Beating the non- LotR fans

[Gothbogg the Ripper]

Make them listen to an hours worth of Gary Barlowes "music", after that Lord of the Rings will seem like a Godsend!

[Elessar Telcontar]

We ought to ring their filthy little necks, preciousss...

[Morgul Queen]

Ahh, the scream of a Mary Sue is the sweetest scream of all.

Hear, hear!!

Has anyone ever been asked what a silmaril is? I was reading the Silm in class and got asked wht the title meant, I told them and promtly got asked what a Silmaril was.

How on earth do you answer that?!

They ended up getting a crash-course in M-e history, poor people.

I, for one, am just sick and tired of seeing uncanonically correct, horribly-written, and absolutely rotten fanfiction and posts clogging up the good ones. And some of them, when you write to them telling of some mistakes they may want to change, yell at you for 'sticking yourself in a cupboard with a flaming torch and books.' Yes, someone actually said that to me. It appears many of them THINK they know enough to write a good fanfiction (and maybe they do) but they certainly aren't putting it to good use!

Really? You got it so easy. We normally get variations of 'ur sooo mian!!!1!11 i cn do wat i laike!!11! so stp flmn me nd gt lst u mianie!!11!11!!!one!!11!eleventyone!!!'

Or, in the case of LQ "Start using the manors your parents taught you, grow up and start behave like abults!'

Spelling intentional. *sniggers* And, in the latter, quoted exactly. It's such a hoot, she claims to be 20+

[Vanwatholiel]

I would say follow them around the whole day and apply a quote to everything they do. Like when someone you don't like comes to talk to them, say, they have a cave troll!! That would most definetly trip them out. And it would be most fun.


Or just walk around reading the book to them. The vast majority of my friends think that I have a problem, and I need help. They just look at me and shake their head. It amuses me. I know mine was rather lame, but i just wanted to post SOMETHING!!!

[Morgul Queen]

Morgul's take on RE, or, why Morgy and the RE teachers do not get along.

Scene: Religous Education Class

Teacher: Alright girls, get out your bibles and start reading.

Morgy: *pulls out 'Rings*

Everyone else: *pulls out bibles*

Teacher: Now, turn to page 372. Morgul, you start reading...

Morgy: "There were no sign of living moving things, save birds..."

Class: *looks at Morgy strangely*

Friends: *crack up*

[Sapphire_Flame]

Morgy, that is many different kinds of awesome. *must do that in her RE class*

Okay, here's one: find all the fangirls who write LotR fanfics. Ask them, under the pretense that you're actually interested, what site they have their stories posted on. Ask for their screen names. Go find their fics and report them to the PPC. We will take care of the rest. *Saph and Morgy don sunglasses*

Who ya gonna call? The Plot Protectors!

Abedithon le,

~ Saphy ~

[Morgul Queen]

*rolls eyes* It's www.legolas.com, I've been trolling there for longer than I'd like to admit.

[About three months! ^.^]

Oh, be quiet, Darkling!

[Lindril Arvilya]

I think we should reinstate stonings as punishment. However, we can replace the stones with hard-back copies of the Silmarillion and raw potatoes.

No, truly, there are only two types of people in this world: people who are Tolkien fans, and those who aren't Tolkien fans... yet. There's still hope. Have pity on the poor sods. They know not what they do. Or what they are missing.

[Finwe]

I think all LOTR-Haters should be tied down in a shallow pool, whose water goes up to just below their nostrils, and be nibbled by hordes of rabid minnows. That way, when they're laughing (the minnows will only tickle them) they'll get water up their nose, and half drown. I'm sure that they'll die of trying to restrain their laughter and keep water from going up their nose.
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I'm so eeevil!!! [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

[elfearz1]

on halloween no one knew what my costume was. I was an elf and I got asked if I was a character from Harry Potter or if I was Robin Hood. [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] what are people thinking?

I think people who don't know/understand LOTR should be tied up in a sack, or thrown into the river Isen, or maybe just given to me i would lecture them untill they knew most of it....

:: hehehe ::

[GreatWarg]

Perhaps the entire Downs community should try converting movie fangirls/boys into true Tolkien purists. Perhaps we can ask Sir Barrow-Wight to create armbands and headbands we can purchase? It would be a wonderful revenue for the Downs, and help us all spread the word!

I, for one, am just sick and tired of seeing uncanonically correct, horribly-written, and absolutely rotten fanfiction and posts clogging up the good ones. And some of them, when you write to them telling of some mistakes they may want to change, yell at you for 'sticking yourself in a cupboard with a flaming torch and books.' Yes, someone actually said that to me. It appears many of them THINK they know enough to write a good fanfiction (and maybe they do) but they certainly aren't putting it to good use!

[Everdawn]

Now im being hipocritical...

You couls always have them drawn and quartered, but id think you would have a hard itme finding a country which allows that...
..I just wont have any part in it. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

I dunno...they just kinda...dissapeared.
*licks chops and howls*

Oooh...lucky you...

Maybe all us Aphadrim ought to wear badges, as a kind of united front all around the world...

...then we'll launch terrorist attacks, like burn an HP warehouse, write "Frodo lives" and "Wave kings at Boromir the Disco Squid" on every wall, lamp post, and window, and...I can't think of more.

I've been reading "The Cardinal of the Kremlin" by Tom Clancy...there's this part about breaking someone's mind...then I got this extremely evil idea: Read Silm, The Hobbit, LotR, and all HoME books to them...in Entish!

Later days! [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]
->Elenrod

[Rindoien, elf of Lothlorien]

Lock them in an empty room with loads of copies of Silm, The Hobbit and LOTR. They will be so bored that they will have to read them. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *coughs*

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Flash report: SPCHF(EFLF) {Society of prevention of cruelty to HP Fans(especially from LotR fans)} was demobilised by the terms of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, signed March 3, 1918. Take that, glassboy!

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Anywhen, I've discovered a new sensory-deprivation technique: Throw the fools into the Void. There's enough space for them there...

Later days! [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]
->Elenrod

[Nimrothiel]

Non-LotR fans are not nearly as annoying or stupid as the evil Leggie-boppers. I'm sitting next to two of them right now; they're looking at photos of Legolas feeding a horse. Naturally, they're not even looking at the horse, and I have to hear them gush about how cute Legolas is. [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img]

[ November 20, 2003: Message edited by: Nimrothiel ]

[Ainaserkewen]

Totally in agreeance with you there. Nazgirls of the world unite! I love cute actors and all but if I ever go completely bonkers over one, you have my permission to hit me.

Speaking of hitting, that's how I deal with the non-believers who are too annoying for words.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Speaking of hitting, that's how I deal with the non-believers who are too annoying for words.

Brute force...tacky but effective...have to try that one out...

Later days! [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]
->Elenrod

[elfearz1]

oooh in my Brit Lit (British Literature) class we were studying about heros so my teacher played clips from movies with heros in them and we had to write down the characteristics of the heros. She played a clip from TTT. I heard these girls conversations and this is what they said:
"what is this?"
"Lotr! ugh, I hate that movie!"
errrrrr I was so mad!

[Pyroclastic]

Ugg, and you had to sit near them elfearz1, how dreadfull! I knew a guy who lo and behold bothered to read the books, and then he complained about how "The whole return to the Shire bit was just kinda pointless." He waited untill he was across the room to say it though, so he was out of my immediate target range unfourtounately. But that's ok, he inspired a lovely poem about chumps. As long as morons are inspiring us to be better people they're good for something. Also, they make very nice step ladders.

Pyro

[elfearz1]

Originally Posted by Pyroclastic

Ugg, and you had to sit near them elfearz1, how dreadfull!
Pyro

I know. *shakes head in disapointment at them*

so I was standing around at school and I had my binder with me. A girl and a friend comes up to me (they're in another one of my classes so it wasn't random or anything.) and this was our conversation:
her: what does your binder say?
me: "did you squeeze your hobbit today" (ok on a side note does anyone else ever get the urge to squeeze hobbits?)
her: What's a hobbit
me: *stare*
her: ?
me: from....Lord of the rings....
her: I've never seen it.
friend: neither have I
me: gah! you rent it, you go to her house and you must watch it together, tonight!

yeah I think they thought I was crazy.....

[Encaitare]

Have I ever gotten the urge to squeeze hobbits? But of course.

Oddly enough, I have a similar picture on one of my binders with Gandalf and Frodo hugging that says "Have you hugged your Hobbit today?"

[THE Ka]

Heh. Dealing with these people isn't a problem for me. If you can say something nice, i will be the benevolent teacher and retain as much facts as i can for you. Usually these people come stalking me two weeks later with alot of lotr Merch. in hand, saying that "you're my muse!". one word: frighting . but, expectible.

For the others that are not so nice... i try reverse psychology to see actually how much they really know. Usually many of my lotr friends are there, waiting for their response. Most people fluster, then ask why they were wrong. Then i pull the old "read the book before movie" speech. Hopefully, they will. Once someone (who said the Tolkien was a drug-inflenced loser of a writer Ah! I know!) under my ploy finally admitted that they did read at least one of his books, and found it a wonderful read.

I've heard from other lotr fans or their reactions anyway, that liking harry potter or at least enjoying the series is "Baaaad"... i can't really see this, since most of my friends are devote Tolkien fans but, they enjoy J.K. Rowling's work. It's like (in my opinion) as if we have split into three different sub-species: 1. the one and only un-adulturated true fan (the puritans of the group) 2. the fans who also enjoy other works of fantasy (ex. Harry Potter series, Earthsea Series <- this series is pre-tolkien publication next to tolkien, my favortie) 3. the movie-Tolkien-textbook goers... the only conclusion that i have been able to come to why some fans of tolkien dislike HP is that they view it as if the author is trying to steal some of tolkien's "magic". i don't know this for sure though, i wouldn' t call myself one of this sub-species.

hope i haven't bore you all to death.

~Ka~

[Morgul Queen]

I dislike HP because I get the impression that JKR is being slightly condescending with the language she uses. I don't get that with Tolkien and Pratchett, but Rowling seems (to me) to have used a word, gone 'Oh, but that's too difficult" and used a word from the 'Oxford Picture Dictionary' instead.

Don't kill me, that's just my impression.

[Nimrodel_9]

I like HP, but I agree with you Morgy.

In English last week, I was reading FotR. My English teacher saw what I was reading and said, "I started reading that book, but found it really boring. So, I tried watching the movie. I fell asleep a little ways into it, and never watched the others." (This coming from the same teacher who dosen`t know how to spell buried, and dosen`t know the difference between thrown and throne, and desert and dessert. Many other things, but just to give you an idea.) I just sat there and glared at her.

[Morgul Queen]

*grins* Cue Tolkien quote here:

(not entirely sure if this is 100% correct, feel free to correct me if you want)

"Some people tell me that my books are boring or contempible and I have no cause to complain as I have similar views of their works."

I really have to congratulate you on your self control, I probably would have asked the teacher if he/she needed help with the big words rather than settling for glaring at them.

Actually....I've done that before...*blushes*...an far too impulsive for my own good.

[Elennar Starfire]

I'm still arguing with my geography teacher from last year over the correct pronunciation of 'celtic'. I know I'm right, and I've proved it several times, it's a hard K unless you speak of sports teams... A geography teacher should know better! *glares at stubborn geography teacher*

I argued with my math teacher too...he admitted I was right, but he had to teach it the way he was (A very impractical way. If the easy way to solve a certain type of problem always gives you the right answer, why bother learning the hard way first?) because the People In Charge decided so.

And my school librarians...they won't allow anyone to use the library computers unless they can explain how they need to for homework.

*'Leny realizes she's ranting* I'll stop now...

[Elentari_Elbereth]

Hmm. I know very few people who actually have read LotR or any other Tolkien book. I know wayy tooo many Legolas (movie) fangirls.
I get back at them by convincing them legolas dies in RotK (before it came out, that is)
They were either annoyed with me or saw me as a great master. One of them thought they spoke in pig latin in the films (what an outrage!) so I spoke of elvish and it's history and a little grammar in quenya and quoted off "Nin o chithaeglir..."

If someone says something insulting about LotR I usually insult them back in elvish or black speech...

I think the best way to get back at them is speak in great detail about history of Middle Earth, or the Silmarillion, or anything complicated to a poor outsider about LotR. like rambling off the many titles of Aragorn, who said them, why,.. etc.

Or read the Silmarillion outloud and explain everything. heh.

Recently I was asked what Ents were, so I went in detail about them and their history. it was great!

Sometimes I write my notes partially in Quenya, and when my friends want to borrow my notes.. heh heh.

[Gothbogg the Ripper]

So basically you exploit the ignorance of those around you in order to validate your point? How can your argument ever be debated seriously if the opposing party has no idea what in the name of Rafeal Trujillo you're talking about? Look, I think that now the films are done with and the media circus has left the building it is time to reevaluate this topic. The fairweather fans are gone, the hysteria has degenerated into silence, the boom period has ended, the depression has begun. Do people ever even get insulted for liking Lord of The Rings anymore? The answer in my case is "no". For many it was a phase and for some the attention lavished on the series was perfect justification for a backlash but now people just don't care. Live and let live folks. It's the wave of the future.

[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

The last post on this thread was nearly two years ago. I think that your point may already have been taken.