1001 reasons...
 

1001 reasons you know you have read the Lord of the Rings and Silm too many times.

1) if you call you books "precious"

Eh...aren't list threads generally frowned down upon? o.O

in any event...you would know you've read them too many times, when you compare the appearences of Merry in the book, to the film, and are convinced that in the movie, everyone abuses Merry. Thusly, you have started the S.A.M. (Save-A-Merry Foundation) to keep Merry a more canonical character. o.O

3) When you scream "SPARKLIES!!!!!!!!" whenever you see shining, white jewels, proceed to claim them immediately, then if someone takes them from you, take an Oath to chase after them forever, and start a war to get them back.

4) When the gold & silver trees for decoration constantly remind you of Laurelin & Telperion ("Look! It's Laurelin & Telperion! We have to keep them together!").

But what about Pippin? He's always getting whacked around. Mind if I start the Save-A-Pippin Foundation? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Prevent Pippin abuse!

You are right, Elennar Starfire. Three cheers for Merry and Pippin! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

5) When you tend to use some of the characters' lines in daily conversation.

For example: When somebody insults you, you say "Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth!", or something, and from then on call him Wormtongue.

Ooh, that's gotta hurt. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Doesn't everyone else do that..? [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

Love the Oath and S.A.M ones! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Let's see...to help you/someone you know overcome arachnophobia, next time you see one of the beasties, shine a torch at it and shout Elvish at it. Shoring some of its feet off and inflicitng grevious bodily harm also helps.

6) When you grab a perfume bottle that's clear, & the perfume's clear, & shout "Aiya Earendil Elenion Ancalima!" & wonder why it won't work.

7) When you squeak everytime something Sil is mentioned in LotR. ("Gildor is of the House of Finrod?! EEEE~~!!")

8) When Aragorn rides up to the Black Gate in RotK, you're going "FingolfinFingolfinFingolfin" in your head & when you tell people, they don't think it's funny.

9) When you do #8 to when Eowyn is dodging the Witch King's mace in RotK.

10) When you & your parody Fingolfin & Morgoth's fight.. turns out he needed more milk. (Geez, everything's about Fingolfin, & it isn't even half funny!> <;; )

Yes, well what about all the Sam abuse (mostly by Gollum)? Sam needs his own foundation, too!

All the time! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

You did that too? [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

11) When you use your little reading light that you got for Christmas, try above experiment (while slyly turning on the light), and it does work!

12) When you open your mouth while eating gummy worms, and say "Look! I'm Wormtongue!" No one even thought it was funny. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

*dies laughing*

*giggles insanely*

We need a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Hobbits or something. They all get abused.

13) When you see 'UT' you think 'Unfinished Tales' rather than 'Utah' even though that is where you live.

PMS: The Protection for Masters' Safteyandtherippingtoshredsofevilevilevilevilsneaki nggangrelcreatures.

Sorry, Sam's personal feelings got in the way of the anacronym...

I'll join The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Hobbits! Can I be Co-chair?

14) When you not only have word hallucinations, but they are entirely unrelated to the real word (especially common right after reading one of the books). For example: seeing a word that has only two or three letters in common with a Tolkien word, such as "glad", and thinking it says "Gil-galad" (bad example, but you get the point).

15) You can tell anyone about any part of any of the books at the drop of a hat, and get most or all of it right, down to what everyone says and what order they say it in.

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Hehe, yeah.

*giggles* I think the Grima thing is funny^ ^

This strangely looks like something Faramir would join in. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

16) When you go horseback-riding and say "Noro lim, noro lim, Asfaloth!" to the horse. (And name it Asfaloth, as well!) [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Psychological Depth in The LotR Movies: An Essay.

Faramir has obvious anger-issues. Seeing the way his father treated him, especially compared to his older brother, it is obvious that his father's rejection has instilled a lot of repressed anger and an inferiority complex in him. This explains why he kidnaps the Hobbits, as he feels their physcical smallness makes up for his self-esteem's smallness, and then why he ALWAYS has to pummel Gollum, as Gollum's marked physical differences to everyone else present allows Faramir at long last to have a target to pick on which is more vulnerable than he.

Now Denethor is not only a dealer of domestic abuse, but a victim. Gandalf's constant beating result in thoguhts of suicide...which would have been averted, had not Gandalf got Shadowfax to kill him after Denethor realises that death is not the answer.

Gandalf is Morgoth returned.

Wow, what a coincidence. I've already started the APAA: Anti Pippin Abuse Association. You can read about it here.

Isn`t this a bit like " you know you`re obsessed with LotR"?
That would be S.A.P! (save-a-Pippin-foundation!)

(17) You name all your pillows after LotR characters.(Aragorn, Merry, Pippin, and even Legolas.

[img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

I actually named one of my teddy bears Aragorn. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

So sue me! He was the one who entered my mind when I saw the bear! Although it does not exactly smell bad... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

18) When you mutter some lines from the books before you sleep.

...Must have the preciouss...zzz... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

hmm. I have the strangest feeling I have answered this thread before. But since I do not see any post of mine up here, I have a sneaking suspicion that I may have posted it in a different thread by accident... anyway.

1.) When you wake your little brother up by hissing "Fissshhhh..." in his ear (and subsequently get walloped in the face for it)
2.) When the same little brother makes you promise not to do that anymore, you hiss "we swears on the preciousss" and limp off.
3.) When you get out of bed in the morning by shouting "Forth Eorlingas!" (and then trip over your books and crash to the floor in a most un-rohirrim like manner)
4.) when you go up to a random person who's smoking and tell them that their love of the halfling's weed will slow their minds.
5.) when you ask for a bottle of the old vineyard of 1412 at a fancy restaurant. even though i'm not exactly drinking age. just for the heck of it.

Let's see:

1) You're doing a paper for an honors class on Tolkien's world and "real world" mythology.

2) When talking to someone on AIM, ICQ, whatever, you start typing in Elvish at random moments for no reason at all.

3) Every time you see anything remotely connected with Tolkien you start hyperventalating and require a strong sedative

4) You're sitting there typing these out while staring at a giant picture of Legolas

5) In your Myth's and Legends class you are constantly pestering the insturctor as to when you will begin the chapter on Tolkien and if you could teach it.

6) All of your school notebooks have random Tolkien quotes plastered all over them.

That's all I got [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

> Curse and fart at the eye of Sauron
in your dreams every night and make
him jealous by wearing his ring in front of him! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

DEATH!!!

kehehe [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] dat's me!

~When you have memorized all poems in Silm, (though there are only 2) and many more from LotR, and are working on the Lay of Leithian.

~When you amuse yourself during boring classes by drawing designs for Mordor Orc shields, and various other LotR related things. Not very lovely, as I can't draw very well, but I tried!

That's happened to me too, but I always figured I accidentally hit 'preview' instead of 'add reply' and clicked something else before I realized, and my post was lost.

1)~when everyone at school knows you as 'that girl who knows everything' and asks you to sit with them at lunch just so you can explain the movies.

2)~when you and your best friend camp out and pretend to be on the way to Mordor to destroy the one ring. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

~ when you leap out of bed, swinging your sword around wildly and screaming "ELENDIL!!!!" at the top of your lungs

(Don't ask me why I was sleeping with my sword. It helps when I have nightmares. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img])

~ when you start snickering like crazy when your cousin tells you about how his friend tackled someone during a football game, and yelled "ELENDIL!!!!!!!!" while he was doing it.

~When you are rudely awakened, you yell at the person who did the waking in elvish, as you had been dreaming in elvish. (No, I have not done this, yet. I really really want to! Gotta learn Elvish first, though.)

*snickers* Wish I could do that, but I sleep in a bunkbed, so I'd be the random Rohirrim tripping down the slope at Helm's Deep- -;;

Ooh, I really need a sword now.. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Or just jump out of corners onto people screaming "ELENDIIIIL!!!"

SERIOUS SUGGESTION:

At the Golden Ring Marathon, everyone should line up in 2 lines, then charge at each other with LotR war-cries! YEAH!!!


ANOTHER, NON-EXCULSIVE, SUGGESTION:

We start a "Forth Tolkiengas!" club!!! [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

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ELENDIL!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Runs till his legs falls off, then runs some more!*

In my amil's office, there is this glass globe (actually it really is a globe) that looks like a miniature palantír. So whenever I pass by it, I walk around and look at it. Who knows, I might face towards Mordor and see Sauron looking at me. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Wait, that's not good. He might fall in love with me and ask me to be his...dreadful thought. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Here's a true one:

2 'puddle-areas' (ie: areas where puddles ocnsistently form after rain) near your home look like the Sea of Rhun. Honestly, they do!

That reminds me of..."Fingolfinarfingolfinarfingolfinarfingolfinar fin"...that my sister and I can(and usually do) chant for hours on end. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

We're a demented pair, oh yes we are! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

->Elenrod, sister of Lhunardawen

* you just spent the equivalent of 11 hour's wages (okay, I work in a supermarket and I'm under 18, but even so) on hardcover 3-volume lotr. Mmmm... hardcover lotr...

* you just had a conversation with an 'unconverted' friend about who's related to whom and how in lotr, and can't see why she won't just sit down and read the Sil for all the backstory.

* :tv is on in background with some news story about climbers rescued from mountains:
reporter: the weather in these mountains is unpredictable
you: unless Saruman is out to get you! then you know it will be stormy!
[img]smilies/redface.gif[/img]thers in room look blankly at you:

*when watching the Two Towers extended version (yesss....it is my preccciousssss) your mom routinely pauses the movie to ask for the background information but adds not to go back more than two ages in the history of M-E

*when the easiest way to annoy your little sister is to start singing that hobbit song that Pippin sings in RotK

How 'bout this. You spend $275 on LotR/The Hobbit/The Silmarilion [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

*When you're meeting up with online-fellow-fans of a -different- book series than LotR, and your way to find them in the middle of Central Station is to yell out "For Gondor!!!"

Actually, this works. My brother and I were meeting up with some people from carmody-online.com, and we didn't know what they looked like. I yelled out "For Gondor!" and this man came up to me and goes, "Are you the internet people?" Will never live that down...

Aiya

I feel so at home with all the Hobbit activists! Sometimes I have to pummel even my LotR obsessed friends for disrespect to hobbits! I've wanted to form a society for ages, especially after I encountered Hobbit tossing in the chat room. grrr.

1. When you insist on using "Forth Eorlingas!" As your school team's fencing cheer untill somebody points out that you aren't cavalry, at which point you suggest riding the wrestlers. (please forgive the run-on)
2. You name all your foils after Tolkien characters.
3. Your halloween costume is obscure enough that you have to explain who you are people who have read the books who don't even recognise the name. (I was so dissapointed...)
4. When you write an ode to Lothlorien in Engilsh class and then can't tell if it's yours or if it's a poem by Tolkien that you didn't realise you had memorised. (So frustrating. I've looked for it in the books, but my friends are convinced enough that it's Tolkien's that I can't tell if I've got a wreched memory and it's in there somewhere or not)

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 7:32 PM January 03, 2004: Message edited by: Dancing_Hobbit ]

PM me your poem, Dancing_Hobbit, and I'll see if I remember it. I have a fairly good memory where poetry is involved (other things...not at all). I would like to read it, anyway!

And what exactly is that? I have a suspicion that I might want to join, but I need some details!

~ Your idea of a fun celebration is drinking a couple of mugs of beer and dedicating a toast to J.R.R. Tolkien. (It is the Professor's birthday after all.)

~ Even sadder, when most of your cousins' idea of fun is doing exactly that.