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

[Elalia]

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

1 Someone walks past your bedroom door, you drag them in and ask "Are you frightened?, Not nearly frightened enough!"

2 A member of your family enters the room, with a strange being, you have not seen before and you say "They have a cave troll!" best not to say that one in front of your parents, because it could get nasty!

3 You attempt to walk on snow like Legolas.

4 You consider going to the supermarket as a quest.

5 You spend most of your time staring into a mirror expecting to see the past, present or future.

6 You speak to people mainly in Sindarin or Quenya, then when they ask you to explain yourself, you mutter something about small minded humans.

7 You get up unexpectedly and leave the house, then when someone asks you where you're going, you say you have been summoned to a secret council in Rivendell.

8 You believe that your brother or sister is some stange creature that was created in the fires of Mount Doom!

9 You suddenly decide you have a craving for mushrooms.

10 You see a flock of crows, and run for cover!


I'm sure I've missed loads, so i'll let you write the others in!

Love Elalia x


P.S Please join my council called "Council of Elendili" smilies/biggrin.gif

[eleanor_niphredil]

Spooky. i do 8/10, though I'm not telling which...

[Galenfea of Mirkwood.]

smilies/frown.gif That's not fair! I only do 2/10 but I did manage to talk about all Tolkein's books for 2 hours, I think that should be on the list! smilies/smile.gif

[Neferchoirwen]

I got a peasant dress for New Year, and everytime I wear it, I go:

Instead of a dark Lord you shall have a queen!
...all shall love me and despair!

Nearly did it in chuch this morning...phew!

[Sindafalathiel]

Whenever I have a tall thin vase, I fill it with water, and pour it into a sink and say
Will you look into the mirror?
What will I see?
Even the wisest cannot tell. For the mirror shows many things. Things that were...things that are...and some things...that have not yet come to pass...

[ January 12, 2003: Message edited by: Sindafalathiel ]

[Helkahothion]

Hi people,

You know you're obsessed with LOTR when you grow your hair long and do it like the Elfisch.

Yay that makes me obsessed. Does anyone else do this?

Greetings,

Anuion
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[eleanor_niphredil]

These are not mine, but i love them anyways.

1)You walk up to the ticket counter, the woman behind the desk looks up and simply says, "The usual?"

2)The guys at the snack counter have named a combo meal after you.

3)You've figured out, down to the ounce, how much soda you can consume over a three hour period without having to take a potty break.

4)You're really annoyed that the spell checker on your word processor flags "prrrrreecciiooussss" as wrong.

5)You've ever lied about the number of times you've seen FOTR. (classic addiction denial...)

6)You've even been stuck in slow moving traffic, leaned out the window, and shouted "Fly, you fools!"

7) It doesn't matter when you take a potty break anymore as you just mutter the dialog to yourself and reenact the battle scenes on the way to and from the restroom.

8)

[Helkahothion]

My fair lady,

6)You've even been stuck in slow moving traffic, leaned out the window, and shouted "Fly, you fools!"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA like that one.

Greetings,

Anuion
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[Elalia]

Hi Eleanor!

I like number six too!

HaHaHaHaHa!

Love Elalia smilies/biggrin.gif

[eleanor_niphredil]

You kniw, I actualy did try to do my hair like Legolas once. It is long and blonde like his so it should have worked, but the plaits are fish plaits, making it so much harder. Not fair. smilies/tongue.gif
My main ambition is to go to school with my hair like Legolas, elf ears on and bbright blue contacts to match elijah wood. see if anyone notices...

[Helkahothion]

Don't forget to dress in green when you do and wear a grey cloack. Ofcaurse you claim it is from Lothlorien.

Greetings,

Anuion
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[Meela]

every time i go down a fight of stairs i hum the bridge of khazad-dum music and pretend to cross the bridge at the end

[Helkahothion]

hahahahahaha,

You people are cracking me up.

*chrack*

I wish I had all of you guys in my class. That would drive the teachers insane. Especaly the ckranky ones. They defenitly don't know Lotr. So it would be cool to drive them insane by telling stories of Arda. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA picture that. We could do an RPG for the school play. HMMM picture that.

Greetings,

Anuion
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[Galenfea of Mirkwood.]

You know you're obsessed with LotR when you ring a friend to ask about some homework and say, What orders from Mordor, my lord? what does the eye command?

[alkquareiel02]

none of my frinds are obsessed by LoTR only me and they think i'm strange so i don't get to do any of those things lol but i am growing my hair long again if that counts.I read the books constantly and like to listen to my cd's to. I watch my dvd's a lot. most of my times revolves around M-E.

[Helkahothion]

Dear alkquareiel02

but i am growing my hair long again if that counts.

I do to and for me it shurly counts.

Greetings,

Anuion
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[FarathrimMaiden]

I grow my hair out long and i style it as though it were elven hair or else i curl it and style it to look like eowyn's.

I placed a china bowl on a pedestol in my living room and claimed it was Galadriel's mirror*.

I also wear blu contacts to school, because of elijah wood and because of the many cahracters in the movie that have blue eyes.

also all my friends realize when im trying to look LOTRish

[ January 15, 2003: Message edited by: FarathrimMaiden ]

[Eruantalon]

Hey everone you know your off the deep end when you.

1)You spend 18 hours straight of you weekend reading any of the books becuse as you say."How can I put it down when its at the good part."

2)You find yourself hearing dialog from the book.When people are talking about something else.

3)You keep having Lord of the Rings inspired dreams.

4)Your friends and famly keep saying"your reading/watching it agian?"

5)Last and not least.You make a ship and go off to sea, to as you say"look apon the blessed realm"

[eleanor_niphredil]

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

[Lossentilien]

You buy a dvd player just so you can have the special extended dvd.
You get nicknames like:
Lord of the Ring-if you wear a ring (any ring) on a chain, or the more popular one, Lord of the Rings freak/nut/crazy fan/ know it all etc....
When people anticipate your next LOTR quote, or know exactly when you're thinking about it.

[red]

You know you're obsessed with LOTR when......You start a thread like this.

[Earendil evening star]

I know I'm obsessed when, if I miss the last half hour of the fellowship, i can play it through in my head later, music and all.

I also listen to the fellowship score every night, but unfortunately never have LOtR dreams smilies/frown.gif
Oh well
me obsessed!!!

[Meela]

ha!! im obsessed!! i need a dvd player just so i can watch the lotr dvds!!! smilies/biggrin.gif

and i do most of the others

[Sapphire_Flame]

3)You keep having Lord of the Rings inspired dreams.

4)Your friends and famly keep saying "you're reading/watching it again?"

These are *so* me! Hey, I've got some more:

1) You can recite, word for word, Galadriel's Monolog at the beginning of FotR at a moment's notice.

2) You've written down all the dialog for FotR, in the correct order

3) You've learned how to write in Tengwar.

4) You have at least fifty LotR pics plastered all over your room (I'm almost to 100!!)

5) You have one (or more) of the swords.

[Everdawn]

WOW school in Australia is really different.. everyone here is obsessed!...

You know you are obsessed when someone has to go to the office and 20 of your friends in your group begin to say...

"one does not simply walk into the office"
".... there is evil there that does not sleep.."
".... the very air you breathe is a poisonus phume.."

so on and so forth....

And can i just say... my friends and I converse in elvish and understand eachother... And i know Every line of the movie off by heart... we are movie freaks.. I can also recite Moulin Rouge off by heart, as well as 10 things I hate about you... the list goes on... People at my school wear their hair like the elves.. its well... normal..

[alaklondewen]

The other day I went into a clothing boutique (major weakness smilies/wink.gif) and tried on an outfit. It fit but I put it back. As I was hanging it back up, I found myself saying:

"I pass the test. I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel."

I immediately looked around to see if anyone heard me.

[ January 15, 2003: Message edited by: alaklondewen ]

[Maylin]

I mutter line to myself all day long, and usually manage to crack myself up. *sighs* there are so many times where i'd love to accuse my social studies teacher of being some sort of evil of Mt. Doom. ( ok, he's really pretty nice, but the tests....ahhhhh!!!!!! What is the exact # of blahblahblahblah......)

[nevlhachien]

i know i am obsessed with LOTR because....

1. i wore my hair like Legolas to school and now everyday i do my hair elvish.

2.my dreams are LOTR related

3.i stayed home from school pretending i was sick just so i could read FOTR.

4.i constantly do LOTR dialog with my cat. she gives me weird looks.

well there are more things i do but some ill keep to myself....

[Ainahithiel of Mirkwood]

you know you're obsessed with Lord of the Rings when


1. you make a t-shirt JUST for the 4 days before the Two Towers comes out

2. you were a silver crown that you actually made out of clay to school and pronounce yourself as "QUEEN OF THE ELVES"

3.you're the only person who dresses up at the premire of "THE TWO TOWERS"

4. you hear the Loth lorien theme during Spanish class.

5. you hear the fellowship theme in your head when your sitting at lunch

6. everyother day you were green contacts and flowing sleeves and speak with an english accent

7. someone writes a paper for the newspaper about you going to see Lord of the Rings too much

8. your parents band you from LoTR for a week because it's "NOT HEALTHY" you get up on a chair/desk and proclaim that they have been bewitched by the eye of Sauron

9. you constantly were the one ring around your neck and when you walk up the 12 flights of stairs to get to your science class room, you claim the ring slowed you down because its "getting heavier"

10. your friends who have not seen the movie can finish your quotes i.e. " what buiness.."

"does an elf a man and a dwarf have in the riddemark?"

11.You go to a forum named for a down in the book and actually post there.

[Rose Cotton]

~When you can listen to the Fellowship soundtrack and know exactly what would be going on in the movie.

~When you can listen to the Two Towers soundtrack and know exactly what would be going on in the movie.

~You watch movies just because a cast member from Lord of the Rings is in it.

You know you don't have a life when:
~You've memorized the books word for word.

[Sindafalathiel]

When you nearly fail school because you daydream about it constantly

When you pronounce foreign languages like elvish

When you insult people in elvish, and refuse to tell them what it means

[Maylin]

oh, i thought of two while shutting down my computer.

1) When you turn your soundtrack off, you doublke check to make sure it's off, because you still hear it. ( It happened to me last night)
2) You think the little eye icon up by the website address is really the eye of Sauron, trying to find you......

[ January 16, 2003: Message edited by: Maylin ]

[ElvenSunSet9]

- On you exam when your question is If you could bring any item on with you to Survivor what would it be? and you choose you big lotr set...and plan, not to try and win the money, but to 'tolkenize' your tribe, or just drive them crazy with you antics and when they finally steal the book you wander around doing your gollum impression..(completely guilty)


...::..Lutheyn...::..

[Aiya]

-When even your fellow LotR friend calls you a freak... smilies/frown.gif

-When you know all the music from TTT even before the movie has been released.

-When you start spotting similarities between LotR and an opera by Wagner. I swear, it's true! The Ring Circle by Wagner.

-When you're making an elvish dress to wear at your formal. (And circlet, and cloak, and...)

-When you have a huge arguement with a friend because he thought you had told him that 'nobody likes you.'


Guilty... All guilty...

[nevlhachien]

-when you print out like 50 pages on how to speak quenya

-when you are constantly on LoTR sites posting messages about knowing you are obsessed

-when you ask your mom where you can get some elf ears

[Aiya]

when you print out like 50 pages on how to speak quenya

50 pages? LoL I'm up to 205 on Quenya...

[Helkahothion]

Here's mine,

-when you desperatly clamp on to a jungle gym and scream to the surrounding children:
"Fly you fool's!"
-When you walk to a forrest and climb on a plateau, claiming it's a Talan.

Greetings,

Anuion
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[Rose Cotton]

~When absalutly EVERYTHING relates to Lord of the Rings.

[Donlammenion]

This is a bit of tame but hay im a tolken freak:

-when you take the book and both sound tracks everywhere (even your saturday job) to read at every break with the music.

-when you enlist the help of your friends to learn sindarin even though they havent read the books or seen the movies.

-Getting very upset when someone picks up your book with out asking let alone attempting read the front cover.

-watching both movies more than a doulble figure 10+ at the cinema alone.

Of these i am undeniably guilty!

[Elalia]

Mmmmmmm........ I don't know if I should be saying this or not, but I think I do just about everything on this list so far..... Oh, well, I guess you know I'm obsessed already, wise I wouldn't have started this topic!

Love Elalia smilies/wink.gif

[arelendil]

I have to say i do most things on the list.
How about....
a)You never let anyone else touch your LOTRs books.
b) you always have a tolkien book in your bag
c) you have decorated your bedroom to look like Rivendell
d) you convienced your brother his bedroom does look better with the doors of durin attached to the door.
e) your english teacher gives in and lets you decorate the room with LOTRs displays knowing that if she did it(and did it wrong) you'd get cross!
f) you tell everyone the date in S.R
g)you eat Lembas and other LOTR food for lunch.
h)you throw a new year party on March 20.
i) you own more than one elven dress
j)You judge what to wear by.. would an elf wear this
k)your school bag has an elven greeting in tengwar on it!(this ones great cause everyone asks what it says and then gives you wierd looks!)
l) your dad calls you his 'little elf maiden', and in school your know as 'that mad elf girl'.
I have to admit i've done all of these!!

[Ainahithiel of Mirkwood]

I think there's 3 that I have not done yet.


When you attempt to make lembas, and ask your mother for the magics of the elves.


when you try to make a hithlain rope from strips of bark

when you write Lord of the Rings fan fiction

When people no longer give you wierd looks when you shout out some curse in elvish.

When you spend your break arguing about Lord of the Rings with non-believers

When your mother thinks you need to a phycatrist because you keep talking about Lord of the Rings

When you've actually hurt someone for saying Lord of the Rings sucks


guilty, guilty, through and through

you guys do realize how sad this is? smilies/biggrin.gif

[Artalwen]

Arelendil, I'm going to exaggerate on this one.

f) you tell everyone the date in S.R


When people ask you what the day is today, you tell them...in S.R.

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When you can quote the entire fellowship movie...including deleted and added footege in the dvd...AND the entired towers movie, all in one sitting. smilies/smile.gif

[bug]

wow! i have done quite a few of these things, although i feel kinda...left out still. oh, well, anyway here are some of mine:

you totally understand everything on the list.
you even pretended to get extremely upset when some one tells you that middle earth has never been real
you find out some of your family tree to see if you are related to on of the cahracters....(i'm related to a king named theoden!) smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Thulorongil]

-For Superhero day you dress up as a hobbit and get permission from a teacher to whack all the people who insult your costume with your walking stick.
-You make your way to the front of the huge crowd running to get to their lockers in the morning, start walking reeeeally slowly, and yell, "Don't be hasty!"
-No one gets scared anymore when you run up behind someone and go, "gollum, gollum"
-All the evil people that you call mumakil and ulaers are starting to understand what all the things you say in elvish mean
-You labeled all the places on your Geography assignment as places in Middle Earth
-Your teacher is so used to hearing when they talk that "there is a fell voice on the air" that you dont get in trouble anymore
-You are mad at your brother because at his school, instead of lunch, they have elevensies
-You hear and correct even the slightest LotR spelling errors by other people, even if they are on the other side of the lunchroom
-You firmly believe and insist that all the other books that someone else reads has things in it that the author copied from LotR (even if it was written before)

Guilty, guilty, through and through

[Helkahothion]

Well,

Lucky me. I have elvensies to. And every time we have a break (at eleven 'o clock hahaha) My friends get to hear that it is elevensies. I like to quote Pippin at times like that.

Greetings,

Anuion
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[Sindafalathiel]

you even pretended to get extremely upset when some one tells you that middle earth has never been real
Pretend?!?! come ON,that's not obsessive! Actually getting upset, however...

[Aratlithiel]

You know you're obsessed when...

1) We were watching "Signs" the other night and when Mel Gibson is running through the corn field looking for his children, he stops and looks up and down the rows - at which point my son piped up with, "Mr. Frodo? Frodo? Frodo!)

2) During a Jets/Packers game a couple weeks ago, my five-year-old daughter pointed to Shawn Mills (who sports a very large head of dreadlocks) and said, "Hey, look Mommy, they have an Uruk-hai on their team!"

[Bekah]

This is the first post I've made, and the second topic I've read, but oh...you guys are awesome! I'm desparetely trying to grow my hair again (it got cut extremely short because of unavoidable circumstances) so I can put it in an Elvish hair-style - meanwhile I constantly try to persuade my best friend to let me put her hair up into Elvish styles - I have a white horse (although I have no gear) so I got Kementari to let me put her hair up Arwen-style and get on the horse so I could take a photo. ("Noro lim, Asfaloth, noro lim!")

I know I'm obsessed because when I go to other people's places and I talk about LOTR non-stop - Mum's getting worried about this, so I'm trying not to mention LOTR, merely to listen to other subjects, but that's harder than it sounds <g> - and the mother of those particular friends says 'You're not talking about Lord of the Rings again, are you?'

Also, my birthday's in December, so at the end of 2001 "Please I don't want any other present, I don't care if I don't get any Christmas ones either but I must have that cd, oh please it can be both my birthday and Christmas present but please, please, please I must have that soundtrack...etc." This was for the FOTR. I watched TTT to celebrate my birthday a year after that episode - the next day, after church, I went and bought the soundtrack. I got banned last year from listening to FOTR soundtrack more than once a day...I was soon able to re-live all of the scenes by the music.

This, I fear, will be an extremely long post, but...I keep hearing lines from the movie while people are talking about something else, and then my brain will automatically live out the next parts. Every time I do the dishes, and I'm washing a bottle/can/cup..."The mirror shows many things...etc." Also when I put chlorine in the pool and I'm rinsing the jug.

Any time at all that I can possibly use lines frrom either the book or the movie I do so. Kem calls me LOTR-obsessed - I say "Guilty!"

I go to a park (BTW, I live in NZ) and I hold up the hand as if to find a particular photo-shot..."Look, Lothlorien/ Cerin Amroth /Anduin / the Ford"(BTW, I've been to the actual place where Rivendell, Ford, Anduin, Isen were all filmed...and I've been to the exhibition, which I'm going to again in February)

Anyway, I'm guilty of a lot of the previously mentioned charges...including the printing out of fifty pages of Quenya (and that's only lessons 1-5!).

I probably shouldn't have written such a long post, but now I have two questions - who stole my 'Elentari' and who already used 'Rebekah'? "They're mine, they stoles them froms us, nasty theiving Bagginses, my preciouss..."

Lots of love and God bless,

Elentari (aka Bekah)

P.S. I went to a horse camp this summer simply because I wanted to ride like the Elves...I've got a long way to go though before I can ride like Legolas. smilies/tongue.gif

P.P.S. You know you're obsessed when you

a) Buy a chocolate bar merely because it has a picture of Arwen and 'The Lord of the Rings; The Two Towers' written on it.

b) Agree to pay for your little brother's TTT movie ticket merely because you want someone new to discuss the movie vrs. books with.

[Thulorongil]

Where do you find 50 pages of Quenya lessons to print???? The paper would be worth it.

Just imagine: answering people (teachers, friends, strangers....) in Quenya. Fun fun fun...

[Bekah]

There's a website called 'Ardalambion' - if you simply type in Ardalambion.com, without worrying about the 'www', you should be able to reach it...otherwise, if you can't, I'll get the proper link and send it.

God bless,

Bekah

[Marillanna Sarnie]

You know you're obsessed when
- you read lists like these, and find yourself agreeing with many of the points
- English class becomes a realm of possibilities for fun! (I did a parody of a Hamlet soliloquy - think "Samlet" smilies/biggrin.gif )
- More LOTR driving games! If you can't shout "Fly you fools" because the traffic is too fast, play "YOU CANNOT PASS!"

LOL. My friends have said I'm way beyond obsessed now..... not that it's a bad thing!
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[Galenfea of Mirkwood.]

-When you start spotting similarities between LotR and an opera by Wagner. I swear, it's true! The Ring Circle by Wagner.
There are similarities, and for good reason. Tolkein and Wagner used the same legends.
YOu know you're obsessed when you know random facts like that and the fact that Tolkein was bitten by a tarantula when he was 2

[ January 21, 2003: Message edited by: Galenfea of Mirkwood. ]

[raci]

You visit threads like this to get ideas!
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[Hirilaelin]

Well, I guess I'm not quite as crazy as most of you guys (kidding,kidding! smilies/biggrin.gif ) But I do have an elven dress, I have superglued myears into points, I make up elven namesfor people, I correct spelling, talk about it constantly, fan-art and fan-fics, and I even look like Arwen! (Liv) I even scare myself sometimes... smilies/tongue.gif

~Hirilaelin

P.S. RATE ME PLEASE! smilies/tongue.gif

[mark12_30]

I got a big kick out of these (guilty):
you eat Lembas and other LOTR food for lunch.
you own more than one elven dress
you judge what to wear by.. would an elf wear this

I can add:
Things that you scoffed at owning or collecting just a year ago are slowly starting to accumulate on your shelves... "Bookmarks? Bookends? What would I want those for?" (blush)
You have more maps and illustrations printed out than you have room for on your office walls
You experiment with Lembas recipes looking for results that will really travel and keep well
You walk around your neighborhood wondering whether Frodo would enjoy it here
You wonder where Frodo would want to go hiking in your town if he did visit
You take up archery because it's elvish
You buy only jewelry that looks elvish
Anytime you walk into a store you only buy clothes that you think a hobbit or elf would wear
Your shopping buddy says, "I know, I know-- not elvish enough. But how about this? Isn't THIS elvish enough??"
You buy corderoy jackets and vests because they're almost like Frodo's velvet ones-- and you wear them to work with Capri leggings, sandals, and of course a ring on a necklace-- at least once a week
You start carrying apples in your (corderoy) jacket pockets because Merry would too
You start thinking of your Poland Springs water bottle as essential for travel through Mordor
You start collecting various editions of the trilogy for the cover art
Your best friend went to FOTR three times with you even though "the monsters were scary" because she knew that was all you really wanted to see
You've written enough fanfiction that people can't keep your various hobbits straight
Your spouse asks "What are you thinking?" and then when he sees your mischievous smile he says "Oh-- that. Nevermind."
Your spouse looks searchingly into your eyes and asks, "Can't we-- please-- talk about something else?"

[hobbit punk]

Lets see, I have all the action figures from the Fellowship of the Ring(a lack of funds has prevented the purchase of the Two Towers figures and I am an honest person smilies/wink.gif ), and flew into a rage when I first saw the Two Towers at the horrendous changes that were made, spent over $100 just going to see the Fellowship of the Ring, hear the music in my head, can picture exactly what is happening in the movie as the music plays, and have a boyfriend who wears the one ring! Little does he know that the precious is just within my grasp....... smilies/evil.gif

[Lady Of Light]

Here's a new one!

When you and your friends take turns shooting hoops, and every time you make one you gain a characteristic or piece of gear for your favorite character. I have Eowyn's pretty clothes and her swordfighting skills! Good luck on the hair, Kevie!

Also, when you don't get your way you take a commanding tone of voice and say, "Do you dare defy Eowyn, Shieldmaiden of the Mark? Behold her terrible fury and grace!"

[Aratlithiel]

When you and your friends invent a new drinking game to go along with FotR DVD. You (if you're over 21 of course) must do a shot (preferrably tequila but JB will do if you're out of limes smilies/wink.gif ) everytime...

a hobbit cries
a black rider shows up
someone smokes a pipe
Frodo puts on the Ring (not tries to, mind you)
Frodo falls down
Legolas' eyes change color
someone says mithril
etc., etc.

I can't quite remember if we've ever made it to the 2nd disc.
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[Eressië Ailin]

Guilty, guilty, guilty. I am obsessed.

-Getting very upset when someone picks up your book with out asking let alone attempting read the front cover.

Here's my story on that: One day a guy comes over to my desk and picks up my TT book. "What's this?" he asked. "Is it Harry Potter? 'Cuz it's got some evil writing on it." The guy then attempted to read the ring inscrption.

"No, you idiot! It's Lord of the Ringd: The Two Towers!" I pointed to the bold text on the cover.

"Well, then what does that say?" he asked, pointing to the Black Speech.

"Would you like me to read it in the Common Speech or the Black Speech?"

"Huh?"

"In the Black Speeck it says, 'Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul; ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.'"

"What?!"

In my best Ian Mckellen voice I said, "In the Common Tongue it says, 'One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them; one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them'" Then I showed him my Science binder adorned with the Black Speech. He was really freaked out.

Quote that this reminded me of:

Sauron to HP: So you put your curses inside your books? Dude, that's EVIL.

[Goldberry]

lol Eressië. smilies/biggrin.gif

I get called a Lordy, and my friends know exactly what I'm thinking when I am looking off into space or something. Whenever anybody says, "Neither do I," I always say, "Keep it secret. Keep it safe." My best friend, who doesn't like LotR, knows like half the lines now because of me saying them. smilies/tongue.gif

Also, I have a tendency to write, "NAZGUL!", and "Yrch!" all over my binders and stuff whenever I am bored. smilies/wink.gif

[Vuelve]

some things i have done..
1>write my elf/hobbit/dwarf/.... name in my text book or on my papers.
2>you tell people the date in S.R. and how many days till ROTK (269 on the day of this post hehe)
3>gallop around on your horse holding a flag pretending your a rider of the mark or you pretend to fight orcs......the posibilities are endless.
4>ramble on and on about LOTR to your friends
5>take your elvish to school and study it rather than your lessons.
6>qoute LOTR in common speech,elvish,black speech.....
7>you steal other BDers ideas on how to annoy people, insult people.........
8>you find out the things relating to LOTR you do are perfectly normal. (just found this out.)

LOL im a sad sad case , but i like it that way. smilies/eek.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

1) When you start counting down to RotK before TTT is even in theaters yet.

2) When you can here someone mispronounce a LotR name from at least thirty feet away.

3) When you've frightened someone to tears because you overheard them relating faulty information about LotR.

4) When your teachers give you homework assignments, you mutter, "Why do you lay these troubles on an already troubled mind?"

5) When you see the movie at least five times in the first two weeks after it came out.

6) When you have resorted to hanging your new LotR posters/pics on your ceiling because there's no room left on your walls.

7) When there's no room left on your ceiling either.

Yes, I am guilty of all of these...

[Nessamelda]

You know you're obsessed when you walk in the hall and see those people you don't like and shout Orcs! and when you do your hair in braids like Legolas has. (spider braid i do)

[Carorëiel]

You write an essay about LotR for your creative essay class (perhaps bad enough in and of itself) and frighten your professor by reading the Black Speech inscription from the Ring more fluently than English when you read the essay aloud in class. smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

269? Thought it was 268...

I have to say that I replied 'yes' to nearly all of these. My friend spelled Merry 'Mary' and Mordor 'Mordour'. I got the teensiest bit ticked off at her. Who am I kidding, I flipped!

[Sapphire_Flame]

You know you're obsessed with LotR when your friend asks you something about Aragorn and/or Arwen and you can (and do) launch into a total explanation of what happens to them, how they are related, and all the different components in their bloodlines. (I did this at church the other day and scared a bunch of people so bad they haven't spoken to me since....)

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

You know you're obsessed when you want to buy one of those big tote bags so you can carry the LotR trilogy where ever you go.

No, I don't want to do that... smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Haelothiel]

a)You think there should be self-help tapes "You are a strong and graceful elf." b)When you wish that heaven turns out to be like ME.
c)When your friends who don't like LOTR ask "What happened on the Downs yesterday?" cuz they know they're going to find out anyway.
d)You ask random people if they would rather be a hobbit or an elf.
e)Whenever your math teacher enters you mutter "mornie...yrch!"

[Eressië Ailin]

ARE YOU GUYS SPYING ON ME OR WHAT?!?!

You write an essay about LotR for your creative essay class (perhaps bad enough in and of itself) and frighten your professor by reading the Black Speech inscription from the Ring more fluently than English when you read the essay aloud in class.

You're right... perhaps that was a bad idea...

[Tinuviel the Nightingale]

I like that maths teacher-mornie-yrch one thats useful I will use it next time my maths teacher comes in the room...

I got one:
When you teach your little 6 year old cousin all the characters from the Lord of the Rings and she can act them all out perfectly.
(try this one, it's cute)

[bragolheledion]

you know you are obsessed when:
*you wander around your school asking directions to rivendell and moria
*your freinds are scared to bring any food that has fish in it because of your "gollumisque" side
*you are sent to the principals office for stealing a kids can of tuna
*you learn to write in dwarvish and scribble obscene sentances on the blackboards
*for a science assignment you try to make the one ring
*you and a freind re-enact lotr and the honnit to the point where you dissappear for days on end
*everytime someone asks your name you qoute "mr. underhill"
*you poke yourself in the eye whilst trying to make a miniture version of sting
*you begin talking in third person perspective
*you get kicked out of your japanese class after the principle walked past and you yelled "ai ai the balrog has come".
*your teachers know you by your elvish name.
*you call teachers by lotr character name they most resemble.
*your teachers know your orcish name
*you attemted to form an army of orcs with your freinds at school but ended up with bloodnoses and scared nerds.
*your teachers call you smeagol.
*the bookshop owners children are going through colledge thanks to you and J.R.R's books
*you read stuff like this

yeah i know they aint that good but considering what i normally say it's gold.
my ramblings (http://www.titanicwatermelon.0catch.com)

an awesome story my freind is writing. (http://www.thebountyhunter.0catch.com)

[Sindafalathiel]

*sniffles a little* I HATE being sick...naturally, I'm wishing for Aragorn and/or Elrond right now. Then I would have been better, hopefully before today.(I missed my chorus festival)
oh dear...I'm not as alone as I thought. my Gym folder and my binder are both covered in LotR stuff. My notebooks are full of LotR doodles. Silver paint pens are a wonderful thing. (added bonus is that they're silver--think ithildin) *sneezes and coughs at the same time* ow...

[Nessamelda]

i do like all of that! everyones like "dude if you say anything about LOTR again your goin' down" like once i was listening to #13 on Fellowship soundtrack and out of nowhere i yelled "GANDALF!"

[Ainaserkewen]

I know I'm obsessed because...

-I wrote a realistic fan fiction as a french assignment.
-I wish day in and day out that Elijah or Orlando will come by and take me to middle earth.(Highschool is soo boring)
-I ask for the extended Lotr books for b-day and xmas instead of money.
-My friends and I have long meaningful arguments every morning on various details.
-I've learned BY MY SELF the soundtrack on piano and trumpet and recorder.(All the parts too) and play them often to the music
-I can't sleep without my soundtrack music.
-I attempt to draw hobbits in their natural suroundings.

I love this book!

[Lathriel]

WYou're obsessed when you have
LoTR book (in 2 languages)
the Silmarillion (in 2 languages)
The Hobbit (also in 2 languages)
Unfinished tales
Tolkein encyclopedia
Both soundtracks
The DVD of FOTR with all the specials
The sheet music
Symphony #1 (LOTR) by Johan de Mij
When you drive your family crazy with LOTR lore and quotes and your friends too
When the first fan fiction you have ever written is a Tolkein one
When you read the book every year
etc......

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

You know you're obsessed when you want to see the 3rd HP movie just because you know there'll be a RotK trailer in it.

*runs away from flying tomatoes*

[Lathriel]

I had my first LOTR dream last night but I realized that other LOTR characters have walked through my dreams.

[Eressië Ailin]

I got the TTT soundtrack the day it came out!!

like once i was listening to #13 on Fellowship soundtrack and out of nowhere i yelled "GANDALF!"

I do that all the time!! And you know you're obsessed when you know exactly what track #13 is, and exactly what it sounds like. And you know right where to say 'GANDALF!!'

[Everdawn]

Well, whenever any of my friends are on top of a hill, someone takes a turn in saying. "This hill is so high... I can see Mordor form here!"

And the other day, my boyfriend and I were out in the surf, and the waves were really flat and he says to me. "we really need that elf chick here to get the swell up".. meaning that he was reffering to the Flight to the ford scene where Arwen washes away the ringwraiths, I thought it was so cute!

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Oh my god...I just did this about five seconds ago! There's a showjumper in Canada, his name is Ian Miller. Well, there was showjumping on channel 18 and she said, "That looks like Ian...ah, Ian...?" and without thinking I was all "McKellen?" and she was all "No, Miller," and then as soon as I realized that I said that I started laughing my head off. I received weird looks from my mom. I don't know why. Do you? smilies/rolleyes.gif

[ March 30, 2003: Message edited by: Horse-Maiden of the Shire ]

[Sapphire_Flame]

You know you're obsessed with LotR when:

1) You can (and have) read the whole Book in less than a day.

2) Your parents have stopped asking your opinion on family activities, as they know exactly what you will suggest.

3) When your siblings start annoying you too much, you start screaming at them in Sindarin.

4) Your idea of a fun weekend with you friends is to watch FotR, FotR Extended Version, and TTT all in a row, with full audience participation with what's going on on-screen.

5) Your entire Favorites list on the internet is LotR related sites.

6) You are a member here. smilies/biggrin.gif

guilty......

[Mornie Alantie]

When you spend hours a day practicing your Gollum voice and facial expressions in front of a mirror.

When you play a game you are constantly using LOTR qoutes.

Hello is no longer in your vocab, it has been replaced with "Mea Govannen."

[Sapphire_Flame]

Hello is no longer in your vocab, it has been replaced with "Mae Govannen."

Or "Suilad."

[Rilwen Gamgee]

For Halloween, I thought about taking a silver pitcher that we have and a metal bowl and standing by the doorwith the bowl filled with water with a far away look on my face saying to random kids walking up to the door:
Will you look into the Mirror?

[Eressië Ailin]

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

How about when you parents call you by your elvish name?

Lucky you... My friend who has the same name as me, Monica, is in 2 of my classes. On my first day of school, in 1st period, my teacher asked me if I had a nickname. At the time, I was busy writing my latest RPG post. So the first thing that came out of my mouth was 'Mae'. In another class I'm known as Luin, another RPG character of mine.

I know I'm obsessed when, if I miss the last half hour of the fellowship, i can play it through in my head later, music and all.

I've done that before!!! 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.

[Sapphire_Flame]

My friend came up to me and told me that class was over. I was like, 'Shut up! I'm watching a movie!'

Heehee, brilliant! I'm doing that next time someone interrupts me!

I've started talking to everyone in Sindarin. Like, instead of "hello" I say "Suilad". And when my mom is calling me to get out of bed in the morning I generally yell back, "Tolel, tolel! Garo rych lin!" Which means, "Coming, coming! Hold your horses!" She always gives me the strangest looks, especially as I haven't told her what it means yet! smilies/biggrin.gif

[kittiewhirl1677]

You know you're obsessed when:
~When your teacher announces your night's homework, you reply with:
"Why do you lay these troubles on an already troubled mind?"
~When your brother/sister tries to break into your room for some reason, you reply with:
"YOU CANNOT PASS!"
~When someone tells you:
"There's no more food in the fridge. Why don't you go get something to eat?"
And you reply:
"I know! Let's hunt some orc!"
~When you get to school, and you start your day with a very boring class, you tell your friend:
"I think we may have made a mistake in leaving the home, *"(*=friend's name)
~When you've been absent for a while, and you ask your friends what went on at school like this:
Riders of Rohan! What news from the mark?
~When your teachers send you down to the principal's office, and you think to yourself:
"Teachers, they're just Nazgul."
There are more, but I think I've bored you enough.

[Maylin]

I shall soon use those on my teachers, but I doubt the wil see the lotR reference :- It's more fun when they know where your quoteing from.

[Rilwen Gamgee]

-You make little LotR people out of Legos and attempt to re-enact the movies
-when you play RPGs you equip your characters with as close to LotR equipment as you can get

[kittiewhirl1677]

This is a good forum. Unfortuantely it's too late for my brian to be working well enough to post anything fun or just good.

Nighty-night! smilies/wink.gif

[Tinuviel the Nightingale]

I usually sleep with a Tolkien book beside me and the soundtrack in my discman, so I can have Lord of the Rings Dreams...
Hasn't really worked yet though. smilies/frown.gif smilies/confused.gif

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Guilty, guilty, guilty.

I don't have the soundtrack!! smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif

You know you're obsessed when you creep up behind your friends, use whatever you have as a sword, put it against their neck, and say something like "I would cut off your head, Dwarf, if it stood but further from the ground."
I did that in gym once with a badminton racket.

[Azaelia of Willowbottom]

It scares me how guilty I am!!

You know you're obsessed when...
*You have more LOTR posters than you have wall space.

*You dress up to go to TTT no matter if it's the premiere or the beginning of April.

*You call yourself a Hobbit because you are one of the shortest students in your class.(That's me) Or, if you're taller, you call yourself an Elf.

*Your LOTR obsessed friend thinks you are "too obsessed."

*You noticed your teacher was absent the day TTT premiered. Immediately you think "I bet she's in line for TTT" (And you were right!!)

*You convince your teachers to read LOTR. Or if they don't have time, you offer to stay after and read it to them while they grade tests.

*As you hike out on the trail, you sing "The Road Goes Ever On and On" not too loud, but loud enough to be heard, And you notice that your brother is lagging behind you and acting like he doesn't know you... (Whoops, hehe guilty!)

*Every time you go to the movies (Even if your mom dragged you along to see one that isn't TTT) you make it a ritual to go up and touch the LOTR poster.

*While at the movies, you notice that the outrageously priced giant tub of popcorn has a LOTR design on it. Even though you know you'll never be able to eat all the popcorn, you buy it anyway.

I'm guilty of all of those except for the last one (My mom always stopped me and wouldn't let me buy it...
smilies/frown.gif smilies/wink.gif )

[mark12_30]

After reviewing my previous post (on page 2) I have a few more that I can add:

Your collection of Hobbitish clothes is steadily increasing, and your husband suggests how about a few dresses once in a while? (They'll be elvish, of course.)
You're still on the lookout for hobbitish shirts.
You get so determined to have someplace to take Frodo hiking (should he ever show up), that you explore the local state park.
You're already seventy miles toward Rivendell.

[Sapphire_Flame]

Your LOTR obsessed friend thinks you are "too obsessed."

Guilty... smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/evil.gif

[Airehiriel]

Azaelia, you actually offered to read the books to a teacher?! How thoughtful of you...what did they say?

Mark 12_30 (Good verse by the way) You are 70 miles toward Rivendell? Good for you!!

You know when you think about what you want to post on the downs in the middle of the night.

When you desperately try to come up with a cool thread to start.

When you stare at little thumbnail pictures to try and create a funny scene on the Create your own scene thread.

When you quote lines from the movie, and your spouse (our parent of friend) looks at you like you've fallen off your rocker because they have absolutely no idea why those words just came out of your mouth because they have absolutely nothing to do with what was going on.

[Sapphire_Flame]

When you stare at little thumbnail pictures to try and create a funny scene on the Create your own scene thread.

When you quote lines from the movie, and your spouse (or parent or friend) looks at you like you've fallen off your rocker because they have absolutely no idea why those words just came out of your mouth because they have absolutely nothing to do with what was going on.

Guilty again...

When you dress up as a character on a regular basis. Myself, I'm a hobbit one day each week.

When the first thing you ever say to your friends each day is the countdown to RotK. (252 days as of today!)

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

1) You can recite the whole script in elvish and know exactly what it means .....

2) You can recite the whole script in elvish backwards and still know what it means

3) You know what Figwit stands for (Frodo is great, who is that?)

4)You know who Figwit is...

5)Your meals now consist of, Lembas, Lembas and, Lembas..

6)You always have a shadow and a threat growing in your mind

7) You become deeply annoyed when your teacher tells you that you cannot take a GCSE or A-level in elvish

8) None of your friends can understand your e-mails any more because they are all written in dwarvish runes

9) You have been practicing skating down the stairs on your mums best tea tray

10) You think that skating down the stairs on your mum's best tea tray is a perfectly sane thing to do....

11) Your bedroom is a shrine to all the lord of the rings characters.

12) You avoid climbing snowy mountains (unless you are an elf and can walk on snow)

13) You convince your self you are an elf and try to walk on snow (fail miserably!)

14) You discover that super gluing your ears into a point is not a good idea

15) You have just spent hundreds of dollars buying Arwen's pendent......

16) You have just given your hundred dollar pendent away to your Aragorn look-alike teacher,

17) You DON'T feel stupid at all after doing this!

18) You wonder why your friends have disowned you after you tried to convince a tree you were an elf.

19) You still are wondering why your friends have disowned you.

20) You begin to feel a strange urge to grow your hair long and dye it blonde.

21) You have forgotten what your real name is.

22) You are disappointed that your friend can still see you when you slip on your gold ring!

23) You have thrown away all of your shoes.

24) When you are angry at someone you think to yourself Evil, Fat, nasssty, Hobbitses

25)You are thinking how do they know all this about me?

[ April 09, 2003: Message edited by: GaladrieloftheOlden ]

[Shy Hobbit]

A mishap happens and you say "Well that was close!" and get mad at yourself for not saying in with a scottish accent like Pippin

You're family thinks you're weird because you find hobbits to be cute

You're family thinks you're weird when they call Merry and Pippin idiots and you reply "THEY'RE NOT IDIOTS!!!!!" smilies/mad.gif

You start LotR captions threads on non LotR message boards

You plan to build a house someday with an entire room dedicated to displaying all the swords, replicas, etc that you have

You name your car Shadowfax

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

A mishap happens and you say "Well that was close!" and get mad at yourself for not saying in with a scottish accent like Pippin

You're family thinks you're weird because you find hobbits to be cute

You're family thinks you're weird when they call Merry and Pippin idiots and you reply "THEY'RE NOT IDIOTS!!!!!"

You start LotR captions threads on non LotR message boards

You plan to build a house someday with an entire room dedicated to displaying all the swords, replicas, etc that you have

You name your car Shadowfax
Well. I've done the first. I've done the second, but not about hobbits. About Elves. I've done the third and fourth, and would do the fifth if I had a car. smilies/rolleyes.gif Which will be in, hoom, a while.

[Captin_Faramir]

((Sorry if these were said))

1) You take your friend to go see TTT for his/her first time, and by the time you get to the theater you've quoted the whole movie word for word.

2) You spend your art/homec class making LOTR charactors, even if your homework isn't even close to LOTR

3) Whenever your parents say something, you always qoute from the movie/books a response (hey, whenever my parents say "crows" I respond "Crebain from Dunland!")

4) Your whole room is covered head to foot with LOTR

5) You spend your free time making Flash Movies about LOTR

6) Whenever you take liquid medicine you gag and say "Orc Draught!"

7) All your pets are or are going to be named something from LOTR

8) You nickname your friends after the Fellowship

9) You take every chance you get to perform or audition in anything LOTR realated

10) When you get absoulutly frustrated you start shouting in the Black Speech

[Sapphire_Flame]

You plan to build a house someday with an entire room dedicated to displaying all the swords, replicas, etc that you have
How do you people know all these things about me?

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

You know you're obsessed when:
~someone asks you to do something and you say "Yes, Master Frodo."
~you get extremely upset because you haven't seen Two Towers or FotR in "such a long time!" (meaning three days)
~you get upset because Halloween is in a very long time and you dont have the cash to get a replica sword or costume
~whenever you hear the word "rings" or "lord" you sit up/jump up and yell "WHAT?"


Your LOTR obsessed friend thinks you are "too obsessed."
Are you stalking me?

[One Axe to Rule them All]

1). When you reenact the entire trilogy of movie with legomen (guilty!)

2). When you can speak fluent Elven (I Wish!)

3). When your rpg characters are all named Names of LOTR characters and you outfit them to be just like the actual character (Guilty)

4). when you find yourself making a fourth book of the series (Not guilty)

5). when you play the LOTR card game (Guilty)

6). when you wear the one ring at at ALL times (not Guilty)

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Captin_Faramir- I do all of the ones on your list except for Flash Movies. *lightbulb* Ooh, another LotR thing to do! Yay! smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Arvedui III]

hehe, here's some:
You know obsessed with LOTR when:

1. When your idea of a good time is learning elvish.

2. You spend months trying to write up a decent fan-fiction.

3. When, for a community servce, you read the Hobbit to little kids smilies/smile.gif

4. You waist away hours talking about LOTR on the Barrow-Downs.

5. When your parents no longer inculde you in planing what movie to see.

6. When you've memerized ROTK

[Rilwen Gamgee]

~ you sing the Goldfish Song ("I like Goldfish 'cause they're so delicious!") in a Gollum voice

[Lily Bombadil]

WE ARE TRULY OBSESSSSSED, MY PRECIOUSSS!!!!

~I sing "THE ROAD...", every Tom Bombadil song, the song from THE HOBBIT about chipping Bilbo's plates, & the inn song!
~I have full fledged discussions about the LotR scenario as if it were real!
~I'm always saying either 'Ai na vedui, *friend's name*! Mae govannen!' or I amar prestar aen...!
~I get enraged when my sister calls Sam fat , Frodo gay, & Pippin retarded!
~ I like ale & BEER (I'm only in jr high) & mushrooms! (Lembas sounds goood)!!!
~ I may be 5' 4", but I have so many other hobbit qualities that I'm convinced that I'm part hobbit! HELLLP!!! I need a pint...
~I DO practice my Gollum voice!
~I like writing fan fics!
~I insisted that my costume for the school play look Middle-earthen!
~I often tell aquaintances, ' I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.' !!!
~and finally:
'THE LIST GOES EVER ON AND ON,
DOWN FROM THE PAGE WHERE IT BEGAN!
NOW FAR AHEAD THE LIST HAS GONE,
AND I MUST FINISH IF I CAN!....'


smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif OH, ELBERETH! GILTHONIEL! WHAT HAS COME UNTO ME?!! I'M CRAZIER THAN BOROMIR! BUT THAT'S COOL.

[Lily Bombadil]

I also forgot-
~When we travel, I say, ' That settles it. Short-cuts make delays, but inns make longer ones.'
~I love any kind of old hobbitish music.
~I make up my own Middle-earth folk songs
~I like to think of myself as Luthien Tinuviel (sometimes) a wise jr high kid who knows way more about the world than my enemies. Or Galadriel. . smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif
I THINK I'M COOKOO!!!

[Vuelve]

*You have a habbit of taking a walking stick with you wherever you go.
*You get mad when the teacher won't accept your book report on a fellow BDer's fan fic.
*Even though you are way too young you have already decided your children will have LOTR related names.Your favorite being the twins Gollum & Smeagol, reguardless of thier gender.
*You sing non-LOTR songs in Elvish.
*You freestyle rap in Elvish.

[Goldberry]

lol smilies/biggrin.gif

If you are in math class or some other quite boring class and are thinking about some funny LOTR scene (especially a Merry+Pippin or Legolas+Gimli scene) and suddenly you laugh out loud, causing funny looks from all the others in the class and the teacher. Yup I did that today in math and I always do it in science too - my two most boring classes. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Captin_Faramir]

I got another one:

11) You gather a bunch of children around you and start telling of your adventures. ("So there I was, 3 monsterous guys came and sat in front of me in the movie theater...")

That one was stupid...

[Goldberry]

lol, I think that is funny, Captain_Faramir! smilies/biggrin.gif And welcome to the BD's. smilies/smile.gif

[ April 10, 2003: Message edited by: Goldberry ]

[Annalaliath]

you come up with fourty- six new obsessions that all aply to you or others you know.

When sibliings steal the one ring from you that you "barrowed" from a freind.

When you carry around your LOTR action figure to photo class and call him your Little Dark Room Buddie.

Your step-dad reminds you agian and agian that it is not real.

He bigins to hate talking to you because that is all that you talk about.

Your grandmother is obsessed

you fight with her because she steals all of your LOTR stuff.

You put rogain on you feet

You change you last name to baggins

You call your grandfather Gandalf when his name is Ollie

You call your butter knife Sting

You and your freinds qote the LOTR all the time at work till they finally fire one of you.

You love to talk to people who love LOTR

When you want to start a Tolkien convention

Tolkien's family has a restaining order

People at church start to wonder

Your family has 15 copies of all the books and movies

Your mother is obsessed

she buys you grey outfits

You rented the old LOTR movies till the copy at Smith's stopped working

You almost believe Middle earth exists

You wonder what the hobbits would be doing if they were here

you take pictures of your action figures for photo class and call it your documentary assignment

you call your freinds in Bio class names like Yrch and elf boy

You choose to read LOTR instead of the other class book for English and are the only one

You stay after to argue the finer point of LOTR with your teacher

You ALWAYS bu the Brandywine brand of mushrooms at the store, and call them the Hobbit Mushrooms.

You know treebeard would love your Village

You correct freinds friends when they are talking about LOTR

You and your best friend come up with cenarioes

You looke for the Tolkien computer in the lab where all the computers are named after famous authors

You are offered to have a Tolkien booth at a local convention

Are late to class because of the Barrowdowns

Your friend mentions that your handwriting looks like it could be elfish

you recomend LOTR

You say things like " Stupid fat Hobbit" and " Fool of a Took" when anyone skrews up

you dicribe yourself as a dwarf with a smigion of Took

You name your cat Smeagol

You argue the finer points of how to say Smeagol with your grandmother

You have an Elijah wood and Orlando Bloom marathon before seeing any of the LOTR movies.

You see Ship Rock New Mexico as Mordor on earth

You think your back yard looks like a Hobbit gardon

You search the entire state for a Legolas action figue.

[Arafangwen]

I got some!!! smilies/biggrin.gif

*Even though you aren't even dating yet(I know, I know)you've already decided what your childrens names are going to be according to what they sound like in Elvish smilies/biggrin.gif

*You've also decided that your childrens first laungage will be Quenya

*You aren't allowed to print anything ever again on account of the seventy-five pages you used when learning Quenya

~I'm brain dead but at least I know that much smilies/biggrin.gif

[Arafangwen]

Just thought of another smilies/wink.gif

* you know your obsessed when you drop a launguage you actualy VOLUNTEERED to learn of your own free will to learn Quenya smilies/wink.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[BethoHOG]

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

You have over 300 The Lord of the Rings pictures saved on your computer in a folder and organize it frequently.

[Eressië Ailin]

ARE YOU PEOPLE STALKING ME?!?!

~Somehow, everything in the world suddenly seems to be, no matter how distant, related to LoTR.

~You're about to pull off your fourth all-nighter in a row becuase you've been on the Downs instead of doing homework.

~Your friends have been calling your obsession 'unhealthy'.

~Did I just say friends? Well, they don't really exist anymore because of your obsession.

[Eressië Ailin]

Just got some more ideas!

~You aren't allowed to print anything anymore because you printed out the FoTR abd TTT scripts, found tons of mistakes, and printed them out again from another site.

~Your 14 and you've decided that your daughter's name will be Elanor Madeleine ?????, and that your son's first name will be either Beren or Sam, Samwise on the birth certificate.


And for anyone who is wondering/cares, yes, I did get the Madeleine from Monsuier Madeleine of Les Misérables, and yes, I know that Monsuier Madeleine is a guy, but the French have rather strange names sometimes, and no, I've got nothing against the French.

[ April 13, 2003: Message edited by: Eressië Ailin ]

[Galenfea of Mirkwood.]

You know you're obsessed when:

In programming you name all your variables Legolas_rules or Denathor_is_a_loony, the list goes on.

You ride up and down the garden on a bike with a home-made bow pretending to shoot things

you own a home-made bow

You look at a list like this and keep going "yes... yes... guilty... oh good, I'm not wierd... guilty"
smilies/smile.gif

[ April 11, 2003: Message edited by: Galenfea of Mirkwood. ]

[Sapphire_Flame]

2. You spend months trying to write up a decent fan-fiction.

Amendment: You spend years trying to write up a decent fanfic. (guilty...)

Are late to class because of the Barrowdowns

very, VERY guilty...

When your nickname around school/work is Elf Girl, because you can speak Sindarin. (guilty)

When your obsession is scaring other LotR fanatics. (guilty)

[Arafangwen]

Oh, this one's really bad smilies/wink.gif

*You know you're obsessed when you have secret hide away just for thinking about LOTR and nothing else smilies/biggrin.gif Guilty smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Mornie Alantie]

When your Dad wakes you up every morning by YELLING the nickname "Elrond" (guilty)

When you just start a youthgroup and by the second week you get a nickname, and other catch on (mine is Aaron of Gondor- They pronounce it A-ron)

you leave Barrowdowns on your computer waiting for someone to reply to one of your posts (guilty)

You use a LOTR nickname for everything (guilty)

You aren't allowed to mention LOTR. the Punishment is many eyes rolling.

You can go from the begining of middle earth and give the history all the way to the third age and beyond.

[Mirabella]

you know you're obsessed when...

**your best friend hits you every time you mentoin any thing even remotely related to LOTR.

**one of your arms is blue from all the hitting.

**you waer a cloak to school

**you think tha's cool.

**half the guys at school know you as 'that pointy eared chick'.

**you think that's cool.

**the other half of the guys at school know you as 'our residant LOTR expert'.

**you think that's cool.

**for an assinement in your adio-vidio class, youdid an interview with the Dark Lord.

**you think that's cool.

very gilty of all of these things! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

**for an assignment in your audio-video class, you did an interview with the Dark Lord.

Hey that sounds cool! I'm taking a class like that next year, and I'm *SO* gonna do that!! Thanks for the idea, Mirabella!

[Annalaliath]

For my photo final i think the theme will be...... LOTR!!!!! but that is just me. Now for the hard part what will i photograph?

You shoot people with the little bow from your Legolas action figure.

You call your LOTR fanatic friend and leave messages in Sindarlian on her answering machine.

[ April 11, 2003: Message edited by: Annalaliath ]

[Galenfea of Mirkwood.]

when you write to your LotR fanatic cousin (who you converted from Harry Potter) you converse in Tengwar

[Annalaliath]

you get mad at the photo you took of your legolas action figure case the face is all washed out, and you hate to dodge and burn anything.


You go to your frend's prom, although you are no longer in high shcool, and wear the most elflike thing you can. All this and considering all the lace and such that you have is black;black with spiderwebs type lace. OOOOOOO I can help out the coming of Shelob in the TT movie!!!!! Coolness, he thinks i am going goth but little does he know.


You become the doller a yard queen at wal-mart.

[ April 12, 2003: Message edited by: Annalaliath ]

[Annalaliath]

when the song "to grandmothers house we go" takes on a whole new meaning

when you post about 10 things a day just beacuse you are at shcool and you can do it.

your cs 150 instructor wonders when, in exel, you make a table on how fast the population of middle earth grows, along with a graph.

your excuse for being late to you cs 150 class is i ran into a group o marroding yrchs, I am sarry.

[Lily Bombadil]

Here's what my mom said:

~You know you're obsessed when you grow a long white beard & carry a cane.
~You know you're obsessed what you get a perm just to look like a hobbit.
~You know you're obsessed when you legally change your name to one of those belonging to a fellowship member.
~You know you're obsessed when you go in search of the Ring yourself
~And (my favorite) You know you're obsessed when you can't shut up about LotR

[Eressië Ailin]

~You know you're obsessed what you get a perm just to look like a hobbit.


I didn't do that, but I grew my hair out and got an Èowyn-perm.

~Instead of doing classwork, you are working on your latest RPG post.

[ April 13, 2003: Message edited by: Eressië Ailin ]

[Annalaliath]

you work on a note for your friends friend and when she get it,yur freind,Tim reports, she throws it in the trash. You respond, " But that was real ink on nice papaer, didn't she know that?" Then you just get mad because of all the tranlsating wrk and the ink she wasted.

You decide that instead of the comming of shelob, you would rather go to prom as Galadriel, so you go buy the material.

[Rilwen Gamgee]

~ you actually try to bake Lembas smilies/biggrin.gif
~ you walk around the house in your Hobbit costume, even though it's not Halloween yet
~ after the movie just came out on video/DVD and the store plays FotR on TV, you stop walking and watch
~when you sing the Goldfish song ("I like the fishes 'cause they're so delicious!") in a Gollum voice

[ April 14, 2003: Message edited by: Rilwen Gamgee ]

[ April 22, 2003: Message edited by: Rilwen Gamgee ]

[Goldberry]

When you are in the video store and your mom asks "what we should get?", and you say, "How about LotR?" even though you already own it on video and DVD. smilies/tongue.gif

[Hookbill the Goomba]

You know youv'e had too much lord of the rings when....
1) you get realy angry at Santa clause films and programs when the show 'elves'
2) you get a pipe, even if you don't smoke.
3) you think that you can't have too much lotr.
smilies/smile.gif

[steve]

~you know your obsessed with LotR when you wear the one ring from the LotR risk game on your pinkey finger untill you can afford a real gold one

[Sapphire_Flame]

~ you actually try to bake Lembas
~ you walk around the house in your Hobbit costume, even though it's not Halloween yet
~ after the movie just came out on video/DVD and the store plays FotR on TV, you stop walking and watch
I swear you guys are all spying on me!!
you know your obsessed with LotR when you wear the one ring from the LotR risk game on your pinky finger untill you can afford a real gold one
THERE'S AN LOTR RISK GAME?!?!?! WHERECANIGETITWHERECANIGETITWHERECANIGETIT?!?!?!?!

[Lily Bombadil]

~Actually, I wear the ring from my sister Ringwraith bookmark. (screwy things! Mine was Eowyn. It broke!)
~I drew Thror's Map & plan to frame it. Really!
~sometimes for fun I go to my sisters room, reach for her ring & say, "They stole it, my preciousss! And we wantss it!" (it's cool, because it really freaks her out...)

YOU KNOW YOU'RE OBSESSED WITH LOTR WHEN.....

~you ask random people, "What has it got in its pocketses?"
~you run into the house ater school screaming, "The Nazgul are coming! The Nazgul are coming!" *guilty..*
~when your best mellon has their appendix removed you stand over them in the hospital saying, "Im Arwen. Telin le thaed. Lasto beth nin, tolo dan nan galad."
~when your grandma visit, you run to her calling, "Ai na vedui, Granny! Mae govannen!"
~at the pool, you see some people you don't like on the other side so you shout, "Nin o Chithaeglir, lasto beth daer; Remmo nin Bruinen, dan in Ulaer! Nin o Chithaeglir, lasto beth daer; Remmo nin Bruinen, dan in Ulaer!!!!"
~the lifeguard asks you not to come back.
~you look into the toilet bowl expecting to see what will come to pass if you should "fail".
~when it's time for student elections you tell the voters, "In place of a dark lord you will have a queen! Not dark, but beautiful; terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the sea! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me & despair!"
~the principal sends you home to get some sleep.
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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

[Arvedui III]

WHERECANIGETITWHERECANIGETITWHERECANIGETIT?!?!?!?!
I know they sell it at Barnes and Noble and Borders book store (selling risk at book stores, go figure)
Uh, what make you really obsessed with LOTR is when you wear the one ring while playing risk, and in the process freek out all your friends smilies/biggrin.gif

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

*You know you're obsessed when you have secret hide away just for thinking about LOTR and nothing else Guilty
Yup! smilies/rolleyes.gif **your best friend hits you every time you mentoin any thing even remotely related to LOTR.
**one of your arms is blue from all the hitting.

**you waer a cloak to school

**you think tha's cool.

**half the guys at school know you as 'that pointy eared chick'.

**you think that's cool.

**the other half of the guys at school know you as 'our residant LOTR expert'.

**you think that's cool.

**for an assinement in your adio-vidio class, youdid an interview with the Dark Lord.

**you think that's cool.

Guilty of some. I all of these except- I don't wear a cloak to school, cause I don't have one, but I think it's cool,. and if I had one, I'd wear it, I don't think of "pointy-ear-chick" as a compliment, and if I had an audio video project, that's what I would have done, but I don't smilies/cool.gif

[Lily Bombadil]

At the school dance, someone Asks what you're doing. You say, 'The wave for Boromir the disco king!'

Ok that was lame...

[Goldberry]

lol, I thought that was funny Lily Bombadil. I would do that. smilies/tongue.gif

[Sillabub]

1-you yell "crabbian from dunlan!" whenever you see a crow

[Lily Bombadil]

Thanks, Goldberry. Oooh! Another school dance one-

YOU KNOW YOU'RE OBSESSED WITH LOTR WHEN....

~At a dance you go up to some cute guy/girl and start doing Frodo's funky little chicken dance.
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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

[Sapphire_Flame]

At a dance you go up to some cute guy/girl and start doing Frodo's funky little chicken dance.

*dies* smilies/biggrin.gif

[The Evenstar]

Ha, ha! These are good!

OK, here is mine:

You know you’re obsessed when you dress up as an elf and pose in front of the mirror

You know you’re obsessed when you dress up as an elf AND pull your ears up to make them look pointy!

You know you’re obsessed when the door is jammed and you shout at the top of your lungs: Annon Edhellen edro hi ammen!

You know you’re obsessed when you look into a cave and expect to see Shelob run out from it.

You know you’re obsessed when you build a tree house in the tree outside and hang little twinkly things up in it and name it Caras Galadron.

You know you’re obsessed when someone asks: “How are you today?” and you shout:
“Terrible as the Dawn, treacherous as the Sea, stronger than the foundations of the Earth!”

You know you’re obsessed when your teacher asks you to count to ten (not that your teacher will ever do that!)  and you go: er, atta, nerte, kinte, lempe, euque, otso, tolto, nerde, kainen. 

[VanimaEdhel]

When you get an invitation to apply for summer courses at Oxford in England, and get get seriously depressed because you cannot go be where Tolkien was because of a trip to Russia (grrr...maybe next year).

[Annalaliath]

when you influence inncent children to read The Hobbit

[Vuelve]

-When you watch FOTR you *Do the wave for Boromir the Disco King* everytime he is on the screen.

-Everytime you see Boromir's picture, name, hear someone talk about him, or even when you think about him you *Do the wave for Boromir the Disco King*. No mater where you are: school, store, theater, bathroom, ect... and you are always nice enough to include to people around you. smilies/biggrin.gif

-You think it's cool when your allergies act up and your eyes get red and puffy, because you put Visine in one eye and not the other. Then you go around asking random people if your red eye looks like that of Sauron.

[Sapphire_Flame]

You think it's cool when your allergies act up and your eyes get red and puffy, because you put Visine in one eye and not the other. Then you go around asking random people if your red eye looks like that of Sauron.

*dies*

[Lily Bombadil]

You know you're obsessed when-

~You practice swordplay with a hair brush. **guilty** smilies/tongue.gif
~You tell yourself that if you were Frodo's girlfriend, he wouldn't be a little weirdo.
~You print out Sindarin & Quenya dictionaries the pout because they're far to incomplete.
~When you go on vacation to North Carolina, you address it as a trip to Middle-earth. **guilty** smilies/tongue.gif
~You refer to Texas as Mordor. **guilty** smilies/tongue.gif

[Lily Bombadil]

Oh! 1 more:

~When you think you're being watched, you say, "It's Gollum."
~You refer to your grandfather as 'Gandalf'.
Or, if he's mean, 'Saruman'.

[Bekah]

You know you're obssessed

When you stay up all night, while your hands grow numb, reading all the posts you missed when you gave up BD for Lent.

Which was a very big sacrifice.

You know when you think about what you want to post on the downs in the middle of the night.

Done that before! Hee hee hee!

I am now certain that you people must be stalking me. It is impossible that you should know so much about me otherwise...

Oh! Here's one - you convince your friend that she looks like Arwen, and do her hair like Arwen's in the Flight to the Ford. Then you get up on to your whitish horse, upon which you have just spent an hour cleaning and brushing, and then finally get her against a suitable background - and take a photo.

Of course I forced her into the clothes closest to what Arwen wore.

Ah me.

~ Elentari II

[Sapphire_Flame]

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[Lily Bombadil]

You know you're obsessed when you begin a fan fic about the LotR characters in school in which Gimli wears his dad's "ice" to school.

[Annalaliath]

your step father thinks your sick

you listen to Led Zeplin just because of ," in the deepest deapths of Mordor I meat a girl so fair...."

the libraire staff at school is getting used to you tking up the computers.

they commnt on how you seem to like that stuff

you think of past obessions and wonder why. when an aquointance askes what you may think of this one you say, " at least this one is wholsom." but you don't mention that you have been obsessed with LOTR on and off for about seven or eight years.

your freind thinks that dark elves are evil and you correst him by telling him the entire history of Middle Earth.

[Sapphire_Flame]

your freind thinks that dark elves are evil and you correst him by telling him the entire history of Middle Earth.
I've done that before. Frequently. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Eressië Ailin]

~You refer to Texas as Mordor. **guilty**

*gasp* How could you?!?! 'Cuz I live... DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS!!!!!!! Sorry... but you gotta love those Texans (and me!).

~ ...when you make a 'Save the Ents!!!' t-shirt. And when you wear it, people end up wanting to buy it.

Thank you Rilwen!

[ April 22, 2003: Message edited by: Eressië Ailin ]

[Arafangwen]

When you refer to Texas as Mordor

How Dare You!!!!! I'm a Texan and proud of it, but if anyone asks, I'm from Mirkwood which is where I met my husband.......

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Well at least Sapphire stopped dying.

You know you're obsessed when:
~You do something LOTR-ish in class and the teachers roll their eyes and say "It's just them."
~You make a nameplate in I.A. and you put your middle-earth name on it
~You take your hobbit walking-stick to school
~You plan to be Merry and Pippin for a day with your friend
~You refer to the mean guy in your class as Lurtz
~You write back and forth to your friend on paper ways to kill Lurtz
~You yell out randomly, "Do the Wave for Boromir the Disco King!!!!"

BTW, I have done all of these. Oh, yes. There will be more. Just you wait. Muwahahahahaa....

[Senseless Skwerl]

i am amazed at how many of these relate to me, should i be scared? no way! with anything else i would be, but this IS the lord of the rings!
okay, you know that you're addicted when:
1. your friends try to have a decent conversation, and you somehow turn it lotr related.
2. you wake up in the morning and think, "i wish i had no school, then i could watch AND read the lord of the rings, all day long!"
3. middle-earth is real, this is just a dream to wake out of. smilies/smile.gif
4. memorizing dwarvish runes was child's play, it's those elven accents on vowels you have to work on!
5. when in school, you find yourself playing the movies over and over in your head, just to get through the day, (incidently, that works super well!)
6. when the guys (or girls) in your class try to open up your pencil case to "borrow" something, you say the famous line, "YOU CAN NOT PASS!" and it works.
7. you never thought you were addicted, you knew it all along! smilies/biggrin.gif
8. when running in gym class, you murmer just out of ear shot, "keep breathin', that's the key, whoa!"
9. in gym again, when doing beep tests, to keep your friends going and not colapse, you scream at the top of your lungs, "nuro lim, _____!!!"
10. everywhere you look, SOMETHING reminds you of that wonderful place!
this is me in a nutshell, what can i say!?? smilies/tongue.gif

[Lily Bombadil]

Eressie Ailin & Arfangwen,
Sorry! I meant no offence! Actually, I live in Texas, too, but I don't like it here inspite of the fact that I've lived here forever. I'd rather be in North Carolina with my mother's family & my boyfriend. I don't suppose it's Texas its self, I just hate my town mostly.

smilies/frown.gif Sorry to offend you!

[Lily Bombadil]

Today in history when my teacher said, "Think of all you know about the Civil War." The first thing that came to my mind was the Battle of Five Armies. Worse yet I almost suggested it! smilies/eek.gif

[Eressië Ailin]

None taken. That's why I had the 'lil smilies/wink.gif thingy. Besides, I'd rather be back home in New York.

~You yell out randomly, "Do the Wave for Boromir the Disco King!!!!"


You don't know how many times I've done that!!! And the sad thing is, I always get a group of people and start doing the wave!

[Sapphire_Flame]

You yell out randomly, "Do the Wave for Boromir the Disco King!!!!"
smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif You have no idea how much I do this!

Oh, and thank you for your concern about my frequent deaths, Horse-Maiden. I'll try not to do it so often, I assure you! smilies/wink.gif

[Annalaliath]

you realize that you arer memorizing the elvish script.....

start talking to your classmates (in college) in sindarin and say to your instructor things like Mea Govannen....

you are realy anoyed with your family cause they can't remeber anything out of the LOTR )and there I go again babbling on and on I think i may be realated to a Took....)

[kittiewhirl1677]

Yes, I was having a sleepover with my friend who is also a LOTR crazed BDer, and we kept on shouting "DO THE WAVE FOR BOROMIR THE DICO KING!!!" in the middle of the night, because we could fall asleep. I was surprized when my parents didn't rush into the room and start screaming at us about waking them up! smilies/biggrin.gif

We also imagined random scenes from LOTR that same night... we are obsessed.

Another thing is, that one time I was riding in the car with my mom, and we see this sign that says: Queenswood gas station. I read it as Mirkwood gas station. LOL!

[Annalaliath]

i usually leave the message of "im pedbeth le" on my friends answering machin. i saw her today when she was working and i blurted that out and then i asked her if she knew what it was. she said she was not good enough yet.....

your spelling in Elvish is better than in English.

you use LOTR as an excuse for anything...

[Sapphire_Flame]

When you can fluently write in Tengwar. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Rindoien, elf of Lothlorien]

Oh, 'tis so true! *shakes head*

[Rindoien, elf of Lothlorien]

LOL I'm copy + pasting these into a huge word document smilies/smile.gif

[One Axe to Rule them All]

when you can't see something and you ask your friend "What do your elven eyes see?"

[ April 25, 2003: Message edited by: One Axe to Rule them All ]

[Arafangwen]

Not much taken Lily Bombadil! I know how you feel, kinda..... I used to live in Houston, but we moved and I hate Austin....... *voice trails off as she grumbles something about freeze dried hippies*

[ElenCala Isil]

I know I'm obsessed when...

1.I Wear the One Ring on a chain, and scream "They're after my preciousss" when someone asks to see it

2.I speak elvish unconciously

3.Half of what I say are quotes from the movie (the other half is Quenya)

4.I stayed home just to watch FoTR again

5.I say "there is a fell voice in the air" whenever my least favorite teacher speaks

6. Whenever I don't know a question on a test, I make up an answer relating to Tolkien

7.I have the script to FoTR and TTT which I spoofed and made "Lord of The Ties" after seeing multiple pictures of Elijah wearing the same tie at many, many different events.

8. I made a shrine to Frodo Baggins as a subprofile.

9.My website is devoted to life in the Shire. (and other LoTR graphics)

10. I saved all my lunch money so I could get enough to go to the premiere

and a whole bunch of other stuff which shall not be mentioned

[Tinuviel of Denton]

I go by Tinuviel, I am going to legally change my name to Tinuviel, I have published poetry under that name, to which I respond better than to my real name, and as soon as I have the money, I'm going to have plastic surgery and have Elven ears for real.
Top that!

[Lily Bombadil]

OK! Nobody try to top Tinuviel unless you REALLY can. That'll be hard!

Oh! Know you're obsessed when-

At age 2, you stop eating your veggies & wheaties. When mommy asks, "Why?", you say you wanna be a hobbit when you grow- I mean DON'T grow up.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Texas is Mordor!!!!! (and I live there.)
I forgot to mention this. For my speech class, I did a speech on the history of the elves. I don't think anyone understood a word I said (even though I pronounced everything right.)

[Dûrlossiel]

"Do the Wave for Boromir the Disco King!!!!"

I give up, what are you all talking about? smilies/confused.gif

I go by Tinuviel...to which I respond better than to my real name

She really does. I called her by name three times and she didn't respond, but when I called her "Tinuviel" ONCE she turned immediately! smilies/eek.gif

*Grabs keyboard*
This is Tinuviel. We're sisters, if you can't tell.
*Hands it back to Durlossiel*

smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif

These are great, keep them coming. smilies/smile.gif smilies/smile.gif

*Grabs keyboard again*
Also, I'm teaching our three-year-old sister to speak elvish.
*Gives keyboard back*

smilies/rolleyes.gif

[ April 26, 2003: Message edited by: Dûrlossiel ]

[Nuranar]

I used to live in Houston, but we moved and I hate Austin....... *voice trails off as she grumbles something about freeze dried hippies*

WHOOP! You'd fit right in here in College Station! smilies/biggrin.gif

As for being obsessed...

How many other people have an Elvish name for their AIM screen name?

While shopping with a friend (thankfully familiar at least with the movies): I'm sorting through the hangers on a clearance rank and randomly say, "Back, you devils!" - apropos absolutely nothing. I still can't figure out where that came from!

And I've practiced writing Tengwar letters during math recitation, and I write quotes and Elvish names on top of my notes nearly every day.

[Arafangwen]

Tuneviel of Denton: Mordor is bad! Texas is good! What of that do you not understand?!

Nuranar: Why would I fit in at College Station? I guess since I hate UT..... I have a friend who lives in CS! She's crazy fun!

And for the discusion, I say that too Nuranar! Never thought about where I might have gotten it though...... Must reflect on this...... I also say "You shall not pass" all the time! Life is fun....... smilies/biggrin.gif

[Alatariel Telemnar]

You know you're obsessed with LOTR when you:
~name your pets after LOTR characters
~give people a special name involving LOTR to your friends
~insist that ppl call you your elvish(hobbit) name
~call someone a Took (or Fool of a Took) when they do something stupid
~yell to your sibling "You Shall Not PASS!!!" when she/he would like to get by and you are blocking them

Sorry if these were already done smilies/eek.gif smilies/smile.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Haelothiel]

Your friend steals the one ring and you promptly tackle her and scream "I'll pull a gollum and bite off your finger! I really will!"
You say to your friend, "If I'm an elf doesn't that make you an Elendil?"
Every day you ask Elendil (she did give me permission!), "So once my hair grows out you will do my hair elvish won't you?"

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Arafangwen.
Texas is HORRIBLE HORRIBLEHORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have nothing against Texans, but I hate Texas.

Anyway...
I don't have a ME name for my AIM screen name, but that's because I don't have AIM. I do have tinuviel as part of my email.

Something funny.
There's a theater near where I live that starts showing movies about two weeks after they're out of other theaters. My little sister, not Durlossiel, just turned 11. I'm taking her to a movie instead of buying something. I asked her what movie she wanted to see, then immediately suggested TTT. She gave me the strangest look and said, "That, again?"
What did I do?

Oh yeah. Guilty to all of the above from page one on.

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

[BigEyedDwarfilatti]

how bout you get in trouble for throwing your mothers wedding ring in the toaster oven.

[Lily Bombadil]

FINALLY! I found someone who agrees with me about Tx. Hi, Tinuviel. Sorry Tx lovers!

Anywho, my cousin has a ferret. She was going to name it Smeagol, but it's a girl so she named it smeaglet.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

What is "Do the wave for Boromir the Disco King?"

What about wearing an elven-cloak everywhere so that you're know not by your name, but as "the one with the cape."

And I didn't get to see TTT tonight after all. *sobs hysterically*

Lily: Let's start an anti-TX club, shall we?

[ April 27, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]

[Bekah]

I have no comment on the Texas/Mordor thing, as I've never been there.

This afternoon my little sister and my dad came into my room. This is what I said to them:

"This is no bedroom, but a graveyard! You should never have come here. Get out, get out!!!"

...followed by a few more 'Get out!'s until they did.

Whoever chucked their mother's wedding ring into the toaster - smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif

How'd you get hold of it, anyhow?

~ Elentari II

[Tinuviel of Denton]

*pulling hair out by the roots*
WHAT IS DO THE WAVE FOR BOROMIR THE DISCO KING? smilies/mad.gif smilies/mad.gif smilies/mad.gif
Excuse my hysteria. I've seen this on several posts and I want to know what in ME are you talking about.
*calms down*
It's funny. Right now I have a cough, and my best friend commented that when I'm having a coughing fit, I sound like Gollum in the movie TTT

[ April 27, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]

[the guy who be short]

you should check out the make your own scene with pics thread.

DO THE WAVE FOR GOLLUM THE NOT QUITE SURE WHICH GENDER ROYALTY!

[Annalaliath]

I went to the prom and had a blast. In my Galadriel dress i shouted out things like the old " do the wave for borimor the disco king," and "Frodo Lives." I met some other Tolkienists, one at the resturant, and the other at the prom. Frnkly we started to shout out random LOTR things. We also tried beating up my date cause he called Frodo gay.

you can have a conversation about LOTR with a total stranger and the rest of your friends have no idea what you are talking about.

In the game of Chinese Cheakers(which the whole of the art department is hooked) you say random lines from both movie and book. especially when the ceramic students are checking the kilns," fly you fools," Then you name the youngest member of the group a little kid Laliath, for being the silliest kid on earth.

They get you coffee to shut you up about LOTR.

[Rindoien, elf of Lothlorien]

Hehe..and:
1) Your friends positively refuse to speak with you about boys, movies, blond hair, hairy feet, books, or anything related because we ALL know where THAT will lead to.
2) Your friends tell you they do not want to know anything more about LotR before you even take a breath to start chattering your endless stream of words.
3) You consider yourself bilingual; after all, you DO speak Elvish. Fluently. (Actually that makes me quatrelingual, English, Spanish, French AND Elvish.)
4) When your friends point and scream 'there he is!' you turn around just in case.
5) You want a tattoo of the Fellowship of Nine, because the experience was too wonderful to forget.
6) You know all the cinema employees by name, and they all know you by name.
7) You have added various other meals to your list, elevensies, after lunch, second breakfast....
8) You cannot count on your fingers the many times you've seen the movie.
9) When ordering any drink you automatically ask if it comes in pints.
10) You can tell how many times 'Frodo' is said in the movie. (98)
11) You know the proper Elvish name for Legolas is. (Laegolas)
12) You become irritated if anyone you ask has NOT seen the movie. Insulting.
14) Any other movie is out of the question, it is considered betrayal.
15) You walk barefoot, insisting that 'Hobbits can do it, so can you.'
16) When you see the movie (again) you can quote it word for word. (I amar prestar aen, the world is changed, han mathon ne nen.....)
17) You are insulted when someone calls you 'Human'.
18) You have pointy ears surgically attached.
19) You stare at the birdbath, trying to see 'things that are, things that were, and things that have not yet come to pass.'
20) You cried during the movie. All ten times you've seen it.
21) You are on the LotR DVD/Video waiting list, just waiting for August.
22) You have or are trying to get all LotR merchandise available, after all you NEED, the action figures, posters, games, cards....
23) You are learning how to shoot a bow and arrow.
24) You have hurt someone trying to learn how to shoot the bow and arrow.
25) You have hurt someone trying to learn how to shoot the bow and arrow with 2 arrows at once.
26) You have a scratch on your cheek just like Arwen. Purposefully.
27) You run around in the woods screaming "Ho! Tom Bombadil." And you provide anyone you run into with mounds of food and protection from mean oak trees.
28) If you had a horse his name would be Asfaloth or Shadowfax.
29) If you had a pony his name would be Bill or Fatty Lumpkin.
30) You spent days making an Arwen costume for Halloween, but are insulted when people say they don't know who Arwen is.
31) When someone refuses to hand over the remote control you scream, "preccciousss, we must have our preciousssss."
32) You have scared away people with your Gollum imitation.
33) You envy "little people" because they most resemble Hobbits. You call them Hobbits - they don't like it. You don't care.
34) You are positive that your next-door neighbour is a Hobbit.
35) You plan to name your kids like the Hobbits, Drank, son of Frank or Lorence, son of Torence.

[Bekah]

Well, I've done #2, and my gollum imitation on various things, and some of the others I've seriously thought about or else done in another way (i.e. doing the dishes: take a milk bottle, fill it up..."The mirror shows many things. Things that were..."). Only I already have a white horse, and her name is Lady Glesen. I can't change it. smilies/rolleyes.gif

~ Elentari II

P.S. Do you really have surgically attached pointy ears?? smilies/eek.gif

[ April 28, 2003: Message edited by: Bekah ]

[Arvedui III]

Hehehehe...Crash...Thud

Whew, that was funny. You know you're obsessed with LOTR when:

1. Your gulity of everything posted on this thread

2. You're no longer mad about being short because you make a really great hobbit.

3. You start acting like a hobbit becuase you're short.

4. On weekends you try and have all the meals a hobbit would eat, and end up having to take a large amount of pepto-bismal at around midnight.

5. No one talks to you about movies, the oscars, elves, dwarfs, anything remotly fantasy related, good books, or south park, but that's for different reason...

[Sapphire_Flame]

*snork!* smilies/biggrin.gif

[Arafangwen]

*dies of laughter* *again*

Your LOTR friens think you're TO obsessed

Guilty! Mostly because anytime I'm on the phone it's "Guess what happened on the BDs today!" yeeeeah... That's me...... smilies/biggrin.gif

And how in the world can Texas be even remotely related to Mordor?!? It is the root of all ringies! How on earth could that be bad?!? Unless you live in Creekwater, or Colorado you can't say you hate Texas! There's nothing to hate! Open range, clear skys(unless you live in Austin, then the weather changes every ten mins.), horse ranches, LOTR obsessed youth groups...... smilies/biggrin.gif

[ April 28, 2003: Message edited by: Arafangwen ]

[Annalaliath]

Did I mention that I found a picture of Shiprock, New Mexico and thought it was Mordor.... guess were I live.... But Texas is pretty hot and barren ( at least the place i have been there) and trying to do orienteering in winter weight fatigues was just torture.

[Nuranar]

YEAH! *high-fives Arafangwen* Texas is wonderful! Honest, I've lived my whole life here, actually have traveled many other places, and still want to live here for the rest of my life. There's no Dark Lord here! smilies/biggrin.gif

Yes, well, that's my contribution to the Mayhem for today... smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Rilwen Gamgee]

I'm going to have plastic surgery and have Elven ears for real.
Top that!
I almost did that when I dressed up as a Hobbit for Halloween!

...whenever someone makes a wrong comment about LotR or pronounces a name wrong
smilies/mad.gif you turn around and correct them.

[ April 29, 2003: Message edited by: Rilwen Gamgee ]

[Telquellewen Greenleaf]

WHEN A PSYCHIATRIST SAYS THAT YOU ARE A HAIRLINE AWAY FROM PSYCHOSIS BECAUSE YOU ARE DEEPLY OBSESSED WITH MIDDLE EARTH. YOU ARE BECOMING QUITE AUTISTIC, YOU HAVE YOUR OWN WORLD. THE THING IS THAT YOU SHARE IT WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE TOO. PEOPLE HERE... smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

Hey legolaslover, just a suggestion, but please don't type in all caps. It's like you're yelling, and you don't need to yell; we can hear perfectly fine. smilies/biggrin.gif Don't worry, it's all good!

BTW: Mae govannen, and welcome to the Downs!

[Angadraug]

You know your obsessed when you watch LOTR with your friends and every time the Council of Elrond comes up you pause it and reenact the entire scene.

[Lily Bombadil]

Last night I awoke having Barrow Downs Withdrawls! I think I got a fever...

Here's something:
Your family asks what movie y'all should see over the weekend. As soon as you open your mouth, they all shout, "NO!"

[Sapphire_Flame]

Your family asks what movie y'all should see over the weekend. As soon as you open your mouth, they all shout, "NO!"
That's happened to me so many times... Once I didn't talk to them for a week afterward, until they apoligized. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Trippo The Hippo]

Hey legolaslover, just a suggestion, but please don't type in all caps. It's like you're yelling, and you don't need to yell; we can hear perfectly fine. Don't worry, it's all good!

Thats true unless The Sauce Pan Man came around. That guy is deaf as a door. (no offense)

[Sapphire_Flame]

Touche, Trippo. smilies/wink.gif

[Novlamothien]

There are spies(Or is it rangers?) everywhere!

~ You buy a dress at the store because "It looks elvish" (Guilty)
~ You have read every post on this thread (guilty)
~ You go hiking in the woods with two or three 7 odd year olds and pretend you're and elvish guide leading hobbits somewhere (that too)

[Annalaliath]

you buy the FOTR game, then later when you see TTT game you buy that to( even though you don't have the money) You plan to buy the RTOK game later.

you stay up all night just to beet the game.

you serch the used book store.

you love the painting your aunt did, you just know it's Gandalf.

you argue constantly to uphold the good name of JRR Tolkien, and the LOTR.

[Annalaliath]

You name your latest floppy My Precious and when you loose it you scare your friend Brook by making a Gollum impression. Wait! It is not only Brook its the whole of the library...

You put an entire paragraph, I mean page, about Tolkien and the LOTR into your self evaluation paper for the English Bord to read. You Instructor, however, makes you take it out. You think to your self, " Tolkien, and Humor Nazi!"

A woman in your photo class turns down your LOTR music you call her a Music Nazi from then on.

The head of the Art department tells you about the use of iron and the disassociation of elves and other sorts of the Farie, you wonder if he means Hobbits too. Then he won't play Chinese checkers and you call him a game nazi.

Your final project for CS 150 is a brochure. yours is all about LOTR.

All you names in Access are things like Denther is a Pyro and 333 Bagshot row.

[ May 07, 2003: Message edited by: Annalaliath ]

[Ainaserkewen]

Ainaserkewen's guide to end over edge mental and emotional addictions.

Obsessions can be fun, but sometimes they go overboard and are affecting your life negatively, if you have 1 or more of these signs, you might be...negatively addicted!

-Can't go a day without reading or watching LOTR.
-Have LOTR related dreams more than 5 times a week.
-Your losing friends because they are tired of talking Tolkien.
-Grades are dropping because of LOTR related things(ie. spending class time on this site or reading, watching LOTR.)
-Have stopped going out at night, so you can do something LOTR related.
And last of all...
-Not enjoying you obsession anymore.

If you think any of these apply to you, you might want to consider the following.

To get over anything, you must NOT stop cold turkey. If you repress your addiction, it will come back 10 times more powerful.
The first thing you need to do is arrange a party or sleepover with your closest friends. Friends that would do anything to help. Warn them that your going to do nothing but LOTR stuff. It might help if you get your LOTR buds to help.
Next, get everything that reminds you of LOTR and bring it to your gathering. This could mean, the movies, books, cards, dolls, food(lembas) script and a computer with internet.
At the party, all you are allowed to do is obsess. Talk about nothing but LOTR and reinact the scenes with your friends. Watch the movies along with the books and analyse every point. Go crazy. Do this all night or until you fall asleep. In the morning, you won't feel so drawn to it anymore.
You can do this little menouver as many times as nessesary, and each time, LOTR will not seem so great. You've obsessed and now it's over.
Good luck and don't worry.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Except I can't do that. My best friend would kill me if I tried to talk only about LotR at one of our slumber parties.
It's gotten to the point that if I even mention LotR, she, who for the purpose of posting on BD, I will call Zel Ladrona (loooong story), won't let me open my mouth. She even covers it!
It would be funny if it wasn't so annoying.
BTW, Guilty to most of the above.

[Ainaserkewen]

That's why you schedual it.
That way you say, help me get over this. That's how you find out who your really tolerable friends are. smilies/wink.gif

[Helkahothion]

That is when you ruin youre love for Lotr. And won't like it any longer. And that is a crying shame. You could do something like going out on saturdays. And change it every weekend. So one weekend you go out on Friday and the other weekend you go on Saturday. That way you always spend time with your friends. When you kill an obsession you will kill the love for the thing completly. It is not as if you are dealing with Drugs.

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

You know you're obsessed when:

~You skip down a bustling Edmonton street singing the Drinking Song
~You want to be placed in a boat and sent over a waterfall when you die

[Helkahothion]

You know you are obsessed when:

~You cross a shallow river and scream: If you want him, come and clame him.

~Throw pebbles in the water and run away screaming that their a giant squid in the water.

~Look awkwardly and claim you have to save Middle-Earth.

[Sapphire_Flame]

Throw pebbles in the water and run away screaming that their a giant squid in the water.
You get the weirdest looks when you do this with the kitchen sink.

[Eressië Ailin]

How many other people have an Elvish name for their AIM screen name?

Well, mine's not exactly Elvish, but it's Elvish-sounding. Who else has AIM? My screen name's maelinya.

[Rilwen Gamgee]

~ When you think that ESL means "Elvish as a Second Language".

~ Your official nickname at home is Sam (or some other LotR name).

~ When you find a ring in a cereal box and try to destroy it in your toilet thinking that the ring is "the One" and your toilet is "Mt. Doom". smilies/tongue.gif

[Eressië Ailin]

Rilwen~

Here are the pics:

Front:

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/163908/SAVETHEENTS.jpg

Back:

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/163908/SAVETHEENTS1.jpg

Sleeve:

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/163908/SAVETHEENTS2.jpg

Can you see them now?

[ May 09, 2003: Message edited by: Eressië Ailin ]

[Helkahothion]

Wow good pics. The best red x's I have seen till now.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

We watch FotR in my English class theother day and throughout the movie I was mouthing the words as the characters said them. When Frodo's hiding from the cave troll, my sisters and I count down "3, 2, 1, now!" and there's the cave troll.

Helkahothion, how did you manage to get inside Legolas' lungs?

[Sapphire_Flame]

We watched FotR in my English class the other day
NOT FAIR!!! smilies/mad.gif smilies/mad.gif My school sucks, we never get to watch cool movies, or read cool books, or... *fume fume fume* NOT FAIR!!!!
Helkahothion, how did you manage to get inside Legolas' lungs?
He's got a thread in the Barrow-Downs forum that explains that...

[Bekah]

Horse-maiden, either you're spying on me, or you are telepathic or something.

~You want to be placed in a boat and sent over a waterfall when you die

Unbelievable you are. Only thing is, I also want to look (in a feminine way, you morons!) like Aragorn when he died. I mean, the beauty of his youth and the wisdom of his age. Only it'd be the beauty of my youth and...yeah.

Tinuviel, I understand how you feel, and I think that when it's gone to this stage it is starting to be negative. You have four choices - one, to stay as you are, with your friend impatient and irritated when you mention LOTR. Two, you could kill your obsession completely. Three, you could do what Helka suggested. Four, you can do what I did, which is tide it over. However, it might not work for you. I have had an obsession with LOTR for about two years running now, since I started reading the books. It got to the stage where everybody hated me talking about LOTR, and careful to avoid anything that might lead on to it. However, slowly but surely, I've gotten back to 'simmering' - still loving LOTR and perhaps a little bit more over the top than Kem (nickname of Elvish name of friend) would prefer, but at least it's under control and no longer ruining my life, except when I visit BD too often and get behind on my school-work. Which is amended by my abstinence from BD for a while.

That's all I have to say.

~ Elentari II

[ May 10, 2003: Message edited by: Bekah ]

[Helkahothion]

Helkahothion, how did you manage to get inside Legolas' lungs?

I crawled up his nose when he was dreaming. Very fun trip I might say. You won't believe what people stuck up their nose. I got stuck but he started picking his nose and pushed me over the edge. The rest was easy.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

*tries to look disgusted, fails, and bursts out laughing*

You spend the whole night on LotR sites. Not doing the homework due the next ay, not sleeping. On LotR sites. smilies/tongue.gif

~Menelien

[Helkahothion]

You spend the whole night on LotR sites. Not doing the homework due the next ay

Sounds so formiliar.

[Bekah]

I've been banned from BD until my maths is finished (innocent look at everyone smilies/rolleyes.gif ). I woke up at 5:00am yesterday morning and I haven't gone to bed yet. Around the time my parents went to bed I got on. 'Tis now 12:13am on Mother's Day.

~ Elentari II

[Helkahothion]

It's already sunday in the states? Man, time really does fly. It's only saturday morning over here. Well morning, it's 14:32

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Matters what parts. Here it's 8:30 am smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif All these time zones are frieky.

~Menelien

[Helkahothion]

Where do you come from then?

[Bekah]

I'm not in the states. The states are a long way behind me, baby.

I'm a New Zealander.

~ Elentari II

[Helkahothion]

I'm a New Zealander

Lucky dog.

WOW LOOK AT THAT!!! HAPPY 1000TH POST TO ME smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[ May 10, 2003: Message edited by: Helkahothion ]

[Bekah]

Oh, clap clap clap. I'm still trying to catch up those 40 days of posting Lent took away from me.

Depends what part of N.Z. you're in as to whether it's great or not. My part's okay, at least it's not Auckland or Wellington or something, but it's not fantastic as far as LOTR goes.

~ Elentari II

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Happt thousandth post to you! smilies/biggrin.gif And mine was just a few days ago smilies/smile.gif I'm in New England, USA. Massahusetts to be more exact. I love it here but it's a litte godforsaken place, no BDers ever come here to visit! smilies/mad.gif smilies/mad.gif smilies/mad.gif

~Menelien

[Helkahothion]

Just gimmie the money and I will be on a plane on the 12th of july.

[Bekah]

I know of two BDers in Wellington and one future member in Taupo.

Not so near to me that I can visit. smilies/frown.gif

~ Elentari II

P.S. Maybe I'll delete this post shortly...

P.P.S. I have money?!?!?

[ May 10, 2003: Message edited by: Bekah ]

[Helkahothion]

You should not feel so damn sorry. I live on Holland. Now who the hell lives in Holland except me? Most of you live in the UK US or New Zealand. Pretty damn far if you ask me.

[Bekah]

Yeah, sure, heaps of people in N.Z. are also BDers.

I wouldn't mind visiting Holland one day. But don't feel too special because I'd like to go to Scotland a whole heap more. Not to mention the rest of the U.K., the U.S., Germany, Austria, Australia... smilies/biggrin.gif

~ Elentari II

P.S. Also, I'd just like to slightly ease the mod's load by not being a pain myself.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

No one's in MA except me and kittiewhirl, and I see her every weekend anyway, almost, since I was like 5/6. (That's five or six, not five sixths. I just thought somebody might try to go off topic with that, so I'm typing it here smilies/smile.gif) Holland must be better.

~Menelien

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Tonight? Wait- are the times so different that it's night where you are??? smilies/confused.gif

~Menelien

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

We're 7 hours apart. But I was on at 1:16 by our time and by your time smilies/tongue.gif

~Menelien

[Bekah]

Huh?

[Edit: How can that be? Both my time and your time?]

[ May 10, 2003: Message edited by: Bekah ]

[the guy who be short]

you have a dream involving hiding in hobbit holes.
you quote lines at times when they dont make sense and have no relevance.

[Sapphire_Flame]

I live on Holland. Now who the hell lives in Holland except me?
I have relatives that live in Dordrecht, and my grandparents are both from Holland. Why on earth they decided to move to Utah is beyond me; I think Holland would be more interesting.

Happy 1000th post, BTW. smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Helkahothion]

*snif snif*

This is the happiest day in my life.

Do you speak Dutch Anyway?

[Sapphire_Flame]

Eh, not tons. Like, I can count, and swear, that's about it. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Helkahothion]

Well what else do you need from a foreign language except counting and swearing?

SO you understand when I call you a vuile lelijke gore achterbakse tyvushond?

Or a Uit de baarmoeder gezwaaide neukfout?

Ill bet you won't. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

My mother's a what? I'm telling my grandpa on you.

[Rilwen Gamgee]

Rilwen~
Here are the pics:

Er... I didn't ask for pictures.

[Helkahothion]

NONONO. There is not mother in it. It's baar moeder. I don't know the english word but the latin word is Uturus.