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Old 03-11-2009, 08:30 PM   #1
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Or when you have two middle earth maps in the bedroom (one belonging to you, and one to your better half), and a third in the home office with a matching map of Beleriand.
That's brilliant! I've got three more, one of Beleriand, one of Numenor, and one of the map in the Hobbit, Wilderland. These other ones haven't been framed yet though. They came in this book thing. It's great!


Also, when your mum says "And he's got a bombadier jacket." And you think she says "And he's got a Bombadil jacket."
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Old 03-12-2009, 06:36 AM   #2
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You know you're obsessed when you don't even need a map to look at.
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Old 03-12-2009, 08:49 AM   #3
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When you have all of Tolkien's books on your iPod (Poems, history of Middle-earth, and the books) so that it takes up all the space you have.
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When you have all of Tolkien's books on your iPod (Poems, history of Middle-earth, and the books) so that it takes up all the space you have.
Since very recently (about two weeks ago just now), it's similar with me
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Old 03-12-2009, 04:56 PM   #5
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You know you're obsessed when you don't even need a map to look at.
Well, that's... I have a very undetailed map of ME in my head, but I haven't been able to memorise all of the places, now THAT would be scary.
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Old 03-12-2009, 05:18 PM   #6
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Well, that's... I have a very undetailed map of ME in my head, but I haven't been able to memorise all of the places, now THAT would be scary.
I could probably find Umbar more quickly than I could find Hertfordshire, which is a bit disturbing...and last week I had to call up Multimap because I'd forgotten where Coventry was...

Mind, I am the person who once joked at work that I don't have a passport because the only 'foreign' place I want to go to is Middle-earth and the only passport I need to visit that is a copy of Lord of the Rings. I'm such a geek.
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I could probably find Umbar more quickly than I could find Hertfordshire, which is a bit disturbing...and last week I had to call up Multimap because I'd forgotten where Coventry was...

Mind, I am the person who once joked at work that I don't have a passport because the only 'foreign' place I want to go to is Middle-earth and the only passport I need to visit that is a copy of Lord of the Rings. I'm such a geek.
That's okay, I can't find these places on a map either. Of course, I don't have a map of Britain, and I have a map of Middle-earth.

But, wouldn't you want to go other places too? Like... Gallifrey?
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That's okay, I can't find these places on a map either. Of course, I don't have a map of Britain, and I have a map of Middle-earth.

But, wouldn't you want to go other places too? Like... Gallifrey?
This is true. But I'd have to rely on the Time Lord in the blue box to get me there! It's not as easy to get to as Middle-earth is

And I'd probably have to go back in time as well, and if the Time War is time locked then I'd end up like Dalek Caan...
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This is true. But I'd have to rely on the Time Lord in the blue box to get me there! It's not as easy to get to as Middle-earth is

And I'd probably have to go back in time as well, and if the Time War is time locked then I'd end up like Dalek Caan...
No, probably not. Besides Middle-earth, like you said, is so much more easy to get to.

I started reading the Hobbit to my mum's friend's five year old daughter.
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Well, that's... I have a very undetailed map of ME in my head, but I haven't been able to memorise all of the places, now THAT would be scary.
Wait, scary?

I thought it was normal...
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Since very recently (about two weeks ago just now), it's similar with me.
Finally, someone who uses the iPod for higher purposes than music!


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I thought it was normal...
Only in your own mind. Still, being normal a boring thing, being extraordinary is better.
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Only in your own mind. Still, being normal a boring thing, being extraordinary is better.
Yes, well. You see, it's rather that I thought it surprising and pitiful that there is anybody who does not know where Rhudaur or Khand is.
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Yes, well. You see, it's rather that I thought it surprising and pitiful that there is anybody who does not know where Rhudaur or Khand is.
Indeed.

Anyway, I wonder what does it tell of my mind that I have dreams where a friend of mine wants to rewrite LotR so that she corrects all the plotholes and illogicalities and end up explaining her why using the eagles wouldn't have made any sense...
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