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eleanor_niphredil · 01-15-2003, 02:45 PM

How about when you parants call you by your elvish name? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Parmawen · 05-06-2005, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by eleanor_niphredil

How about when you parants call you by your elvish name? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

For Christmas my mom wrote "For Parmawen" on all my presents.

Oh yeah, and you know you're obsessed when:

the sight of your school's ratty, falling-apart, suspciously stained copy of LOTR brings you to tears. (Guilty...I was ranting to teh librarian for a week)

your mother asks you to kindly refrain from mentioning anything in Elvish or to do with Frodo at the dinner table because it's confusing your grandparents

Kath · 05-07-2005, 05:39 AM

You know you're obsessed when:

You suddenly realise that you cannot actually have a conversation without mentioning something LotR related at least three times

When you meet someone new your first question is - "So, are you a LotR fan?" and if they say no you find yourself wondering how best to initiate them into the world of Tolkien, and all this before even asking their name!

You become insanely jealous of the person who has brought in a ligthsaber because in your head you are imagining it is Anduril.

Encaitare · 05-07-2005, 01:53 PM

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When you meet someone new your first question is - "So, are you a LotR fan?" and if they say no you find yourself wondering how best to initiate them into the world of Tolkien, and all this before even asking their name!

It's a great way to pick up guys!

Seriously, though; I met my (now ex-)boyfriend at a party because a mutual friend said, "Go talk to him. He likes the Lord of the Rings." So that was what we talked about for quite a while, and we went out for over a year. LotR is a successful matchmaking device! Hmmm... maybe that should be a new thread: LotR-sparked relationships, especially in light of Lal and davem!

Bywaters · 05-09-2005, 03:21 PM

My friend's Dad is a member of the Masons (or something like that) who had organised a charity amature boxing stag night at a local hotel. So me a nine other guys went along. All was going well, untill about 2am (at this point having drunk maybe one too many glasses of wine and beer) I got talking to one of the boxers. Me being me, I had to ask him if he liked LotR. He didn't and continued to slag it off, at which point I told him "something off" which he didn't take too kindly to! My memory is very hazy but I think I managed to talk him around from ripping my head off as I was none the worse come the morning. Or maybe it was the fact I had nine other blokes with me, either way, they had a laugh seeing me squirm!!

Iaurhirwen · 05-18-2005, 01:24 PM

Tomorrow is the day that I have been obsessiver over for an entire year. My drama group is going to a drama competition tomorrow in this great artsy town called New Hope in Pennsylvania, and they have a shop their that sells swords and other material of that type. They have almost all of the LOTR swords for sale there and tomorrow, since I am now 18 and am allowed, by law, to purchase a "weapon" I get to buy a sword. I was so upset that I couldn't get one last year because of my age that I've been obsessing on getting a sword.

The only problem is what to get? I'm not sure if my drama directors will appreciate a sword on the bus so I might have to conceal it, which means it would have to be smaller. But I so what a full size replica of Anduril. Argh!!!! I'll just have to be very crafty. And watch my money too, I hate being on a fixed budget, especially with college approaching next year.

Another thing, I was watching Shrek 2 the other day for the first time and I saw the scene with the ring. I started laughing hysterically and becomming all giddy because of the Blantant LOTR reference. I then closely watched the rest of the movie to catch even the smallest reference, even if they were "unintentional"

I can't wait to get my sword

I've been researching different swords and how they could possibly look and drawing swords in the margins of my papers in class . . . . . . . . I'm so hyper over this!!!!!!!!

01-15-2003, 02:45 PM	#1
eleanor_niphredil Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: england Posts: 805	How about when you parants call you by your elvish name? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to spend my time on this forum. And by the way, for any of you turning into a penguin, stop it. ~* I am Pippin took in the Female Fellowship*~

05-07-2005, 05:39 AM	#3
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	You know you're obsessed when: You suddenly realise that you cannot actually have a conversation without mentioning something LotR related at least three times When you meet someone new your first question is - "So, are you a LotR fan?" and if they say no you find yourself wondering how best to initiate them into the world of Tolkien, and all this before even asking their name! You become insanely jealous of the person who has brought in a ligthsaber because in your head you are imagining it is Anduril. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

05-09-2005, 03:21 PM	#5
Bywaters Haunting Spirit Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Tengiz, Kazahstan for 6 wks, then home for 2 wks. Blimey Posts: 47	...when you nearly get beaten up by a boxer! My friend's Dad is a member of the Masons (or something like that) who had organised a charity amature boxing stag night at a local hotel. So me a nine other guys went along. All was going well, untill about 2am (at this point having drunk maybe one too many glasses of wine and beer) I got talking to one of the boxers. Me being me, I had to ask him if he liked LotR. He didn't and continued to slag it off, at which point I told him "something off" which he didn't take too kindly to! My memory is very hazy but I think I managed to talk him around from ripping my head off as I was none the worse come the morning. Or maybe it was the fact I had nine other blokes with me, either way, they had a laugh seeing me squirm!! __________________ ...I mean good manners don't cost nothing do they, eh? insuperably wasted

05-18-2005, 01:24 PM	#6
Iaurhirwen Wight Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: In the theatre!!SHOWTIME!!!! Posts: 217	Tomorrow is the day that I have been obsessiver over for an entire year. My drama group is going to a drama competition tomorrow in this great artsy town called New Hope in Pennsylvania, and they have a shop their that sells swords and other material of that type. They have almost all of the LOTR swords for sale there and tomorrow, since I am now 18 and am allowed, by law, to purchase a "weapon" I get to buy a sword. I was so upset that I couldn't get one last year because of my age that I've been obsessing on getting a sword. The only problem is what to get? I'm not sure if my drama directors will appreciate a sword on the bus so I might have to conceal it, which means it would have to be smaller. But I so what a full size replica of Anduril. Argh!!!! I'll just have to be very crafty. And watch my money too, I hate being on a fixed budget, especially with college approaching next year. Another thing, I was watching Shrek 2 the other day for the first time and I saw the scene with the ring. I started laughing hysterically and becomming all giddy because of the Blantant LOTR reference. I then closely watched the rest of the movie to catch even the smallest reference, even if they were "unintentional" I can't wait to get my sword I've been researching different swords and how they could possibly look and drawing swords in the margins of my papers in class . . . . . . . . I'm so hyper over this!!!!!!!! __________________ "Will somebody find my pants?" - "What do you do with a drunkin sailor?" - "You have a giant mole!!!!" - "Tom!! Get out of the Girls's dressing room!" "But she asked me to help find her pants!!" - - - opening night chaos

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