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Zoe · 05-07-2001, 01:35 AM

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists

Speaking of obsessions and religions and geekery (not suggesting the three are the same, either), just this afternoon, I was thinking that after I leave school, I should get a job in a bookshop, and then I realised that I'd put them out of business.

Customer: I was wondering if you could recommend any mystery novels?
Me: Stuff mysteries! Read Tolkien!

Customer 2: Do you have any Starwars books?
Me: Starwars? Are you joking? What kind of idiot reads Starwars? You freak! Here, why don't you have a look at this nice copy of the Silmarillion?

And so on... <img src=smile.gif ALT="

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But yeah, Tolkienist sounds good, but I'm sure there's got to be a better word than that. "Tolkienist" looks strange in print.

"This sig is proudly quote-free." -Me.
(Also known as eoz, and now has a non-Tolkien forum, called http://pub57.ezboard.com/beverythingelse45161everything else</a>.) </p>

05-07-2001, 01:35 AM	#10
Zoe Wight Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 223	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Shade of Carn Dûm Posts: 355</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tolkienists Speaking of obsessions and religions and geekery (not suggesting the three are the same, either), just this afternoon, I was thinking that after I leave school, I should get a job in a bookshop, and then I realised that I'd put them out of business. Customer: I was wondering if you could recommend any mystery novels? Me: Stuff mysteries! Read Tolkien! Customer 2: Do you have any Starwars books? Me: Starwars? Are you joking? What kind of idiot reads Starwars? You freak! Here, why don't you have a look at this nice copy of the Silmarillion? And so on... <img src=smile.gif ALT=""> But yeah, Tolkienist sounds good, but I'm sure there's got to be a better word than that. "Tolkienist" looks strange in print. "This sig is proudly quote-free." -Me. (Also known as eoz, and now has a non-Tolkien forum, called http://pub57.ezboard.com/beverythingelse45161everything else</a>.) </p>