Annoying Amateurs

[Lathriel]

Although amateurs can be annoying it is funny to make them belive one of the characters dies.

My brothger used to be an amateur but then me and my mom made him so curious he read LOTR.

Now a few days ago he was talking to his friends and they believed that Celeborn had one of the three rings. My brother told them that they were wrong but they wouldn't believed him so he scanned a part of the page of the book where the answer was and brought it to school. He is becoming a LOTR nut without knowing it. YEEEEHHH

[Lachwen]

You know, there was a time not too long ago when I would have fallen into the "amatures" bin. Specifically, when I saw FotR for the first time. At that point, my total experience with Tolkien was reading The Hobbit once six years earlier. When I got home that night I started a fanfiction. It was BAD. But then I started reading the books and, well, lost all semblence of a social life. I never try to impose my knowledge of Tolkien stuff on people, but I do feel obligated to step in when someone is saying something patently WRONG (like inthe book "The History of Tolkien's Middle-earth For Dummies," when they misspelled Elladan's name as Ellahad I nearly died in the bookstore.). And my brother has been trying for over a year now to find a Tolkien trivia question that will stump me. I'm frightened because he's failing. I really need other interests...or do I??

have this ability to detect anything LOTR related in an instant, anyone else have this uncanny ability?

Oh, yeah. You know, maybe that explains my bad grade in math last year...