You know you're obsessed with LOTR when ...

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Oh my god...I just did this about five seconds ago! There's a showjumper in Canada, his name is Ian Miller. Well, there was showjumping on channel 18 and she said, "That looks like Ian...ah, Ian...?" and without thinking I was all "McKellen?" and she was all "No, Miller," and then as soon as I realized that I said that I started laughing my head off. I received weird looks from my mom. I don't know why. Do you? [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[ March 30, 2003: Message edited by: Horse-Maiden of the Shire ]

[Sapphire_Flame]

You know you're obsessed with LotR when:

1) You can (and have) read the whole Book in less than a day.

2) Your parents have stopped asking your opinion on family activities, as they know exactly what you will suggest.

3) When your siblings start annoying you too much, you start screaming at them in Sindarin.

4) Your idea of a fun weekend with you friends is to watch FotR, FotR Extended Version, and TTT all in a row, with full audience participation with what's going on on-screen.

5) Your entire Favorites list on the internet is LotR related sites.

6) You are a member here. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

guilty......

[Mornie Alantie]

When you spend hours a day practicing your Gollum voice and facial expressions in front of a mirror.

When you play a game you are constantly using LOTR qoutes.

Hello is no longer in your vocab, it has been replaced with "Mea Govannen."

[Sapphire_Flame]

Hello is no longer in your vocab, it has been replaced with "Mae Govannen."

Or "Suilad."

[Rilwen Gamgee]

For Halloween, I thought about taking a silver pitcher that we have and a metal bowl and standing by the doorwith the bowl filled with water with a far away look on my face saying to random kids walking up to the door:

Will you look into the Mirror?

[Eressië Ailin]

Looking back on the first page of this thread...

How about when you parents call you by your elvish name?

Lucky you... My friend who has the same name as me, Monica, is in 2 of my classes. On my first day of school, in 1st period, my teacher asked me if I had a nickname. At the time, I was busy writing my latest RPG post. So the first thing that came out of my mouth was 'Mae'. In another class I'm known as Luin, another RPG character of mine.

I know I'm obsessed when, if I miss the last half hour of the fellowship, i can play it through in my head later, music and all.

I've done that before!!! I was watching the whole movie in my head during math, when the bell rang. My friend came up to me and told me that class was over. I was like, 'Shut up! I'm watching a movie!' I told I that Gandalf had just said, 'Just tea, thank you.' This got me some very strange looks.

[Sapphire_Flame]

My friend came up to me and told me that class was over. I was like, 'Shut up! I'm watching a movie!'

Heehee, brilliant! I'm doing that next time someone interrupts me!

I've started talking to everyone in Sindarin. Like, instead of "hello" I say "Suilad". And when my mom is calling me to get out of bed in the morning I generally yell back, "Tolel, tolel! Garo rych lin!" Which means, "Coming, coming! Hold your horses!" She always gives me the strangest looks, especially as I haven't told her what it means yet! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[kittiewhirl1677]

You know you're obsessed when:
~When your teacher announces your night's homework, you reply with:
"Why do you lay these troubles on an already troubled mind?"
~When your brother/sister tries to break into your room for some reason, you reply with:
"YOU CANNOT PASS!"
~When someone tells you:
"There's no more food in the fridge. Why don't you go get something to eat?"
And you reply:
"I know! Let's hunt some orc!"
~When you get to school, and you start your day with a very boring class, you tell your friend:
"I think we may have made a mistake in leaving the home, *"(*=friend's name)
~When you've been absent for a while, and you ask your friends what went on at school like this:
Riders of Rohan! What news from the mark?
~When your teachers send you down to the principal's office, and you think to yourself:
"Teachers, they're just Nazgul."
There are more, but I think I've bored you enough.

[Maylin]

I shall soon use those on my teachers, but I doubt the wil see the lotR reference :- It's more fun when they know where your quoteing from.

[Rilwen Gamgee]

-You make little LotR people out of Legos and attempt to re-enact the movies
-when you play RPGs you equip your characters with as close to LotR equipment as you can get

[kittiewhirl1677]

This is a good forum. Unfortuantely it's too late for my brian to be working well enough to post anything fun or just good.

Nighty-night! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

[Tinuviel the Nightingale]

I usually sleep with a Tolkien book beside me and the soundtrack in my discman, so I can have Lord of the Rings Dreams...
Hasn't really worked yet though. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img]

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Guilty, guilty, guilty.

I don't have the soundtrack!! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

You know you're obsessed when you creep up behind your friends, use whatever you have as a sword, put it against their neck, and say something like "I would cut off your head, Dwarf, if it stood but further from the ground."
I did that in gym once with a badminton racket.

[Azaelia of Willowbottom]

It scares me how guilty I am!!

You know you're obsessed when...
*You have more LOTR posters than you have wall space.

*You dress up to go to TTT no matter if it's the premiere or the beginning of April.

*You call yourself a Hobbit because you are one of the shortest students in your class.(That's me) Or, if you're taller, you call yourself an Elf.

*Your LOTR obsessed friend thinks you are "too obsessed."

*You noticed your teacher was absent the day TTT premiered. Immediately you think "I bet she's in line for TTT" (And you were right!!)

*You convince your teachers to read LOTR. Or if they don't have time, you offer to stay after and read it to them while they grade tests.

*As you hike out on the trail, you sing "The Road Goes Ever On and On" not too loud, but loud enough to be heard, And you notice that your brother is lagging behind you and acting like he doesn't know you... (Whoops, hehe guilty!)

*Every time you go to the movies (Even if your mom dragged you along to see one that isn't TTT) you make it a ritual to go up and touch the LOTR poster.

*While at the movies, you notice that the outrageously priced giant tub of popcorn has a LOTR design on it. Even though you know you'll never be able to eat all the popcorn, you buy it anyway.

I'm guilty of all of those except for the last one (My mom always stopped me and wouldn't let me buy it...
[img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] )

[mark12_30]

After reviewing my previous post (on page 2) I have a few more that I can add:

Your collection of Hobbitish clothes is steadily increasing, and your husband suggests how about a few dresses once in a while? (They'll be elvish, of course.)
You're still on the lookout for hobbitish shirts.
You get so determined to have someplace to take Frodo hiking (should he ever show up), that you explore the local state park.
You're already seventy miles toward Rivendell.

[Sapphire_Flame]

Your LOTR obsessed friend thinks you are "too obsessed."

Guilty... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

[Airehiriel]

Azaelia, you actually offered to read the books to a teacher?! How thoughtful of you...what did they say?

Mark 12_30 (Good verse by the way) You are 70 miles toward Rivendell? Good for you!!

You know when you think about what you want to post on the downs in the middle of the night.

When you desperately try to come up with a cool thread to start.

When you stare at little thumbnail pictures to try and create a funny scene on the Create your own scene thread.

When you quote lines from the movie, and your spouse (our parent of friend) looks at you like you've fallen off your rocker because they have absolutely no idea why those words just came out of your mouth because they have absolutely nothing to do with what was going on.

[Sapphire_Flame]

When you stare at little thumbnail pictures to try and create a funny scene on the Create your own scene thread.

When you quote lines from the movie, and your spouse (or parent or friend) looks at you like you've fallen off your rocker because they have absolutely no idea why those words just came out of your mouth because they have absolutely nothing to do with what was going on.

Guilty again...

When you dress up as a character on a regular basis. Myself, I'm a hobbit one day each week.

When the first thing you ever say to your friends each day is the countdown to RotK. (252 days as of today!)

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

1) You can recite the whole script in elvish and know exactly what it means .....

2) You can recite the whole script in elvish backwards and still know what it means

3) You know what Figwit stands for (Frodo is great, who is that?)

4)You know who Figwit is...

5)Your meals now consist of, Lembas, Lembas and, Lembas..

6)You always have a shadow and a threat growing in your mind

7) You become deeply annoyed when your teacher tells you that you cannot take a GCSE or A-level in elvish

8) None of your friends can understand your e-mails any more because they are all written in dwarvish runes

9) You have been practicing skating down the stairs on your mums best tea tray

10) You think that skating down the stairs on your mum's best tea tray is a perfectly sane thing to do....

11) Your bedroom is a shrine to all the lord of the rings characters.

12) You avoid climbing snowy mountains (unless you are an elf and can walk on snow)

13) You convince your self you are an elf and try to walk on snow (fail miserably!)

14) You discover that super gluing your ears into a point is not a good idea

15) You have just spent hundreds of dollars buying Arwen's pendent......

16) You have just given your hundred dollar pendent away to your Aragorn look-alike teacher,

17) You DON'T feel stupid at all after doing this!

18) You wonder why your friends have disowned you after you tried to convince a tree you were an elf.

19) You still are wondering why your friends have disowned you.

20) You begin to feel a strange urge to grow your hair long and dye it blonde.

21) You have forgotten what your real name is.

22) You are disappointed that your friend can still see you when you slip on your gold ring!

23) You have thrown away all of your shoes.

24) When you are angry at someone you think to yourself Evil, Fat, nasssty, Hobbitses

25)You are thinking how do they know all this about me?

[ April 09, 2003: Message edited by: GaladrieloftheOlden ]

[Shy Hobbit]

A mishap happens and you say "Well that was close!" and get mad at yourself for not saying in with a scottish accent like Pippin

You're family thinks you're weird because you find hobbits to be cute

You're family thinks you're weird when they call Merry and Pippin idiots and you reply "THEY'RE NOT IDIOTS!!!!!" [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img]

You start LotR captions threads on non LotR message boards

You plan to build a house someday with an entire room dedicated to displaying all the swords, replicas, etc that you have

You name your car Shadowfax

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

A mishap happens and you say "Well that was close!" and get mad at yourself for not saying in with a scottish accent like Pippin

You're family thinks you're weird because you find hobbits to be cute

You're family thinks you're weird when they call Merry and Pippin idiots and you reply "THEY'RE NOT IDIOTS!!!!!"

You start LotR captions threads on non LotR message boards

You plan to build a house someday with an entire room dedicated to displaying all the swords, replicas, etc that you have

You name your car Shadowfax

Well. I've done the first. I've done the second, but not about hobbits. About Elves. I've done the third and fourth, and would do the fifth if I had a car. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] Which will be in, hoom, a while.

((Sorry if these were said))

1) You take your friend to go see TTT for his/her first time, and by the time you get to the theater you've quoted the whole movie word for word.

2) You spend your art/homec class making LOTR charactors, even if your homework isn't even close to LOTR

3) Whenever your parents say something, you always qoute from the movie/books a response (hey, whenever my parents say "crows" I respond "Crebain from Dunland!")

4) Your whole room is covered head to foot with LOTR

5) You spend your free time making Flash Movies about LOTR

6) Whenever you take liquid medicine you gag and say "Orc Draught!"

7) All your pets are or are going to be named something from LOTR

8) You nickname your friends after the Fellowship

9) You take every chance you get to perform or audition in anything LOTR realated

10) When you get absoulutly frustrated you start shouting in the Black Speech

[Sapphire_Flame]

You plan to build a house someday with an entire room dedicated to displaying all the swords, replicas, etc that you have

How do you people know all these things about me?

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

You know you're obsessed when:
~someone asks you to do something and you say "Yes, Master Frodo."
~you get extremely upset because you haven't seen Two Towers or FotR in "such a long time!" (meaning three days)
~you get upset because Halloween is in a very long time and you dont have the cash to get a replica sword or costume
~whenever you hear the word "rings" or "lord" you sit up/jump up and yell "WHAT?"

Your LOTR obsessed friend thinks you are "too obsessed."

Are you stalking me?

[One Axe to Rule them All]

1). When you reenact the entire trilogy of movie with legomen (guilty!)

2). When you can speak fluent Elven (I Wish!)

3). When your rpg characters are all named Names of LOTR characters and you outfit them to be just like the actual character (Guilty)

4). when you find yourself making a fourth book of the series (Not guilty)

5). when you play the LOTR card game (Guilty)

6). when you wear the one ring at at ALL times (not Guilty)

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Captin_Faramir- I do all of the ones on your list except for Flash Movies. *lightbulb* Ooh, another LotR thing to do! Yay! [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[Arvedui III]

hehe, here's some:
You know obsessed with LOTR when:

1. When your idea of a good time is learning elvish.

2. You spend months trying to write up a decent fan-fiction.

3. When, for a community servce, you read the Hobbit to little kids [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

4. You waist away hours talking about LOTR on the Barrow-Downs.

5. When your parents no longer inculde you in planing what movie to see.

6. When you've memerized ROTK

[Rilwen Gamgee]

~ you sing the Goldfish Song ("I like Goldfish 'cause they're so delicious!") in a Gollum voice

[Lily Bombadil]

WE ARE TRULY OBSESSSSSED, MY PRECIOUSSS!!!!

~I sing "THE ROAD...", every Tom Bombadil song, the song from THE HOBBIT about chipping Bilbo's plates, & the inn song!
~I have full fledged discussions about the LotR scenario as if it were real!
~I'm always saying either 'Ai na vedui, *friend's name*! Mae govannen!' or I amar prestar aen...!
~I get enraged when my sister calls Sam fat , Frodo gay, & Pippin retarded!
~ I like ale & BEER (I'm only in jr high) & mushrooms! (Lembas sounds goood)!!!
~ I may be 5' 4", but I have so many other hobbit qualities that I'm convinced that I'm part hobbit! HELLLP!!! I need a pint...
~I DO practice my Gollum voice!
~I like writing fan fics!
~I insisted that my costume for the school play look Middle-earthen!
~I often tell aquaintances, ' I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.' !!!
~and finally:
'THE LIST GOES EVER ON AND ON,
DOWN FROM THE PAGE WHERE IT BEGAN!
NOW FAR AHEAD THE LIST HAS GONE,
AND I MUST FINISH IF I CAN!....'


[img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] OH, ELBERETH! GILTHONIEL! WHAT HAS COME UNTO ME?!! I'M CRAZIER THAN BOROMIR! BUT THAT'S COOL.

[Lily Bombadil]

I also forgot-
~When we travel, I say, ' That settles it. Short-cuts make delays, but inns make longer ones.'
~I love any kind of old hobbitish music.
~I make up my own Middle-earth folk songs
~I like to think of myself as Luthien Tinuviel (sometimes) a wise jr high kid who knows way more about the world than my enemies. Or Galadriel. . [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]
I THINK I'M COOKOO!!!

[Vuelve]

*You have a habbit of taking a walking stick with you wherever you go.
*You get mad when the teacher won't accept your book report on a fellow BDer's fan fic.
*Even though you are way too young you have already decided your children will have LOTR related names.Your favorite being the twins Gollum & Smeagol, reguardless of thier gender.
*You sing non-LOTR songs in Elvish.
*You freestyle rap in Elvish.

[Goldberry]

lol [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

If you are in math class or some other quite boring class and are thinking about some funny LOTR scene (especially a Merry+Pippin or Legolas+Gimli scene) and suddenly you laugh out loud, causing funny looks from all the others in the class and the teacher. Yup I did that today in math and I always do it in science too - my two most boring classes. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

I got another one:

11) You gather a bunch of children around you and start telling of your adventures. ("So there I was, 3 monsterous guys came and sat in front of me in the movie theater...")

That one was stupid...

[Goldberry]

lol, I think that is funny, Captain_Faramir! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] And welcome to the BD's. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

[ April 10, 2003: Message edited by: Goldberry ]

[Annalaliath]

you come up with fourty- six new obsessions that all aply to you or others you know.

When sibliings steal the one ring from you that you "barrowed" from a freind.

When you carry around your LOTR action figure to photo class and call him your Little Dark Room Buddie.

Your step-dad reminds you agian and agian that it is not real.

He bigins to hate talking to you because that is all that you talk about.

Your grandmother is obsessed

you fight with her because she steals all of your LOTR stuff.

You put rogain on you feet

You change you last name to baggins

You call your grandfather Gandalf when his name is Ollie

You call your butter knife Sting

You and your freinds qote the LOTR all the time at work till they finally fire one of you.

You love to talk to people who love LOTR

When you want to start a Tolkien convention

Tolkien's family has a restaining order

People at church start to wonder

Your family has 15 copies of all the books and movies

Your mother is obsessed

she buys you grey outfits

You rented the old LOTR movies till the copy at Smith's stopped working

You almost believe Middle earth exists

You wonder what the hobbits would be doing if they were here

you take pictures of your action figures for photo class and call it your documentary assignment

you call your freinds in Bio class names like Yrch and elf boy

You choose to read LOTR instead of the other class book for English and are the only one

You stay after to argue the finer point of LOTR with your teacher

You ALWAYS bu the Brandywine brand of mushrooms at the store, and call them the Hobbit Mushrooms.

You know treebeard would love your Village

You correct freinds friends when they are talking about LOTR

You and your best friend come up with cenarioes

You looke for the Tolkien computer in the lab where all the computers are named after famous authors

You are offered to have a Tolkien booth at a local convention

Are late to class because of the Barrowdowns

Your friend mentions that your handwriting looks like it could be elfish

you recomend LOTR

You say things like " Stupid fat Hobbit" and " Fool of a Took" when anyone skrews up

you dicribe yourself as a dwarf with a smigion of Took

You name your cat Smeagol

You argue the finer points of how to say Smeagol with your grandmother

You have an Elijah wood and Orlando Bloom marathon before seeing any of the LOTR movies.

You see Ship Rock New Mexico as Mordor on earth

You think your back yard looks like a Hobbit gardon

You search the entire state for a Legolas action figue.

[Arafangwen]

I got some!!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

*Even though you aren't even dating yet(I know, I know)you've already decided what your childrens names are going to be according to what they sound like in Elvish [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

*You've also decided that your childrens first laungage will be Quenya

*You aren't allowed to print anything ever again on account of the seventy-five pages you used when learning Quenya

~I'm brain dead but at least I know that much [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[Arafangwen]

Just thought of another [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

* you know your obsessed when you drop a launguage you actualy VOLUNTEERED to learn of your own free will to learn Quenya [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[BethoHOG]

You know you're obsessed with LOTR when..............

You have over 300 The Lord of the Rings pictures saved on your computer in a folder and organize it frequently.

[Eressië Ailin]

ARE YOU PEOPLE STALKING ME?!?!

~Somehow, everything in the world suddenly seems to be, no matter how distant, related to LoTR.

~You're about to pull off your fourth all-nighter in a row becuase you've been on the Downs instead of doing homework.

~Your friends have been calling your obsession 'unhealthy'.

~Did I just say friends? Well, they don't really exist anymore because of your obsession.

[Eressië Ailin]

Just got some more ideas!

~You aren't allowed to print anything anymore because you printed out the FoTR abd TTT scripts, found tons of mistakes, and printed them out again from another site.

~Your 14 and you've decided that your daughter's name will be Elanor Madeleine ?????, and that your son's first name will be either Beren or Sam, Samwise on the birth certificate.


And for anyone who is wondering/cares, yes, I did get the Madeleine from Monsuier Madeleine of Les Misérables, and yes, I know that Monsuier Madeleine is a guy, but the French have rather strange names sometimes, and no, I've got nothing against the French.

[ April 13, 2003: Message edited by: Eressië Ailin ]