You know you're obsessed with LOTR when ...

[Annalaliath]

You threaten to go to a Star Trek convention in your Galadirel costume just because.

You notice the similarities(sp?) in Star Trek Nemesis to LOTR, and it makes you laugh, although you just can't understand why they would kill off Data.

You newest freind can't understand a word you say, cause he doesn't understand a bit of Tolkien.(smile and nodd, smile and nodd)

You have come to the comclusion that you are OBSESSED with LOTR, while you are knowledgeable about Star Trek.

[ June 14, 2003: Message edited by: Annalaliath ]

[Feared Half-Elf]

I haven't got onto the sequel yet, I'm still somewhere in TTT. I think I'm still at Helm's Deep, because it takes me so long to come up with all the complicated elvish names! (My main new character is an elf and she has several brothers who come into it alot!)

You know your obssessed when your brother refuses to use your computer because it has Lotrs wallpaer, and groans everytime you come home from shopping with a new poster!

[Finwe]

You actually start becoming an Elf! (I swear to Eru it's true! I've started sleeping only two hours a night, my eyesight has improved, I can live on bread/crackers all day long, and I'm a lot quicker)

You slip in lines from LotR into just about every sentence.

[arianrod]

Sorry if I repeat any (good Eru, we have 9 pages of this... now that speaks for itself) but here we go:

• When ordering a drink or cup of ice cream, you automatically ask if it comes in pints...
  
• The only thing that keeps you from seeing TTT until you run your family into the poor house is the fact that they took it out of theaters so soon (nnooo!! my preciousss isss lossst!!)...
  
• You have a sign on your door that says "Speak, friend, and enter" in Elvish and English...
  
• You get 'ideas' from reading lists like these...
  
• You attack anyone that doesn't use both sides of the paper and scream "Treebeard would be appalled!"...
  
• When you're mad, instead of cussing you say the One Ring poem in Black Speech (example of when to do this: during the Academy Awards)...
  
• You throw things at the television screen if LotR doesn't win a catagory in the Academy Awards, nearly distroying the monitor when they lose Best Picture (they just better get it for RotK or you will organize a hit group "and [they] will beg for death before the end!")...
  
• When your door is jammed and won't unlock, you bang on it with a stick and yell "Edro, Edro! Open, open!"...
  
• You walk up to automatic doors and say "Mellon!"...
  
• You've gotten all of your friends hooked on LotR...
  
• You insist that you're a hobbit, and even try to grow hair on your feet and give presents away on your birthday...
  
• You go on to online Tolkien stores daily, just to visit all the wonderful things your parents won't let you buy because you're becoming "too obsessed".

Yup, guilty of all. And proud of it!

[Annalaliath]

You put rogain on you feet

I am a nerd..... I am a nerd.

The one thing that you realize from talking to people at school is that you are no longer interested in anything else other than Alice and LOTR.

You wonder if there is such a thing as a Gothic elf.( I mean in the dress)

Your father says that you should get out of the house from time to time and do something.

You are getting carple tunnel from the long Hours on the computer, and are getting fat from the long hours of boht comoputer and reading.

your mother finds a plastic ring on the ground. You tell her to name it Precious.

Tolkien is first, then Lawhead, and brooks. Then comes Tim Burtin.

You want to be an elf, as a matter of fact it is a lifes ambition, aside from the one of being a kinder.

SIGNS YOU ARE OBSESSED WITH LOTR AND ANYTHING MIDDLE EARTH


1. You have at least 300 lotr pics saved on your computer.

2. Your hair is long so that you could style it in elvish. In fact, you go to school in elvish hairdoo everyday! *mine’s gone beyond my waist and is reaching down to my butt*

3. Your uncle told you that you got your high grades “by the grace of legolas” *my uncle really told me that. I couldn’t tell if he was joking with me or trying to insult me. In my mind, i’d say it’s by the grace of eru iluvatar*

4. You stay online *almost practically burning your computer- and your eyes* at, at least 5 tolkien sites for at least 8 hours a day (that is during vacation). *in my case 2pm to 1, 2, 3 or 4 or even 5am nowadays*

5. You socialize more with other tolkien fans on the net, and socialize less in real life.

6. In a restaurant, instead of asking for a mirinda… you asked for miruvor by mistake.

7. Your bedroom wall is covered with pics and posters of lotr *on mine, more than half is legolas’. Sigh…*

8. When checking your school notebooks, subject teachers in school have noticed your numerous doodles of elves etc. They complain that they also cannot understand more than half of what you have written (especially in math) because your notes are mainly in tengwar and sometimes in angerthas.

9. When going to the library, the librarian automatically asks you if you want to borrow: “the usual”

10. You have a mountain of magazines containing anything lotr, no matter how small. *in my case, it’s an orlando bloom pile. I buy a magazine even if the only thing about him in it is just his name! I also bought one even if the only thing about him in it was a picture of his face- just as big as your fingernail, where he was only part of a quiz question.*

11. You gave yourself a legolas action figure as a birthday present.

12. Your friends (not just on the net, but even in real life) call you by your elvish name.

13. Your computer constantly plays your cd of ttt soundtrack, then tomorrow the fotr soundtrack, the following day, ttt again and then…

14. You have fully narrated, from memory, the tale of tinuviel (the silmarillion version and the book of lost tales 2 version) to your parents, asking them which version is better.

15. You greet and to talk to your friends and relatives in elvish, when they ask you what you just said, you roll your eyes on them.

16. You always try sleeping like the elves do- hands folded upon the breast…

17. You write and email your friends and relatives in elvish too. (they don’t understand it but it’s the thought that counts)

18. You always use elf runes and dwarf runes when you type. Those are your favorite fonts.

19. You have plenty of dreams about lotr (most of them are weird though)

20. You have memorized the movie, the soundtrack, the dialogues, the prologue, everything! (due to watching it everyday)

21. You can talk about anything tolkien or middle earth for hours… even days! You have done this!

22. You have submitted a writeup in english class in elvish translation *which garnered me extra points, hahaha*

23. You look into the mirror expecting to see: “a great eye, lidless, wreathed in flame…”

24. On the school bus, you always sing: “the road goes ever on and on. Down from the door where…”

25. More than once, you used tengwar to write your name in a quiz. (your teacher knows who you are anyway) *on the third time, i got scolded*

26. In a quarterly examination, you used tolkien to represent english literature. Then, you also used tolkien in an essay in another major examination in comparison to other literary works such as beowulf, knights of the round table, romeo and juliet, etc. Etc. *i’m in the philippines, but we do have lessons like that*

27. You always win during costume parties. You are the elf. You even defy the theme- if there is a theme (like haloween or something,) they all expect you'd do that anyway! *but one time, i went as yavanna kementari. With the help of two of my close friends, we made a costume out of a net, a silky greenish-gray fabric, leaves and stuff… but my costume still turned out to be the best. There was this small vine with leaves that entwined with the braid in my hair perfectly, but it was kinda itchy*

28. You have seen fotr (the movie) for more than a hundred times, (since the two towers is not out on stores yet, but you have seen it in theatres for 5 times anyway)

29. You watch other movies (old or new) that contain lotr actors in them. *have you watched the movie hamlet with ian holm in it?*

30. The poems about elves, middle earth, and tolkien that you submitted as a class requirement in english, have been published in the school paper.


sad to say that my parents still have'nt allowed me to change my name legally...

*gee, i’ll probably remember some more later…*

ohh! i forgot... your friends tell you that you sleeptalk in elvish *this is true*

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Welcome to the Downs, LegolasLover. Post wisely. (Don't follow my example, in other words. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img])

When you see a movie that is definately going to give you nightmares due to your already overactive imagination, your instant solution is to go to this site and read these topics. I actually did this tonight. I can't quite remember what it was that so scared me now.

Your younger sister (Who the heck is that? is her nick here, BTW) who doesn't really care for f*ntasy *nd prefers horror and monster stories, finally registers on BD so she can figure out what you're so excited about.

You call you baby sister, at varying moments, "Elfie," and a bunch of other Tolkien-related names (none of which can I remember at this moment due to lack of sleep).

When you watch Matrix Reloaded, the first thing you say to your sister is "Here comes Agent Elrond."

You randomly shout "Do the wave for Boromir the Disco King" and freak out passersby.

Edit: Excuse the odd spelling, something is wrong with my computer.

[ June 15, 2003: Message edited by: Tinuviel of Denton ]

[the guy who be short]

You cut up some of your mums plastic flowers' stems and sharpen the ends. You then use these as arrows. You have also made a bow from rulers, sellotape and an elastic band.
You also use your 18inch ruler as a sword. (So helpful that it has a metal edge... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] )
On top of that, you use a large stick as a staff. And a stick with a pine cone on the end as a mace (well, until you cut off the stem to make another arrow). Ok, this is beginning to scare even me now.
Your friend only has to show you his one ring to get you to do what he wants. Because we must obey the preciousss.

Finwe, you are the only person here who has worried me so far. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

[Annalaliath]

When your mother gets you angery you put on loud music and read LOTR. No matter where you open it to, you just read.

ypu dream about your Tolkien club posters.(they actually exist, here,.....

[Arestevana]

YOU KNOW YOU"RE OBSESSED WHEN...

You read these posts and find out most of them apply to you.. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

You criticize the movies constantly, saying they are an insult to Tolkien's writing, but have them memorized anyway.

You hold secret councils with your friends.

You quote the appropriate passages from Moria when going or condsidering going through a tunnel, over a bridge, over a mountain, or through severe weather (preferably snow).

You find yourself answereing the question 'what's today's date?' in S.R. and using the hobbit's month names.

You find yourself becoming overly possessive of random objects, calling them mathoms and hoarding them.

You become overly possessive of a single random object, calling it your precioussss, speaking only to it, taking it everywhere with you, and quoting LotR at anyone who attepts to pry it from you.

[the guy who be short]

a stick with a pine cone on the end as a mace

The pine cone is now severely broken as a result of you using your "Sauron mace" to whack elves and men (the door and the wall).
I really scare myself.

[Finwe]

You nearly kill the gardener as a result of practicing archery in your backyard. (Poor guy!)

You climb up onto your roof during a garden party that your parents had for their friends, and started screeching "Precioussss...My Precioussss..." over and over again.

You do almost all the things that have been mentioned on this list.

You are starting to resemble a Hobbit since all you do is sit in front of the computer, read, watch LotR, and eat lembas bread.

You try to carve the tip of your ear into a point and give yourself a skin infection. (I realized that Swiss Army Knives are NOT good for self-mutilation! It took a month to heal!)

Try to sneak in a photograph of the Professor in your little shrine thingie on stage when you do your Indian Classical Dance debut. (I tried! I honestly tried!)

Claim that you are no longer Hindu, you are Valarin and your parents can no longer make you go to temples.

Have a shrine to all your action figurines in your room, and light candles on all the anniversaries of special days in the Tale of Years.

Oh dear, I'm starting to scare myself.

[Sapphire_Flame]

Oh dear, I'm starting to scare myself.

Welcome to the club. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

5. You socialize more with other tolkien fans on the net, and socialize less in real life.

28. You have seen fotr (the movie) for more than a hundred times, (since the two towers is not out on stores yet, but you have seen it in theatres for 5 times anyway)

Above and beyond guilty of that first one; except when I can find someone at school who's just as obsessed as me.... only happened once, kinda sad, really....

Also guilty of the second one, and I can improve on it....

~You are obsessed when you go to see Two Towers 5 times in the first two weeks after it came out. *I can even count off mine: opening day, the next Saturday, the next Monday, then Friday, and Saturday.* [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Go me!

Hey! Happy 700th Post to me!!!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ June 16, 2003: Message edited by: Sapphire_Flame ]

[Finwe]

You start singing "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" in the middle of the theater because you just met a Tolkien Scholar from Houston who also came to see TTT.

[the guy who be short]

You shoot your friends with your home made bow. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I hope they dont mind pain. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
Finwe, how can you be turning into an elf and a hobbit? [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]
(havent actually done this one): In football, you purposefully kick the ball about ten metres wide of your friend just to provoke the reply: "you cannot pass"

[Sapphire_Flame]

In football, you purposefully kick the ball about ten metres wide of your friend just to provoke the reply: "you cannot pass"

*snork* [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[Vuelve]

"The list goes ever on and on,
Down from the topic where it began.
Now many pages the list has formed,
Post on it the obsessed-ones can." [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

~You go to the craft section of Walmart and walk up and down the fake flower isle for hours.When asked what you are doing you tell people you are "Wondering the paths of Mirkwood", just like Bilbo. [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

EDIT~You have officially proclaimed December, "Ringer Month", and have already started making preperations for the "festivities".

[ June 16, 2003: Message edited by: Vuelve ]

[Finwe]

Well, when I meant hobbit, I meant that I'm starting to get slightly on the pudgy side unless I start exercising. Pretty much all I do is sit in front of the computer, watch LotR or LotR-related things, and read Tolkien-related books.

As for the Elf part, it's in one of the earlier posts, use the nifty thing called a scroll bar on the side of the page.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

I am now officially scared.

A Swiss army knife for elven ears? That's just...frightening. (of course, who am I to talk? As soon as I have the money, I'm going to have Elven ears by way of plastic surgery.)

Your best friend has you to even mention LotR, ever. She is sick and tired of "My preciousss" and "You cannot pass!" What's scary is...so am I. (must read the Silm again to get more obscure quotes.)

[Annalaliath]

You absolutly have to buy the reservation of the TTT at Hastings, just because.

You are disapointed to see the Extended version in the Used DVD section of Hastings.

You are now obsessed with both LOTR and Alcie in Wonderland.

[Sapphire_Flame]

As soon as I have the money, I'm going to have Elven ears by way of plastic surgery.

Right on, Tinuviel! Those are my plans too! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[Annalaliath]

Plasic Surgery! Dude. I guess I am lame, i was thinking more alomg the lines of the costume and theatre shop down the road. Then I can just buy prosthetics.

You decided to go to school in an Elf costume, just because you are borde(SP).

Not to mention you want of contacts and dental surgury(not for the crooked teeth, but to keep them from getting worse. Not to mention to lessen pain). Although you are thinking of just being of the race of man and pretending to be the decendant of Aragorn and Arwen.......

Youre obsessed grandmother keeps buying you elven and hobbit cloths, although she buys them in the wrong colors. I hate sparly stuff..... Although the last dress she baught was the right color,black, it me fits in the hips and is too big in the top!!!! I am turning into a Hobbit!!! AAAAHHHHHHH! I guess it can't be all that bad. I mean I am getting fat.

You are concidering cheacking out a copy of the Hobbit on tape and dubing a tape for your self at work....

I always scare myself. And don't get plastic surgery, because it is dangerous, and if you died nobody would beable to see your elven ears....or you could do it and live and be a freak forever. Oh yeah! how you know you are obessed and crazy things I do.

1. You have a replica of most all the swords, rings, armour,bows, ect. from the books. (i brought my sword to school, i was suspended for a week)

2. people fear when they go even near you that they are going to have to listen you you ramble on about tolkien and books and ect.

3. You get very mad when people don't celebrate Middle Earth's holidays.

4. You go by the Shire's calender.

5. Everyghing you do is tolkien related and sometimes people just want to KILL you.

6. Your public library is always low on Tolkien books.

7. people now have a fear of crows, or at least a fear of you shouting "Crebain (or however you spell it) from Dundland!"

8. If an average non freaky non tolkien person read this (the whole topic) they would think everybody wrote this about you.


Okay, this is all i can think of, and i will post if i think of more. I know i can't spell, this stuff may suck, but it is all stuff i do so if you say this sucks i suck, if you make any comment about this paragraph at the end i will be mad..... *keeps talking*

[Salix]

When your playing cards with your family, and somehow you manage to misquote two movies at onece, and say (in Gollum's voice) "I'll get you my precioussss, and your little Ring too!"

[Annalaliath]

or, " Thief Baggins! we hates it forever, gllum" and " we wants it, my Precious, we needs it my Precious." All in the wicked witch of the West voice(belive me it is an inherated trait in my family).

[Finwe]

I have an idea! Why don't we all get together, kidnap a few plastic surgeons, and all get pointy ears?!?!?! That would be the perfect solution to all our problems.

Now, the only thing left is to get my hands on some height-increasing pills!

[the guy who be short]

Now, the only thing left is to get my hands on some height-increasing pills!

Dont worry Finwe! We Indians are generally short. In fact, we could be hobbits together!
I already have a bow (albeit a rubbish homemade one) all I need now is green or yellow clothing. Oh, and maybe a larger appetite.
This isnt a sign of LotR obsession, but its a sign of madness. Ive started talking to my arrows.
All fear the short Indian hobbits!

[Minyataurien]

You paint your closet door with glow-in-the dark paint with the likeness of the doors of Moria and claim it can only be opened in the moonlight...
You eat six meals a day...
You celebrate on March 25 because it is the downfall of Sauron...
You hold two ignorant birds in your hand and you shout, "Fly you fools!"...
You critize your dog by saying, "If only Huan could see you."...
Every time someone says Luther High School you think they are saying Luthien High School...

[Tinuviel of Denton]

This isnt a sign of LotR obsession, but its a sign of madness. Ive started talking to my arrows.

Started? I never stopped (talking to inanimate objects, I don't have arrows [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] )

Anyway...

When someone asks you to share your ice cream, you hiss "It's miiine. My preciousss..."

Ditto for cookies, candy, etc.

You pick up random, vaguely ring-shaped objects and start talking to them, calling them "Preciousss" (mustn't forget the "sss" part of that word)

When someone doesn't get your random Gollum quotes, you throw a fit and explain the whole saga from the Ainulindale to RotK. (Yes, I have done that. The poor guy was quite confused. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] )

[Bekah]

quote:
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2. You have a FOTR day calandar and you have cut out and saved all the pictures
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I thought I was the only one!

Not by any means. I go pyscho if someone else touches my calender and I keep all the pictures in a little clear sheet. Eventually I'm going to scan most of them and do other things with my precious pictures.

There was something else someone said that made me want to shout "Comrade", but I've forgotten it.

I am definitely insane.

~ Elentari II

[Annalaliath]

Some kids at the book store are making fun of elves so you say Toroiel and walk off laughing as they look on perpelxed.

you nearly buy the twenty dollar FOTR game but decide that it can wait till after the oil change and insurance. But yopu vow that it will realy be after helping the BD but that is when I get paid.

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

couldn't read all these posts through so don't know if this is allready said:i do my notes using tengwar at school

[the guy who be short]

Started? I never stopped (talking to inanimate objects, I don't have arrows )

I talk to inanimate objects all the time. They listwen much better than people. And I also have no arrows. Read my earlier posts on page nine to find out about their creation!

[Maikadurwen]

you know your obseesed when you watch the movie and your saying the lines before frodo or anybody says them

[the guy who be short]

hello, Maikadurwen, welcome to the downs. Enjoy being dead [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
You know your obsessed when writing that no longer sems strange to you.

[Maikadurwen]

you know your obsessed when you start thinking biscuts are lembas

your and your fellow lotr friends are pretending to kill orcs with popsicle sticks

when you wear a the one ring thats tied to the frodo and sam bookmark everywhere

when somebody mispronounces a word off the lotr books or movies you tell them off in quenya and them politley correct them

when you wont let anyone one on the computer because your too busy posting stuff on the downs
[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] ( ive done all of these guilty truly guilty)

[Maikadurwen]

mea govannen

[Maikadurwen]

you know your obsessed when you go explore the woods behind your house thinking its mirkwood

[Mariska Greenleaf]

you are truly obsessed with LOTR when:

-you're wondering why your teacher doesn't turn to stone when the sun rises.

-At a party you start dancing like Frodo at Bilbo's birthday party.

-You get plastic surgery to have pointy ears.

sorry if any of these were allready done...
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