Gone With the Wind fanatics are called Windies. Titanic fans are Titaniacs. I think people laugh at Trekkies because usually those fans are people considered to be nerds. Not a single fan I know of with LOTR is a nerdy person at all. I myself and one of those ahead-of-the-time trend-setters magazines rely on. My cousin is a total goth girl. My fiance is a bit nerdy, but more like the popular pred guy often steriotyped (he does like Star Trek). If you stop liking or loving LOTR simply because we're grouped together, then you never really loved it at all.
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