Uninformed Friends

[diannah]

OK, first question--do the majority of you have friends that enjoy LOTR? I am saying this honestly--I am the only kid in the eighth grade who loves LOTR to this point. My friends have seen the movies but don't go any farther than that. My best friend tried FOTR, but she said it just wasn't her thing. Don't you guys get annoyed when you're trying to clear up somebody's question about LOTR and you've just spun into this long review of whatever they want to know and they just don't get it? I'm probably sounding like an ass right about now, but I've just been thinking about this for awhile.

[Elf Girl]

I have one friend who is into LotR the way I am, one who loves it but not as much as me, one who is mildly interested, one who is just starting, and a bunch who could care less. *sigh*

[DraztiK]

none of my friends like LotR, though some have seen the movie PJ made out of it and enjoyed it.

[Amandil]

I don't have any friends who like Tolkien's work to the extent that I do.

When I was in junior-high, though, my friends (usuallly a few years younger than me) were members of invented clubs and went on imaginary adventures that I based on Middle Earth, though. I did all the research and then we all just played along.

Now that I'm old and grey, all my friends (not the same ones who played Middle Earth games with me) respect me as "the guy who knows way more about Tolkien's work than we do" (even though lots of people, especially people on boards like these, know way more than I do). So they all want to know what I think about the movies, or they tell me if they read any of the literature or whatnot. My father-in-law freaked out when he read tLotR, and kept calling me to tell me how great it was. My sister asked me if I was as disappointed with tTT movie as she was. That sort of thing.

Chances are the only other eight-graders you'll find who like tLorR quite as much as you will be hanging around message boards like these, but not in your school. If you've got any D&D nerds role-playing in the library, they might be a little bit more interested in Tolkien than the rest of the kids around.

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Unfortunately, I'm almost the only one I know who likes LotR on a degree similar to mine. :( My mom is willing to put up with the movies; my brother likes LotR, but not really all that much (he thinks Elves should be wimpy, frail idiots and Dwarves should rule all). Most of the other people I know like it, but not to a great degree. There's this one guy I know, a friend of the family, who's a big-time LotR fan, though; he's got a huge amount of books! Like 3 copies of hobbit, 2 of each LotR book, some of the HoME books, and some other books about LotR (like reference books, books about Tolkien and LotR, etc.) He's the biggest fan I know (besides myself, of course :D ). Of course, that's not including all these mooters. It's good to be among one's own kind. :)

[Taurwen]

I have two friends who love LotR as much as I do, which is lucky. They were over here tonight, and we were listening to The Two Towers Soundtrack, and Karen and I were acting out Fellowship with just the two of us. Then we were discussing Gollum. Its really cool. Thats sucky for you who don't have any other Rings fan friends. :(

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Yeah, I know. :(

[Blackboar]

I have one friend that lovea reading the books, she is actually a member of this site but she NEVER comes on.

I have another friend that started reading the books after she watched the movies, she is on this site too but she never comes on.

I have a couple of friends who don't like LotR much at all but they accept that I'm obsessced with it and apprieciate that.

The rest of my mates think its Ok, but they think I'm totally wierd about it.

Then I have a few mates who get annoyed with me over it and they think its totally crap!!!:eek: :eek:

[diannah]

Taurwen you are so lucky to have friends who will come over and discuss things like Gollum. There are no DD fans at my school (except myself) because they're all so nice and sainted. Thank God or the Devil or who ever else is out there that I'll be moving this summer.

[WallRocker]

The only other person who really likes LotR that I know is my brother. Unforunetaly, he hasn't even finished TTT yet! So I try to have intelligent Tolkien conversations with him, and half the time he has no idea what I'm talking about! very frustrating.

[Khadrane]

I have two friends who love LotR almost as much as me.

I have one friend who says she likes the books, but I think she likes the movie better.

I have one friend who is reading the books and likes them (I think)

And I have various other friends who like the movies.

Wow. I'm pretty lucky.:)

[Firekitten2006]

I live with two people like that. Unfortunately, one likes HP. *sigh* theres no hope there.

[Blackboar]

Am I allowed to point out that in your signature FireKitten Merry says This my friends is a PINT!! in the EE of FotR not Pippin which is spelt PIPPIN not PIPPEN.

Anyway I have a friend who loves HP, I mean love as in FANCY HP.

*sigh* She's a gonna!!

[Falagar]

I don't have any friends that love the works like I do. One of them is a little into it, but hasn't finished the book, another one have finished the book, liked them, but couldn't care less.

[Snowdog]

diannah, yes.. been there. After reading the Hobbit at the beginning of my senior year of high school, then reading the trilogy and the appendices and totally geeking out by starting to learn to write Tengwar, there were none I could find that was into it, until a cute, quiet blonde girl was putting some stuff in her locker, and I saw a copy of Return of the King there. I made a 'Mae Govannen' tengwar note and stuck it to her locker, and I watched as she came and read it, looked around like she was afraid her Tolkiengeekiness was found out, and so I walked up and said 'Mae Govannen', The rest is history.. at least until graduation a few short months later... We talked Tolkien, and even made a 'Friends' inscription in a wet cement curb that was poured one day. We cut class and did it with only one small mistake!

Yes, its hard to get people interested in the literary works of Tolkien, but don't dispair.. there are always gems in the sand!

[Firekitten2006]

yeah i know that my siggy is screwed up *sigh* maybe I'll get around to changing it one day, but I'm lazy so its not likely to come anytime soon. ;)

[barrelrider110]

diannah-
I, like Amandil, am older and a bit grey, and most of my friends have either read LotR after college or did so because they were required to do so in high school.

I read it to my youngest daughter, who is also now in Eighth grade, and she is the only person that I know who shares my passion for it, and she also shares your frustration with her contemporaries as well.

At your age, you are unique and gifted to be able to appreciate this great work.

How did you come to read it? Did someone introduce it to you, or did you pick it up on your own?

[DraztiK]

How did you come to read it? Did someone introduce it to you, or did you pick it up on your own?

When the movie came out, I wanted to see it, but not before I had read the books, so I went to my library to get them. I was put on a waziting list and by the time I got them the movie wasn't in the theatres anymore. I read the books in dutch, then bought them together with The Hobbit in English. Later I borrowed the Sil, and the rest is history ...

[Elf Girl]

I'm 12. Am I "unique and gifted"? There have been plenty of people my age on this board in the past and present. My one friend who loves as I do is my age. I don't think it's that uncommen.

[Attalus]

My oldest son, age 16, loves it almost as much as I. ;)

[samwiselvr2008]

There's another thread on this called "do your friends think that your a looser?" It isn't exsacly the same, but close enoph to just post there.

To answer your question, there is no one else in 7th grade at my school who likes Tolkien's work as much as I do. I wish that there were, because then I could have a good friend to talk to. Ther is and 8th grader, but being in diffrent grades, we don't talk that much, just online every ones in a while. There is another person that was in class with me last year, who posted here for a while, but is having problems getting back on (entss89), but even she dosn't like it as much as me, it seems. There is comfert however when I get on the moot, and remember that I am not the only one is obsessed with Tolkien, and that some people like it more then me. When I first started to obsess over it, I thought that there was posably 100 other people that liked it enoph to see it over 5 times in the theater, and to read the book over and over agian. That was before I started to almost all of my computer time on Entmoot, and before I found a few other sights. In those days, the most active message board I could find was one that before me, the last post was posted 3 months earler. Then I found a few good message boards, but ones I found the 'moot, I new that I had found real fans that would rather read the book then wach the movie.

[Firekitten2006]

I'm 14, and I read the books when I was 13 :) I think there are alot of people our age that have read the books :)

[samwiselvr2008]

Originally posted by Firekitten2006
I'm 14, and I read the books when I was 13 :) I think there are alot of people our age that have read the books :)

There seems to be lots of people, but that is just because where here with other obsessed fans, if we were somewhere else asking then you would probally change your mind. However, compared to other books, you are right, it just seems that everyone is spred out some, when I saw the movie on opening night, I was suprised to see lots of dressed up people ect., but there still dosn't seem like there are enoph of them to make me "populer" because I like it.

[Adrian Baggins]

I have I don't remember how many friends at school but the problem is that I don't get to see them much anymore eventhough we are on the same campus, because I am in 7th grade and they are in fourth and below. I also have a friend who goes to another school who is a Tolkien freak like me and the group from school. The group at school that I am in has a game that we play which is a mix of Yu-Gi-Oh, Spiderman, some other stuff, and LOTR. It is pretty cool if you can immagine Frodo having a sis who can travel from dimension to dimension and finally brings the whole Fellowship into a dimension where the Ultimate Dragon is real, can talk and turn into a human, and Spiderman and Yugi help us.LOTR ROX, MOVIE OR BOOK!