LOTR related illnesses or injuries - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

hobbitlass · 10-01-2002, 07:28 AM

I can't beleive I just now remembered this....
When I was 12 I contracted spinal meningitis on the lining of my eyes. Very serious. My eyes looked like Frodo's after the Morgul-blade stabbing. All blood shot and nasty looking.
I just hope the elvish medicine Frodo received did not include the gloopy nasty oil based stuff I had to put in my eyes every and I mean every 2 hours (nights included) for days to keep me from going blind or dying.
Anyways...who else had something happened that is like in LOTR? You know, being shot with arrows or about drowning trying to follow a dear friend.

Gliniel · 10-01-2002, 10:22 AM

That sounds terrible!! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Well, about a year or so ago I got food poisoning and was throwing up my guts. I had to miss school, and I looked more haggard than anything. Yep ... I told everyone I had gotten stabbed with a Morgul-knife.

Gliniel · 10-01-2002, 10:23 AM

Looks like we got something in common!!

(sorry, posted reply before I was finished)

Lady_Galadriel · 10-02-2002, 04:59 PM

A few weeks ago my friend and I were renacting Boromirs death scene with our tenis raquets on the bleechers to the football staduim during practice. Near the end of the scene (when aragorn leans down and hands the dying boromir his sword) I fell off the side of the bleachers! Luckily we were near the bottom allready, but it was still quite a fall! I got a big bruise on my knee, and had a limp for three days...

Diamond18 · 10-02-2002, 07:57 PM

You know, Gliniel, next time that happens you can just click on "Edit Post". I do it all the time.

Gliniel · 10-03-2002, 09:44 AM

Thanks!!!

Artanis · 10-09-2002, 08:27 PM

Well, I am not sure that you would call this an ingury, but in the autum, I get this weird longing to go and be in the woods. I call it the wood-longing, and I think it is a bit like the sea-longing of the Elves (not that I am that important, just a Neumanorean of the 7th age)

Jeli Baggins · 10-09-2002, 08:36 PM

i always get messed w/ by the upperclassmen. (espessally in marching band) we're all friends and we just mess around, but they like to do just about anything b/c i can't fight back (lol that height difference again!) and jj always calls me a stupid hobbit. haha, he better b joking around.
i noe that had nothing to do w/ an injury, but i probably will get one sumday when they throw me into a wall jus messin around and i have to go to the hospital! but it's all in good fun and hopefully that will never really happen.
but i feel related to any hobbit that's around a human or elf and feel's really small compared to them. hey i'm just wasting ur time if ur reading this so enough from me!
[img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Diamond18 · 10-09-2002, 08:48 PM

You need Sting. That'll help next time one of those upperclassmen try to throw you into the wall. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

hobbitlass · 10-10-2002, 11:31 AM

UUGH! Food poisoning. Giliniel, you didn't by chance eat orc food did you? I got that once from a sub, couldn't eat another one for at least a year.

Lady Galadriel- I suppose falling off of bleachers is an occupational hazard when fighting the Uruk-Hai!

Artanis- Call me crazy but I think I get the "wood-longing" too. That's a neat name for it. Just don't leave us like the elves did. Such splendor would be missed.

Jeli, Jeli, Jeli- what can I say? I think Diamond18 is right. And you know, from one hobbit to another, despite the downside, I love being short!

DarkRose · 10-10-2002, 11:51 AM

[img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] Aww, all the unfortunate Barrow Downs-ers. *pats symphathetically*

A LOTR-related injury happened to me a week ago. My brother, my dad, and I were all watching FOTR on the sofa. My dad got up to make some popcorn, so me and my brother paused the movie so he wouldn't miss anything.
Well, we started acting out the scene we had been in the midst of watching before pausing the movie, which was the scene were the Fellowship is climbing the snowy mountain (Caradhras? spelling wrong). We were walking across the couch, and he was pretending to be Gandalf and I was acting as Legolas, lightly stepping across the "snow" as he pretended to trudge. Well, my foot suddenly plummeted through the cushions of the couch and hit the floor. On the way down, my foot scraped harshly against some of the metal inners of the couch, and that hurt alot. >_O

My foot was stuck in the couch (it was quite painful), and my brother was laughing at me and saying "looks like the elf isn't as light as a feather as we though!" [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] He finally helped me get my foot out.

Jeli Baggins · 10-10-2002, 01:08 PM

yeah i do need sting, that's a great idea! *rubs hands together* and yes "despite the downside" i love bein short too!

[ October 10, 2002: Message edited by: Jeli Baggins ]

Artanis · 10-10-2002, 07:23 PM

Well, I now know that I am not too crazy! I have met a few others who get it. I don't think I am leaving anytime soon, but nobody that knows me in the flesh would be too sorry to see me go! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

hobbitlass · 10-10-2002, 08:11 PM

AAAH! Dark Rose, you cheese-grated your foot?! I'm in pain just thinking about. It all right now?

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 10-11-2002, 05:46 AM

The three-volume hard-back of LoTR could cause tennis elbow or repetitive strain injury if read carelessly. It's a pretty heavy book.

HerenIstarion · 10-11-2002, 06:35 AM

what is tennis elbow,if oyu please?

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 10-11-2002, 06:39 AM

According to medinfo.co.uk:

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Tennis Elbow or Lateral Epicondylitis is a condition when the outer part of the elbow becomes painful and tender, usually as a result of a specific strain, overuse, or a direct bang. Sometimes no specific cause is found.

Losthuniel · 10-11-2002, 07:06 AM

At my cottage, there is a river, and a bunch of people dug out this one section of it, where the kids can swim. (we now call it the "swimming hole". So creative) Anyways, this is a part of the river, so the current is pretty strong. near the end of the swimming hole is a tiny waterfall, made of rough slabs of conrete. Well, my cousin, my sister and I were doing Boromir's death scene, where he's in the boat, but they would always stop me before I went over the waterfall. Trusting my sister=BAD IDEA. They didn't catch me, and I went over, (feet first, in cas eyou were wondering) and nearly go swept away. I had all these cuts (and later, bruises)down my legs, and my cousin and sister were laughing their heads off.

HerenIstarion · 10-11-2002, 07:24 AM

Thanks for the info [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Artanis · 10-11-2002, 04:35 PM

Has anyone noticed that most of the pain on this board comes from being Boromere?

DarkRose · 10-11-2002, 06:39 PM

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AAAH! Dark Rose, you cheese-grated your foot?! I'm in pain just thinking about. It all right now?

Hehe, its alright now, I assure you. I just got some minor scrapes. My dignity was injured the most. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

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Has anyone noticed that most of the pain on this board comes from being Boromere?

Yeah, I noticed that, too! Could be some kind of psychic foreshadowing or something. [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

hobbitlass · 10-12-2002, 08:16 AM

Or perhaps history repeating itself? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Lady_Galadriel · 10-21-2002, 05:22 PM

I love being short too!!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
I got another injury a few days ago... My friends and I were acting out the scene on weathertop (i believe) when frodo gets stabbed, and ya know how frodo kinda stumbles and then falls over, well i actually TRIPPED!!! I slipped on some soda that was spilled on the floor... Yeah.... I fell down, and everyone just kept going because they thought i ment to do that... well my friend who was being the wraith that stabbes frodo stabbed me and i yelled out... he thought he hurt me, but it was actually when i fell i cut my knee.. you know, when your knees get all red, and have big scrapes on them, and they only bleed for like a few seconds, then are just painful for the next few days? Yup... not so bad, but....

by the way... this girl in my tennis class actually got tennis elbow, not to long ago... [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

Arwen1858 · 10-22-2002, 07:43 PM

I get that wood longing too! I'm also a bit on the short side myself, so sometimes I feel like a hobbit. Now, this may not be considered an illness, but I think I'm an elf. I just get this deep longing to be an elf, and live in Rivendell, and go off in the woods, and do elvish type things. It's like this uncontrolable desire.... I must be an elf at heart!!!
Arwen

fenris1011 · 01-07-2009, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Arwen1858

I get that wood longing too! I'm also a bit on the short side myself, so sometimes I feel like a hobbit. Now, this may not be considered an illness, but I think I'm an elf. I just get this deep longing to be an elf, and live in Rivendell, and go off in the woods, and do elvish type things. It's like this uncontrolable desire.... I must be an elf at heart!!!
Arwen

Yeah same here, but I am 6' 4" so I pretend I am Borimir or something.

We have A LOT of forest land around here and where I walk is on the top of a hill. On one side is a cliff overlooking the Missouri river and the other side is down hill and full of woods.

Even though I just read and study about Middle-earth around friends and family, I always get that longing and go out in the woods by myself and pretend I am Borimir or someone else.

Oh and pertaining to the injury side. Me and my friend were in this field pretending to duel it out. I was Borimir and he was an orc. I let my guard down and he accidentally smacked me right in the face with this stick. Now keep in mind we are both pretty big guys so we had large sticks. We laughed so hard for about 5 minutes after the pain subsided.

Thinlómien · 01-07-2009, 04:19 PM

I think I got a bruise or two while playacting the fight of Gandalf and a (horny) balrog with my friend a few summers ago. (And had I been laughing a bit more, I could have drowned after shouting "fly, you fools!" and letting go of the pier I was gripping.

)

But I don't really have LotR-related injuries. Although I have a lightning-shaped scar (on my finger) like Harry Potter. I guess that doesn't count?

Lalwendë · 01-07-2009, 04:26 PM

Injuries I've suffered have been of a more sedentary nature.

I often get a crick in my neck from trying to lift down one of the heavier books, or at least suffer a lot of earache from huffing and moaning when I ask for one to be lifted down for me.

I got my One Ring stuck on my thumb when all my hands swelled up when I was up t'spout, and I achieved that injury with very little effort indeed!

I've also had pins and needles many a time from sitting on my bum for too long while writing lengthy posts on here and I'm sure I'm not alone in thumping something after watching a long post with a load of pertinent quotes painstakingly copied out disappear into the great yawning maw of a busted internet connection...

Beregond · 01-07-2009, 04:37 PM

I've suffered from the last two of those afflictions. Aye, I've had the Ring stuck, the evil thing. It changes size, you know, when it goes on your finger...

Lalwendë · 01-07-2009, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Beregond

I've suffered from the last two of those afflictions. Aye, I've had the Ring stuck, the evil thing. It changes size, you know, when it goes on your finger...

I also once caught mine on a Tesco trolley, which was painful

davem nearly got killed trespassing on a railway line because of that Ring, too, but that's another story...

dragoneyes · 10-23-2002, 09:40 AM

I'm lucky and have a wood at the bottom of my garden (nice big garden) and if I'm bored im usually in there [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]. Injuries? Erm, I was running from the 'nazgul' once when I fell over, on gravel, ow! I got a stone stuck in my knee and I couldn't bend it until I managed to get it out. Also, when I've been running too much I get wheezy (I have asthma(sp?)) and I sound a bit like frodo after he's been stabbed, and they say running's good for you!

[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: dragoneyes ]

hobbitlass · 10-23-2002, 02:53 PM

Dragoneyes- It was a good thing you got that peice of gravel out of your knee before it worked its way to your heart and you became a wraith!
I'm sure it happened so fast, but I think a Nazgul tripped you so the gravel could do its evil deed. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]
Glad you're allright.

dragoneyes · 10-25-2002, 11:56 AM

hmm... perhaps you're right, perhaps sauron is back to take over the world! [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]:

VanimaEdhel · 10-31-2002, 05:37 PM

Argh! Okay, so today is Halloween, right? I dressed as Galadriel, right? I mean, I even had Elf ears and flat sandals on (no heels...well, I'm 5'10" anyway, I don't really need them...and I couldn't go barefoot, since it was about 33 degrees Farenheit when I left my house this morning). The day went well, except that no one but my friends knew who Galadriel is (I almost physically assaulted one girl who said, "Who's Galadriel? An Elf queen? Oooooh...you mean from that "Middle Earth" place...from that movie right? What was that called? Hold on...I'll think of it..." GAAAAAAAAR! Read...a...book...please *calms down and pants a bit*). Well, I was walking down the stairs out of Spanish class...and, suddenly I felt my sandal slip a little. I missed the stair and fell down the stone stairs...luckily it was only my feet and ankles that got hurt. But now, I am limping around in a very un-Elvish manner. Well, at least I concealed the limping for the rest of the day (now I look like a gimpy Galadriel, but...). So that's my LotR-related injury...pity me [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img] [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

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Horse-Maiden of the Shire · 01-18-2003, 11:57 AM

AH! i hope all you guys are okay!! the only thing thats happened to me is sort of like that asthma thing (u spelled it rite, dont worry) and i BARELY sound like Frodo does. But then again i rarely act out scenes. at least i try to but nobody joins in. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img].

Sword Maiden Of The Shire · 01-18-2003, 02:44 PM

I'm the shortest in my whole class (VERY short), Have dark brown (alost black) curly hair, and (You guessed it) blue eyes. And I love it!!

Anyway,
My class went skiing/snowboarding and as I was climbing a steep hill towards my friend, (she had my skis) I slipped and fell and started to roll down the hill. Luckily, my other friend stopped me.

For fun she took off one of her rings and threw it into the snow and my friend at the top picked it up and we did the whole Boromir/Frodo/Aragorn scene.

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I'm 95% Hobbit.
The other 5%? Who cares!!

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elven maiden Earwen · 02-02-2003, 06:51 PM

like Arwen1858 i think im an elf(i've got an mental illness [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ) and sometimjes i get sea longing never got wood longing. but i could say i have a mental illness because for some odd reson i think im some very imortant elf in the wrong world. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Pookabunny · 02-02-2003, 07:36 PM

My happy fun LOTR injuries came about when I constructed my Ringwraith costume.

I was making hand gaunlets, and when I bound them to the gloves, I burned myself. I was trying to get the armor to better conform to the shape of my hands. Well, I burned 3 of my fingers pretty bad (blisters and all). It didn't really hurt until it started to blister!

Also, I injured my ceiling a few times! Whenever I get a new sword (I collect the United Cutlery swords), I'm always playing with them! So I've scratched my ceiling...twice... So much for getting my deposit back!

PeregrinTook · 02-04-2003, 03:05 PM

This one's kinda dumb, but oh well. I was in the kitchen talking to my Dad on the phone, and he was about to say goodbye when my sister yells, "Two Towers trailer! Two Towers trailer!!!" from the family room where she had been watching TV. I make Dad say good-bye really fast and then I run into the family room, conveniently not noticing the glass coffee table in my path... hehe Needless to say, I rammed right into it and my knee hurt A LOT... all night long. That was the day of the Golden Globes and my sister and I had been watching all the pre-'stuff' just in case there were any interviews with the cast.

...Later that night...

Everybody decides to go to bed 'cause it's late and they're tired. The Globes are still on, and I'm waiting for Best Film, so I stay up and watch...
Stupid Best Film Announcer: And the Best Film of the year is... The Hours...
?!?!?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Anyway, I was really mad, and thus hit my knee (yes, that knee) really hard with my fist, forgetting, in my rage, my injury... OWWW, did that hurt!!!

Maikadurwen · 08-30-2003, 02:55 PM

ouch bet that hurt

well my sister shot me with a arrow

Finwe · 08-30-2003, 06:06 PM

I had bought the greatest sword from Mexico, which looked totally Elven. It had a wooden hilt, with two silver eagle heads back to back, making up the pommel. I was practicing with it (more like playing around with it), and I accidentally impaled my calf with it! Well, not really, but I accidentally stabbed my right calf with the sword, which hurt!!!!!!!!!!

10-01-2002, 07:28 AM	#1
hobbitlass Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: next to the fire keeping warm Posts: 471	LOTR related illnesses or injuries I can't beleive I just now remembered this.... When I was 12 I contracted spinal meningitis on the lining of my eyes. Very serious. My eyes looked like Frodo's after the Morgul-blade stabbing. All blood shot and nasty looking. I just hope the elvish medicine Frodo received did not include the gloopy nasty oil based stuff I had to put in my eyes every and I mean every 2 hours (nights included) for days to keep me from going blind or dying. Anyways...who else had something happened that is like in LOTR? You know, being shot with arrows or about drowning trying to follow a dear friend. __________________ Just because a person has the right to do something doesn't make it the right thing to do.

10-02-2002, 04:59 PM	#4
Lady_Galadriel Wight Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Shire, Hobbiton, Middle Earth Posts: 135	A few weeks ago my friend and I were renacting Boromirs death scene with our tenis raquets on the bleechers to the football staduim during practice. Near the end of the scene (when aragorn leans down and hands the dying boromir his sword) I fell off the side of the bleachers! Luckily we were near the bottom allready, but it was still quite a fall! I got a big bruise on my knee, and had a limp for three days... __________________ " You can't toast me!"

10-02-2002, 07:57 PM	#5
Diamond18 Eidolon of a Took Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: my own private fantasy world Posts: 3,460	You know, Gliniel, next time that happens you can just click on "Edit Post". I do it all the time. __________________ All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression.

10-09-2002, 08:27 PM	#7
Artanis Haunting Spirit Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: The Wild (I just love solar powered computers, don't you? Posts: 53	Well, I am not sure that you would call this an ingury, but in the autum, I get this weird longing to go and be in the woods. I call it the wood-longing, and I think it is a bit like the sea-longing of the Elves (not that I am that important, just a Neumanorean of the 7th age) __________________ Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Gandy!

10-09-2002, 08:36 PM	#8
Jeli Baggins Haunting Spirit Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Hobbiton Posts: 69	i always get messed w/ by the upperclassmen. (espessally in marching band) we're all friends and we just mess around, but they like to do just about anything b/c i can't fight back (lol that height difference again!) and jj always calls me a stupid hobbit. haha, he better b joking around. i noe that had nothing to do w/ an injury, but i probably will get one sumday when they throw me into a wall jus messin around and i have to go to the hospital! but it's all in good fun and hopefully that will never really happen. but i feel related to any hobbit that's around a human or elf and feel's really small compared to them. hey i'm just wasting ur time if ur reading this so enough from me! [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] __________________ "My dear Frodo! Hobbits really are amazing creatures. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you." ~ Gandalf to Frodo

10-01-2002, 10:22 AM	#2
Gliniel Pile O'Bones Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: NCSA Posts: 23	That sounds terrible!! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] Well, about a year or so ago I got food poisoning and was throwing up my guts. I had to miss school, and I looked more haggard than anything. Yep ... I told everyone I had gotten stabbed with a Morgul-knife.

10-01-2002, 10:23 AM	#3
Gliniel Pile O'Bones Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: NCSA Posts: 23	Looks like we got something in common!! (sorry, posted reply before I was finished)

10-03-2002, 09:44 AM	#6
Gliniel Pile O'Bones Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: NCSA Posts: 23	Thanks!!!

10-09-2002, 08:48 PM	#9
Diamond18 Eidolon of a Took Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: my own private fantasy world Posts: 3,460	You need Sting. That'll help next time one of those upperclassmen try to throw you into the wall. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] __________________ All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression.

10-10-2002, 11:31 AM	#10
hobbitlass Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: next to the fire keeping warm Posts: 471	UUGH! Food poisoning. Giliniel, you didn't by chance eat orc food did you? I got that once from a sub, couldn't eat another one for at least a year. Lady Galadriel- I suppose falling off of bleachers is an occupational hazard when fighting the Uruk-Hai! Artanis- Call me crazy but I think I get the "wood-longing" too. That's a neat name for it. Just don't leave us like the elves did. Such splendor would be missed. Jeli, Jeli, Jeli- what can I say? I think Diamond18 is right. And you know, from one hobbit to another, despite the downside, I love being short! __________________ Just because a person has the right to do something doesn't make it the right thing to do.

10-10-2002, 11:51 AM	#11
DarkRose Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Sauron's Garden Posts: 157	[img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] Aww, all the unfortunate Barrow Downs-ers. pats symphathetically A LOTR-related injury happened to me a week ago. My brother, my dad, and I were all watching FOTR on the sofa. My dad got up to make some popcorn, so me and my brother paused the movie so he wouldn't miss anything. Well, we started acting out the scene we had been in the midst of watching before pausing the movie, which was the scene were the Fellowship is climbing the snowy mountain (Caradhras? spelling wrong). We were walking across the couch, and he was pretending to be Gandalf and I was acting as Legolas, lightly stepping across the "snow" as he pretended to trudge. Well, my foot suddenly plummeted through the cushions of the couch and hit the floor. On the way down, my foot scraped harshly against some of the metal inners of the couch, and that hurt alot. >_O My foot was stuck in the couch (it was quite painful), and my brother was laughing at me and saying "looks like the elf isn't as light as a feather as we though!" [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] He finally helped me get my foot out. __________________ "All rivers go to the sea, yet never does the sea become full."

10-10-2002, 01:08 PM	#12
Jeli Baggins Haunting Spirit Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Hobbiton Posts: 69	yeah i do need sting, that's a great idea! rubs hands together and yes "despite the downside" i love bein short too! [ October 10, 2002: Message edited by: Jeli Baggins ] __________________ "My dear Frodo! Hobbits really are amazing creatures. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you." ~ Gandalf to Frodo

10-10-2002, 07:23 PM	#13
Artanis Haunting Spirit Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: The Wild (I just love solar powered computers, don't you? Posts: 53	Well, I now know that I am not too crazy! I have met a few others who get it. I don't think I am leaving anytime soon, but nobody that knows me in the flesh would be too sorry to see me go! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] __________________ Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Gandy!

10-10-2002, 08:11 PM	#14
hobbitlass Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: next to the fire keeping warm Posts: 471	AAAH! Dark Rose, you cheese-grated your foot?! I'm in pain just thinking about. It all right now? __________________ Just because a person has the right to do something doesn't make it the right thing to do.

10-11-2002, 05:46 AM	#15
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Spectre of Decay Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bar-en-Danwedh Posts: 2,178	The three-volume hard-back of LoTR could cause tennis elbow or repetitive strain injury if read carelessly. It's a pretty heavy book. __________________ Man kenuva métim' andúne?

10-11-2002, 06:35 AM	#16
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	what is tennis elbow,if oyu please? __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

10-11-2002, 07:06 AM	#18
Losthuniel Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: The Helcaraxë- aka Canada Posts: 261	At my cottage, there is a river, and a bunch of people dug out this one section of it, where the kids can swim. (we now call it the "swimming hole". So creative) Anyways, this is a part of the river, so the current is pretty strong. near the end of the swimming hole is a tiny waterfall, made of rough slabs of conrete. Well, my cousin, my sister and I were doing Boromir's death scene, where he's in the boat, but they would always stop me before I went over the waterfall. Trusting my sister=BAD IDEA. They didn't catch me, and I went over, (feet first, in cas eyou were wondering) and nearly go swept away. I had all these cuts (and later, bruises)down my legs, and my cousin and sister were laughing their heads off. __________________ ~* Losthuniel "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" Puck, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Abhorsen's House -- Lirael/Sabriel fanboard

10-11-2002, 07:24 AM	#19
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	Thanks for the info [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

10-11-2002, 04:35 PM	#20
Artanis Haunting Spirit Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: The Wild (I just love solar powered computers, don't you? Posts: 53	Has anyone noticed that most of the pain on this board comes from being Boromere? __________________ Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Gandy!

10-12-2002, 08:16 AM	#22
hobbitlass Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: next to the fire keeping warm Posts: 471	Or perhaps history repeating itself? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] __________________ Just because a person has the right to do something doesn't make it the right thing to do.

10-21-2002, 05:22 PM	#23
Lady_Galadriel Wight Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Shire, Hobbiton, Middle Earth Posts: 135	I love being short too!!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I got another injury a few days ago... My friends and I were acting out the scene on weathertop (i believe) when frodo gets stabbed, and ya know how frodo kinda stumbles and then falls over, well i actually TRIPPED!!! I slipped on some soda that was spilled on the floor... Yeah.... I fell down, and everyone just kept going because they thought i ment to do that... well my friend who was being the wraith that stabbes frodo stabbed me and i yelled out... he thought he hurt me, but it was actually when i fell i cut my knee.. you know, when your knees get all red, and have big scrapes on them, and they only bleed for like a few seconds, then are just painful for the next few days? Yup... not so bad, but.... by the way... this girl in my tennis class actually got tennis elbow, not to long ago... [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] __________________ " You can't toast me!"

10-22-2002, 07:43 PM	#24
Arwen1858 Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Gondor Posts: 516	I get that wood longing too! I'm also a bit on the short side myself, so sometimes I feel like a hobbit. Now, this may not be considered an illness, but I think I'm an elf. I just get this deep longing to be an elf, and live in Rivendell, and go off in the woods, and do elvish type things. It's like this uncontrolable desire.... I must be an elf at heart!!! Arwen __________________ Will Turner: "This is either madness or brilliance." Jack Sparrow: "It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide." ~ Pirates of the Caribbean

01-07-2009, 04:19 PM	#26
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	I think I got a bruise or two while playacting the fight of Gandalf and a (horny) balrog with my friend a few summers ago. (And had I been laughing a bit more, I could have drowned after shouting "fly, you fools!" and letting go of the pier I was gripping. ) But I don't really have LotR-related injuries. Although I have a lightning-shaped scar (on my finger) like Harry Potter. I guess that doesn't count? __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

01-07-2009, 04:26 PM	#27
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	Injuries I've suffered have been of a more sedentary nature. I often get a crick in my neck from trying to lift down one of the heavier books, or at least suffer a lot of earache from huffing and moaning when I ask for one to be lifted down for me. I got my One Ring stuck on my thumb when all my hands swelled up when I was up t'spout, and I achieved that injury with very little effort indeed! I've also had pins and needles many a time from sitting on my bum for too long while writing lengthy posts on here and I'm sure I'm not alone in thumping something after watching a long post with a load of pertinent quotes painstakingly copied out disappear into the great yawning maw of a busted internet connection... __________________ Gordon's alive!

01-07-2009, 04:37 PM	#28
Beregond Playful Ghoul Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,251	I've suffered from the last two of those afflictions. Aye, I've had the Ring stuck, the evil thing. It changes size, you know, when it goes on your finger... __________________ "Hope and memory shall live still in some hidden valley where the grass is green."

10-23-2002, 09:40 AM	#30
dragoneyes Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Completely lost track, sorry! Posts: 733	I'm lucky and have a wood at the bottom of my garden (nice big garden) and if I'm bored im usually in there [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]. Injuries? Erm, I was running from the 'nazgul' once when I fell over, on gravel, ow! I got a stone stuck in my knee and I couldn't bend it until I managed to get it out. Also, when I've been running too much I get wheezy (I have asthma(sp?)) and I sound a bit like frodo after he's been stabbed, and they say running's good for you! [ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: dragoneyes ] __________________ "We might succeed in roasting Pippin alive inside." - Frodo.

10-23-2002, 02:53 PM	#31
hobbitlass Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: next to the fire keeping warm Posts: 471	Dragoneyes- It was a good thing you got that peice of gravel out of your knee before it worked its way to your heart and you became a wraith! I'm sure it happened so fast, but I think a Nazgul tripped you so the gravel could do its evil deed. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] Glad you're allright. __________________ Just because a person has the right to do something doesn't make it the right thing to do.

10-25-2002, 11:56 AM	#32
dragoneyes Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Completely lost track, sorry! Posts: 733	hmm... perhaps you're right, perhaps sauron is back to take over the world! [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]: __________________ "We might succeed in roasting Pippin alive inside." - Frodo.

10-31-2002, 05:37 PM	#33
VanimaEdhel Etheral Enchantress Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wellesley College! Posts: 1,461	Argh! Okay, so today is Halloween, right? I dressed as Galadriel, right? I mean, I even had Elf ears and flat sandals on (no heels...well, I'm 5'10" anyway, I don't really need them...and I couldn't go barefoot, since it was about 33 degrees Farenheit when I left my house this morning). The day went well, except that no one but my friends knew who Galadriel is (I almost physically assaulted one girl who said, "Who's Galadriel? An Elf queen? Oooooh...you mean from that "Middle Earth" place...from that movie right? What was that called? Hold on...I'll think of it..." GAAAAAAAAR! Read...a...book...please calms down and pants a bit). Well, I was walking down the stairs out of Spanish class...and, suddenly I felt my sandal slip a little. I missed the stair and fell down the stone stairs...luckily it was only my feet and ankles that got hurt. But now, I am limping around in a very un-Elvish manner. Well, at least I concealed the limping for the rest of the day (now I look like a gimpy Galadriel, but...). So that's my LotR-related injury...pity me [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img] [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] [ October 31, 2002: Message edited by: VanimaEdhel ] __________________ "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes

01-18-2003, 11:57 AM	#34
Horse-Maiden of the Shire Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Chillaxin' with Glorfindel-441 miles on the RtR Posts: 1,197	AH! i hope all you guys are okay!! the only thing thats happened to me is sort of like that asthma thing (u spelled it rite, dont worry) and i BARELY sound like Frodo does. But then again i rarely act out scenes. at least i try to but nobody joins in. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]. __________________ "There's a big...machine in the sky...some kind of electric snake...coming straight at us." "Shoot it," said my attorney. "Not yet...I want to study its habits."

01-18-2003, 02:44 PM	#35
Sword Maiden Of The Shire Animated Skeleton Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Woody End Posts: 49	I'm the shortest in my whole class (VERY short), Have dark brown (alost black) curly hair, and (You guessed it) blue eyes. And I love it!! Anyway, My class went skiing/snowboarding and as I was climbing a steep hill towards my friend, (she had my skis) I slipped and fell and started to roll down the hill. Luckily, my other friend stopped me. For fun she took off one of her rings and threw it into the snow and my friend at the top picked it up and we did the whole Boromir/Frodo/Aragorn scene. ---------------------- I'm 95% Hobbit. The other 5%? Who cares!! [ January 18, 2003: Message edited by: Sword Maiden Of The Shire ] [ January 18, 2003: Message edited by: Sword Maiden Of The Shire ] __________________ Jellicle Cats come out tonight, Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball ~ T.S. Eliot

02-02-2003, 06:51 PM	#36
elven maiden Earwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A world that never was and never will be Posts: 1,300	like Arwen1858 i think im an elf(i've got an mental illness [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ) and sometimjes i get sea longing never got wood longing. but i could say i have a mental illness because for some odd reson i think im some very imortant elf in the wrong world. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ We pillage and plunder, we rifle and loot, Drink up me hearties, Yo Ho. the looniest site in the world!!!

02-02-2003, 07:36 PM	#37
Pookabunny Wight Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: The only place that matters! Posts: 181	My happy fun LOTR injuries came about when I constructed my Ringwraith costume. I was making hand gaunlets, and when I bound them to the gloves, I burned myself. I was trying to get the armor to better conform to the shape of my hands. Well, I burned 3 of my fingers pretty bad (blisters and all). It didn't really hurt until it started to blister! Also, I injured my ceiling a few times! Whenever I get a new sword (I collect the United Cutlery swords), I'm always playing with them! So I've scratched my ceiling...twice... So much for getting my deposit back! __________________ "I love you more than I did the week before, I discovered alcohol" - Bare Naked Ladies

02-04-2003, 03:05 PM	#38
PeregrinTook Animated Skeleton Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Good ol' USA! Posts: 26	This one's kinda dumb, but oh well. I was in the kitchen talking to my Dad on the phone, and he was about to say goodbye when my sister yells, "Two Towers trailer! Two Towers trailer!!!" from the family room where she had been watching TV. I make Dad say good-bye really fast and then I run into the family room, conveniently not noticing the glass coffee table in my path... hehe Needless to say, I rammed right into it and my knee hurt A LOT... all night long. That was the day of the Golden Globes and my sister and I had been watching all the pre-'stuff' just in case there were any interviews with the cast. ...Later that night... Everybody decides to go to bed 'cause it's late and they're tired. The Globes are still on, and I'm waiting for Best Film, so I stay up and watch... Stupid Best Film Announcer: And the Best Film of the year is... The Hours... ?!?!?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Anyway, I was really mad, and thus hit my knee (yes, that knee) really hard with my fist, forgetting, in my rage, my injury... OWWW, did that hurt!!! __________________ Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. ...Even if you were too small to understand why. ~~~I am Eothain in 'Adventures of the Female Fellowship' RPG!~~~

08-30-2003, 02:55 PM	#39
Maikadurwen Wight Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Beyound the mountains Posts: 115	ouch bet that hurt well my sister shot me with a arrow __________________ Fantastic!