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Join Date: May 2013
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1.Your friend tells you she can't come to your house for a LotR movie marathon because she is sick, you start to cry. And that's NOT because she is sick...
2.You're asked to do a project on three books for English, andthe teacher immediatly turns to you and says, "No Elyna, you can't do the Lord of the Rings as three books." 3.Your friend asks you to find a cool quote for her FACEBOOK page, you immediatley recite several of your favourite lines from Lord of the Rings. |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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...when on New Year your sister gives you a bookmark with your name in Elvish.
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: The Elvenking's Halls
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You get mad at your boyfriend because he won't have a LOTR marathon (The movies are "too long")
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You inherit the One Ring from your grandmother...
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: The Deepest Forges of Ered Luin
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When you make your own Tolkienesque heraldic symbols for each member of your family.
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: The Elvenking's Halls
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Your boyfriend laments that you have unpierced ears because he found cute One Ring earrings
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Join Date: Mar 2014
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Mine are: 1). Whenever you meet a new person who loves and reads the books, and you ask, "Have you read LOTR?" 2). Keep talking in Gollum's style. 3). Keep repeating Gandalf's words "don't tempt me, Frodo!" 4). Taking many things in life in LotR's context. 5). Idealizing LotR characters for life. 6). Despite not liking the films too much watching them again and again because they are THE LORD OF THE RINGS. 7). Going for fight with anyone who insults the books. 8). Being able to talk about the books for hours and hours without getting tired. 9). Keep reciting the poems and songs of LOTR. 10). LotR's Middle-Earth being another Home and loving to visit there despite wars and darkness. They're not funny, but for now this is what I can think of.
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Join Date: Aug 2014
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You wonder where The Road will sweep you off to every time you walk out your front door.
You wonder why the local booze seller has just told you to 'get out!' after you have pleaded with him for the hundreth time for Ent Juice. You get reported and banned from your local park for 'hugging Huorns'. ![]() Every day is a good day to LARP. pity your boss aint so keen. ![]() You get an ugly twitch when Peter Jackson's The Hobbit is mentioned. |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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There was this one time quite recently that Lommy and I had an hour and a half's hike from the bus to the cabin with heavy backpacks. Starting with the old walking song, we entertained ourselves by singing LOTR songs.
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: The wide blue yonder beyond this dimension
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I go into Gollum mode whenever I see one of my friends dropping change.
I get a nervous twitch whenever someone praises The Hobbit movies. I clench my fists and grit my teeth with a murderous rage whenever someone asks why they didn't use the eagles to get to Mount Doom. I once held a celebratory lunch on September 22nd involving mushroom soup. Ever since I discovered Tolkien's work, I always walk around the house in bare foot and at times, put on a waistcoat.
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"It is everywhere. It is everything. Its scales glisten in the bark of trees. Its roar is heard in the wind. And its forked tongue strikes like... *lightning strikes* whoa! Like lightning!"-Merlin, Excalibur(1981) |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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When you entertain your baby brother with the Russian translation of The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late. "And the cow jumped over the moooooooon!!!"
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
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Every time I tell my boyfriend how precious he is, I have to avoid saying he's "my precious" because I don't want to sound like Gollum.
Also, my family just had the audacity to have the balrogs having wings argument with me.
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Blossom of Dwimordene
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My mother has read LOTR and TH, and she likes them (especially LOTR). My father has glancingly seen the movies and heard snippets of the books. He barely knows anything about the story except that there's a ring involved. However, it would happen when I was reading bits of it out loud to my siblings several years ago, that he'd come in at the precise moment when some ruffian would be speaking none too eloquently. He would then ask me if it's really a good idea to read a book to my siblings which is written with such crude language. I don't think he believed me that it's actually very well-written and has lovely flowing language, but this character was meant to sound rude and uncreative.
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Ensconced in curmudgeonly pursuits
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You've been discussing Tolkien for years, decades. For me, it's been at least 20 years on the Internet alone (now there's a sobering thought), and even longer if you consider the age of prehistoric barbarism before the PC. You've discussed every issue, every subtle nuance, every arcane or trivial point, every shred, iota and detail hundreds, even thousands of times.
And...yet...you...cannot...simply...walk...away... from...whipping...these...dead... horses: 1) Balrog's Wings? 2) The nature of Tom Bombadil? 3) The Arkenstone, a Silmaril? 4) Was Legolas blonde? 5) Orcs descended from Elves? 6) Why didn't the Eagles simply fly Frodo to Mt. Doom? 7) Why is a raven like a writing desk? * 8) Who are the Blue Wizards? 9) Celeborn, where's he from? 10) The oldest being in Middle-earth? * Number seven thrown in to assure you were paying attention.
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That is actually the secret answer to the reason the Seven don't have that big of an effect on the Dwarves.
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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Okay, I know this is deeply inappropriate, but... how can you not think of it? You know the Moria refugee camp?
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I have reached a point where I have developed a habit of falling a sleep to an LotR audio-book.
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Mighty Quill
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For many years, I fell asleep to the BBC radio LotR, then it was Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel, and now the boy and I meditate before bed. I can still recite word for word the first disk of FotR.
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I should probably specify that I do not automatically fall a sleep, when I come into contact with a LotR audiobook. Rather i put on the audiobook wen I go to bed.
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...you find local politics terribly funny, what with all the candidates explaining how long they've lived in the Shire and how devoted they are to the Shire and how much they're going to do for the Shire if elected, etc.
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On that note, you ignore most political issues because he's a Saruman, he's a Saruman, he's just a Grima, and he thinks he's Gandalf but he still lives in Orthanc. They might have good intentions, but then again, so did Saruman.
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And then I read this post. On which I blame the most habbit-filled years of my life. Conclusion: habbits are contagious. ![]()
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Blossom of Dwimordene
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When you mean to write "middle ear" but end up writing "middle earth"...
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Blossom of Dwimordene
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Wight
Join Date: Jun 2023
Location: Treading the Narrow Way
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You know you're a bit obsessed when one day you find yourself studying Quenya and learning multiple modes of Tengwar. Also, sewing a cloak. And when anyone mentions Rings of Power your friends and family give you one of those "Uh-Oh, don't get her started" looks.
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