You Know You Like Tolkien Too Much When . . .

Laurelyn · 01-23-2002, 10:52 PM

I love all the "You know you like blank too much when . . ." lists, and so I thought I'd start one based on J.R.R. Tolkien's books. Please add on . . . I know that there are funny ppl out there . . .-

~You insisted that your engagement/wedding ring be engraved with tiny little Runic characters
~- You wish your feet were bigger and only wear shoes when necessary.
~- After the movie your first response was: "I feel as a third of my being has been fulfilled"
~You insist the Tolkiens version of "The Cat and the Fiddle" was the original and so far all your friends have given up arguing with you.
~Gollum DOES live in your basement.
~You planted a Mallorn tree in your back yard when you were seven (but it hasn't grown quite yet).
~If anyone even mentions Balrog Wings, you’ll explode.
~Whenever someone knocks on your door, you say, "Pedo mellon a minno"
~You write lists like this one

Meldrath of Mordor · 01-23-2002, 10:55 PM

Lol those are great!

cee2lee2 · 01-23-2002, 10:57 PM

You refer to all your favorite possessions as "my precioussssss."

Sakata · 01-23-2002, 10:57 PM

You leave without a word to anyone and go camping taking only crackers and rope.

Laurelyn · 01-23-2002, 11:02 PM

Hee hee.

~You hang out in a shadowed corner of bars to pester little people, and tell them you are a descendant of Isildur.
~Whenever someone tells you you're going to kill yourself doing something, you say "I'm an elf stupid! I’m immortal!"
~You can rattle off the names of the thirteen dwarves (From the Hobbit)
~You keep a lookout for Orcs and wolves while walking in the woods

cee2lee2 · 01-23-2002, 11:07 PM

Laurelyn, you're really good at this

Laurelyn · 01-23-2002, 11:32 PM

Why, Thank you, cee2lee2

~You hold lengthy conversations with trees in the language of the Ents.
~ You say "mellon" to every door you approach and expect it to swing open for you
~You can quote word-for-word the appendixes at the end of RotK, and you can tell the page number too
~You spend hours upon hours memorizing the poems from the books
~You know what the Rolling Spiked Wheelie Dealie is
~Your friends have learned to run far, far away when anyone asks you, "Who is Tolkien?"
~Occasionally, you will comment out of nowhere on something they changed in the movie, hoping to rise a debate

ragamuffin92 · 01-24-2002, 12:00 AM

~You ask people you barely know if they've seen the movie, just so you can talk about the books.
~You are severely tempted to start smoking your pipe again after seing the movie (even though you quit 10 years ago as a promise to your Goddaughter on her 6th birthday).

(I came up with both of these examples out of personal experience.

)

Feraway Hawkbriar · 01-24-2002, 12:18 AM

~ You eat the mushrooms you find growing out in your yard.

~ You wind up in he hospital because you ate the mushrooms that grew in your yard.

~ You smoke weed. (ok ok thats just me...jk)

~ You dive behind whatever is available when a flock of birds flies over head thinking they are the spies of Sauron.

~ You run around in the woods without shoes. (erm...yes...well...*whistles*)

~ You insist on speaking Quenya...all the time.

~ You have one or more pets named after Tolkien charecters.

~ You go west in seach of the gray havens and the elves. And wind up in mexico.

***anduin*** · 01-24-2002, 12:50 AM

Nice thread, wrong forum.

FrodoFriend · 01-24-2002, 02:18 AM

- You plan to kidnap Tolkien and make him write more Middle Earth books (his being dead is only a minor annoyance)

- You've smoked enough weed to think this is possible

- You keep telling yourself ' I'm almost short enough to be a Hobbit!'

- You refuse to touch paper for fear that it is made of a dead Ent or Huorn.

- Whenever you are about to go anywhere (i.e. the bathroom) you claim you are going on a heroic quest.

- You call your universal remote the 'One Remote to Rule Them All'

- Whenever you see a spider, you torment it with cruel taunts of 'Attercop' and 'Tomnoddy' before killing it.

- You name your favorite steak-knife 'Sting.'

- You wander the woods searching for Rivendell.

- You have found Rivendell.

- You are in Rivendell writing this right now.

Lightice · 01-24-2002, 06:17 AM

Quote:

- You wander the woods searching for Rivendell.

- You have found Rivendell.

- You are in Rivendell writing this right now.

I would, but I live too far...

Forochel, to be presice.

(I mixed the names first, becouse of lossoth, the snow-people.

Laurelyn · 01-24-2002, 07:09 AM

~You read Lord of the Rings at least three times a year (more for you fast readers)
~You have the trailer downloaded to your hard drive and watch it every day
~Your hard drive is also cluttered with many movie pictures
~Your wall is a shrine to the almighty creator of Middle-earth
~You carry a bottle of water with you when you go out. If you get mugged you hold it up and start chanting in elven.
~You have a fear of spiders. (Who knows when one will grow to the size of your house?)
~Your printer has run out of ink seven times in the past day because you've been printing all those pictures off your cluttered hard drive.
~You’ve seen all the different teaser posters – either online or in theaters
~You know the entire history of Middle Earth
~You're convinced that your mother's best rose vase is really a Silmaril
~You neglect your homework for LotR web sites

Pailan · 01-24-2002, 11:33 AM

You've seen the movie so many times that the ushers know you by name.

The theater has engraved your name on your favorite seat.

Your first stop when you log on is the ENTMOOT!

athelas · 01-24-2002, 01:06 PM

Actually my first stop when I log on is indeed entmoot.

- You insist on writing only in the Angerthas, much to the annoyance of friends/family/teachers who can't read what you're writing

-When there is the slightest mention of LotR by anyone, you start firing away like a machine gun.

-All non-fans have been warned not to mention LotR in front of you.

-You hire a cruise ship and start sailing round the world, hoping to find the concealed way to the Undying Lands.

- You become an elven warrior on entmoot in a few weeks.

Or days even.

Wayfarer · 01-24-2002, 03:42 PM

"You spend hours upon hours memorizing the poems from the books"

Been there, done that...

I'm trying to memorize the Lay of leithan right now... despite the fact that parts are hideously incomplete. Oh well...

Laurelyn · 01-24-2002, 04:46 PM

My first stop is usually Entmoot, too. And I'm trying to become an Elven Warrior quickly . . . How many posts do you need to do that, anyway?

~You get up at five A. M. just so you can go on Entmoot . . . *Guilty*
~You sing the Bath Song every morning in the shower, complete with the dynamic splash near the end
~You talk to anyone who will listen about how you wish you could find the hidden portal to Middle-earth that you have been looking for all your life

***Earniel*** · 01-24-2002, 04:57 PM

How about these:

You buy every five years a new copy of LOTR and the hobbit since the others are worn out and because "they have shiny new covers"

You take on a habit of scribbling runes everywhere and annoying other people since they never know what they mean and always have to ask you what they are. And then you can go like "oh don't you know?" And explain Tolkien to them for the next 6 houres.

You start calling you boyfriend Aragorn (or your girlfriend Arwen for that matter)
Or you teacher Melkor (I plead guiltyon this one)

And finally:
When you want to curse some one you say "Curse you root and branch!"

Pailan · 01-24-2002, 04:59 PM

~You think the the Burger King gobletts are really cool.

Pailan · 01-24-2002, 05:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Laurelyn
My first stop is usually Entmoot, too. And I'm trying to become an Elven Warrior quickly . . . How many posts do you need to do that, anyway?

I belive it is 100 posts and 500 for elven know-it-all. But sometimes the gods (read: administrators) hang you with a name of thier choosing as befits their humor. So careful as you go. I mean look what they did to bropous!

01-23-2002, 10:52 PM	#1
Laurelyn Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan? Posts: 1,315	You Know You Like Tolkien Too Much When . . . I love all the "You know you like blank too much when . . ." lists, and so I thought I'd start one based on J.R.R. Tolkien's books. Please add on . . . I know that there are funny ppl out there . . .- ~You insisted that your engagement/wedding ring be engraved with tiny little Runic characters ~- You wish your feet were bigger and only wear shoes when necessary. ~- After the movie your first response was: "I feel as a third of my being has been fulfilled" ~You insist the Tolkiens version of "The Cat and the Fiddle" was the original and so far all your friends have given up arguing with you. ~Gollum DOES live in your basement. ~You planted a Mallorn tree in your back yard when you were seven (but it hasn't grown quite yet). ~If anyone even mentions Balrog Wings, you’ll explode. ~Whenever someone knocks on your door, you say, "Pedo mellon a minno" ~You write lists like this one __________________ The Third Age of Entmoot has begun. Angel of music, guide and guardian! Grant to me your glory! The country I eat and spend the day in is by no means the country I sleep and dream in. Define patriotism. Hold the boat, you spastic monkey! ~ Elenka

01-23-2002, 10:57 PM	#4
Sakata Elven Warrior Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Lothlorien Posts: 216	You leave without a word to anyone and go camping taking only crackers and rope. __________________ "When evil people come to destroy me, when my enemies and foes attack me, they will stumble and fall. Though a mighty army surrounds me, my heart will know no fear." -Psalms 27:2-3 -Dare you venture into Gollum's Lair? JESUS LIVES!

01-23-2002, 11:02 PM	#5
Laurelyn Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan? Posts: 1,315	Hee hee. ~You hang out in a shadowed corner of bars to pester little people, and tell them you are a descendant of Isildur. ~Whenever someone tells you you're going to kill yourself doing something, you say "I'm an elf stupid! I’m immortal!" ~You can rattle off the names of the thirteen dwarves (From the Hobbit) ~You keep a lookout for Orcs and wolves while walking in the woods __________________ The Third Age of Entmoot has begun. Angel of music, guide and guardian! Grant to me your glory! The country I eat and spend the day in is by no means the country I sleep and dream in. Define patriotism. Hold the boat, you spastic monkey! ~ Elenka

01-23-2002, 11:32 PM	#7
Laurelyn Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan? Posts: 1,315	Why, Thank you, cee2lee2 ~You hold lengthy conversations with trees in the language of the Ents. ~ You say "mellon" to every door you approach and expect it to swing open for you ~You can quote word-for-word the appendixes at the end of RotK, and you can tell the page number too ~You spend hours upon hours memorizing the poems from the books ~You know what the Rolling Spiked Wheelie Dealie is ~Your friends have learned to run far, far away when anyone asks you, "Who is Tolkien?" ~Occasionally, you will comment out of nowhere on something they changed in the movie, hoping to rise a debate __________________ The Third Age of Entmoot has begun. Angel of music, guide and guardian! Grant to me your glory! The country I eat and spend the day in is by no means the country I sleep and dream in. Define patriotism. Hold the boat, you spastic monkey! ~ Elenka

01-24-2002, 12:00 AM	#8
ragamuffin92 Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: New York State Posts: 309	~You ask people you barely know if they've seen the movie, just so you can talk about the books. ~You are severely tempted to start smoking your pipe again after seing the movie (even though you quit 10 years ago as a promise to your Goddaughter on her 6th birthday). (I came up with both of these examples out of personal experience. ) __________________ FRODO LIVES!! (sung to the tune of "My Boyfriend's Back") Now, Gandalf's back, and you're gonna be in trouble (Hey-la, hey-la---Now, Gandalf's back) Soon, Barad-dur is gonna be a pile of rubble (Hey-la, hey-la---Now, Gandalf's back)

01-23-2002, 10:55 PM	#2
Meldrath of Mordor Sapling Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 2	Lol those are great!

01-23-2002, 10:57 PM	#3
cee2lee2 Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 2nd star to the left..... Posts: 566	You refer to all your favorite possessions as "my precioussssss."

01-23-2002, 11:07 PM	#6
cee2lee2 Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 2nd star to the left..... Posts: 566	Laurelyn, you're really good at this

01-24-2002, 12:18 AM	#9
Feraway Hawkbriar Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: California Posts: 348	~ You eat the mushrooms you find growing out in your yard. ~ You wind up in he hospital because you ate the mushrooms that grew in your yard. ~ You smoke weed. (ok ok thats just me...jk) ~ You dive behind whatever is available when a flock of birds flies over head thinking they are the spies of Sauron. ~ You run around in the woods without shoes. (erm...yes...well...whistles) ~ You insist on speaking Quenya...all the time. ~ You have one or more pets named after Tolkien charecters. ~ You go west in seach of the gray havens and the elves. And wind up in mexico. __________________ "The barks goes ever on and on out from the dog where they began. He's out there crapping on my lawn. Till I hit him with my van."

01-24-2002, 12:50 AM	#10
*anduin* Entwife Join Date: Oct 1999 Location: louisville Posts: 3,718	Nice thread, wrong forum.

01-24-2002, 02:18 AM	#11
FrodoFriend Halfwitted Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eryn Vorn Posts: 1,659	- You plan to kidnap Tolkien and make him write more Middle Earth books (his being dead is only a minor annoyance) - You've smoked enough weed to think this is possible - You keep telling yourself ' I'm almost short enough to be a Hobbit!' - You refuse to touch paper for fear that it is made of a dead Ent or Huorn. - Whenever you are about to go anywhere (i.e. the bathroom) you claim you are going on a heroic quest. - You call your universal remote the 'One Remote to Rule Them All' - Whenever you see a spider, you torment it with cruel taunts of 'Attercop' and 'Tomnoddy' before killing it. - You name your favorite steak-knife 'Sting.' - You wander the woods searching for Rivendell. - You have found Rivendell. - You are in Rivendell writing this right now. __________________ Fingolfin lives! ... in my finger! The Crossroads of Arda - Warning. Halfwit content. Not appropriate for people with IQ of over 18. The Fellowship of the Message Board Nyáréonié - The Tale of Tears

01-24-2002, 07:09 AM	#13
Laurelyn Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan? Posts: 1,315	~You read Lord of the Rings at least three times a year (more for you fast readers) ~You have the trailer downloaded to your hard drive and watch it every day ~Your hard drive is also cluttered with many movie pictures ~Your wall is a shrine to the almighty creator of Middle-earth ~You carry a bottle of water with you when you go out. If you get mugged you hold it up and start chanting in elven. ~You have a fear of spiders. (Who knows when one will grow to the size of your house?) ~Your printer has run out of ink seven times in the past day because you've been printing all those pictures off your cluttered hard drive. ~You’ve seen all the different teaser posters – either online or in theaters ~You know the entire history of Middle Earth ~You're convinced that your mother's best rose vase is really a Silmaril ~You neglect your homework for LotR web sites __________________ The Third Age of Entmoot has begun. Angel of music, guide and guardian! Grant to me your glory! The country I eat and spend the day in is by no means the country I sleep and dream in. Define patriotism. Hold the boat, you spastic monkey! ~ Elenka

01-24-2002, 11:33 AM	#14
Pailan Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: aisle 12, seat#2 Posts: 449	You've seen the movie so many times that the ushers know you by name. The theater has engraved your name on your favorite seat. Your first stop when you log on is the ENTMOOT! __________________ "Holy Entmoot, Batman!" "Who knows, Robin? This strange mixing of minds may be the greatest single sevice ever performed for humanity! Let's go, but, inconspicuosly, through the window. We'll use our Batropes. Our job is finished." Oh, btw, Frodo lives.

01-24-2002, 01:06 PM	#15
athelas Enting Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: The Twilight Meres Posts: 87	Actually my first stop when I log on is indeed entmoot. - You insist on writing only in the Angerthas, much to the annoyance of friends/family/teachers who can't read what you're writing -When there is the slightest mention of LotR by anyone, you start firing away like a machine gun. -All non-fans have been warned not to mention LotR in front of you. -You hire a cruise ship and start sailing round the world, hoping to find the concealed way to the Undying Lands. - You become an elven warrior on entmoot in a few weeks. Or days even. __________________ Farewell sweet earth and nortern sky, for ever blest,since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lùthien Tinùviel more fair than mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled unmade into old abyss, yet were its making good, for this-- the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea-- that Lùthien for a time should be. "I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam."-Frodo FRODO LIVES!!! (erm...Sam does too, right?)

01-24-2002, 03:42 PM	#16
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	"You spend hours upon hours memorizing the poems from the books" Been there, done that... I'm trying to memorize the Lay of leithan right now... despite the fact that parts are hideously incomplete. Oh well... __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

01-24-2002, 04:46 PM	#17
Laurelyn Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan? Posts: 1,315	My first stop is usually Entmoot, too. And I'm trying to become an Elven Warrior quickly . . . How many posts do you need to do that, anyway? ~You get up at five A. M. just so you can go on Entmoot . . . Guilty ~You sing the Bath Song every morning in the shower, complete with the dynamic splash near the end ~You talk to anyone who will listen about how you wish you could find the hidden portal to Middle-earth that you have been looking for all your life __________________ The Third Age of Entmoot has begun. Angel of music, guide and guardian! Grant to me your glory! The country I eat and spend the day in is by no means the country I sleep and dream in. Define patriotism. Hold the boat, you spastic monkey! ~ Elenka

01-24-2002, 04:57 PM	#18
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	How about these: You buy every five years a new copy of LOTR and the hobbit since the others are worn out and because "they have shiny new covers" You take on a habit of scribbling runes everywhere and annoying other people since they never know what they mean and always have to ask you what they are. And then you can go like "oh don't you know?" And explain Tolkien to them for the next 6 houres. You start calling you boyfriend Aragorn (or your girlfriend Arwen for that matter) Or you teacher Melkor (I plead guiltyon this one) And finally: When you want to curse some one you say "Curse you root and branch!"

01-24-2002, 04:59 PM	#19
Pailan Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: aisle 12, seat#2 Posts: 449	~You think the the Burger King gobletts are really cool. __________________ "Holy Entmoot, Batman!" "Who knows, Robin? This strange mixing of minds may be the greatest single sevice ever performed for humanity! Let's go, but, inconspicuosly, through the window. We'll use our Batropes. Our job is finished." Oh, btw, Frodo lives.

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