oooh good idea!
hahaha! That's a good idea, only it might give me nightmares [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

When you are in class and your friends says "save something something" (I forgot what she said it was irrelevent, though) and you yell out "save the forests, hug an ent!" and no one gives you wierd looks (darn)

When you are bored in class so you take out your high-tech calculator and type "wave kings at boromir the disco squid" on it and when someone asks you say "it's an inside joke" (hey, I talk to you guys more then my real friends anyway [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] )

When you get all excited because you thought of more stuff to add to this thread [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

I'm getting to be that way, too. One must wonder which group of friends is more "real". Is it the Downies because we share more interests, or the people that we see face-to-face, simply because we interact with them personally? I seem to regard some of the Downers as my friends, even though I don't really know them personally. I wonder if this is wrong? (Don't you wish there was a thoughtful graemlin?)

I admit it. I've done it.

-When you think it's a wonderful thing that we are currently on version three of this thread (let's hope it never dies!)

I had a right go at my mother for calling you all... well, not real. I count you as friends more than I would the people I have to put up with outside of the internet.

Why, thankyou, Meela, that's very sweet of you. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] "Put up with"... yes, I feel that way, sometimes. But some of us might wonder if the rest of the 'Downers return our feelings of camaraderie, or if they simply regard the Downs as a hobby of sorts.

*High-fives Amarantha_Daisy and all other weird look lovers* I got a double take once... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

I want to do that!

Yes, we should. I'll come!

Yay! my siggy! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

When I got bored in class, I always got out pretty coloured pens and wrote, "Spook the spook of spookish spookdom to spook the spooked spookers." That was Rynoah the Overly Happy's siggy. I thought that was one of the coolest signatures (although I never fully understood it...hehe.) I haven't seen Rynoah here in a while, though! [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img]

[ August 24, 2003: Message edited by: Goldberry ]

yep, that's where I got it from [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

when you are upset the first place you come is the downs... (that should go on the downs thread too [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] )

you know your addicted to this thread when...
you save your 100th post for it! yay! *dances* (for some of you, this may not seem like a lot, but I am excited)

I love that! I used to go around school saying that to people! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I think Rynoah got a new account (I'm not sure why). Somebody can fill in if they have more info, but I know her new screen name is long and starts with a W.

Now that's a very good thing to do, and something that I can't do. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I just noticed that I'm finally a Ghost Prince! Yay! Everybody party! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

I keep coming up with new things to post here, but somehow I forget them all. For this reason I only have one today:

-When you are dreaming about something non-LOTR related, and all of a sudden your brain inserts some random wild LOTR thing into the dream. That is weird! Even my sub-concious is obssessed and likes to play tricks on me! Aaaaah!

And we know we're obssessed with this thread when we come to it every day, and because we're onto version three. May this thread never die!

when you have taken to of the most harry potter obssesed people you know and turned them to lotr and one has a computer and is on the downs when she can her name is lotr_girl the other doesnt have the internet [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

my teacher told me to copy a poem out of your favorite book so naturally......

When you get lonely because you had to go 2 weeks without the Downs while on vacation. When you name your tree house Belegost and frequently battle massive orc hoards there with your brother. When you name all your weapons (even though they're only long sticks... [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] ) Does anyone know where I can read the end of the part II thread? It ended while I was gone, so I didn't get to read all of it.

When you try and talk your mother into buying you a miniature pony (At $1,500 mind you, and I'm clearly not rich!) so you can name it Shadowfax...or Hasufel...or Arod, Asfaloth isn't bad either.... I think I'm gonna need a lot of horses...

I do the same thing Luthien! I tell my Mom jokes and she just looks at me. Looks are fun.My sister gives me some good ones.

Back on topic. I was in Germany recently and my sister and I spent half of our time
shopping for the Horn of Gondor for my friend. We finally gave it to her today. She kept blowing it all day! We had to watch FOTR just to see Boromir so she could use it. Fun!

During my Spanish class today, my teacher was doing division of syllables, and he put up the word "lagrima" which means "tear" (I think). I took one look at it, and started cracking up. "La Grima" would mean "The Grima," and not only that, "The (implied female) Grima." I got weird looks from everyone, and had to explain it.

When you go to Mexico just to buy a sword that you name Soronnaro because it has the coolest eagle heads on its pommel.

here, here!


when you get mad at someone and they watch fotr with you to make it up to you. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

when your mom starts talking to Frodo on screen and saying things like "come on frodo, be a man...er.. well, atleast a hobbit!"

[ August 25, 2003: Message edited by: elfearz1 ]

Woulvarynomir.

This should really go on the other thread, but...

When you know things like that.

And for something that really goes on this thread:

When you plan to dress as much like an elf as you can when you go to your senior panoramic picture (which is the day after tomorrow, by the way.)

When you write 'Tinuviel' as your nickname on all of those stupid audition forms.

Let's have a joint party!

When you act like Gollum... and here's the scary bit... WHEN YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN AND NOBODY IS WATCHING.
I too scare myself.

you get excited when the guy you like asks you questions about lotr.

you spend your class time writing ideas for this thread...on your hand and arms

you type on your calculater: in elvish, all the dialogue from the rotk trailor and people's siggies.

you are late to class because you had to do your hair elvish-ish today, because TTT comes out on DVD/VHS

your friend (who doesn't even like lotr) notices your hair and tells you, you look very elvish today... you take that as a great compliment.

I was cleaning up backstage in my schools theatre and my friend came up and handed me a gold ring on a silver chain and said "I found this and it reminds me of you", I was so happy, It was one of my many different one ring necklaces and I must have left it in theatre when changing into a costume last year [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

your food goes cold because you had so many things to write on this thread and you had to do it before anything else

(side note: this girl in my class had arwens pendant!! so cool)

anyway...
you get upset because someone emailed you saying that the link to the BD on your website is broken, and you have to go to school so you can't do anything about it *sniff*

[ August 26, 2003: Message edited by: elfearz1 ]

When you get mad at your mom for tearing Frodo's face in half while clipping coupons, (she didn't even want those particular ones! [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] ) Then you search through the recycling for the other piece of the picture, tape it back together, and stick it on your wall.

I had more, but I forgot them. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

You and your cousin want to make a 'fan commentry' for your FotR EE

You flip when someone refers to Mellyrn as Mallorns, and start telling the world about Sindarin plurals

You greet your friends with 'Na vedui, mellon nin! Mae govannen!'

Haha! That's great [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Me too. I named a flyswatter Glamdring once and swatted my brother with it. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

When you walk around the grocery store, barefoot, with shoes in hand, singing "The road goes ever on and on" on your pursuit of hobbit-ness.

when you sit around for hours just staring at your new TTT DVD (*sigh* I wish, I haven't even had time to watch it yet. I shouldn't even be on here, but I had to have a break from my busy schedule or I'd go insane)

You can read the rest of it here.

[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

I do most of this stuff when I'm on my own (the acting out Gollum things, that is).

Sure thing, Master Dwarf! Joint party it is! I'll bring the miruvor! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

That would be so much fun!

I don't like it when people do that, either!

Now for some updates of my own:

-When you take a fork out of the drawer, balance it on your finger, look down it's line, whip it around in the air until it makes a swishing noise, look at it thoughtfully, and say, "This is a good fork". (Then I acted it out twice more for my mom). [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

-When you feel like you should be doing obssessive things so that you will have something to post.

-When you do obssessive things for the sole purpose of posting them.

-When you assemble an entire hobbit outfit, consisting of a white shirt with buttons, a green "ornamental waistcoat" (or the closest you can come to that, which is a green vest), and short, baggy brown pants. I asked my mom what I looked like and her first reply was a hobbit. So I guess I suceeded in making a good costume. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

I think I used this smiley [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] way too much this most. So now for something a little different: [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Bah! Miruvor! What we need is some nice strong ale, lass! So, where's the party? Doriath, Ossiriand, Gabilgathol or Tumunzahar, which you in your tongue call Belegost and Nogrod? Aye, I know, all four now lie beneath the sea... We could have an underwater theme. Is Beren coming?

Too wit, too whoo. Too true, too true.


When you know the dwarvish names for Nogrod and Belegost by heart.

When you go outside to observe Mars and end up spending more time gazing at, murmuring about and praising the Valacirca.

When you call it the Valacirca.

When you show your dad the Valacirca and explain it's importance to him.

When you have never ever star-gazed before all this.

*sigh* I must admit, I just bought the DVD half an hour ago, and I still have to work 5 hours before I can go home and watch it.
I've been just staring at it ever since.. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Still staring, not working, one more hour [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[ August 28, 2003: Message edited by: Mariska Greenleaf ]

When you go to a star party, look at the ring nebula through a telescope, and hiss:
My preciousssss....

Geez, I'm gone for four days and look what happens... o.O
Right on! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
*snork*
Cool. I'll bring the man-flesh. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

You're obsessed when you can make every single assignment in creative writing about LotR.

You're obsessed when, even though you've only been back to school for four days, your teachers already know you as "the LotR girl". [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

When you nearly have heart failure when you see the previews for the Towers EV and RotK on the Towers DVD. *hyper hyper*

There's a store at the mall by my house called Knight's Legend. It has tons of LotR stuff, and when I went up there the other day (standard practice when I go to the mall), they had life size cardboard standups of the entire Fellowship, plus Gollum (and Smeagol). They had toy Ringwraith swords, figurines, all sorts of stuff. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] It was so cool!

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

You know you're obsessed with lotr, if you find your long lost sibling here.

Weird looks are awesome...

You take a really long test and write an essay just to see if you can moderate a section of one of the lotr forums you've signed up with [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

your mom starts calling trees ents. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

During a tennis match, you bless your racket on your head like Aragorn did with in sword in FOTR before fighting all those Uruks.

You truly begin to fear Meela with fire

You try to get your best friend (who you call Frodo) to join the downs just so you can say Do the wave for Boromir the disco king, and Wave kings at Boromir the disco squid, together and no one will know what you're saying.

When a preppy girl at your school gets a manicure, you come up to her and ask if Saruman did it for her since it looks so pretty

When your little sister goes on a pony ride at the State Fair, you say to her, "Rider of Rohan! What news from the Mark!"

You constantly yell at your brother not to look in his magic 8 ball because palantirs are dangerous and shouldn't be meddled with.

You call this brother Pippin, and you call his best friend who is over so much he has become a surrogate brother to you, Merry

You watch Spongebob in hopes that one day, Squidward will admit that his seceret identity is Boromir the disco Squid.

[ August 29, 2003: Message edited by: Daewen ]

Yes, fear me. Right now I am actually playing with a lighter.


Oh, and just for the record, I've gone off Denethor temporarily, and am now torn between Boromir and Isildur.

[ August 29, 2003: Message edited by: Meela ]

You're off Denethor?!?!? [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] I think the world is coming to an end...

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

You give any prat daring to call Legolas, Legoland, an hour-long lecture about the differences between the two.

(Sorry I haven't been around for ages, my mum banned me from the computer!)

[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] My mom requested that I make her a "SAVE THE ENTS!!!" t-shirt for her.

~ You wake up at 8:00 a.m. so you can get to the store by 9:15 to buy your LotR:TTT DVD.

~ The cover of your binder consists mainly of LotR pictures.

I have to sometimes force myself NOT to act like Gollum.

How dare they! [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img]

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

You tell your brother that if he annoys you too much, you'll go into his room in the middle of the night and talk like gollum right into his ear to freak him out.

Your mom has a pair a silver leaf earrings that look incredibly elvish, so you borrow them constantly.

Also there's this place nead me that makes SWORDS [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] and my mom was going to take my brother and me there yesterday, but it was too hot, so we went swimming instead [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] .

It's okay, I put up a new picture of him and I fell in love all over again. The Age of Denethor is not ended yet!

Underwater theme it is! Why don't we meet in Ossiriand, perhaps at the Sarn Athrad, and then journey to Belegost and hold our party there? I am quite interested in seeing one of the mighty realms of the dwarves, for in all of my years upon this Middle-earth I have not yet had the privilege of surveying a dwarven hall (as long as it's all right with you, of course). As to the ale, I was going to suggest that, but one figures, leave the ale to a dwarf or a hobbit, and bring to a party something that the elves can supply (see message icon [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ). And yes, Beren would like to come, if that's all right. I'm not sure what he could bring, though.

To expand on that: You are given a creative writing assignment that is supposed to a sort of fantasy-type thing, and you are required to use certain characters. The title you must use is The Lord of the Things (all of this is true, it is an actual assignment I had about a year and a half ago!). One of your characters immediately becomes an elf, and the evil guy makes people sick with his LIsterine Breath and doesn't like getting stabbed in the leg. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Did you really, or was that made up?

[img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] Did I just read what I think I read? Oh well. If I remember correctly, it has crossed my mind that Meela would like Boromir some day. It just seems quite probable, and now it has happened! Meela, what is it with you and people of Numenorean descent? [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Now for my contribution to our ever-growing list:

-You constantly feel as if you should further your obssession, even though you're obssessed enough as it is.

-You are taken into a jewelry store at the mall against your will. You try to make the most of it by searching for anything that looks like a Ring of Power (I was looking for the Elven Rings, in particular, but I didn't find any [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] ).

-You are also taken to Eyemasters and you sit there looking at those advertisements for color contacts that say things like "Lisa enhanced her blue eyes with our Pacific Blue contacts, blah blah blah". You notice that one of the models was named Estel. (I thought that was cool!)

-I think I'm drawing my mom into my obssession. I don't know. But she knew what I was talking about when I told her about the picture of the girl named Estel wearing brown contacts, and she seems to understand a lot of the other things I do, too. So that would definately be a sign of obssession: I'm drawing others into my obssessive vortex. Go me!

(I'm amazed you guys even read my posts. They always turn out to be so long!)

So I come back to this thread and see that two of you slipped in before me! How dare you? No, it's okay, really. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Ah, phew. You had me scared for a second.

I forgot another one: YOu spend the night at a friend's house. She seems to be asleep, but you can't tell, so you whisper "fissssshhhh....." in her ear.

*snork* I'm doing that the next time my friend stays over...

When you stay up until unnatural hours watching all the goodies on the Towers DVD.

When you keep your family up until unnatural hours watching all the goodies on the Towers DVD.

When you read through this post looking for ideas for your next obsessive act.

When, by the second day of class, all your teachers already know you as "the LotR girl".

When you put your elven name on your assignments instead of your real name.

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~