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

[Vilyon]

~Your School project is a scale model of Minas Tirith
~you shout A Elbereth Gilthoniel in a fight
~you buy every bit of merchandise you can find anywhere

[Everdawn]

You seriously consider doing LOTR for your English Literature assignment.

[Elennar Starfire]

Ar-kansas? Ar-changel? Ar-snic? Ar-chenemy? Ar-gon?

Well, Ar-gon works! Ar=noble, Gon=stone so, Argon=noble stone.

~You actually try to play Tig (game mentioned in commentary for FOTR)

I play that with my two friends. We're still trying to figure out all the rules though. No tigging on a tog, no tagging on a tig, and no double tigging on a tag? is that right? or is it no tigging on a tag and no togging on a tig? Oh well, my friend remembers. We play it on the bus, and get strange looks.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

~ You play "look for the actor who was in LotR" game in every non-LotR movie you watch.

There was this old movie on the telly about a samurai that I watched out of boredom, then the names "Christopher Lee" and John Rhys-Davies" perked my ears up. I tried looking for them. CL was a disappointment - he never lost the voice, despite being King of Spain - but JRD was a leedle challenge. A leedle only.

~ You think if you shout "Daro!" loud enough, that lorry about to hit you will stop.

Lo and behold! it did.

~ You shout "Daro, gaur!" at a dog that won't stop barking.

Lo and behold! he stopped.

~ Need I say more about "Daro"?

[Nimrothiel]

You know you're obsessed with LotR when:

~you go into transports of joy when your classmates decide to watch FotR and TTT on your class trip to Canada
~someone brings the movie "Rudy" on the trip and you get strange looks when you scream "Hey, Sean Astin's in this! Cool!"
~you demand that your mother take a picture of a map of medieval Spain when you spot the name "Aragon" ("Mom, look! It's spelled almost like "Aragorn! Quick, take a picture!")
~you start reciting "The Lament of the Winds" at Niagara Falls
~you are psyched to find out on your campus visit that there is a guy at Ripon College who looks exactly like Gimli; which happens to be his nickname
~you are thrilled to discover that nearly the entire campus are fans of LotR
~for your Religion IV semester report on a religion or something related to religion in general project you choose LotR as your topic

I should mention that "noble stone" thing to my Chemistry instructor.

[Iaurhirwen]

Two more Today

1. During Spanish class - when talking about the giant heads on Easter Island - you immediately start thinking about / imagining the Pukel men.

2. During Drama rehersal, when your fellow cast member mentions the word "flame thrower" your thoughts immediately jump to Denethor. You then start laughing hysterically and everybody stares at you.

[Meneltarmacil]

~You know you are obsessed when you see a city called Turin on a map in Geography class, and you squeak in surprise, then start squealing madly, scaring your whole class.

There used to be a city in Mesopotamia called either Erech or Uruk, depending on what your textbook says. Either way, that's LOTR again.

By the way, Morgoth is coming back to teach my Algebra class again. Goodness knows how he escaped from the Void this time, but.....