When you ask your frind why she keeps closing the door and she says, "I guess it's just a hobbit... - er, habit..."

[ October 16, 2003: Message edited by: kittiewhirl1677 ]

I did that too!

When you see a person in your class reading ROTK and feel like you made an accomplishment, even though he doesn't even know you.

When that same guy has a conversation about it with this ignorant fool across the room who pronounced Gollum go-lem and was about to correct (and insult) him but your teacher came back.

Sometimes at school I feel like I'm surrounded by idiots [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

...when your friend asks you why you're closing the door and you say "it's just a hobbit- er, habit." [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] (Hey, it works both ways...)

-Menelien

You literally drool over the ad for the Lord of the Rings: War of the Rings game. (I am SO glad that my friends didn't see me) [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img].

Yay! Part four! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

I shout "Isil!" when I see the moon, especially when it's full, which remind me of the times that my friends and I observe the stars from their rooftops. Ah, memories...

Which reminded me...

You know you're obsessed with LotR when you call stars by their elven names. "Oh, look, there's Menelmacar! And there's red Borgil!"

I don't know what's worse: that, or being surrounded by people ignorant of the wonderful works of JRR Tolkien. Maybe we need our own country... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Yours, if you want to [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]
->The True Son of Finrod, and of Amarië the Vanyar

When your father catches you playing with his 200 year old antique Arabian sword and your conversation goes osmething like this..

Me: This sword is too big for me...
Dad: To do what?
Me: Kill orcs...
Dad: I see...

Or when you argue with your teacher in English to critique LOTR as it IS a documentary, becuase in your mind the events did actually happen!

When you decide you must be turning into a hobbit, because you've been really hungry lately, then realize you must be the only hobbit to ever live who didn't like mushrooms. Then you realize you're talking like this stuff really did happen! (That's because it did, right?)

When you start believing that it all really did happen.

[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Ooh! Yeah we do^ ^

Of course it did! Who could possibly think otherwise?

In Irish dance class yesterday I slipped, then said that I was as graceful as a dwarf in a tree. ('Twas my fault for wearing socks on a wooden floor)

• When you wonder how elves dance
• When you want to learn to dance like an elf

Too true... so often I have gazed at Valacirca.

When you bow to everybody you meet and say "My your beard grow ever longer." Somebody asks you the correct dwarvish response so you quickly flick through the Hobbit! (I haven't found the response yet... anyone?)

--When you have supersonic hearing for LotR. I met a rather cool guy that way...

--When said guy lends you an Elvish/English (sadly, I don't have one of my own due to being a poverty-stricken high-school student) and your reaction is to dance around the room squealing.

--When you make said guy sign up on the Downs (HI, ONIGENE!)

--When you translate both your name and the name of the guy you have a crush on into Elvish (and no, that is not the same guy as the guy who lent me the dictionary).

--When you translate the name of your best friend into Elvish, even though she doesn't like it...

--When you occupy yourself by writing LotR fanfiction.

-- When your boyfriend cant understand you becuase you speak to him in Elvish half the time... (Sad but True, he just doesnt understand [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] )

When you can hold your breath throughout the ROTK trailer, without becoming dead, becuase its just so exciting you can't breathe!

What kind do you do, Ceili or step? I've been doing Ceili (pronounced KAY-lee) for 9 years now, and I think it's very hobbitish. If you're taking step, I would suggest trying Ceili as well (it's immense fun!) [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Me too! That's how I met Elfwine. Plus, today in fencing, I got distracter by someone saying the word Gandalf when I was supposed to be practicing advancing and retreating.

~When you recite Aragorn's speech from the trailer for your friends at lunch. Later, when you are bored in Algebra, you write the speech on the back of your hand (it was really hard to fit the whole thing!)

~When a line in the song Light my Fire by The Doors reminds you of Meela- "and our love become a funeral pyre" [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] There is a hilarious parodie of this song (and lots of others too!)
here (scroll a little more than halfway down the page and click on "Come on, Denny, Light That Pyre"

[ October 17, 2003: Message edited by: Orominuialwen ]

When your local used book store is having a sale, you get really excited, hoping to expand your very small collection of Tolkien. Then, when they don't have any, you almost cry.

I know I thought of another one earlier, but I forgot it. I'll post it later if I remember.
Arwen

Right on. I'll design a flag. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
~When said fanfiction, which started out as a short story, has now turned into a novella of 84 pages (and counting, I have five chapters left...)

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

When you're so used to signing your posts on LotR forums with your LotR-related name, you forget to sign your real name on e-mail
I keep trying to sign my name as Arwen on e-mails, and catch myself just in time. Some people who aren't LotR fans would think either I've gone crazy(or crazier) and forgotten my own name, or that somebody other than me was writing an e-mail from my address.

-When you say that someone "is very Balrogish-looking."

-- And when one of your friends has a virtual baby for home-ec, and they name it Frodo, yet you ask her who the 'father' was and she says "Gandalf"... Man it was so very very wrong...

~ When you're at the grociery store with your mom and spot some Sunkist soda cans with Samwise on them and IMMEDIATELY buy them (while shrieking with glee, of course!). I plan to buy 7Up cans with Frodo on them next time I go! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

~ When you sleep with any one of your Tolkien books under your pillow.

~ When you bring AT LEAST one Tolkien book with you on family car trips.

I've begun to worry I'm really not a Hobbit, because I don't like mushrooms. [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ October 25, 2003: Message edited by: Rilwen Gamgee ]

~You decide that all the residents on Ferny Lee Street are evil.

~You keep saying 'For Tolkien's sake!'

~Your friends find your obsession so usual, they just don't even raise an eyebrow any more.

I have to bring all of the LotR books [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

When you're convinced that your computer hates you, because for over 24 hours it will connect to any site you want, except for the 'Downs, and feel very saddened because you can't get on and talk about LotR with all your LotR-obsessed friends, or talk about your obsession. Then, you feel like dancing for joy when you can get on again, and find out that you weren't missing anything, because the problem was with the site, not you.
Arwen

I almost had a heart attack when it happened
[img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

when you are on another message board [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] (it's non- LOTR, never fear. actually it's a smashing pumpkins one, anyone else likethem?) and you start a thread about learning elvish, hoping that one of the other 4 or so tolkien fans is learning it too. you almost cry when someone who you normally like spells tolkien's name wrong and doesn't apologise. so to counter him you write a VERY angry reply about how you do NOT like it when people insult JRRT, ESPECIALLY when they don't know anything about him and tolkien was your first and will forever be your greatest obsession, no matter HOW much billy corgan i listen to. you also add that if he was in the same room as you, you would physically attack him for his rudeness. maybe even slice his head off. actually no, just tie him up with some elvish rope [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

you are not worried that all of this thread would check you into a mental home free of charge.

I wrote the Legend of the Great Rings onto all my school supplies...Notebooks, Book Covers, Desks... [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] null

~When you go psycho because your father bought you all new copies of the Hobbit and the Trilogy because your last set was ugly, and surprises you with a copy of the Silmarillion too. I'm still happy about it even though it was a day ago. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

~When you do an excited shriek everytime you see the ROTK trailer, no matter how many times you've seen it.

~When other people around you have already moved on to another subject and you suddenly make a LOTR comment out of nowhere because it just popped into your mind. I do that a lot. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

...when you are playing Oregon Trail and you type in lotr characters names for all the people.

I nearly died... [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

Heh heh... I do that. And sometimes I bring more than one, just in case. On our last vacation I brought the Silm. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I was reading the Tale of Luthien and Beren during the whole car ride there...and in the hotel...and on the way to breakfast...

-When you and your friends name gourds after LotR characters (That was a bit odd...Yet fun!)

-When you write more e-mails daily to online friends than to school-friends [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

-When your mom buys you a ring from her vacation and you automatically love it because it's very "Elvish."

An Elvish commune, out in the middle of the forest where they filmed Lothlorien, with a super high wall so that no one can come and take us away.

We had this discussion once......

Indeed we did. I think we decided that Meela would be in charge, but she said she would only accept about 30 people. We'll have to start more than one. Hey, we can have one for Lothlorien, one for Eryn Lasgallen, one for Imladris, one for Numenor, one for the Shire...

--When you spend most of your afternoon looking at Tolkien books at Hastings, even though you already have them.

--When you about died (again) when your computer couldn't access the Downs. I was so glad to find that it was forum problems, not me problems.

--When you compare characters in Star Wars with LotR.

--When your best friend doesn't even blink when you start talking in Elvish.

guilty

oh good! I was so worried. I nearly had a heart attack!

[ October 19, 2003: Message edited by: elfearz1 ]

Yep, I was planning to set up an Elven commune. If you're willing to help pay for the land where we can build it, you can join. And I'll accept as many people as want to join.

We were playing the LotR TCG yesterday, & when my dad played his foil Boromir he called him Boromir the Disco King, & I did the Wave. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

the most exciting thing that has happened to you all day is finding out that you can vote more than once for LOTR for the big read, YAY! god man i'm so excited. from now to april i shall log on every time i connect and vote at least 10 times

You confuse the people who sit next to you by pointing to illustration of the doors of Moria in your copy of FOTR and saying "I can read that," and when they don't believe you, saying, "Ennyn Durin aran Moria: Pedo mellon a minno."

I don't know, what's the difference? [img]smilies/redface.gif[/img] <--I think that's embarrassed, isn't it?

That's so funny!

~When you come up with ideas for song parodies during math class. (You inspired me, Orominuialwen!) Here's one:

Land of Gondor-Land Down Under

Can I help? I'll draw Celtic knots!

I at first thought my internet was having a problem, but I could go to other sites, so I sniffled (a lot) and kept trying about every hour to see if it would work, until my mom took me to the library. Then I checked again when I got home.

Yeah!

- When you are over at a friends house and are talking to her little brother, who is four and he asks you something completely none related to LotR (I don't remember what he really asked unfortunately) and you mistake it for "Do cats exist in the shire?" and then go off into an entire speech about LotR and the shire, something the poor little four year old knows nothing about, and tell him that cats very well should exist in the shire and by that time he has run off to his mother or someone..

- Or when your friends little sister is sitting on the couch watching TTT and suddenly you go off into a very long and boring speech tosomeone who hasn't read the books about how the movie was done very badly then point out each and every mistake and the tell her how it should have been done and then tell her your secret plan to hunt down PJ. I feel sorry for these people of whom I share my LotR knowledge..

When you have perfected the accents of all the characters from the movie. And you talk like that to yourself so much, you accidently slip into using one of the accents even when you aren't trying!! Once I told my sister something about
tom-ah-toes, and I never say it that way, unless I'm reciting lines from the movies. I find myself saying things with an accent without trying at times. (I'm an american, and from the South, so I normally sound nothing like any of the characters!)
Arwen

That's okay Elennar- I've been doing Irish dancing longer than I haven't, so that's how I know. Ceili is sort of like square dancing, in that you have a partner and there is not so much footwork involved. Step dancing is like Riverdance, where you have to keep your upper body straight and do a lot with your feet, but don't interact with he other dancers so much. In my opinion, Ceili is a bit morew Hobbitish (but that's just what I think) I know! I was so worried, and then I thought it was just my computer messing up because I have the 'Downs set as my homepage, because I keep getting this virus that makes my computer freeze up whenever I go online. So I did a search to see if a link from another site would take me to the 'Downs, but to no avail. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] I'm so glad it's working again!! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I bring my one-volume edition of LotR and my copy of the Silm on all my trips- I even took them to camp.

~When you make up LotR related acronyms for the letters on your parents' license plates- my mom's is Dunedain Love Valinor and my dad's id Numenor Under Luinil(sp?)

I have utterly forgotten all my other things to post, so bye for now!

Meela, how much money you need? In exactly two years, I'm willing to spend all I've got in helping to build an Elven commune. (By then, I will have graduated from high school.)

When while you're playing a game of chess, you keep thinking, 'The board is set; the pieces are moving.' Then you notice that the knights look a lot like the emblem thing for the Rohirrim, and proceed to name the knights Arod, Hasufel, Snowmane, and Shadowfax [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I did that a little while ago.
Yay! We made it to page 15!!!
Arwen

Whew. *wipes perspiration off forehead* Well, I'm back...

Of course, it did. Would we be wasting our time(and committing social suicide) for fiction?

Oh, yeah, but I prefer the eagle-talk...or maybe Aurë entuluva!. I don't know how to respond to that yet.

I bring every single Tolkien book I have to school(a small collection so far) so I can trick people:

Random human: Hey, what's your course?
Nil: Tolkienology.
RH: No way!
*Nil shows him the bag containing 6(Silm and The Hobbit are sent away to friends, in hope that they will see the light...) Tolkien books)
RH: Whoa! They have a course like that here?

Hehe...another one is born... [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

When that happened, I tried suicide. I looked at Telpelin and said, "Hail Telpelin, song of silver. You've killed many cockroaches, rats, and assorted critters. How about sending me to Mandos?"

Our minds are so attuned to LotR, we can never separate it from ourselves. That explains the LotR side comments...the extra sharp hearing...the suicidal feeling when you are unable to connect to the 'Downs...and to all the obsessions we do here.

Yeah, I read that part...but its time to put discussions into reality.

OK, I've got a bank account in the Cayman Islands standing by. How much do you need?
*wrestles with the freak who typed the above-mentioned words*
I'm sorry about that. The rich kid part of me just took over. The one with the house whose doorknob is the size of Russia...oh, well... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

...and the rooks look like Minas Tirith, Minas Morgul, Barad-dur, and another white tower...probably Calmindon.

My additions:

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

~more than 3 days away from another LotR-obsessed people(except my sister...she's tooo busy to be obsessed) drove you to the brink of...monogamy? matriculation? mad...mad...madness! There's the word!

~you read a part of LotR which happens today(two days ago, I re(to the nth power)read "The Council of Elrond" and the first few paragraphs of "The Ring Goes South."

Yours, if you want to [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]
->The True Son of Finrod, and of Amarië the Vanyar