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Meela · 04-01-2003, 02:08 PM

Has anyone here ever mistakenly made Tolkien references in everyday speech?

Eg. I was once talking about Jesus and i accidentally called his disciples the Fellowship.

Mornie Alantie · 04-01-2003, 03:25 PM

I was in a bible study and talking about how great the Bible was how much we don't know about it. It to the thing from the book and say, "its like how the LOTR descibes Gandalf, Even the ones who knows him the closest have only seen the cover page of him." Boy did eyes roll.

Rynoah, the Overly-Happy · 04-01-2003, 04:32 PM

When referring to the movie "Tunes of Glory", I said, "Tunes of Gondor". Took me a while to realize my mistake and by then I had quite a few strange looks heading my way.

Elotareth · 04-01-2003, 09:41 PM

What wrong with that, Mornie? (sorry, I don't know how to quote someone else and I don't want to write it out) Sounds like something I would say!

Arwen_Evenstar · 04-02-2003, 01:11 AM

I was talking to my brother, and i cant remember if i meant to say; 'I have a habit' or 'I have a hobbie,' But i said 'I have a hobbit.' I WISH!!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Mornie Alantie · 04-02-2003, 08:38 AM

I never said it was wrong. most people know how LOTR obsessed I am. I love random qoutes like that. Last night I was playing an internet game and I can't remember if it was just qoutes or I was saying something to them in elvish. That is so much fun and you don't get the strange looks!(which can also be funny)

Arafangwen · 04-14-2003, 04:51 PM

Oh, Meela! I've done that too! I also point out stuff from the books in a biblacle standpoint all the time, I get some really wierd looks at church, [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] I guess I should stop doing that, it seems to confuse people who don't know what LOTR is, and that's really frustrating 'cause it's usualy a really good point too! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Oh well nothin' I can do about theyr ignorance. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Eressië Ailin · 04-14-2003, 07:31 PM

I am currently wrinting an essay on 'Why it is important to help others in their time of need' for English. Somehow, examples from LoTR seem to work themselves into my writing. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Tinuviel the Nightingale · 04-15-2003, 06:10 AM

I think I posted this somewhere else, but we're reading this play called 'The Merchant of Venice' by Shakespeare for English. There's this line that says, "All that glisters is not gold" and in the middle of my English teacher reading out the play I said Aragorn! Not realising that I wasn't saying it in my head. Needless to say, I got quite a few "woah she's off in her dreamland again" looks. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Meela · 04-15-2003, 09:54 AM

I went to the orthodontist's the other day, but everyone was being really slow getting ready to leave. So I turned round and said: "well?? are we going to the orthodontist's or not??" but it came out as: "Well?? are we going to Osgiliath or not??"

Arafangwen · 04-15-2003, 10:11 AM

HaHaHa, that's hilarious Meela! What's even funnier is that I said that yesterday too!

One Axe to Rule them All · 04-15-2003, 11:50 AM

Excuse Arafangwen, she's a little crazy, Emily, Down girl!

the phantom · 04-15-2003, 11:51 AM

A few weeks ago I was putting on my coat while day dreaming about LOTR, and my mother walked in and asked "Where are you off to?". I was just running up to school to pick up some papers, but my mind was so far gone that I said "I'm going up to Moria, I'll be right back".

My mom said "Moria?", and I said "what?", and she said "you said you were going to Moria". We just started laughing. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Arafangwen · 04-15-2003, 03:27 PM

I was just in the kitchen and I was pouring a glass of water from a pitcher thingy and it came out a funny color so I asked my mother to "come look at the water", but apparently I said "Will you look into the mirror?" she had no idea what I was talking about! Then we burst into "Do the wave for Boromir the disco king!", and "Welcome Frodo of the Shire, one who has seen the pie!" But that's a different story entirely! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

One Axe to Rule them All · 04-15-2003, 04:15 PM

Yeah, that was good! i was right there when it happened [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

VanimaEdhel · 04-15-2003, 05:44 PM

There is something in the way my art teacher says "Shadow" that makes my friend and me crack up. We keep saying, "Is it a Balrog? Made of shadow and flame? Is it?" I guess it's because he says it in a fairly melodramatic way...I guess it's a "have to be there" moment.

Then I said, "You've seen the eye, lidless, wreathed in flame." It was completely an accident to say the last part, but it's just reflex. My art teacher gave me a look, and my friend cracked up. Well, it's not a lidless eye with any flame, as I am doing an enormous drawing of my own eye.

Arvedui III · 04-15-2003, 07:42 PM

Hmm, i sort of have one
Somehow my art teacher reminds me and my friends of Iorth the healer. So, naturally, when she comes over to cheeck on what we're doing we start quoting her lines from the houses of healing to each other. Once I got genuninly confused (a state I'm in quite often) and asked her to bring me athalas insted of more paint. that got me some strange looks. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ April 15, 2003: Message edited by: Arvedui III ]

sassyfriend · 09-02-2011, 05:12 PM

Lol cracking up here!!!!!

Nerwen · 09-02-2011, 08:13 PM

Um... sassyfriend, you do realise you're replying to comments made over eight years ago?

narfforc · 09-03-2011, 07:42 AM

I'm confused now!

Galin · 09-03-2011, 08:16 AM

Well, if you always purposely mix Tolkien into your everyday speech you can avoid such mistakes! Example, a waitress answers a simple question:

'Yes we have bread: white and wheat'

Well, that's what she meant to say, but mistakenly (and embarrassingly) this comes out as: 'We have cram and lembas, and the latter comes in a mallorn leaf from the Naith of Lorien'

Simply start with introducing yourself as one of the Yavannildi and any such embarrassment will be avoided. Just think it through beforehand; just in case.

Inziladun · 09-03-2011, 10:40 AM

I need to remember this the next time telemarketers harass me.

"Disturb not the Nazgûl in the shower, or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will report thee to the FCC, where thy phones shall be devoured, and thy shrivelled wages be left naked to the IRS."

sassyfriend · 09-10-2011, 07:12 PM

Lol!!!!!! I hate Teleies!!!! Think that would be funny!

04-01-2003, 02:08 PM	#1
Meela Denethor's True Love Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Mirkwood. With Thranduil... swoon Posts: 2,049	Ever been confused? Has anyone here ever mistakenly made Tolkien references in everyday speech? Eg. I was once talking about Jesus and i accidentally called his disciples the Fellowship. __________________ 'The Hobbit' 1st impressions: 1. Thorin is hot... Oh god, I fancy a dwarf. 2. Thranduil is hotter. 3. Is that... Figwit! 4. Does Elijah Wood never age? 2nd: It's all about Fili & Kili, really. 3rd: BARD! OMG, Bard.

04-01-2003, 03:25 PM	#2
Mornie Alantie Wight Join Date: May 2002 Location: Somewhere above earth cause people say i should come down to it Posts: 226	I was in a bible study and talking about how great the Bible was how much we don't know about it. It to the thing from the book and say, "its like how the LOTR descibes Gandalf, Even the ones who knows him the closest have only seen the cover page of him." Boy did eyes roll. __________________ Instead of pepper spray, you pack a glass bottle and scream "Aiya Earendil Elenion Ancalima!!!" at muggers.

04-01-2003, 04:32 PM	#3
Rynoah, the Overly-Happy Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Arizona Posts: 474	When referring to the movie "Tunes of Glory", I said, "Tunes of Gondor". Took me a while to realize my mistake and by then I had quite a few strange looks heading my way. __________________ Spook the spook of spookish spookdom to spook the spooked spookers. ?!?! This isn't Osgiliath! Do the wave for Boromir the Disco King! Eat squid for Boromir the Disco King!

04-01-2003, 09:41 PM	#4
Elotareth Animated Skeleton Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Rivendell Posts: 34	What wrong with that, Mornie? (sorry, I don't know how to quote someone else and I don't want to write it out) Sounds like something I would say! __________________ "And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." Matthew 28:20 "Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king"

04-02-2003, 01:11 AM	#5
Arwen_Evenstar Wight Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Rivendell Posts: 206	I was talking to my brother, and i cant remember if i meant to say; 'I have a habit' or 'I have a hobbie,' But i said 'I have a hobbit.' I WISH!!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ 'I am Agarwaen, Son of Úmarth...'-Túrin Turambar. Arwen_Evenstar

04-02-2003, 08:38 AM	#6
Mornie Alantie Wight Join Date: May 2002 Location: Somewhere above earth cause people say i should come down to it Posts: 226	I never said it was wrong. most people know how LOTR obsessed I am. I love random qoutes like that. Last night I was playing an internet game and I can't remember if it was just qoutes or I was saying something to them in elvish. That is so much fun and you don't get the strange looks!(which can also be funny) __________________ Instead of pepper spray, you pack a glass bottle and scream "Aiya Earendil Elenion Ancalima!!!" at muggers.

04-14-2003, 04:51 PM	#7
Arafangwen Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: WtR: 413 miles/Floating happily across the floor in the arms of The Phantom..... Posts: 361	Oh, Meela! I've done that too! I also point out stuff from the books in a biblacle standpoint all the time, I get some really wierd looks at church, [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] I guess I should stop doing that, it seems to confuse people who don't know what LOTR is, and that's really frustrating 'cause it's usualy a really good point too! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Oh well nothin' I can do about theyr ignorance. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] __________________ i indo ye vanya mi amaurëa cálë~LúcëwenElerínaEruiel Soooo..... I'm still doing the wave, anyone else? Anyone? Yeah!! Hmmm... What is that?

04-14-2003, 07:31 PM	#8
Eressië Ailin Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Past the Point of No Return... Posts: 502	I am currently wrinting an essay on 'Why it is important to help others in their time of need' for English. Somehow, examples from LoTR seem to work themselves into my writing. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ Holy angel, in Heaven blessed... My spirit longs with thee to rest! ~Faust Never judge a book by its movie. ~J. W. Eagan By the big slippers of big slipperdom! ~M. Gillenormand, Les Misérables My blog!

04-15-2003, 06:10 AM	#9
Tinuviel the Nightingale Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Splashing around in Galadriel's Mirror Posts: 299	I think I posted this somewhere else, but we're reading this play called 'The Merchant of Venice' by Shakespeare for English. There's this line that says, "All that glisters is not gold" and in the middle of my English teacher reading out the play I said Aragorn! Not realising that I wasn't saying it in my head. Needless to say, I got quite a few "woah she's off in her dreamland again" looks. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] __________________ I am no longer Saruman the White... I am Saruman THE BRINGER OF ALL THINGS FLUFFY AND SPECIAL! Join Legends of Middle Earth!

04-15-2003, 09:54 AM	#10
Meela Denethor's True Love Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Mirkwood. With Thranduil... swoon Posts: 2,049	I went to the orthodontist's the other day, but everyone was being really slow getting ready to leave. So I turned round and said: "well?? are we going to the orthodontist's or not??" but it came out as: "Well?? are we going to Osgiliath or not??" __________________ 'The Hobbit' 1st impressions: 1. Thorin is hot... Oh god, I fancy a dwarf. 2. Thranduil is hotter. 3. Is that... Figwit! 4. Does Elijah Wood never age? 2nd: It's all about Fili & Kili, really. 3rd: BARD! OMG, Bard.

04-15-2003, 10:11 AM	#11
Arafangwen Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: WtR: 413 miles/Floating happily across the floor in the arms of The Phantom..... Posts: 361	HaHaHa, that's hilarious Meela! What's even funnier is that I said that yesterday too! __________________ i indo ye vanya mi amaurëa cálë~LúcëwenElerínaEruiel Soooo..... I'm still doing the wave, anyone else? Anyone? Yeah!! Hmmm... What is that?

04-15-2003, 11:50 AM	#12
One Axe to Rule them All Wight Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: The Citadel Posts: 212	Excuse Arafangwen, she's a little crazy, Emily, Down girl! __________________ Why are you reading this? Go outside, be happy, get some sunlight! You're so pasty and thin! You horrify me, GO! Get some light before they take you too! It's too late for me but SAVE YOURSELF! For more LOTR fun, Join The Citadel!

04-15-2003, 11:51 AM	#13
the phantom Beloved Shadow Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: The Stadium Posts: 5,971	A few weeks ago I was putting on my coat while day dreaming about LOTR, and my mother walked in and asked "Where are you off to?". I was just running up to school to pick up some papers, but my mind was so far gone that I said "I'm going up to Moria, I'll be right back". My mom said "Moria?", and I said "what?", and she said "you said you were going to Moria". We just started laughing. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ the phantom has posted. This thread is now important.

04-15-2003, 03:27 PM	#14
Arafangwen Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: WtR: 413 miles/Floating happily across the floor in the arms of The Phantom..... Posts: 361	I was just in the kitchen and I was pouring a glass of water from a pitcher thingy and it came out a funny color so I asked my mother to "come look at the water", but apparently I said "Will you look into the mirror?" she had no idea what I was talking about! Then we burst into "Do the wave for Boromir the disco king!", and "Welcome Frodo of the Shire, one who has seen the pie!" But that's a different story entirely! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ i indo ye vanya mi amaurëa cálë~LúcëwenElerínaEruiel Soooo..... I'm still doing the wave, anyone else? Anyone? Yeah!! Hmmm... What is that?

04-15-2003, 04:15 PM	#15
One Axe to Rule them All Wight Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: The Citadel Posts: 212	Yeah, that was good! i was right there when it happened [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ Why are you reading this? Go outside, be happy, get some sunlight! You're so pasty and thin! You horrify me, GO! Get some light before they take you too! It's too late for me but SAVE YOURSELF! For more LOTR fun, Join The Citadel!

04-15-2003, 05:44 PM	#16
VanimaEdhel Etheral Enchantress Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wellesley College! Posts: 1,461	There is something in the way my art teacher says "Shadow" that makes my friend and me crack up. We keep saying, "Is it a Balrog? Made of shadow and flame? Is it?" I guess it's because he says it in a fairly melodramatic way...I guess it's a "have to be there" moment. Then I said, "You've seen the eye, lidless, wreathed in flame." It was completely an accident to say the last part, but it's just reflex. My art teacher gave me a look, and my friend cracked up. Well, it's not a lidless eye with any flame, as I am doing an enormous drawing of my own eye. __________________ "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes

04-15-2003, 07:42 PM	#17
Arvedui III Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In Rohan, with Carolina on my mind Posts: 629	Hmm, i sort of have one Somehow my art teacher reminds me and my friends of Iorth the healer. So, naturally, when she comes over to cheeck on what we're doing we start quoting her lines from the houses of healing to each other. Once I got genuninly confused (a state I'm in quite often) and asked her to bring me athalas insted of more paint. that got me some strange looks. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [ April 15, 2003: Message edited by: Arvedui III ] __________________ I have no idea what you just said, but I'm inspired!

09-02-2011, 05:12 PM	#18
sassyfriend Wight Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 165	Lol cracking up here!!!!!

09-02-2011, 08:13 PM	#19
Nerwen Wisest of the Noldor Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: ˙˙˙ssɐןƃ ƃuıʞooן ǝɥʇ ɥƃnoɹɥʇ Posts: 6,694	Um... sassyfriend, you do realise you're replying to comments made over eight years ago? __________________ "Even Nerwen wasn't evil in the beginning." –Elmo.

09-03-2011, 07:42 AM	#20
narfforc Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Muddy-earth Posts: 1,297	I'm confused now! __________________ [B]THE LORD OF THE GRINS:THE ONE PARODY....A PARODY BETTER THAN THE RINGS OF POWER.

09-03-2011, 08:16 AM	#21
Galin Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,036	Well, if you always purposely mix Tolkien into your everyday speech you can avoid such mistakes! Example, a waitress answers a simple question: 'Yes we have bread: white and wheat' Well, that's what she meant to say, but mistakenly (and embarrassingly) this comes out as: 'We have cram and lembas, and the latter comes in a mallorn leaf from the Naith of Lorien' Simply start with introducing yourself as one of the Yavannildi and any such embarrassment will be avoided. Just think it through beforehand; just in case.

09-03-2011, 10:40 AM	#22
Inziladun Gruesome Spectre Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Heaven's doorstep Posts: 8,039	I need to remember this the next time telemarketers harass me. "Disturb not the Nazgûl in the shower, or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will report thee to the FCC, where thy phones shall be devoured, and thy shrivelled wages be left naked to the IRS." __________________ Music alone proves the existence of God.

09-10-2011, 07:12 PM	#23
sassyfriend Wight Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 165	Lol!!!!!! I hate Teleies!!!! Think that would be funny!