What brings out the Gollum in you?

[Brinniel]

My laptop

It is the most valuable item I own and it is very precious to me. About a month and a half ago, my dad was helping me fix my wireless, which never worked properly, and suddenly the screen went black. Apparently, my video card had issues and finally just completely broke. The only option was to ship the computer back to the company so they could fix the problem. To make matters worse, I was flying out 3,000 miles back to college the next day. At the thought of going back to school without my laptop, I went completely gollum. For the first week at school, I had to do without a computer and for the second, I had to manage with just a rental; not exactly a fun experience. But the good news is that I finally did get my laptop back, and despite that I had to reinstall everything, I was relieved. Now that my precious is back in my arms, I never want to let it go again..

[Lord Halsar]

My precious, eh? I think that mine are my binder (I don't know why, I don't keep anything really personal in it. I simply go berzerk when someone takes it. luckily for them, noone has tried to rummage through it or anything... they'd better hope that it stays like that...), the stand for my bass clarinet (People are always taking it when I'm not looking and calling it an 'anal-probe' which it sadly does resemble... in a somewhat-frightening way), and my most preciousss of precioussses, my copy of the Silmarillion that I carry around with me at all times, my friends have seen it so often that they call me the local 'Preist of Tolkien' and that the Silmarillion is 'My Bible'. I am 100% serious about this. I even figured out how to tell people to "Burn in Hell" in elvish (Okay, I admit, it's actually "Burn in the Abyss, but you get the point...)

[Wanderer of Light]

My preciousss....... I think it is my Rubiks Cube, I tend to take it everywhere I go, and solve it everytime I got three minuts to do so., that's about the maximum time it takes me to solve it..... Also, I always get annoyed when people touch my cube.... IT'S MY CUBE, MY OWN!!!

Also, my Binas... Well, I suppose only Dutch people who took Chemistry at school know what a Binas is, so I'll have to explain it. Basicly, it's the bible of science, every possible formula one can get at school is in there!!! As it says on the front 'Het Informatieboek der Natuurwetenschappen' (The Informationbook of Science).... Basicly, you're unable to do your Chemistry homework, make Chemistry test, or do anything with Chemistry without that book . (you also use it for Physics and Biology, though a lot less).

I suppose I would also completely go insane if I lose my NIV-bible (WHICH I HAD TO IMPORT OUT OF ENGLAND!) or even worse.... my Statenvertaling (a certain Dutch bible) from somewhere between 1637 and 1657......

[Mithalwen]

Despite my sentimental attachment to jewellery and panicking over my data stick (which was only cos I thought I was going to need my CV and I am getting to the stage where is hard to remember jsut what I have done with my life), the real precious, the thing I have to have and carry around is my fountain pen. All the way through my schooling I struggled with my handwriting (only when I was doing teacher training did I found out that I probably had dyspraxia) and unless I write with a decent pen my handwriting can still be pretty bad (leading to sarcastic comments that I should have been in the medical profession).

Somehow now that I so seldom have to write longhand, it becomes more important that I have my special pen -preferably the ink one but if necessary I have a goodish ball point. It does make a huge difference to the legibility and speed but I do have a psychological dependency on it and nearly had a panic attack yesterday when it wasn't in my bag and I was so relieved to find it on my desk at home.

The other thing I worry about is keys but I think that is quite reasonable since muddling up a set once nearly led to being trapped on the stairs of the office where I worked for the weekend..... which is the sort of thing that is liable ot happen to me and not to normal people.

[Diamond18]

My cats. I pet them and call them precious on a daily basis.

But I suppose I ought to be talking about an object. In that case, my laptop. It has a name (no, not Precious; Frostine) and until I got internet at my apartment last week, I always carried it to work to use the wireless, so it went with me on errands and pretty much everywhere. My whole life is contained in this slim little white computer. I would be lost without it.

Forget Gollum. Doesn't that make me Sauron?

[Gil-Galad]

My music. i was loading some more songs onto it and my computer was really slow, so i unattached it and when i looked at it, No songs found. i was seriously freaking out, i had to walk outside to cool myself down because i was so distraught, 624 songs gone. well i went back in, restarted the computer, hooked it back in and my songs came back. i was so releived.

[Lindale]

Ooh, for me it's the hairbrush that an ex-boyfriend with such long hair gave me last Christmas--actually, I took from his drawer, told him, "I love your hairbrush and it's Christmas" and placed it on my purse. Fortunately he didn't go Deagol too much, he just told me he'd never show me another hair item or any other thing used for grooming the hair! I don't know why I'm so attached to it, it's just one of the many many hairbrushes in the world, and it doesn't really help tame my hobbit-like raven hair.