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Celebuial · 10-22-2005, 10:24 AM

You have lots of very hard and important work to do and text books to read but spend all day and night posting on The 'Downs anyway.

You meet your new housemates and after 2 mins of them helping you unpack (the first box has only just been opened) they ask "So... you like Tolkien then?".

You take your Legolas cardboard cut-out to Uni with you.

You write elvish on your face instead of tears or scars like everyone else when going out with GRIMsoc..

You move your Mallorn leaf brooch everytime you change coats or jackets so it stays with you.

You're 18 an you still have a quilt cover with elvish writing and LotR written all over it (well ok thats only because you couldn't take you doubble bed to uni with you).

You make and buy as many elvish looking clothes and robes as possible.

The background on your mobile phone and the ringtone is LotR related as are the screensaver and background on you pc.

People refer to you as 'the short girl with the LotR obsession'

When you have a copy of the theatrical cuts and the EE's (which you brought on the day each came out as soon as the shops opened) and even of that awful cartoon...

When you've read the books so much people open them and read a paragraph, just to ask you which chapter it's from for a laugh because they know you know.

When everything is somehow related to Tolkien.

When you own mugs and glasses, soundtracks, jewellery and LotR Trivial Pursuit and LotR Risk and LotR Monopoly and LotR playing cards and LotR jigsaw puzzles and LotR roleplaying adventure games...

Even the members of the Sci-Fi and Fantasy society think you're a little too obsessed...

When you stare into space and the person you're with asks you "were you were just now?" you reply " The Kingdom of Arda"

You manage to fit 20 books into the boxes of stuff that you take to uni with you and all of them are Tolkien related.

You take a look down you favorites and you don't just have a folder saying "Tolkien stuff" but lots of different folders i.e. "Learning Quenya", "Tolkien Encylopedia's", "Shops", "Clothes", etc...

Whenever someone asks you "Left or right" you simply reply with "Mordor's Left".

But mostly when you're out in a pub or club with nothing visible to others that screams "I love LotR" and yet still people know after five mins of talking to you.

10-22-2005, 10:24 AM	#7
Celebuial Wight Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Cardiff during term time/Leicester in the holl's Posts: 129	You know you're obsessed with LotR when... You have lots of very hard and important work to do and text books to read but spend all day and night posting on The 'Downs anyway. You meet your new housemates and after 2 mins of them helping you unpack (the first box has only just been opened) they ask "So... you like Tolkien then?". You take your Legolas cardboard cut-out to Uni with you. You write elvish on your face instead of tears or scars like everyone else when going out with GRIMsoc.. You move your Mallorn leaf brooch everytime you change coats or jackets so it stays with you. You're 18 an you still have a quilt cover with elvish writing and LotR written all over it (well ok thats only because you couldn't take you doubble bed to uni with you). You make and buy as many elvish looking clothes and robes as possible. The background on your mobile phone and the ringtone is LotR related as are the screensaver and background on you pc. People refer to you as 'the short girl with the LotR obsession' When you have a copy of the theatrical cuts and the EE's (which you brought on the day each came out as soon as the shops opened) and even of that awful cartoon... When you've read the books so much people open them and read a paragraph, just to ask you which chapter it's from for a laugh because they know you know. When everything is somehow related to Tolkien. When you own mugs and glasses, soundtracks, jewellery and LotR Trivial Pursuit and LotR Risk and LotR Monopoly and LotR playing cards and LotR jigsaw puzzles and LotR roleplaying adventure games... Even the members of the Sci-Fi and Fantasy society think you're a little too obsessed... When you stare into space and the person you're with asks you "were you were just now?" you reply " The Kingdom of Arda" You manage to fit 20 books into the boxes of stuff that you take to uni with you and all of them are Tolkien related. You take a look down you favorites and you don't just have a folder saying "Tolkien stuff" but lots of different folders i.e. "Learning Quenya", "Tolkien Encylopedia's", "Shops", "Clothes", etc... Whenever someone asks you "Left or right" you simply reply with "Mordor's Left". But mostly when you're out in a pub or club with nothing visible to others that screams "I love LotR" and yet still people know after five mins of talking to you. __________________ Ú cilith ‘war. Ú men ‘war. Boe min mebi. Boe min bango.