A few ways to tell if you are obsessed with LOTR

[Nurvingiel]

Is confuzzled... are you saying you don't know any Tolkien words? Here's a good one to add to your repetoire: mellon. It means friend in elvish. Also, see my signature for an excellent Gandalf quote. It's from the part where the Fellowship is going to Moria, and they are attacked by Wargs. The quote is the spell Gandalf uses to light a tree on fire. They then drive off the Wargs.

You know you're obsessed when you help people build up their Tolkein repetoires.

[Lady of Rohan]

Originally posted by Pimpernel

you cant find one of your tolkien books and you freak out, running all over the house screaming 'my precious!! where has it gone?? precious!!' until your parents tell you to shut up, then you comfort yourself under your breath 'where has it gone precious? we wont let the nasty orcs steal it from us, nooo precious....'

Yah, I do that too. Except sometimes, my nasty sisters hide then on me. And one time I decided to bring one of my LotR books to school to read, and people from my class would take them and go running around the class, until I cornered them, yelling at them in elvish (even though I only know, like, 12 words).

[Elf Girl]

~ all the Easter eggs you die are related to LotR. *eyes purple egg with "LotR" written all over it with white crayon*

[Bunnie_Queen_1146]

Originally posted by Lady of Rohan
Yah, I do that too. Except sometimes, my nasty sisters hide then on me. And one time I decided to bring one of my LotR books to school to read, and people from my class would take them and go running around the class, until I cornered them, yelling at them in elvish (even though I only know, like, 12 words).

yea everyone was talking it dident i help you?

i painted eggs today and i coloured one purple.(i hope i was not spamming?)

[Sminty_Smeagol]

the only elvish i know is "eru laita elye, ely rauko ulcolli helda periannath!" which is, god bless you, you smelly evil naked hobbit!

heh, taught myself, as apparent

[trace]

i think that those things are sweet. (apart from the running up to bears one. slightly crazy, and stealing gnomes from your neighbours to go sailing with. slightly creepy.

[Linaewen]

You spend hours adding all the Tolkien words that aren't in the Microsoft Word Vocabulary to the database. (And I mean all of them)
e.g. Faramir *right-click, add*
Boromir *right-click, add*
Denethor*right-click, add*
Eowyn*right-click, add*


etc.

[Linaewen]

You are always wandering about. Either because :
a) You are pretending to be in Arda (you are homesick)
or
b) You forget what you are doing because you are thinking about something Entmoot or Tolkien-related. (I did this when thinking about the Valar or something or other)

[Bombadillo]

Originally posted by Linaewen
You spend hours adding all the Tolkien words that aren't in the Microsoft Word Vocabulary to the database. (And I mean all of them)
e.g. Faramir *right-click, add*
Boromir *right-click, add*
Denethor*right-click, add*
Eowyn*right-click, add*


etc.

Just finished that. I had to double-check some of the spellings and accent marks.

[azalea]

You see the word eleven and your mind reads it as "elven."

[cassiopeia]

Originally posted by Linaewen
You spend hours adding all the Tolkien words that aren't in the Microsoft Word Vocabulary to the database. (And I mean all of them)
e.g. Faramir *right-click, add*
Boromir *right-click, add*
Denethor*right-click, add*
Eowyn*right-click, add*
etc.

Oh, yes! When I run spellcheck, I get annoyed when it says I spelt Frodo or Galadriel wrong. I finally realised you can add those words to the dictionary.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by cassiopeia
Oh, yes! When I run spellcheck, I get annoyed when it says I spelt Frodo or Galadriel wrong. I finally realised you can add those words to the dictionary.

No, you know what annoys be more? That it doesn't even have TOLKIEN! I got furious! Something else that is annoying is that you have to add in Frodo's and Galadriel's and all that jazz as well, because they are 'new' words too.

You know what? I just copied a Quenya wordlist into Word. Haha. Half a thousand words with the squiggly red line underneath.

[Elf Girl]

Originally posted by azalea
You see the word eleven and your mind reads it as "elven."

My friend did the opposite. I gave here the Three Rings... poem and she read it as "Three rings for the eleven kings..."

[Radagast The Brown]

originally posted by Elf Gir
My friend did the opposite. I gave here the Three Rings... poem and she read it as "Three rings for the eleven kings..."

[Elf Girl]

She thought the book would be about the eleven kings fighting over the three rings...

[Linaewen]

Back to the topic we were on before; I got 2 Tolkien books today! w00t! The HoMe are way to expensive now, so I can't get them yet... Crud! So now I have
1 LotR (3 volumes)
1 The Hobbit
1 Silmarillion
1 UT

- which I think is the basic Tolkien collection...

[Lalaith]

What about the appendix?

[Aragorn_of_the_west]

The appendix is part of the big LOTR book- at least in my book, after the three books the appendix appears.

[Lalaith]

It is in my english version too, but in the german version it was a seperate book. Very annoying.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Lalaith
It is in my english version too, but in the german version it was a seperate book. Very annoying.

In all the versions I have seen, it is considered a part of RotK or of the one volume editions.

Following me again, Lai?