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

[Elennar Starfire]

When you read "Barrow-Downs discussion forum" as "Barrow-Downs obsession forum".

[Encaitare]

When instead of "eighteenth" you type "wighteenth"... it could just be a slip of the finger but I think not... ;)

[turgon]

When you get anxiety attacks if you've ever misplaced one of the books.

[Kitanna]

When your prom dress is going to be fashioned after one of Arwen's.

[Gondor Girl]

you know you're obsessed w/LOTR when....
1)you're riding your bike you pretend it's a horse and say things like "let us ride" and you pretend you're Aragorn.
2)when you and your friends act out scenes from LOTR
3)when you and your friends plan out finding "Aragorn" and pretending LOTR is real and start acting it out!!!!
That's all I could come up with. :D

[Iaurhirwen]

My friends and I were discussing the other day which movie would be shown during the special free day for the students that did well on one of the standardized tests we had to take. We mentioned that whatever movie shown could not have any curse words in it. I mentioned that we should watch LOTR, of course. My one friend said "But wait, we don't know if there are any curse words in it (referring to the Elvish that is not translated). Wait, you do." This is not even one of my good friends, just a "homeroom friend" and they knew of the obsession. Ahh, life is good.

Unfortunately, we ended up watching the Disney movie Miracle, about the 1980s US hockey team who ended up winning gold at the Olympics. Not a bad movie, but I would have preferred LOTR.

[Farmira]

You know your obsessed with LOTR when...
- Your friends ask you what music you listen to and all you have in your cd case is the soundtracks...
- You find yourself trying to preform elvish tricks like walking over a creek on a rope... ( i advise not to try :eek: )
- You pretend like every sandwhich you eat is lambas
- You secretly hope elves live in your backyard
- you go to the ocean and you look for white shores and an endless horizon
- you argue with your english teacher that valinor and avalion are not the same place... :mad:
- You listen to rocks hoping to hear the marching of uruk-hai

... what else is there in life than lord of the rings?? :D

[Witch_Queen]

Farmira, I loved the last one. Never have thought of that.

Believe it or not there is a place not to far from my home that is called Rivendel. I have convinced a friend that we are going to go there and search for some elves. Unfortunately someone the other day broke the news to me that this "Rivendel" is a place for those who are depressed, obsessed, "crazy"... Hmmm wonder if they will take me? Oh well off to Rivendel. Hey I made a rhyme....

I'm not obsessed, its a past time hobbit.

[Nimrodel_9]

You know you`re obsessed with LotR when:

My most looked-forward-to-days this month are:

When my LotR blanket I ordered from a catalog is delivered :D
and
Halloween, when I get to wear my Frodo costume to my new school.

I`ve been in my new school for about 2 months, and am now known as the crazy/hyper-active/smart/Lord-of-the-Rings-Obsessed girl.
The last title is my favorite. I got it from my locker, my books, my t-shirts, speaking elvish and lines from the movies/books, speaking in my Gollum voice, ect. ;)

[Encaitare]

- You pretend like every sandwhich you eat is lambas (Farmira)

I tried to convince my music theory class last year that my Nutri-Grain bar was lembas... they told me to shut up. :p

[NightKnight]

Yeah, I usually do that. Bread = Lembas, that's just the way it is. :D

We (my class) had our annual halloween dressing-up day today. And I was... Frodo! Maybe not the best Frodo ever, but I got to borrow my friend's cloak, and with a Sting-shaped wooden sword and the One Ring on a chain around my neck I think I did fairly well. I even made a Phial of Galadriel! An old plastic Fanta bottle with a plastic bag and some paper pieces inside, and then a flashlight to light it up. It looked pretty good in the dark. :D And then we had a voting, you had two votes per person. So out of 46 votes, I got one. One vote! :mad: Actually, I never expected to win anyway, it was just a fun thing.

[Farmira]

((^^^ wow that phail of Galadriel that you made sounds awesome!! in my opinion, and im sure everyone's opinion in this forum, you should have so won that contest!!! we would have voted for you!! ))

[One of the Nine]

Frodo costumes are cool. You woulda had my vote NightKnight.

Anyway... Just recently, my two cousins and I acted out a bunch of LotR scenes, not very well, mind you, but well enough. That, and I have spelling tests every week in my English class, so what I do to pass the unbelievable amount of time, I draw and write LotR stuff, like the songs of Merry and Pippin, riddles, and other various things. Hey, it's better than just sitting there being annoyed at the waste of time. :D

[Nimrodel_9]

When I`m in English, my teacher will sometimes give us a word, and we have to put it in a sentence. All of my sentences end up being LotR related. ;)

[Elennar Starfire]

~You look to LotR for the solutions to all your problems.

What I do- I randomly choose which book I'm going to use, then close my eyes and open it at random, open my eyes, and read the first bit I see. I did this two days ago when something had happened to make me very depressed, and it opened to Sam saying "don't despair". See, it works!

[Nimrodel_9]

I`ve done that before, Elennar! By the way I love your sig! :D

When you write on your hand in Dwarven runes and, confuse everybody.
When you write trees on your hand, and confuse everybody. ;)

[Elennar Starfire]

Squeeishness! Another someone who knows of Labyrinth! :D

And now on-topic-
~When you catch obscure lines from other movies that sound like lines from LotR

[NightKnight]

~When you catch obscure lines from other movies that sound like lines from LotR
Elennar - I do that all the time! :D

[Umwë]

~You look to LotR for the solutions to all your problems. (Elennar Starfire)

I've tried that a couple of times. Sometimes it have helped me, somtimes not.:)

[Encaitare]

When you use LotR to aid in playing the game Taboo.

For those not familiar with the game, the idea is to get your teammates to say the word written on the card, by giving them hints without using certain words which are also on the card. Very tricksy sometimes.

So, I was playing this game the other day and the word I had to guess was "fool." My boyfriend gave me the clue "Blank of a Took" and needless to say I got it right away.

We still lost. :D

[Nimrodel_9]

~When you catch obscure lines from other movies that sound like lines from LotR Ellenar - I do that all the time!Tee hee hee! Me too! :D

[mark12_30]

When you come to work in a blazer, and realise it's the first time in about six months--well, no, really longer than that-- that you haven't dressed as either an elf or a hobbit; and then you find yourself thinking, "Frodo would have enjoyed a blazer like this if he had had the chance to buy one. Really, he'd look nice in it."

Then you look in the mirror, and belatedly realise that the elvish blue-and-white shell-necklace you are wearing clashes rather badly with Rae's Lorien leaf that is *still* hanging on the same chain as your cross, and you realise it has been there ever since you want to the LOTR exhibit... **a week ago**.

[Saraphim]

When you break up with a significant other for argueing with you over obvious points in The Silmarillion. They were under the impression that there was only ONE Minas Tirith! Well, then I guess Finrod's citadel was a shack on a rock.

[Encaitare]

They were under the impression that there was only ONE Minas Tirith!

Gasp!

Sounds like a Tolkien soap opera to me... all sorts of drama over speculations and Silmarillion facts. ie:

Girl: I saw you with her! I saw you! You were whispering to her, and holding hands -- by God, you were speaking in Quenya to her! You only ever speak to me in Sindarin! Am I not good enough for High-Elven???

Guy: She just reminded me of Idril Celebrindal so! I couldn't help it -- you know you're the only one for me!

Girl: I don't care! You're -- you're -- just as bad as Maedhros!

Guy: You mean Maeglin.

Girl: No! I meant what I said.

Guy: Well, I think you meant Maeglin. Note I've still got both hands?

Girl: You won't if you don't get out of here in five seconds! We're through! *slams door in his face*

Hmmm.... that was weird. :D

[Regin Hardhammer]

You are up at 2 am packing to leave on a trip the next day, and, instead of going to sleep when you finish, you stop to leave a note on your rpg and look at the posts in Mirth!

~Regin Hardhammer

[Firefoot]

For an English project on a famous dead person you choose JRRT. Actually, I'm really glad for the opportunity because I honestly don't know that much about him.

[Hama Of The Riddermark]

When the Alien versus Predator film reminds you of The Moria scenes in Fotr...

[Galadel Vinorel]

When a skyscraper downtown reminds you so much of Orthanc that you dream about climbing up it to see if Gandalf's on top of it every day for a month..... :rolleyes: (not saying that I have..or...uh...nevermind...) ;)

[elfearz1]

you get bored while walking to class and start narrorating you life in your head.
"it's muddy here I must be walking through the dead marshes"
"gotta dodge that orc." *dodges a person*
*walking under an over hang* "Here I go, through the mines of Moria."

yeah I'm a nerd. :p

For an English project on a famous dead person you choose JRRT. Actually, I'm really glad for the opportunity because I honestly don't know that much about him.
ooh I wrote a report on him once. good luck :)

[Galadel Vinorel]

You are reading The Illiad and you begin to picture Achilles as Aragorn, though of course he would never retreat from battle over a stupid feud, and then, before you know it, you aren't even reading anymore, but daydreaming about when the War of the Ring. And then your teacher asks you a question, which you don't even truly hear, but you think that she is Sauron interrogating you through the Palantir and you curl up in a ball on the floor saying random things in elvish. And then you are taken to the counselor for psychiatric evaluation...and..well...need I go on? (not that that has ever happened to me before, but well, I kind of have an overactive imagination, but don't we all? ;) )

[Naz]

Does thinking of Sil parody plots whilst reading it in English class count???

[elronds_daughter]

I kind of have an overactive imagination, but don't we all? Absolutely. :D That scenario sounded like it could have come directly from a "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip. Truly classic.

[Evisse the Blue]

You put up a sign saying "Speak friend and enter" on the door of your counselling office and then sit back and watch all the high school geeks come pour in... :D

[Hama Of The Riddermark]

Exactly what I was thinking, elronds_daughter.

[Encaitare]

You put up a sign saying "Speak friend and enter" on the door of your counselling office and then sit back and watch all the high school geeks come pour in... :D

I have such a sign on my bedroom door... does that make me a geek? Perish the thought! :p ;)

[Maeggaladiel]

*You are assigned to to a report on Newgrange, Ireland. You discover that Newgrange is a famous paleolithic structure featured in Celtic folklore, so you look up some info on the Celts. You read until you see a sentance containing the word "barrow." You get excited and forget all about Newgrange. Need I explain further?

You hear the song "Sister Disco" by the Who, and then you spend half an hour trying to re-work the song to become "Mister Disco," a spoofed modern rendition of an ode to a dead Gondorian...

"I would choose Nasgul and cold darkened caves,
Filled full of cave trolls and moldy dwarf graves,
I would stand by you and comfort your soul,
When you are broken and shot full of holes!

"Goodbye, Mister Disco,
Frodo has left you behind!
Goodbye, now you're so low,
You're like a big porcupine."

Yeah.

[Elennar Starfire]

You hear the song "Sister Disco" by the Who, and then you spend half an hour trying to re-work the song to become "Mister Disco," a spoofed modern rendition of an ode to a dead Gondorian...

OR

~When you spend hours on the internet looking for a site that will let you listen to more than a thirty-second clip of "Bring Me the Disco King", and sing the first line (all I got to hear! :( Amazon.com needs better clips! The clip started from the very beginning, and it was mostly the intro) all day the next day, and ask people where they think the tune's from, because it sounded familiar to you. I swear I've heard that tune before!

[Farmira]

When you play harvest moon and name all of your animals after characters in lotr. personally i think Galadriel is a wonderful name for a cow.... :(

[Nimrodel_9]

personally i think Galadriel is a wonderful name for a cowHaha Don`t know why, but I agree with you.

You form a Fellowship at school with your friends (even though you are all female). You are chosen to be Frodo because of your One Ring that you are constantly wearing. ;)
When you move away, the sone Into the West is "dedicated" to you by your friends, because you are Frodo.

You can`t watch RotK without breaking down at the end because of the memory of having to leave you friends, but watch it any way.

You skip up and down the halls singing drinking songs, collecting weird looks. :D

Nimrodel ;)

[elfearz1]

You join the Tolkien club at your school! :D

I have such a sign on my bedroom door... does that make me a geek? Perish the thought!
oooh mind if I "borrow" this idea? ;)

[Encaitare]

oooh mind if I "borrow" this idea? ;)

Please do!

[elronds_daughter]

You join the Tolkien club at your school!
You actually have such a club? Wow.....

[Firefoot]

For an English project on a famous dead person you choose JRRT. Actually, I'm really glad for the opportunity because I honestly don't know that much about him.
ooh I wrote a report on him once. good luck Thanks. It went well - other than the fact that I went way over time (it was a speech). :rolleyes: I didn't even say everything I could have! :D

You are caught quoting Gollum ("tricksy, tricksy")... and don't even realize you are doing it.

And, for an art calligraphy project, you quote the Hobbit. ("It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations.")

[Lhundulinwen]

When you, as a native Engish speaking American, can quote Gollum in various accents: French, German, Spanish... whatever. :D Now THAT is talent!

[Nimrodel_9]

When you`re in the store looking for a birthday present for you little brother, and your mom asks how much something costs. You bend over to look and and reply, "Twelve ninety-six." And then with a sly grin add, "Very good year! Almost as old as I am!" Yes, my parents think I`m insane. :D :p

[Encaitare]

When you`re in the store looking for a birthday present for you little brother, and your mom asks how much something costs. You bend over to look and and reply, "Twelve ninety-six." And then with a sly grin add, "Very good year! Almost as old as I am!" Yes, my parents think I`m insane. :D :p

Heh heh... must try that.

Incidentally, the "bottles of the Old Winyards" would not be almost as old as Bilbo, were they from 1296, seeing as Bilbo was born in 2890... they'd be around 1594 years older than Bilbo... :rolleyes:

When I realized that it irritated me an obscene amount... I became unreasonably irate and began complaining to everyone within earshot that Peter Jackson had failed me. Fortunately, those within earshot were both LotR fans and no strangers to my madness, so I was not met with too much derision.

[Hama Of The Riddermark]

Not wishing to be nitpicky, but perhaps Bilbo saying 'Almost as old as I am' is a form of self derision, as old people often say things like 'Two thousand years ago, when I was at school...' and stuff like that. At least that's what I assumed when I heard it, realised it was wrong, then thought about it for a bit...

Still that's just my opinion, I could be wrong...

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Encaitare, you're forgetting to subtract 1600 from the Third Age year to adapt it to Shire Reckoning. Bilbo was born 1290 S.R., which would be 2890 Third Age; the Old Winyards was actually only six years younger than he was.

[Hama Of The Riddermark]

...that's a damn good point...

Well noticed Est...

[Rimbaud]

Why measure the wine's age with the different scale though?

[The Saucepan Man]

Why measure the wine's age with the different scale though?Perhaps because it did not originate from the Shire? I am not sure that Hobbits were really into viticulture. With Bilbo's connections, I would suspect that it came from Dorwinion via Lake-Town. Thus it would not be labelled according to the Shire Reckoning.

[Encaitare]

Encaitare, you're forgetting to subtract 1600 from the Third Age year to adapt it to Shire Reckoning. Bilbo was born 1290 S.R., which would be 2890 Third Age; the Old Winyards was actually only six years younger than he was.

I hang my head in shame... I knew math was not my thing!

[Morsul the Dark]

When you come to the library to research ancient rome and find yourself roaming to the barrowdowns instead.

Thats why I am here just felt like letting you guys know as my signature says sorry prepare for another long absence

[Lalwendë]

I don't need anyone or anything to tell me quite how obsessed I am ;) , but last week somebody came from the one of the more distant eyries of my office specifically to ask me a question about Elrond. Bearing in mind that the place puts Gormenghast to shame, they must have heard some hair raising tales of my obsession to make the journey. :eek:

[Vuelve]

When you ask you principal what he is doing and he proceeds to reply "I don't know, what am I doing?"
You tell him he is 'wandering the paths of Mirkwood' and he says "Okay I'm Wandering the paths of Mirkwood." and walks off.

[elfearz1]

Please do!
thanks :D

You actually have such a club? Wow.....
yup :D we're reading through the Silmarillion together. It's brand new. I'm actually a bit sad this is my last year now. :(

[Nimrodel_9]

You prove you are truly obsessed with LotR when:
someone asks you what your Evenstar Pendant is, and then they add "Oh, must be something from that Ring movie." :D

While playing a game in science class, my teacher (who is a fan of the movies) asked about 10 LotR questions. I ran to the marker board and answered all of the questions correctly, allowing the girls team to win. The boys don`t let him ask LotR questions anymore. :D

I`d like to add that yesterday, I went to the orthodontist and chose dark blue and silver rubber bands because they reminded me of Gondor. ;)

[Encaitare]

While playing a game in science class, my teacher (who is a fan of the movies) asked about 10 LotR questions. I ran to the marker board and answered all of the questions correctly, allowing the girls team to win. The boys don`t let him ask LotR questions anymore.

Heh... last year my chem teacher would quiz me on LotR. He liked it but didn't know it very well, so I think I confused him by giving at least three different names for Ringwraiths, and when he asked me who the old king was I replied, "Theoden son of Thengel of the House of Eorl." I love those poor unsuspecting teachers. :p

[Elennar Starfire]

~When you and your friend sing the Green Dragon song in the middle of the hall at school

~When you also scream at each other like Nazgul every time you see each other all day

~When you quote entire scenes with said friend, randomly

We've had a leetle too much sugar, perhaps...

[Kitanna]

~When you and your friend sing the Green Dragon song in the middle of the hall at school
A couple of my friends and I do that at our lunch table! I thought we were the only nerds that did that. Unfortnately they won't let us stand on the table and dance as well.

[Allotheria]

You send your friends e-mails that say things like (and I quote):

Im just mentally wrestling with some possibilities out of the Osanwe-Kenta, which is like, right out on the farthest reaches of Tolkienism!


You know who you are!!!

:p

[ancalemagill]

these are all ones ive done

You know your obsessed when your ex says you have been watching the lord of the rings to much

you know your obsesed when most of what you talk to your best friend about ,has to do with tolkins work
you know your obssesed when yyour brother tryes to steal your movie and you grab it from him ,start petting it whall saying my presious
you know your obsesed when you start thinking about making YOUR OWN ELVISH CHAT ROOM :D

[elfearz1]

When you start practicing writing the inscription on the ring. It's very hard! :eek:

[AbercrombieOfRohan]

Try tattooing it (the inscription on the ring) on yourself! My friend tried to tattoo it around his ankle but gave up and went to a professional tattoo parlor. DONT TRY THIS AT HOME! (It does look very nice when it's all done properly though, if you don't mind being marked as a rings fan forever)

[Vuelve]

You know your obsessed when you finally get enough money saved up to buy LotR Trivial Pursuit then realize your the only one that would know the answers.

When you long for an intelligent conversation extending past the movies about the history of Middle Earth or certain characters. (Yeah I think I'm the only one around where I live that has read the books.)

[Nimrodel_9]

~When you and your friend sing the Green Dragon song in the middle of the hall at school
~When you quote entire scenes with said friend, randomlyCan`t say how many times that I`ve done that. ;)
you know your obssesed when yyour brother tryes to steal your movie and you grab it from him ,start petting it whall saying my presious And that.

LotR Trivial Pursuit is soo much fun! Not to brag or anything, but I`v never lost a game. :D

[elronds_daughter]

LotR Trivial Pursuit is soo much fun! Not to brag or anything, but I`v never lost a game.
Neither have I... Must be something about the obsession... Though I played with my clone once, and she gave me a run for my money... 'Twas a pity we didn't have time to finish the game.... Blasted cards either want specifics or generalities, though, and I get it wrong every time....


Anywhee, on topic...
You know you're obsessed when...

~You and a friend can re-enact every EE

~You use your Elvish name more than your real one

[Elennar Starfire]

~You are attempting to create an unbreakable code (seriously, wouldn't that be spiff?) and the first thing you encode is a quote from RotK.

~When said attempt at an unbreakable code involves a modification of tengwar.

[Encaitare]

~You use your Elvish name more than your real one

Ah, yes. Encaitare is always written in Tengwar at the top of my homework and in those little student nameplates at the front of the textbooks. Who knows -- maybe someday another Tolkien dork will get my textbook and get all excited about it.

[Maeggaladiel]

You get ticked off when you're talking to someone and have to explain what a Balrog is. (Guilty)

Christmas has lost its glimmer since ROTK came out last year. What do we have left to look forward to? (Guilty)

You realize that you've been mentally referring to yourself by your elven name. (Guilty.)

You go crazy when you find out that Council of Elrond (www.councilofelrond.com) has a name generator that will tell you what your real name translates to in Quenya, Sindar, and Rohirric by telling you what your English name means and then using the elven/Rohirric translation for the words. (guilty)

[Catherine]

Christmas has lost its glimmer since ROTK came out last year. What do we have left to look forward to? (Guilty)

I agree!!! There is an empty feeling I have, because there is no new LOTR movie!!! I have been sooo upset :confused:

[lady tarahiriel]

I know that I'm obsessed with LOTR because my friend and I used to passs notes at school written in runes and spend every moment talking as if the characters were sitting right there with us....not as bad as some but pretty. OH yeah, this winter when it snowed really bad at home I felt like an elf because I walked on top of the snow(due to the fact that there was only about 2 inches of snow and the rest was ice!). :rolleyes:

[Nuindacilien]

I used to write in the dwarvish runes all the time. :o I actually didn't do it right because I only used the first twenty-six to substitute for all the letters of the alphabet. :rolleyes: I've forgotten most of them, though. I used to write all the charatcters and the actors' names in the runes when I was bored. Which was pretty often. And I can quote a lot of the lines from the movies. It's all my dad's fault, really. He bought me The Hobbit a few years ago for Christmas, and I've been hooked ever since!

~Nuinda

p.s. Catherline, I love your Avatar! :D

[elfearz1]

when you get into a discussion with your teacher in the middle of class about Lotr trivia pursuit. :o

[Holbytlass]

....you want to form your children's young impressionable minds to everything LOTR. For instance, mine were scared of lightning/thunder. I told them not to be afraid, it was the stone-giants (from 'The Hobbit') hurling thier rocks down the mountains. My eldest was miffed when she learned about the real weather, so I told her that it was a myth. A tale to explain something scary.
....you keep having children so you can have a big hobbit family. I'm up to 4!!
....you are happy that your husbands method of hunting is with a bow, and he isn't into LOTR.

[THE Ka]

You make a flash music movie/video with Legolas, Galadriel, Elrond, Fidwit, and a whole elvish choir...singing the ORIGINAL SCORE of "I feel Pretty" from West Side Story...

Okay, my friend and I were really bored... Plus it was funny when the video's test drive was stuck on that creepy galadriel picture were she's "glowing". Besides that, Legolas was great for the acrobatic scene shots...

~Broadway Ka~

[THE Ka]

OR

~When you spend hours on the internet looking for a site that will let you listen to more than a thirty-second clip of "Bring Me the Disco King", and sing the first line (all I got to hear! :( Amazon.com needs better clips! The clip started from the very beginning, and it was mostly the intro) all day the next day, and ask people where they think the tune's from, because it sounded familiar to you. I swear I've heard that tune before!


I don't know if I said this before but, it's from the Underworld soundtrack, #5... Bowie of course! Sorry if i'm repeating me' self... It happens.

[Hama Of The Riddermark]

You go crazy when you find out that Council of Elrond (www.councilofelrond.com (http://www.councilofelrond.com/)) has a name generator that will tell you what your real name translates to in Quenya, Sindar, and Rohirric by telling you what your English name means and then using the elven/Rohirric translation for the words. (guilty)

Where! Where!! Where!!!?

Pleeeease tell me? ;)

[THE Ka]

oh, i've visited that site... Wonderful backgrounds. Really! I love sites that put effort into their creative construction.

[Elennar Starfire]

I don't know if I said this before but, it's from the Underworld soundtrack, #5... Bowie of course! Sorry if i'm repeating me' self... It happens.


Yes, ye've said that already. Possibly more than once, but I haven't really been keeping track. From what I managed to hear it's pretty spiffy.
My friend got the Labyrinth soundtrack for Christmas... :D

[Encaitare]

...when you sing Pippin's bath song, you guessed it, in the bath.

[Orcrist]

My friend once gave a list that had ten things LOTR addicts did. # 1 was "You legally change your name to Aragorn and hang around local taverns harrassing little people." Anyone guilty? Can't say that I am.

I don't know if this counts but every time my friend comes over we spend the whole time (usually 3+ hours) playing The Battle for Middle Earth. When he walked into the house, all I said was, "It's on" and walked upstairs. He sat straight down at the computer and we didn't stop playing for 3 hours. Talk about an addicting LOTR game! :)

[Kitanna]

I don't know if this counts but every time my friend comes over we spend the whole time (usually 3+ hours) playing The Battle for Middle Earth. When he walked into the house, all I said was, "It's on" and walked upstairs. He sat straight down at the computer and we didn't stop playing for 3 hours. Talk about an addicting LOTR game! :)

That game won't work on my computer so I ransacked my friend's house one day and played for five hours! I love that game!

[Nimrodel_9]

Christmas has lost its glimmer since ROTK came out last year. What do we have left to look forward to? (Guilty)
I am also guilty.

Heh, I still write in runes, even though I have no one to write to unless it is in a letter. I often use them to write my poems, stories, secrets, ect. in my journal. My brother knows them, but I don`t think he would ever take the time to read something I`ve written. And there`s always the stupid little things I write on my hands like, I poke badgers with spoons, or trees. When people ask what it says I love to tell them and see the looks on their faces! :D

I`ve gone on long enough. Shutting up. :o

~Nim

[Maeggaladiel]

Where?! Where!! Where!?!? Please tell me!
At www.councilofelrond.com, I think there's a link on the sidebar that says "language." I think the name generator's there. I could be wrong; I haven't been there in a while. Explore the site and you'll find it sooner or later. It wasn't hard to find, if memory serves me correctly. Sorry I can't be of more help.

You know you're addicted when there's a guy at your school whose name sounds like Cirdan and every time you hear it you go into a LOTR trance. (guilty)

You know you're addicted when you start referring to your chemistry teacher as Denethor because every experiment he does involves burning or blowing something up. (guilty)

This one should go in the You Know You're Addicted to the BD, but... what the heck. You know you're addicted when you start having dreams about Boromir breaking into your house so he can play your Dance Dance Revolution. (Guilty) He was dancing to the disco song "Ladies Night," in case you were wondering. He was pretty good at it, too.

Your idea of a good "oldie but goodie" game is The Two Towers for PS2. The one that came out only two years ago. (Guilty. Does anybody else think Gimli looks like a dried apple in that one?) You've spent hours staring at the monitor playing The Third Age, trying to get Elegost and Morwen to level up without dying. (Guilty)

[Linnahiril Tinnufinwen]

You know you're obssesed with LOTRs when:

- You give Elvish names to all your friends and family

- You are fluent in dwarf runes

- You observe something written in a different language, have no idea what it really says, but can figure out what it might say in Elvish

- You walk around barefoot all the time, just because a Hobbit does

- You constantly compare people to the races of Middle Earth (Well, she's an Elf, he's definitely a Dwarf...)

- You go around acting like an Elf, Dwarf, Hobbit...

- You get jealous of anyone with pointed ears or large hairy feet

- You know the history of the Silmarils better than you know the history of your own country.

- You're considering naming you children after LOTRs characters...

[Kitanna]

I poke badgers with spoons
AH EDDIE IZZARD!
But to what I was really gonna say. It was insanely cold today, but the sun was out. So when I went to work and as I was walking to the door I found myself (without even meaning to) saying "There is no warmth left in the sun." Not quite the same context as Eowyn meant it, but sooo cold...

[Encaitare]

... when you get a piece called Annie Laurie in wind ensemble, and immediately draw a dieresis over the 'e' so it can be Quenya for "golden." (So guilty!) I'm trying to think of what I can do with the Annie part now... maybe I'll scribble out the 'ie' and write in 'ar' so it can say "gifts." Yeah, I think I'll do that...

[Iaurhirwen]

I was watching Jeopardy today and the one category was about character's parting words. One of the clues was "Oh precious, my precious" etc. I started jumping up and down and laughing hysterically . . . causing my parents in the other room to think that I'm crazy (not an unfounded guess, really)

Ok, and just now I was watching the show LOST on ABC, and Dom's character got punched, repeatedly. This time I yelled out "Where's SAM!?!?!" (Save A Merry Foundation - for preventing Hobbit abuse) This time I was alone so no crazy looks.

[Assasin]

Sometimes, I treat my sister like an orc. But, that's not obsession. Once, I was playing basketball, and started using the ball like it was a Palantir. I even got the wicked finger movements down. Although, I didn't hear any spooky voices, or see anything.

[Nimrodel_9]

Originally posted by Me
I poke badgers with spoonsActually, I saw it on Dom's shirt once. :D

- You walk around barefoot all the time, just because a Hobbit does
- You get jealous of anyone with pointed ears or large hairy feet
- You're considering naming you children after LOTRs characters...Guilty of all three. :D

Ok, and just now I was watching the show LOST on ABC, and Dom's character got punched, repeatedly. This time I yelled out "Where's SAM!?!?!" (Save A Merry Foundation - for preventing Hobbit abuse) This time I was alone so no crazy looks.Squee! I thought something close to that when I saw poor Charlie being punched. :)

Obsessed? Of course not....

[Lathriel]

The Thread goes ever on and on
Down from the idea where it began...

Looks like there is no end to the obsession. In fact by the size of this thread it only seems to be growing!!!

For me the LOTR obsession has also increased, I now even have LOTR dreams and for me that's a sure sign of increased obsession

[Assasin]

Ever since I joined this forum, I've been more obsessed. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

[Atarah]

I know I'm obessed with LotR when I make my chibi anime drawings into LotR characters... :rolleyes:

I've FINALLY got my posters from the london LotR exhibition last winter up on my wall. Now a can study the huge map and try renaming places with Middle Earthian names. I can also obsess over my Aragorn poster... :D

[Kath]

Being obsessed can be really helpful though. For example I was in THE most boring psychology lesson the other day so my friend and I tried to psychoanalyse all the members of the Fellowship.

Aragorn - a depressed guy who is not entirely certain of his heritage so turns his father into a godlike figure and tries to emulate him

Legolas - unsure of his sexuality and so cant decide whether to wear a dress or trousers

Merry and Pippin - twins separated at birth which explains the connection

Frodo - has an inherent weakness towards becoming a junkie

Thats as far as we got, maybe some more tomorrow if the lesson is boring again.

[Hama Of The Riddermark]

You know you're obsessed when:

When you're watching the film, you don't need to pause it to go to the toilet as you can mentally play back the bit you're missing in your head, and when you get back the film has reached the EXACT point you got to in your mind. (Guilty-I'm one of the most retentive people you'll ever meet).

You start doodling in a Spanish Literature lesson and after ten minutes of mindless drawing you end up with a god-damn perfect rendering of Anduril in the margin of your vocab test (Guilty).

You asked to study LotR for your AS Level english coursework, got turned down, and exclaimed "Fool of a teacher!" (Guilty).

Your idea of a good sunday is to sit and watch all three LotR films on the trot (Guilty).

You own more than one copy of each of the books, as you didn't have them at college and you didn't want to wait until the weekend to get them and start reading them again (Guilty).

You know more about LotR history than you do about WWII (Not Guilty, but I know one person who is).

[Encaitare]

... when you're nearly driven mad out of being denied the chance to write about LotR.

On my English Regents exam, which I just took recently, there are four essays. Some here will not be familiar with what I am about to talk about so I shall explain. On one essay there is this thing called the "critical lens." This is a quote by some famous person, and you are supposed to agree or disagree with the quote and then support it using two books/short stories/plays you read at some point, and literary elements from them (setting, POV, theme, etc.). It's totally bogus. So the "critical lens" (ugh, I feel the need to make little quotation marks with my fingers whenever I say that :rolleyes: ) was about how every great story is about a journey of some sort.

Now, I had asked my English teacher previously if the books had to be those we had read in school, and she told me yes. I was absolutely going out of my mind, torn between whether to disregard what she said and write a brilliant, ten page essay about LotR (because it's oh-so applicable), or be a good little student and write about something by Nathaniel Hawthorne that isn't nearly as interesting. In the end I begrudgingly wrote about things we read in school, but still... it's not as though LotR is some sort of obscure work or anything.

Curse you, New York State Regents board!

[Kitanna]

Nathaniel Hawthorne?! Noooo! I'm sorry, I'm done. For my creatice writing class I'm so close to giving in and writing a LOTR fanfiction. All the stuff I've turned in so far has had LOTR mentioned at least once. I'm sure my teacher's already figured out I'm pretty obsessed with LOTR.

Encaitare~ Is that a Priscella: Queen of the Desert avatar you have there? I can't tell. If it is, excellent choice.

[elronds_daughter]

Curse you, New York State Regents board! A resounding "Hear, hear!" to that. On topic....

You know you're obsessed when you learn that you have to do a report about an author for school, and immediately decide on Tolkien, without considering any other options. (Are there any other options, really?) And when you find out that you also have to write a critical review of one of said author's works, you leap for joy at the excuse to read more Tolkien! (To this I must plead: Guilty as charged.)

[Luinilwen]

Guess which british author my research paper is on?!
Also, we had to write a sonnet in class and I worked a LotR quote into it. I haven't learned tengwar yet, but my notebooks are filled with runes and my own alphabet.
Another sign of obsession:
When relatives ask you what you want for Birthday/ Christmas/ grauation, you just hand them a list of LotR stuff you already own. ;)

[Nimrodel_9]

You can't have a dream without Frodo or Aragorn or whoever popping out, no matter what is going on. I love dreams. :D

In English class you have to make a slide show about you. You immediately go to ninecompanions or another LotR site with lots of pics to insert on nearly every page. :D

[Lalwendë]

Yesterday afternoon I went to my car in a blizzard and had to fumble for my key in my coat pocket. I have a rather heavy silver One Ring on my thumb and it fell to the ground with a loud 'clunk' as I pulled the key from my pocket. So there I was, scrabbling about in the snow and swearing, and grumbling that I'd have to move the car in order to find my lost ring, when I thought I'd go around to the passenger side. There was my ring lying in the snow and I burst out laughing, wondering where film Boromir was. Oh dear... :eek:

[narfforc]

When my bookcase collapsed under the strain of over 200 Tolkien and Tolkien related books, and I had to pay a carpenter to construct a specially re-enforced one for me. When he told me of a shop he knew that bought second hand books, I left the room quickly, before I grabbed Anduril and beheaded the heretic.

[Nimrodel_9]

I was in a mall a couple days ago when I stumbled upon a book store that I had been in only once, for I had only been to this mall twice before. I remembered there was a Tolkien section and the last time I had been there I was going to buy some books but didn't have any money. I discovered The Book of Lost Tales 1 and 2, The Lost Road and Other Writings, UT, The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and the LotR trilogy. I had not yet acquired the first four. Without thinking twice I pulled them off the shelves (there was only one of each) and went to the purchasing counter. The lady was smiling but she had the look in her eye that said, "You poor child, what did your parents do to you to make you so strange?" I triumphantly walked out of the store after raiding half the Tolkien section. :D

[Encaitare]

Well done, Nimmy! Happy reading... ;)

[Iaurhirwen]

I had this dream the other night, and just had to share it.

It begins with something happening, I'm not sure exactly what, I think it involved something breaking . . . anywhoo, something happened that cause Jay Leno, the host of the "Tonight Show" in the US if anyone doesn't know, to promise me anything I want.

I just happened to say that the thing I wanted most in the world was an autographed picture of Andy Serkis.

Suddenly I was transported back into my room, in the dream manner where everything seems normal. I started to clean my room (something equally strage and unnatural in itself) when a limo pulled up outside my house and Andy Serkis walked out.

I quickly ran down my steps and openned the door for him and his assisstant . . . don't know why there was an assistant but there was. Anywhoo, I tried to stay calm but after two seconds I started squealing like a Leggy-lover fan girl and ran and enveloped him in a suffocating hug.

I then preceeded to drag him up to my room to sign my big poster of Gollum (something that I do not have in real life, much to my dissappointment). He then signed it in a bright pink ink.

He then preceeded to take from his assisstant (who was extremely hansome for some reason also) a sheet of parchment portraying the ancient runes of England and France for his family name and the like . . . something I don't think really exist. I, being the history minded person that I am, was very intrigued and we settled down for a lesson in Ancient Runes.

We then went down to where my dad was, who became very interested in the Ancient Runes himself, which is really wierd because he has no interest in that type of thing (I am really the black sheep of the family :rolleyes: ). Then, they start talking about Boy Scouts . . .

I then wake up thinking, that it couldn't have been a dream, everything was so real. I then check my poser of Gollum, left in the same place where it last was in the dream, and am disappointed to see no large pink signature.

If you will remember, I said that I don't own a poster of Gollum, which is true. This was just another part of my wierd of LOTR centered dream. I then woke up (for real this time) and was very disappointed in the fact that it all had been a dream. Why does my subconcious like to torment me so?

[Nimrodel_9]

Don't you hate double dreams? :p

I had a dream the other night that Merry and Pippin were at my house and my mom told me I could keep them. I was quite put out when I woke up. :p :D

[Maeggaladiel]

You can't watch the new Star Wars movies without wondering why Saruman got a shave.

[Kitanna]

You can't watch the new Star Wars movies without wondering why Saruman got a shave.
Yet his fingernails remained unclipped...

[Imrahil]

You buy a Gondor flag (http://search.ebay.com/gondor-flag_W0QQfrppZ50QQfsopZ1QQmaxrecordsreturnedZ300)
You buy Anduril (http://search.ebay.com/Anduril_W0QQsofocusZbsQQsbrftogZ1QQfrppZ50QQmaxrec ordsreturnedZ300QQfromZR10QQcatrefZC6QQsacatZ-1QQcatrefZC6QQsargnZ-1QQsaslcZ2QQsadisZ200QQfposZQ5AIPQ2FPostalQQftrtZ1 QQftrvZ1QQfsopZ1QQfsooZ1)
You buy Gondorian armor (http://www.alleycatscratch.com/lotr/Human/Gondor/Armor.htm)
You buy a horse (http://www.horseweb.com/)
And then you ride around town shouting battle cries like "For Gondor!" and "To the King!" and "Stand Men of the West!"

[Parmawen]

How about when you parants call you by your elvish name? smilies/biggrin.gif

For Christmas my mom wrote "For Parmawen" on all my presents.

Oh yeah, and you know you're obsessed when:

the sight of your school's ratty, falling-apart, suspciously stained copy of LOTR brings you to tears. (Guilty...I was ranting to teh librarian for a week)

your mother asks you to kindly refrain from mentioning anything in Elvish or to do with Frodo at the dinner table because it's confusing your grandparents

[Kath]

You know you're obsessed when:

You suddenly realise that you cannot actually have a conversation without mentioning something LotR related at least three times

When you meet someone new your first question is - "So, are you a LotR fan?" and if they say no you find yourself wondering how best to initiate them into the world of Tolkien, and all this before even asking their name!

You become insanely jealous of the person who has brought in a ligthsaber because in your head you are imagining it is Anduril.

[Encaitare]

When you meet someone new your first question is - "So, are you a LotR fan?" and if they say no you find yourself wondering how best to initiate them into the world of Tolkien, and all this before even asking their name!

It's a great way to pick up guys! :p

Seriously, though; I met my (now ex-)boyfriend at a party because a mutual friend said, "Go talk to him. He likes the Lord of the Rings." So that was what we talked about for quite a while, and we went out for over a year. LotR is a successful matchmaking device! Hmmm... maybe that should be a new thread: LotR-sparked relationships, especially in light of Lal and davem!

[Bywaters]

My friend's Dad is a member of the Masons (or something like that) who had organised a charity amature boxing stag night at a local hotel. So me a nine other guys went along. All was going well, untill about 2am (at this point having drunk maybe one too many glasses of wine and beer) I got talking to one of the boxers. Me being me, I had to ask him if he liked LotR. He didn't and continued to slag it off, at which point I told him "something off" which he didn't take too kindly to! My memory is very hazy but I think I managed to talk him around from ripping my head off as I was none the worse come the morning. Or maybe it was the fact I had nine other blokes with me, either way, they had a laugh seeing me squirm!!

[Iaurhirwen]

Tomorrow is the day that I have been obsessiver over for an entire year. My drama group is going to a drama competition tomorrow in this great artsy town called New Hope in Pennsylvania, and they have a shop their that sells swords and other material of that type. They have almost all of the LOTR swords for sale there and tomorrow, since I am now 18 and am allowed, by law, to purchase a "weapon" I get to buy a sword. I was so upset that I couldn't get one last year because of my age that I've been obsessing on getting a sword.

The only problem is what to get? I'm not sure if my drama directors will appreciate a sword on the bus so I might have to conceal it, which means it would have to be smaller. But I so what a full size replica of Anduril. Argh!!!! I'll just have to be very crafty. And watch my money too, I hate being on a fixed budget, especially with college approaching next year.


Another thing, I was watching Shrek 2 the other day for the first time and I saw the scene with the ring. I started laughing hysterically and becomming all giddy because of the Blantant LOTR reference. I then closely watched the rest of the movie to catch even the smallest reference, even if they were "unintentional"

I can't wait to get my sword :D :D :D I've been researching different swords and how they could possibly look and drawing swords in the margins of my papers in class . . . . . . . . I'm so hyper over this!!!!!!!!

[fillynicole]

1. When you are at visiting your grandmother at her lake, and your sister decided to row out on a boat, and once she goes out a bit, you leap into the lake, wave your arms frantically, and scream "FRODO!"

2. When she yells back "SAM!"

3. You constantaly scare the heck outta her by sneaking up behind her and saying "precious" in your best gollum voice.

4. Whe your gollum voice is so good, it scares people.

5. When you make up songs to tunes from movie, and sing them over and over and over and over.

6. When you haven't read any other books beside Tolkien for months.

7. Your sibling is the only one in the family with the one ring(hence, ONE ring)
and she is constantly on her guard from little people who 'sneak' around.

Not very good, I know, but I am guilty of all.

And I also write on my arms in runes, the parents keep telling me about different diseases I'll get from it :rolleyes:

[Boromir88]

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

http://flurf.net/annylog/archives/images/Galadrial,%20Boromir%20and%20Samantha.JPG

[Mithalwen]

Especially if you are all three similtaneously ;) ..... Boromir, Galadriel and Samantha? OK I thought I knew LOTR well but I must admit I never noticed a Samantha? I'm sorry I haven't a clue on that one....

[Boromir88]

It sort of looks like one of the ladies titled on the credits as "Galadriel's Ladies..."

http://www.warofthering.net/quintessential/decipher_cards/028_voiceofnimrodel_tn.jpg

[Lalwendë]

Here's evidence of someone so obsessed that they named their pub in honour of Tolkien. :)

It amused me to see such signs as "Middle Earth Angling Club" and "Middle Earth Menu" hanging in the doorway - no mushroom dishes were on offer though. :(

[Mithalwen]

I like that.. mainly becasue I think it is the only one inthe country I am not having to do licence applications for...

[Nimrodel_9]

And I also write on my arms in runes, the parents keep telling me about different diseases I'll get from it Yeah, my mom says I'm going to get ink poisoning. :rolleyes:

Right now we are renting a house while we build our other one. The people we are renting from want to sell it and we might have to live with my grandparents for a few months. Today I was sitting on the couch when someone knocked on the door. I peeked through the window and saw the person who wants to buy it. So, what did I do? I quietly whispered, "It's the Sackville Bagginses! They're after the house! They've never forgiven me for living here this long!" :D

[Telchar of Nogrod]

Here's some more ways to tell if you're obsessed with LOTR:

1. You show up to work before everyone else, grab a broom handle and run through the halls yelling, "Elendil! Elendil!"

2. You see a horse at a farm and yell, "His name is Brego! He was my cousin's horse!"

3. You think Haldir is hot! (And for a guy, that's a bad thing!)

4. Your brother has bought every sword from LOTR. (His favorite is Glamdring)

5. Your dog's name is Nazgul.

6. People ask where you're going on vacation this year and you tell them, "The Forests of Ithilian."

7. Your girlfriend said you watch LOTR all of the time and don't spend enough time with her. "It's either me or those movies," she said. I don't miss her that much.

8. You have dreams of buying a complete Aragorn outfit and running off to the wild to live as a Ranger.

9. You wish Peter Jackson would hurry up and make The Hobbit!!!!!!

[Orominuialwen]

You enter a contest to imitate a rather famous American polititian (on the radio, no less!), and just happen to win the contest because of the LotR references you put into the imitation. Seriously, the host of the show said she picked me as the winner solely because of the "nerd reference" I put in. (She said she meant "nerd" with love, though. ;)) I did get a nice prize -- tickets to a Milwaukee Brewers' Game (with very good seats, too!)

I'm purposely not saying who the polititian I imitated is or what party they're associated with in order to avoid a possible large and very OT political argument on this thread. If you want to know who I imitated and the manner in which the LotR reference was inserted, you're welcome to PM me. :D

[Durelin]

*daunted by the number of pages and posts, she prays that this has not been uttered*

You are reminded of and voice the exact same LotR line at the exact same time as your boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife.

[Encaitare]

You pass a Hollywood Video store, and some of the neon letters of "Video" are out, leaving "eo". You read the sign in your head as "Hollywood Horse".

Guilty.

[Nimrodel_9]

My brother, who works at Subway, came home last night and shared his sandwich with me. I was sure to point out later that he had crumbs on his jacketses, even though it was really a shirt.

We listen to a radio station at work that... um... advertises itself, I guess, and often uses movie lines. I always squeal with joy when I hear Gollum say: MY PRECIOUS! or You don't have any friends! Nobody likes you! Or when we are cutting potatoes to make fries I always exclaim: Taters! Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew! I think my fellow employees hate me. :D

[Iaurhirwen]

I was seeing a really corny show with my drama club called Starmites. At one point during the show, a figure in a hooded cloak with an eery voice appeared on stage. I said to the person next to me, "Its a Nazgul." I was actually quite scared, because in my mind it was a Nazgul. I had a bit of trouble calming down after that.

Also in that show was a gangly creature. When it first appeared on stage, my friend and I immediatly said to each other: "It's Gollum!" I love New Hope with the drama club.

[Dimturiel]

I think that I can give you a perfect example of the things a person obsessed with LOTR might do. I had my birthday last week and I had a small party. And when my mother brought the cake I prevented my friends from singing "Happy birthday" and put Aragorn's corronation song instead. My friends had an exasperated look on their faces and I am sure they thought: "Oh, here she goes again, the freak." Well, I do love showing people proofs of my obsession. I am proud of it! ;)

[Kath]

Well since Nilp went to the trouble of finding this for me I guess I'd better post on it!

You know you are obsessed with LotR when you go to a foreign country and you visit a set of caves and instead of seeing the various images of the Virgin Mary or some kind of animal you see cities and people from LotR. There was this one rock formation that really gave me the creeps because it looked like a hunched over little man, and I immediately thought of the guy that warned people away from the Paths of the Dead (sorry no books so the names have escaped me).

[Hookbill the Goomba]

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

You start titling all your school essays or reports in a Silmarillion faction. Like so;

"Of Shakespeare and Richard II"

[The Perky Ent]

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

...You start chanting 'Grond!' in your sleep

[Lalwendë]

...you're disruptive on trains. I got one of those 'Balrog Battle Gandalf' action figures the other day and it has a sound function, a very LOUD sound function. So I'm sitting in the quiet coach at Doncaster station and what do I do but set the thing off?

"You shall not pass!" , complete with echo, bellows down the carriage and a few minutes later the guard comes along reminding everyone to be quiet. :D :cool:

[Lily Bombadil]

*When asked what you're going to do when you grow up, you say confidently, "Destroy the wicked Ring of Power and save Middle-Earth!"

*You tell your mother you're going to marry Gil-Galad after college

*You yell "Fool of a Took" at your stupid friend when his last name is really Johnson

[Gil-Galad]

*You tell your mother you're going to marry Gil-Galad after college


oh joy another one... :smokin: but i'll look forward too that

[The Perky Ent]

Alas. No one wants to marry an ent. If only I hadn't forgotten where I hid the entwives after our last org-....organized meeting. Oh well. I guess mixed breeding was inevitable. Come here, Arwen!

[Gil-Galad]

don't feel bad, Gothmog is having a love affair wit han entwife in another thread, maybe you should pop bye and be jealous?

[Encaitare]

...when you're so used to pronouncing the "au" dipthong as ow, like in Sauron, that you suddenly have problems pronouncing Chaucer correctly, with the "au" as aw. I've been trying so hard to get it right, and it keeps inadvertently coming out as Chowcer... :rolleyes:

[Gandalf_the _white]

You know you're obsessed when u dress up as Gandalf and stand in the way of the door shouting "You cannot pass!!" to your brothers when they walk by!
Sad but true.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

You know you're obsessed when u dress up as Gandalf and stand in the way of the door shouting "You cannot pass!!" to your brothers when they walk by!
Sad but true.

Well I do have this (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/hukbillgoomba/Youcannotpass.jpg) on my door.

[Gandalf_the _white]

Cool I want one!!! :D

[Lalwendë]

Well I do have this on my door.

When I am Prime Minister (and that will be a very long wait so don't hold your breath) all lorry drivers will be forced to have that sign on the back of their wagons. This scheme will later be extended to tractor drivers on narrow country lanes. :rolleyes:

[Orominuialwen]

You are very amused by the fact that 'we will know' in French is 'nous saurons' and have a hard time pronouncing it correctly, because it's supposed to be said exactly how Sauron isn't -- 'Sore-onh.'

[SunniGadi]

When you read it alound with a british accent, and your mom walks in.

Not quite as embarrassing as being caught with a Harry Potter scar on your forehead, I guess.

Or when you're elated everytime you hear some sort of referesnce, no matter if someone just said ring. And you immediately say what is on the ring...in elvish.

[mormegil]

When you've taught your 2 year old daughter to quote Gollum from the movie when he says "My Precious...AHHHHHH" It's actually quite cute but a little disturbing but my wife laughs about so it's acceptable :D

[SunniGadi]

That is sooo awesome. You should have named him/her Gandalf.

[Iaurhirwen]

Ok, In my Intro to Performance Class, we had to do an imagination exercise. With our eyes closed, we had to imagine the prompts that our professor gave us. The very first prompt was that we were in a woods. Immediately, I transported myself to Lothlorien. We had to cross a river, and what river was it? The Silverlode. Then I traveled through the woods, and heard something behind me. When I turned around, there was no one to be seen. It was the Galadrim, tracking me because I had entered their forets. Then we were in a meadow and we had to decide what kind of flowers were in the meadow . . . Elanors, of course. Then there was a dwelling, Caras Galadon. And here is where it really gets obsessive:

I enter the dwelling, and there is no one there. I start crying in the middle of class because of the immense sadness that I feel for the loss of the Lady in the world. She had sailed away into the West. And there in the corner of the room was a glass case containing the three rings of power, which just deepened my sadness, despair, and feeling of intense longing.

And then there was the prompt that we had to leave, and I was resisting as hard as I could, but an unknown force was pulling me away. After I left, I was walking down the path in my imagination, crying my eyes out, when there in the middle of the path was Galadriel's ring. It was a gift from her to me to symbolize the fact that there was still some trace of the magic and spirit of the elves left in the world, in order to comfort me in my sorrow. I then left the forest, and just sat on a hillside, looking back in meditation, holding the ring.

And then the exercise was over. My face was wet with tears, and I was left in a melancholy mood for the rest of the day . . . or at least until 9:00 at night when LOST was on and I could see Dom.

Wow!!! That was a long post. I'm tired and sad now. I think I'll go to bed.

[Celebuial]

You have lots of very hard and important work to do and text books to read but spend all day and night posting on The 'Downs anyway.

You meet your new housemates and after 2 mins of them helping you unpack (the first box has only just been opened) they ask "So... you like Tolkien then?".

You take your Legolas cardboard cut-out to Uni with you.

You write elvish on your face instead of tears or scars like everyone else when going out with GRIMsoc..

You move your Mallorn leaf brooch everytime you change coats or jackets so it stays with you.

You're 18 an you still have a quilt cover with elvish writing and LotR written all over it (well ok thats only because you couldn't take you doubble bed to uni with you).

You make and buy as many elvish looking clothes and robes as possible.

The background on your mobile phone and the ringtone is LotR related as are the screensaver and background on you pc.

People refer to you as 'the short girl with the LotR obsession'

When you have a copy of the theatrical cuts and the EE's (which you brought on the day each came out as soon as the shops opened) and even of that awful cartoon...

When you've read the books so much people open them and read a paragraph, just to ask you which chapter it's from for a laugh because they know you know.

When everything is somehow related to Tolkien.

When you own mugs and glasses, soundtracks, jewellery and LotR Trivial Pursuit and LotR Risk and LotR Monopoly and LotR playing cards and LotR jigsaw puzzles and LotR roleplaying adventure games...

Even the members of the Sci-Fi and Fantasy society think you're a little too obsessed...

When you stare into space and the person you're with asks you "were you were just now?" you reply " The Kingdom of Arda"

You manage to fit 20 books into the boxes of stuff that you take to uni with you and all of them are Tolkien related.

You take a look down you favorites and you don't just have a folder saying "Tolkien stuff" but lots of different folders i.e. "Learning Quenya", "Tolkien Encylopedia's", "Shops", "Clothes", etc...

Whenever someone asks you "Left or right" you simply reply with "Mordor's Left".

But mostly when you're out in a pub or club with nothing visible to others that screams "I love LotR" and yet still people know after five mins of talking to you.

[Morsul the Dark]

You have lots of very hard and important work to do and text books to read but spend all day and night posting on The 'Downs anyway.

.
Ill second that

[Orominuialwen]

When you spend all day watching the Extended Editions back to back with your LotR-obsessed brother and friend to celebrate the 50th anniversary of RotK. It was great fuin, even though we didn't quite get to finish. (We had to stop on The Black Gate Opens because my friend had to go home.)

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

When you spend all day watching the Extended Editions back to back with your LotR-obsessed brother and friend to celebrate the 50th anniversary of RotK. It was great fuin, even though we didn't quite get to finish. (We had to stop on The Black Gate Opens because my friend had to go home.)

I did the eksact same thing with my friends! It was nice, but I am suspecting my friends mains reasos for watching them to be; make me stop talking about watching them back to back. (I think I startet talking about it after watching FOTR)

I usually gets frustratet, when only watching one!

[Celebuial]

You call your best friend's mum Mabel in honour of Tolkien's mother

[Hookbill the Goomba]

You Know your obsessed with The Lord of the Rings when you hear people order a drink that sounds suspiciously like "Miruvor" and so exclaim at the top of your voice, "WOW! Elf drinks!"

Yes, it happened to me. I am ashamed to say. :o

[Kitanna]

When you spend all day watching the Extended Editions back to back with your LotR-obsessed brother and friend to celebrate the 50th anniversary of RotK. It was great fuin, even though we didn't quite get to finish. (We had to stop on The Black Gate Opens because my friend had to go home.)
Argh all the time spent watching all three in a row. But I tend to do it at night from seven to seven. And all my friends fall asleep during the Two Towers and I am left up all alone trying to finish.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

At the last Summer Holidays I found a day all to myself where I got a projector screen and computer projector and watched all 3 EEs! Ah! Bliss! With short intervals it took nearly 12 hours. :D

[Lalaith]

Last night, my quiz team was faced with the following question:
Which is the odd one out, Arwen, Legolas, Saruman, Elrond.

One team member was baffled, thinking they were a list of anagrams. :rolleyes:
Another argued that it was Elrond as there was no such character. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
I on the other hand agonised: was it Saruman, the only non-elf, or Legolas, the only one who was actually a member of the Fellowship? My fellow team members backed away nervously, the Tolkien fanaticism was a side of me they had previously been unaware of.
PS I made the right choice, which was Saruman. And we won the quiz - an annual event in which we had been runners up for the last three years.
Which goes some way to make up for the hideous humiliation I am currently suffering in WWXIII.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

When you start to print out LOTR songs and bring them with you to work. . .
It is at the same time you realise that you realy need to get a girlfriend.

[Valesse]

When, even though you don't know the chords on a guitar, you can still play PJ's LotRs theme on one.

When you become emotionally distraught because no one at your school or place of recreation knows who Boromir and your handpainted "Boromir for President" shirt goes fully ignored.

When you get homocidal tendencies after someone asked you who "Barrow-mir" is and why is he running for President.

When a tinge of pride always seems to occur to you remembering that between your local bookstore and library there are over a dozen indexes about Lord of the Rings... yet, deep inside, you're extremely jealous.

When you spend hours trying to figure out how the librarians are squandering your time with the Tolkien indexes... because its obvious they are, you just don't know now yet. *paranoid look*

When you wonder how many similarities there are between Mordorian and Moon rocks.

When you seriously consider retyping the indexes onto your computer so you might be able to have instant access when, Eru forbid, you forget one of Turin's many names.

When you become mentally unstable because someone did not pronounce their Quenyan "C" properly.

When you can't help but giggle when you make chili.

When you stop reading the Two Towers for a week because you've noticed that there was a typo made around page 225 in the 41st printing. You consider writing to Tolkien to correct this, but the relieze that he is long dead which reduces you to weeping like a little girl.

[Farael]

When, in your chemistry exam you read the compound Br2 (Boromine) as "Boromir". Constantly. And it's an important exam and you shouldn't be distracted. Yet you can't help it!!!!

[Lolidir]

When, in your chemistry exam you read the compound Br2 (Boromine) as "Boromir". Constantly. And it's an important exam and you shouldn't be distracted. Yet you can't help it!!!!
and then you look up at the dry erase bored and see your teacher's LotR calendar and wonder what he is going to do with it after the year is over.

Many times I sit in chemistry class and wonder just what he will do with it, but havent quite gotten the nerve to ask.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Whenever you hear of someone named "Eleanor" You assume that the parents must have been Tolkien fans. It stands to reason!
The same goes for people named Sam.

[Lalwendë]

Whenever you hear of someone named "Eleanor" You assume that the parents must have been Tolkien fans. It stands to reason!
The same goes for people named Sam.

I do that too. In fact, I work with someone who has daughters named Eleanor and Rosie, so I have an obsession that they are named after Sam's favourite lasses, but I just know they cannot possibly be, and I look enough of an obsessive loonie without embarrassing myself with daft questions! :eek:

[Valesse]

When you can spend fifteen minutes describing the cultural fighting styles --complete with gestures-- of each race infront of a class of snoozing teenagers because, finally, you've found one person who actually seems interested.

We can get away with it. Its Humanities. :p

[Parmawen]

When your physics teacher, with whom you rarely speak with and very much dislike, writes in your yearbook "Remember FRODO!" and you decide maybe they weren't such a bad teacher after all...

and when you can make over five new friends in one gym period by singing Hobbit drinking songs loudly while people rockclimb.

[Nogrod]

When you spend all day watching the Extended Editions back to back with your LotR-obsessed brother and friend to celebrate the 50th anniversary of RotK. It was great fuin, even though we didn't quite get to finish. (We had to stop on The Black Gate Opens because my friend had to go home.)

I guess quite many of us has done this marathon... We made it to the end, though - with some carry-home pizza and a fellowship of five.

It was a feat, I say. Worthy of note! :cool:

[Lalwendë]

We bought a load of old Tolkien books yesterday (assorted nice old hardbacks) in a second hand bookshop in Lincoln and the woman on the counter was laughing and saying "ooh, we haven't got a problem, have we?" Which made me laugh, and say "actually, we do have a problem". :D

You know you are obsessed when people make comments and you acknowledge that you do have some 'issues' there. ;)

[Hookbill the Goomba]

When walking around town, while tired, you awake to find yourself in a bookshop next to the Tolkien books with a copy of The Lord of the Rings in your hand. Then you sputter and say aloud, "How did I get in here?"
This happened to me on Friday. I think my mind blanked out for about five minuets and then I was in WHSmiths for no reason. :o

[Ryan_Wizard_Prince]

You know your obsessed with LOTR when you can talk about it constantly in Health class annoy the teacher so much that she joins the converstaion and ends up passing you and your best friend because "you gave me something to gossip about."

[The Sixth Wizard]

You aren't yet that obsessed, but you know you have another 50 years, 60 with modern science of it slowly growing on you like - like the darkness of ... Mordor! No! Not Mordor, slowly creeping up, creeping up like ... Ungoliant! NO!

(holds head and writhes on floor)

[Hookbill the Goomba]

When writing your CV you try and get as many Tolkien references in as possible, even if its not relevant. Such as, "I sometimes feel I'm fighting 'the long defeat'" or "I am often told that 'its an ill wind as blows nobody no good'" and so on...

[Elennar Starfire]

~ You finally get your uilleann pipes, and the first thing you do is attempt to play the Shire theme...and you continue until you manage to play it halfway decently.

[the guy who be short]

You seriously consider applying to a college based purely on the fact that Tolkien went there.

[Orominuialwen]

You seriously consider applying to a college based purely on the fact that Tolkien went there.
You apply to colleges based on the fact that Tolkien experts teach at them. :D :D :D

[the guy who be short]

Perhaps we should just say that Tolkien generally heavily influences your educational choices.

For example, taking Linguistics and citing Tolkien as your first introduction to the subject.

[Valesse]

When you've proudly translated "Rome has no pants, Rome needs no pants" in the spirit of Gondor on your Latin classroom's overhead and left it to be discovered.

[The Sixth Wizard]

When you dress up on History Day as a thinly veiled copy of the Two Towers archer elves...

When you have read so much LOTR lore that you actually get a headache reading about any other fantasy world! I envy the day I could remember all the different magic spells in Harry Potter (sigh).

You hear any person bad-mouth Tolkien books or Tolkien and start writhing on the ground in pain going "Aure Entuluva! Day shall come again!"

When even the local computer geeks call you a nerd darn-it!

[Gil-Galad]

You Paint a Red Eye on your shirt and you start trying to convert other people

[Kath]

You've managed to convert even your mother, a long-term LotR disliker, into someone who will happily sit down and watch the films - if supplied with chocolate that is.

[lothlorien]

I get really annoyed when people relate LOTR to HP.

God do I get so annoyed when people relate LOTR to HP they're completely different Harry Potter is ok but it's nowhere near the scale of the genius or brilliance that is LOTRS it just can't compare. I actually like Harry Potter as well but it's no where as good a series as us obsessive fanatics all know lol. And the idea of them relating is just laughable the only similar thing they have in common is that Sauron and Voldemort are both referred to as the dark lord. But I'll bet she stole the idea.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

When you start saying Lebennin instead of Leblon

[Brinniel]

When your professor writes ME on the board in your history class, you have to constantly remind yourself he means Middle-East, not Middle Earth.

Yeah...this became a slight problem for me last semester in my Western Civilization course. :rolleyes:

[Finduilas]

When you can quote the movie without any words, just mmming in the right tone, and your sister can guess what your saying, who said it, to whom he said it, and what movie.

My sister and I used to be able to quote the FOTR movie from start to finish, unextended. Unluckily we are no longer able to do that.

--Finduilas--

[Folwren]

My sister and I used to be able to quote the FOTR movie from start to finish, unextended. Unluckily we are no longer able to do that.

I wouldn't say it was unlucky. At least now you can watch it and go - "A-ah!" at a particularly sweet or sad part that you didn't remember!

-- Folwren

[Oddwen]

You know you're obsessed with LotR...when you begin to sympathize with the Witch King in his final moments after get a little Chihuahua who likes to stand up and scratch you in the back of the knee with his tiny little claws...inhuman cries fill this house at times!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

When your friend *cough* Laurinque*cough* who was previously obsessed with Hairy Pooper, is now making all of our friends in our lunch group annoyed with LotR talk! (which most of them have either read LotR and TH or are in the process of reading them... but I've read more than all of them!;) I'm in the process of reading HoME and have already read the Sil!)

[Thinlómien]

Like mentioned elsewhere...

When the word lego makes you first think of Legolas.

(And my mind just made some odd twist and I almost ended up writing "makes you first stink of Edoras". :rolleyes: :D)

[Oddwen]

When you're the only one in the building who might know the names of LotR action figures...and all your co-workers know to call you. :D

[Kath]

When your lecturer uses a Tolkien example, mistakenly says that Eowyn is Theoden's daughter and you (admittedly along with the 5 or 6 males in the class) mutter loudly that he means niece.

[THE Ka]

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa168/The_Ka/ilovsam.jpg

When you go to the Seattle Art Museum, and you sincerely explain to the man passing out these pins that, "I love him too, he's such a great character." and the man thinks your nuttier than the dada exhibit.

This happened a long time ago, but at least my friend got it after I explained how versitile this pin could be...

~ Ka

[Nogrod]

When your lecturer uses a Tolkien example, mistakenly says that Eowyn is Theoden's daughter and you (admittedly along with the 5 or 6 males in the class) mutter loudly that he means niece.Pathetic or just plain good sense and bildung? Well, that's the question... :D

... just thinking it from outside the Tolkien universum...

[MaultheStoor]

When you've fought to defend Frodo's honor. Please don't ask me, it was painful.

[MaultheStoor]

When you accuse you Mom of "Spoiling a nice fish," every time she makes fish sticks.

[MaultheStoor]

Okay, after this we'll leave you alone. I had a Clay picture of Frodo, Sam, and Gollum on Mount Doom. Unfortunatly, I also had the Eye. My mom accused me of being a wich and screamed until I took it down...:rolleyes:

[Groin Redbeard]

When you start thinking of the Shire while singing John Denver's song: Country Roads.

[Mithalwen]

When you seldom leave the house without a copy of LOTR and at least one other item from the oevre: currently in my "overflow handbag" I have LOTR, unfinished tales and half the radio series cassettes. And that is being restrained.

[Cirtolthiel]

I got to page nine and am still reading these so I don't know if mine have been said but..

- You said that you have to make up a dance for you school play and it turns out to be the Frodo Chicken Dance xD. Everyone starts laughing during rehearsal.

- Your friends who don't even know Lord of The Rings now greet you with 'Mae Govannen' when you walk into the classroom so they don't have to get smacked on the head.

- You school objects are named after Lord of The Rings characters. I have a pencil named Eomer, a calculator named Elrond and a shiny white laptop named Gandalf.

- You finally convinced your friends to read the Fellowship and when you hand the book over, you break into an extremely long speech of how it is basically your bible and if she hurts it in anyway she will have to face the wrath of your sword.

- Your friends decide that if they just nod and pretend to listen you won't kill them. And then when they tell you this you look hurt and ask why they don't want to talk about it.

- You spent an hour during recess and lunch explaining to your LoTR challenged friend about Ents and why the woodlands were important to Tolkien.

- When your stepdad is sitting in his big chair, without shoes on and smoking a pipe, you clap and says he looks like a hobbit... I just did this. xD

- Yours saving up for a Narsil replica but until then just have to use the sword your mum has in her office. (I did this, well, I did all of them but I tried to get it out of the sheath and whapped myself on the head with the hilt thus making my brother and friends laugh at me... then run when I aimed it at them. xD)

[MaultheStoor]

Sorry about this, but we had to butt in...again...
-If you have a pet spider named Shelob...*guiltily raises hand*
-If you've ever called someone a "Fool of a Took."
-If Treebeard is your favorite enviromentalist...
We think we'll leave it to you guys now...

[Cirtolthiel]

I called my cat 'Fool of a Took' and he was not amused...

- When you have to pick an artist for a school project you either choose Alan Lee or John Howe. (I just did this today.)

Other than that... I just can't think of anything

[Aganzir]

- When you have to pick an artist for a school project you either choose Alan Lee or John Howe. (I just did this today.)
A friend of mine did this also. I didn't. I chose Tolkien himself. ;)

[Cirtolthiel]

Thats even better but sadly, my friend beat me to it... literally. she hit me on the head and then told the teacher she wanted Tolkien.

[Thinlómien]

... it hugely improves your day and makes you feel refreshed when you hear someone playing LotR movie music with a flute in the school corridors ...

[Kath]

... a friend asks you a question about LotR that should have only warranted a few words in answer, and yet you manage to take up about 10 minutes explaining the ins and outs of the full answer to her question.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

When you at a party tell somebody off for not having answered enough Lord of the Rings trivia on facebook :rolleyes:

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

Oh, my, after all these years, I've probably got a lot of such examples....

...when you use the three books of LotR as HS English Class book reports for three years running, and get away with it because 1). you have to explain the books to the teacher, and 2). you had the same English teacher two years running, and in the second year, he STILL didn't understand them.

...when you take a college course on LotR and wind up teaching the class more than the actual teacher, because you know the book better.

...you sing several selections from the Donald Swann "Road Goes Ever On" cycle for your Master Class, confusing the heck out of the professor running the class (which means, of course, you have to pick "Namarie" to sing for your juries at the end of the semester, just to confuse the heck out of the entire Voice faculty).

...you have an old college friend who, to this day, still calls you Elbereth (and who, in turn, must be called Frodo, because nobody knows who you're talking about if you use their real name).

...you're willing to endure nearly five hours of make-up and costume prep to go to a masquerade as your favorite LotR character, and you're unfortunately not of the right gender... but it works in the end, making the two hours of getting OUT of the make-up and costume worth it.

...you buy a silver GMC Tracker, dub it "Mithrandir," put a decal with the name in the back window (and one of your neighbors finally notices it three years later).

...you devote ten symphonies and suites to interpretations of Tolkien's works, and think you probably have another five or six you could do....

And then there was the example of one of my brothers that got me to read LotR for the first time, 43 years ago:

...you put a fancy embossed opaque dust-jacket on a paperback of RotK so you can take it to church on Sunday, and all the adults around you think you're being good and pious, reading your Bible or prayer book. After seeing him do that and get away with it, I just HAD to read the book to find out what was so interesting about it.

[Thinlómien]

... you say "Tom Bombadil" when you ought to be saying "David Bowie".

Really. :rolleyes:

:D

[Eönwë]

1. When you've out-Tolkiened every-one in your year, and when you see someone reading one of his books, you feel the need to talk to them about it slgihtly *cough* enthusiastically.

2. When you're frustrated that your school library doesn't fulfill your Tolkien desires (it only has LOTR, Sil, BoLT and UT - all of which I already finished in Year 7!, well, except LOTR, which I first read in a few years earlier.)

[Groin Redbeard]

When you finally save up enough money to buy your first Lord of the Rings books!:D It's actually a shame that I haven't bought any sooner. I just got them yesterday and I have been reading them every since! :D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

My first copy of LOtR was a paperback boxed set for $45, I bought it myself... a year ago.:D And I still have it!

You are obsessed with LotR when... You are in Sculpture class and You are supposed to do a sculpture of a quote and of course I had to go with "It's a dangerous business, Frodo going out of your door, you step onto the road and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." And my art teacher was familiar with LotR, so she said I could! I made a wonderful sculpture of the Barrow-Downs, full with logo!:D

[Lindale]

And the idea of them relating is just laughable the only similar thing they have in common is that Sauron and Voldemort are both referred to as the dark lord. But I'll bet she stole the idea.

Archetypes, dear. Archetypes. Sauron, Morgoth, Voldy, they all follow the "evil" archetype. To be exact, the "fallen-angel" one. You'll notice that almost every villain in old stories (like myths, etc) and most fantasy following archetypes and sometimes, if they're lousy enough, strereotypes.

OT: When you fall in love with a guy who resembles Eol in every way... from the height to the hair to the clothes (but not the smithy thing.):D

[Nerwen]

OT: When you fall in love with a guy who resembles Eol in every way... from the height to the hair to the clothes (but not the smithy thing.):D

...Or the willingness-to-murder-his-relatives thing either, I hope?:eek:

[Oddwen]

I laughed at work today when I saw that we had new sticky notes that read "Rivendell Psychiatric Center", but then after a while of laughing I realized that it made sense. :eek:

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

You know you are obsessed with LotR when your friend (Lauri) and yourself are so "disruptive" in class because of your LotR and BD conversations that you are told to shut up, by other students...:rolleyes:

[Laurinquë]

You know you are obsessed with LotR when your friend (Lauri) and yourself are so "disruptive" in class because of your LotR and BD conversations that you are told to shut up, by other students...:rolleyes:

Has that happened? I don't recall. But it probably has. :p

Or when you find yourself subconsciously writing Pippin on publicly used choir sheet music...with little hearts around his name...

[Lindale]

you know you're obsessed when you decided to date a guy from BD itself when you met him in school... not naming names!!!

[Lindale]

...Or the willingness-to-murder-his-relatives thing either, I hope?:eek:

yeah... he once got mad at my dad... but it didn't go that far!:D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Has that happened? I don't recall. But it probably has. :p

Or when you find yourself subconsciously writing Pippin on publicly used choir sheet music...with little hearts around his name...First of all, yes it has! Don't you remember art w/ you know who? He was always telling us to shut up!;)

And that piece of music got passed around and half of choir (all six of them) didn't know who Pippin is...:rolleyes: And K always got the Pippin music...

[Babidi Buu]

1. You go someplace to watch fireworks, thinking Gandalf will be the one lighting the fireworks off.
2. You go to watch either The Elephent man and/or the goonies and all of a sudden... "Oh My God! It's that Orc!"
3. You see a crow and the first thing that comes to mind is "Crabine from Dunland!"
4. Watch Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and think.. "Are these guy's the same Dwarves that got the seven rings?"
5. Think that a Lighthouse is Actully the Eye of Sauron and the Tower of barad-dur

That's the end for now. Hopefully nobody beat me to any of them :P

[Thinlómien]

3. You see a crow and the first thing that comes to mind is "Crabine from Dunland!"
Haha, that actually reminds me of me and my dear sister Greenie and a friend of mine playing Elves when we were small. There was a crow and I shouted "Crebain!" and hid and my friend thought I really was afraid of the crow. :D

4. Watch Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and think.. "Are these guy's the same Dwarves that got the seven rings?":D That is too bad.

Anyway, welcome to the 'Downs, Babidi Buu. :)

To add one sign of addiction, I think it fits that you almost accidentally quote LotR and then you are disappointed that your sister doesn't continue with the next line...

[Legolas1]

Has anyone mentioned this yet?:

When you pick up anything that resembles a stick you pretend your aragorn.

I know i am defo obsessed with them!!!!

legolas1 out!!!

[Legolas1]

I have another!

when you have slightly too long, slightly too pointed ears like me and you go around telling everyone your an elf!

I do that all the time!!!

[Lindale]

you tend to see Elves everywhere. and fall in love with them, at some extent.

[Mithalwen]

When you get sent pictures by a proud new grandmother and have to resist focusing overexcitedly on the child's perfect tiny and pointy ears :D

And wishing the small girl on the bus named Arwen would emulate her namesake and sit quietly...

[Lindale]

(are there really parents who name their kids after LotR characters? if so, I haven't met them, nor have I met a child named after a book character. well...not in this country where spanish names are often used.)

[Mithalwen]

Clearly yes... but some are more conspicuous than others - I remember there was a cheer leader called Eowyn at the Moomba parade in Melbourne I went to and Terry Pratchett met a Galadriel and asked her if she were born in a Welsh hippy commune. However because Sindarin is derived from Welsh many lower profile Elvish names could pass for Welsh names.

[Lalwendë]

When, in the midst of a maelstrom of baby noise, you hear Adrian Chiles on The One Show say "Lord of the Rings" and both your heads shoot up and you go "Oooooh" and turn up the TV....only to both go "Oh" in disappointment and look away again as you realise it's just a bad pun (Lord of the Wings - oh pur-lease) referring to an item on butterflies.

[Naz]

When you use instances or characters in LotR to try & explain other situations/characters in other stories, or explain what you think about them.

Maybe not funny, but something i've done. Despite the fact that the other person has never read LotR. :\

[Lindale]

When you use instances or characters in LotR to try & explain other situations/characters in other stories, or explain what you think about them.

Maybe not funny, but something i've done. Despite the fact that the other person has never read LotR. :\

I happen to do that a lot. Not just with LotR. With the whole Tolkien thing. Years and years of reading and rereading has somehow managed to make me memorize certain bits. Happens all the time with me and my guy, my brother, and my dad. All of them not remembering too well what they have read, so basically sometimes when I quote from Tolkien they hear me "speaking German again" (where did that come from? I have no idea!). Sometimes the Tolkien fan in me gets carried away even inside the Philippine Literature in English classroom, and I get told virtually everytime, "while some of Tolkien's writings may be arguably universal, your feet is on Philippine soil and your butt on a Philippine Literature classroom."

[narfforc]

I've just bought my 62nd copy of LotR!, I have no place for food in my cupboards.

[Lindale]

I've just bought my 62nd copy of LotR!, I have no place for food in my cupboards.

Whatever do you do with that many copies, Narfforc?

[narfforc]

To be honest Lindale I have had to have my cellar converted into a library, I have also got 43 copies of The Hobbit, numerous copies of The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales, and over 200 other Tolkien related books, some people collect stamps or such, I collect Tolkien. Every copy has a different cover, some have drawings inside, I still can't afford a first edition set yet though.

[Lindale]

Ach, then you have the money to spend, Narfforc. I only have one copy each of all the Tolkien books I have. That is saying something, really, if you live in this wretched country, having LotR, TH, UT, Sil, Gawain, Farmer Giles & Smith, HoME I-V, and Children of Hurin. Sil, UT, and Children of Hurin I did not even buy in this country; I had my dad buy them in Europe a few years ago. Then to my dismay I saw a couple of months ago those same titles in the local bookstore, and at a cheaper price when you convert euro to peso. :(

[narfforc]

I bought a lot of the books on Ebay, and the Tolkien related books at Oxonmoot.

[Lalwendë]

To be honest Lindale I have had to have my cellar converted into a library, I have also got 43 copies of The Hobbit, numerous copies of The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales, and over 200 other Tolkien related books, some people collect stamps or such, I collect Tolkien. Every copy has a different cover, some have drawings inside, I still can't afford a first edition set yet though.

I'll have to tell davem to tell you if he gets to hear of any more cheap sets on the grapevine, which is how he got his, from a private sale. They aren't an early impression, which is one way of getting a set a bit more cheaply - can't remember how much they were but it was less than £100. I've seen 2nd edition sets sell for a lot more than that. :eek:

Anyway, shelves of books make good house insulation, so when bills soar this winter it will have been a good investment ;)

[narfforc]

Hi Lal, I have rescued quite a few from second-hand/charity shops. The last copy I bought was a paperback special limited edition for The Cannes Film Festival 2001, I got that from Barnado's for £2. My earliest editions are Second/Fourth Impression 1969, however I have the 1968 (First time in one volume) Hardback and Paperback. My earliest Hobbit is 1959. If I see any Tolkien book in a Charity shop, I rescue it. If I already have it then I give it away to friend.


P.S The Lord of the Grins is finished.

[Lalwendë]

Hi Lal, I have rescued quite a few from second-hand/charity shops. The last copy I bought was a paperback special limited edition for The Cannes Film Festival 2001, I got that from Barnado's for £2. My earliest editions are Second/Fourth Impression 1969, however I have the 1968 (First time in one volume) Hardback and Paperback. My earliest Hobbit is 1959. If I see any Tolkien book in a Charity shop, I rescue it. If I already have it then I give it away to friend.


P.S The Lord of the Grins is finished.

Early editions of The Hobbit are rare as hen's teeth. davem keeps looking for them but they're very expensive. I think our earliest ones are 70s ones! By the way, try Southport for 2nd hand bookshops and charity shops, there are loads of them.

I hope you kept the Barrywhite in....:cool:

[Groin Redbeard]

When I think of the History of Middle Earth every time I type, or write, the words home.

[Thinlómien]

There must be at least one LotR-obsessed person in your house if the following dialogue can occur:

Mum: "Whose Bible is on the sofa?"
Me: "Bible..? I haven't been reading the Bible, for sure, and I don't think Greenie* has either."
Mum: *appears at my doorstep grinning amusedly and holding my very old and dear copy of LotR*

I think that was pretty amusing. :D My mum is lovely. :D

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(*I obviously used her real name of her, though... ;))

[Groin Redbeard]

There must be at least one LotR-obsessed person in your house if the following dialogue can occur:

Mum: "Whose Bible is on the sofa?"
Me: "Bible..? I haven't been reading the Bible, for sure, and I don't think Greenie* has either."
Mum: *appears at my doorstep grinning amusedly and holding my very old and dear copy of LotR*



Although I wouldn't go as far as to say that it is the Holy Scripture, it is certainly an important book. More in some houses than others as it seems!:D:rolleyes:

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

There must be at least one LotR-obsessed person in your house if the following dialogue can occur:

Mum: "Whose Bible is on the sofa?"
Me: "Bible..? I haven't been reading the Bible, for sure, and I don't think Greenie* has either."
Mum: *appears at my doorstep grinning amusedly and holding my very old and dear copy of LotR*

I think that was pretty amusing. :D My mum is lovely. :D

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(*I obviously used her real name of her, though...)

Your mum has incredibly great sense of humour :D

[Nessa Emerald]

-when you get through the first two pages of this thread and steadily begin to work through reading all of the pages...agreeing with many of the posts!

[Naz]

...all the ideas you came up with for your painting final have to do with Middle-earth. (art geek, ahoy!)

(Unfortunately, i have to work from photographs, & the pose i need so that my proportions don't look horrifically off is nowhere to be found. /babbling:o)

[Annalaliath]

You nearly die from reading most of this old thread and your old posts. The spelling is very bad.

You think about putting on the elf dress that you kept from prom.

You can't help but tag Glorfindel any time he EPs in Millways_bar, even if he doesn't like your vampires.

You have a Tasselhoff Burrfoot and Glorfindel thread going on at the moment.

You want to make a Hobbit doll for you grandmother for Christmas.

[Lalwendë]

Anyone who visits my blog will know about The Mothership Television we've just had delivered.

The first full film has already been watched and it was....Fellowship of the Ring! ;) All the way through we kept going "Oooooh! Look at that!" because of all the detail and colour (and sound) revealed for the first time.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Well, I don't know where else to put this, but while reading Mr Davem's post in the thread 'Fantasy'...

if Tolkien had included rape in the story I would require him to present it in realistic terms . . .

My first thought was, "The rape of the Silmarills". It took me a moment to realize he didn't mean rape in the same way. :o

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Last week I had a quite strong experience during the Old Testament studies course, translating the tale of the trial of Abraham (Genesis 22). It was my turn to read the Hebrew text and translate. That's no hard text, so I could translate right from scratch, so I read: "Take your son, the only one of yours, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moria..." And even upon hearing my own words, I felt filled with horror - I mean, when you look at it (or hear it - you may try saying it aloud), doesn't it really sound all too scary?

I just imagined Abraham by the dark pool, carrying some firewood on his back, knocking on the door with the hilt of his dagger and saying "Mellon!", while his poor son keeps looking around in terror...

[Groin Redbeard]

My goodness, that does sound scary when you say it aloud!:eek:

I just imagined Abraham by the dark pool, carrying some firewood on his back, knocking on the door with the hilt of his dagger and saying "Mellon!", while his poor son keeps looking around in terror... And God sends The Watcher to grab Abraham's hand just before he stabs Isaac!:D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

You know you're obsessed with the Lord of the Rings, when you are sitting at luch having a nice little discussion about a play that you are going to see, and somebody from down the hall exclaims "And your soul was stolen by a hobbit.", and you turn the corner and say "What? I wasn't stolen by a hobbit, no I was stolen by Morgoth!" And they didn't have the foggiest notion of what you just said!

Or when you are sitting outside the school waiting to be picked up by your mum, and you start talking to someone that you don't even know, about the internet, then the Barrow-Downs, and then you're having a discussion about Middle-Earth, and LotR! She says "Do you like Lord of the Rings?" then looks at the Ring hanging around my neck, and realises what a silly question that was.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

And God sends The Watcher to grab Abraham's hand just before he stabs Isaac!:D

Actually, not. It's so that upon being warned not to lay his hand on the boy, Abraham suddenly looks and sees a Watcher who has his tentacles stuck in the doorway, and he sacrifices him instead of Isaac :D

[Enorëiel]

Last week I had a quite strong experience during the Old Testament studies course, translating the tale of the trial of Abraham (Genesis 22). It was my turn to read the Hebrew text and translate. That's no hard text, so I could translate right from scratch, so I read: "Take your son, the only one of yours, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moria..." And even upon hearing my own words, I felt filled with horror - I mean, when you look at it (or hear it - you may try saying it aloud), doesn't it really sound all too scary?

I just imagined Abraham by the dark pool, carrying some firewood on his back, knocking on the door with the hilt of his dagger and saying "Mellon!", while his poor son keeps looking around in terror...

Oh my goodness - I cannot tell you how much I laughed when I read that! It's blasphemous-ly amazing...

You know you're obsessed when on long drives you start identifying landmarks that resemble locations in Middle Earth. I found a perfect Edoras on my last trip.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

You know you're addicted to LotR when you now have a framed map of Middle-earth hanging up in your room... because it's your birthday present.:p