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

[Lairston]

You have the dream where you're the wizard standing in for Gandalf and shout, "You will not Pass." And you have it over and over and over and over again.

And the falling stinks :P

[Lollipop010900]

1. You refuse to play a band instrument for your schools instrumental program because every time you hear drums all you can think is... "drums in the deep" and "we cannot get out"

2. You start reading your two week old sister The Hobbit...

3. Instead of studying for a rather important test, you watch the entire Fellowship of the Ring extended version, and then when you get a bad grade on that test you say to yourself... "fool of a Took" (even though your name sounds nothing like Took), then realise you don't care about your test because it was such a good movie.

Before i read this thread i thought i was obsessed. When i read this thread i began to think i wasn't so bad. Now after posting on this thread i have decided i am offically obsessed.

[Elyna of Rivendell]

1.Your friend tells you she can't come to your house for a LotR movie marathon because she is sick, you start to cry. And that's NOT because she is sick...

2.You're asked to do a project on three books for English, andthe teacher immediatly turns to you and says, "No Elyna, you can't do the Lord of the Rings as three books."

3.Your friend asks you to find a cool quote for her FACEBOOK page, you immediatley recite several of your favourite lines from Lord of the Rings.

[Galadriel55]

...when on New Year your sister gives you a bookmark with your name in Elvish.

[MCRmyGirl4eva]

You get mad at your boyfriend because he won't have a LOTR marathon (The movies are "too long")

[Annalaliath]

You inherit the One Ring from your grandmother...

[Andsigil]

When you make your own Tolkienesque heraldic symbols for each member of your family.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Every time I tell my boyfriend how precious he is, I have to avoid saying he's "my precious" because I don't want to sound like Gollum.

Also, my family just had the audacity to have the balrogs having wings argument with me.

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

Also, my family just had the audacity to have the balrogs having wings argument with me.

Hahaha! Oh my. Sometimes my family attempts to strike up a serious conversation about Tolkien or the legendarium or the movies. I try to change the topic, because it's just impossible to explain the dynamics of an entire fandom in a few sentences of casual conversations, and they don't get it anyways.

(On the flip side, occasionally my siblings would make up funny alternate endings where Sauron looses because he stepped on a piece of gum and got stuck to the floor or something. I appreciate the Middle-earth mirth. )

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

Hahaha! Oh my. Sometimes my family attempts to strike up a serious conversation about Tolkien or the legendarium or the movies. I try to change the topic, because it's just impossible to explain the dynamics of an entire fandom in a few sentences of casual conversations, and they don't get it anyways.

(On the flip side, occasionally my siblings would make up funny alternate endings where Sauron looses because he stepped on a piece of gum and got stuck to the floor or something. I appreciate the Middle-earth mirth. )

I appreciate mirth too, but my family, my mother especially, will come to incorrect conclusions about how characters are by their movie counterparts. It drives me nuts.

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

I appreciate mirth too, but my family, my mother especially, will come to incorrect conclusions about how characters are by their movie counterparts. It drives me nuts.

My mother has read LOTR and TH, and she likes them (especially LOTR). My father has glancingly seen the movies and heard snippets of the books. He barely knows anything about the story except that there's a ring involved. However, it would happen when I was reading bits of it out loud to my siblings several years ago, that he'd come in at the precise moment when some ruffian would be speaking none too eloquently. He would then ask me if it's really a good idea to read a book to my siblings which is written with such crude language. I don't think he believed me that it's actually very well-written and has lovely flowing language, but this character was meant to sound rude and uncreative.