You know you have Tolkien fever when....
 

Ok today during my english test I was going to write "similar" and instead I wrote "silmarillion"....oops! So funny though! I burst out laughing during the middle of the exam and all the other students gave me funny looks...Does that happen to anyone else or am I just really really wierd?? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Every time i go to write/type 'earth' I have to restrain myself from preceding (<--right word?) it with 'middle', or vice versa. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

I started to suspect Tolkien fever recently when I started ending sentences with "and no mistake" and referring to my husband as "my hobbit". (Can't help it...he's cute, short, and has big feet and curly hair!).

I named my rat Dr. Meriadoc Bramwell Livingston (Doc or Mr. Merry for short) and I oft call my guide dog "Ida Gamgee". (I did it this morning right before we left the house since she was in harness and she went nuts with excitment. BTW, out of harness she's known as "Ida Wilde".)

My friends claim that "track 1" of my brian goes something like: hobbits, Frodo, Sam, hobbits, hobbits, Tolkien, hobbits... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

When I was telling some friend about the game Zelda and I accidentally called the bad guy Gandalf instead of Ganandorf...she gave me this really weird look. After I said it again, she wrote 'Ganandorf' on my forehead-in ink-so I'd remember. It didn't work. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

I know I have it! I am Episcopalian, and am a lay reader. I asked my rector if for Pentecost when we read John 3:16 in a lot of different languages if I could read it in Quenya. Boy did I get a weird look! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
I also got a hold of the Lord's Prayer in Quenya, and have been reciting it when we say it in church. My husband is very worried about me for some strange reason! LOL!

Ever since coming here, I cant visit my favorite tech site without expecting Goldberry to do a hardware review of the new Pentiums. Any other computer nerds might want to check out Toms Hardware.

I think people here at work belive Im in the later stages of Tolkien fever. No 1. Because Im always on this site reading and posting and talking to you guys. No 2.Because I insist on carting several large Tolkien books to and from work every day to read during my lunch break. No 3. Because Im getting the one ring for Valentines day. And last but by no means least No 4. because I must make at least 100 references or comparisons to Tolkien every day.

Im suprised they've put up with me for so long actually [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

I've definately got tolkien fever, I knew it when, instead of my usual (joking) threats, I told my bloke
He's threatened to disown me. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

You know you have Tolkien fever when:

You've seen the movie 20 times like I have. As it is Tuesday, and the film will be discounted all day, I will make it 21 this afternoon.

I am also going to go buy Unfinished Tales today, and re-read the Silmarillion.

Almost the only thing I have been listening to...just a sec..ok, just turned on iTunes...for the last two months is the FoTR soundtrack.

It seems the Academy of Motion Pictures has Tolkien Fever too. 13 Academy Award Nominations!!!!!!!!
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Never laugh at live Dragons

you know you have tolkien fever when you find it hard to "wake up" and live in the real world.....*sigh If anybody accidently stumble over elves while you're walking in the forest; let me know :-)

You know when you have Tolkein Fever when:

You dress up as various species (orc, elf, hobbit etc) whenever possible

You wear your hair in an elf style NON STOP and get nicknamed elfgirl or Legolas (Matt, if you are out there I am a girl, I do not have blond hair, and I am definately not graceful!)

You learn Elven languages and speak only elvish to everyone.

You get taken to the doctors when your parents are worried about your sanity and the way you have obtained a sword and insist on challanging EVERYONE.

You answer only to your elven or hobbit name, not to your real name.

You learn Enya's May it be, the song in "The Breaking of The Fellowship" and the words in "The council of Elrond" and sing them at the top of your voice as you walk, as gracefully as possible, down the street (without having too much to drink).

You spend every waking minute (and several sleeping ones)posting messages here, and in every other Tolkein forum, and surfing looking for more Tolkein related sites.

You get LOTR ringtones, screensaver, desktop, icons, t-shirts, bags, books, pencils, erasers, etc. and parade them around at school/work

You listen nonstop to the soundtrack and other, pre-film, songs relating to Middle Earth.

You try and work out which of the people you know are a) hobbits b)elves c)men and for the people you don't like d)orcs.

You count down the days till the next film.

Your birthday/Christmas/Easter list consists of: The one ring
LOTR photobook
LOTR insider's guide
LOTR etc etc etc

You see the film every day and twice at weekends and holidays. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Oh, and you make your own LOTR and Tolkein website.

Ok, I have diagnostiged (?) myself and I have Tolkien fever.. not very badly, but bad enough.. I allready answer when someone calls me my elven name and I'm trying to learn quenya... and I do have a LotR site.. so I guess I have Tolkien fever.. uummm.. another one:

..When you dresses up in a grey cap and runs around in the forest, eating some cookies you've named "lembas"
..When you are trying every ring that "crosses your path".. could this one be magical then?
..When someone of your friends ask: "What is this LotR thingy?" you have a two hours long lessons prepared for him/her

"..When you are trying every ring that "crosses your path".. could this one be magical then?" - I get the shock of my life if my shopping companion tried on a ring and suddenly disappeared! [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] *Then I'd throttle them for it, and dance around shouting "precious!precious!"* [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] *thinks we should all be admitted to the specialist 'Tolkienitis' ward* [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

(This goes more with the "You know you're a rabid Jurassic Park fan when..." list of mine, but it can be switched to apply here.)

...You've ever created a LotR parody and/or crossover. (Give Barrow-Wight some time and, hopefully, he'll put of the picture I did of Frodo on that mystical, on-so-fabulouse, dino-ridden island.) [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

You know you have Tolkien fever when in class the teacher wants to know the name of the famous Prussian alliance-master who will be indirectly responsible for WWI, and you (after snapping your head up from the LotR that's lying oh-so-conspicuosly on your desk), look around in confusion and mutter "Bilbo?".... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
But wait, it gets better. The very next day, as you are once again preoccupied with the
LotR in the very same class, the question regarding Alexander III's most famous minister comes up, and you, caught unawares once again, snapped out of your reverie (involving Legolas, no doubt [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] ), say something that sounds suspiciously like "Valar?"...
Thank God my teacher has a sense of humor, or I would've had the book shoved down my throat by now.

[ February 12, 2002: Message edited by: Lush ]

Wow this is great, I'm not alone! Hmmm my family is starting to get scared because I spend so much time on this site! Also I asked my history teacher if I could hand in my essay written completely in Quenya..He also gave me a funny look...Keep the replies coming!!

In Theatre Arts class, I had to memorize a monologue and present it in class...I found a good one--that was normal, it had nothing to do with LOTR...I got up to the front of the class, forgot it and winged it with whatever popped into my mind--which happened to be Lord of the Rings orientated. No one knew what i was talking about.

I ran after my Boyfriend crying, "My precioussss, we will have it, yes we will my precioussss."

My school sweater has my name, Daegwenn, on the sleeve.

I almost got kicked out of the theatres for talking too much...I was just trying to inform my friends who Elrond is...and Gandalf...and Aragorn...and Boromir...and Legolas...and Galadriel...and-well...you get the point.

I am known at Magic the Gathering tournaments for my elf/archer deck-dubbed proudly: My Legolas deck.

You people scare me!

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Oh, and my dear departed cat was named Bilbo. The cat I had before him, all black, was named Sauron. People would look at me curiously when I'd call 'here Sauron! Nice kitty!'

How about when your college notes were in Feanorian Tengwar, and you take phone messages for the docs you work for in it as well?
And...instead of hello, you say "Mae govannen"?
Yep...I got it bad!!!!!!!!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

I must have had this fever for quite a while then because all these years I've named my hard drives after Elvish dwellings. Currently I have 3 hard drives in my computer and they are named 'Lothlorien', 'Nargothrond', and 'Menegroth'.

This is a tradition I intend to carry on a long long time [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Well, 9 friends and myself meet once every 6 weeks around a fire (sometimes on a mountain we call Weathertop), smoke pipes, drink beer, and discuss Tolkien. We read pasages and converse in a fashion much like we do here. We call ourselves The Dead Inklings.

Also sometimes when I'm thinking about Tolkien, or when I get really excited about anything, I say aloud, "Oh Elbereth! Ah Gilthoniel!". Would you believe I always shudder down the spine feeling delighted and courageous?!

Also, my wife told me a few days ago that she is worried about me and thinks I am obsessed.

Oh yeh! One more. One of the guys in our group gave his daughter the middle name Eowyn. I'd say he and I both have it bad! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Saw it for the 21st time last night. Drag, though, the frickin cinema has moved it to one of its smaller screens (still not as bad as some small screens, but still: no surround sound. I went and complained to the management just as Frodo and Sam were leaving the Shire.). It's a travesty, I say! The most nominated film this year knocked out of the large room by....Ahnold in 'Collateral Damage.'

GAH!

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My local cinema moved it to the tiny screen after TWO weeks! GRRR!

And on the LOTR fever, I told my friend to meet me on Ormonde Parade, and later when she was making sure she remembered where to go she said it was Orlando Parade... someone's been watching too much Legolas.

Yeah. I also had to persuade the dolt to turn up the volume a notch and add some bass. There were speakers up the sides of the walls, so I asked why the surround sound system wasn't enabled, I was told "theatre two doesn't have surround sound." [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Then what the $&@&&!!!! are those speakers doing sitting attached to the walls on either side??????

Mutters under breath: Stupid git

Oh, I long for the glory days of the non-cineplex world. There was a theatre in Montreal, the Imperial, a grand old theatre with balcony, balustrades, the whole nine yards. Deemed unprofitable by one of those big faceless corporations and turned into a rep theatre the last time I was there a few years ago. Probably office space by now.

GAH!

Sorry. Rant mode off...

Makes me happy to see that i am not alone about this tolkien madness :-)
LotR RULE!

The fewer started when i start calling my irritating younger bro GOllum...then i start buying the other books like Hobbit.
Anyway how long did LOTR lasted in your cinemas?In Malaysia it is still playing [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

I just came up with some more:

..when you have great fun coming up with different endings to the movie trilogy and is telling them to those of your friends who haven't read the books
..when you post in a "you know you have Tolkien-fever when.."-forum
..when you are trying to convince someone to read the LotR-series, and when they won't, you walk of calling them Gollum..

You know you have Tolkien fever when you go ordering around the hapless staff of some cineplex. And I am an imposing figure too (6'4" 270 lbs), with a sharp glare in my blue eyes when I am not a happy camper.
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However, as I am paying $8.00 for the priviledge, I have no problem with asking that the film be shown properly.


BTW, there were some cool props at this place. There was a black banner, torn, looking well used, with a nice lidless 'Eye' on it. Looked like it could've come off the set of the movie. The windows (doors) leading into the place are lined with Dwarvish Runes. Quite cool, actually. Too bad the people who run the place are cultural Philistines.

Oh yeah, and:
In science, when you are asked about chemical equations and what you should minus from Hydrogen Chloride to make Hydrogen, you say "Minus Tireth, miss?" and get confused when you get funny looks.

Also in science, you misread Argon, the noble gas, for Aragorn, the noble man!
And Mineral ORES for ORCS!

I'm definately diagnosed with Tolkien fever. Every day i am reminded of this and have made many mistakes when in lessons concerning LOTR, luckily for me though my English teacher is also self-diagnosed. I have been called "legolas" on more than one occaision and answer to "Gorothlammothiel" frequently. I'd also like to add that you know you have Tolkien fever when:
Teachers are asking what all the scribles are on your books "well that's not German" and replying "no, it's Quenya" getting funny looks and also when you begin to draw out characters and symbols over test papers..... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

I don't have Tolkien fever, says the poor self-deluding fool with more than 1200 posts who has now been reading the books for almost 30 years.

Hey Rhudladion! Let's get your wife & my husband together. He's terrified that I have gone mad! Especially when I mutter incoherently in Sindarin or Quenya! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Ahh I did it again!! This time I was trying to write simile and ended up writing silmarillon. Oh well I guess I'm hopeless!! Heh heh

<center><font color="red">I know I have Tolkien fever...
My best friends and I now all have elven names, speak simple elvish and have a story about our lives in Middleearth which I KNOW is true!
I've managed to get my best friends to read the books, only one of whom had read it before the movies.
When one of my other friends told my to say that LotR sucks, me and Tinuviel leapt and atacked her until she said sorry...

Okay, I know that I have Tolkien fever because, welll, every since I saw the movie (in like what, Nov. Dec.... can't remember when it came out) I haven't been able to go ONE day without mentioning somthing to one of my friends about LOTR. I really haven't! All my friends beleive I have a problem..... the sad thing is that I think I do....

And....(there is more!)

You know that you are fevered when:

You spend a whole day actually AS Gollum, muttering about your precious and adding multiple "s"'s to every thing you say or write (You know, I actually did this!)

Then spend the next day as an Elf, take up archery, wear beautiful clothes, learn to walk gracefully etc. (I also did this!)

Daisy...you do not have a problem! Your non-Tolkien friends are the ones with the problem! LOL! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

ok so U know when u have Tolkien fever, when you are in a night club, convincing every guy that u are actually called, 'Arwen Elvenstar' and they ask u 'how do u spell that ?'

and when you find yourself adding 'ses' and 'sss' on the end of everything (Gollum style)