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the guy who be short 06-15-2003 02:19 PM

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a stick with a pine cone on the end as a mace
The pine cone is now severely broken as a result of you using your "Sauron mace" to whack elves and men (the door and the wall).
I really scare myself.

Finwe 06-16-2003 08:48 AM

You nearly kill the gardener as a result of practicing archery in your backyard. (Poor guy!)

You climb up onto your roof during a garden party that your parents had for their friends, and started screeching "Precioussss...My Precioussss..." over and over again.

You do almost all the things that have been mentioned on this list.

You are starting to resemble a Hobbit since all you do is sit in front of the computer, read, watch LotR, and eat lembas bread.

You try to carve the tip of your ear into a point and give yourself a skin infection. (I realized that Swiss Army Knives are NOT good for self-mutilation! It took a month to heal!)

Try to sneak in a photograph of the Professor in your little shrine thingie on stage when you do your Indian Classical Dance debut. (I tried! I honestly tried!)

Claim that you are no longer Hindu, you are Valarin and your parents can no longer make you go to temples.

Have a shrine to all your action figurines in your room, and light candles on all the anniversaries of special days in the Tale of Years.

Oh dear, I'm starting to scare myself.

Sapphire_Flame 06-16-2003 09:39 AM

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Oh dear, I'm starting to scare myself.
Welcome to the club. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
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5. You socialize more with other tolkien fans on the net, and socialize less in real life.

28. You have seen fotr (the movie) for more than a hundred times, (since the two towers is not out on stores yet, but you have seen it in theatres for 5 times anyway)
Above and beyond guilty of that first one; except when I can find someone at school who's just as obsessed as me.... only happened once, kinda sad, really....

Also guilty of the second one, and I can improve on it....

~You are obsessed when you go to see Two Towers 5 times in the first two weeks after it came out. *I can even count off mine: opening day, the next Saturday, the next Monday, then Friday, and Saturday.* [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Go me!

Hey! Happy 700th Post to me!!!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ June 16, 2003: Message edited by: Sapphire_Flame ]

Finwe 06-16-2003 09:48 AM

You start singing "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" in the middle of the theater because you just met a Tolkien Scholar from Houston who also came to see TTT.

the guy who be short 06-16-2003 10:39 AM

You shoot your friends with your home made bow. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I hope they dont mind pain. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
Finwe, how can you be turning into an elf and a hobbit? [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]
(havent actually done this one): In football, you purposefully kick the ball about ten metres wide of your friend just to provoke the reply: "you cannot pass"

Sapphire_Flame 06-16-2003 11:01 AM

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In football, you purposefully kick the ball about ten metres wide of your friend just to provoke the reply: "you cannot pass"
*snork* [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Vuelve 06-16-2003 11:30 AM

"The list goes ever on and on,
Down from the topic where it began.
Now many pages the list has formed,
Post on it the obsessed-ones can."
[img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

~You go to the craft section of Walmart and walk up and down the fake flower isle for hours.When asked what you are doing you tell people you are "Wondering the paths of Mirkwood", just like Bilbo. [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

EDIT~You have officially proclaimed December, "Ringer Month", and have already started making preperations for the "festivities".

[ June 16, 2003: Message edited by: Vuelve ]

Finwe 06-16-2003 11:39 AM

Well, when I meant hobbit, I meant that I'm starting to get slightly on the pudgy side unless I start exercising. Pretty much all I do is sit in front of the computer, watch LotR or LotR-related things, and read Tolkien-related books.

As for the Elf part, it's in one of the earlier posts, use the nifty thing called a scroll bar on the side of the page.

Tinuviel of Denton 06-16-2003 04:14 PM

I am now officially scared.

A Swiss army knife for elven ears? That's just...frightening. (of course, who am I to talk? As soon as I have the money, I'm going to have Elven ears by way of plastic surgery.)

Your best friend has you to even mention LotR, ever. She is sick and tired of "My preciousss" and "You cannot pass!" What's scary is...so am I. (must read the Silm again to get more obscure quotes.)

Annalaliath 06-16-2003 10:26 PM

You absolutly have to buy the reservation of the TTT at Hastings, just because.

You are disapointed to see the Extended version in the Used DVD section of Hastings.

You are now obsessed with both LOTR and Alcie in Wonderland.

Sapphire_Flame 06-17-2003 10:15 AM

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As soon as I have the money, I'm going to have Elven ears by way of plastic surgery.
Right on, Tinuviel! Those are my plans too! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Annalaliath 06-17-2003 12:03 PM

Plasic Surgery! Dude. I guess I am lame, i was thinking more alomg the lines of the costume and theatre shop down the road. Then I can just buy prosthetics.

You decided to go to school in an Elf costume, just because you are borde(SP).

Not to mention you want of contacts and dental surgury(not for the crooked teeth, but to keep them from getting worse. Not to mention to lessen pain). Although you are thinking of just being of the race of man and pretending to be the decendant of Aragorn and Arwen.......

Youre obsessed grandmother keeps buying you elven and hobbit cloths, although she buys them in the wrong colors. I hate sparly stuff..... Although the last dress she baught was the right color,black, it me fits in the hips and is too big in the top!!!! I am turning into a Hobbit!!! AAAAHHHHHHH! I guess it can't be all that bad. I mean I am getting fat.

You are concidering cheacking out a copy of the Hobbit on tape and dubing a tape for your self at work....

TolkienFreak14 06-17-2003 12:11 PM

I always scare myself. And don't get plastic surgery, because it is dangerous, and if you died nobody would beable to see your elven ears....or you could do it and live and be a freak forever. Oh yeah! how you know you are obessed and crazy things I do.

1. You have a replica of most all the swords, rings, armour,bows, ect. from the books. (i brought my sword to school, i was suspended for a week)

2. people fear when they go even near you that they are going to have to listen you you ramble on about tolkien and books and ect.

3. You get very mad when people don't celebrate Middle Earth's holidays.

4. You go by the Shire's calender.

5. Everyghing you do is tolkien related and sometimes people just want to KILL you.

6. Your public library is always low on Tolkien books.

7. people now have a fear of crows, or at least a fear of you shouting "Crebain (or however you spell it) from Dundland!"

8. If an average non freaky non tolkien person read this (the whole topic) they would think everybody wrote this about you.


Okay, this is all i can think of, and i will post if i think of more. I know i can't spell, this stuff may suck, but it is all stuff i do so if you say this sucks i suck, if you make any comment about this paragraph at the end i will be mad..... *keeps talking*

Salix 06-17-2003 12:20 PM

When your playing cards with your family, and somehow you manage to misquote two movies at onece, and say (in Gollum's voice) "I'll get you my precioussss, and your little Ring too!"

Annalaliath 06-17-2003 12:30 PM

or, " Thief Baggins! we hates it forever, gllum" and " we wants it, my Precious, we needs it my Precious." All in the wicked witch of the West voice(belive me it is an inherated trait in my family).

Finwe 06-18-2003 09:04 AM

I have an idea! Why don't we all get together, kidnap a few plastic surgeons, and all get pointy ears?!?!?! That would be the perfect solution to all our problems.

Now, the only thing left is to get my hands on some height-increasing pills!

the guy who be short 06-18-2003 02:27 PM

Now, the only thing left is to get my hands on some height-increasing pills!

Dont worry Finwe! We Indians are generally short. In fact, we could be hobbits together!
I already have a bow (albeit a rubbish homemade one) all I need now is green or yellow clothing. Oh, and maybe a larger appetite.
This isnt a sign of LotR obsession, but its a sign of madness. Ive started talking to my arrows.
All fear the short Indian hobbits!

Minyataurien 06-18-2003 04:01 PM

You paint your closet door with glow-in-the dark paint with the likeness of the doors of Moria and claim it can only be opened in the moonlight...
You eat six meals a day...
You celebrate on March 25 because it is the downfall of Sauron...
You hold two ignorant birds in your hand and you shout, "Fly you fools!"...
You critize your dog by saying, "If only Huan could see you."...
Every time someone says Luther High School you think they are saying Luthien High School...

Tinuviel of Denton 06-18-2003 05:08 PM

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This isnt a sign of LotR obsession, but its a sign of madness. Ive started talking to my arrows.
Started? I never stopped (talking to inanimate objects, I don't have arrows [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] )

Anyway...

When someone asks you to share your ice cream, you hiss "It's miiine. My preciousss..."

Ditto for cookies, candy, etc.

You pick up random, vaguely ring-shaped objects and start talking to them, calling them "Preciousss" (mustn't forget the "sss" part of that word)

When someone doesn't get your random Gollum quotes, you throw a fit and explain the whole saga from the Ainulindale to RotK. (Yes, I have done that. The poor guy was quite confused. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] )

Bekah 06-18-2003 07:11 PM

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2. You have a FOTR day calandar and you have cut out and saved all the pictures
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I thought I was the only one!
Not by any means. I go pyscho if someone else touches my calender and I keep all the pictures in a little clear sheet. Eventually I'm going to scan most of them and do other things with my precious pictures.

There was something else someone said that made me want to shout "Comrade", but I've forgotten it.

I am definitely insane.

~ Elentari II

Annalaliath 06-19-2003 07:59 AM

Some kids at the book store are making fun of elves so you say Toroiel and walk off laughing as they look on perpelxed.

you nearly buy the twenty dollar FOTR game but decide that it can wait till after the oil change and insurance. But yopu vow that it will realy be after helping the BD but that is when I get paid.

dancing spawn of ungoliant 06-19-2003 10:43 AM

couldn't read all these posts through so don't know if this is allready said:i do my notes using tengwar at school

the guy who be short 06-19-2003 11:51 AM

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Started? I never stopped (talking to inanimate objects, I don't have arrows )
I talk to inanimate objects all the time. They listwen much better than people. And I also have no arrows. Read my earlier posts on page nine to find out about their creation!

Maikadurwen 06-19-2003 12:17 PM

you know your obseesed when you watch the movie and your saying the lines before frodo or anybody says them

the guy who be short 06-19-2003 12:32 PM

hello, Maikadurwen, welcome to the downs. Enjoy being dead [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
You know your obsessed when writing that no longer sems strange to you.

Maikadurwen 06-19-2003 03:53 PM

you know your obsessed when you start thinking biscuts are lembas

your and your fellow lotr friends are pretending to kill orcs with popsicle sticks

when you wear a the one ring thats tied to the frodo and sam bookmark everywhere

when somebody mispronounces a word off the lotr books or movies you tell them off in quenya and them politley correct them

when you wont let anyone one on the computer because your too busy posting stuff on the downs
[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] ( ive done all of these guilty truly guilty)

Maikadurwen 06-19-2003 05:04 PM

mea govannen

Maikadurwen 06-19-2003 06:48 PM

you know your obsessed with lotr part 2
 
you know your obsessed when accidentlly shoot your other lotr best friend with your homemade bow and arrows

when you are muttering the lines off the movies in your sleep

when you put clear rubber band s at the top of your ears to make them pointy [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Lady_Galadriel 06-19-2003 07:37 PM

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when you put clear rubber band s at the top of your ears to make them pointy
[img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

I actually did this, now my ears hurt!!!! [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Or when you refuse to take off your "one ring" neclace when people ask you to.

or when the password for your computer is mellon [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Mippin 06-19-2003 08:47 PM

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Or when you refuse to take off your "one ring" neclace when people ask you to.
Yes, exactly... because if we takes it off.... they will steal our preciousss!!!!!

Horse-Maiden of the Shire 06-19-2003 08:54 PM

You know you're obsessed with LotR when you emit a Nazgul screech after someone says something bad about LotR.

Meela 06-20-2003 04:02 AM

You pretend/believe you are actually married to a character.

I am married to Denethor, obviously, and I actually do tell people this. Our second child and first daughter was born just a couple of weeks back.

Maikadurwen 06-20-2003 08:58 AM

you know your obsessed when you go explore the woods behind your house thinking its mirkwood

Mariska Greenleaf 06-20-2003 09:11 AM

you are truly obsessed with LOTR when:

-you're wondering why your teacher doesn't turn to stone when the sun rises.

-At a party you start dancing like Frodo at Bilbo's birthday party.

-You get plastic surgery to have pointy ears.

sorry if any of these were allready done...
[img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

Feared Half-Elf 06-20-2003 10:40 AM

elen sila lumen omentilvo, Maikadurwen, and welcome to the downs!

Yet another lame one!

You know your obssessed when you keep muttering songs in elvish, with the melodys that you made up! (I've had some very strange looks from strangers in the street. Who blames them?)

When you write elvish insults to your teacher on the board in the mornng!

Feared Half-Elf 06-20-2003 10:43 AM

Hey, I though i was the only one! I'm 'married' to Legolas, if you haven't guessed by now.

Maikadurwen 06-20-2003 10:48 AM

ME TO IM "MARRIED" TO FRODO

Duncariel 06-20-2003 11:54 AM

Or when someone mentions Santa's Elves...

THEY'RE GNOMES, DANG IT!

Lindril Arvilya 06-20-2003 01:39 PM

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Our second child and first daughter was born just a couple of weeks back.
Oh Meela, congratulations!


You know you're obsessed with LotR when.... you compliment other people on their obsessions

Maikadurwen 06-20-2003 02:26 PM

you know your obssesed when you spend as much time as i do on this website

when you watch tv instead of whatever your watching you start seeing frodo and the the other members of the fellowship on the screen

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