What are we called?

FrodoFriend · 01-03-2002, 01:09 AM

Star Trek fans are Trekkies.

X-Files fans are X-Philes.

Do we get a geeky name too?

***IronParrot*** · 01-03-2002, 03:34 AM

"The Nerd of the Rings"

emplynx · 01-03-2002, 08:34 AM

Some say "Ringers."

bropous · 01-03-2002, 01:00 PM

Tolkieites?

Hobbiters?

Silmarillioners?

I think I prefer "Tolkien fan". "Tolkien Freak" kinda gets under my bark....[smile!]

FrodoFriend · 01-03-2002, 10:05 PM

"Ringers" . . . I sorta like that, except it reminds me of ringworm.

Wayfarer · 01-03-2002, 10:10 PM

Zealots.

bropous · 01-04-2002, 12:37 PM

"Tolkian Fundamentalists?"

"Tolkiban"?

"Al-Tolkiena"?

LOL!

How 'bout just "Loyal Readers".

Lelondul · 01-04-2002, 01:44 PM

Middle-earth Historians/Connoisseurs/Enthusiasts (insert your favorite).

Why have a dorky nickname for our interests when they lie in such rich, classical roots?

Gimly · 01-04-2002, 01:55 PM

Tolkienists

Strange-Looking Lurker · 01-04-2002, 11:08 PM

Tolkien Freak

Renille · 01-04-2002, 11:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lelondul

Why have a dorky nickname for our interests when they lie in such rich, classical roots?

Because people are jealous of us and show their small mental capacity by giving us dorky nicknames.

I think Tolkienites.

CardenIAntauraNauco · 01-04-2002, 11:23 PM

ringdings?(like wingdings....yeah I know...it's stupid)

bropous · 01-05-2002, 12:39 AM

How 'bout this, folks:

"Extremely insightful and deeply reflective individuals of rare character and quality who share a deep and abiding knowledge of literary masterworks of extreme detail and delightful creativity, without whom the incredible works of a tremendously talented Oxford professor would fade into obscurity"?

Nah. Tolkien Freaks it is. LOL!

jerseydevil · 01-06-2002, 05:33 PM

I just use Ringheads.

***Tessar*** · 01-07-2002, 05:29 PM

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! IP you like fox trot too?!

yay!

Bill Amend rocks don't he?

Strange-Looking Lurker · 01-07-2002, 06:56 PM

"Extremely insightful and deeply reflective individuals of rare character and quality who share a deep and abiding knowledge of literary masterworks of extreme detail and delightful creativity, without whom the incredible works of a tremendously talented Oxford professor would fade into obscurity"

Yes! That's it! I love that!

Aragorn · 01-07-2002, 07:39 PM

Don't you think it's a little lo...wait, what am I saying, PERFECT!

bropous · 01-07-2002, 08:47 PM

Ah, Strange-Looking Lurker and Aragorn, you two are Entings of high quality and keen logic! May your leaves forever burnish a deep green under the smiles of a friendly Sun!

Wayfarer · 01-07-2002, 09:08 PM

so, you're calling us all...

EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMEDDCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO's

How exactly would that acronym be pronounced?

bropous · 01-07-2002, 09:36 PM

I think it's pronounced, "bropous is the greatest Tolkien scholar", Wafarer! LOL!

See, you ain't the only "inside joker" in the ranks of Elven Warriors [wink!]. Although I'm more the Elven Warrior type who sits at the back of the formation and criticizes the moves of the leaders and throws insults at the enemy whilst hiding behind the shields of the front ranks as THEY deal with the orcs and trolls...then picks the pockets of the dead and makes off with only the comely childless well-off widows after the battle...

I gotta take my hat off to you for your dedication in assembling that acronym...good on ya!

[Correction credit to BoP]

01-03-2002, 01:09 AM	#1
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01-03-2002, 03:34 AM	#2
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01-03-2002, 01:00 PM	#4
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Tolkieites? Hobbiters? Silmarillioners? I think I prefer "Tolkien fan". "Tolkien Freak" kinda gets under my bark....[smile!] __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

01-03-2002, 10:05 PM	#5
FrodoFriend Halfwitted Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eryn Vorn Posts: 1,659	"Ringers" . . . I sorta like that, except it reminds me of ringworm. __________________ 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

01-03-2002, 10:10 PM	#6
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	Zealots. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

01-03-2002, 08:34 AM	#3
emplynx Self-Appointed Lord of the Free Peoples of the General Messages Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,214	Some say "Ringers."

01-04-2002, 12:37 PM	#7
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	"Tolkian Fundamentalists?" "Tolkiban"? "Al-Tolkiena"? LOL! How 'bout just "Loyal Readers". __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

01-04-2002, 01:44 PM	#8
Lelondul Swan-buggerer Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: The rainy, grey north Posts: 69	Middle-earth Historians/Connoisseurs/Enthusiasts (insert your favorite). Why have a dorky nickname for our interests when they lie in such rich, classical roots? __________________ - Lelond, your friendly neighborhood Adan

01-04-2002, 01:55 PM	#9
Gimly Enting Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Here Posts: 53	I always thought we are calledq Tolkienists __________________ Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

01-04-2002, 11:08 PM	#10
Strange-Looking Lurker Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: OK, USA Posts: 213	Tolkien Freak __________________ <hr>Check out my site: www.christianjugglers.org

01-04-2002, 11:23 PM	#12
CardenIAntauraNauco Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: rural oklahoma Posts: 324	ringdings?(like wingdings....yeah I know...it's stupid) __________________ "We will have peace","Yes we will have peace...we will have peace when you and all your works have perished - and the works of your dark lord to whom you would deliver us. You are a liar,Saruman,and a corrupter of men's hearts. You hold out your hand to me and I percieve only a finger of the claw of Mordor. Cruel and cold! Even if your war on me was just - as it was not,for were you ten times as wise you would have no right to rule me and mine, for your own profit you desired-even so, what will you say of your Torches in westfold and the children that lie dead there? And they hewed Hama's body before the gates of Hornburg, after he was dead. When you hang from a gibbet at your window for the sport of your own crows, I will have peace with you and Orthanc. So much for the House of Eorl. A lesser son of greater Sires am I, but I do not need to lick your fingers. Turn elsewither for I fear your voice has lost it's charm.

01-05-2002, 12:39 AM	#13
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	How 'bout this, folks: "Extremely insightful and deeply reflective individuals of rare character and quality who share a deep and abiding knowledge of literary masterworks of extreme detail and delightful creativity, without whom the incredible works of a tremendously talented Oxford professor would fade into obscurity"? Nah. Tolkien Freaks it is. LOL! __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

01-06-2002, 05:33 PM	#14
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01-07-2002, 05:29 PM	#15
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Wayyyyyyyy of topic....... ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! IP you like fox trot too?! yay! Bill Amend rocks don't he?

01-07-2002, 06:56 PM	#16
Strange-Looking Lurker Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: OK, USA Posts: 213	"Extremely insightful and deeply reflective individuals of rare character and quality who share a deep and abiding knowledge of literary masterworks of extreme detail and delightful creativity, without whom the incredible works of a tremendously talented Oxford professor would fade into obscurity" Yes! That's it! I love that! __________________ <hr>Check out my site: www.christianjugglers.org

01-07-2002, 07:39 PM	#17
Aragorn Elven Warrior Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Anywhere but where I should be. Posts: 369	Don't you think it's a little lo...wait, what am I saying, PERFECT! __________________ And they carried them to the flatlands But they died along the way And they built up with their bare hands What we still can't do today. EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMEDDCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO till the day I die.

01-07-2002, 08:47 PM	#18
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Ah, Strange-Looking Lurker and Aragorn, you two are Entings of high quality and keen logic! May your leaves forever burnish a deep green under the smiles of a friendly Sun! __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

01-07-2002, 09:08 PM	#19
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	so, you're calling us all... EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMEDDCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO's How exactly would that acronym be pronounced? __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

01-07-2002, 09:36 PM	#20
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	I think it's pronounced, "bropous is the greatest Tolkien scholar", Wafarer! LOL! See, you ain't the only "inside joker" in the ranks of Elven Warriors [wink!]. Although I'm more the Elven Warrior type who sits at the back of the formation and criticizes the moves of the leaders and throws insults at the enemy whilst hiding behind the shields of the front ranks as THEY deal with the orcs and trolls...then picks the pockets of the dead and makes off with only the comely childless well-off widows after the battle... I gotta take my hat off to you for your dedication in assembling that acronym...good on ya! [Correction credit to BoP] __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160. Last edited by bropous : 12-01-2002 at 07:52 PM.

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