A few ways to tell if you are obsessed with LOTR

[Radagast The Brown]

I don't live at entmoot. And not many od us does. Just about 2000.

They think we're stupid becuase we spend lots of time on LOTR and on LOTR website, and becuase we say LOTR is the best.

[Jonathan]

Originally posted by Radagast The Brown
They think we're stupid becuase we spend lots of time on LOTR and on LOTR website, and becuase we say LOTR is the best. We shouldn't be considered stupid just because we tell them the truth: LotR is the best :D

You know when you're obsessed with LotR when you refer to your home as Jon End (that's in my case. Radagast's home would be called Rad End :) ).

[Lalaith]

Originally posted by Jonathan
Because we live our lives at Entmoot?
But they don't know that, they don't even know what Entmoot is.
Uh, wrong, a friend of mine always sees me on Entmoot, but he already knows that I'm a freak, so it doesn't matter anymore.

[Radagast The Brown]

Jonathan, I live in Rhosgobel, not in Rad-end.

LOTR is a very good book, but I've read better.

[Lalaith]

Originally posted by Radagast The Brown
Jonathan, I live in Rhosgobel, not in Rad-end.

LOTR is a very good book, but I've read better.
You dare to say that you have read better books? Impressive

[TinuvielChild]

I bought a pipe in Williamsburg even though I don't smoke because it looked very like a hobbit pipe.

[Nurvingiel]

Now that's what I call obsessed.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Lalaith
somehow other people think that Tolkien fans are idiots. Why?

Cause when you're Enlightened, you are not just a 'fan', you are a fanatic . This scares 'normal' people, who just think anything different from them is silly, wrong, or scary. :p

You know when you're obsessed with LotR when you refer to your home as Jon End (that's in my case. Radagast's home would be called Rad End ).
I guess mine is Lee End, or, using my Middle name (Lindsay)/ my Elven name(Linaewen) it would be Lin End. Yeah!

You know you're obsessed with the Moot when you are reading about how obsessed other Mooters are in this thread (You save a gazillion threads on your comp to read later) and you use that as an excuse to go online.

You know you're obsessed when you have 1 gigabyte dedicated to Tolkien. Soon to be increased....

[Lalaith]

Originally posted by Linaewen
Cause when you're Enlightened, you are not just a 'fan', you are a fanatic . This scares 'normal' people, who just think anything different from them is silly, wrong, or scary. :p

I'm fanatic. And proud. Ha.

[Linaewen]

1 pm here now. I'm going....just as soon as I read another post..:rolleyes:

[Elf Girl]

~ You refer to your parents as 'amme' and 'atar' ('mother' and 'father' in Quenya). And you have an Elvish name for your brother.

[Wayfarer]

*/is guilty of that last. ;)

My Sindarin name is Ersaeliphant, and my brothers are Bregwaew, Osttunn, and Lhewig.

[Radagast The Brown]

Wayfarer how can you pronounce these names?

orignally posted by Lalaith
You dare to say that you have read better books? ImpressiveWell, not many. Just few... but they were very good ones. (though I must say I don't read them as much as I read LOTR. Maybe that's the reason I like them more..)

[Bombadillo]

Originally posted by Elf Girl
And you have an Elvish name for your brother. Haha: Anglorfin
Of course!

[Anglorfin]

The only thing's thus far that I have given names in Elvish to are . . .

Myself - Anglorfin :D
my snowboard - Cirylossë
my guitar - Telpelin
my friend with red hair - Carafin
my friend who is awesome at guitar- Curusin

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Elf Girl
~ You refer to your parents as 'amme' and 'atar' ('mother' and 'father' in Quenya).

They sound pretty close to 'real' languages, though. Sri Lankans say something like 'Ame' for Mother (Don't know about father) My mum probably wouldn't mind another name, because I already have so many for her. (By that, I do not mean rude names)

[Linaewen]

Oh dear. I just told my friend that she is a tuica urco and now that is her MSN nickname. :D

[Elf Girl]

You cruel little half-elf. :D

[Lalaith]

Spending your lunch break on Entmoot is obsessed, reading LotR in the bus is obsessed .... thinking of your Entmoot soul mate is obsessed (Lol)

[Anglorfin]

Spending every class period in school on EntMoot . . .

[Jonathan]

Originally posted by Lalaith
Spending your lunch break on Entmoot is obsessed Oops. That means I'm obsessed :(. Wait a minute, being obsessed with LotR might be a good thing :)

[Lalaith]

Originally posted by Jonathan
Oops. That means I'm obsessed :(. Wait a minute, being obsessed with LotR might be a good thing :)
Of course it is a good thing, I would never have meet some cool people without being obsessed.

[Elf Girl]

~ You back up everything you say with "And _______ on Entmoot says so too."

[Anglorfin]

Originally posted by Elf Girl
~ You back up everything you say with "And _______ on Entmoot says so too."

Even better, when you're not actually on Entmoot you talk to 'mooters you know personally about happenings on the forum.

[Ruinel]

Originally posted by Radagast The Brown
Jonathan, I live in Rhosgobel, not in Rad-end.

LOTR is a very good book, but I've read better.
Yes, you are right...not LotR... The Sil is the best book ever written.


Linaewen... at least you didn't call your friend ... tiuca urco because then she'd be a 'fat orc'. :D By the way, how long do you think it will be before someone tells her she is a fat orc?

[azalea]

Wow, this thread is 27 pages long...maybe instead of a few ways it should be called many ways!;)

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Elf Girl
You cruel little half-elf. :D
Ahhh, well she was dissing my love of Entmoot. Every time she sees me on, she says 'Entmoot again?' To which I say 'Yes. I also have another Entmoot link for you' This time, it was the Spiderman smiley JD posted. Hilarious.

Originally posted by Lalaith
Spending your lunch break on Entmoot is obsessed, reading LotR in the bus is obsessed .... thinking of your Entmoot soul mate is obsessed (Lol)
You must always think of me! Especially when I am gone!
Announcement: Everyone must think of me! Right now!

Originally posted by Elf Girl

~ You back up everything you say with "And _______ on Entmoot says so too."
Absolutely.
Originally posted by Anglorfin

Even better, when you're not actually on Entmoot you talk to 'mooters you know personally about happenings on the forum.

I do too. To Lai. (Damn, why did everyone have to post relevant messages? It's taking me ages to reply)

Originally posted by Ruinel
Linaewen... at least you didn't call your friend ... tiuca urco because then she'd be a 'fat orc'. By the way, how long do you think it will be before someone tells her she is a fat orc?
I thought I did? :confused: To answer your question: She will never know. Everyone around me is non-Enlightened. If they have read the books, they know no Quenya. However, she got a bit desperate to know what I had called her...;)

[Lalaith]

Originally posted by Linaewen
You must always think of me! Especially when I am gone!
Announcement: Everyone must think of me! Right now!


I do too. To Lai. (Damn, why did everyone have to post relevant messages? It's taking me ages to reply)

I will think of you. Everytime I'm loneley on Entmoot I will miss you even more. Yesterday I was sooooo bored. You should have been on but you were not.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Lalaith
I will think of you. Everytime I'm loneley on Entmoot I will miss you even more. Yesterday I was sooooo bored. You should have been on but you were not.

I was on. *thinks* Yes, I was.

Originally posted by azalea
Wow, this thread is 27 pages long...maybe instead of a few ways it should be called many ways!
Yes, it should. I suppose we underestimated the intelligence and obsession of us Tolkienites.

BTW: Today I saw 'Azalea Park' and chuckled. When we wrote questions for 'To Kill A Mockingbird Trivia' in class, my one related to azaleas (Miss Maudie's favourite flower) Hehe.

[Lalaith]

Originally posted by Linaewen
I was on. *thinks* Yes, I was.


Yes, it should. I suppose we underestimated the intelligence and obsession of us Tolkienites.

BTW: Today I saw 'Azalea Park' and chuckled. When we wrote questions for 'To Kill A Mockingbird Trivia' in class, my one related to azaleas (Miss Maudie's favourite flower) Hehe.
you were on yesterday in the morning, but not later (okay, I guess you were sleeping then)

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Lalaith
you were on yesterday in the morning, but not later (okay, I guess you were sleeping then)

I was on at.... lessee.. can't remember. Don't confuse me. Yes, actually I was on at dinnertime. Then, I went off.

[Lalaith]

Originally posted by Linaewen
I was on at.... lessee.. can't remember. Don't confuse me. Yes, actually I was on at dinnertime. Then, I went off.
Which means it was morning here in Austria. I still don't know the exact time difference.

[Linaewen]

It's 8 hours, Lai. You should know. I told you on the Palantir yesterday.

A way to tell you're obsessed with LotR:
-You refuse to accept a gift of 2 guinea pigs because they are female. You want to name them Sam and Frodo. (Galadriel the Guinea Pig just sounds weird)

[Lalaith]

8 hours. Okay, I'll remember that. I always thought it must be something like 12 or 11 hours.

On topic:
Obsessed if you are cooking and every now and then come back to entmoot during cooking
Obsessed when you read LotR every night before you go sleeping

[Anglorfin]

Originally posted by Lalaith

Obsessed when you read LotR every night before you go sleeping

A lot of people read before they goto bed. More like you read LotR every night instead of going to bed. ;)

[slave21ring]

u know ur truely a smeagol fan when-

1. the only food you eat is conies, fish, and birdses.

2. u mutter incessantly about 'nasty hobbitses'

more later!

[Lalaith]

Originally posted by Anglorfin
A lot of people read before they goto bed. More like you read LotR every night instead of going to bed. ;)
I do it to get tired. Reading it in english makes me soo damn tired, it works every evening.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by slave21ring
u know ur truely a smeagol fan when-

1. the only food you eat is conies, fish, and birdses.


:eek: Run for it, Coney!

You know you're obsessed when you accidentally write "Middle Earth" instead of "Middle East" for some History assignment or other. Repeatedly.

You force your toddler sister/brother to sit down for hours and listen to you read the LotR. No matter that they start crying- their eyes are watering because of the sheer beauty.

You accidentally refer to yourself as your Entmoot username, forgetting your Atani name.

[Jonathan]

Originally posted by Linaewen
You accidentally refer to yourself as your Entmoot username, forgetting your Atani name. Well, that's something I don't have to worry about :D

You know when your obsessed with LotR when you know the name of every Tolkien concept artist and know every painting that they've drawn.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Jonathan
Well, that's something I don't have to worry about :D

You know when your obsessed with LotR when you know the name of every Tolkien concept artist and know every painting that they've drawn.

I should hope not. (When I was thinking about this, I was going to say that but I forgot to)

Hmm? That's impressive, Jon. Except I don't really like the works of some people. (Won''t mention who, I know you like their works)

[Elf Girl]

Originally posted by Linaewen
You know you're obsessed when you accidentally write "Middle Earth" instead of "Middle East" for some History assignment or other. Repeatedly.
I did that!

Originally posted by Linaewen
You accidentally refer to yourself as your Entmoot username, forgetting your Atani name.
Well, everyone who doesn't know me at my school refers to me as 'the Elf Girl' (either that or 'the hippie elf on LSD') so I pretty much answer to that now. :rolleyes:

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Elf Girl


Well, everyone who doesn't know me at my school refers to me as 'the Elf Girl' (either that or 'the hippie elf on LSD') so I pretty much answer to that now. :rolleyes:
Hippie on LSD?! :eek: Horrible. Just unsheath your sword a bit at school...perhaps they will stop a little....

You know you're obsessed when you refuse to do anything normal during a day, so you can read LotR. Such as having a shower, eating, or Eru forbid... going to the toilet!

You also bring your LotR books to restaurants, to read there. Never mind that it is a formal occasion, and people stare at you.

[Lalaith]

Originally posted by Linaewen

You accidentally refer to yourself as your Entmoot username, forgetting your Atani name.
I always refer to my entmoot name online. I am registered under my real name on another message board and everytime I write something I want to sign with Lalaith. It's weird.
And when somebody replies with saying my real name I'm really confused.
I'm obsessed. It's a shame.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Lalaith
I always refer to my entmoot name online. I am registered under my real name on another message board and everytime I write something I want to sign with Lalaith. It's weird.
And when somebody replies with saying my real name I'm really confused.

Now that is a shame. I don't forget my real name that much unlike [edited]. (Yes, Lai, that IS you!)

edited by azalea. Named user requested it to be edited in her next post.

[Lalaith]

Originally posted by Linaewen
Now that is a shame. I don't forget my real name that much, unlike .... (Yes, Lai, that IS you!)
Now you told them my real name. Edit it. Edit it. Please.

[slave21ring]

u know u are way 2 obsessed w/ smeagol when:

3.) u refer to yourself as "we" and you're constantly talking to "my precious"

4.) u hate elves of all sorts

5.) stupid fat slow hobbits get on your nerves

6.) u only eat raw meat. they can keep their nassty fish and chips, we likes nice conies.

7.) your last boyfriend gave u the 1 ring after going out 4 a week!

8.) your schizophrenic, and no matter how much other people tell you to stop muttering to yourself in dark corners, you can't stop.

unfortunetly, most of these r true 4 me. ;) ;) ;)

more later

[Elf Girl]

Is 4 true for you?

*sob* She hates me! :(

[Lalaith]

Why are we, the Elves, always hated? What have we done? *suffering with Elf Girl*

[azalea]

Originally posted by Linaewen


BTW: Today I saw 'Azalea Park' and chuckled. When we wrote questions for 'To Kill A Mockingbird Trivia' in class, my one related to azaleas (Miss Maudie's favourite flower) Hehe.

Lol, I do the same types of things -- for instance, yesterday I went to the beach and it was off of a street named Wayfarer Lane, so of course I thought of Entmoot!

[Elf Girl]

Originally posted by Linaewen
Hippie on LSD?! :eek: Horrible. Just unsheath your sword a bit at school...perhaps they will stop a little....
I don't mind 'hippie' at all. It's true, really. But I am NOT on LSD, nor have I ever been, nor will I ever be! :eek:

[Nurvingiel]

At your local movie theatre, you insist that the ticket seller lets you buy an advance RotK ticket, right now.

When he doesn't, you call him tricksies and demand to speak to his manager.

Elves are my friends, because I am a tree. (Wow slave21ring, you really are obsessed. But with all LotR, or only Gollum? That's one thing I don't get about Gollum, compared to pretty much everyone else, besides Frodo, the Elves were quite nice to him!)

edit: wrote "Elves" instead of "Gollum" um... oops!

[slave21ring]

hehe, i am as obsess w/ LotR as I am w/ smeagol. and I don't always hate elves... remember, i'm schizophrenic.
there's a site I absolutely love; it's iamsmeagol.net ; the only downfall to it is that the creater says that she is smeagol when, so obviously, i am! ;) unfortunely, it's down right now; being redone or whatever; I check back every day to see if she's done! :D
SMEAGOL LIVES!!!!!!
www.iamsmeagol.net (http://www.iamsmeagol.net)

[Bombadillo]

Originally posted by slave21ring

SMEAGOL LIVES!!!!!! Noooooooooo... That's bad...
BUt, I actually have a real studder type thing and I often find myself talking to me. But I was like that before I read LotR, so that's irrelevant and frankly off-topic... so I'll post somethiong usefull:

... you see a big pile of crap in the woods and you think "Beorn!"

... whenever you see a guy with long hair and a beard you want to thank him for protecting your town.

... if you hear someone swallow or make a gutteral noise you get suspicious of them.

... every time you see a pipe you start to cry because it reminds you of JRR. *bows head*

... when your lost in a vast, isolated forest without any provisions or company, you look at some tree and are reminded. "Damn. I miss the moot."

[Anglorfin]

Originally posted by Bombadillo
... when your lost in a vast, isolated forest without any provisions or company, you look at some tree and are reminded. "Damn. I miss the moot."

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Just struck me as hilarious for some reason.

[Starr Polish]

- You know the actual disorder that Gollum/Smeagol has, and it's NOT schizophrenia. It's multiple personality disorder. Anyone who claims to be Gollum might be schizo though. ;)

-Your cell phone has "Mae Govannen" as its' welcome screen and says "Frodo Lives!" when it's idle

- Your prom dress was representative of a LOTR/medieval style, long sleeves, circlet and all

-Your Frodoll is your internet monitor

-You try to incorporate LOTR into every art project you can

-You plan on staying at your job at the theater until December just to dress up LOTR style for the opening weekend of ROTK, and to get ACTUAL movie posters.

[Lady_Of_The_Wood]

that.[/FONT] I'm guilty of almost all of Them My family says "i need a life" but come on tolkien is a genuis. who else could come up with such cool names. I couldn't . well sam is a common name but he changed it all. Sam became samwise and bill became bilbo. See tolkien is a genuis. The only way to be obsessed is to stalk Tolkiens descendants and i wouldn't want to do that

[Linaewen]

You apologise to your books when you are too busy to read them.

[Dreran the Green]

You get totally freaked out if you forget how to spell Sauron's name and start frantically searching for the correct spelling.

But its OK cos I remembered:D

Oh yeah here's another:

There are absolutely NO MORE quizzes in the world on LOTR/Middle Earth/Tolkien/Any specific character or race in ME you have not taken. Its kinda boring:o

[Daewen Silverstar]

A few from my own personal experience:

-You call your best friend Frodo and she/he calls you Sam

-You begin to see certain words from everyday life as words from Middle Earth. For example, Ford, i see a Frodo, Celebrate as Celeborn, Lithium as Luthien, Habbit as Hobbit, and Going and Gollum

-You really want a sword. BAD. So bad that you went into the local army surplus store and kept nagging the guy to sell you one but he refused.

-You then tried to hit the guy up to sell you a pocket knife at the very least...but he wouldn't let you buy one because you were too young (you have to be 18. go figure)

-You try to add bits and pieces of Elvish into your daily conversations

-You have memorized the Elvish lines in the movie and quote them at random, hoping that someone will respond correctly (ie; you say to the guy you like "renich i lu i erui govannem?" and hope he will respond with "nauthannen i ned ol reniannen."

-You get so upset that people don't know the proper way to respond that you go to www.elvish.org/gwaith/movie.htm and print out all the elvish lyrics and make your friends read them with you so that you can have an elvish conversation

-You keep telling all the guys you know to take the lord of the rings personality test at selectsmart.com hoping that one of them will get Aragorn (since you have the BIGGEST crush on him)

-When people notice that your best friend (the above mentioned Frodo) is calling you Sam, they start doing it too, but you get mad because only Frodo can call you Sam, but tell them that they can call you Arwen if they'd like.

-For a project in Modern Arts class you decided to do a got milk advertisement...using Legolas as the one with the milk mustache and having it say,
"Being on the go all the time makes it hard to get the nutrition I need. To keep fighting orcs I need more than just lembas...I need milk! It gives me the calcium I need to keep killing orcs...and to keep sweeping ladies off their feet."

-You wish the above mentioned Frodo could get hurt in the wild so that you could take care of her/him and take her/him to safety.

-All of your favorite websites are Lord of the Rings related

-You feel disloyal when you read another fantasy book

[Dreran the Green]

Mwahahahaa, its all so true!

[Nurvingiel]

Originally posted by Daewen Silverstar
-For a project in Modern Arts class you decided to do a got milk advertisement...using Legolas as the one with the milk mustache and having it say,
"Being on the go all the time makes it hard to get the nutrition I need. To keep fighting orcs I need more than just lembas...I need milk! It gives me the calcium I need to keep killing orcs...and to keep sweeping ladies off their feet."

Welcome, Daewen Silverstar, you are truly obsessed.

I've been in this particular thread for a while, and I'm starting to run out of ideas. If I was completely obsessed with LotR, I wouldn't run out of ideas...

[Dreran the Green]

I know its getting hard. Here's one:

At lunch you thrust your Sprite in your friends face and ask in a creepy voice: "Will you look into the soda can of Galadriel?"

[Linaewen]

Great one, Dreran the Green! lol.

This morning I had the weirdest dream. It was LotR meets Star Wars and Harry Potter. It had:
-Desert (Something I associate with Star Wars, though I've not seen it yet)
-Aragorn with white hair
-Galadriel narrating
-Blast-Ended- Skrewts from Harry Potter
-Possibly LotR theme music

And you know when your alarm goes of, and you think you are awake, but you're still dreaming? Well, I dreamt that I woke, and went straight on the net at school (Yes, climbed out of bed straight to the school's computer), to do some fun RPG thing with some 'Mooters.

And then, I thought I really woke up, but I clearly didn't because I got a PM (on a scroll) from the real Linaewen of Entmoot, whose name was Linaewen Tinuviel.

Then I woke up for real. I think?!

[Jonathan]

You are obsessed with LotR when you dream weird dreams about Entmoot (like Linaewen does).

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Jonathan
You are obsessed with LotR when you dream weird dreams about Entmoot (like Linaewen does).

Tell me about it. Actually, in the dream, Linaewen Tinuviel sent the PM through you. So it was your fault, Jonathan :D

I'm sure there's an element of my LotR dream that I have forgotten. *shrugs*

[azalea]

Originally posted by Linaewen

-Desert (Something I associate with Star Wars, though I've not seen it yet)


Wait, wait, wait....what do you mean you haven't "seen it yet?"

[Nurvingiel]

You're obsessed with LotR if you think Foray's (sp?) Requiem sounds like LotR music from the movie.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by azalea
Wait, wait, wait....what do you mean you haven't "seen it yet?"

Erm.. *eyes dart around* maybe ......what of it? :p

Oh, I've got another of those misreading word things (Like Eleven = Elven and others) I read the biscuit brand name 'Westons' as 'Westron'. I seriously rubbed my eyes when I saw that.
Also, I found it funny when I saw someone's surname was Rohan. And in Indonesian, Rohani is a name. Hehe.

-Also, I keep moving seats to get away from the sun in the classrooms. I tell my friends I move to be away from the 'yellow face'

[Lalaith]

I dreamt of LotR (some time ago).
I was on a adventure journey with the hobbits. Very strange.

You are obsessed if you want to convince your friends to call you Lai because you haven't got a nick name in real life.

[Dreran the Green]

Someone should start a thread about LOTR dreams! Or has that been done yet? Anyway, I had one last night too. I was in M E and I got kidnapped by Sarumaun because he thought I knew where the ring was. Then when I said I didn't he turned me into a crow Then Gandalf and everyone came because it was the scene from The Voice of Sarumaun and I kept squawking "Help! I'm stuck up here in a birdcage!" So finally Gandalf made Grima throw me down the stairs and Legolas picked me up and he thought I was a cute little birdie:D I think I got changed back into myself after Helm's Deep, don't really remember.

You are obsessed with LOTR when someone shouts at you when you are daydreaming and you yell "Gondor!!"

[Anglorfin]

I think there is a thread about dreams. Maybe I am thinking of the TookTalk board though . . .

You know you're addicted to Tolkien when you are playing golf and you keep imagining yourself as Bandobras Took.

Or you entertain yourself with you Tolkien buddies by taking random words and try to rearrange the letters to make a Tolkien compatible word.

[azalea]

Originally posted by Anglorfin
I think there is a thread about dreams. Maybe I am thinking of the TookTalk board though . . .



There is one here, I think it's in Middle Earth. There's also a general Dreams thread in GM, I think.

[Radagast The Brown]

Anglorfin, there's a dream thread in Took talk. There's a dream thread in Entmoot too... somewhere. It was in LOTR forums. But it can be moved.

[Nurvingiel]

I've had three extremely cool dreams about LotR. Even though I am actually a tree, I was a hobbit, or at least the role of one, in all three dreams.


I was either Sam or Pippin, and Frodo, Merry, Pippin (or Sam) and I were crossing a obstacle course-type boardwalk. It was high off the ground, but very deep snow was level with it. We were being chased by Saruman.


I was Sam, and Frodo and were going to Mordor to destroy the Ring. At one point, we were in a huge, hollow tree. From there, Gandalf led us into a dark, cave-like mine. (Read: Moria) After the mine, Frodo and I were on our own. On the path to Mordor, we were chased by a huge boulder with a mind of its own. Mordor itself was strange, and all barren, reddish rock. There was a huge, square pit, teeming with Sauron's minions. The destruction of the Ring is not actually part of this dream.


I was Frodo, and I was being chased by the Nazgul down a busy town street. It was a medieval-style town, not a modern one. They chased me on horseback, and I ran through the crowd, onto a beach. They gained on me on the beach, and I ducked into a dark warehouse. The Nazgul didn't follow me here, but wierd, small people were trying to get the Ring. I hid, lying on my stomach, under some low shelves. The ground was covered in broken glass, but I wasn't cut. The weird people reached in at me, trying to get the Ring. One wall of the warehouse was pulled down, and I escaped. On the beach, a black, horse-drawn coach pulled up, presumable to whisk me off to safety.


The End

of my three LotR dreams.

Obsessed? I'm feeling it!

[samwiselvr2008]

HMMM, I haven't had a Lord of the Rings Dream in the longest time!

You know that your obsessed with The Lord of the Rings when your friends have to say your name twise to get your attention, and then say "you were dreaming about Lord of the Rings or Sam again, wernt you?" And you say "Ya, my Sammy" or "I was just thinking about Lord of the Rings and_______ was happening" At this point, they usually sigh and tell me what they had interupted my day dreaming to tell me in the first place.

Or, you know that your obsessed with Lord of the Rings when something like this happens to you:
One time, at school, I was reading Lord of the Rings, and I was so into the book, that I was reading it when the teacher told us to pute our books away, and I cept on reading for a couple of minutes, untill the teacher noticed me and yelled at me, and still, she had to yell my name more then ones for me to hear. I think that I had to write "I will listen and follow directions the first time given" like 30 times for that. Stupid english teacher, she just didn't understand. That was the first time that I read Lord of the Rings, and I just wanted to know what was going to happen!:mad:

[Ararax]

how dare you assume i am obsessed i will run ye through with my sword foul orc
*keeps screaming bout the damn saurons minions as the police drag him away*

[azalea]

ORIGINALLY POSTED BY DAEWEN SILVERSTAR
You Know You're Obsessed With LOTR When...

1- You figure out what race all of your friends would be in middle earth, even if they don't like lotr themselves

2- During the movies, you translate the elvish that didn't have subtitles

3- You refuse to date someone until you know what character they are most like in ME

4- You begin to see certain words as words from ME (ie; legless= legolas, celebrate= celeborn, lithium= luthien, ect.)

5- You accedently pronounce celebrate as kelebrate

6- You add tidbits of elvish into your conversations

7- Your friends know a fair amount about lord of the rings and they have never seen the movies or read the books...it's all from your talking

8- You have a shrine to lotr or an lotr character in your room

9- You give yourself an elvish name (or dwarvish or hobbit or whatever your favorite race might be)

10- You call your best friend Frodo and she/he calls you Sam (or vice versa)



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[LeniFreak]

I'd like to see them spend a week, living life out in Helm's Deep, I don't think they would survive. If they could spend a day or two walking in an Uruk-Hai's shoes, I think they'd stumble and they'd fall. They would fall.

That is HYSTERICAL!

*Your habit of speaking Elvish has been picked up by nonobsessed friends of yours, whose older brothers then have to ask you to translate mortal insults into English.

[Dreran the Green]

* You have officially declared a tree in the park to be your fortress, known as Minas DreranWatchywoozywhichacallit
* When you see someone else in your fortress, you grab the nearest thing that can pass for a magic staff and challenge them to a duel
* When they ignore you, charge at them shouting 'To the death!' in a language from Middle Earth

[Daewen Silverstar]

You start an argument with your science teacher as to why most Hobbits don't swim. I actually did this...not sure how it came up though.

You've noticed that you are using bunsun burners more and more often in science labs and are begining to think that maybe your science teacher is hanging out with Denethor too much.

You're little sister tells you to stop talking to trees.

When you hear people say doll, whether they're referring to the toy or calling someone else a doll, you imediatly think of Tom Bombabdil.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Daewen Silverstar

When you hear people say doll, whether they're referring to the toy or calling someone else a doll, you imediatly think of Tom Bombabdil.
Or when you do your Biology exam, and there's a reference to rabbits, you immediately think 'Coney'. :p

You are planning to start a range of chocolates replacing 'Freddo Frogs' with them- 'Frodo Frogs', 'Gandalf Frogs' 'Merry Frogs' etc. etc...with the help of cassiopeia , Entmoot buddy and fellow Aussie! :D

[cassiopeia]

Could you really eat Frodo, though? He's so cute! (Yes, I'm talking about the book, where he's described as 'fairer than most'.) I wonder what Sauron or Shelob would taste like? :eek: (See, I didn't say Aragorn, did I?) :D
Actually, Lin, I've seen LOTR chocolates here. There's packets with (movie) Frodo, Aragorn, Legolas, ect. on the front. And yes, I did buy a chocolate block once because it had Aragorn on the front.:p

[Daewen Silverstar]

Here are a few more. Hugs to my friends on the barrowdowns for helping me think these up!

-You get up and unexpectedly leave the house and when you return, say that you were suddenly summoned to a secret council in Rivendell.

-You go into the movies and the salesclerk behind the counter says "The Usual"

-When you or your friends has to go to the principal's office, you say, "One cannot simply walk into the office. There is evil there that does not sleep."

-During the school band concert, one of the songs brings Rohan to mind...this one happened to me actually.

-You watch movies just because cast members from Lord of the Rings are in it.

[Dreran the Green]

I have most of those. Here're s'more:

You insist to every guy you know that if they just let their hair grow a little longer and curlier and maybe developed a slight accent...

You make your own magic staff.

You wait endlessly while posting on entmoot for your Narya!!!!

Your friends e-mail you pictures of eagles because you are trapped on Orthanc

You begin to wonder what Shelob would taste like because you saw a post about chocolate LOTR characters on the moot somewhere

[Ararax]

you go down on one knee and pull out the ring to propose and all of a sudden you say NOOO its mineeeeeee my PREACIOUSSSSSS and run away and jump in the flameing desert.

[Dreran the Green]

How very romantic;)

[azalea]

Originally posted by Daewen Silverstar


-You go into the movies and the salesclerk behind the counter says "The Usual"



This one is priceless.:D

Ararax, it would be even better if you run away and jump into the flaming dessert !:D

[Jonathan]

You know you're obsessed with LotR when you play Warcraft III or another computer game and you give your units LotR names or names of fellow 'Mooters.
(Totday, I called a lizard in Warcraft III Lizra :D )

[Bombadillo]

You call your living room or den 'the common room.'

[Sheeana]

Originally posted by Jonathan
You know you're obsessed with LotR when you play Warcraft III or another computer game and you give your units LotR names or names of fellow 'Mooters.
(Totday, I called a lizard in Warcraft III Lizra :D )

Poor Lizra. :D

I've named all my characters in Shadowbane by randomly pulling 'em out of the HoME 5 index. :D (Silmerosse Helevorn, Isil Moonsheen, and Melian.)

[Gwaimir Windgem]

I was strongly tempted to name my characters from Tolkien's works (my Centaur is actually named Glenstorm), but I decided to be more original. :)

Then I went and named my Scout (archer) Cuthalion Strongbow. :rolleyes: ;)

[samwiselvr2008]

When you are sitting at a band concert at school with your class, and the directer comes up and says "The first pease that we will hear played by the 8th grade band, you will probally reconise if you have been to see many movies in the past year or so. This pease is taken from snippits of diffrent songs from The Lord of the Rings" and every one in your class that isn't in band turns around and looks at you. Later while talking to a friend, she informs you that a couple people in her class wisperd your name when this was said.

[Starr Polish]

When at state contest for choir and band you see that the last band is playing "Gandalf" and you yearn to stay until nearly 10 PM just to hear that song.

[Nurvingiel]

Sometimes I download random music because either the name of the song or the band sounds LotRish, or, even better, it is about LotR.

[Dreran the Green]

Originally posted by Starr Polish
When at state contest for choir and band you see that the last band is playing "Gandalf" and you yearn to stay until nearly 10 PM just to hear that song.

I have another choir related one:

When you and your other LOTR freak friend get a duet in a song that reminds you of hobbits, you find a big poster of Frodo to hold up while singing

We are doing this tonight:D

[Daewen Silverstar]

You turn to people randomly and quote elvish lines which scares everyone you say it to.

Eventually the entire student body/co-workers are no longer surprised to hear ur elvish lines and are begining to expect it.

You constantly duct tape ur ears to a point

[Bombadillo]

You have a four hour Saturday detention, and you forgot your book. To pass the time you imagine the battle of Helm's Deep, every detail.

You ever had this nightmare: A teacher finally found out you've been mooting all the time in her class, so you walk in one day and she wrote "NO ENTMOOT IN CLASS" on the board. You wake up sweating.

[samwiselvr2008]

When you hold up sighns with Gollum quotes on it instead of talking to your sister.

[cassiopeia]

When you get really annoyed when you see 'dwarves' written as 'dwarfs'. I saw that spelling in the paper the other day (specifically related to Tolkien) and it really annoyed me.

I know dwarfs is the proper spelling, but I think it should be changed!

[Nurvingiel]

I agree! To me "dwarfs" is a verb, as in "the huge pine dwarfs the small statue." I don't see it as a noun at all.

Related experience, the other day I was doing a crossword puzzle, and the clue was "elves". I had no idea what it was until I filled in practically all the letters with the other clues. The answer was "dwarfs"! The very fact that that pissed me off inicates LotR obsessed-ness. ;D

[samwiselvr2008]

I can never remember if with Tolkien spelling it is dwarfs or dwarves, I'll try to get it right from now on for ya'll! Same with elves and elfs, I just ceep forgetting! Anyways...

(This one is more movie related)
When you go to Orlando Florida on vacation and ceep on looking for Orlando Bloom, and other elves, because maybe Peter Jackson was trying to hint at something by casting Orlando as Legolas, when there's an Orlando in Florida, maybe there are some elves that live there...

(still more movie related- sorry, I did alot of this while I was on vacation in Florida in Orlando, so I cept on thinking of the acter)
When you go to Disney World and ceep on looking for Orlando Bloom (since he's gonna be in Disney's Pirates of the Carabean)so that you can question him on what ROTK is gonna be like.

When you see a sighn that says Dwarfs and think of Lord of the Rings (at Disney World) when it was talking about the 7 Dwarfs in Snow White. Surprisingly I rememberd the "correct" spelling this time and thought about how Tolkien's spelling was better then Disneys.

When on the way home from Florida, you open up The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings and read... untill you think about the family trees and then go to study them, then you see how fast you can find sertan things, and go back...

Your afrade that your mom might take away Lord of the Rings related stuff because of bad grades (I'm showing her my report card tonight, so if I don't get back on for a while, you know why, I should get back on tomorow though, unless I'm grounded... but camp starts Saturday, so don't think that I'm grounded then if I'm not on for about 2 weeks)

I had more, I need to think of them though, sorry that these are so movie related... I wish they were more bookish!

[Finrod Felagund]

Evry computer password you use is one of Gandalf's names. (guilty)

[Dreran the Green]

You buy a necklace with a wizard on it who bears a remarkable resemblance to Gandalf......and you talk to it.

At your graduation from 8th grade (last night, go me) your dad shouts out names of LOTR characters as you walk across the stage. (Mwahahaha....yay)

You have theorized what every character in LOTR would have been like at or near your age, and you have done it so well that you have even convinced friends that Gandalf would have been cute at 16.

You love the new James Bond movie bcause in the beggining 007 has long ranger hair just like Aragorn

[Elvengirl]

Originally posted by Finrod Felagund
Evry computer password you use is one of Gandalf's names. (guilty)
I do the same :o :D

[HobbitChick88]

You know you're obsessed when you not only quote the lines from the movie, you actually quote the extras from FoTR.:o

[Dreran the Green]

LOL:D

You know you are obsessed with LOTR if you read a list of 157 signs of being obsessive on the net and only miss 2.

[Elvengirl]

Originally posted by Dreran the Green
LOL:D

You know you are obsessed with LOTR if you read a list of 157 signs of being obsessive on the net and only miss 2.
very true :D

You know you're obsessed when your idea of an Entmoot no longer consists of just Ents, but of elves and gollums and gimlis and rabbits and devils Atani and I could go on............:D

[eowyngirl14]

dont forget killer ducks, i aw one today on the way to the gandalf vrs. HP thread. i almsot died.

[Dreran the Green]

You know you are obsessed when every day you get up and go on entmoot after breakfast, hoping someone posted on the above mentioned thread so you can reply and argue about how truly awesome Gandalf is. :D

I love that thread, it combines two of the things I love most; Gandalf and arguing!!:D

You know you're obsessed with LOTR when you and your mom get into a debate about whether or not Gwaihir carried Gandalf to Mt. Doom in the store, so you go and find a copy of Return of the King and read through until you find the part you were looking for.

[eowyngirl14]

Originally posted by Dreran the Green
You know you are obsessed when every day you get up and go on entmoot after breakfast, hoping someone posted on the above mentioned thread so you can reply and argue about how truly awesome Gandalf is. :D

I love that thread, it combines two of the things I love most; Gandalf and arguing!!:D

hee hee hee. that is my favorite thread too, cause it combinds two of my favorite things, HP and arguing! and you know deep down that Harry is better!:p :p

[Ruinel]

Originally posted by Elvengirl
You know you're obsessed when your idea of an Entmoot no longer consists of just Ents, but of elves and gollums and gimlis and rabbits and devils and I could go on............:D
Don't forget the Atani... (they get so pissy when you forget to mention them :rolleyes: ) ... there are many Atani who post here also. :D

[Elvengirl]

Oh of course, :rolleyes: *edit* There I added them to the list. But hey it makes them feel important, you know, good for their self-esteem :D

[Ararax]

you know your obsessed when you made 50 psots in 1 day
ps i did the first day i joined :)

[Bombadillo]

Haha! So did I. The first week I signed up at another board, my average was 32 ppd (posts per day). I don't remember mine at the moot though.

[Silme*Christian]

One way to tell you are obsessed with LOTR is if you use it as examples. I do that ALL the time! And if you know the most confusing sentance in the book by heart.(ex. " don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." Bilbo Baggins)

[Ararax]

you nkow your addicted when you dont spell check your posts judt so you can get more posts. plus you think hey they know my typos caus e the see them so much

[Anglorfin]

You know you're addicted when EntMoot is your homepage :D

[Nurvingiel]

You know you're obsessed if you've been in this thread since the beginning (many people here can attest to that.)

Or, if you joined in later on, you're obsessed if you read through the entire thread until you started posting.

:)

[eowyngirl14]

you know your obsessed with message boards when...

you squint your eyes and cover your ears whenever someone types in all capitals. and yell 'STOP SHOUTING' to yourself.

[Rosie Gamgee]

Originally posted by Silme*Christian
One way to tell you are obsessed with LOTR is if you use it as examples. I do that ALL the time! And if you know the most confusing sentance in the book by heart.(ex. " don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." Bilbo Baggins)

I can do that. It's not so confusing as when you first hear it. I use LOTR for examples all the time. Almost everything reminds me of something LOTR.

You know your obsessed if you quote the book to yourself all the time, and laugh at parts you think of when you're in the middle of conversations and make everybody you know think you're crazy.
Or when you watch movies you blurt "He looks just like *insert LOTR name here*!" because whoever it was resembled your imagination's version of Cirdan or Barliman Butterbur or whoever that jabbering lady in ROTK is that keeps saying 'I knew it! The hands of a King are the hands of a healer. I could have told you that!'.
You are really P.O.ed when that little window pops up that says that the admins won't allow you post twice in ninety seconds. :mad:

[Gorthol the Dread Helm]

Or if you've tattooed the "G" rune on your arm.

[Gorthol the Dread Helm]

Oh, and plan to get the text from the ring tattooed on your arm also.

[Bombadillo]

I wouldn't mind having the sacred JRRT symbol. I draw it all over everything else anyway.

[Elvengirl]

Originally posted by Bombadillo
I wouldn't mind having the sacred JRRT symbol. I draw it all over everything else anyway.

Whats that? I'm not sure if I know what it is.

[Dreran the Green]

Its hidden somewhere in all of his illustrations and on many of the book covers, it is a large J combined with a T and two R's. It looks like www.econ.uiuc.edu/~morillo/images/misc/jrrt_cutout.gif (http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:D5zAFWhZsAUC:this


Why does the text for these links always screw up on me??? Ah well, the link still works

[Elf Girl]

~ If you mow the words 'Frodo Lives' into your lawn. (Yes, I've done that. :o )

[Elvengirl]

Originally posted by Elf Girl
~ If you mow the words 'Frodo Lives' into your lawn. (Yes, I've done that. :o )

LOL That's funny :D I haven't done that .......yet :)

Dreran, thanks for showing me. I recogine the symbol, so I have seen it before. :D

[TinuvielChild]

You're walking through the woods with some friends, only one of whom has been down the certain path before, and he stops for a few minutes and then picks the correct path, and you automatically think of Gandalf in Moria.

[barrelrider110]

when you approach an automatic door, you say mellon

[Gamigar]

You start jumping down khazms hoping to meet a balrog on the way down.

[azalea]

Originally posted by barrelrider110
when you approach an automatic door, you say mellon

:D I love this one!

[barrelrider110]

Originally posted by azalea
:D I love this one!
thank you. you should try it--works every time!

[azalea]

Originally posted by barrelrider110
thank you. you should try it--works every time!

Lol:D

[Rosie Gamgee]

Actually, I say, 'edro', which, as you know, means 'open'. But I do like doing that. :D

[Dreran the Green]

I do this to my locker whenever it is stuck. It always works for some reason.

[Lalaith]

When you even think of LotR and Entmoot when you are abroad.

[Bombadillo]

Originally posted by Lalaith
When you even think of LotR and Entmoot when you are abroad. Haha! The other day we were driving up to Pennylvannia, and the entire time i was imagining a violent revolution of PJ-haters. It took place in New Zealand, and people wer standing on hills quoting Eomer's call to arms for Rohan and other such things. It's fun!

[samwise of the shire]

You spell File and Phial :) Guilty
Cheers,
Sam.

[Dreran the Green]

Originally posted by Bombadillo
Haha! The other day we were driving up to Pennylvannia, and the entire time i was imagining a violent revolution of PJ-haters. It took place in New Zealand, and people wer standing on hills quoting Eomer's call to arms for Rohan and other such things. It's fun!

*starts imagining violent revolution of PJ-haters*

Whoaaaaaaaa.....that IS fun:D

[Dreran the Green]

If you run around asking everyone if they would like a PO-TA-TO! When they say no, you ask if they can give you a PO-TA-TO! When they still say no, you tell them they have the brain of a PO-TA-TO! When there is nothing else to do: you spin around on the floor saying "Look at me! I'm a PO-TA-TO!"

[Nurvingiel]

Originally posted by Elf Girl
~ If you mow the words 'Frodo Lives' into your lawn. (Yes, I've done that. :o )

Genius Elf Girl, I think I might be able to get "Sam" into our lawn, but "Frodo lives" is too tall of an order. Sam would like our yard because there's lots of flower beds.

or...

Originally posted by Gamigar
You start jumping down khazms hoping to meet a balrog on the way down.

You spell "chasm" as "khazm" because it looks Swarvish.

~_^ Nice Gamigar, two obsessed points in one.

[eowyngirl14]

you and your best friend buy a Gollum stand up at the mall and then set it up in your car. then you stick it out the sky light in your best friend's mom's car so that everyone can see it. oh ya, and your best friends older brother is in the car and is really really embarrased. hee! hee! hee! i think we scared some old ladys here and there.

yes yes yes i did that today. it was really really fun. even the cops waved. i think we might have cause a couple accidents though.... oh well...


now that the said Gollum stand up is sleeping in your bedroom you keep waking us clutching your ring of power because you are afraid that Gollum might slit your throught in hte middle of the night to take it.

yes... that has happened to. hes really creepy, i keep waking up and Gollums just looking at me! i know he wants my ring of power but hell never get it! NEVER!:)


(oh and just incase you are looking for anything fun to do, turn those clocks with out number on the upside down during the nigth so every one gets freaked out when they wake up and its like 2 30 instead of 8 ocklock. yes that very fun too. until my dad found out it was me... ):D :D

[eowyngirl14]

ph ya i forgot...

me and my best friend drewall over her Legolas stand up. we wroght LOSER on his forhead and gave him lots of zits and big lips and a uni brow.... and then we realized we had used permanent marker. (oopps... i was suppost to find the wipe-off markers... my bad) so we tried to use windex to get it off, but we ended up rubbing off have his face. (darn. cause he was always sooooo attractive *sarcastic voice*) so then we put our make-up on him. (omg! it was sooo much fun!) we put concealer all over his face to hide where we had rubbed away his *skin*. and we gave him sparkly pink eye shadow and mascara. and lots of blush and bringht lipstick. i swear to god he looked exactly like a girl. then we took pictures of him and her Aragorn stand up. they wree prom dates. (I took digital pictures so i can post them here when i get back to my house) it was a real rush man, you should try it some time.

then we dropped Legolas out the second story window. i think the neighbors got a little worried there for a second....
~KAte and Carrie (<eowyngirl14)

[Nurvingiel]

Hahaha!!! :D That reminds me of the time a piece of crap toaster in our residence lit my toast on fire, causing the smoke alarm to ring for two hours. In revenge (and for fire safety) I chucked the offending toaster out a two story window. It smashed brilliantly!

Anyway... I must be obsessed with TTT because I was giving my boyfriend directions on how to get to my obscure residence, and I (allegedly) said "Drive around two towers." I meant to say "Drive around Gage towers."

Cheerio! |N|

[Lalaith]

Obsessed when you try and find a way to go online while you are working.

[Bombadillo]

When you're set free in Venice, you run for an internet cafe and speedmoot your heart out.

[Radagast The Brown]

No, Bomabdillo... that's when you're obsessed with Entmoot.;)

[Dreran the Green]

:D good to see ya Bombadillo. How's Europe?

When you chase a moth around a thrift shop then finally catch it with your bare hand, take it outside, and command it to send a message to the Lord of the Eagles.

Well that wasn't in the book...but I still did it anyway:o :p

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Lalaith
Obsessed when you try and find a way to go online while you are working.

Even I didn't do that when I did work experience. :D I went online but I resisted the call of Entmoot. I looked up medical research terms instead. Go me! How much do you guys think of Entmoot when doing other things?

Oh, and obsessed with Tolkien. Every time I read/hear something about someone dangling off a cliff, I think Maedhros in the Silmarillion. Has happened to me a number of times. :p

[katya]

you are starting to look a bit like a hobbit from lack of exersize. (you're too busy re-reading lotr)

[melianmaia]

you're obsessed with LotR if every night when you are asleep you "see" chapters of lotr as a serial (it stops on the most intresting moment and continues on the next night).
(i'm not that obsessed yet)

[Bombadillo]

You know you're obsessed when you know a guy named Pat the Brown.

[Strongbow]

you know your obsessed when mostof your aches are from mooting too much and your cuts are papaer cuts on silmarillion

[Estel13]

You know you're obsessed when, every time the sun rises, and it's red, you say "A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night."

[nessa]

Not a personal tale to me but one of my brothers. He was lying on the floor in the bathroom, reading his LOTR and painting the skirting board! At the same time and, do you know, he didn't make a mess. We suspect that he had the 'EYE' on mobile duty for himself! :D

[Varda Oiolosseo]

lol!

Your obsessed when at school you are supposed to be drawing a poster to stop people smoking and insted you draw a group of Hobbits sitting around smoking their pipes. :o (i havn't done that but i know someone who has:D)

When you even think of LotR and Entmoot when you are abroad.

The same mate was in Spain (2 years in a row) and they are always showing Lord of the Rings (in Spanish) in like a shopping mall, and she says she stands there and gets drawn in and she quotes the film in English and stands there fighting thin air and then her brother joins in and they act out the film lol.
1st time it was FOTR this year it was TTT their parents were NOT happy. lol

[ethuiliel]

You can write a report on any topic in the world, and you decide to do it on how Tolkien portrayed nature/industry in his books. And you refuse to change your mind when your teacher says it's too dificult for a ninth grader.

Your school system is stupid enough to be open on the week of Christmas, and you are doing nothing in class. So, you get a pass to the library and spend the period going on LotR related websites. Then you go to your next period only to get another pass.

When you shave your legs you refuse to touch your ankles or lower because that's the closest you'll get to hobbit hair.

Most of your friends get you LotR-related Christmas gifts, because they know you'll appreciate it.

You carry these gifts around to all your classes and arange them on your desk, with the place for your assignment only an afterthought.

Almost everything you see or hear reminds you of something in LotR.

When you hear someone say a line that is in the LotR movies, you repeat it in the same voice as the actors did, and add some of the dialogue near it.

:) Guilty of all of the above. :)

[Nurvingiel]

You regard fellow Mooters as personal friends, equal to people you have actually met in person. ;)

[ethuiliel]

You don't have any LotR related t-shirts or jewelry, so you borrow your friend's One Ring (on a chain of course) to wear to the theater on opening night. Then, halfway through the movie you wonder why you are wearing something EVIL, and want to destroy it. Only you remember that it's your friend's and you have to return it, so you just take it off.

:) Guilty again.

[Nurvingiel]

That rocks ethuiliel! :D lol!

I usually post one's I'm guilty of as well. Like this one.

For the past two nights you've had trouble sleeping, but you don't care because you read the Lord of the Rings in the wee hours of the morning until you're too tired to read, and fall asleep.

:D (I read FotR in three days, I actually did get on with my life sometimes, and now I'm in to TTT.)

[Nerdanel]

Your obsessed, if you draw Uruk Hai on the table, when your teacher is talking about Finlands law...And then forget to erase it.
And when you put anything that happens in the "real" world in connection with LotR.:D
Guilty. My friends hate me.:p

[Nurvingiel]

I do that too! (Not the drawing, but the relating everything to LotR thing).

I was playing Boggle (which is a word game where you try to make words out of randomly assorted letters) with my brother, and I found the word "gift" and immediately thought, "That's how Boromir felt about the Ring."

:D

[Nerdanel]

For us, it's nice to see these things, how we are obsessed with LotR. But the people around you can find it a bit... disturbuing..;) :D

Nice though to see that I'm not the only one to be like this!:D

[Arathorn]

When you're tummy's rumbling, you say out loud:

I'm sooo hungry, I can eat an orc!

and more disturbingly you answer yourself:

And they don't tastes very nice, do they, precioussss? :D

[Arathorn]

Whenever you see a rerun of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous , you start thinking of that guy in charge of making all those great armor and sets for LOTR.

[Maedhros]

If you are a real JRRT fan, you would spend hours like me in trying to find the .txt files of the books and formatting them in order for them to look exactly like the ones in the published book. (Even using hyperlinks too, so that the contents page of the file works too. )

[ethuiliel]

Your favorite number is 111, but only when it's eleventy-one. One hundred eleven is just boring.

:) Still guilty.

[samwiselvr2008]

When all anyone can think to get you for christmas has to do with LOTR in some way (action figures, a trip to the movie ect.)

[ethuiliel]

Your mom is taking too long in the post office and you are stuck in the car. The windows are foggy, so you make circles on them with your watch. Then you label them things like: "One Ring", "Nenya", "Narya", and "Vilya". Then you make a list of all the people who ever touched the One Ring, in order. Then you write all the people you can think of who ever had one of the 3, 7, or 9.

When all anyone can think to get you for christmas has to do with LOTR in some way (action figures, a trip to the movie ect.) You are confused when you open a Christmas present and it's not LotR-related.

Your friend loves the Lord of the Rings movies, but hasn't read the book yet. So you repeatedly ask her if she has read "it" yet, or when she will start reading "it." And, she always knows what "it" is.

:) Still guilty. Hey, what's the fun in coming up with obsessive things you haven't done? Then it feels like you're not obsessed enough.

[ethuiliel]

The first thing you do after opening your presents on Christmas is go online to post ways you are obsessed...while listening to your new Tolkien Ensemble CD.

You get your sister (the movie fan of the family, while you are the book fan) the Two Towers soundtrack for her birthday, and press the play button of the CD player more than she does.

[Elvengirl]

Originally posted by samwiselvr2008
When all anyone can think to get you for christmas has to do with LOTR in some way (action figures, a trip to the movie ect.)

guilty :D I recieved many LOTR related things. :)

[Starr Polish]

The soundtrack. I'm going to buy some Tolkien books (think, History of Middle Earth) with the gift certificates I was given.

[ethuiliel]

You keep coming back on this thread to post other (true) signs you are obsessed.

You got 2 LotR wall calendars and 2 LotR day calanders for Christmas,... and don't think that it's too much.

You have 10 LotR bookmarks and each day you choose a new one, based on what you are reading that day. (What will I do when I start reading something else?. I guess I'll still use those bookmarks, but I won't be able to match the bookmarks to what I'm reading.)

[samwiselvr2008]

Or when your book is marked so that to find a chapter, all you have to do is pull a tab from the side or the top.

When your friends test you to see if you know what book each chapter is in, by looking in the table of contecnts, saying a chapter name, and seeing if you can tell them wich book it's in, and what part of the book (first or second half).

Or when you play a game with a friend where they tell you how many letters are in a name, the first and last letter, and 1-2 other letters to see if you can tell them what the name is.

when you have a compation with some friends, where you and a friend take one thing, a noun, and see if she can compare it to her boyfriend, and if you can compare it to LOTR, to see who's more obsessed (it was easyer for her b/c she could name things easily for stuff like makeup, electrisidy, and stuff like that while I would have to go out on a branch, and then they told me that it had to relate to the book only, not the movies, so electrisity and makeup were really hard, because I coudn't just say "the charicters in the book had no electrisady")

[Earniel]

When it has snowed overnight and your garden is nicely covered with a white blanket and you look outside and just see a glimpse of the end of a large wolflike animal disappearing behind a few bushes.

Your first thought is NOT "Dang, the neighbour's sheparddog got into our garden again, no wonder all our cats don't want to go outside." but "The Brandywine must be frozen! The wolves have crossed the Brandywine river!"

Guilty, guilty, guilty....:D

[ethuiliel]

You got 2 LotR wall calendars and 2 LotR day calanders for Christmas,... and don't think that it's too much. and the only reason you are excited on New Years Eve is that at midnight you can put up those calandars.

[Valandil]

c...c...can't ... stay away... from Entmoot!

[Nurvingiel]

Originally posted by Valandil
c...c...can't ... stay away... from Entmoot! Agreed! This is outlined by a 4 digit post count. Congrats. :D

If you're not at 1000 posts, you know you're obsessed with LotR when you know you will post a lot and long enough to achieve this thing. :D

[Nerdanel]

I soon should start concentrating on school, but my mind is on Tolkien-books all the time! Actually, I'm getting withdrawal symptoms if I'm away from his books or the films OR Entmoot for to long (that is 24 hours..):D

Isn't it wonderful?:p

[samwiselvr2008]

When you try to chill from the books/movies etc. for a while, but you ceep getting these images going through your head, and ceep hearing quotes from the charicters in your head, and just can't wate to open the book or do something Tolkienish again.

[ethuiliel]

You write a 15-page book report on LotR and feel that you left out important (to you) parts.

[Nerdanel]

Originally posted by ethuiliel
You write a 15-page book report on LotR and feel that you left out important (to you) parts.

I recognice that! In school, we read books with a certain theme, and I'm always trying to convince my swedish-teacher that some of Tolkien's books fits in that theme..:D And sometimes, I succeed!

[ethuiliel]

I recognice that! In school, we read books with a certain theme, and I'm always trying to convince my swedish-teacher that some of Tolkien's books fits in that theme.. And sometimes, I succeed! That's cool.

You have LotR in a boxed set, but usually it's just an empty box on your shelf because you keep re-reading it, or looking things up, or trying to find trivia questions, or....

[Nurvingiel]

You're surprised if someone hasn't read the books, and nearly die of shock if they haven't read them, no matter where they're from.

:D

[ethuiliel]

You carve your favorite character's name into your (school's styrofoam) lunch tray. Then you frame it, and carve little hearts around it.

In soccer practice when you have to run laps for your warm up, you pretend that you are Aragorn, Legolas or Gimli to keep from slowing to a walk.

In swim practice you pretend to be Boromir, Faramir or one of the two other people who swims across the river when Osgiliath was overrun by Orcs. (Boro mentions this in the Council)

After swim practice, when you are freezing cold and dripping wet, you put on your ring necklace before you dry off and put on dry clothes.

When you tell your (LotR-obsessed) sister about something that reminded you of LotR or something you did that was LotR-related, she looks exasperated, and ignores you, pretends she doesn't know you, or does something similar.

[Nurvingiel]

You have dreams about LotR. (I just had a bizarre nightmare where I had the Ring.)

[katya]

Originally posted by ethuiliel

In soccer practice when you have to run laps for your warm up, you pretend that you are Aragorn, Legolas or Gimli to keep from slowing to a walk.


Guilty! :) Actually it wasn't soccer practice though...

You name your biology creature a dobbit (because you subconciously connect it with hobbit!!)

You pretend the microscope in biology class is the Mirror of Galadriel.

[Nurvingiel]

Originally posted by katya
You pretend the microscope in biology class is the Mirror of Galadriel. Lol katya! :D

[Elvengirl]

Originally posted by Nurvingiel
You have dreams about LotR.

Happens all the time :)

You seriously think about a cool LOTR related saying to put on a licence plate. :)

[matthew]

Im guilty of the dreams, and sleeping with my face in a book.
I also have elvish names for my hamsters.
beat THAT, fools. :D

[Twista]

Originally posted by katya
Guilty! :) Actually it wasn't soccer practice though...



What as it exactly then? lol

[Nerdanel]

Originally posted by matthew
Im guilty of the dreams, and sleeping with my face in a book.
I also have elvish names for my hamsters.
beat THAT, fools. :D

OK, I can't beat that..:( But I named my cat Affe like 7 years ago, and I found out, a few months ago, that it's monkey in german..:o Poor cat.;)

If some of my friends ask me something about the books or the films, like why they did or said something that they didn't understand, I can go on about it for hours.. Now they don't ask me so much anymore. Wonder why?:confused: :p

[Nurvingiel]

Originally posted by matthew
Im guilty of the dreams, and sleeping with my face in a book.
I also have elvish names for my hamsters.
beat THAT, fools. :D When my brother and I were kids, we named our Guinea pigs Merry and Pippin. (Pippin was mine.)

[katya]

Originally posted by Twista
What as it exactly then? lol
I was training for cross country (where you run about 3.5 miles at a meet).

[Sminty_Smeagol]

You paint the elvish hymns (in the tengwar) around your doorframes in silver

You are reminded of Tolkien characters when you see certain people

You constantly accidently write a letter in the tengwar when writing in english
You start sounding 't, d, th, th, ng, y' when you try to recite the alphabet in your head (this is the order I learned the tengwar)

You carve elvish gravestones with the words resembling Turin's and place them over where you buried your dead fish, customized (for legolas, one for gollum)

[Elanor's Angel]

Before entering your house you make all your friends say "friend " in another language before you screem "you shall not pass" at them while you thro a stick on the ground and fall of your porch.
Elanor's Angel

;)



ZFrodo Lives! :D :D :D

[Falagar]

But before you scream "You shall not pass" you have to ignite them and cry: "the burning hair will not avail you, flame of Ûdun!"

[samwiselvr2008]

Originally posted by ethuiliel
You write a 15-page book report on LotR and feel that you left out important (to you) parts.

Typed? In what font size? In what font? I'm determend to mach you now!

[Lady Ravyn]

Originally posted by Sminty_Smeagol
You paint the elvish hymns (in the tengwar) around your doorframes in silver

You are reminded of Tolkien characters when you see certain people

You constantly accidently write a letter in the tengwar when writing in english
You start sounding 't, d, th, th, ng, y' when you try to recite the alphabet in your head (this is the order I learned the tengwar)

You carve elvish gravestones with the words resembling Turin's and place them over where you buried your dead fish, customized (for legolas, one for gollum)

I have Tengwar written Over my door ("Speak now and enter my realm") AND on my lightswitch covers ("ON/OFF" AND on my socket plates ("Plug it in")

and i named my beta fish Gilgalad ("gilly" for short; get it?! GIL-ly?! hahahaha...oh well...)

you know you're obsessed when every time you read a book, you pronounce all names and strange places as if they were Elvish words

you have a shrine to LotR on your dresser (and you're beggining to need a bigger dresser...)

[Nurvingiel]

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

...you try to get your roommate to re-name her fish Isildur.
... you buy a KFC chicken bucket just because it has LotR pictures on it, wash it out, and keep it forever and ever.
(I did not do the second one.)

[ethuiliel]

You carve the words "My Precious", then a ring on a chain, then an arrow into your lunch tray just to see how much you can scare your friends.

You have a quiz in English class and can't remember the name of a certain river or the ferryman who took people across that river, so you just write Bruinen and Glorfindel.

In History you are learning about Pompeii, and your warm-up question is "What is a volcano?" (what kind of question is that?!?!) After answering the question you write: ex. Mt. Doom.

Then you keep whispering things about dropping rings into Vesuvius and running away as fast as your little hobbit legs can carry you.

[hectorberlioz]

if you name almost all your pets after lotr characters...

[ethuiliel]

While on a vacation at the beach, you see waves that look like horses. For the rest of the vacation you look at the ocean trying to see horses, and suceeding.

When you are bored you try to think of a person, place, or thing from LotR for each letter of the alphabet.

Then you try to memorize the poems and songs in LotR, and have already succeeded with more than half, including many very long ones.

Then you recite the poems in LotR when you are bored.

[Lady Ravyn]

Originally posted by Nurvingiel
You know you're obsessed with LotR when...

... you buy a KFC chicken bucket just because it has LotR pictures on it, wash it out, and keep it forever and ever.
(I did not do the second one.)

i did save a Burger King cup that has Gandalf on it; and the straw... :p

[Bombadillo]

You know you're obsessed when you write LotR Power Metal lyrics everywhere you go. You know you're really obsessed when you come to call your songs "geometry classwork."

[Twista]

In history lessons, me and my mate do nothing, infact we just draw Lotr stuff on our folders and dream of 'Middle-Earthian Studies' instead of History lol.

[ArwenEvenstar]

I think this sums it up (http://www.geocities.com/heretherebehobbits/Obsessed.html)
:D

[ethuiliel]

When, in history class, you hear that Hannibal used "war elephants" you have a strong urge to yell something about them being Oliphaunts, not elephants.

[ryttu3k]

You can have a serious discussion on whether a Hobbit diet would be nutritionally sustaining and keep a straight face.

You've drawn detailed maps of Hobbiton, Minas Tirith and Edoras (and marked where you want to live).

You've spent an hour trying to convince a friend of the benefits of living in Edoras over Melbourne (the climate is better, for a start, and I'd choose horses over shopping any day).

Guilty :D

[Elanor's Angel]

ethuiliel, You recite lotR when you are not bored.:)

guilty

Frodo Lives! Elanor's Angel

[Mrs Maggot]

One way to tell you are obsessed…
You forget Valentine's Day and your brother's birthday and you don't realise it's Australia Day until the day after… but you know the release dates of all 3 movies in theatres in several different countries, as well as the release dates of the DVDs AND the extended DVD version.

[Elvengirl]

lol Arwen Evenstar

Yup that first page pretty much sums it up for me. :D

[Pirate]

1) You've given youself a 3rd middle name so you can say you're ERRS like Tolkien did.

2) When you hear a friend say "I saw part of the first one" you freak out on 1) how could they only seen part of it? and 2) YOU CAN NOT SEE THE MOVIE UNTIL YOU'VE READ THE BOOKS!

3) You tell you're friends you're a hobbit so many times thier starting to believe you

4) You insist that you're first, third, and sixth period teachers allow you too eat during class so you can have second breakfast, lunchen, afternoon tea, etc.

5) in history when a slide of the viking Sagas comes up yell "LOOK IT"S THE DWARFEN G!!!!"

6) you've figured out how to play 75% of the sound track on piano with out the music.

7) you've got every LOTR related thing every made.

8) You saw ROTK 5 times with in the first 6 days it was released

I'm guilty of them all.

[ethuiliel]

You're in a social issues class where you're using newspapers. You nottice a picture of Frodo on the back of someone else's newspaper, and before the end of the class you look through all the newspapers until you find it. It turns out to be an ad for the extended DVDs, but you tear it out and take it home to hang on the wall in your bedroom. :D

[Elenessiel]

You are reading Plato's Republic in a philosophy class. The professor, still on the subject of justice, brings up the ring of Gyges, which has the power to make the wearer invisible. If no one witnesses your unjust acts, she says, why be just? Then she asks what we would do if we had such a ring.
"Cast it into the fiery chasm from whence it came!" popped out before I could stop myself. I don't think that the professor regarded this as an especially helpful contribution.

[Willow Oran]

You know you're obssesed with LotR when you're at a birthday party in Pike Place Market and your friend jumps up on a table and starts to sing a hobbit drinking song and you start to clap along.

(Guilty, but the rest of the people in the restaurent didn't seem to mind...)

[ethuiliel]

You are really hyper in English class when the teacher is repeating the questions for a quiz, so you reply with completely rediculous, LotR-related answers. Like the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales were going to Minas Tirith (THAT was a stupid question anyways.) The author of the Canterbury Tales was inspired by writing from Gondor (actually Italy and France, but who cares?). etc.

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

you are obsessed with lotr if you get up in the morning,
have a slice of toasted lembas with a mug of the'Old Winyards'
before getting on shadowfax, to go to work, which is defeating dark lords, by throwing rings down volcanoes!!

[Nurvingiel]

Now that's a cool job! :D

You know you're obsessed with LotR when you go to type a web address ending with ".net" and you accidentally type ".ent"

www.treebeard.ent :D

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

i know what you mean,
i've done that a few times!!

;)

[trolls' bane]

You know you are obsessed when:
1. Someone at work/school calls you "Lord of the Rings kid."
2. Somewhere on every paper, you put the Angerthas rune for your first initial.
3. Everyone asks you how LOTR ends.
4. You are always trying to remember how "A Elbereth! Gilthoniel!" goes.
5. You keep reading your LOTR books over and over until you finally see one that you don't own.
6. You visit Entmoot every day.
7. You refuse to let anyone borrow any of your LOTR books because of the fear that you will not be able to look something up.
8. You KNOW that you're obsessed when you go to the weast coast of...anything and begin thinking that you'll go into the West.
9. You are always quoting things said in Rat Race (oops wrong thread and forum:D)

[Starr Polish]

When a fellow LOTR geek comes up to you on March 1, 2004 and the first words out of his mouth are "Clean sweep!" and you know what he's talking about.

When you start wishing you lived in the Shire when things get a bit rough...I'd give up indoor plumbing to live there.

[Bombadillo]

Originally posted by ArwenEvenstar
I think this sums it up (http://www.geocities.com/heretherebehobbits/Obsessed.html)
:D That really does sum it up.
I don't think getting one of those tattoos would be so abnormal.

You know you're obsessed when you clear everything out of your brother's old room, and the only new furnishing you bring into it is your Hobbit and LotR box set in the place of honour on top of the desk.

[Telcontar]

Originally posted by Bombadillo: I don't think getting one of those tattoos would be so abnormal.Me neither, as a matter of fact, I was thinking about getting Gandalf's Rune on my upper back. It'd also be cool to have the ring's inscription around an ankle (like the ring).

Some things I'm guilty of in addition to many of the others listed:

1) You have an electronic file (PDF) to have a quick reference on the books at work or at home in case of an "emergency" (Send me a PM if you want a copy - ~13MB).
2) You've got a compressed version of the films in order to put them on a CD and listen to them in the background as you work (with a peek every now and then on your favorite part).
3) You've got a ton of the little action figures (I'm 27 years old).
4) Your desktop background and screensaver at work are of LOTR jpg's.
5) You have a map of M.E. on your cubicle wall at work.
6) Next to the map you have your name printed in "Elvish".
7) Everyone thinks you're crazy cause you have that stuff up.
8) You have almost every collector's item available (i.e. - mugs, newspapers, magazines, action figures, posters, TV guides, etc).
9) You only ask for LOTR stuff for Xmas and birthdays.
10) You have dreamt about LOTR.

The map on my cubicle wall has a title of "upper management is here" with an arrow pointing to Barad-dur.

[The Gaffer]

Wow! That's pretty hardcore.

Gaun yersel, Telcontar!

Maybe you could put "IT services" over Isengard or something...

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Nurvingiel
You know you're obsessed with LotR when you go to type a web address ending with ".net" and you accidentally type ".ent"

www.treebeard.ent :D
Eh, I always do that. Accidentally.

It's not good to work at a supermarket and mix up the words 'thread' (as in at Entmoot) and 'aisle'.

[Beruthiel's cat]

Originally posted by Telcontar

4) Your desktop background and screensaver at work are of LOTR jpg's.

The map on my cubicle wall has a title of "upper management is here" with an arrow pointing to Barad-dur.

I know what the screensaver is like, cuz I've got the same thing! My bosses think it's funny (and one is sort of a fan anyway). I wish I had the map, though. I'd put an arrow pointing to Barad-dur with the caption "Albany." (New Yorkers will know why...)

[trolls' bane]

Eh, I always do that. Accidentally.

It's not good to work at a supermarket and mix up the words 'thread' (as in at Entmoot) and 'aisle'.
Have this so non-lotr (esp. Entmoot) discussion board people understand:
Teacup Cafe=Deli
Thread=Aisle
Forum=supermarket (would that work?)
Barad Dur=Boss's office
RPG Forum=Book Section
Some of those might work:p:confused:.

[Turambar1982]

[QUOTE=Starr Polish]When a fellow LOTR geek comes up to you on March 1, 2004 and the first words out of his mouth are "Clean sweep!" and you know what he's talking about.[QUOTE]

I did that to. And people around us were like. What are ya talking about. It was so funny.

Well anyway only wanted to get this back up.

[Attalus]

Okay, I'll bite. What in the LotR does "clean sweep" imply?

[Telcontar_Dunedain]

Okay, I'll bite. What in the LotR does "clean sweep" imply?
Took the words right out of my mouth.

[BeardofPants]

Sounds like some shire calendar thing... :confused:

... but I guess it could refer to all those awards to won that it was nominated for? :confuse: In which case, I don't think I'd be particularly proud/obsessed for admitting that. :rolleyes:

[Wayfarer]

Hmm... strangely enough, I don't seem to have all the symptoms of obsession. I guess that makes me, what... the rational one around here? Go figure. :p

[BeardofPants]

Nope, nope and nope. It makes you insufferable. :p

[Wayfarer]

Oh, pshaw. :rolleyes:

[Attalus]

Oh, pshaw. :rolleyes:"Oh, phaw?" I haven't heard that in a mort o' moons. What next, gadzooks? Hey, nonny, nonny? :eek: :p

[Nurvingiel]

... if you're posting at Entmoot at 4am? Heh heh... :D

[Telcontar_Dunedain]

If you spend every living moment that you can on the Moot.

[Turambar1982]

Okay, I'll bite. What in the LotR does "clean sweep" imply?

I can only speak for me. Back then I meant the awards ROTK won.

Gruß, Turambar

[Elemmírë]

--How to know your Tolkien obsessed--
aka... the stupid thing that Elemmire did today

I know it's not LotR... but the same idea, really:

You really really really want to read Morgoth's Ring (HoME 10 - I think), and can't find it in your own town. So you spend 5 hours taking buses from town to town going to at least 6 different book stores looking for it, to no avail. So you're finally told to go look in the local library (you're a college student here and don't have a library card), and get there right when it's closing. So... now you're so frustrated and upset that you couldn't find this book that when you get back on the bus, you get off at the wrong stop and end up lost and alone at night in the middle of a highway.

And as soon as you finally get back home, the first thing you do is go on line to try to figure out again where exactly you can find the book. :mad:

[Forkbeard]

You are really hyper in English class when the teacher is repeating the questions for a quiz, so you reply with completely rediculous, LotR-related answers. Like the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales were going to Minas Tirith (THAT was a stupid question anyways.) The author of the Canterbury Tales was inspired by writing from Gondor (actually Italy and France, but who cares?). etc.


I cares! Stupid questions for a quiz though....I'd have asked better ones. I had a student on the second day of class this semester roll her eyes and say "Oh God, no" when I mentioned Tolkien....very, very disheartening.

[Attalus]

Well, they roll their eyes when you mention Shakespeare, too. Bad literary taste is nearly universal among teenagers.

[Elemmírë]

Well, they roll their eyes when you mention Shakespeare, too. Bad literary taste is nearly universal among teenagers.


Nearly! Nearly! Nearly! That's the key word...

I like Shakespeare...

and obviously Tolkien... :D

[ethuiliel]

I cares! Stupid questions for a quiz though....I'd have asked better ones.
I know!! hmm... where were they going in the Canterbury Tales? I wonders....

I remember that... I was very hyper, and very annoyed by the stupidness of the questions. I knew pretty much all of the answers, but I just felt like blurting out wrong ones... not that anyone would believe me, and I didn't do it very loudly.

[Forkbeard]

Well, they roll their eyes when you mention Shakespeare, too. Bad literary taste is nearly universal among teenagers.

All too true...and too often I actually have students who have never read a book before--seriously, have never read a book from cover to cover, not even in high school English. They read ten for my class. And probably still don't finish, but then they have quote identifications on the exams, so if they don't read, they can't identify the quote.

[Elemmírë]

All too true...and too often I actually have students who have never read a book before--seriously, have never read a book from cover to cover, not even in high school English. They read ten for my class. And probably still don't finish, but then they have quote identifications on the exams, so if they don't read, they can't identify the quote.

Never read a book before *shudders* I had some friends like that...

One I convinced to watch the FotR movie... but she refused to read the book, because she simply didn't like reading...

High school memories... in 11th grade, my whole advanced placement English class was addicted to cliffnotes and sparknotes... and this is the top 10%!

Of course, quite a few of them were also addicted to cheating... :( :mad: :(

[Forkbeard]

I know!! hmm... where were they going in the Canterbury Tales? I wonders....

I remember that... I was very hyper, and very annoyed by the stupidness of the questions. I knew pretty much all of the answers, but I just felt like blurting out wrong ones... not that anyone would believe me, and I didn't do it very loudly.


Heehee, I know, I have people who do that too. But then, when you have a pretty good student who gives answers like that on a quiz, chances are they're being a smart ass.

As long as I have you, I'm always curious how students feel about things like quizzes...I'm for the most part against what I call "babysitting" teaching methods--like pop quizzes that ask questions like the ones you describe. At the same time, they are designed to see if you did the reading and paid attention in class....what do you as a student think of quizzes (ones better than the one your teacher gave you) and how if you were the teacher would you address the issue of encouraging/forcing the students to do the reading?


FB

[ethuiliel]

I was just REALLY hyper... too much sugar probably, and I was sitting near my (fellow LotR fan) friends. I don't even remember if I actually said it outloud, but I feel like I did. I'm not sure. I normally don't do stuff like that, but I was kinda crazy that day.

High school memories... in 11th grade, my whole advanced placement English class was addicted to cliffnotes and sparknotes... and this is the top 10%! *shudders*

As long as I have you, I'm always curious how students feel about things like quizzes...I'm for the most part against what I call "babysitting" teaching methods--like pop quizzes that ask questions like the ones you describe. At the same time, they are designed to see if you did the reading and paid attention in class....what do you as a student think of quizzes (ones better than the one your teacher gave you) and how if you were the teacher would you address the issue of encouraging/forcing the students to do the reading?

We all complain about them, of course, but normally we don't really hate them. I don't like ones with the REALLY obscure question, or the REALLY obvious ones, (like the one I just mentioned) but they're usually fine. As long as that's not all we do, and not all of our grade. Then again, I'm just one person, I'm not sure how everyone else feels.

[Elemmírë]

remember that... I was very hyper, and very annoyed by the stupidness of the questions. I knew pretty much all of the answers, but I just felt like blurting out wrong ones... not that anyone would believe me, and I didn't do it very loudly.

Hahaha... I did that on an AP exam once... if you guys don't know what those are, they're really big, long tests that don't really count for anything... I was so annoyed that I actually had to be taking this test for which I couldn't even get college credit, that my answers began to turn very sarcastic...

We all complain about them, of course, but normally we don't really hate them. I don't like ones with the REALLY obscure question, or the REALLY obvious ones, (like the one I just mentioned) but they're usually fine. As long as that's not all we do, and not all of our grade. Then again, I'm just one person, I'm not sure how everyone else feels.

I have to agree with ethuiliel... the smaller quizzes really never bothered people in my classes too much, and though there would be complaints about them, nobody I knew really made that much of a deal over them. Now, the bigger tests... such as pointless APs, for example... that was another story.

BTW... is there any way to move this part out of the "A few ways to tell you are obsessed with LotR"... before a moderator finds it? :D

[Attalus]

Nearly! Nearly! Nearly! That's the key word...

I like Shakespeare...

and obviously Tolkien... :DLOL, I know, that's why I put it in. I'll bet you know lots of your so-called peers that wouldn't read a book to save their lives. My older boy, 18, used to count the pages remaining in the books he would read, but I stopped that by making fun of it. Now he is reading Conrad and of course, Tolkien, but then he is made fun of by 'friends' for reading.