people w/ LOTR. But my history teacher saw me reading An Atlas of Middle-Earth and told me that he thought that all this, well I don't know any other way to describe it, hysteria was based on LOTR. I spent the better part of 15 min. talking to him about Tolkien.

When you have already decided the names of your future pets-and all of them are LOTR or The Hobbit based (I'm naming all of my future dogs after Thorin & Co.!)

Well, that's my bit. Now I have people to talk to about my greatest joy in life ( other than my dachshunds)!

[Finwe]

Welcome to the Barrow Downs and I hope you enjoy being dead!!!!

You pray to Eru and Elbereth that you have extremely easy midterm exams on Dec. 18th so you can go see RotK on Dec. 17th with your 8-year-old younger brother who's getting pretty obsessed with LotR (Yes, I corrupted him! I also corrupted the 2-year-old in the house, and the other day, he said something like "Ah-gon" and pointed to my Aragorn cut-out. I squealed!!!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif)

[Amarantha_Daisy]

Oh well. I'm gonna ask anyway. What's the "December 17th dance"?

Heh heh...I was in a state of ecstasy because someone asked me when RotK is coming out, so I started dancing. ...Randomly... I just hopped around waving my arms and grinning like an idiot. The December 17th dance is anything that expresses your anticipation for RotK smilies/biggrin.gif

You annoy the people at the theater when you go to see Matrix III, by quoting the character's lines along with the characters in the RotK trailer that shows before the movie.

Hee hee...I'm going to go see it this Sunday, so I can assure you I'll scare some people smilies/wink.gif

When you plan to camp out in front of Best Buy in order to get the RotK soundtrack the second it comes in.

Me too! I can't wait! *twitch twitch*

~ When you paint your fingernails to say 'Frodo Lives' and are sad because you don't have enough fingers for an exclamation mark.

You don't? *counts fingers* Uh oh...Looks like something grew overnight... Must just be me... smilies/wink.gif

Why does Crazy Captions get a new thread when it is only 14 pages long, yet this one is 18 pages long? I am confused about this.

Now there's a good question... I was just wondering that myself. smilies/confused.gif

Well, that's my bit. Now I have people to talk to about my greatest joy in life ( other than my dachshunds)!

*squee* I love dachshunds! I don't have one, though... smilies/frown.gif

-When the proudest moment of your day is when someone asks you who they look like from LotR so they can dress up for the movie

-When you make Smaug shadow puppets in your school's parking lot. (Guilty? Me? Nahhh...)

[Arwen1858]

When you have already decided the names of your future pets-and all of them are LOTR or The Hobbit based (I'm naming all of my future dogs after Thorin & Co.!)
~When you name all your future children after LotR characters.
~When you give your mom long history lessons about all the swords in LotR.
~When you go out to eat, go to the mall, and go to Wal-mart in your pretty grey Elven cloak and have fun watching everybody give you weird looks.
~When you tell your mom that said cloak is an Elven cloak, and it hides you from the sight of others.
~When you tell your mom that you're an Elf

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[Everdawn]

When once you found a racehorse called Elvstroem, you search high and low for any other horses with LOTR bassed names... I found a horse called Arwon! that brings my tally to 2!

[Sapphire_Flame]

When you've officially succeeded in corrupting your little cousin (who is seven) to LotR. smilies/biggrin.gif I'm so proud of him. Every time he comes to my house he asks "Can we watch Lord of the Rings?" I'm gonna start reading him the books soon. smilies/smile.gif

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

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HAPPY 1000TH POST TO ME!!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[ November 08, 2003: Message edited by: Sapphire_Flame ]

[Goldberry]

Wow, 19 pages! I haven't been here in quite a while. smilies/frown.gif

When does the new soundtrack come out?

I can't wait to go see the Matrix Revolutions, especially since the RotK trailer is on it! smilies/biggrin.gif

-When you are bowling for gym class and you wonder what elves would think of bowling. Hmmm...seems a bit more hobbit-ish to me. smilies/smile.gif

Congrats on your 1000th post, Sapphire! smilies/biggrin.gif

[ November 08, 2003: Message edited by: Goldberry ]

[Elennar Starfire]

Well, that's my bit. Now I have people to talk to about my greatest joy in life ( other than my dachshunds)!
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*squee* I love dachshunds! I don't have one, though...


Yes, dachshunds are great dogs! I luv 'em! <(^_^)>

~ When you watch the RotK trailer constantly at school whenever you have a chance to use the computer, and are extremely upset when the bell rings halfway through it. This happened twice. smilies/mad.gif (I was watching it in the school library at lunch, and the librarian came over to watch it! smilies/biggrin.gif)

~ When you see someone in the school library reading RotK, and you show your painted fingernails and say, 'FRODO LIVES!' quite loudly.

[Orominuialwen]

quote:Well, that's my bit. Now I have people to talk to about my greatest joy in life ( other than my dachshunds)!
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*squee* I love dachshunds! I don't have one, though...

Yes, dachshunds are great dogs! I luv 'em! <(^_^)> Yes, dachshunds are cool! They're one of my favorite breeds (other than pugs) ~ When you watch the RotK trailer constantly at school whenever you have a chance to use the computer, and are extremely upset when the bell rings halfway through it. This happened twice. (I was watching it in the school library at lunch, and the librarian came over to watch it! I'm rather annoyed about my schoool's very unenlighened policy on using the library computers for non-school related stuff at lunch- they say it's too distracting. smilies/mad.gif

Oh drat, I have to go before I can post what I wanted to smilies/frown.gif . Namarie!

[Arwen1858]

~When you see the word melon and think it says mellon.
~When you freak out because you see a doctors office for Dr. Balin.

[Finwe]

You see a car go by your school bus with "Bilbo" proudly emblazoned on it!

You are the proud sister of two younger brothers (an 8-year-old and a 2-year-old) who are positively LotR corrupted! The only way that the 2-year-old calms down is if I either sing to him (the Fall of Gil-galad, A Elbereth Gilthoniel, or the Hobbit drinking song) or we all watching The Two Towers.

*sigh* I'm so proud! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Laitoste]

When you think that the only decent thing about your town is that it's named Greenleaf. Of course, that's not an opinion, it's a fact!

[Orominuialwen]

HAPPY 1000TH POST TO ME!!! Congrats on your 1000th post Sapphire_Flame! When you think that the only decent thing about your town is that it's named Greenleaf. Lucky!! I envy you! Would that be greenleaf in Wisconsin? I looked on a map once and I found it. Of course, you don't have to tell me, because I could potentially be some evil person who's out to get you (which I am not) smilies/tongue.gif Btw, Laitoste, welcome to the 'Downs and enjoy your death!

Okay, now what I wanted to post earlier:

My little brother joined the 'Downs!!!!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif His name here is High King Fingolfin (hence the addition to my signature) Sorry, the guy who be short and ElenCala Isil, for using your idea, please let me know if you mind too terribly.

And back on topic...

~When you and your brother are sleeping in your basement (it's long story why), and your mom comes down to get something. The lights were off, and she turned them on and then turned the back off again really fast. You have your eyes closed, so it looked like the part of the trailer where Sauron's Eye flashes on screen, right after Legolas says "He is here". You proceed to say that it looks like this, Which leads your mom to say "Sauron is not in our basement." Your brother suggests that maybe it reminds him (Sauron) of Barad Dur, so you then list all the things which your basement has that Barad Dur does not, including your old Barbies. We then started imagining Sauron playing with Barbies! smilies/biggrin.gif

Au revoir, mes amis!

[Sapphire_Flame]

Congrats on your 1000th post Sapphire_Flame!
Congrats on your 1000th post, Sapphire!
Thankies, you guys! ^^
When does the new soundtrack come out?
That would be November 25, Goldberry. Anyone else gonna camp out in front of a store to get the first copy? smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Finwe]

I AM!!!!!!!!!! I plan to completely memorize the score way before RotK comes out and start humming it everywhere until I get smacked by someone!

[lothlorien]

Hi I havent been back here in ages school started again for me so I had to study for my school certificate and all but now I can finally post again.

Anyway you know your obsessed when you go shopping for formal dresses and you spend about 4 hours refusing to buy every dress your sisters hand you cause they havent got an elvish look.

And when you start jumping up and down while shrieking for joy because you found really cool ring and bracelet set that looks very elvish.

When you have a casual teacher and she spends the lesson giving you strange looks because you spend the whole lesson speaking elvish to your friend (WHO DOESN'T LIKE MIDDLE EARTH) I might add.

Oh my English teacher really likes lord of the rings and she has these really cool pictures like the ones in the books on the walls with some lines form the books and everything...Anyway we had a compertion one time and I won she was going to give the winner a prise so I asked her if I could have the pictures on the wall and she said no. smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif
From lothlorien

[Amarantha_Daisy]

We then started imagining Sauron playing with Barbies!

Heh heh heh... I'm gonna have dreams about that tonight, I can tell!

Happy 1000th post, Sapphire! I have a long way to go before that honor...

-When you spend most of Japanese class staring at a girl's earrings from afar because they look like the Evenstar and you can't tell if they are or not

-When you start squeeing madly because you hear someone say "Not all those who wander are lost" on a hotel commercial.

-When you then proceed to recite "All that is gold does not glitter" to your family.

-When you're more looking forward to seeing the RotK trailer before the Matrix than you're looking forward to seeing the Matrix itself.

-When you spend your time at a party teaching your friend the hobbit drinking song while everyone else is playing manhunt

[Finwe]

You wake up in a cold sweat at night because you think someone is in your room, but when you manage to grab your sword (yes, I've got a sword) and flip the light-switch, you realize that it's your life-size cardboard Aragorn cutout standing opposite corner of your room, looking quite menacing.

[Maethorien]

When one of the words on your orthography (That's spelling, vocabulary, and etymology all in one) is entomology, so you begin laughing your head off and muttering about studying Ents.

[Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1]

When you're more looking forward to seeing the RotK trailer before the Matrix than you're looking forward to seeing the Matrix itself.
Is that trailer in front of EVERY SINGLE screening of the Matrix? Cos here it's up to the projectionist...I saw Matrix and the trailer wasn't there, but the Toy trailer was!!!!!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

Oh I don't know...when you spend all day, no weekend, on LOTR sites instead of the two pieces of coursework you have due in pretty soon....

[Princess Of DolAmroth]

Ok this only about my third post, so i'm new here!
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1) When at your school, and they have a poster of the fellowship in your library, and eveytime you pass you have to stop and stare at it until your freind drags you off to class.... smilies/frown.gif

2) When at the movie theature watching PoTC you overhear some people talking about LoTR, and they get Frodo and Sam mixed up, and you immediatily (sp?) correct them, and give them a lecture about the diffrences between the two!

3) When on your Christmas list 99% of the things have something to do with LoTR (I wonder if my parents would get me a sword.... smilies/evil.gif )

4) Your freinds don't have to ask you what movie you want to watch when they come over they already know TTT!

and....

5) You have decided that elvish should be avalible as second language during high school. smilies/biggrin.gif

Namarie!

[The Barrow-Wight]

This topic is too large to stay open.

CLOSING.

[Vuelve]

The BW decided part 3 was too big so I started this one.Please don't kill me; although I'm not sure if thats quite possible since we are already dead on here anyhow,right?anyways:


You know your obsessed when: In english we had to write poems describing a friend.My friend wrote "knows alot about LOTR."when she wrote about me.Needless to say I went crazy, and thought of the Downs as soon as I read this.



Don't re-kill me,
Vuelve

[Orominuialwen]

Yay!:D I'm so glad to have a new version of this thread. I really missed the old one when it was closed.

You know you're obsessed when:
~You have made it your mission to convince everyone you know to read LotR.
~You teach yourself how to play the Gondor and Rohan themes on the violin.

[Eorl of Rohan]

All right, I'll have a go.

You know you are obsessed with LOTR when -

You go around neopets roleplay forums breaking up lotr roleplays made out of chatspeak and slang. *sigh* The work is endless...

You bring a heavy copy of LOTR (mine is in one volume) to school every day, and read it whenever time allows

You name your seven goldfishes after LOTR characters. - Faramir, Eorl, Feanor, Maedhros, Hurin, Elrohir, and the injured goldfish as Brandir.