LotR-related objects in everyday life. - Page 2 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Enorëiel · 10-06-2003, 03:50 PM

There's a town near by me called RiverDale.... pretty darn close?

Naz · 10-06-2003, 05:04 PM

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And one time in my chemistry test I wrote 'Aragorn' insted of 'Argon'

I kept seeing "Boron" as "Beren." I rewrote it as Beren on my Element Table^ ^;;

Orominuialwen · 10-17-2003, 12:15 AM

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*sings* Stop! In the naaaame of love!

I do that too! I use LotR wallpaper so much, I never have anything else anymore [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]. Back on topic: There's this apple orchard out in the country and it looks exactly like the trees outside of Isengard in FotR. Also, there is a house by where I used to live that is a hobbit hole! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I moved away from there before I was obsessed with Lotr, but when I was little I called it the hill house because it has grass growing on the roof. I drove by there one time after my family moved and I became obsessed, and I realized it was a hobbit hole! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I'll attempt to take and post a picture, although there are no guarantees about whether it will ever happen!

Vladivos the Rider · 10-17-2003, 12:12 PM

I've done that with the periodic table, too. Once I had to do an essay about 'Great Expectations' (Dickens) and had to include a reference to the pub 'The Jolly Bargeman.' When I got it back I realised that I'd written 'Prancing Pony' all the way through [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
I know in the English Peak District there's a town caller Rivendale (close enough... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ) And the 'Hobbit Cafe'.

Thulorongil · 12-28-2003, 04:21 PM

I just remembered that my grandpa used to work on a farm in Underhill, Vermont. There's also some Tolkienish-named town in Quebec, Canada, near where my friend lives, but I'll have to rack my brain to remember it...

Miriel Undomiel · 01-01-2004, 04:43 PM

one of the judges in World Idol did say that Kurt Nilsen (who lives 25 minutes drive away from me) looked like a hobbit. Well hobbits are populare, and the world told that bastard that you don't have to look like a supermodel to make it in this beauty-fixed world!

Lhunardawen · 01-02-2004, 06:17 AM

There is a bar somewhere in our country called The Hobbit House. My mum said it has been around for quite a long time. I presume it was built during the 60's.

Oh, I have a teddy bear named Aragorn. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Annalaliath · 01-02-2004, 02:31 PM

I had an instructor called Gollum. YOu see in College we are alowed to call our instructors by their first names.

And then tere are the Brandywine brand of canned muschrooms. I was all siked when I found those years ago.

Cathelm · 01-02-2004, 03:16 PM

There's this jewelry store called 'All that Glitters' by my house, and I have to blink twice every time I go past it.
My Aunt used to live off of Pippin Street. Sadly, she moved away before I 'discovered' Lord of the Rings.
Anyone here read the Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordon? Soooo many parallels! They even have a Bela the pony! And Lan, and the myrdraal, and the Trollocs... don't even get me started... excellent books though, and they break off from Tolkien after the first book or so.
And there's this pile of rocks by my bus stop that, when the light's right, strangely resembles that one place where the Fellowship hides from the spy-birds... you know what I'm talking about. I've been wanting to take me friends up there to do a remake of that scene.

Everdawn · 01-02-2004, 07:58 PM

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one of the judges in World Idol did say that Kurt Nilsen (who lives 25 minutes drive away from me) looked like a hobbit. Well hobbits are populare, and the world told that bastard that you don't have to look like a supermodel to make it in this beauty-fixed world!

That would be Dicko, our Aussie Judge. That was a clasic call though wasnt it. We referred to that Idol dude as "Hobbit Man".

Finwe · 01-03-2004, 03:04 PM

You know, there is a Brandywine River and Battlefield in the Pennsylvania region in the US. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Maikadurwen · 01-03-2004, 04:37 PM

there is a rivendell wrecking service where i live [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Dancing_Hobbit · 01-03-2004, 05:17 PM

I was driving to Woking and saw signs for "Bagshot", "Aragorn Place", and "Storr Road". Needless to say, I was somewhat excited! [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Later on I was looking in a dictionary, saw the word "sting" out of the corner of my eye, and wondered why it wasn't capitalised.
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<font size=1 color=339966>[ 7:39 PM January 04, 2004: Message edited by: Dancing_Hobbit ]

Nimrothiel · 01-05-2004, 05:49 PM

I drive past a "Ranger Street" on my way to and from work. I don't always look that closely at my computer, so the indicator lights that encircle the on/off buttons on the modem and the computer sometimes look like the "One Ring." There's two "Greenwoods" in my phonebook (no Greenleaf, how disappointing). I swear that this one guy in the movie theatre-at Rotk-looked exactly like Faramir with long
hair. I happened to get a red dragon porcelain statue for Christmas this year, and it looked exactly the way Smaug should.

Salix · 01-06-2004, 11:59 AM

I've already posted this somewhere, but it's worth posting again.
On my bus route, we used to pass a truck with Walkabout Ent writen on the side. On the ent theme, in December a bar near my house had a sign in front which read 'Live Ent'. I cracked a few puns about how they fit the ent in the building, but it took a while for my dad to figure it out. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
Oh and refering to last page, the name Riven comes from the fact that the definition of Riven is to rend or tear apart, and the world of Riven is getting torn apart, so the title is obvious. I only wish that it came from Rivendell.

Corwyn Celesil · 01-07-2004, 04:49 PM

There is a splendid movie with a very young Robert Redford in it called "The Sting," and one of the main characters is named Henry Gondor. Since I saw it before ever reading LoTR, I always think of him when I think of Tolkien's Gondor.

Guinevere · 01-09-2004, 03:29 AM

My younger boy, who is also a LotR fan is learning English and French at school and to memorize the spelling, he uses funny connections. Lately he sees "Ents" everywhere, as in "parENTS" (which in German would mean "a couple of ents" [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] ) or "ENTrance" "ENTraînemENT" and so on . Of course, there are lot of "ents" in German as well:e.g. ENT-schuldigung (excuse)! So at least we have something to smile, while doing homework [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] !

yavanna II · 01-09-2004, 05:46 AM

my stuffed toy is named feanor. NO JOKE, there's a restaurant somewhere in Manila called THE HOBBIT HOUSE, and their waiters and all staff there are hobbit-sized! everytime i see my stupid biology teacher i begin to think of Bert, William and Tom. my wallet has a picture of galadriel on it, just beside my beloved picture of the Lady of Fatima. Everytime I see the Lady of Fatima pics, I'm strongly reminded of Galadriel, though the Fatima has dark hair

Eothain Elfwine · 01-09-2004, 07:57 AM

I met a man yesterday whose last name was Ison. I thought it was Isen, and of course I thought immediately of Isengard and the Fords of Isen.

Corwyn Celesil · 01-09-2004, 12:25 PM

There is a town in Italy called Turin, of the Shroud of Turin fame.

Eothain Elfwine · 01-10-2004, 11:38 AM

I worked at a camp with a lake in North Dakota this last summer, and certain LotR-loving friends and I would look across the lake to a place we called the Shire because it seemed very like a place in the Shire. It was gentle hills that came right to the water's edge covered in leafy, gnarled trees; something you would see in England or the Shire.
I have four little metal knights I have given LotR names: Hama for one that looks quite Anglo Saxon (named for the Hama of old, not for Theoden's guard), Beregond for the one in full armour with round shield, Ecthelion (Steward of Gondor, Denethor's father) for the one with a fleur-de-lis on his breastplate that could be the White Tree, and Eldarion (Elessar's son) for the one with a huge sword that looks like it should be lying in stone on a tomb.

Rilwen Gamgee · 01-10-2004, 07:24 PM

All of you are so lucky, Living by streets and shops named after LotR things! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] However, I found a pretty spherical stone in my house that's heavy and looks an awful lot like a Palantir... except it doesn't show anything. Ah, well. Also, when I happened to be looking through the phone book, there was someone with the last name of Rohan! [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

10-06-2003, 03:50 PM	#41
Enorëiel Wight Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Hobbiton, U.S.A. Posts: 165	There's a town near by me called RiverDale.... pretty darn close? __________________ You can take a hobbit out of the Shire but you can't take the Shire out of a hobbit. Whoever said "Nothing is impossible" never tried to slam a revolving door.

10-17-2003, 12:12 PM	#44
Vladivos the Rider Animated Skeleton Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: The dark and dusty abyss Posts: 47	I've done that with the periodic table, too. Once I had to do an essay about 'Great Expectations' (Dickens) and had to include a reference to the pub 'The Jolly Bargeman.' When I got it back I realised that I'd written 'Prancing Pony' all the way through [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] I know in the English Peak District there's a town caller Rivendale (close enough... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ) And the 'Hobbit Cafe'. __________________ I don't want to achieve immortality through my works, I want to achive it by not dying.

12-28-2003, 04:21 PM	#45
Thulorongil Haunting Spirit Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: wherever the road may take me Posts: 97	I just remembered that my grandpa used to work on a farm in Underhill, Vermont. There's also some Tolkienish-named town in Quebec, Canada, near where my friend lives, but I'll have to rack my brain to remember it... __________________ I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, And people who will see a world that I shall never know.

01-01-2004, 04:43 PM	#46
Miriel Undomiel Wight Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: I don't know... I guess I'm lost Posts: 122	one of the judges in World Idol did say that Kurt Nilsen (who lives 25 minutes drive away from me) looked like a hobbit. Well hobbits are populare, and the world told that bastard that you don't have to look like a supermodel to make it in this beauty-fixed world! __________________ A Sparrow can't change it's feathers

01-02-2004, 02:31 PM	#48
Annalaliath Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Albuquerque Posts: 380	I had an instructor called Gollum. YOu see in College we are alowed to call our instructors by their first names. And then tere are the Brandywine brand of canned muschrooms. I was all siked when I found those years ago. __________________ Bloody Stumps!!!

01-02-2004, 06:17 AM	#47
Lhunardawen Hauntress of the Havens Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IN it, but not OF it Posts: 2,538	There is a bar somewhere in our country called The Hobbit House. My mum said it has been around for quite a long time. I presume it was built during the 60's. Oh, I have a teddy bear named Aragorn. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

01-02-2004, 03:16 PM	#49
Cathelm Animated Skeleton Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 47	There's this jewelry store called 'All that Glitters' by my house, and I have to blink twice every time I go past it. My Aunt used to live off of Pippin Street. Sadly, she moved away before I 'discovered' Lord of the Rings. Anyone here read the Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordon? Soooo many parallels! They even have a Bela the pony! And Lan, and the myrdraal, and the Trollocs... don't even get me started... excellent books though, and they break off from Tolkien after the first book or so. And there's this pile of rocks by my bus stop that, when the light's right, strangely resembles that one place where the Fellowship hides from the spy-birds... you know what I'm talking about. I've been wanting to take me friends up there to do a remake of that scene.

01-03-2004, 03:04 PM	#51
Finwe Deathless Sun Join Date: May 2003 Location: The Royal Suite in the Halls of Mandos Posts: 2,609	You know, there is a Brandywine River and Battlefield in the Pennsylvania region in the US. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.

01-03-2004, 04:37 PM	#52
Maikadurwen Wight Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Beyound the mountains Posts: 115	there is a rivendell wrecking service where i live [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ Fantastic!

01-03-2004, 05:17 PM	#53
Dancing_Hobbit Haunting Spirit Join Date: May 2003 Location: A fairyland of mists and shadows deep in the emerald wood. Posts: 56	I was driving to Woking and saw signs for "Bagshot", "Aragorn Place", and "Storr Road". Needless to say, I was somewhat excited! [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] Later on I was looking in a dictionary, saw the word "sting" out of the corner of my eye, and wondered why it wasn't capitalised. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] <font size=1 color=339966>[ 7:39 PM January 04, 2004: Message edited by: Dancing_Hobbit ] __________________ Hobbits bow to nobody! ...Except their plates...

01-05-2004, 05:49 PM	#54
Nimrothiel Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Imladris Posts: 288	I drive past a "Ranger Street" on my way to and from work. I don't always look that closely at my computer, so the indicator lights that encircle the on/off buttons on the modem and the computer sometimes look like the "One Ring." There's two "Greenwoods" in my phonebook (no Greenleaf, how disappointing). I swear that this one guy in the movie theatre-at Rotk-looked exactly like Faramir with long hair. I happened to get a red dragon porcelain statue for Christmas this year, and it looked exactly the way Smaug should. __________________ "Walrus?! Will you quit makin' up imaginary animals?!!" ~ Sarge; Red vs. Blue

01-06-2004, 11:59 AM	#55
Salix Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: May 2002 Location: Riverbank of the Anduin Posts: 284	I've already posted this somewhere, but it's worth posting again. On my bus route, we used to pass a truck with Walkabout Ent writen on the side. On the ent theme, in December a bar near my house had a sign in front which read 'Live Ent'. I cracked a few puns about how they fit the ent in the building, but it took a while for my dad to figure it out. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] Oh and refering to last page, the name Riven comes from the fact that the definition of Riven is to rend or tear apart, and the world of Riven is getting torn apart, so the title is obvious. I only wish that it came from Rivendell. __________________ Do not trifle with Dragons, as you are small, and crunchy, and taste good with ketchup.

01-07-2004, 04:49 PM	#56
Corwyn Celesil Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: The House of the Fountain, Gondolin Posts: 57	There is a splendid movie with a very young Robert Redford in it called "The Sting," and one of the main characters is named Henry Gondor. Since I saw it before ever reading LoTR, I always think of him when I think of Tolkien's Gondor. __________________ Then came there from the south of the city the people of the Fountain, and Ecthelion was their lord, and silver and diamonds were their delight; and swords very long and bright and pale did they wield . . .

01-09-2004, 03:29 AM	#57
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,830	My younger boy, who is also a LotR fan is learning English and French at school and to memorize the spelling, he uses funny connections. Lately he sees "Ents" everywhere, as in "parENTS" (which in German would mean "a couple of ents" [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] ) or "ENTrance" "ENTraînemENT" and so on . Of course, there are lot of "ents" in German as well:e.g. ENT-schuldigung (excuse)! So at least we have something to smile, while doing homework [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ! __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!

01-09-2004, 05:46 AM	#58
yavanna II Registered User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: in my own little world Posts: 142	my stuffed toy is named feanor. NO JOKE, there's a restaurant somewhere in Manila called THE HOBBIT HOUSE, and their waiters and all staff there are hobbit-sized! everytime i see my stupid biology teacher i begin to think of Bert, William and Tom. my wallet has a picture of galadriel on it, just beside my beloved picture of the Lady of Fatima. Everytime I see the Lady of Fatima pics, I'm strongly reminded of Galadriel, though the Fatima has dark hair

01-09-2004, 07:57 AM	#59
Eothain Elfwine Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Plains of Rohan Posts: 38	I met a man yesterday whose last name was Ison. I thought it was Isen, and of course I thought immediately of Isengard and the Fords of Isen. __________________ I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

01-09-2004, 12:25 PM	#60
Corwyn Celesil Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: The House of the Fountain, Gondolin Posts: 57	There is a town in Italy called Turin, of the Shroud of Turin fame. __________________ Then came there from the south of the city the people of the Fountain, and Ecthelion was their lord, and silver and diamonds were their delight; and swords very long and bright and pale did they wield . . .

01-10-2004, 11:38 AM	#61
Eothain Elfwine Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Plains of Rohan Posts: 38	I worked at a camp with a lake in North Dakota this last summer, and certain LotR-loving friends and I would look across the lake to a place we called the Shire because it seemed very like a place in the Shire. It was gentle hills that came right to the water's edge covered in leafy, gnarled trees; something you would see in England or the Shire. I have four little metal knights I have given LotR names: Hama for one that looks quite Anglo Saxon (named for the Hama of old, not for Theoden's guard), Beregond for the one in full armour with round shield, Ecthelion (Steward of Gondor, Denethor's father) for the one with a fleur-de-lis on his breastplate that could be the White Tree, and Eldarion (Elessar's son) for the one with a huge sword that looks like it should be lying in stone on a tomb. __________________ I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

01-10-2004, 07:24 PM	#62
Rilwen Gamgee Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: At home. Posts: 135	All of you are so lucky, Living by streets and shops named after LotR things! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] However, I found a pretty spherical stone in my house that's heavy and looks an awful lot like a Palantir... except it doesn't show anything. Ah, well. Also, when I happened to be looking through the phone book, there was someone with the last name of Rohan! [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]