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

[Rikae]

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

Or when you have two middle earth maps in the bedroom (one belonging to you, and one to your better half), and a third in the home office with a matching map of Beleriand. ;)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Or when you have two middle earth maps in the bedroom (one belonging to you, and one to your better half), and a third in the home office with a matching map of Beleriand. ;)That's brilliant! I've got three more, one of Beleriand, one of Numenor, and one of the map in the Hobbit, Wilderland. These other ones haven't been framed yet though. They came in this book thing. It's great!


Also, when your mum says "And he's got a bombadier jacket." And you think she says "And he's got a Bombadil jacket."

[Lalwendë]

You know you're obsessed when you don't even need a map to look at. ;)

[Groin Redbeard]

When you have all of Tolkien's books on your iPod (Poems, history of Middle-earth, and the books) so that it takes up all the space you have.:)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

When you have all of Tolkien's books on your iPod (Poems, history of Middle-earth, and the books) so that it takes up all the space you have.:)

Since very recently (about two weeks ago just now), it's similar with me :)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

You know you're obsessed when you don't even need a map to look at. ;) Well, that's... I have a very undetailed map of ME in my head, but I haven't been able to memorise all of the places, now THAT would be scary.

[Lalwendë]

Well, that's... I have a very undetailed map of ME in my head, but I haven't been able to memorise all of the places, now THAT would be scary.

I could probably find Umbar more quickly than I could find Hertfordshire, which is a bit disturbing...and last week I had to call up Multimap because I'd forgotten where Coventry was...

Mind, I am the person who once joked at work that I don't have a passport because the only 'foreign' place I want to go to is Middle-earth and the only passport I need to visit that is a copy of Lord of the Rings. I'm such a geek. :eek:

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Well, that's... I have a very undetailed map of ME in my head, but I haven't been able to memorise all of the places, now THAT would be scary.

Wait, scary?

I thought it was normal... :eek:

[Groin Redbeard]

Since very recently (about two weeks ago just now), it's similar with me. Finally, someone who uses the iPod for higher purposes than music!:D



I thought it was normal... :eek:Only in your own mind.;) Still, being normal a boring thing, being extraordinary is better.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I could probably find Umbar more quickly than I could find Hertfordshire, which is a bit disturbing...and last week I had to call up Multimap because I'd forgotten where Coventry was...

Mind, I am the person who once joked at work that I don't have a passport because the only 'foreign' place I want to go to is Middle-earth and the only passport I need to visit that is a copy of Lord of the Rings. I'm such a geek. :eek:That's okay, I can't find these places on a map either. Of course, I don't have a map of Britain, and I have a map of Middle-earth.

But, wouldn't you want to go other places too? Like... Gallifrey? :p

[Lalwendë]

That's okay, I can't find these places on a map either. Of course, I don't have a map of Britain, and I have a map of Middle-earth.

But, wouldn't you want to go other places too? Like... Gallifrey? :p

This is true. But I'd have to rely on the Time Lord in the blue box to get me there! It's not as easy to get to as Middle-earth is :(

And I'd probably have to go back in time as well, and if the Time War is time locked then I'd end up like Dalek Caan...

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Only in your own mind.;) Still, being normal a boring thing, being extraordinary is better.

Yes, well. You see, it's rather that I thought it surprising and pitiful that there is anybody who does not know where Rhudaur or Khand is.

[Thinlómien]

Yes, well. You see, it's rather that I thought it surprising and pitiful that there is anybody who does not know where Rhudaur or Khand is.Indeed. ;)

Anyway, I wonder what does it tell of my mind that I have dreams where a friend of mine wants to rewrite LotR so that she corrects all the plotholes and illogicalities and end up explaining her why using the eagles wouldn't have made any sense... :rolleyes::D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

This is true. But I'd have to rely on the Time Lord in the blue box to get me there! It's not as easy to get to as Middle-earth is :(

And I'd probably have to go back in time as well, and if the Time War is time locked then I'd end up like Dalek Caan...No, probably not. Besides Middle-earth, like you said, is so much more easy to get to.

I started reading the Hobbit to my mum's friend's five year old daughter.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Today, I was scanning about 300 page-long book. I did not even pay much attention to what's been inside the book at that moment: just scan, turn the page, scan, turn the page... Now what does it say about me that suddenly, I spotted words "Men of Erech" on one page? What worse, I checked with the book's index and the word "Erech" occurs only once in the whole book. Scary.

[Eönwë]

When at school you need to write the word "habit" but you by mistake spell it as "habbit", which you then correct to "hobbit" without thinking, only later realising your mistake.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

When at school you need to write the word "habit" but you by mistake spell it as "habbit", which you then correct to "hobbit" without thinking, only later realising your mistake.Whoops! That sounds like something that I would do!:o Did you turn this in before you realised this?

[mark12_30]

Finally, someone who uses the iPod for higher purposes than music!:D

Tolkien Music.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

You know you're obsessed with Tolkien, at least, when you are extremely jealous when your friend gets a new Tolkien book, and you don't...

[Aiwë]

When at school you need to write the word "habit" but you by mistake spell it as "habbit", which you then correct to "hobbit" without thinking, only later realising your mistake. Yes, absolutely, definitely and all the time. :p

[Eönwë]

Yes, absolutely, definitely and all the time. :p

Glad to see I'm not the only one!:D

And welcome to the 'Downs, Aiwë!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Glad to see I'm not the only one!:D
Not in the least!

To-day, instead of actually listening to the presentation in school, I drew a hobbit hole, well Bag End. I showed it to some of my friends because I was so proud of my accomplishment! Then there was this annoying child who said "What's that?", that ruined my satisfaction.

[Isabellkya]

Drawing a picture of a hobbit while waiting for my niece to get through at the doctor's.

When she came out and saw what I drew, she goes "Is that Merry, Pip, Frodo... or Sam?"

Hehe. She is only seven, but well on her way to becoming obsessed. She can't wait until she can read the books on her own. xD

[Oddwen]

A friend and I volunteered to decorate the safety board at work last month, the subject was walking. So, obviously, we featured Bilbo's Road Poem on it. :D

[wilwarin538]

Everytime I'm in a group of friends and we are trying to decide on a movie to watch the first thing they do is look at me and firmly say "Not the Lord of the Rings again." hehe

Or same goes for my English teacher in highschool, we had to read 3 books for his class and check by him to see if each were ok, he looked at me and said "No, you can't read all three of the Lord of the Rings books for yours, pick one and only one", before I had even told him my plans. ;)

[Eönwë]

Everytime I'm in a group of friends and we are trying to decide on a movie to watch the first thing they do is look at me and firmly say "Not the Lord of the Rings again." hehe

Or same goes for my English teacher in highschool, we had to read 3 books for his class and check by him to see if each were ok, he looked at me and said "No, you can't read all three of the Lord of the Rings books for yours, pick one and only one", before I had even told him my plans. ;)

You could have gone for the Silm and Hobbit too! :p

Also, when you find the french words "nous saurons" amusing.

[wilwarin538]

Also, when you find the french words "nous saurons" amusing.

Ahahahaha....yeah, that's wonderful.

Or whenever I hear someone use the word "aghast" I think of Radagast.

[Aganzir]

It was pretty amusing to find out that Israel's Eurovision song this year was made by Noa, Mira Awad - and Gil Dor.

[Middi-chan]

Looking back on the first page of this thread...

I was watching the whole movie in my head during math, when the bell rang. My friend came up to me and told me that class was over. I was like, 'Shut up! I'm watching a movie!' I told I that Gandalf had just said, 'Just tea, thank you.' This got me some very strange looks.

I have done that exact thing before only I had gotten to the firework of the dragon and was just up to 'Lets get another one' lol my friend Ashlea stared at me so weirdly

[Middi-chan]

You know you're obsessed with Lotrs

When you hold an unconsoleable grudge against Arwen for stealing Glorfindel's horse in the movie despite everyone telling you it is just a movie.

This of course does nothing to change your mind, and only makes you consider Peter Jackson being in on it (guilty)

[Thinlómien]

When you have to elaborate on some topic and the first example that comes to your mind is from LotR. :D

[Eönwë]

When you have to elaborate on some topic and the first example that comes to your mind is from LotR. :D

That's just normal... erm... *glances around*

[FeRaL sHaDoW]

When you stop and ask yourself what would Gandalf do?

[Babidi Buu]

When you see wedding rings, thinking one of them is the One Ring?

[Nessa Telrunya]

When you make yourself t-shirts involving random phrases that went around Barrow Downs*guilty*(I made a chibi one of Boromir as the disco king.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

When you hold an unconsoleable grudge against Arwen for stealing Glorfindel's horse in the movie despite everyone telling you it is just a movie.

My family watched FotR this week. I was complaining the whole time, "But that didn't really happen!" or "She wasn't really there!". This is while my parents are telling me to shut up because I'm "spoiling" the film. I know the feeling...:rolleyes:;)

EDIT: I made up a new game today that involves LotR. You write down as many names from LotR as you can remember. Sometimes you can ask for help, today, my mum suggested Gil-Galad, she doesn't even know who Gil-Galad is!

[Eönwë]

my mum suggested Gil-Galad, she doesn't even know who Gil-Galad is!

That's brilliant! Stuff like that should happen more often to me. :D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

That's brilliant! Stuff like that should happen more often to me. :D
You want to change mothers? Mine's really annoying. She'll start talking about some sort of Tolkien-esque thing and she doesn't even know what she's talking about. I'll say "Mum, that wasn't even in the book." and "You've never read about Tom Bombadil!" She does the same thing with Doctor Who...:rolleyes:

[Nessa Telrunya]

You know you're obsessed when you put little rubber bands on your ears to make them pointy.:)

[Morsul the Dark]

You know you're obsessed when you put little rubber bands on your ears to make them pointy.:)
wow...just...wow...

why didn't I think of that?

[Nessa Telrunya]

wow...just...wow...

why didn't I think of that?

Haha, it is kinda weird, huh? My mom told me I was like one of those people who dress up for Star Trek conventions :eek:

[Oddwen]

My sister relayed a question that was asked by one of her co-workers about if a tiny shard of glass could travel through your bloodstream to your heart. Of course the proper response is "No, it's not a Morgul blade, silly".

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I was on Facebook today and read an advert as "Are you a hobbit." as opposed to "Are you hot."

[Eönwë]

You pass a place called Crickhowell, and read it wrong three times before realising your mistake.

[Morsul the Dark]

Siii many instances hearing incorrectly, phrases that sound like Lord of the Rings

[Pitchwife]

You pass a place called Crickhowell, and read it wrong three times before realising your mistake.
:D
That's why I stick with the Welsh version of the place-names when I'm in Wales. Crug Hywel doesn't look quite so misleading, does it? Although it looks remotely like Sindarin (like almost everything Welsh).

Another symptom is when you misread Cotton buds as Cortirion buds. (I thought I'd already posted this weeks ago, but search says I haven't.)

[Eönwë]

That's why I stick with the Welsh version of the place-names when I'm in Wales. Crug Hywel doesn't look quite so misleading, does it? Although it looks remotely like Sindarin (like almost everything Welsh).

I try to too, but I had an English map. And also, since Elvish was based partly upon Welsh, it's not surprising that there are similarities.

[Loslote]

YKYOWLOTRW (You know you're obsessed with Lord of the Rings when): you giggle uncontrollably when you encounter a Tolkien reference in a book.
When: you have a shelf devoted to assorted Tolkien works.
When: You dress up as a elf for Halloween.
When: You then insist: "I am and elf! Elves do not get cold!" in response to the -17 temperature.
When: You write a fanfic about a made-up reality show staring lotr characters. :D

[Galadriel]

You constantly misread things, Eg: Ford=Frodo, celebration=Celebriant etc.
and you start mispronouncing words. Instead of Cicero, you say Kikero :p

[Pitchwife]

Instead of Cicero, you say Kikero :p
That one's actually correct (latin classical pronunciation).

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I got all excited at work today when I thought I would be digitalizing photos of "Gimlis Alle". . . it turned out to be "Gimles Alle"

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I got all excited at work today when I thought I would be digitalizing photos of "Gimlis Alle". . . it turned out to be "Gimles Alle"

Digitalizing Gimli's Ale? Oh come on, technical progress is one thing, but when even beverages become digital...

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Digitalizing Gimli's Ale? Oh come on, technical progress is one thing, but when even beverages become digital...

Sorry "Gimli's Allé"

[Galadriel]

That one's actually correct (latin classical pronunciation).


Oh! Is it? I had no idea :/ We've always pronounced it as 'Sisero'. But you get my point :p
I want to learn Latin so bad, but in India they don't teach it.

[mark12_30]

You know you're obsessed with LOTR when nearly a decade after the release of the movies you are STILL going to work dressed like an elf, or a hobbit, depending on the day.

[wilwarin538]

So at this very moment by brother is playing this video came called Borderlands. So in the game there's this little "Midget" guy that he has to help by restoring the flow of "purple juice" to "Midgetville". The way he has to restore the flow of the juice is by activating 4 pumps.

The names of the pumps?

Brandybuck, Took, Gamgee and Underhill.

I got terribly excited. :D

[satansaloser2005]

So at this very moment by brother is playing this video came called Borderlands. So in the game there's this little "Midget" guy that he has to help by restoring the flow of "purple juice" to "Midgetville". The way he has to restore the flow of the juice is by activating 4 pumps.

The names of the pumps?

Brandybuck, Took, Gamgee and Underhill.

I got terribly excited. :D



^_^

I think my favorite part of that, though, is that I saw the word midget and automatically thought you were talking about me. *headdesks*

[Wynterborn]

When staying a night or two in a new hotel, I write "Frodo Lives!" with my finger in the fogged up mirror post-showering on the day I leave in hopes that the maid will see it and get a laugh. You should give it a shot sometime!

[Blind Guardian]

When your trying to read FotR for the third time (Though have never finished RotK)

[Galadriel]

When you write Ulmo's name on your wrist :p

[Durelin]

There is nothing like bonding with someone by spontaneously reciting the Rings poem in turns with them.

You get this feeling like...'I am meant to know this person.'

[Lastande Took]

Oh! Is it? I had no idea :/ We've always pronounced it as 'Sisero'. But you get my point :p
I want to learn Latin so bad, but in India they don't teach it.

I've studied a smattering of Latin, and one of the first things I learned is 'c' is always pronouced like 'k', and 'ae' is pronounced like 'eye'. I've found telling people that in a superior voice really impresses them. :)

On topic...I don't have anything to beat you guys, but told a co-worker the other day he looked like a Hobbit having a bad hair day.

I lapse into Gollum-speak on a regular basis, even though I can't get the voice right to save my life.

When I label a container of leftover food, I have to restrain from writing "what's TATERS, precious?" for potatoes, 'leaveses' for salad, 'eggses', etc.

[morwen edhelwen]

You know you're obsessed when..
the thought of doing anything mentioned so far is entering your mind and you don't think it's implausible for you to try and do it!

[mormegil]

When you are in a training and you have to enter fake names into the computer database and the first ones that come to mind are not common ones like 'Bob Jones' but rather LOTR names. I would love to see the admins face when she sees those names that I entered :eek::rolleyes:

[Eönwë]

In the Maths GCSE today, there was a question about Arwen buying cars.

The first thing I wondered was whether it was Eomer's van, and the second was what the exchange rate in Middle-Earth is. :D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

In the Maths GCSE today, there was a question about Arwen buying cars.

The first thing I wondered was whether it was Eomer's van, and the second was what the exchange rate in Middle-Earth is. :D
That`s the first time that I`ve laughed all day!
But, of course, anyone on this lovely place would think the same.

[Eönwë]

That`s the first time that I`ve laughed all day!
But, of course, anyone on this lovely place would think the same.

I wonder how many Tolkien fans are in the government...

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I wonder how many Tolkien fans are in the government...
It would certainly be interesting to find out! I wonder how you would, though.

[Mithalwen]

In the Maths GCSE today, there was a question about Arwen buying cars.

The first thing I wondered was whether it was Eomer's van, and the second was what the exchange rate in Middle-Earth is. :D

Well I suppose if you took the thirty silver pennies Butterbur paid for Bill and cash compensation for the loss of Merry's ponies and compared it to the price of modern horseflesh.. you could come up with practically anything. :smokin:

Don't forget the other van - presumably quite substantial -that Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn and Gandalf went in with the Dunedain and the sons of Elrond.

Anyway the main reason for my post is that I saw various references and adverts for this company (www.thelittlegreene.com) in magazines over the weekend.

[Eönwë]

When you spell Eleanor as Elanor. A lot.

[Lastande Took]

You know you're obsessed when..
the thought of doing anything mentioned so far is entering your mind and you don't think it's implausible for you to try and do it!

You too? :D

[wilwarin538]

So I have this fancy scanner thing that I use to reorder greeting cards (I work for a greeting card company, American Greetings). So I have to plug it into the phone jack to get updates and such and the screen always shows the names of all these random files. One of them was Ordo101. I got really excited. I have no clue what it means, or what it does, but I'm happy I have it. :D

[Galadriel]

I just noticed...that after a ten day holiday without holding my LotR book in my hands, I went mad O.O I actually started to go around bookstores just to read snippets of the book (though I missed The Silmarillion more, I will admit).

[satansaloser2005]

I totally just got a spam e-mail from Belladonna Took. Geek away, people. :p

[Galadriel55]

1. When something comes up, the first think that comes to mind is an episode from one of Tolkie's works
2. I've read LotR so many times that can tell you from 1 sentence who, when, to who, why, etc, said the line
3. My parents had to confiscate the books a few times because I've reading them too much
4. In every library that I come to the first thing that I check is which Tolkien books they have
5. I feel contempt for people that say that LotR is useless but never read it and don't know who Tolkien is
6. I study elvish more than French (2nd language in Canada)
7. When I met a girl namen Laurel, I told her that her name means "Golden Star" in Elvish, and she replied "what the hell?!"

[Morsul the Dark]

We unloaded a truck at the sore yesterday

there was a box labeled "FOTR Travel Game" I tore it open excitedly.... apparently FOTR meant "Fun on the Road" :(

[Bom Tombadillo]

. . . you giggle uncontrollably when you encounter a Tolkien reference in a book.

This is me. I laugh when I realize people outside of the Downs and my church (a veritable hotbed of Tolkien fans!) even know the books exist.

. . . you have to enter fake names into the computer database and the first ones that come to mind are not common ones like 'Bob Jones' but rather LOTR names.

Also me. I had to create another user-thingamajig so Tech Support could get a program working on my computer (I forget exactly why) and I put in "Tom Bombadil."

You want to change mothers? Mine's really annoying. She'll start talking about some sort of Tolkien-esque thing and she doesn't even know what she's talking about. I'll say "Mum, that wasn't even in the book." and "You've never read about Tom Bombadil!" She does the same thing with Doctor Who...

Argh, I don't think I could bear that. My father knows next to nothing about Lord of the Rings (he though Gollum was a Golem - as in, animated clay) but he at least understands Who most of the time. I'd hate it if he were confused by BOTH of my favorite media . . .

[Galadriel55]

...When you see it written all over the Periodic Table of Elements, as well as other sources.

[Galadriel55]

When your little sister, to whom you've just finished reading LOTR aloud, already knows the names of the Valar, the difference between Valar and Maiar, the names of all 5 Istari and who they are, Beren's and Turin's stories, Vanyar Noldor and Teleri, Elrond's lineage, the kinslayings, all the names in the family trees at the end of The Sil, etc etc.

[Kitanna]

After learning that whales can survive (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-461703/Whale-survives-harpoon-attack-130-years-ago-worlds-oldest-mammal.html)for over a hundred years, you begin to suspect maybe they're really our world's versions of elves. Just maybe old age and sickness doesn't kill them.

[Bom Tombadillo]

. . . you occupy time on long, boring car rides by looking out of the window at the trees and deciding which ones look like Ents.

Wait. Only one thing? My Arda-obsession is insufficient! I must commit ritual LotRuku now.

[Galadriel55]

...When you kill precious time by answering Tolkien-related questions on WikiAnswers. :rolleyes:

After the quality of questions I found there I appreciate our clean shiny "educated" Downs so much more.

It's quite hilarious and sad at the same time. People ask things like "how do you write like J R R Tolkien?" and "What path fif J.R.R. Tolkien take to reach his goals?" (these are real questions! :eek:) The word spelling does not exist. Neither does research.

[Galadriel55]

This happened today, for real. It's a bit of a story.

I was washing the windows on the second floor of my house. Some of them I could do on both sides without much trouble, but for others I had to stand halfway out the window to reach certain spots. Just beneath one window there is a wide cornice, so I stood on it, since that is more comfortable than leaning out the window. And then, I don't know what I was thinking, but I closed the window behind myself. And then I realised that I locked myself out, standing on the roof, two storeys up.

Now, this is where my obsession with LOTR becomes evident: the first thing that I mentally called myself was ninnyhammer. Out of all the names I could use. I could definitely pick a more colourful one. But ninnyhammer was the first that came to mind. My obsession has deep roots, it seems.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I'm so obsessed with LotR that I've rubbed off on my brother. Here's a conversation we had recently:

Seth: Can you not wait until December?
Me: Well, I have to wait until December. We can't speed up time. Why?
Seth: I can't wait until December.
Me: Why is that?
Seth: Well, you know...
Me: No I don't.
Seth: The Hobbit movie comes out in December.
Me: I know that I'm excited about that, but I didn't think that you were.
Seth: Well, I am.
Me: Well, I'm not going to take you to see it until you actually finish reading the book.
Seth: I'm going to finish reading it!

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

When you dragged your friend into the public library and used his card (Because you lost yours) to check out The Treason of Isengard and the extended VHS version of FOTR, even though you own the regular VHS version
AND he gives you permission to steal them because he knows how obsessed you are, and he doesn't mind paying the fine

When you got your best friend obsessed, and are letting her borrow your copies of the movies in an attempt to in turn make her boyfriend obsessed

When you randomly walk around in school holding The Two Towers movie, and manage to talk your english teacher into playing it once everyone finished their final exam, and you had a half an hour left. (Unfortunately, she couldn't get the VCR to work)

When you end up having conversations with a kid that you extremely dislike, merely because he is the only one genuinely interested in your LOTR rants, despite the fact that he only knows the movies, and doesn't criticize your crude maps of Middle-Earth

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

When you watch The Two Towers, pretending that you don't have exams the next morning.

Gandalf: *pops out of the ground* YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
Me: What the heck?!?
Gandalf: Gotta go finish fighting the Balrog. Bye!
Me: *Stares at Kool-Aid* What the heck do they put in this stuff? :D

[Galadriel55]

When your younger brother asks you for a riddle, and knowing that you have to keep him occupied but feeling a lack of creativity you just restore to The Hobbit riddles.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

When you, checked out the extended versions of the movies from the library, only because your versions are not extended.

[Galadriel55]

When you and your family are joking about the hobbits forging the five One Ring-s during the Olympics opening ceremony. (And by Eru it was better tenfold than Vancouver's!)

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

I was paging through The Silmarillion with crescendo. and we were playing with bits of Elvish words to come up with cool Elven names. I don't recall exactly what she said, but I asked her what it meant, and she said; "sparkling twilight". I stared at her and said, "Think of what you just said." We both start laughing, and discard the name immediately.

For those who don't get it, the "vampires" in the Twilight Saga sparkle. It's awful.

[Ninde Lossehelin]

you have to watch the at least one of the trilogy after a few weeks

[Mithalwen]

When you and your family are joking about the hobbits forging the five One Ring-s during the Olympics opening ceremony. (And by Eru it was better tenfold than Vancouver's!)

How about when you see what was meant to be Glastonbury Tor and think "Party Tree"!

[Ninde Lossehelin]

When just finishing the Trilogy, the next day you and your obsessed sister want to watch it all over again.
It's a challenge to NOT quote the movie while watching

[Ninde Lossehelin]

When after watching the complete trilogy, the next day you and your obsessed sister (whom you turned) want to watch it again.

When it's a challenge NOT to quote the lines during the movie

[Ninde Lossehelin]

Sorry for the repost
Newbie here :D:D
but forever Lord of the Rings junkie

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

You sign your name in Quenya on all of your school papers.

When the teachers you had last year have to tell this year's teachers whose paper it is.

[Galadriel55]

You go bowling with friends and spend most of your time changing the names of the players on the computer/screen/thingy to spell the team names as random Tolkien stuff (though I am guilty of a few GoT references too). At one point our team was called O.R.C.S., and each of the letters was the first of a random word. Then we figured out how to use the space bar and thus put 2 letters in the slot of one (as 2 initials), and had stuff like

PM
IE
PR
IR
NY

But at that point people got really creative and started putting stuff I would not write on this forum. But it was hilarious.


It was fun. The best part of bowling, I should say.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

When your father tells you to turn the G**d*mned movie off and watch something normal

When he tells you to make some potatoes, and you reply "Po-tay-toes, boil 'em mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew"

When he says he wants some fish and chips, and you say "Some nice lovely golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish"

When you start watching LOTR, and the upstairs neighbors start blaring "We Will Rock You" because you have the volume so loud that they can hear it. (To which I sang along and blared "We Are The Champions" after the song was over. Queen rules.)

When you actually come on here to tell random people all of that

Oh, and when your sister (crescendo.), who also likes LOTR, refuses to watch the movies with you because you're saying EVERY LINE along with the characters.

[Galadriel55]

When you're asked to make a short funny James Bond themed New Year script, and you end up making the script so that there are a bunch of agent helpers who all the time bow and say "at your service", and in the process their agent-Elrond (:cool:) glasses keep falling off their faces...

Hobbit New Year, everyone! What? Typo? No. :)

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

I was at my boyfriend's house, and we watched Tokyo Babylon and Return of the King. All through ROTK, I was talking to his brother about LOTR books v. movies

[Lalwendë]

On your five year old's list of words he can read are "Hobbit" and "Gandalf". And after looking at a book with lots of pictures of Dwarves, he is inspired to draw a big moustache and beard on his own face with green felt tip pen.

[Thinlómien]

Thanks to Hookbill, Oddwen, Squatter, Agan, Greenie, Pom, Nog and Volo my head's been mostly in Middle-Earth for the last several days, and today I totally overdid myself by doodling Thorin and Azog (as opposed to the normal random spirals, lines, squares and half-formed flowers) at work.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

When you start laughing at a The Hobbit meme in class so hard that the teacher comes over and yels at you for not typing your Lizzie Borden paper. (Just so you know, it was Thorin hugging Bilbo and saying "I thought I would actually keep my New Year's resolution this year... Never have I been so wrong!")

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Yes, a double-post.

When you put the Return of the King soundtrack on your mp3 player. (yes, not iPod)

[Lalwendë]

Your five year old sits there and in a Dalek voice says: "Hello, my name is Gollum!" and then: "Lord of the Rings is great!"

And when he has woken you up at 2am after a bad dream, he gets in your bed and at quarter to three in the morning starts singing "They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard". :rolleyes:

[darethehair]

[newbie here]

When to both impress and confuse your FaceBook friends, you use what little Quenya (language) and Tengwar (font) knowledge to post 'Merry Christmas' and 'Happy New Year' images on those days.

Of course, some will (in a good-natured way) accuse you of being a 'nerd' :)

The only mistake I made was assuming that they would ask me what the words actually *meant*, but none did :(

[Aganzir]

I'm not sure if this is a sign of obsession or rather just being pathetic and/or inventive, but...

Flatmate and I want to watch some Richard Armitage in black leather. We sit down on a mattress on the floor, but alas we need something to support the laptop with.
"I usually take random books from the shelf," flatmate says, "but it's one hell of a job to figure out how to get the piles even." She proceeds to rummage in my room, and comes soon back carrying some of my HoME copies. "So this time we'll have two identical piles!"

[Aganzir]

When you mistype Guantánamo as Guantanámo, just because -námo sounds more familiar.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

When you somehow manage to work LOTR into a discussion about Loki's daddy issues and Mjolnir.... still not quite sure how I pulled that off...

[Galadriel55]

When, while going up on a ski lift, you introduce your friend (who just started LOTR) to the rest of the legendarium and how it works and stuff (and, incidentally, encourage him to take a look at the Downs :D).

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

When, while going up on a ski lift, you introduce your friend (who just started LOTR) to the rest of the legendarium and how it works and stuff (and, incidentally, encourage him to take a look at the Downs :D).

Oh, a newbie can't hurt! Hopefully he'll get into it!

When you're reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and your brain somehow autocorrects Benjy the Mouse to Bilbo the Mouse...

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

My brother and I just got the LEGO Lord of the Rings game. Oh my Eru! It is fantastic. Besides being based almost solely on the films, the world is expansive and fun to explore. I bought Tom Bombadil to play yesterday and today got Radagast the Brown. I have barely been doing anything else for the past few days, and last night I dreamt of LEGO hobbits. Lord of the Rings was a first love of sorts, and I almost had forgotten how much I love it. It's funny how it took a LEGO video game to really get back to it. :p

[Earendur Isilra]

1.You shout "Fly, you fools!" when you get tired of waiting in a line.
2. You write in Tengwar instead of English in your test.
3.You say your teacher is an orc for giving you an F for your test.(I once asked her why and she got very 'excited' if you take my meaning;))
4.You sing your national song in Sindarin or Quenya.
5.You stay up all night searching for Earendil.
6.Thinking that going to the toilet as a quest.
7.and so on.....

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

My study teacher, whi I had two years ago for science, always asks me how my Elevensies was. (My school has lunch at about eleven o'clock) I also have his wife for my Latin teacher, so whenever I make a LOTR reference in Latin class, he hears about it.

[Mithalwen]

When the predictive text function on your tablet's swipe keyboard opts for Elvish or LOTR actor names first. Brought home to me just now when Csokas was it's first choice for an everyday English word.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

When you get mad at a friend for only having watched The Hobbit because of its actors.

[Aganzir]

When you get mad at a friend for only having watched The Hobbit because of its actors.
I mean, I knew An Unexpected Journey would be crap. I only watched it because of the actors. ;)

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

I mean, I knew An Unexpected Journey would be crap. I only watched it because of the actors. ;)

I have to admit, Benedict Cumberbatch has a hell of a voice. He'll make a great Smaug.

[Lairston]

You have the dream where you're the wizard standing in for Gandalf and shout, "You will not Pass." And you have it over and over and over and over again.

And the falling stinks :P

[Lollipop010900]

1. You refuse to play a band instrument for your schools instrumental program because every time you hear drums all you can think is... "drums in the deep" and "we cannot get out"

2. You start reading your two week old sister The Hobbit...

3. Instead of studying for a rather important test, you watch the entire Fellowship of the Ring extended version, and then when you get a bad grade on that test you say to yourself... "fool of a Took" (even though your name sounds nothing like Took), then realise you don't care about your test because it was such a good movie.

Before i read this thread i thought i was obsessed. When i read this thread i began to think i wasn't so bad. Now after posting on this thread i have decided i am offically obsessed.

[Elyna of Rivendell]

1.Your friend tells you she can't come to your house for a LotR movie marathon because she is sick, you start to cry. And that's NOT because she is sick...

2.You're asked to do a project on three books for English, andthe teacher immediatly turns to you and says, "No Elyna, you can't do the Lord of the Rings as three books."

3.Your friend asks you to find a cool quote for her FACEBOOK page, you immediatley recite several of your favourite lines from Lord of the Rings.

[Galadriel55]

...when on New Year your sister gives you a bookmark with your name in Elvish. :cool:

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

You get mad at your boyfriend because he won't have a LOTR marathon (The movies are "too long")

[Annalaliath]

You inherit the One Ring from your grandmother...

[Andsigil]

When you make your own Tolkienesque heraldic symbols (http://sfw.so/uploads/posts/2009-01/1232498920_j.r.r._tolkien_-_heraldic_devices_2.jpg) for each member of your family. :)

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

Your boyfriend laments that you have unpierced ears because he found cute One Ring earrings

[Lotrelf]

You consider going to the supermarket as a quest.Yes! I do. Going to the market or Supermarket is no less than a quest to me. :p
You believe that your brother or sister is some stange creature that was created in the fires of Mount Doom!
Yup! Keep mentioning them as "nasty, little Orces!"

You suddenly decide you have a craving for mushrooms.I LOVE MUSHROOMS. So yes, even I think at times I can go to a shop and steal them.

You see a flock of crows, and run for cover! I did something like that after I saw the movie.

Mine are:
1). Whenever you meet a new person who loves and reads the books, and you ask, "Have you read LOTR?"
2). Keep talking in Gollum's style.
3). Keep repeating Gandalf's words "don't tempt me, Frodo!"
4). Taking many things in life in LotR's context.
5). Idealizing LotR characters for life.
6). Despite not liking the films too much watching them again and again because they are THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
7). Going for fight with anyone who insults the books.
8). Being able to talk about the books for hours and hours without getting tired.
9). Keep reciting the poems and songs of LOTR.
10). LotR's Middle-Earth being another Home and loving to visit there despite wars and darkness.
They're not funny, but for now this is what I can think of.

[FerniesApple]

You wonder where The Road will sweep you off to every time you walk out your front door.

You wonder why the local booze seller has just told you to 'get out!' after you have pleaded with him for the hundreth time for Ent Juice.

You get reported and banned from your local park for 'hugging Huorns'. :smokin:

Every day is a good day to LARP. pity your boss aint so keen. :(

You get an ugly twitch when Peter Jackson's The Hobbit is mentioned. :Merisu:

[Aganzir]

There was this one time quite recently that Lommy and I had an hour and a half's hike from the bus to the cabin with heavy backpacks. Starting with the old walking song, we entertained ourselves by singing LOTR songs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6jXSsEwqLU&list=PL70AFC5D4DD7FB1CE).

[Smug the Fabulous]

I go into Gollum mode whenever I see one of my friends dropping change.
I get a nervous twitch whenever someone praises The Hobbit movies.
I clench my fists and grit my teeth with a murderous rage whenever someone asks why they didn't use the eagles to get to Mount Doom.
I once held a celebratory lunch on September 22nd involving mushroom soup.
Ever since I discovered Tolkien's work, I always walk around the house in bare foot and at times, put on a waistcoat.

[Galadriel55]

When you entertain your baby brother with the Russian translation of The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late. "And the cow jumped over the moooooooon!!!" :D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Every time I tell my boyfriend how precious he is, I have to avoid saying he's "my precious" because I don't want to sound like Gollum.

Also, my family just had the audacity to have the balrogs having wings argument with me.

[Galadriel55]

Also, my family just had the audacity to have the balrogs having wings argument with me.

Hahaha! Oh my. Sometimes my family attempts to strike up a serious conversation about Tolkien or the legendarium or the movies. I try to change the topic, because it's just impossible to explain the dynamics of an entire fandom in a few sentences of casual conversations, and they don't get it anyways.

(On the flip side, occasionally my siblings would make up funny alternate endings where Sauron looses because he stepped on a piece of gum and got stuck to the floor or something. I appreciate the Middle-earth mirth. :D)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Hahaha! Oh my. Sometimes my family attempts to strike up a serious conversation about Tolkien or the legendarium or the movies. I try to change the topic, because it's just impossible to explain the dynamics of an entire fandom in a few sentences of casual conversations, and they don't get it anyways.

(On the flip side, occasionally my siblings would make up funny alternate endings where Sauron looses because he stepped on a piece of gum and got stuck to the floor or something. I appreciate the Middle-earth mirth. :D)

I appreciate mirth too, but my family, my mother especially, will come to incorrect conclusions about how characters are by their movie counterparts. It drives me nuts.

[Galadriel55]

I appreciate mirth too, but my family, my mother especially, will come to incorrect conclusions about how characters are by their movie counterparts. It drives me nuts.

My mother has read LOTR and TH, and she likes them (especially LOTR). My father has glancingly seen the movies and heard snippets of the books. He barely knows anything about the story except that there's a ring involved. However, it would happen when I was reading bits of it out loud to my siblings several years ago, that he'd come in at the precise moment when some ruffian would be speaking none too eloquently. He would then ask me if it's really a good idea to read a book to my siblings which is written with such crude language. I don't think he believed me that it's actually very well-written and has lovely flowing language, but this character was meant to sound rude and uncreative.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

My mother has read LOTR and TH, and she likes them (especially LOTR). My father has glancingly seen the movies and heard snippets of the books. He barely knows anything about the story except that there's a ring involved. However, it would happen when I was reading bits of it out loud to my siblings several years ago, that he'd come in at the precise moment when some ruffian would be speaking none too eloquently. He would then ask me if it's really a good idea to read a book to my siblings which is written with such crude language. I don't think he believed me that it's actually very well-written and has lovely flowing language, but this character was meant to sound rude and uncreative.

Oh goodness! Sometimes my parents would question why I would read things or show things to my brother. Never about LotR, though. They've both seen the movies. ;)

[Morthoron]

You've been discussing Tolkien for years, decades. For me, it's been at least 20 years on the Internet alone (now there's a sobering thought), and even longer if you consider the age of prehistoric barbarism before the PC. You've discussed every issue, every subtle nuance, every arcane or trivial point, every shred, iota and detail hundreds, even thousands of times.

And...yet...you...cannot...simply...walk...away... from...whipping...these...dead...
horses:

1) Balrog's Wings?
2) The nature of Tom Bombadil?
3) The Arkenstone, a Silmaril?
4) Was Legolas blonde?
5) Orcs descended from Elves?
6) Why didn't the Eagles simply fly Frodo to Mt. Doom?
7) Why is a raven like a writing desk? *
8) Who are the Blue Wizards?
9) Celeborn, where's he from?
10) The oldest being in Middle-earth?


* Number seven thrown in to assure you were paying attention.

[Galadriel55]

* Number seven thrown in to assure you were paying attention.

That is actually the secret answer to the reason the Seven don't have that big of an effect on the Dwarves. :cool:

[Aganzir]

Okay, I know this is deeply inappropriate, but... how can you not think of it? You know the Moria refugee camp?

Human rights groups have criticised conditions in Moria (...) as deplorable and depraved.
"Witnessing the charred remains of Moria camp is shocking but comes as little surprise."
It's not funny, and I wish it wouldn't catch my eye but it does. (It would also help if I didn't work in a human rights NGO where this place comes up regularly.)

(Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/19/thousand-flee-as-blaze-sweeps-through-moria-refugee-camp-in-greece; the second quote is from a colleague of mine, no less.)

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I have reached a point where I have developed a habit of falling a sleep to an LotR audio-book.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I have reached a point where I have developed a habit of falling a sleep to an LotR audio-book.

For many years, I fell asleep to the BBC radio LotR, then it was Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel, and now the boy and I meditate before bed. I can still recite word for word the first disk of FotR.

[Galadriel55]

I have reached a point where I have developed a habit of falling a sleep to an LotR audio-book.

Must be so boring, those books. *yawn* :D

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Must be so boring, those books. *yawn* :D

I should probably specify that I do not automatically fall a sleep, when I come into contact with a LotR audiobook. Rather i put on the audiobook wen I go to bed.:smokin:

[Galadriel55]

I should probably specify that I do not automatically fall a sleep, when I come into contact with a LotR audiobook. Rather i put on the audiobook wen I go to bed.:smokin:

I know, but it would be a fun Pavlovian response. "It's a behavioural phenomenon: the subject falls asleep immediately at the sound of text from Tolkien's LOTR! Other texts, even with related contexts, do not elicit the same response from the subject. The text in question is currently being analyzed for its hypnotic properties." :D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I know, but it would be a fun Pavlovian response. "It's a behavioural phenomenon: the subject falls asleep immediately at the sound of text from Tolkien's LOTR! Other texts, even with related contexts, do not elicit the same response from the subject. The text in question is currently being analyzed for its hypnotic properties." :D

This used to happen to me when I watched the LotR movies because I fell asleep to FotR every night. I couldn't watch any of them for years without going to sleep 15 minutes in.

[Nerwen]

...you find local politics terribly funny, what with all the candidates explaining how long they've lived in the Shire and how devoted they are to the Shire and how much they're going to do for the Shire if elected, etc.:smokin:

[Galadriel55]

On that note, you ignore most political issues because he's a Saruman, he's a Saruman, he's just a Grima, and he thinks he's Gandalf but he still lives in Orthanc. They might have good intentions, but then again, so did Saruman. :D

[Galadriel55]

When at school you need to write the word "habit" but you by mistake spell it as "habbit", which you then correct to "hobbit" without thinking, only later realising your mistake.

I think I did not use to misspell the word habit when I was in middle school. Leastaways I was never corrected for it by teachers.

And then I read this post.

On which I blame the most habbit-filled years of my life.




Conclusion: habbits are contagious. :D

[Galadriel55]

When you mean to write "middle ear" but end up writing "middle earth"...

[Galadriel55]

When at school you need to write the word "habit" but you by mistake spell it as "habbit", which you then correct to "hobbit" without thinking, only later realising your mistake.

I think I did not use to misspell the word habit when I was in middle school. Leastaways I was never corrected for it by teachers.

And then I read this post.

On which I blame the most habbit-filled years of my life.

Conclusion: habbits are contagious. :D

It's been how many years? And I still can't shake off the habbit. :D And every time it happens, I think back to this post. Seriously, this never used to happen until I read it! And now I can't get rid of it!

(But in all probability it is likely just the muscle memory of writing/typing a certain word...)

But to add a new phenomenon relating to writing, in recent months my Google Docs has started recognizing certain ME names/Elvish terms and auto-correcting mis-typed names to spell them correctly. You know there is a lot of Tolkien happening on your computer when the AI learns how to speak Elvish. :D

[Alassë Estel]

You know you're a bit obsessed when one day you find yourself studying Quenya and learning multiple modes of Tengwar. Also, sewing a cloak. And when anyone mentions Rings of Power your friends and family give you one of those "Uh-Oh, don't get her started" looks.