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You know you are obsessed when:
1. Someone at work/school calls you "Lord of the Rings kid." 2. Somewhere on every paper, you put the Angerthas rune for your first initial. 3. Everyone asks you how LOTR ends. 4. You are always trying to remember how "A Elbereth! Gilthoniel!" goes. 5. You keep reading your LOTR books over and over until you finally see one that you don't own. 6. You visit Entmoot every day. 7. You refuse to let anyone borrow any of your LOTR books because of the fear that you will not be able to look something up. 8. You KNOW that you're obsessed when you go to the weast coast of...anything and begin thinking that you'll go into the West. 9. You are always quoting things said in Rat Race (oops wrong thread and forum  )
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03-02-2004, 08:11 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill
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When a fellow LOTR geek comes up to you on March 1, 2004 and the first words out of his mouth are "Clean sweep!" and you know what he's talking about.
When you start wishing you lived in the Shire when things get a bit rough...I'd give up indoor plumbing to live there.
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03-02-2004, 11:23 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: all over the place
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I don't think getting one of those tattoos would be so abnormal. You know you're obsessed when you clear everything out of your brother's old room, and the only new furnishing you bring into it is your Hobbit and LotR box set in the place of honour on top of the desk.
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03-03-2004, 02:34 AM
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Some things I'm guilty of in addition to many of the others listed: 1) You have an electronic file (PDF) to have a quick reference on the books at work or at home in case of an "emergency" (Send me a PM if you want a copy - ~13MB). 2) You've got a compressed version of the films in order to put them on a CD and listen to them in the background as you work (with a peek every now and then on your favorite part). 3) You've got a ton of the little action figures (I'm 27 years old). 4) Your desktop background and screensaver at work are of LOTR jpg's. 5) You have a map of M.E. on your cubicle wall at work. 6) Next to the map you have your name printed in "Elvish". 7) Everyone thinks you're crazy cause you have that stuff up. 8) You have almost every collector's item available (i.e. - mugs, newspapers, magazines, action figures, posters, TV guides, etc). 9) You only ask for LOTR stuff for Xmas and birthdays. 10) You have dreamt about LOTR. The map on my cubicle wall has a title of "upper management is here" with an arrow pointing to Barad-dur.
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03-03-2004, 04:54 AM
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Elf Lord
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Wow! That's pretty hardcore.
Gaun yersel, Telcontar! Maybe you could put "IT services" over Isengard or something... |
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03-03-2004, 08:35 AM
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It's not good to work at a supermarket and mix up the words 'thread' (as in at Entmoot) and 'aisle'. |
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03-03-2004, 10:03 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: New York's beautiful North Coast -- we're all mad here!!!
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08-27-2004, 09:55 PM
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Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury
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Teacup Cafe=Deli Thread=Aisle Forum=supermarket (would that work?) Barad Dur=Boss's office RPG Forum=Book Section Some of those might work   .
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10-16-2004, 12:43 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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[QUOTE=Starr Polish]When a fellow LOTR geek comes up to you on March 1, 2004 and the first words out of his mouth are "Clean sweep!" and you know what he's talking about.[QUOTE]
I did that to. And people around us were like. What are ya talking about. It was so funny. Well anyway only wanted to get this back up. |
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10-16-2004, 01:40 PM
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Swan-Knight of Dol Amroth
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Okay, I'll bite. What in the LotR does "clean sweep" imply?
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10-16-2004, 01:42 PM
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Then Huor spoke and said: "Yet if it stands but a little while, then out of your house shall come the hope of Elves and Men. This I say to you, lord, with the eyes of death: though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again, from you and me a new star shall arise. Farewell!" The Silmarillion, Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Page 230 |
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10-16-2004, 02:05 PM
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Sounds like some shire calendar thing...
... but I guess it could refer to all those awards to won that it was nominated for? :confuse: In which case, I don't think I'd be particularly proud/obsessed for admitting that. 
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10-16-2004, 02:40 PM
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Hmm... strangely enough, I don't seem to have all the symptoms of obsession. I guess that makes me, what... the rational one around here? Go figure.
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10-16-2004, 03:11 PM
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the Shrike
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Nope, nope and nope. It makes you insufferable.
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10-16-2004, 03:21 PM
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The Insufferable
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Oh, pshaw.
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10-16-2004, 05:34 PM
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Swan-Knight of Dol Amroth
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... if you're posting at Entmoot at 4am? Heh heh...
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10-17-2004, 04:24 AM
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Warrior of the House of Hador
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If you spend every living moment that you can on the Moot.
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Then Huor spoke and said: "Yet if it stands but a little while, then out of your house shall come the hope of Elves and Men. This I say to you, lord, with the eyes of death: though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again, from you and me a new star shall arise. Farewell!" The Silmarillion, Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Page 230 |
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10-17-2004, 10:09 AM
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11-19-2004, 09:57 PM
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avocatus diaboli
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Himring
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--How to know your Tolkien obsessed--
aka... the stupid thing that Elemmire did today I know it's not LotR... but the same idea, really: You really really really want to read Morgoth's Ring (HoME 10 - I think), and can't find it in your own town. So you spend 5 hours taking buses from town to town going to at least 6 different book stores looking for it, to no avail. So you're finally told to go look in the local library (you're a college student here and don't have a library card), and get there right when it's closing. So... now you're so frustrated and upset that you couldn't find this book that when you get back on the bus, you get off at the wrong stop and end up lost and alone at night in the middle of a highway. And as soon as you finally get back home, the first thing you do is go on line to try to figure out again where exactly you can find the book. 
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