Please note: This list of 134 ways was written by me, Val [the webmistress here]. I had two inspiration websites and adapted their suggestions to what I actually do. Everything on this list, believe it or not, I have done at least twice. So go on and try a couple I swears on the precious that you won't get into too much trouble for doing some!
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1 You�ve read all the books that involve LOTR [and have read them AGAIN]
2 You watch the movies so much that you know all the lines, movements, facial expressions, accents and fighting scenes.
3 You claim you are an Elf, Hobbit, Dwarf, Orc, Ringwraith, Wizard or other being from LOTR
4 You can name the 13 dwarves from The Hobbit
5 You try to walk fast and quiet like a Hobbit or light and graceful like an Elf
6 You learn LOTR languages [i.e.: Elvish or Dwarvish]
7 You memorized the history of Middle Earth (complete with the downfall of the Arda!)
8 You check the room you�re in for Orcs or other evil stuff before feeling safe and comfortable
9 You imitate the Frodo Dance [Funky Chicken]
10 You braid your hair like an Elf
11 You own a Nazgul cloak
12 You have the One Ring replica
13 For some reason you don�t wear shoes�
14 You�re afraid of spiders [you never know when one could grow to be the size of your house]
15 You know the Rings poem and the other poems and songs from the books by heart
16 Your favorite movie song is the song Merry and Pippin sing in the Pub [called The Pub Song]
17 You insist your ears are pointed
18 You name your pets after LOTR characters
19 You actually eat second breakfast, elevensies, etc�
20 You carry a flashlight everywhere with you because its your �Phial from Galadriel� or so you say�anyway it�s a light in dark places where all other lights go out.
21 You insist on getting archery and sword lessons [in case of Orcs, of course]
22 Whenever you lose your Ring your constantly muttering about a certain �precioussss�
23 You sneak up behind people an scream like a Nazgul
24 You slip various and random LOTR quotes into your otherwise normal conversations [i.e.: RUN FRODO RUN!]
25 Whenever anyone gets hurt you go in search of Kingsfoil
26 Whenever you�re served something you hate to eat you say �what is this devilry?�
27 You�re convinced Gollum lives in your basement
28 You think Peter Jackson is a stupid, fat, greedy and mean hobbit for not putting in Tom Bombadil or Gildor or Glorfindel but he can include Arwen
29 When someone asks you to get something you tell them its an important quest that you cannot do alone or you say �I will do it! I will find the insert object here!�though�I do not know where it is�
30 Whenever you go to the beach you sing Legolas� song to the sea
31 Whenever you go somewhere, period, you sing Bilbo�s traveling songs.
32 Whenever you want something you yell �GIVE UP THE INSERT OBJECT HERE, SHE-ELF!
33 Whenever someone asks you to pass them something you say �If you want it, come and claim it!�
34 When mad you often chant Arwen�s spell
35 You sometimes speak in only Elvish and refuse to answer to any other languages
36 When you have to climb a lot of stairs you re-enact the Moria scene and yell �TO THE BRIDGE OF KHAZAD-D� M!�
37 You use little siblings or small friends as dwarves for dwarve tossing contests
38 You and your friends have Elvish, Hobbitish and Dwarvish names for each other
39 You act like Gollum
40 You compare everything to Tolkien
41 Whenever someone attempts to take something from you, you scream �MY PRECIOUSSSS!!!!�
42 You jump on people�s backs and yell �Noro lim, Asfaloth, noro lim!�
43 Whenever someone wants to get past a door, you jump in front and say �The Doors of Durin, Lord Of Moria. Speak, Friend, And Enter�
44 When you wear your Ring and people talk to you, you simply say �why are you talking to someone invisible?� or �I�m invisible, HAHA! You cant see me!�
45 When you break a long silence its usually by quoting something from LOTR, saying different lines in different tones [i.e.: �CONFOUNDED SAMWISE GAMGEE! Have you�ve been eaves dropping!?� �I ain�t been dropping no eaves, sir, honest�.� etc]
46 When someone asks you what�s written on your Ring you say the Black Speech of Mordor [ash nazg�]
47 You�re constantly making models of Mount Doom out of mashed potatoes and ketchup
48 You call potatoes - taters and tomatoes - tumahtoes
49 When you�re away from your dvd or video you grab your ever-ready transcript and re-enact the entire movie right where you are.
50 Whenever you see someone leaving to go somewhere you cry �Oi! I�m coming too! And you�ll have to tie me up in a sack to stop me! *buckles seat belt* Anyway, you need people of intelligence on this sort of�mission�quest�thing!� and about half way there you ask �where are we going?�
51 When in trouble with your parents you haughtily reply �Gondor has no parents, Gondor needs no parents!�
52 Whenever you�re late to something and someone yells at you, you say �I am never late, nor am I early, I arrive precisely when I mean to!�
53 You keep talking about how you want a pet hobbit to keep in a jar on your mantle piece
54 Whenever you and your friends are bored, you trade your �pets� [elves, dwarves, hobbits, orcs�but not wizards�that�s illegal]
55 You make up funny songs about LOTR to popular song tunes
56 You come up with funny stuff that wouldn�t be seen in LOTR [SpongeBob and Patrick in Middle Earth!]
57 You buy really short capris or cut your pants to make�HOBBIT PANTS!
58 You have a Lord Of The Rings website
59 You�ve joined almost every LOTR clique there is
60 You have an alter-ego/nickname related to LOTR
61 You drink lots of (ginger) ale
62 You have the recipe for Lembas and eat Lembas occasionally
63 You imitate Gollum�s fights with himself to scare away evil annoying people
64 You beg for the LOTR movie pins the people at the movie theaters wear
65 You keep your ticket stubs
66 You�re constantly asking you English teacher if you can read the Lord Of The Rings in class
67 You often mistake your Spanish teacher [which is a SHE] for Saruman
68 You idolize �owyn for her kick ass ability and bravery
69 You make your own LOTR shirts
70 You make collages/wallpapers involving LOTR characters
71 Your instant messenger [AIM/AOL] icon is LOTR related
72 You tell your parents/guidance consular/therapist that you�re only paranoid because you think there�s a great, big, lid-less, fiery eye watching you
73 You and your friend made LOTR emoticons
74 You own action figures!!!
75 You have the LOTR soundtracks
76 You�re constantly plotting ways to get noticed by LOTR actors
77 Your school notes are covered with LOTR sayings and such
78 You make up inside jokes involving LOTR with your friends [PIPPION! LOL Jackie]
79 You play the games Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd made up on the set. Like �Tig� and �Cup�
80 You learn to write the calligraphy used in LOTR or you learn to write Elvish or Dwarvish
81 You think Aragorn needs a bath
82 You draw the Elvish symbol for �9� somewhere on your body as your �fellowship tattoo�
83 You EEEEEEKKKKKKKK! at anyone who questions your Nazgul cloak when you wear it to school.
84 Your class notes have drawings related to Lord Of The Rings on it. [i.e.: Legolas� bow]
85 You try to watch Lord Of The Rings everyday
86 You style your hair like a hobbit-lass
87 You keep saying how the US cant compete with Gandalf�s fireworks come 4th of July
88 You sing the Pub Song when �drunk�
89 You and your friends are making your own LotR movie
90 Whenever you�re in the woods you check for wood-elves and entwives
91 Whenever you can�t sleep you cry �Everywhere I lie there�s a dirty big root stickin� into my back!�
92 You make the actors from LOTR birthdays �national� holidays.
93 You quote stuff from the commentary in relationship to life. �The hobbits are just pillows! They�re pillows! They turn into feathers when we stab �em! But how can they wear a ring if they�re made out of feathers?�
94 You think heaven is Valinor
95 You have a crush on at least one of the actors
96 You claim to be from Middle Earth.
97 You put yourself in Frodo�s place and think how you would of �fought� when he did instead of always falling and putting on the Ring or running away then putting on the Ring
98 You made your own Lothlorien leaf brooch instead of buying one.
99 You hate the sun and moon as you hate and love yourself
100 When you feel sick and you go to the school nurse, and she asks you what�s wrong you say �I�ve been stabbed by a Morgul Blade. I need Elvish medicine, this is beyond your skill to heal.� She double takes and give you a dirty look and you tell her why your really sick.
101 You think random questions that have never and will never be answered. Ex: �if the Balrog has wings, why didn�t he fly when the bridge fell?� or �how come one minute Arwen�s dress is white and her hair is flowing and the next minute she�s wearing a dark blue dress with her hair braided back?�
102 You think Billy Boyd�s accent is cute
103 You think Boromir actually fancies Frodo and that he�s really trying to persuade him to go on a date and that�s why Boromir is always trying to get them alone so that they can have a candle-light dinner in the woods�oh and to try and take the Ring of course.
104 Whenever someone you care about is sick you find yourself saying �What grace, what grace has given me, let it plaster him (her), let him (her) be spared.�
105 Elrond�s eyebrows and Galadriel�s eyes freak you out sometimes.
106 You bought fake pointed ears
107 For Halloween you were a character from LOTR
108 You can name most of the main actors/actresses from LOTR
109 You own a Lord of the Rings LUNCH BOX!
110 You and your friends got bored and wrote a fiction based on how you somehow got sucked into the Lord of the Rings and you are now travelling with the Fellowship
111 You have a Lord of the Rings related away message
112 You find ways to relate your favorite music into scenes from the movie
113 If anyone wont stop staring at you, you get up and start conversation about Lord of the Rings. Even if they hate the movie!
114 You hate those Harry Potter geeks who think Harry Potter came first, books and all, before Lord of the Rings. And they do NOT know that without Lord of the Rings there would most likely be no Harry Potter
115 Although you are always ready to make a truce with a Harry Potter fan, if they are willing to acknowledge that Lord of the Rings is better (and that you are indeed an Elf, Hobbit, etc)
116 When your best friends birthday rolls around you give her some bread thats wrapped up in leaves. Hey its Lembas, if she doesnt want to acknowledge that, thats her problem. Sheesh and you was only looking out for her so she didnt starve!
117 You know Legolas' and Haldir's secret! THEY ARE NOT "genetically" BLONDE! Seeing that the High Elves of the Noldor were usually dark haired with grey eyes.
118 You rock out to your Lord of the Rings soundtrack, moshing, crowd surfing, etc...
119 You reload www.lordoftherings.net over and over until you get your favorite person saying hello.
120 When sneaking about and you're caught you scream "MAKE FOR THE GAP OF ROHAN!" and run for your life!!!
121 You own LotR Trivial Pursuit and win almost everytime you play
122 You also own LotR Monopoly or LotR Risk
123 Your friends think you're even more crazy for reading The Silmarillion, The Unfinished Tales, The Lost Road... etc. I mean, you're only doing it to further your knowledge of Tolkien's great work
124 You own a shirt that says 'Tolkien Was A Genius'
125 You make your little brother a shirt that says 'Yes, I am a hobbit.'
126 You spend way too much time in Barnes and Noble looking at all the beautiful Tolkien books that you don't own... yet.
127 You are regressing in maturity because you freak out whenever you see a toy store... in hopes that whoever you are with will allow you to go buy a new action figure
128 You have the Lord Of The Rings playing cards
129 You own a replica sword from the movie (even if it is the plastic Sting that lights up blue and makes fighting sounds when you move it... it still counts!!)
130 You own the video/computer games for LotR
131 You make LotR LJ icons
132 You know the dance to the Edoras Song ("oh you can search far and wide...")
133 You bawled like a little baby when you saw RotK for the first time... one... because it was so sad and two... it was the last flim
133 You have high hopes that Peter Jackson shall make The Hobbit into a live action movie (so we won't be stuck with the animated one forever)
134 You post this list on your LOTR site to prove how obsessed you are or you are one of the few people who write lists like this! Anyway, its all just ways to show the world your obsession (and how it is better than any other obsession you could possibly have in the whole entire world! mwahhahaa)