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05-04-2001, 08:46 PM

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i was woundering what people tnought about the term tolkienists to define some one that is a tolkien fans? I have heard it used and i was just think are there any other word to call us.

"We must send the ring to the fire".

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enep · 05-04-2001, 09:07 PM

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Hmm...Tolkienists sounds really proffessional. I like it <img src=tongue.gif ALT=":b"> <img src=wink.gif ALT="

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The X Phial · 05-04-2001, 10:52 PM

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Well it definately sounds better than Tolkien Geek! On the other hand, I think it kind of sounds like a religion. Are we going to start passing out tracts on street corners? <img src=laugh.gif ALT=":lol">

-*-The X Phial-*- "Yet more fair is the living land of Lorien, and the Lady Galadriel is above all the jewels that lie beneath the earth!"</p>

red · 05-05-2001, 04:48 AM

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Tolkienists, Tolkien Geeks... Trekkers, Trekies... Who really cares? <img src=rolleyes.gif ALT=":rolleyes">

-réd

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"He was as noble and as fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer."</p>

-A Short Rest, The Hobbit</p></blockquote></p>

Amandil · 05-05-2001, 10:09 AM

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"A rose by any other name......."

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burrahobbit · 05-05-2001, 11:40 AM

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<blockquote>Quote:<hr> Are we going to start passing out tracts on street corners?<hr></blockquote>That isn't such a bad idea. If only I could draw.

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The X Phial · 05-05-2001, 12:29 PM

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I can see it now.

"Brother, have you heard the word of Tolkien? No, well Elbereth be with you, friend."

<img src=laugh.gif ALT=":lol"> <img src=wink.gif ALT="

"> <img src=laugh.gif ALT=":lol"> <img src=wink.gif ALT="

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-*-The X Phial-*- "Yet more fair is the living land of Lorien, and the Lady Galadriel is above all the jewels that lie beneath the earth!"</p>

Amandil · 05-05-2001, 05:02 PM

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I think some of my friends think I am that far gone already. Just ask them how many times I bring up ME stuff into other conversations.

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Lady Eowyn · 05-05-2001, 10:34 PM

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sounds like we're Tolkien scientists <img src=wink.gif ALT="

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very professional. I like that better than Tolkien-geeks.

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Zoe · 05-07-2001, 01:35 AM

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Speaking of obsessions and religions and geekery (not suggesting the three are the same, either), just this afternoon, I was thinking that after I leave school, I should get a job in a bookshop, and then I realised that I'd put them out of business.

Customer: I was wondering if you could recommend any mystery novels?
Me: Stuff mysteries! Read Tolkien!

Customer 2: Do you have any Starwars books?
Me: Starwars? Are you joking? What kind of idiot reads Starwars? You freak! Here, why don't you have a look at this nice copy of the Silmarillion?

And so on... <img src=smile.gif ALT="

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But yeah, Tolkienist sounds good, but I'm sure there's got to be a better word than that. "Tolkienist" looks strange in print.

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Odysseus819 · 05-07-2001, 06:22 AM

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Related question -- how do you pronounce "Tolkien"? Two syllables or three? Accent first or or second? i always thought it was just but I've also heard and even

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***Gilthalion*** · 05-07-2001, 09:07 AM

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists

Tolkien - toll' keen

Tolkienist does sound awfully professional. Like an academic who gets paid to research and teach Tolkien's works.

Tolkien Fan is probably more descriptive of most of us.

Tolkien Freak/Geek/Nerd is certainly an accurate description of quite a few!

Now Tolkienista has a sound I like! Sort of a revolutionary junta feel to it.

Tolkienian I suppose is descriptive of things that are like Tolkien's writing

A Tolkienary is one who follows his "teachings." These are the folk on the street corner!

Incidentally, for those who didn't know, his own faith, and the teachings he would recommend, is Christianity. The Tar Ost-in-Eruhir link in my signature is available for those with such an interest.

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***Mister Underhill*** · 05-07-2001, 10:01 AM

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I know toll-KEEN is right, but I still say toll-KEE-en most of the time because it was my original interpretation. Just like I can't bring myself to say SOW-ron.

"Tolkienist" sounds more like someone who performs Tolkienistic feats, like an "alienist" or a "hypnotist". There's an air of charlatanism about it. How about "Tolkienite"? "Tolkienism" as a form of government?

Here are a few more terms to describe different Tolkienistic disciplines:
"Tolkienology"
"Tolkieneneology"
"Tolkienography"
"Tolkienophonics"

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Amandil · 05-07-2001, 10:03 AM

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Tolkienistas!! To arms!! Lets take over!!

(What are are we takin' over, boss?)

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***Sharkû*** · 05-07-2001, 11:40 AM

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How about Philotolkienists? <img src=wink.gif ALT="

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btw, I believe it is TOLL-keen (?)

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HerenIstarion · 05-07-2001, 12:02 PM

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<blockquote>Quote:<hr> I know toll-KEEN is right, but I still say toll-KEE-en most of the time because it was my original interpretation. <hr></blockquote>
the samethingwithme(andf*** the spacebaron this commonly shared pc) though I was not given the opportunity to interpret it myself - russian translation has all the pronouncing neatly set forme,so it's now it's a bit hard to get rid of some old habits of pronouncing

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Odysseus819 · 05-07-2001, 12:09 PM

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See, it's an issue. Gilthalion said TOLL-keen (if I read his post right). H-I says toll-KEEN, as does the BBC dramatization of LotR. I say TOLL-kin or TOLL-kee-in. Oh well.

Btw, the dumbest JRRT mispronunciation I ever heard is in the BBC dramatization of The Hobbit, in which Gollum is accented 2d syllable -- ga-LOOM. I swear to God.

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hegemonmatt · 05-07-2001, 01:37 PM

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It's cold on this street corner...

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burrahobbit · 05-07-2001, 01:39 PM

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Be like me, staple things to telephone polls. It's quicker that way and you dont have to stay outside very long.

What's a burrahobbit got to do with my pocket, anyways?</p>

05-07-2001, 02:06 PM

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Sounds very professional. I like it a lot better than Tolkien Geek, which several of my friends call me.

~Corina

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red · 05-07-2001, 03:06 PM

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UUUNNNDDDÉÉÉRRRHHHIILLL!

Looky who's back from the dead... Err... *I momentarily forgot where we are.* <img src=wink.gif ALT="

"> Looky who's returned to the dead!!

-réd

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"He was as noble and as fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer."</p>

-A Short Rest, The Hobbit</p></blockquote></p>

***Mister Underhill*** · 05-08-2001, 05:08 PM

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RRRRRRRÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉDDDDD!!!!!!

Yes, I'm deader than ever and back to haunt the Downs as much as I can (now you know what that smell you were wondering about is...).

The overworked, underpaid (but still a Tolkienophile) Underhill

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01-24-2002, 05:23 AM

Tolkienists sounds great. Rather that than geek as some here have told. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Aralaithiel · 01-24-2002, 03:35 PM

Viva la revolucion!!!
Yo soy una Tolkienista!!!
- Now to translate this into Sindarin!
You guys don't want my kind on the street corner! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Eldar14 · 01-26-2002, 11:46 AM

I personally pronounce it TOLL-kin (or "The great one," depending on what mood I'm in [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] ) I've heard somebody pronounce it TOLK-yin. Strange

I personally don't think I'm a Tolkienist, I consider myself a Barrow-Wight. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] But for those who don't know what a Barrow-Wight is (Oh so poor uninlightened fools), I'm just a "REALLY REALLY REALLY big Tolkien fan"

"Speaking of obsessions and religions and geekery (not suggesting the three are the same, either), just this afternoon, I was thinking that after I leave school, I should get a job in a bookshop, and then I realised that I'd put them out of business"
Hmm, I was thinking the exact same thing not very long ago (there is also the prospect of getting deals on books)
AAAAAHH!!! I just had another great idea. A bookstore that carries only Tolkien and Tolkien-related books. It would be awesome (however, probably not too profitable; would have to be internet based)

[ January 26, 2002: Message edited by: Eldar14 ]

lomion · 01-26-2002, 11:31 PM

Tol-keen schmol-keen. How about
"The Enlightened Ones" lol

01-27-2002, 12:03 PM

Well, the local name for fans of the movie is "Ringers" around here, not too bad, a bit more casual than Tolkienists

lomion · 01-28-2002, 08:53 PM

I have it! Middle-Earthlings.
lol!

Sindalómiel · 01-29-2002, 03:50 AM

I like Middle-Earthlings. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Eowyn of Ithilien · 01-29-2002, 04:11 AM

*is a Middle Earthling!*
[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Aralaithiel · 01-29-2002, 05:08 PM

Our slogan - I am proud to be ME! or - I love ME! Wouldn't that get us some strange looks, not that some of us don't get them already!

I still like being a Tolkienista!
[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Daegwenn · 02-11-2002, 02:23 PM

Hmm...I think that people think too much. We're fans...Tolkienists are just a bunch of book worms that love every itty bitty word that Mr. Tolkien has written. ^.^ I like to think of myself as one...do you?
Sincerely,
Daegwenn.

03-20-2002, 04:45 PM

Just so people know, a few things to take care of just so you know. J.R.R. Tolkien's FULL name is: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Naturally, you'd think he'd go by "John" but he didn't. That was his first legal namel, but by friends and family he was addressed as: Ronald.
Another thing, Tolkien is pronounced: Tol-ken. So many people pronounce it wrong, it drives me crazy.
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Orodhromeus · 03-21-2002, 03:59 PM

I read in a magazine fans of Tolkien were designated as 'tolkiendili'! Not only does it sound nice, but it fits into the M-E world. What do you think of it?

VanimaEdhel · 03-26-2002, 03:54 PM

Personally, I refer to myself as a "Tolkien freak", but...hehe...obsessive Tolkien fan works too...so does Tolkienist, Tolkienian (as in one who dwells in the mind of Tolkien). Tolkien lover is just as good. As long as it's clean in here, I think it's all good (out of here, doesn't have to be clean [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] )

Jessica Jade · 03-26-2002, 04:16 PM

Tolkienists? Heh heh, makes it sound like a whole type of philosophy, eh? I like to call myself an Obsessed-Tolkien-Freak who loves Lord of the Rings. I hvae yet to read The Sil. I'm getting it this week. Can't wait...

Mirkgirl · 03-26-2002, 08:14 PM

Tolkeinist sounds like a Tolkien Geek trying to sound scientific....

Or like a professor written two zillion pages on Tolkein, but never understood the magic of his words

LúthienTinúviel · 03-26-2002, 11:25 PM

Quote:

I can see it now.

"Brother, have you heard the word of Tolkien? No, well Elbereth be with you, friend."

~The X Phial

Haha. I've actually said something frightingly like this, which is why most of my friends call me "insane Tolkien freak." Although I much prefer "Tolkienophile." It sounds just a little dirty, so people will think twice about it. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] As for pronunciation, I always said TOLL-keen, but I've been hearing lots of people pronounce it toll-KIN. I am lost. Ah well.

Child of the 7th Age · 03-27-2002, 04:34 AM

I vote middle-earthling! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Eärendil · 03-27-2002, 05:03 AM

Yeah, me too..I think Middle-Earthling is very cool, I am a Middle-Earthling!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

05-04-2001, 08:46 PM	#1
RingFinder Guest Posts: n/a	Tolkienists <font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Newly Deceased Posts: 5</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> i was woundering what people tnought about the term tolkienists to define some one that is a tolkien fans? I have heard it used and i was just think are there any other word to call us. "We must send the ring to the fire". </p>

05-04-2001, 09:07 PM	#2
enep The Ghastly Leprechaun Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 406	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Ghastly Leprechaun Posts: 610</TD><TD><img src=http://www.dodgywebsite.homestead.com/files/Kungfu_01.gif WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=60></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists Hmm...Tolkienists sounds really proffessional. I like it <img src=tongue.gif ALT=":b"> <img src=wink.gif ALT=""> - enep</p> __________________ - enep

05-04-2001, 10:52 PM	#3
The X Phial Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Out there with the truth. Come find me. Posts: 317	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Wight Posts: 158</TD><TD><img src=http://www.jamestbaker.com/cec/X-Files-01.gif WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=60></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists Well it definately sounds better than Tolkien Geek! On the other hand, I think it kind of sounds like a religion. Are we going to start passing out tracts on street corners? <img src=laugh.gif ALT=":lol"> --The X Phial-- "Yet more fair is the living land of Lorien, and the Lady Galadriel is above all the jewels that lie beneath the earth!"</p> __________________ But then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

05-05-2001, 04:48 AM	#4
red Spirit of Mischief Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Land of the free and home of the brave Posts: 366	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Spirit of Mischief Posts: 270</TD><TD><img src=http://www.bestanimations.com/Science/Biology/DNA/DNA-02.gif WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=60></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists Tolkienists, Tolkien Geeks... Trekkers, Trekies... Who really cares? <img src=rolleyes.gif ALT=":rolleyes"> -réd <blockquote><font size=2> "He was as noble and as fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer."</p> -A Short Rest, The Hobbit</p></blockquote></p> __________________ "Cats are like greatness: Some people are born into cat-loving families, some achieve cats, and some have cats thrust upon them." -William H. A. Carr

05-05-2001, 11:40 AM	#6
burrahobbit Hidden Spirit Join Date: May 2000 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 1,424	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hidden Spirit Posts: 795</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists <blockquote>*Quote:*<hr> Are we going to start passing out tracts on street corners?<hr></blockquote>That isn't such a bad idea. If only I could draw. What's a burrahobbit got to do with my pocket, anyways?</p> __________________ What's a burrahobbit got to do with my pocket, anyways?

05-05-2001, 10:09 AM	#5
Amandil Haunting Spirit Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Bristow, Virginia Posts: 99	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Animated Skeleton Posts: 35</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists "A rose by any other name......." </p>

05-05-2001, 12:29 PM	#7
The X Phial Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Out there with the truth. Come find me. Posts: 317	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Wight Posts: 159</TD><TD><img src=http://www.jamestbaker.com/cec/X-Files-01.gif WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=60></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists I can see it now. "Brother, have you heard the word of Tolkien? No, well Elbereth be with you, friend." <img src=laugh.gif ALT=":lol"> <img src=wink.gif ALT=""> <img src=laugh.gif ALT=":lol"> <img src=wink.gif ALT=""> --The X Phial-- "Yet more fair is the living land of Lorien, and the Lady Galadriel is above all the jewels that lie beneath the earth!"</p> __________________ But then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

05-05-2001, 05:02 PM	#8
Amandil Haunting Spirit Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Bristow, Virginia Posts: 99	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Animated Skeleton Posts: 41</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists I think some of my friends think I am that far gone already. Just ask them how many times I bring up ME stuff into other conversations. </p>

05-05-2001, 10:34 PM	#9
Lady Eowyn Haunting Spirit Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 98	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Wight Posts: 152</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists sounds like we're Tolkien scientists <img src=wink.gif ALT=""> very professional. I like that better than Tolkien-geeks. And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom</p>

05-07-2001, 01:35 AM	#10
Zoe Wight Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 223	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Shade of Carn Dûm Posts: 355</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists Speaking of obsessions and religions and geekery (not suggesting the three are the same, either), just this afternoon, I was thinking that after I leave school, I should get a job in a bookshop, and then I realised that I'd put them out of business. Customer: I was wondering if you could recommend any mystery novels? Me: Stuff mysteries! Read Tolkien! Customer 2: Do you have any Starwars books? Me: Starwars? Are you joking? What kind of idiot reads Starwars? You freak! Here, why don't you have a look at this nice copy of the Silmarillion? And so on... <img src=smile.gif ALT=""> But yeah, Tolkienist sounds good, but I'm sure there's got to be a better word than that. "Tolkienist" looks strange in print. "This sig is proudly quote-free." -Me. (Also known as eoz, and now has a non-Tolkien forum, called http://pub57.ezboard.com/beverythingelse45161everything else</a>.) </p>

05-07-2001, 06:22 AM	#11
Odysseus819 Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 699	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Shade of Carn Dûm Posts: 349</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists Related question -- how do you pronounce "Tolkien"? Two syllables or three? Accent first or or second? i always thought it was just but I've also heard and even </p>

05-07-2001, 09:07 AM	#12
*Gilthalion* Hobbitus Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: South Farthing Posts: 635	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hobbitus Emeritus Posts: 388</TD><TD><img src=http://home.att.net/~robertwgardner/lotrmap.gif WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=60></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists Tolkien - toll' keen Tolkienist does sound awfully professional. Like an academic who gets paid to research and teach Tolkien's works. Tolkien Fan is probably more descriptive of most of us. Tolkien Freak/Geek/Nerd is certainly an accurate description of quite a few! Now Tolkienista has a sound I like! Sort of a revolutionary junta feel to it. Tolkienian I suppose is descriptive of things that are like Tolkien's writing A Tolkienary is one who follows his "teachings." These are the folk on the street corner! Incidentally, for those who didn't know, his own faith, and the teachings he would recommend, is Christianity. The Tar Ost-in-Eruhir link in my signature is available for those with such an interest. <center><font face=verdana size=1> http://www.barrowdowns.comBarrow-Downs</a>~http://www.geocities.com/robertwgardner2000Bare Bones</a>~http://pub41.ezboard.com/btarostineruhirTar Ost-in-Eruhir</a>~http://www.geocities.com/robertwgard...ilthalion.htmlGrand Adventures</a>~http://www.barrowdowns.com/fanfichobbits.aspThe Hobbits</a>~http://www.tolkientrail.comTolkien Trail</a> </center></p> __________________ Please read my fan fiction novel THE HOBBITS. Wanna hear me read Tolkien? Gilthalion's Grand Adventures!

05-07-2001, 10:01 AM	#13
*Mister Underhill* Dread Horseman Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Behind you! Posts: 2,743	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dread Horseman Posts: 629</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists I know toll-KEEN is right, but I still say toll-KEE-en most of the time because it was my original interpretation. Just like I can't bring myself to say SOW-ron. "Tolkienist" sounds more like someone who performs Tolkienistic feats, like an "alienist" or a "hypnotist". There's an air of charlatanism about it. How about "Tolkienite"? "Tolkienism" as a form of government? Here are a few more terms to describe different Tolkienistic disciplines: "Tolkienology" "Tolkieneneology" "Tolkienography" "Tolkienophonics" </p>

05-07-2001, 10:03 AM	#14
Amandil Haunting Spirit Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Bristow, Virginia Posts: 99	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Haunting Spirit Posts: 78</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienistas Tolkienistas!! To arms!! Lets take over!! (What are are we takin' over, boss?) </p>

05-07-2001, 11:40 AM	#15
*Sharkû* Hungry Ghoul Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 1,719	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hungry Ghoul Posts: 880</TD><TD><img src=http://www.tolkiens-legacy.de/draugen.jpg WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=60></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienistas How about Philotolkienists? <img src=wink.gif ALT=""> btw, I believe it is TOLL-keen (?) </p>

05-07-2001, 12:02 PM	#16
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Deadnight Chanter Posts: 1078</TD><TD><img src=http://www.bestanimations.com/Fantasy/Warrior-01.gif WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=60></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienistas <blockquote>*Quote:<hr> I know toll-KEEN is right, but I still say toll-KEE-en most of the time because it was my original interpretation. <hr></blockquote> the samethingwithme(andf** the spacebaron this commonly shared pc) though I was not given the opportunity to interpret it myself - russian translation has all the pronouncing neatly set forme,so it's now it's a bit hard to get rid of some old habits of pronouncing <a href=http://www.geocities.com/gl_century/Heren.html>GeorgeLashkhi</a> </p> __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

05-07-2001, 12:09 PM	#17
Odysseus819 Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 699	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Shade of Carn Dûm Posts: 354</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienistas See, it's an issue. Gilthalion said TOLL-keen (if I read his post right). H-I says toll-KEEN, as does the BBC dramatization of LotR. I say TOLL-kin or TOLL-kee-in. Oh well. Btw, the dumbest JRRT mispronunciation I ever heard is in the BBC dramatization of The Hobbit, in which Gollum is accented 2d syllable -- ga-LOOM. I swear to God. </p>

05-07-2001, 01:37 PM	#18
hegemonmatt Pile O'Bones Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 15	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Pile o' Bones Posts: 12</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienistas It's cold on this street corner... </p>

05-07-2001, 01:39 PM	#19
burrahobbit Hidden Spirit Join Date: May 2000 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 1,424	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hidden Spirit Posts: 796</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienistas Be like me, staple things to telephone polls. It's quicker that way and you dont have to stay outside very long. What's a burrahobbit got to do with my pocket, anyways?</p> __________________ What's a burrahobbit got to do with my pocket, anyways?

05-07-2001, 02:06 PM	#20
CorinaElenia Guest Posts: n/a	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Newly Deceased Posts: 1</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists Sounds very professional. I like it a lot better than Tolkien Geek, which several of my friends call me. ~Corina </p>

05-07-2001, 03:06 PM	#21
red Spirit of Mischief Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Land of the free and home of the brave Posts: 366	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Spirit of Mischief Posts: 275</TD><TD><img src=http://www.bestanimations.com/Science/Biology/DNA/DNA-02.gif WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=60></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists UUUNNNDDDÉÉÉRRRHHHIILLL! Looky who's back from the dead... Err... I momentarily forgot where we are. <img src=wink.gif ALT=""> Looky who's returned to the dead!! -réd <blockquote><font size=2> "He was as noble and as fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer."</p> -A Short Rest, The Hobbit</p></blockquote></p> __________________ "Cats are like greatness: Some people are born into cat-loving families, some achieve cats, and some have cats thrust upon them." -William H. A. Carr

05-08-2001, 05:08 PM	#22
*Mister Underhill* Dread Horseman Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Behind you! Posts: 2,743	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dread Horseman Posts: 631</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists RRRRRRRÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉDDDDD!!!!!! Yes, I'm deader than ever and back to haunt the Downs as much as I can (now you know what that smell you were wondering about is...). The overworked, underpaid (but still a Tolkienophile) Underhill </p>

01-24-2002, 05:23 AM	#23
Edhel Guest Posts: n/a	Tolkienists sounds great. Rather that than geek as some here have told. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

01-24-2002, 03:35 PM	#24
Aralaithiel Ghost Eldaran Queen Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: A remote mountain in Valinor Posts: 353	Viva la revolucion!!! Yo soy una Tolkienista!!! - Now to translate this into Sindarin! You guys don't want my kind on the street corner! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ A lelyat, wen! (Quenya Elvish for "You go, girl!"

01-26-2002, 11:46 AM	#25
Eldar14 Wight Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: the Cottage of Lost Play Posts: 182	I personally pronounce it TOLL-kin (or "The great one," depending on what mood I'm in [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] ) I've heard somebody pronounce it TOLK-yin. Strange I personally don't think I'm a Tolkienist, I consider myself a Barrow-Wight. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] But for those who don't know what a Barrow-Wight is (Oh so poor uninlightened fools), I'm just a "REALLY REALLY REALLY big Tolkien fan" "Speaking of obsessions and religions and geekery (not suggesting the three are the same, either), just this afternoon, I was thinking that after I leave school, I should get a job in a bookshop, and then I realised that I'd put them out of business" Hmm, I was thinking the exact same thing not very long ago (there is also the prospect of getting deals on books) AAAAAHH!!! I just had another great idea. A bookstore that carries only Tolkien and Tolkien-related books. It would be awesome (however, probably not too profitable; would have to be internet based) [ January 26, 2002: Message edited by: Eldar14 ] __________________ "Come away! Let the cowards keep this city!" -- Fëanor to the Noldor

01-26-2002, 11:31 PM	#26
lomion Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Peoria, Il. Posts: 38	Tol-keen schmol-keen. How about "The Enlightened Ones" lol

01-27-2002, 12:03 PM	#27
julesk510 Guest Posts: n/a	Well, the local name for fans of the movie is "Ringers" around here, not too bad, a bit more casual than Tolkienists

01-28-2002, 08:53 PM	#28
lomion Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Peoria, Il. Posts: 38	I have it! Middle-Earthlings. lol!

01-29-2002, 03:50 AM	#29
Sindalómiel Wight Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 109	I like Middle-Earthlings. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ http://www.webspawner.com/users/rineee/Sidhwen.jpg An Eru mîriant i-Ardhon E-anniant În Iôn Er-edonnant, an er-pen aphadiant ú-gwanno, garir i-guil uireb

01-29-2002, 04:11 AM	#30
Eowyn of Ithilien Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Australia Posts: 277	is a Middle Earthling! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while still they endure for eyes to see, are their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song.

01-29-2002, 05:08 PM	#31
Aralaithiel Ghost Eldaran Queen Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: A remote mountain in Valinor Posts: 353	Our slogan - I am proud to be ME! or - I love ME! Wouldn't that get us some strange looks, not that some of us don't get them already! I still like being a Tolkienista! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ A lelyat, wen! (Quenya Elvish for "You go, girl!"

02-11-2002, 02:23 PM	#32
Daegwenn Haunting Spirit Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Lothlórien Posts: 82	Hmm...I think that people think too much. We're fans...Tolkienists are just a bunch of book worms that love every itty bitty word that Mr. Tolkien has written. ^.^ I like to think of myself as one...do you? Sincerely, Daegwenn. __________________ "And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees, When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, A highwayman comes riding— Riding—Riding— A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door. Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard. And he taps with his whip on the shutters, but all is locked and barred. He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter, Bess, the landlord’s daughter, Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair" Highwayman Alfred Noyes

03-20-2002, 04:45 PM	#33
MasterSamwise Guest Posts: n/a	Just so people know, a few things to take care of just so you know. J.R.R. Tolkien's FULL name is: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Naturally, you'd think he'd go by "John" but he didn't. That was his first legal namel, but by friends and family he was addressed as: Ronald. Another thing, Tolkien is pronounced: Tol-ken. So many people pronounce it wrong, it drives me crazy. [img]smilies/redface.gif[/img]

03-21-2002, 03:59 PM	#34
Orodhromeus Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Greece Posts: 106	I read in a magazine fans of Tolkien were designated as 'tolkiendili'! Not only does it sound nice, but it fits into the M-E world. What do you think of it?

03-26-2002, 03:54 PM	#35
VanimaEdhel Etheral Enchantress Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wellesley College! Posts: 1,461	Personally, I refer to myself as a "Tolkien freak", but...hehe...obsessive Tolkien fan works too...so does Tolkienist, Tolkienian (as in one who dwells in the mind of Tolkien). Tolkien lover is just as good. As long as it's clean in here, I think it's all good (out of here, doesn't have to be clean [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] ) __________________ "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes