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03-11-2003, 08:17 PM | #1 |
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Word hallucinations
Has anyone else ever glanced at a word and had to stop a second because you thought that word was LOTR-related? I have seen:
Billabong - Balrog Star! - Istari There were a few more too, but I can't remember them. It's weird though- makes you think you're crazy!
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03-11-2003, 08:54 PM | #2 |
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Do I ever! And sometimes you actually see words that are middle earth related (to people like you and me anyways)
We drove by a building that said "Orc" Instead of Enterprise, some buisnesses shorten to "Ent" Anywho, here are some halucinations of mine. Acorn: Aragorn Boring: Boromir (no offense meant to Boromir!) River: Rivendell And the other day my dad couldn't remember the meaning of a word so he asked me "Grace, do you know what narcism means?" I nearly replied "Oh, that's Aragorns, but it's reforged now". I have more but I can't seem to think of them. Don't you hate it when that happens?
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03-11-2003, 08:57 PM | #3 |
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Agg! Yes!
Hello!-Mellon There are more but I can't remember them as well. Ag! I remember I thought something said Elrond once...
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03-11-2003, 09:14 PM | #4 |
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Random bits from the movie will pop into my head at times as well. This weekend we were supposed to be at a certain place, but couldn't find it. And we were in a huge city that I'm not used to, I've lived in the boonies so long. I kept thinking "I have no memory of this place" and the music for that scene was running through my head the whole time. Yeah, that's when I saw the building that said "Orc".
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03-12-2003, 12:42 AM | #5 | |
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Far away: Faramir Ballhog: Balrog Argon (the element): Aragorn There's a sign in my hometown that has "Rivendell" on it. I should take pictures.
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03-12-2003, 04:39 AM | #6 |
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The ear, nose and throat ward at the hospital is shortned to ENT ward. I could just imagine all the sick ents!
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03-12-2003, 11:55 AM | #7 |
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There's a neighborhood, complex, thing near me that's called Brandywine, if that counts for anything. Let's see......
habit => hobbit (This has given me an unfortunate tendency to spell habit with two b's. [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] yikes.) I'll be back if I think of more... [ March 12, 2003: Message edited by: Sapphire_Flame ]
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03-14-2003, 03:39 PM | #8 |
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I do the Argon / Aragorn thing all the time, and also Boron / Boromir. I have a problem with Periodic tables
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03-14-2003, 04:28 PM | #9 |
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I always see 'took' and immediately think they've forgotten to capitalize the T. Then I remember took is a word, not just a name.
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03-14-2003, 04:31 PM | #10 |
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...and when I'm writing about Pippin, I keep catching myself writing things like, "he took a deep breath" or "he took another look" or "he took a moment" or "it took his breath away" or....
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03-14-2003, 06:20 PM | #11 |
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I just did the dumbest thing at the store. There was a sign saying that "Greenleaf Lettuce" was on sale. Naturally, I thought it said, "Greenleaf Legolas" and had to do a second and third take. Someone shoot me.
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03-14-2003, 06:51 PM | #12 |
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i also have the same habit/Hobbit problem. but i did catch myself when i switched them accidently on a test. [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]
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03-15-2003, 12:34 AM | #14 |
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my friend thought "babett" said "hobbit"
and on my DSL internet thing it says "ent ethernet" i remember i saw token or something and i was all "what? does that say tolkien?" and i said it out loud too. my friends just gave me their oh-never-mind-its-just-becka look.
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03-15-2003, 02:33 AM | #15 |
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Sometimes when I see Elton John written somewhere, I think it says Elrond & vice-versa. & if it counts for anything, my friend's dad always asks why all these girls love "LEGLESS". BTW I never knew that there was a real Brandywine River until I watched the History Channel.
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03-20-2003, 06:19 PM | #17 |
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Man, I do this soooo many times. token= Tolkien, boron= Boromir, argon= Aragorn or Agronath, habit= hobbit, but there's also a famous poet from my city named John Greenleaf Whittier and I'm like, "Wow, is he related to Legolas? Nah... he's a boring old poet." [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] I also connect mirror with miruvor, peregrin falcon (a bird)= lil old Pip, and The Sims somehow gets repeatedly called The Silmarillion. Heck knows why... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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03-20-2003, 06:30 PM | #18 |
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When we first got our periodic tables, me and my ONLY OTHER lotr crazed friend were poking each other and pointing out Boron and Argon. Hehehehe...
Also, I saw Riverdale on the TV and I was all What? Rivendell?
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03-21-2003, 03:46 PM | #19 |
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There's this store called "Unfinished Works" and everytime I pass it I always have to do a double take because I think it says "Unfininshed Tales". You'd think I'd know by now that it doesn't. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] There was a time I was in a book store and they had a sign on a book shelf that said J-R. Yes I thought it said J.R.R. Tolkien and had to stop and stare at it to realize it didn't.
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03-27-2003, 05:11 PM | #20 |
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Never thought I would start doing it [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
Today my sister brought a CD by Era. What do you think I read on the cover? Exactly! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Spent some time thinking what kind of Music it could be, then asked the sister to read the name aloud! I didn't tell her what the matter was.
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03-27-2003, 06:09 PM | #21 |
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In dutch an Elephant is called an Olifant. So each time I read it I think of Tolkein's Oliphaunt. Cause both words have about the same pronounciation! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
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03-28-2003, 10:17 AM | #22 |
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I saw a toothpaste box and thought it said "One Tube to rule them all" when it really said "Whiter teeth with One Tube, Guaranteed!"
If that's not a sign I need help, I don't know what is.
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03-28-2003, 12:25 PM | #23 |
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Hee hee, Shy Hobbit! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
I saw some actor named Richard Olyphant or something of the sort and almost died laughing. Mom was the only other one who got it. I was also writing last night and chanced to write "familiar", only I made a mistake and wrote "faramir". So I scribbled it out, shaking my head and started to write it again. "Faramir" popped up again... and again. So I have three scribbles in one sentence where "familiar" became "faramir". Shoot me.
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03-28-2003, 01:31 PM | #24 |
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Wow...I'm not alone! Every time I hear/read anything about the battle of the Argonne Forest(WWI)I always have to look at it again...for some odd reason I always think Aragorn. There's also a street sign where I live that says Loth Lorian. Needless to say, I often get confused with that one.
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03-28-2003, 01:44 PM | #25 |
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Today I said "Gala" and my mom said "What? Gollum?!" I have her so well-trained...maybe it's because she saw The Two Towers yesterday again with me (fourth time for her as well as me...aren't you proud of me for getting so many people addicted?).
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03-28-2003, 04:55 PM | #26 |
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In school we're reading a book called Across 5 Aprils, it's about the Civil War, and the general store owner's name is Sam Gardiner. I often accidentally call him Sam Gamgee [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] . And there's a mean guy in the town named Guy Wortman, and I always accidentally call him Grima Wormtongue. Then the schoolmaster's name is Shadrach, but once I called him Shagrat. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] Oh yeah, NEVER read that book. At our school they bought like 50 copies of it, and 5 pages are missing, the rest are all scrambled up. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
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03-29-2003, 12:26 PM | #28 |
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Yesterday I was in the car and on the radio the guy was all "Now for your E-M-T 411!" and to my mom I said "What? Did he say E-N-T? ENT? Hahahaa!" Then I was peeking at this book and it said Realms of Valor and I was like "VALINOR?!? Oh, damn. Valor." Then I was in the Body Shop and I saw a tube with 'Gingko Biloba' on it, and I thought it said Gingko Bilbo. Lastly, in our province there is a town called Gimli. I saw it on the news and I said, "Hee hee! Gimli! You know, from Lord of the Rings!...The dwarf's name is Gimli. You know, Gimli!...Yeah, I'll shut up now."
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03-30-2003, 06:48 PM | #29 |
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There is apparently some clothing company called Croft and Barrow. Whenever I see their clothing, I go, "Barrow-Downs? Where?" And, if I see it out of the corner of my eye, I think I'm looking at something related to the Lord of the Rings, which causes a very audible gasp and spin, which leads to some very strange looks from other people.
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03-30-2003, 07:17 PM | #30 |
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There is a region in Spain named Aragon. Needless to say I always seem to confuse that one. Every time I see the words fellowship or ring, no matter what context they are in, I start thinking about LOTR and then realize that whatever it was that I read was intended to mean something different. This often causes horrible puns, bcause one of my friend's last names is Ring. Heehee. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I somehow think that Boron is similar to Sauron... don't ask. There is a street in my neighborhood called Greenleaf. That always produces laughs. That's all for now. I'll go think of more word hallucinations I've had.
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03-31-2003, 04:54 PM | #31 |
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Me wants to answer here!!
Well, the word "hobbies" with hobbits and as I'm mexican there's a word givin me a hard time "Legales" with "Legolas" [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] |
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Another Sunday School one: Solomon => Saruman. We were reading this section about him and everytime someone read the name Solomon I wanted to yell, "It's Saruman!! Get it right!" [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] But, yeah, I didn't, but I should've...
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It wasn't written down, but there was an advert on the radio and all I heard was mumble mumble mumble barrow. I started listening and was going 'Barrow what? Wight? Downs?' It turned out to be a most boring advert, talking about wheel barrows though [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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Actually, I have this game-with-bad-graphics that has a monster thing that's called a 'Barrow Wight'. The Wight family also comes with a Tunnel-Wight. The 'Barrow Wight' seems to steal constitution and dexerity. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] Before it could attack me, I fire-bolted it to death.
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04-03-2003, 12:50 AM | #35 |
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I saw a car license plate once that said:
"BigMoot" And I thought of "Ent Moot" immediately... Also there's a subdivision around here we pass by alot called "Riverdale"... And let tell you if I knew for sure any Elves were living in its houses I'd be flying down its streets trying to see them!
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04-04-2003, 11:44 AM | #36 |
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you people need help. but i'll admit to the argon = aragorn one.
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Loiter = LotR to the tired eye.
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04-04-2003, 01:14 PM | #39 |
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this is off topic but... heres one reason i need help
in our dining room, our cabinet and fridge are next to each other. for some reason, i look in the cabinet for food and fridge for the calculator. happens all the time |
04-04-2003, 01:52 PM | #40 |
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yeah, I do that sometimes too.
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