There's a town near by me called RiverDale.... pretty darn close?

I kept seeing "Boron" as "Beren." I rewrote it as Beren on my Element Table^ ^;;

I do that too! I use LotR wallpaper so much, I never have anything else anymore [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]. Back on topic: There's this apple orchard out in the country and it looks exactly like the trees outside of Isengard in FotR. Also, there is a house by where I used to live that is a hobbit hole! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I moved away from there before I was obsessed with Lotr, but when I was little I called it the hill house because it has grass growing on the roof. I drove by there one time after my family moved and I became obsessed, and I realized it was a hobbit hole! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I'll attempt to take and post a picture, although there are no guarantees about whether it will ever happen!

I've done that with the periodic table, too. Once I had to do an essay about 'Great Expectations' (Dickens) and had to include a reference to the pub 'The Jolly Bargeman.' When I got it back I realised that I'd written 'Prancing Pony' all the way through [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
I know in the English Peak District there's a town caller Rivendale (close enough... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ) And the 'Hobbit Cafe'.

I just remembered that my grandpa used to work on a farm in Underhill, Vermont. There's also some Tolkienish-named town in Quebec, Canada, near where my friend lives, but I'll have to rack my brain to remember it...

one of the judges in World Idol did say that Kurt Nilsen (who lives 25 minutes drive away from me) looked like a hobbit. Well hobbits are populare, and the world told that bastard that you don't have to look like a supermodel to make it in this beauty-fixed world!

There is a bar somewhere in our country called The Hobbit House. My mum said it has been around for quite a long time. I presume it was built during the 60's.

Oh, I have a teddy bear named Aragorn. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

I had an instructor called Gollum. YOu see in College we are alowed to call our instructors by their first names.

And then tere are the Brandywine brand of canned muschrooms. I was all siked when I found those years ago.

There's this jewelry store called 'All that Glitters' by my house, and I have to blink twice every time I go past it.
My Aunt used to live off of Pippin Street. Sadly, she moved away before I 'discovered' Lord of the Rings.
Anyone here read the Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordon? Soooo many parallels! They even have a Bela the pony! And Lan, and the myrdraal, and the Trollocs... don't even get me started... excellent books though, and they break off from Tolkien after the first book or so.
And there's this pile of rocks by my bus stop that, when the light's right, strangely resembles that one place where the Fellowship hides from the spy-birds... you know what I'm talking about. I've been wanting to take me friends up there to do a remake of that scene.

That would be Dicko, our Aussie Judge. That was a clasic call though wasnt it. We referred to that Idol dude as "Hobbit Man".

You know, there is a Brandywine River and Battlefield in the Pennsylvania region in the US. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

there is a rivendell wrecking service where i live [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

I was driving to Woking and saw signs for "Bagshot", "Aragorn Place", and "Storr Road". Needless to say, I was somewhat excited! [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Later on I was looking in a dictionary, saw the word "sting" out of the corner of my eye, and wondered why it wasn't capitalised.
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I drive past a "Ranger Street" on my way to and from work. I don't always look that closely at my computer, so the indicator lights that encircle the on/off buttons on the modem and the computer sometimes look like the "One Ring." There's two "Greenwoods" in my phonebook (no Greenleaf, how disappointing). I swear that this one guy in the movie theatre-at Rotk-looked exactly like Faramir with long
hair. I happened to get a red dragon porcelain statue for Christmas this year, and it looked exactly the way Smaug should.

I've already posted this somewhere, but it's worth posting again.
On my bus route, we used to pass a truck with Walkabout Ent writen on the side. On the ent theme, in December a bar near my house had a sign in front which read 'Live Ent'. I cracked a few puns about how they fit the ent in the building, but it took a while for my dad to figure it out. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
Oh and refering to last page, the name Riven comes from the fact that the definition of Riven is to rend or tear apart, and the world of Riven is getting torn apart, so the title is obvious. I only wish that it came from Rivendell.

There is a splendid movie with a very young Robert Redford in it called "The Sting," and one of the main characters is named Henry Gondor. Since I saw it before ever reading LoTR, I always think of him when I think of Tolkien's Gondor.

My younger boy, who is also a LotR fan is learning English and French at school and to memorize the spelling, he uses funny connections. Lately he sees "Ents" everywhere, as in "parENTS" (which in German would mean "a couple of ents" [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] ) or "ENTrance" "ENTraînemENT" and so on . Of course, there are lot of "ents" in German as well:e.g. ENT-schuldigung (excuse)! So at least we have something to smile, while doing homework [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] !

my stuffed toy is named feanor. NO JOKE, there's a restaurant somewhere in Manila called THE HOBBIT HOUSE, and their waiters and all staff there are hobbit-sized! everytime i see my stupid biology teacher i begin to think of Bert, William and Tom. my wallet has a picture of galadriel on it, just beside my beloved picture of the Lady of Fatima. Everytime I see the Lady of Fatima pics, I'm strongly reminded of Galadriel, though the Fatima has dark hair

I met a man yesterday whose last name was Ison. I thought it was Isen, and of course I thought immediately of Isengard and the Fords of Isen.

There is a town in Italy called Turin, of the Shroud of Turin fame.

I worked at a camp with a lake in North Dakota this last summer, and certain LotR-loving friends and I would look across the lake to a place we called the Shire because it seemed very like a place in the Shire. It was gentle hills that came right to the water's edge covered in leafy, gnarled trees; something you would see in England or the Shire.
I have four little metal knights I have given LotR names: Hama for one that looks quite Anglo Saxon (named for the Hama of old, not for Theoden's guard), Beregond for the one in full armour with round shield, Ecthelion (Steward of Gondor, Denethor's father) for the one with a fleur-de-lis on his breastplate that could be the White Tree, and Eldarion (Elessar's son) for the one with a huge sword that looks like it should be lying in stone on a tomb.

All of you are so lucky, Living by streets and shops named after LotR things! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] However, I found a pretty spherical stone in my house that's heavy and looks an awful lot like a Palantir... except it doesn't show anything. Ah, well. Also, when I happened to be looking through the phone book, there was someone with the last name of Rohan! [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]