You know your obsessed with Lord of the Rings when...
1.Your friend tells you she can't come to your house for a LotR movie marathon because she is sick, you start to cry. And that's NOT because she is sick...
2.You're asked to do a project on three books for English, andthe teacher immediatly turns to you and says, "No Elyna, you can't do the Lord of the Rings as three books." 3.Your friend asks you to find a cool quote for her FACEBOOK page, you immediatley recite several of your favourite lines from Lord of the Rings. |
...when on New Year your sister gives you a bookmark with your name in Elvish. :cool:
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You get mad at your boyfriend because he won't have a LOTR marathon (The movies are "too long")
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You inherit the One Ring from your grandmother...
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When you make your own Tolkienesque heraldic symbols for each member of your family. :)
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Your boyfriend laments that you have unpierced ears because he found cute One Ring earrings
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Mine are: 1). Whenever you meet a new person who loves and reads the books, and you ask, "Have you read LOTR?" 2). Keep talking in Gollum's style. 3). Keep repeating Gandalf's words "don't tempt me, Frodo!" 4). Taking many things in life in LotR's context. 5). Idealizing LotR characters for life. 6). Despite not liking the films too much watching them again and again because they are THE LORD OF THE RINGS. 7). Going for fight with anyone who insults the books. 8). Being able to talk about the books for hours and hours without getting tired. 9). Keep reciting the poems and songs of LOTR. 10). LotR's Middle-Earth being another Home and loving to visit there despite wars and darkness. They're not funny, but for now this is what I can think of. |
You wonder where The Road will sweep you off to every time you walk out your front door.
You wonder why the local booze seller has just told you to 'get out!' after you have pleaded with him for the hundreth time for Ent Juice. You get reported and banned from your local park for 'hugging Huorns'. :smokin: Every day is a good day to LARP. pity your boss aint so keen. :( You get an ugly twitch when Peter Jackson's The Hobbit is mentioned. :Merisu: |
There was this one time quite recently that Lommy and I had an hour and a half's hike from the bus to the cabin with heavy backpacks. Starting with the old walking song, we entertained ourselves by singing LOTR songs.
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I go into Gollum mode whenever I see one of my friends dropping change.
I get a nervous twitch whenever someone praises The Hobbit movies. I clench my fists and grit my teeth with a murderous rage whenever someone asks why they didn't use the eagles to get to Mount Doom. I once held a celebratory lunch on September 22nd involving mushroom soup. Ever since I discovered Tolkien's work, I always walk around the house in bare foot and at times, put on a waistcoat. |
When you entertain your baby brother with the Russian translation of The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late. "And the cow jumped over the moooooooon!!!" :D
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Every time I tell my boyfriend how precious he is, I have to avoid saying he's "my precious" because I don't want to sound like Gollum.
Also, my family just had the audacity to have the balrogs having wings argument with me. |
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(On the flip side, occasionally my siblings would make up funny alternate endings where Sauron looses because he stepped on a piece of gum and got stuck to the floor or something. I appreciate the Middle-earth mirth. :D) |
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You've been discussing Tolkien for years, decades. For me, it's been at least 20 years on the Internet alone (now there's a sobering thought), and even longer if you consider the age of prehistoric barbarism before the PC. You've discussed every issue, every subtle nuance, every arcane or trivial point, every shred, iota and detail hundreds, even thousands of times.
And...yet...you...cannot...simply...walk...away... from...whipping...these...dead... horses: 1) Balrog's Wings? 2) The nature of Tom Bombadil? 3) The Arkenstone, a Silmaril? 4) Was Legolas blonde? 5) Orcs descended from Elves? 6) Why didn't the Eagles simply fly Frodo to Mt. Doom? 7) Why is a raven like a writing desk? * 8) Who are the Blue Wizards? 9) Celeborn, where's he from? 10) The oldest being in Middle-earth? * Number seven thrown in to assure you were paying attention. |
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Okay, I know this is deeply inappropriate, but... how can you not think of it? You know the Moria refugee camp?
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(Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...amp-in-greece; the second quote is from a colleague of mine, no less.) |
I have reached a point where I have developed a habit of falling a sleep to an LotR audio-book.
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...you find local politics terribly funny, what with all the candidates explaining how long they've lived in the Shire and how devoted they are to the Shire and how much they're going to do for the Shire if elected, etc.:smokin:
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On that note, you ignore most political issues because he's a Saruman, he's a Saruman, he's just a Grima, and he thinks he's Gandalf but he still lives in Orthanc. They might have good intentions, but then again, so did Saruman. :D
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And then I read this post. On which I blame the most habbit-filled years of my life. Conclusion: habbits are contagious. :D |
When you mean to write "middle ear" but end up writing "middle earth"...
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(But in all probability it is likely just the muscle memory of writing/typing a certain word...) But to add a new phenomenon relating to writing, in recent months my Google Docs has started recognizing certain ME names/Elvish terms and auto-correcting mis-typed names to spell them correctly. You know there is a lot of Tolkien happening on your computer when the AI learns how to speak Elvish. :D |
You know you're a bit obsessed when one day you find yourself studying Quenya and learning multiple modes of Tengwar. Also, sewing a cloak. And when anyone mentions Rings of Power your friends and family give you one of those "Uh-Oh, don't get her started" looks.
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