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01-08-2003, 01:42 PM
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Orli's lil fan
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Sugar World/Orlando Bloom Cloud
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Do YOUR friends frustrate you?
Ok, does anyone get annoyed by their friends (if they're not Tolkien fans at all) when they say a LOTR character's or actor's name wrong?
I do, so far my friends have been able to make these mistakes: Legless (Legolas) Orlando Briar (Orlando Bloom) Ian McKing (Ian McKellen) Aragorn (Legolas (don't know how they get mixed up  ))Boromir (Aragorn (again, don't understand mix-ups ))The following two were mistakes made in a Science lesson, in which we were learning the Periodic Table: Argon (Aragorn) Bromine (Boromir) hmmm...i swear the last two were on purpose...but anyway! if YOU have had simular situations, post here! 
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01-08-2003, 01:56 PM
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Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Under the hill at Bag-end, Hobbiton the Shire Or Rivendell,I can't remember!!!!!!!!!!
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Yep! Always happens to me!
Frodo=Fido(Don't know why they think he's a dog  )Legolas=Negonas(I really don't know why, I think they just think it sounds like that in the movie) Aragorn=Ahorn(Again, I don't know why) Eowyn=Eeeolan etc etc etc  |
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01-08-2003, 01:59 PM
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Orli's lil fan
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Sugar World/Orlando Bloom Cloud
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i remember some more!
i heard some guys talking about TTT and i heard some mistakes that i *very* loudky corrected them: The-guy-with-the-axe (Gimli) Bowman (Legolas) The Trees (Ents) and finally... The-guy-with-the-sword (Aragorn) very frustrating! >_<
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>>--elven arrow--> ~ Give a man a fish and he'll feed for a day, give me a fish and you'll only get it back! ~ I've gotta new avatar! looks kinda like me...anime style! ~ LOST: Orlando Bloom. If found, please send him straight to Elf.Freak
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01-08-2003, 02:01 PM
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Truest of Friends
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Pennsylvania, but I have a vacation home in the Westfarthing.
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does it bug you that they pronounced eowyn "ay oh win"?
I pronounce Eee oh wyn, Eee oh mer, Thee oh den...
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01-08-2003, 02:04 PM
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Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Under the hill at Bag-end, Hobbiton the Shire Or Rivendell,I can't remember!!!!!!!!!!
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Some more from me:
Elrond=The-old-thing To which I always reply "HE'S AN ELF!" Arwen=Ar..Ar..Ar..You-know-the-one-I-mean..with-the-brown-hair? Gollum=Th-strange-thing Merry=Pippin Pippin=Merry |
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01-08-2003, 02:21 PM
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the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
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I say Ay-O-Wyn.
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01-08-2003, 02:38 PM
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Orli's lil fan
Join Date: Oct 2002
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I say Ee-oh-en
My sister calls Frodo 'Freddo' (it's a chocolate bar in the shape of a frog) just to annoy me! 
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>>--elven arrow--> ~ Give a man a fish and he'll feed for a day, give me a fish and you'll only get it back! ~ I've gotta new avatar! looks kinda like me...anime style! ~ LOST: Orlando Bloom. If found, please send him straight to Elf.Freak
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01-08-2003, 03:25 PM
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Hobbit
Join Date: Nov 2002
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similar name problem
My boyfriend has the "similar name problem."
He gets Arwen and Eowyn confused (not just the names, the characters). And he's not sure of the difference between Sauron and Saruman. I'm sure JRRT gave these characters similar names on purpose - but why? Any ideas? -Eglantine |
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01-08-2003, 04:24 PM
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: At the computer...
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My friends don't get the names confused very often, but they frustrate me anyway. One friends comment: 'I'm not going to read the books unitll I see RotK, because I want to be suprsied'
AAAAAAGGHH! Aslo, they do call Ents 'the Trees' sometimes.
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01-08-2003, 06:27 PM
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Doughy Elf
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Canada
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my friends always get the names mied up. they call
Frodo- the guy with the ring Gandalf-the old guy Aragorn-the guy with the sword/the hot one.....you know.... Legolas-the guy with the arrows/the hot elf with blond hair |
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01-08-2003, 07:14 PM
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Manic Cardboard-Box Dweller
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: In a house
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after Debate class i overheard some guys discussing it... however a girl was talking to me so i only heard little excerpts, and here is the only one i can remember...
guy 1: "Ooo i like gollum!" (all guys are silent for a second...which is uncommon) guy 2: "....which one is that?" guy 3: "Oh isn't he the elf..." guy 1: "-no-" guy 2: "the dwarf?" guy 1: "No, the 'they stole my preciousss' guy...!" guys 1, 2, 3: "OOoooooh" guy 3: "you mean that he isnt an elf?!?" I was like AAUUUGH but i had to re-divergt my attention as the friend was apparently awaiting my response to a question. |
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01-08-2003, 07:19 PM
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Lurker
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Lothlórien
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Legolas: "that hot elf with the bow"
Aragorn: "that hot guy with the sword" Frodo: "Feldo" (I practically died when I heard that)
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01-08-2003, 09:06 PM
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High King of Númenórë
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Funny thing, I had the opposite effect happen, over the Christmas holiday I was watching the Godfather trilogy with my family and I kept saying "Frodo" instead of "Fredo"
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01-09-2003, 01:50 AM
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Oxford, MS
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What bothers me more than movie-goers-but-not-readers who mispronounce is readers who do. One of my professors insists on leh-GO-las. Like, learn some elvish, man.
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01-09-2003, 06:34 AM
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Edinburgh University Library
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I have friend who remembered them by:
Aragorn=arrow-gone Legolas=legoland I've had to put up with the freddo=frodo chocolate bar one too. Oh & lets not forget meegon=smeagol, i heard that one on the way home by some people sat behind me. i almost turned around & swatted them one. "Have you heard Borrow-min is going to be played my sean bean" That was my brother, he did get swatted.
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01-09-2003, 05:18 PM
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Tea Bag Queen
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Mirkwood
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I say I say "Ay-O-Wyn" too!
Hardly any of my friends no any of the names Legolas there is quite a few. There's "Legless" "Legoooolasy" "Legoman" "The Pointy Eared Bow Twanger" (thats what orlando Bloom calls him) Aragorn - "Guy with the sword" or " Not Sean Bean ...the other one" Gollum - "Slimy thing that is always eating fish" and the "horrible thing" Ents - "The talking, walking tree thingies" Ringwraiths - "scary black things" Frodo - "Frodie" and "the small guy with the ring" |
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01-09-2003, 11:03 PM
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Hobbit
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Mirkwood with my beloved!!
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Same thing happens to me!! Bleurghelbaba. It annoys the hell outta me!
Legolas= "Hot elfie" and "WHOOO boy!" ((that was my aunt -- lol)), "Blondie #1" Aragorn= "Adam", "Acorn", "Arrow", and "Greasy Scary Man" Frodo= "Fro-go", "Frog-o", "Ring-holder", and "Big-eyed grasshopper" ((when I heard that I nearly killed her...I don't know why he looks like a grasshopper to her....)) Haldir= "Hallie", "Blondie #2", "Dear" Peregrin ((Pippin they get right, but when they try to say his real name...watch out))= "Pear-eh-?", "Perry!" ((One of my friends said it should be Perry and Merry, not Pippin and Merry. LoL, gotta agree wth that one...)) I'll post more when I remember them...my close friends have long since learned how to pronounce the names -- at least around me, because if they don't, I kill them. *evil grin* --F.G.-- P. S. Sam and Frodo are meant for each other!! The way they look at each other in the movies...either that's very good acting or they truly harbor feelings for each other ((I think the latter is the truth)). Now all of you are looking at me like  and right?? Well THINK ABOUT IT!!! wahahahaaa.... I'm not crying, believe me...or maybe I'm tearing with mirth...I like that word... I also like the word mithril...it's just pretty....
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01-09-2003, 11:08 PM
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Hobbit
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~~In Moria, after Frodo gets hit by the "orc-chieftain", The Fellowship of the Ring~~ Aragorn picked up Frodo where he lay by the wall and made for the stair, pushing Merry and Pippin in front of him. The others followed; but Gimli had to be dragged away by Legolas: in spite of the peril he lingered by Balin's tomb with his head bowed. Boromir hauled the eastern door to, grinding upon its hinges: it had great iron rings on either side, but could not be fastened. "I am all right," gasped Frodo. "I can walk. Put me down!" Aragorn nearly dropped him in his amazement. "I thought you were dead!" he cried. ~~While Frodo, Sam, and Gollum are climbing the Stairs of Cirith Ungol, in The Two Towers~~ And so Gollum found them hours later, when he returned, crawling and creeping down the path out of the gloom ahead. Sam sat propped against the stone, his head dropping sideways and his breathing heavy. In his lap lay Frodo's head, drowned deep in sleep; upon his white forehead lay one of Sam's brown hands, and the other lay softly upon his master's breast. Peace was in both their faces. If that isn't a suggestion that they're in love, I don't know *what* is!!! |
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01-10-2003, 12:10 AM
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Ever notice that Sam got married and had THIRTEEN kids?
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01-10-2003, 01:14 AM
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the Shrike
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