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

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you come up with fourty- six new obsessions that all aply to you or others you know.

When sibliings steal the one ring from you that you "barrowed" from a freind.

When you carry around your LOTR action figure to photo class and call him your Little Dark Room Buddie.

Your step-dad reminds you agian and agian that it is not real.

He bigins to hate talking to you because that is all that you talk about.

Your grandmother is obsessed

you fight with her because she steals all of your LOTR stuff.

You put rogain on you feet

You change you last name to baggins

You call your grandfather Gandalf when his name is Ollie

You call your butter knife Sting

You and your freinds qote the LOTR all the time at work till they finally fire one of you.

You love to talk to people who love LOTR

When you want to start a Tolkien convention

Tolkien's family has a restaining order

People at church start to wonder

Your family has 15 copies of all the books and movies

Your mother is obsessed

she buys you grey outfits

You rented the old LOTR movies till the copy at Smith's stopped working

You almost believe Middle earth exists

You wonder what the hobbits would be doing if they were here

you take pictures of your action figures for photo class and call it your documentary assignment

you call your freinds in Bio class names like Yrch and elf boy

You choose to read LOTR instead of the other class book for English and are the only one

You stay after to argue the finer point of LOTR with your teacher

You ALWAYS bu the Brandywine brand of mushrooms at the store, and call them the Hobbit Mushrooms.

You know treebeard would love your Village

You correct freinds friends when they are talking about LOTR

You and your best friend come up with cenarioes

You looke for the Tolkien computer in the lab where all the computers are named after famous authors

You are offered to have a Tolkien booth at a local convention

Are late to class because of the Barrowdowns

Your friend mentions that your handwriting looks like it could be elfish

you recomend LOTR

You say things like " Stupid fat Hobbit" and " Fool of a Took" when anyone skrews up

you dicribe yourself as a dwarf with a smigion of Took

You name your cat Smeagol

You argue the finer points of how to say Smeagol with your grandmother

You have an Elijah wood and Orlando Bloom marathon before seeing any of the LOTR movies.

You see Ship Rock New Mexico as Mordor on earth

You think your back yard looks like a Hobbit gardon

You search the entire state for a Legolas action figue.