LOTR related illnesses or injuries - Page 2 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lyta_Underhill · 08-30-2003, 06:50 PM

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Has anyone noticed that most of the pain on this board comes from being Boromere?

How true! I was cleaning a carving knife that was quite old and I didn't realize how sharp it still was. I sliced my finger just as Boromir does on the shards of Narsil! That carving knife is now named "Shards of Narsil!"

Cheers,
Lyta

Everdawn · 08-31-2003, 01:07 AM

I was stabbed by a bloody morgul blade!...

(not really [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ) but sometimes exams will do that to ya!

Meela · 08-31-2003, 05:24 AM

I break my toes a lot. Only I don't kick Uruk helmets to do it...

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Well, I am not sure that you would call this an injury, but in the autumn, I get this weird longing to go and be in the woods. I call it the wood-longing, and I think it is a bit like the sea-longing of the Elves (not that I am that important, just a Numenorean of the 7th age)

This is what I suffer from just about all year round. In the spring I long for either Rivendell or a blossomy field or a bluebell wood, in summer I long for the fields and the sea, in autumn I long for the sea, the stone walls of Minas Tirith, or the fading woods, and in winter I long for either the fading woods, Minas Tirith, or spring.

Anything but Arwen · 08-31-2003, 12:33 PM

I get wood longing too! My friends think I'm crazy...what do they know?

Well, this is probably kinda lame, but I got stuck with this real cow of a girl in Gym, and we were carrying a bench somewhere, and she managed to "accidentally" slam me up against the wall with the end of it...I felt so sorry for Frodo in Moria after that... she nearly broke my ribs ¬_¬

I called her Cave Troll for months after though. Bwahahahaha! Revenge is sweet!

[ August 31, 2003: Message edited by: Anything but Arwen ]

Esgallhugwen · 08-31-2003, 01:09 PM

I think I have wood-longing too, though no wood are near where I live. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] but whenever I go into the mountains I love it because there are lots of trees, although there was that huge fire (those poor trees and the animals that live there) well anyway a few years back or at least a year back. I was really horribly sick, not throwing up, but I was practically paralyzed I had to stay in bed all day I could barely move and I was sweating profusely, I felt that I was going to die... and I was listening to the Fellowship soundtrack, lying there in my bed, the mattress being saturated by mt sweat i didn't have my blankets on, my mom was trying to cool me down.

Anyway I hoped so badly that Aragorn would come in with kingsfoil (Athelas..hope I spelled that right) and heal me much like he did to Eowyn when she killed the Ringwraith but was paralyzed and fell to darkness.

I felt very much like her, I could make up the excuse that I killed a Nazgul and that was why I was sick. Thankfully i'm better now. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

I always call my friends by their stature.. i'm an Elf, and one of my friends is a Dwarf and another is a Hobbit. At first she didn't like it that I called her a dwarf but I reassured her that dwarves are very cool, loyal and hardy people. I don't think my other friend knows I call her a Hobbit [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] One of my guy friends calls me a Hobbit though [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

Feanor of the Peredhil · 08-31-2003, 02:08 PM

How 'bout psychological damage? This morning I was in the car with my parents and I saw this really weird looking cloud. The sky was mostly blue with some cumulus clouds and a few wispy ones in the distance, but this cloud was dark gray and really small and low. So I go "Ahh- crebain from Dunland!!!" My Mom knew what I meant, but my Dad sure as sugar didn't and they both told me I'm insane. *sniff*.

A few summers ago though, I decided I'd try and ride bareback like Legolas and Gandalf. I was so busy trying to stay on the stupid blasted bouncy pony that I ended up riding on the bone at the base of her neck. That really hurt, then I had to ride my bike home. That called for a very long, hot bubble bath.

Fea

Orominuialwen · 09-06-2003, 10:27 PM

My brother and I were dueling in our back yard with long sticks, and I got him a little too hard a couple of times. Once it just sort of scratched him, but the second time, he started to bleed, but he didn't mind too much (it wasn't bleeding a lot).

Pyroclastic · 09-09-2003, 08:49 AM

For me, every day at school feels like Frodo and Sam's journey through Mordor. The only food I have is Lembas (granola bars), and there are constant dangers to avoid. I guarentee you that my school is run by Gothmog, Leutinet of Mordor. Or perhaps it's Saurman's influence...
Also, I'm a rock climber, so I really feel for Frodo and Sam when they were using the rope in Emyn Muiel! I've fallen down cliffs where the people on the top of the crag couldn't see me at the bottom. My climbing partners were a lot less concerned about me than Sam was about Frodo. Such is the path of the last of the Dunadian.

elfearz1 · 09-09-2003, 02:05 PM

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nobody that knows me in the flesh would be too sorry to see me go!

aww, I'm sure that's not true. Although, I feel like that a lot!

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My brother and I were dueling in our back yard with long sticks, and I got him a little too hard a couple of times. Once it just sort of scratched him, but the second time, he started to bleed, but he didn't mind too much (it wasn't bleeding a lot).

[img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] you stole my story [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

My sister and I were practicing sword fighting in my backyard and I missed and hit her. She didn't bleed, but she did have a bruise for a while.

Also, I poked myself with a needle while making my elven cloak. From hearing all these stories, it could have been worse, though!

Lily Bombadil · 09-09-2003, 07:14 PM

Like Pookabunny, I too have injured my ceiling with my sword. One night I was reinacting the Helm's Deep scene where Aragorn whips his sword over his head to command the soldiers to fire their arrows. Most unfortunately, my ceilings are not so high and I put a big gash in the living room ceiling and one on the ceiling near the stairwell.
I also cut my ceiling fan cord in a similar manner.
Once this summer, I accidentally shot my cat, Baby, with my sister's bow & an arrow. He's lost a lot of respect for me.
This past fall or winter, I was trying to "shieldboard" down my stairs on a big Rubbermaid box lid. I was lightly holding the bannister for safety, but I slipped anyhow. In the process of trying to keep my "proudfeet" on the box lid, I lost any and all balance that I had left and scraped up my legs on the inside of the lid. I also got some carpet burn.

Forest Walker · 09-10-2003, 10:15 AM

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Well, I am not sure that you would call this an ingury, but in the autum, I get this weird longing to go and be in the woods.

Me too, but not just in the autum! We have a little forest behind our school, and I just sit there and wish i was outside......
It was really misty last week, and I swear it looked Exactly like something out of Middle Earth! i don't think i paid any atention at all that day. Too bad our lunch-break's only 20 minutes, otherwis i would have gone for a walk.

Forest Walker · 09-10-2003, 10:24 AM

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but i could say i have a mental illness because for some odd reson i think im some very imortant elf in the wrong world.

Hmmm.......Elves get re-incarnated sometimes. I swear I once had a teacher who was an elf. I saw a pic in a history book that looked exactly like her! (or it could just be my over-active imagination....)

-Gaia Forestwalker (who, due to her overactive imagination, now has an imaginary friend (or RPG/fan-fic character, if you will) who is the re-incarnation of Feanor) [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

electrichobbit · 01-06-2009, 02:48 PM

well, I've got a couple.
the first one isn't that exciting, but when I was 14, we were acting out Frodo and the cave troll, and well, my friend jumped from behind this pillar I was hiding behind, and i jumped back, and fell onto my back on concrete....ow.

The other time was over the summer when I had my wisdom teeth out. I got a dry socket on one side because the stitches fell out and couldn't eat anything, and just kinda lied around for a week or so because i was in so much pain. I felt more than a little bit like Frodo getting stabbed after that.

Lalwendë · 01-06-2009, 02:58 PM

Good bump up

I must have some injuries myself, but the first thing that comes to mind is one I inflicted on someone else, when I stood on Tom Shippey's toes, heh. I was laughing and not paying attention and stepped back onto him - I was embarrassed and he was very gracious

I also greeted Tolkien's grand-daughter while partaking of the brewer's finest so I inflicted a load of beer and tobacco breath on her.

Andsigil · 01-06-2009, 03:07 PM

I got shot in the forearm- not a direct shot, but a ricochet. Still, that was about 15 years ago, and the scar hasn't faded yet. It looks like a minor battle wound, inflicted by some nasty, jagged orc weapon.

Beregond · 01-06-2009, 03:26 PM

Welcome to the Downs, electrichobbit! Great thread...

Except for the obvious psychological imbalances that have caused me to do such things as buy a sword and shoot the bow, I haven't suffered any lasting damage that I can remember (even from said weapons). Even my three cats, all of whom find the archery target immensely interesting and bear no fear for the bow, have escaped thus far.

08-31-2003, 01:07 AM	#2
Everdawn Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: On the sand dunes outside of Ilium, watching it burn. Posts: 1,291	I was stabbed by a bloody morgul blade!... (not really [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ) but sometimes exams will do that to ya! __________________ "Athena, stepping up behind him, visible to no one but Achillies, gripped his red-gold hair. Startled he made a half turn, and he knew her upon the instant for Athena." ~The Iliad~ ~My lord, Éomer~

08-31-2003, 12:33 PM	#4
Anything but Arwen Wight Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In my own little world. Its OK, they know me here. Posts: 230	I get wood longing too! My friends think I'm crazy...what do they know? Well, this is probably kinda lame, but I got stuck with this real cow of a girl in Gym, and we were carrying a bench somewhere, and she managed to "accidentally" slam me up against the wall with the end of it...I felt so sorry for Frodo in Moria after that... she nearly broke my ribs ¬_¬ I called her Cave Troll for months after though. Bwahahahaha! Revenge is sweet! [ August 31, 2003: Message edited by: Anything but Arwen ] __________________ The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits! (Dontchya just love my avatar? I got a "Tickle Me Boromir" one too...

08-31-2003, 01:09 PM	#5
Esgallhugwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Where the Moon cries against the snow Posts: 526	I think I have wood-longing too, though no wood are near where I live. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] but whenever I go into the mountains I love it because there are lots of trees, although there was that huge fire (those poor trees and the animals that live there) well anyway a few years back or at least a year back. I was really horribly sick, not throwing up, but I was practically paralyzed I had to stay in bed all day I could barely move and I was sweating profusely, I felt that I was going to die... and I was listening to the Fellowship soundtrack, lying there in my bed, the mattress being saturated by mt sweat i didn't have my blankets on, my mom was trying to cool me down. Anyway I hoped so badly that Aragorn would come in with kingsfoil (Athelas..hope I spelled that right) and heal me much like he did to Eowyn when she killed the Ringwraith but was paralyzed and fell to darkness. I felt very much like her, I could make up the excuse that I killed a Nazgul and that was why I was sick. Thankfully i'm better now. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I always call my friends by their stature.. i'm an Elf, and one of my friends is a Dwarf and another is a Hobbit. At first she didn't like it that I called her a dwarf but I reassured her that dwarves are very cool, loyal and hardy people. I don't think my other friend knows I call her a Hobbit [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] One of my guy friends calls me a Hobbit though [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] __________________ "...for the sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others. -8:9:4 The Witness of Fane"

08-31-2003, 02:08 PM	#6
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	How 'bout psychological damage? This morning I was in the car with my parents and I saw this really weird looking cloud. The sky was mostly blue with some cumulus clouds and a few wispy ones in the distance, but this cloud was dark gray and really small and low. So I go "Ahh- crebain from Dunland!!!" My Mom knew what I meant, but my Dad sure as sugar didn't and they both told me I'm insane. sniff. A few summers ago though, I decided I'd try and ride bareback like Legolas and Gandalf. I was so busy trying to stay on the stupid blasted bouncy pony that I ended up riding on the bone at the base of her neck. That really hurt, then I had to ride my bike home. That called for a very long, hot bubble bath. Fea __________________ peace

09-06-2003, 10:27 PM	#7
Orominuialwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA) Posts: 632	My brother and I were dueling in our back yard with long sticks, and I got him a little too hard a couple of times. Once it just sort of scratched him, but the second time, he started to bleed, but he didn't mind too much (it wasn't bleeding a lot). __________________ Gone for lentSeeyou at Easter! (And on Sundays too, maybe.)

09-09-2003, 08:49 AM	#8
Pyroclastic Haunting Spirit Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Mordor University, Wisconsin Campus Posts: 83	For me, every day at school feels like Frodo and Sam's journey through Mordor. The only food I have is Lembas (granola bars), and there are constant dangers to avoid. I guarentee you that my school is run by Gothmog, Leutinet of Mordor. Or perhaps it's Saurman's influence... Also, I'm a rock climber, so I really feel for Frodo and Sam when they were using the rope in Emyn Muiel! I've fallen down cliffs where the people on the top of the crag couldn't see me at the bottom. My climbing partners were a lot less concerned about me than Sam was about Frodo. Such is the path of the last of the Dunadian. __________________ If You Can't Beat 'Em, Cheat 'Em!

09-09-2003, 07:14 PM	#10
Lily Bombadil Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hold on...let me consult this broken compass... Posts: 279	Like Pookabunny, I too have injured my ceiling with my sword. One night I was reinacting the Helm's Deep scene where Aragorn whips his sword over his head to command the soldiers to fire their arrows. Most unfortunately, my ceilings are not so high and I put a big gash in the living room ceiling and one on the ceiling near the stairwell. I also cut my ceiling fan cord in a similar manner. Once this summer, I accidentally shot my cat, Baby, with my sister's bow & an arrow. He's lost a lot of respect for me. This past fall or winter, I was trying to "shieldboard" down my stairs on a big Rubbermaid box lid. I was lightly holding the bannister for safety, but I slipped anyhow. In the process of trying to keep my "proudfeet" on the box lid, I lost any and all balance that I had left and scraped up my legs on the inside of the lid. I also got some carpet burn. __________________ "YOU!" "Indeed."

01-06-2009, 02:48 PM	#13
electrichobbit Newly Deceased Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1	well, I've got a couple. the first one isn't that exciting, but when I was 14, we were acting out Frodo and the cave troll, and well, my friend jumped from behind this pillar I was hiding behind, and i jumped back, and fell onto my back on concrete....ow. The other time was over the summer when I had my wisdom teeth out. I got a dry socket on one side because the stitches fell out and couldn't eat anything, and just kinda lied around for a week or so because i was in so much pain. I felt more than a little bit like Frodo getting stabbed after that.

01-06-2009, 02:58 PM	#14
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	Good bump up I must have some injuries myself, but the first thing that comes to mind is one I inflicted on someone else, when I stood on Tom Shippey's toes, heh. I was laughing and not paying attention and stepped back onto him - I was embarrassed and he was very gracious I also greeted Tolkien's grand-daughter while partaking of the brewer's finest so I inflicted a load of beer and tobacco breath on her. __________________ Gordon's alive!

01-06-2009, 03:07 PM	#15
Andsigil Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: The Deepest Forges of Ered Luin Posts: 733	I got shot in the forearm- not a direct shot, but a ricochet. Still, that was about 15 years ago, and the scar hasn't faded yet. It looks like a minor battle wound, inflicted by some nasty, jagged orc weapon. __________________ Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depression in the world consciousness.

01-06-2009, 03:26 PM	#16
Beregond Playful Ghoul Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,251	Welcome to the Downs, electrichobbit! Great thread... Except for the obvious psychological imbalances that have caused me to do such things as buy a sword and shoot the bow, I haven't suffered any lasting damage that I can remember (even from said weapons). Even my three cats, all of whom find the archery target immensely interesting and bear no fear for the bow, have escaped thus far. __________________ "Hope and memory shall live still in some hidden valley where the grass is green."

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