A waste of cyberspace
 

Ok, I was seraching on Google for more great LOTR sites. Then on about the 15th page, I found something that made me scream and then laught in pity.
The # 1 Anti Lord of The Rings Website.

My first though was, "The Internet has a dumb*** on their hands."

I decided I would check the site out. It was the worset site I have ever seen. Obviously, the person that made this website was a child, but come off it!!! This site was, also, obviously poorly researched. The mini-quiz was very very stupid (no, not just bad, stupid). Plus, what is with that picture?

The only good thing about the site was the guestbook. Most of the signings were people defending LOTR.

Check the site out and tell me what you think, but be carful, this site is horriable.

First of all, this poor soul has fallen into the trap of expage.com which allows no webdesigning freedom. Secondly, I have been to far better anti-Lord of the Rings websites than this particular one. Thirdly, it seems to based on the movie. This person really should give the book a chance. He may be converted to our cause (and help us to take over the world! ahem... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] )

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That is the worst site i have ever seen. The person who made really needs a dictionary. Gross. It is, indeed, a waste of cyberspace.

Oh, Elbereth! That was scary [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] ! I can't believe that website exists! Also, what was up with the freaky music and the golden retreiver? I don't think anyone from the Downs should see that site, it might hurt them. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

I think we have a problem.

After deep thought, I've realized something. After seeing this site, it seems that non-Tolkienites get temporarily weakened. The more they stare at it, the weaker they get. Well, I think this site was made to turn non-Tolkienites into anti-Tolkienites. Thus, means that the website is a trap made by a cult.

It also seems that the Golden Retriever and the crapy MIDI music are the icons of their organization.

THEY MUST BE STOPPED!!! [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Oops. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] I think I over reacted. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Hey, this guy should be reported to the SPCA! What a waste of a beautiful golden retriever.

sharon

A truly pathetic site. Even my 61 year old mom could do it better and she doesn't even know how to USE a computer.

I think some of my brain cells just died!

OK, the clues are all there. The mention of Elijah Wood, and "my sister Kelly". And the obvious fondness of dogs. It's perfectly clear that this site was built by Jack Osbourne!

It's all there: the name dropping, the jealousy, (since his sister gets to hang out with Elijah Wood, and he got snubbed by Natalie Portman), the lack of talent. It has to be...wait, do the Osbournes have a Golden Retriever?

Wow that was incredably sad.

I found that website interesting.

Interesting as in 'designed by a young boy'.

I agree with the movie part -- most people seem to refer to Lord of the Rings as 'the movie', not realizing that there was a book written around 50 years ago. People never give the books a chance, and soon they begin to hate Lord of the Rings for no reason at all. If you are going to be such a moron about it, you should at least have a valid reason.

This is supposed to be for newcomers, so I'll stop before I wind up into a long, well-written essay about whether Legolas's hair was black, yellow, or perhaps a combination of black and yellow. * mounts horse and rides off to look for more entertaining, pathetic Expage anti-Lord of the Rings websites *

AAAAAGGHHHH, my head is exploding... Ahem, well that site was truly horrible.

Did anyone look at the mini quiz? What was it going on about;
"How amy - many, I assume (but how can you tell with these anti LotR people)- LOTR book will their be within 5 years?"

Does he think they are still being written?

Well at least the geustbook was well written.

For some reason I've wasted my valuable time posting the following to the guest-book there (which has a character limit that makes a text message seem long-winded):

Whilst doing that is utterly pointless, discussing the page here is even more so. I shall therefore desist therefrom.

I have sent him many offensive messages!

I was just so angry!

Dark-Caranthir, I don't think you were right in doing so. After all, he/she may have some [sound] reason for it. Right of free speach, you know. Another thing is, he/she's not stating it. But that may not be used as a ground for offense

I think so [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Now this is what happens when you are on crack and make a website. Im not sure what he dident like. Was it the movie, the books, or both? Now im just going to be mean cause he he/she is dogging LOTR for a reason thay dont even know. Not to say im great at makking webpages,but i am in a class and i problay could have made that after about a week in the class.(in hard HTML) Well i guess thay can say what thay want but hey so can I.

*in screaty old voice* Ya know what my father always said? He said "opinions are like armpits, everyone has them and some of them STINK!" How true!

What it seems like to me is that the creater of this very badly done publication did this act out of spite of thier sister.

By the way, I'm going to copy that into the guestbook and see if he understands it. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

i just signed the guestbook and gave him advice, though I forgot about promoting Spellcheck. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

What if the webmaster knows exactly what he is posting online & he just makes it wrong to **** off Tolkien fans? I think it'd be easy for anyone to purposely put wrong information (unless of course this young boy is very, very young indeed).

The Guestbook entries are hilarious! I'm still laughing...

"...beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron" are not for everyone...

For those of you poor souls who went to visit this site a few months ago, the The #1 Anti-Lord of the Rings Website has been updated.

The MIDI music is different, but still sucks. The mini quiz is different, but still sucks.

Before, there was a picture of a golden retriver on the site, but now there is a metal fork, or something. Also, before, the mini quiz read, "How many Lord of the Rings books will be written in 5 years?" (Yes, poorly researched).

Well, tell me what you think of it now.

OMG!!!
I can hardly believe it! There are actually people in the world who don’t like LOTR! [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] It makes me sick just to think of it [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img]

BTW who wants to join an anti-anti LOTR posse [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] We will avenge all the wrongs done by these sick sick people [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

I sense passive-aggressivness. Man your battle stations. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

The site's colors, the horrid MIDI, the pawprints... and this is supposed to be a HATE site? It's almost insulting to think they can't even construct a proper hate site for LotR. But still, I have to give them points for making me laugh....

I'm surprised at how good people are taking this. To add me to the list of many already, yes, it was quite a laugh. I agree with Teal Dude though. The site was definitly made by a child---one who has not read the books and probably won't.

He didn't really offend me much by what he said, because people have opinions. I have an entire Freshman class at my school who thinks I'm stupid for liking LOTR. I liked that he didn't have to be vulger about it though. If you read the guestbook, there were many people in there cussing LOTR fans out. At least the maker of the page wasn't mean about it. So I give him credit for that.

Yes, the fork I did not get. Maybe he was showing his plot to stab every LOTR fan with it? Or maybe he was going to just stab Tolkien? I mean, he obviously thinks Tolkien is still alive if he asked how many books would be written in 5 years. Either way, this kid is plain weird.

But hey, maybe he was bored. For instance, I don't like the movie Cinderella which my {16 year old} sister loves. {Yes, very strange.} But say that I got insanely bored one day. I would get online and make a Cinderella-haters website. Just for fun, ya know.

Oh, and you see how he ends with "Well, we all have our opinions"? It shows some curtesy to Tolkien lovers. At least I will give him credits for not being an idiot about the whole thing. Well, other than his lack of research. Anyway, I gave my opinion. If you want to see more, you can check out the guestbook at that site. I signed it...around 3 times.

{Oh, and I'm not going to make that Cinderella-haters website if any of you were wondering. Really, I'm not.}

EDIT: Oh yeah, to add one more thing, Rynoah, nice sig. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ February 16, 2003: Message edited by: Eruwen ]

What I find very depressing is the number of poorly-spelled, exclamation-mark riddled and abusive junk signings of that site's guest book in support of Tolkien and his work. I sincerely hope that no member of this forum is responsible for this cretinous drivel, which I find more offensive than I would a balanced, reasonable argument in support of the site's founder. We've all read The Lord of the Rings at the very least, and we know the level of English that Professor Tolkien enjoyed. Do these people really think that they are doing his memory any service at all by screaming semi-articulate abuse in a language that I can scarcely recognise as my own?

Almost all of those whose signings were posted on the site (I notice that my own has mysteriously disappeared) can be summed up in the words of Mills and O'Neill's Marshal Law:

I think that it is time we allowed this thread, and the memory of a web-site that is bad in every conceivable way to drop from our attention forever.

I posted the following
Add a spell check, remove the music, have more contents, improve your guest book what

I wanted to say was

How about you take some pride in your work read the books so that you can better argue your point of view. Add a spell check, remove the music, have more contents, improve your guest book and get a better theme. Tri http://www.bravenet.com/reviews/free.php for some nice web items.

Remove all the derogative comments from your guest book and actually have a theme for the page.
What’s with the fork/ scalpel?

that is surely an stupid website and a waste of cyberspace and that gets me [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Anti sites on a whole are a complete waste of cyber space. And seeing one about Lord of the Rings is shocking. This person is obviosly as ignorant as he/she sounds. I had to leave a mark. People like that get to me so quickly. I am a rather assertive person [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Alright I'm not about to write up a lengthy reply; it's not needed because all I have to say is: that it is one crappy site, created by a crappy nerd, who doesn't have a hair of a clue who doesn't know how to read or do research. I've seen worse. It is a waste of cyberspace.

I don't mind that website, just because it is not that bad, and not that insulting to us Tolkien fans. But the only good thing that the guy has on that website is encouaging people to donate to charity. He just seems to have a problem with his sister having crushes on all the actors in the movies (which is understandable, I sometimes think of creating an anti-Orlando Bloom website because my sister loves him so much [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] , no I really wouldn't, there are probably people out there who already have those anyway)

That guys realy sad i pity him.

Someone post a link to a decent anti-tolkien site. This has sparked my interest. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

-'Vana

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!

That site is soooo sad!! And scary!!! That poor guy!!! We must help him turn into a LOTR fanatic!!!

No, we must ignore him. Eventually he will tire of running an entire site for the sole purpose of annoying his sister and do something constructive with his time instead.

what a ******, website!! haahaha .. loser!!

"if you have lotr this is the site for you"

he doesn't even have anything there!! boooooooo!

A poor site done by a poor soul. The person is definately a loser, an idiot and of course a jack###.

I searched on google for "I hate Lord of the Rings" and came up with about 211000 hits!

http://film.guardian.co.uk/lordofthe...621068,00.html
an artical entitled "Why i hate Lord of the Rings". WARNING.
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/wlg/2376
You have got to read the comments on this thing, though alot of strong language!

Will someone please explain to me why "if you hate LotR this is the site for you"? Even if I did hate LotR with all my heart that site wouldn't impress me, and I don't see what It offers. Basically, it's just a page with a 2 minute rant on it (which is really dis-jointed and senseless anyway [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] ) and a guestbook. Hmm. Yep. Waste of cyberspace.

[ February 19, 2003: Message edited by: Dark Shadow ]

This is what I posted at the O'Reilly fourm after reading that article and some of the posts.

You know what else is werid... there going to e-mail me and keep on ranting. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]