Word hallucinations

[kittiewhirl1677]

These are SO funny. It has happened to me before, though, like sometimes somebody says, "Look! Do you like my ring?"
And I say, "Where did you get the ring of power? IT's EVIL! PUT IT BACK! Take it AWAY!"
And they all stare at me like, *huh? are you okay?*.

[Ainaserkewen]

Sometimes if i'm really in a LOTR cloud, I could see the weirdest things, but forget them later. But I once went to this youth group thing at a camp, and the fist thing I noticed was that the main lodge was called Rivendail. Then after I noticed pictures on the wall, hand drawn saying Bilbo, Gandalf, and all the gang. Turns out that our whole thing was based on LOTR, it was weird but I got to be in team Frodo!!! The pictures were really cool to.

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Lucky. Team Frodo. Man I'm tired...but today on Jeopardy one of the questions was "The "Grey" Wizard of Middle-earth" and I yelled "IT'S GANDALF!!! GUESS GANDALF!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!" And then after that for about five minutes I just sat there giggling like mad.

[Tinuviel the Nightingale]

Me and my class were reading a Shakespeare play and there was a line that said, "All that glisters is not gold..."
I was half asleep at the time so I sat up and said "Strider!" Right in the middle of my English teacher reading. They just stared....

[Rynoah, the Overly-Happy]

*cackles*

but today on Jeopardy one of the questions was "The "Grey" Wizard of Middle-earth" and I yelled "IT'S GANDALF!!! GUESS GANDALF!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!" And then after that for about five minutes I just sat there giggling like mad.

I love when they do this to me. I remember they had an X-Men-related question at one time on another game show. I heard the clue (can't even remember what it was, or the name of the show) from my position in the kitchen. I covered the distance between the dining room and living room before the host even finished and I was jumping up and down shouting the answer. And... they guessed wrong! WRONG! I wasn't happy.

[dragoneyes]

There was a quiz on the radio, all I heard was '...Tolkien's third book in the trilogy...' and of course I just yelled RETURN OF THE KING! It took the contestant considerably longer but at least they got it right.

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

One time I saw a question on a Jeopardy special with child contestants. The question was something or other about which book had to do with J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and then named four books, one of which was Tom Shippeys the Road to Middle Earth. Needless to say, I knew the answer. The kid who answered the question got it wrong. That made me knid of mad because it was obvious to ME.

[kittiewhirl1677]

I know, it's really annoying when youre obsessed with something and you hear someone getting something that you know is right wrong, and you get all mad and.. yeah it happens to me.

But anyway, this is getting way off-topic. Isn't this supposed to be word-hallucinations?

[Eressië Ailin]

What does any of this have to do with word hallucinations?

Anyways, back on topic, if there are any Les Miz fans here, or people who've read the book, then they should who Lesgles is. The first time I read his name, I immediately though, 'What the...?!?! How did Legolas get there?!?!' Then I realised that Legolas and Lesgles were two different, albeit fictional, people. I also got sweet 'lil Gavroche and Gorbachev mixed up in History once.

[ April 06, 2003: Message edited by: Eressië Ailin ]

crazy. the whole lot of you.

[Faybevin Bombadil]

*chuckles*

Salix: That was a good one. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

kittiewhirl1677: I once jumped my friend for his junior class ring screaming that it was my precious and he had stolen it from me. Needless to say, nobody shows me any of their new jewelry. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

I've definitely seen 'habit' & 'hobbies' = 'Hobbit'; and 'Argon' = 'Aragorn'

Here's a new one though:
Eleven = Elven


Love,
Faybevin

[Rynoah, the Overly-Happy]

I hate "eleven" just for that particular purpose. It's impossible to count how many times I've mistakenly written "elven" where "eleven" should be and vice versa.

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

i just did the elven-eleven thing today. ugh. i hate eleven. And i just typed elven and had to backspace.

[Goldberry]

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 . 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. 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.

lol, we read the same book in school and I thought the exact same thing!!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] lol . . . yeah my book was really ripped and torn too, but I think I did part of that ripping, tee hee. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

[Eressië Ailin]

You know, the Gamgee family was later called the Gardener family. Just to give nightmares to the Sam fans~

Sam Gardiner=Sam Gamgee/Gardener

[Luinalatawen]

I'm going to go off-topic again, oh well...

but today on Jeopardy one of the questions was "The "Grey" Wizard of Middle-earth" and I yelled "IT'S GANDALF!!! GUESS GANDALF!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!" And then after that for about five minutes I just sat there giggling like mad.

Whenever I see something LotR on TV I go mad too! I was watching Sat. Night Live a couple weeks ago when they were doing weekend update and Chris Kattan came on as Gollum! It was so cool, he was all hunched over, had no hair, and was mumbling about his precioussssss! I was screaming my head off. And when Ian McKellen was hosting and he did the "conjurer of cheap tricks, not trying to rob you" line I was so excited!

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

Yesterday I was at the store and I saw a medicine bottle on the shelf which said lutein. I thought "Luthien? What? Oh, it's Lutein, that must be some herb or whatnot... what is Lutein?" It was kind of weird. [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Lutein is for your eyes. I think.

I was looking at my friends CD upside down, it said EVANESCENCE on the front, and I thought it said Evenstar. Then on her computer screen, her lil sis was typing something and it said 'Eligon' and I was like "What? Elijah? Huh? Oh, Eligon." And then I was looking in the library and I saw a book called 'Farnor'. Yep, you guessed it. "ARNOR?!?!?!? Oh, Farnor. Damn."

[Salix]

I was reading Letters, and one of the letters is to a 'Sam Gamgee'. Imagine that, someone real named Sam Gamgee actually sent a letter to JRR Tolkein!

[Rynoah, the Overly-Happy]

Valerian root = Valarian root. Yes, indeed....

[Annunfuiniel]

Ok, I've been experiencing one "hallucination" which really annoyes me. I'm just reading Erich Auerbach's Mimesis and one of the authors mentioned there is Ammianus. I hope my lecturer will understand whom I'm referring to if and when I write Annuminas in the test! [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

[Arafangwen]

Wow, I must be really bad 'cause every example you guys posted eg=Argon-Aragorn, I read them all Aragorn-Aragorn and so on and so forth....
Yeaaah, I had to read everything like, four times each to figure out what the similar word was supposed to be! Oh well, I guess it's like dyslexia, you over come it , or you get professional help [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[The Evenstar]

I've seen a few:

Smeagol: Smelly (don't ask me where I got that from!)

Sauron: Saucepan

Mirkwood: Milkwood

Hobbit: Hobble

Celeborn: Celebrate

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

hmm...i just read celebrate 'kelebrate'....
I had sort of a sound hallucination. There was a commercial on the TV for V-GO. Yep. I heard "New Viggo!" and I yelled "WHAT?!?" and turned around really fast. But then I got extremely disappointed. Then I was reading a book about Spanish people, and it said "Aragon" and I was like "Whaat? Oh, Aragon. Not Aragorn." Then this guy's name was Avram and I thought it said Arwen out of the corner of my eye.

[kittiewhirl1677]

I was in the car, and we passed by this gas station called Queenswood gas station or something like that. Well, as you might have guessed, I read the word "Queenswood" as "Mirkwood". Don't ask. But it does sound kind of funny, I mean, 'Mirkwood gas station'. Imagine all those elves pumping gas into their cars! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

I was cracking up for a while after that.

[kittiewhirl1677]

I was reading a forum, and at the beginning of a sentence I see the words "Elven Gandalf", and I think, that can't be right! I read it again, and I realize it's actually "Even Gandalf".

Elven Gandalf... hehe!

[Mirabella]

And you people think you have it bad!

My uncle's name is Armen. Yesterday I was writing something about him and- you guessed it! I flipped the "M", and there was an elven princess where a psyc. proffesor should be!! [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

[Luinalatawen]

I don't know if this is a hallucination or not, but in the Chicago Tribune in the Arts/Entertainment section under the movie showings, if you look under the Bensenville Theater, it says "Lord of the Rings: The TWIN Towers." I couldn't believe it actually said that. I know there was the whole thing before with questioning the name. It's a mistake on someone's part.

[Arafangwen]

I just had a really bad one yesterday. Anagram=Aragorn, does anyone else have trouble with those? Oh and Boston, yeah, I read it Boromir.... I think I'm getting worse=Wormtonge... Ahhhhhh...... I think I need therapy.....

[the guy who be short]

everyone has this

legless - legolas

more uncommon:

smiley - smeagol
aramanth (wind on fire trilogy) - aragorn
groin- gloin
theres a jewish letter, giml - gimli
kazaa - khazad
a menu - ai-menu
glorified - glorfindel
finger - fingolf, fingolfin, finwe, finarfin...
scouring - sauron

[Katherine712]

Being the extremely kind person that I am, I warned my sister ( corrupted from my lotr obsession)before reading the merchant of venice not to get excited: the character's name is sadly indeed of Argon, not Aragorn. I saw an elementary school kid's paper about "The Two Towers" and did a double take in the hallways before realizing that it was not a movie review. [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

[Eressië Ailin]

Welcome to the Downs!

A guy in my class has a shirt that says 'IZOD' on it. When I first saw it, I thought that it said 'AZOG.' It was kinda funny when I pointed it out to him.

Apparently there's a guy at my school named Qin Yu. And of course, I thought that it said 'Quenya.' [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]


YAY!!! 500TH POST!!!! GO ME!!!!

[ April 24, 2003: Message edited by: Eressië Ailin ]

[Arafangwen]

500, that's awesome! I don't think I'll be there for a long time..... Anyhow......
red=raid(I know I'm weird), atop=attack, yeah, I'm definetly weird.....

[Alatáriël Lossëhelin]

I work for an insurance company, and an agent sent in an application for a beauty salon. He had hand-written (instead of typed) the name of the business. He had written (& misspelled): SALLON ON THE CREEK. I read: SAURON ON THE CREEK.

I guess when you're no longer the Dark Lord, you have to make a living somehow.

[Beruthiel]

LOL these are so funny
Me, my mum and my sis were driving along and we drove past this horse riding place and on the sign it said 'aragon offered here' so of course I go into a mad frenzy thinking it said 'Aragorn offered here!' I still don't know what to aragon a horse means [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

[Tinuviel of Denton]

I just saw this link that said Legends of Middle Earth and I read it Legolas of Middle Earth.
I so do most of these.

[Daewen]

Boomer- Boromir

Habbit: Hobbit

Going: Gollum

Ear-rings- Eorlings

Ford: Frodo

Celebrate: Celeborn

---This has been happening quite often to me. I'm, glad to know I'm not alone!---

[kittiewhirl1677]

First: I was reading these, and for example one person posted: Legless=legolas and before I went past the equals sign I read legless as legolas anyway. That's what I did for almost all of the posts on this thread! [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] I REALLY NEED HELP!

Second: I was in the car and I saw a sign that said: deaf child area. I read it as: dwarf child area.
Also: the name of a street was Woodcliff and I read it as Mirkwood. ?????

HELP ME!!!

[ April 27, 2003: Message edited by: kittiewhirl1677 ]

[dragoneyes]

I've been in the car for ages today and we passed 'The Shires Hotel' and, also on this car journey there was a road sign, one of the places named on it was Middlington and the place under it was Earith

Middlington = Middle
Earith Earth

[img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[Luinalatawen]

I was just reading a chapter in my social studies book about India and I saw a bunch of stuff:

Amarnath=Aranarth
Yamuna=Yavanna
Mogul=Morgul

So similar.

Also, I was reading the newspaper one day, and I saw that someone's last name was Liimatainen. I was like, WHAT!! I'm not on the BarrowDowns! I thought it was my name, Luinalatawen.

[ April 27, 2003: Message edited by: Luinalatawen ]