[Diamond18]

Hm. No, I've never made any "sacrifice" for Tolkien. Well, unless you count staying up late reading and posting here. But even that isn't anything special, I often stay up all night at other fourms, or reading a book or writing something or just IMing with friends. Then I go to bed at 6 in the morning and sleep till noon. Welcome to my version of adulthood....

Now, I was homeschooled for everything but kindergarten, so "coolness" and "fitting in" was not really much of an issue for me. A love of literature such as Tolkien and epic movies like PJ's films was pretty mainstream among my acquaintenses, whom I did not even see that often anyway (most homeschoolers I knew got out more than me, I'm a hopeless hermit).

I have spent some money on Tolkien/movie stuff, but no more than I've spent on other luxuries like, say, clothing or rock CDs. Gosh, you know reflecting on this I'm realizing that I can barely even dare to call myself a Tolkien Geek, as I often have. I do tend to go all out in the "knowledge" department when it comes to my interests, so I can declare "Hey, did you know that Tolkien originally named Frodo 'Bingo'?" to anyone who mentions that they liked the movie. But again, I get gung ho on trivia for anything I'm interested in, I can just as soon give you irrelevant personal information on the bandmembers of matchbox twenty as I can the cast of Lord of the Rings.

At least I am eclectic in my geekihood, then. Nice way to put it.