Battle of the dorks

[mormegil]

Besides having the habbit of yearly reading the books there are others

--going to all three movies at the 12:01 showing and waiting in line all day to do it...I mean 16+ hours.

--At RotK they didn't let us in the building for a while and it was about 14 degrees outside and I didn't even bring a coat. I was there alone without my coat for over 3 hours before my sister came to bring it to me.

--The movies are either around or on my anniversary, so what we did for three strait years was go to the movies...Mrs. Mormegil is a good sport.

--Spend counltless hours on a website dedicated to Tolkien

--Play WW to a point that it's a moderate obsession and I have and do loose sleep over it at times.

--Mrs. Mormegil knows many of your names and personality traits because I talk too much about this stuff.

[Lush]

You guys are still rocking my world.

Yet in a rush to glorify each other, we have forgotten to honour the great hero of dorkdom, Mr. Christopher Lee.

Among Mr. Lee's many achievements:

Sitting down to read The Lord of the Rings every year, like clockwork.

[Thinlómien]

Other things I have done because of LotR or affected by LotR
- made Tom Bombadil's boots out of paper colored yellow with crayons when 6 years old
- held a "LotR-school" to one of my friends when 7 years old
- established a LotR-club with a friend and my little sister
- started roleplaying
- joined the 'Downs
- studied writing tengwar
- studied quenya (er, I'm not doing very well with my studies at the moment)
- made numerous LotR- board games with my dad and my sister
- started keeping ME olympics with my dad and my sister
- read LotR more times that most people think is clever
What else? Can't remember just now but I'm sure there's loads of other things.

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

Originally Posted by Lush

Among Mr. Lee's many achievements:

Sitting down to read The Lord of the Rings every year, like clockwork.

I do that. Almost time for me to start it again...

[the guy who be short]

Originally Posted by Lush

Among Mr. Lee's many achievements:

Sitting down to read The Lord of the Rings every year, like clockwork.

You mean most Downers don't do this?

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by the guy who be short

You mean most Downers don't do this?

You took my words, o prince who be shadowed! But some 'downers do that more than once a year. And some even more often.

[Farael]

Well, I've read LoTR three times so it's not nearly every year... but I HAVE read it the last two years and I'm looking forward to reading it again in English this year.

[Lalwendë]

Dork at Work

At work I've got loads of film postcards all around my desk - to cover up the vile pink stuff that forms a baffle. I also have my Hobbits screen saver, a repeated Rivendell painting motif for wallpaper and a little shelf of Tolkien books.

Last year I was quoted in a staff journal as being famous for "knowing lots about Hobbits and liking second breakfast".

At Christmas I sent an e-mail to a senior manager saying "if you want to look up my notes, they are in the big black hardbacked book, under Gollum".

[Lush]

Oh, I'm sure a lot of us do read the books on a regular basis. I mostly re-read passages, but I think I'll take up LotR again following graduation. No rest for the wicked at university these last few years!

But if we are to honour ourselves, we must honour Christopher Lee. And other famous dorks as well.

[Laitoste]

Apparently I'm relatively normal...won't my roommate be pleased!

Three weeks into my first year of college, my friend (recently met) and I held a birthday party for Frodo and Bilbo, at which we read Bilbo's birthday speech, played LOTR Monopoly (which my brother got me solely so I would play with him), watched the Fellowship, and had cupcakes. We ended up having 23 people join us at various points, mostly because of the food. She has marveled at us revealing our dorkiness so early in the year, and that we actually have friends since then!

With that same friend (and my poor roommate), we had a marathon on October 22, and we toasted Tolkien with one of his own poems at dinner (in front of quite a few people) on January 3.

The posters on our walls include the Fellowship movie poster, a map of the world, a map of Africa with all the Peace Corps locales marked out, a picture of the Hale-Bopp Comet over the Perrine Bridge in Idaho, and a set of four John Howe maps of Middle-Earth, and a picture for the Minnesota State Fair done by the artist who does the covers of Harry Potter (my roommate's, I swear), not to mention the picture of Gollum I put above my roommate's head.

I brought two of my action figures to school with me, along with my One Ring. Of the "fun" reading books I own (18), 10 are Tolkien-related. I still have more at home.

I turned down participating in another marathon because it wasn't on a "significant day", plus I was scared of the boys involved (slightly immature is an understatement).

In my history class (Jihad and the Crusades) last semester, we would end up talking about LOTR or Monty Python every day. Mostly because of me.

I am planning on a history/English major largely because of Tolkien.

[Son of Númenor]

Originally Posted by Fordim Hedgethistle

I do that. Almost time for me to start it again...

Likewise, although last year I only got through The Two Towers, on account of a move from Maryland to Hawai'i and the subsequent packing of many books into large cardboard boxes. Now I'm debating whether to start with the Fellowship, Book IV, or The Silm, which I haven't read in three years.