How do YOU stand the wait? - Page 2 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

arianrod · 06-10-2003, 05:30 PM

I try not to think about it. I do other things to occupy my mind, hoping I'll get my thoughts off the 189 days I have left to wait. It never works, but at least I try. I come on to forums like this and discuss aspects on the books, or read discussions and try and understand the complex thinking of it all. <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>I read a lot of LOTR fanfics and I write a lot of them as well as it is the only way to survive the wait in a sane manner!!!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Here, here, Arathiriel, I know exactly how you feel; I do the same. <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>I spend most of the time curled up in a corner rocking back and forth repeating quotes from the book, thinking how strange the movie would sound backwards... ahhhh! the suspence is killing me!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I've always thought if I played the movie backwards, it'd sound like chipmunks corresponding in a complicated plan to destroy the squirrels and TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! How about you?When I'm in public, I like to walk around and quote Boromir and Denethor to random people on the streets, telling them "It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust," and to "Go now, and and die in what way seems best to you!" That's always entertaining.Despite all these distracting activites, I still find my eyes wandering to the clock on my desktop that counts down the seconds till the release (189 days, 06 hours, 30 minutes, and 30 seconds for Central US time). I have gotten some good ideas of how to kill the time on here though. But what's this "Real life" everyone keeps talking about? It sure sounds like fun...

Sapphire_Flame · 06-10-2003, 05:42 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>But what's this "Real life" everyone keeps talking about? It sure sounds like fun...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> It's not, trust me. Where is the RotK preview?!?!?!?!?!

Kates Frodo Temp · 06-10-2003, 05:54 PM

I'm surviving by reading, reading, reading! There's so much I want to know! Oh, yeah, and participating in a few BD events. Am I wrong, or have most of you guys only seen the movie? People who see the LOTR movies but haven't read the books have NO IDEA what they're missing. I would be insane by now w/out my copy of The Silmarillion!

GaladrieloftheOlden · 06-10-2003, 05:57 PM

I would assume a lot of us have read the books, as this is a Tolkien forum. I'm reading the Silmarillion for the first time, which should help me through the time wait, and I love it.~Menelien

arianrod · 06-10-2003, 06:26 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Am I wrong, or have most of you guys only seen the movie?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>The fact that we've read the books is one of the things that makes this wait so hard; we know how amazingly wonderful (or, Eru forbid, amazingly disappointing) the movie can turn out to be.

Mordor_Queen · 06-12-2003, 06:59 AM

i read the books again and again and spend time on websites looking for updates...

Lucinda · 06-12-2003, 10:42 AM

Hey, Everdawn, could you get your cat to teac mine to speak elvish? That would be umm, interesting. I attempt to educate a) My Dad (hopeless), b) my stepmother (better than my Dad) c) my friends (with varied results. and of course, visit the BD's and read spoilers.

peonydeepdelver · 06-20-2003, 04:42 PM

Stand the wait? Who says that I can stand the wait??? *rocks back in forth in white padded room*

Beren87 · 06-20-2003, 05:13 PM

I just come here to stand the Tolkien fevor-related wait. That, and assembling my next hobbit-costume to wear to the midnight showing.Plus, there are plenty of other good books and even movies to see in the mean-time. I try to expand my knowledge on everything, not just Tolkien.

Olorin · 06-20-2003, 06:05 PM

I read the books and spend time at the Downs.

Kiah · 07-19-2003, 09:14 PM

I stand the wait by watching Japanese Anime and The Matrix. (and POTC now..)

06-10-2003, 05:30 PM	#41
arianrod Wight Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Wandering Hobbiton, smiling at the hobbits & trying to sell them vacuum cleaners Posts: 215	I try not to think about it. I do other things to occupy my mind, hoping I'll get my thoughts off the <B>189</B> days I have left to wait. It never works, but at least I try. <P>I come on to forums like this and discuss aspects on the books, or read discussions and try and understand the complex thinking of it all. <P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>I read a lot of LOTR fanfics and I write a lot of them as well as it is the only way to survive the wait in a sane manner!!!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Here, here, Arathiriel, I know exactly how you feel; I do the same. <P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>I spend most of the time curled up in a corner rocking back and forth repeating quotes from the book, thinking how strange the movie would sound backwards... ahhhh! the suspence is killing me!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I've always thought if I played the movie backwards, it'd sound like chipmunks corresponding in a complicated plan to destroy the squirrels and TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! How about you?<P>When I'm in public, I like to walk around and quote Boromir and Denethor to random people on the streets, telling them "It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust," and to "Go now, and and die in what way seems best to you!" That's always entertaining.<P>Despite all these distracting activites, I still find my eyes wandering to the clock on my desktop that counts down the seconds till the release (189 days, 06 hours, 30 minutes, and 30 seconds for Central US time). I have gotten some good ideas of how to kill the time on here though. But what's this "Real life" everyone keeps talking about? It sure sounds like fun... __________________ Eenie, meanie, Samwise Gamgee, Staring after pretty Rosie, If she calls, watch him blush, then turn and leave in a rush. You want to join the Citadel... You know you do... Do the Wave for Boromir the Disco King!

06-10-2003, 05:42 PM	#42
Sapphire_Flame Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: The World That Never Was Posts: 1,232	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>But what's this "Real life" everyone keeps talking about? It sure sounds like fun...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>It's not, trust me. <P><B>Where is the RotK preview?!?!?!?!?!</B> __________________ The Hitchhiking Ghost

06-10-2003, 05:54 PM	#43
Kates Frodo Temp Wight Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: The Vale, Ancartia Posts: 112	I'm surviving by reading, reading, reading! There's so much I want to know! Oh, yeah, and participating in a few BD events. Am I wrong, or have most of you guys only seen the movie? People who see the LOTR movies but haven't read the books have NO IDEA what they're missing. I would be insane by now w/out my copy of The Silmarillion! __________________ I yessessë Eru ontanë Menel ar Cemen. Genesis 1:1 Sign my lighter, Meela?

06-10-2003, 05:57 PM	#44
GaladrieloftheOlden Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Massachusetts - digging up a bottomless hole, searching for something that's not there... Posts: 1,514	I would assume a lot of us have read the books, as this is a Tolkien forum. I'm reading the Silmarillion for the first time, which should help me through the time wait, and I love it.<P>~Menelien __________________ "Glue... very powerful stuff."

06-10-2003, 06:26 PM	#45
arianrod Wight Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Wandering Hobbiton, smiling at the hobbits & trying to sell them vacuum cleaners Posts: 215	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Am I wrong, or have most of you guys only seen the movie?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>The fact that we've read the books is one of the things that makes this wait so hard; we know how amazingly wonderful (or, Eru forbid, amazingly disappointing) the movie can turn out to be. __________________ Eenie, meanie, Samwise Gamgee, Staring after pretty Rosie, If she calls, watch him blush, then turn and leave in a rush. You want to join the Citadel... You know you do... Do the Wave for Boromir the Disco King!

06-12-2003, 06:59 AM	#46
Mordor_Queen Haunting Spirit Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Mordor Posts: 53	i read the books again and again and spend time on websites looking for updates... __________________ "In place of a Dark Lord you shall have a Queen! Not Dark but beatiful! All shall love me and despair!"-Galadriel

06-12-2003, 10:42 AM	#47
Lucinda Animated Skeleton Join Date: May 2002 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 41	Hey, Everdawn, could you get your cat to teac mine to speak elvish? That would be umm, interesting. <BR> I attempt to educate a) My Dad (hopeless), b) my stepmother (better than my Dad) c) my friends (with varied results. and of course, visit the BD's and read spoilers. __________________ The elf hobbit creature. Hmmm, my parents must have had a wee bit of a height difference!!! Mornings would be so much better if they were in the afternoon and a dog is a dog is a dog, but a cat is unique and does not bark.

06-20-2003, 04:42 PM	#48
peonydeepdelver Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alas, I hail from Massachusetts Posts: 256	Stand the wait? Who says that I can stand the wait??? rocks back in forth in white padded room __________________ "Nazgul, Nazgul! You speak of what is deep beyond the reach of your muddy dreams, Ugluk! Nazgul! Ah! All that they make out! One day you'll wish that you had not said that. Ape! You ought to know that they're the apple of the Great Eye." ~Grishnakh

06-20-2003, 05:13 PM	#49
Beren87 Master of the Secret Fire Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Between fire and ice, death and life Posts: 2,241	I just come here to stand the Tolkien fevor-related wait. That, and assembling my next hobbit-costume to wear to the midnight showing.<P>Plus, there are plenty of other good books and even movies to see in the mean-time. I try to expand my knowledge on everything, not just Tolkien.

06-20-2003, 06:05 PM	#50
Olorin Wight Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Where the sun sails and the moon walks. Posts: 155	I read the books and spend time at the Downs. __________________ Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then don't be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

07-19-2003, 09:14 PM	#51
Kiah Animated Skeleton Join Date: May 2003 Location: When I figure it out I will tell you Posts: 26	I stand the wait by watching Japanese Anime and The Matrix. (and POTC now..) __________________ In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.