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I laughed at work today when I saw that we had new sticky notes that read "Rivendell Psychiatric Center", but then after a while of laughing I realized that it made sense.
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You know you are obsessed with LotR when your friend (Lauri) and yourself are so "disruptive" in class because of your LotR and BD conversations that you are told to shut up, by other students...
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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you know you're obsessed when you decided to date a guy from BD itself when you met him in school... not naming names!!!
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You know your obsessed with LOTR when...
1. You go someplace to watch fireworks, thinking Gandalf will be the one lighting the fireworks off.
2. You go to watch either The Elephent man and/or the goonies and all of a sudden... "Oh My God! It's that Orc!" 3. You see a crow and the first thing that comes to mind is "Crabine from Dunland!" 4. Watch Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and think.. "Are these guy's the same Dwarves that got the seven rings?" 5. Think that a Lighthouse is Actully the Eye of Sauron and the Tower of barad-dur That's the end for now. Hopefully nobody beat me to any of them :P |
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Has anyone mentioned this yet?:
When you pick up anything that resembles a stick you pretend your aragorn. I know i am defo obsessed with them!!!! legolas1 out!!!
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I have another!
when you have slightly too long, slightly too pointed ears like me and you go around telling everyone your an elf! I do that all the time!!!
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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you tend to see Elves everywhere. and fall in love with them, at some extent.
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Pilgrim Soul
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When you get sent pictures by a proud new grandmother and have to resist focusing overexcitedly on the child's perfect tiny and pointy ears
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(are there really parents who name their kids after LotR characters? if so, I haven't met them, nor have I met a child named after a book character. well...not in this country where spanish names are often used.)
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Clearly yes... but some are more conspicuous than others - I remember there was a cheer leader called Eowyn at the Moomba parade in Melbourne I went to and Terry Pratchett met a Galadriel and asked her if she were born in a Welsh hippy commune. However because Sindarin is derived from Welsh many lower profile Elvish names could pass for Welsh names.
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When, in the midst of a maelstrom of baby noise, you hear Adrian Chiles on The One Show say "Lord of the Rings" and both your heads shoot up and you go "Oooooh" and turn up the TV....only to both go "Oh" in disappointment and look away again as you realise it's just a bad pun (Lord of the Wings - oh pur-lease) referring to an item on butterflies.
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When you use instances or characters in LotR to try & explain other situations/characters in other stories, or explain what you think about them.
Maybe not funny, but something i've done. Despite the fact that the other person has never read LotR. :\ |
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I happen to do that a lot. Not just with LotR. With the whole Tolkien thing. Years and years of reading and rereading has somehow managed to make me memorize certain bits. Happens all the time with me and my guy, my brother, and my dad. All of them not remembering too well what they have read, so basically sometimes when I quote from Tolkien they hear me "speaking German again" (where did that come from? I have no idea!). Sometimes the Tolkien fan in me gets carried away even inside the Philippine Literature in English classroom, and I get told virtually everytime, "while some of Tolkien's writings may be arguably universal, your feet is on Philippine soil and your butt on a Philippine Literature classroom."
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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I've just bought my 62nd copy of LotR!, I have no place for food in my cupboards.
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#1979 |
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Whatever do you do with that many copies, Narfforc?
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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To be honest Lindale I have had to have my cellar converted into a library, I have also got 43 copies of The Hobbit, numerous copies of The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales, and over 200 other Tolkien related books, some people collect stamps or such, I collect Tolkien. Every copy has a different cover, some have drawings inside, I still can't afford a first edition set yet though.
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Ach, then you have the money to spend, Narfforc. I only have one copy each of all the Tolkien books I have. That is saying something, really, if you live in this wretched country, having LotR, TH, UT, Sil, Gawain, Farmer Giles & Smith, HoME I-V, and Children of Hurin. Sil, UT, and Children of Hurin I did not even buy in this country; I had my dad buy them in Europe a few years ago. Then to my dismay I saw a couple of months ago those same titles in the local bookstore, and at a cheaper price when you convert euro to peso.
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I bought a lot of the books on Ebay, and the Tolkien related books at Oxonmoot.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Hi Lal, I have rescued quite a few from second-hand/charity shops. The last copy I bought was a paperback special limited edition for The Cannes Film Festival 2001, I got that from Barnado's for £2. My earliest editions are Second/Fourth Impression 1969, however I have the 1968 (First time in one volume) Hardback and Paperback. My earliest Hobbit is 1959. If I see any Tolkien book in a Charity shop, I rescue it. If I already have it then I give it away to friend.
P.S The Lord of the Grins is finished.
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When I think of the History of Middle Earth every time I type, or write, the words home.
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There must be at least one LotR-obsessed person in your house if the following dialogue can occur:
Mum: "Whose Bible is on the sofa?" Me: "Bible..? I haven't been reading the Bible, for sure, and I don't think Greenie* has either." Mum: *appears at my doorstep grinning amusedly and holding my very old and dear copy of LotR* I think that was pretty amusing. ![]() ![]() ---- (*I obviously used her real name of her, though... ![]()
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-when you get through the first two pages of this thread and steadily begin to work through reading all of the pages...agreeing with many of the posts!
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Shade of Carn Dûm
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...all the ideas you came up with for your painting final have to do with Middle-earth. (art geek, ahoy!)
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You nearly die from reading most of this old thread and your old posts. The spelling is very bad.
You think about putting on the elf dress that you kept from prom. You can't help but tag Glorfindel any time he EPs in Millways_bar, even if he doesn't like your vampires. You have a Tasselhoff Burrfoot and Glorfindel thread going on at the moment. You want to make a Hobbit doll for you grandmother for Christmas.
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Anyone who visits my blog will know about The Mothership Television we've just had delivered.
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Well, I don't know where else to put this, but while reading Mr Davem's post in the thread 'Fantasy'...
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Last week I had a quite strong experience during the Old Testament studies course, translating the tale of the trial of Abraham (Genesis 22). It was my turn to read the Hebrew text and translate. That's no hard text, so I could translate right from scratch, so I read: "Take your son, the only one of yours, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moria..." And even upon hearing my own words, I felt filled with horror - I mean, when you look at it (or hear it - you may try saying it aloud), doesn't it really sound all too scary?
I just imagined Abraham by the dark pool, carrying some firewood on his back, knocking on the door with the hilt of his dagger and saying "Mellon!", while his poor son keeps looking around in terror...
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My goodness, that does sound scary when you say it aloud!
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You know you're obsessed with the Lord of the Rings, when you are sitting at luch having a nice little discussion about a play that you are going to see, and somebody from down the hall exclaims "And your soul was stolen by a hobbit.", and you turn the corner and say "What? I wasn't stolen by a hobbit, no I was stolen by Morgoth!" And they didn't have the foggiest notion of what you just said!
Or when you are sitting outside the school waiting to be picked up by your mum, and you start talking to someone that you don't even know, about the internet, then the Barrow-Downs, and then you're having a discussion about Middle-Earth, and LotR! She says "Do you like Lord of the Rings?" then looks at the Ring hanging around my neck, and realises what a silly question that was.
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Mighty Quill
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You know you're addicted to LotR when you now have a framed map of Middle-earth hanging up in your room... because it's your birthday present.
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