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

[the guy who be short]

you should check out the make your own scene with pics thread.

DO THE WAVE FOR GOLLUM THE NOT QUITE SURE WHICH GENDER ROYALTY!

[Annalaliath]

I went to the prom and had a blast. In my Galadriel dress i shouted out things like the old " do the wave for borimor the disco king," and "Frodo Lives." I met some other Tolkienists, one at the resturant, and the other at the prom. Frnkly we started to shout out random LOTR things. We also tried beating up my date cause he called Frodo gay.

you can have a conversation about LOTR with a total stranger and the rest of your friends have no idea what you are talking about.

In the game of Chinese Cheakers(which the whole of the art department is hooked) you say random lines from both movie and book. especially when the ceramic students are checking the kilns," fly you fools," Then you name the youngest member of the group a little kid Laliath, for being the silliest kid on earth.

They get you coffee to shut you up about LOTR.

[Rindoien, elf of Lothlorien]

Hehe..and:
1) Your friends positively refuse to speak with you about boys, movies, blond hair, hairy feet, books, or anything related because we ALL know where THAT will lead to.
2) Your friends tell you they do not want to know anything more about LotR before you even take a breath to start chattering your endless stream of words.
3) You consider yourself bilingual; after all, you DO speak Elvish. Fluently. (Actually that makes me quatrelingual, English, Spanish, French AND Elvish.)
4) When your friends point and scream 'there he is!' you turn around just in case.
5) You want a tattoo of the Fellowship of Nine, because the experience was too wonderful to forget.
6) You know all the cinema employees by name, and they all know you by name.
7) You have added various other meals to your list, elevensies, after lunch, second breakfast....
8) You cannot count on your fingers the many times you've seen the movie.
9) When ordering any drink you automatically ask if it comes in pints.
10) You can tell how many times 'Frodo' is said in the movie. (98)
11) You know the proper Elvish name for Legolas is. (Laegolas)
12) You become irritated if anyone you ask has NOT seen the movie. Insulting.
14) Any other movie is out of the question, it is considered betrayal.
15) You walk barefoot, insisting that 'Hobbits can do it, so can you.'
16) When you see the movie (again) you can quote it word for word. (I amar prestar aen, the world is changed, han mathon ne nen.....)
17) You are insulted when someone calls you 'Human'.
18) You have pointy ears surgically attached.
19) You stare at the birdbath, trying to see 'things that are, things that were, and things that have not yet come to pass.'
20) You cried during the movie. All ten times you've seen it.
21) You are on the LotR DVD/Video waiting list, just waiting for August.
22) You have or are trying to get all LotR merchandise available, after all you NEED, the action figures, posters, games, cards....
23) You are learning how to shoot a bow and arrow.
24) You have hurt someone trying to learn how to shoot the bow and arrow.
25) You have hurt someone trying to learn how to shoot the bow and arrow with 2 arrows at once.
26) You have a scratch on your cheek just like Arwen. Purposefully.
27) You run around in the woods screaming "Ho! Tom Bombadil." And you provide anyone you run into with mounds of food and protection from mean oak trees.
28) If you had a horse his name would be Asfaloth or Shadowfax.
29) If you had a pony his name would be Bill or Fatty Lumpkin.
30) You spent days making an Arwen costume for Halloween, but are insulted when people say they don't know who Arwen is.
31) When someone refuses to hand over the remote control you scream, "preccciousss, we must have our preciousssss."
32) You have scared away people with your Gollum imitation.
33) You envy "little people" because they most resemble Hobbits. You call them Hobbits - they don't like it. You don't care.
34) You are positive that your next-door neighbour is a Hobbit.
35) You plan to name your kids like the Hobbits, Drank, son of Frank or Lorence, son of Torence.

[Bekah]

Well, I've done #2, and my gollum imitation on various things, and some of the others I've seriously thought about or else done in another way (i.e. doing the dishes: take a milk bottle, fill it up..."The mirror shows many things. Things that were..."). Only I already have a white horse, and her name is Lady Glesen. I can't change it. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

~ Elentari II

P.S. Do you really have surgically attached pointy ears?? [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

[ April 28, 2003: Message edited by: Bekah ]

[Arvedui III]

Hehehehe...Crash...Thud

Whew, that was funny. You know you're obsessed with LOTR when:

1. Your gulity of everything posted on this thread

2. You're no longer mad about being short because you make a really great hobbit.

3. You start acting like a hobbit becuase you're short.

4. On weekends you try and have all the meals a hobbit would eat, and end up having to take a large amount of pepto-bismal at around midnight.

5. No one talks to you about movies, the oscars, elves, dwarfs, anything remotly fantasy related, good books, or south park, but that's for different reason...

[Sapphire_Flame]

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

[Arafangwen]

*dies of laughter* *again*

Your LOTR friens think you're TO obsessed

Guilty! Mostly because anytime I'm on the phone it's "Guess what happened on the BDs today!" yeeeeah... That's me...... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

And how in the world can Texas be even remotely related to Mordor?!? It is the root of all ringies! How on earth could that be bad?!? Unless you live in Creekwater, or Colorado you can't say you hate Texas! There's nothing to hate! Open range, clear skys(unless you live in Austin, then the weather changes every ten mins.), horse ranches, LOTR obsessed youth groups...... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ April 28, 2003: Message edited by: Arafangwen ]

[Annalaliath]

Did I mention that I found a picture of Shiprock, New Mexico and thought it was Mordor.... guess were I live.... But Texas is pretty hot and barren ( at least the place i have been there) and trying to do orienteering in winter weight fatigues was just torture.

[Nuranar]

YEAH! *high-fives Arafangwen* Texas is wonderful! Honest, I've lived my whole life here, actually have traveled many other places, and still want to live here for the rest of my life. There's no Dark Lord here! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Yes, well, that's my contribution to the Mayhem for today... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[Rilwen Gamgee]

I'm going to have plastic surgery and have Elven ears for real.
Top that!

I almost did that when I dressed up as a Hobbit for Halloween!

...whenever someone makes a wrong comment about LotR or pronounces a name wrong
[img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] you turn around and correct them.

[ April 29, 2003: Message edited by: Rilwen Gamgee ]

WHEN A PSYCHIATRIST SAYS THAT YOU ARE A HAIRLINE AWAY FROM PSYCHOSIS BECAUSE YOU ARE DEEPLY OBSESSED WITH MIDDLE EARTH. YOU ARE BECOMING QUITE AUTISTIC, YOU HAVE YOUR OWN WORLD. THE THING IS THAT YOU SHARE IT WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE TOO. PEOPLE HERE... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

[Sapphire_Flame]

Hey legolaslover, just a suggestion, but please don't type in all caps. It's like you're yelling, and you don't need to yell; we can hear perfectly fine. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Don't worry, it's all good!

BTW: Mae govannen, and welcome to the Downs!

[Angadraug]

You know your obsessed when you watch LOTR with your friends and every time the Council of Elrond comes up you pause it and reenact the entire scene.

[Lily Bombadil]

Last night I awoke having Barrow Downs Withdrawls! I think I got a fever...

Here's something:
Your family asks what movie y'all should see over the weekend. As soon as you open your mouth, they all shout, "NO!"

[Sapphire_Flame]

Your family asks what movie y'all should see over the weekend. As soon as you open your mouth, they all shout, "NO!"

That's happened to me so many times... Once I didn't talk to them for a week afterward, until they apoligized. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[Trippo The Hippo]

Hey legolaslover, just a suggestion, but please don't type in all caps. It's like you're yelling, and you don't need to yell; we can hear perfectly fine. Don't worry, it's all good!

Thats true unless The Sauce Pan Man came around. That guy is deaf as a door. (no offense)

[Sapphire_Flame]

Touche, Trippo. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

[Novlamothien]

There are spies(Or is it rangers?) everywhere!

~ You buy a dress at the store because "It looks elvish" (Guilty)
~ You have read every post on this thread (guilty)
~ You go hiking in the woods with two or three 7 odd year olds and pretend you're and elvish guide leading hobbits somewhere (that too)

[Annalaliath]

you buy the FOTR game, then later when you see TTT game you buy that to( even though you don't have the money) You plan to buy the RTOK game later.

you stay up all night just to beet the game.

you serch the used book store.

you love the painting your aunt did, you just know it's Gandalf.

you argue constantly to uphold the good name of JRR Tolkien, and the LOTR.

[Annalaliath]

You name your latest floppy My Precious and when you loose it you scare your friend Brook by making a Gollum impression. Wait! It is not only Brook its the whole of the library...

You put an entire paragraph, I mean page, about Tolkien and the LOTR into your self evaluation paper for the English Bord to read. You Instructor, however, makes you take it out. You think to your self, " Tolkien, and Humor Nazi!"

A woman in your photo class turns down your LOTR music you call her a Music Nazi from then on.

The head of the Art department tells you about the use of iron and the disassociation of elves and other sorts of the Farie, you wonder if he means Hobbits too. Then he won't play Chinese checkers and you call him a game nazi.

Your final project for CS 150 is a brochure. yours is all about LOTR.

All you names in Access are things like Denther is a Pyro and 333 Bagshot row.

[ May 07, 2003: Message edited by: Annalaliath ]

[Ainaserkewen]

Ainaserkewen's guide to end over edge mental and emotional addictions.

Obsessions can be fun, but sometimes they go overboard and are affecting your life negatively, if you have 1 or more of these signs, you might be...negatively addicted!

-Can't go a day without reading or watching LOTR.
-Have LOTR related dreams more than 5 times a week.
-Your losing friends because they are tired of talking Tolkien.
-Grades are dropping because of LOTR related things(ie. spending class time on this site or reading, watching LOTR.)
-Have stopped going out at night, so you can do something LOTR related.
And last of all...
-Not enjoying you obsession anymore.

If you think any of these apply to you, you might want to consider the following.

To get over anything, you must NOT stop cold turkey. If you repress your addiction, it will come back 10 times more powerful.
The first thing you need to do is arrange a party or sleepover with your closest friends. Friends that would do anything to help. Warn them that your going to do nothing but LOTR stuff. It might help if you get your LOTR buds to help.
Next, get everything that reminds you of LOTR and bring it to your gathering. This could mean, the movies, books, cards, dolls, food(lembas) script and a computer with internet.
At the party, all you are allowed to do is obsess. Talk about nothing but LOTR and reinact the scenes with your friends. Watch the movies along with the books and analyse every point. Go crazy. Do this all night or until you fall asleep. In the morning, you won't feel so drawn to it anymore.
You can do this little menouver as many times as nessesary, and each time, LOTR will not seem so great. You've obsessed and now it's over.
Good luck and don't worry.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Except I can't do that. My best friend would kill me if I tried to talk only about LotR at one of our slumber parties.
It's gotten to the point that if I even mention LotR, she, who for the purpose of posting on BD, I will call Zel Ladrona (loooong story), won't let me open my mouth. She even covers it!
It would be funny if it wasn't so annoying.
BTW, Guilty to most of the above.

[Ainaserkewen]

That's why you schedual it.
That way you say, help me get over this. That's how you find out who your really tolerable friends are. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

[Helkahothion]

That is when you ruin youre love for Lotr. And won't like it any longer. And that is a crying shame. You could do something like going out on saturdays. And change it every weekend. So one weekend you go out on Friday and the other weekend you go on Saturday. That way you always spend time with your friends. When you kill an obsession you will kill the love for the thing completly. It is not as if you are dealing with Drugs.

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

You know you're obsessed when:

~You skip down a bustling Edmonton street singing the Drinking Song
~You want to be placed in a boat and sent over a waterfall when you die

[Helkahothion]

You know you are obsessed when:

~You cross a shallow river and scream: If you want him, come and clame him.

~Throw pebbles in the water and run away screaming that their a giant squid in the water.

~Look awkwardly and claim you have to save Middle-Earth.

[Sapphire_Flame]

Throw pebbles in the water and run away screaming that their a giant squid in the water.

You get the weirdest looks when you do this with the kitchen sink.

[Eressië Ailin]

How many other people have an Elvish name for their AIM screen name?

Well, mine's not exactly Elvish, but it's Elvish-sounding. Who else has AIM? My screen name's maelinya.

[Rilwen Gamgee]

~ When you think that ESL means "Elvish as a Second Language".

~ Your official nickname at home is Sam (or some other LotR name).

~ When you find a ring in a cereal box and try to destroy it in your toilet thinking that the ring is "the One" and your toilet is "Mt. Doom". [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

[Eressië Ailin]

Rilwen~

Here are the pics:

Front:



Back:



Sleeve:



Can you see them now?

[ May 09, 2003: Message edited by: Eressië Ailin ]

[Helkahothion]

Wow good pics. The best red x's I have seen till now.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

We watch FotR in my English class theother day and throughout the movie I was mouthing the words as the characters said them. When Frodo's hiding from the cave troll, my sisters and I count down "3, 2, 1, now!" and there's the cave troll.

Helkahothion, how did you manage to get inside Legolas' lungs?

[Sapphire_Flame]

We watched FotR in my English class the other day

NOT FAIR!!! [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] My school sucks, we never get to watch cool movies, or read cool books, or... *fume fume fume* NOT FAIR!!!!

Helkahothion, how did you manage to get inside Legolas' lungs?

He's got a thread in the Barrow-Downs forum that explains that...

[Bekah]

Horse-maiden, either you're spying on me, or you are telepathic or something.

~You want to be placed in a boat and sent over a waterfall when you die

Unbelievable you are. Only thing is, I also want to look (in a feminine way, you morons!) like Aragorn when he died. I mean, the beauty of his youth and the wisdom of his age. Only it'd be the beauty of my youth and...yeah.

Tinuviel, I understand how you feel, and I think that when it's gone to this stage it is starting to be negative. You have four choices - one, to stay as you are, with your friend impatient and irritated when you mention LOTR. Two, you could kill your obsession completely. Three, you could do what Helka suggested. Four, you can do what I did, which is tide it over. However, it might not work for you. I have had an obsession with LOTR for about two years running now, since I started reading the books. It got to the stage where everybody hated me talking about LOTR, and careful to avoid anything that might lead on to it. However, slowly but surely, I've gotten back to 'simmering' - still loving LOTR and perhaps a little bit more over the top than Kem (nickname of Elvish name of friend) would prefer, but at least it's under control and no longer ruining my life, except when I visit BD too often and get behind on my school-work. Which is amended by my abstinence from BD for a while.

That's all I have to say.

~ Elentari II

[ May 10, 2003: Message edited by: Bekah ]

[Helkahothion]

Helkahothion, how did you manage to get inside Legolas' lungs?

I crawled up his nose when he was dreaming. Very fun trip I might say. You won't believe what people stuck up their nose. I got stuck but he started picking his nose and pushed me over the edge. The rest was easy.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

*tries to look disgusted, fails, and bursts out laughing*

You spend the whole night on LotR sites. Not doing the homework due the next ay, not sleeping. On LotR sites. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

~Menelien

[Helkahothion]

You spend the whole night on LotR sites. Not doing the homework due the next ay

Sounds so formiliar.

[Bekah]

I've been banned from BD until my maths is finished (innocent look at everyone [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] ). I woke up at 5:00am yesterday morning and I haven't gone to bed yet. Around the time my parents went to bed I got on. 'Tis now 12:13am on Mother's Day.

~ Elentari II

[Helkahothion]

It's already sunday in the states? Man, time really does fly. It's only saturday morning over here. Well morning, it's 14:32

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Matters what parts. Here it's 8:30 am [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] All these time zones are frieky.

~Menelien