-You cheer youself up on your boring moments with imagining how (a suitable LOTR character) is about to enter your room...and what is going to happen next. ~Sarla
-You do the imagining thing and the only obvious alternative is that he will see right trough you how GREAT of an LOTR fan you are, and your conversation will turn unavoidable to that issue and in the end he will just fall in love with you for your deep understanding of LOTR... ~Sarla
-You think Pippin is very intelligent. ~Sarla
-When somebody tells you Legolas looks like a girl you will punch that arrogant stupid maggot eater... ~Sarla
-You spend the most of your free time on these kind of sites, for your friends cannot stand you anymore. ~Sarla
-Your friends think you're talking about LOTR when you're not (which is a very rare occasion). ~Sarla
-You will never forgive somebody who (though they were meant to watch the movie with you) falls in sleep in the middle of Helm's Deep. ~Sarla
-You have gotten over Elrond's irritating way ofwrinkling his forehead, and you can not laugh at him anymore (very bad, very bad...!) ~Sarla
-You carry around a squirt gun/blunt weapon to use on anyone who insults Lord of the Rings. ~BoBi
-You read all these and think they're great ideas (if you haven't already done them). ~Anonymous
-You screamed when you saw that Dom was in a new show called Lost and it was the first thing you said to your friends at school the next day. ~Anonymous
-You hear the word 'taters' and scream. ~Anonymous
-You meet someone in your driver's ed class and love them immediately because their real name is actually Precious. ~Anonymous
-You almost kill the computer at school because it doesn't have your lotr words in it's spell check. ~Anonymous
-Soon after, all the school computers auto correct the word 'for' to 'Frodo', and everyone knows who did it. ~Anonymous
-You hate going to Cosco, but scream when you walk into the door because you heard LOTR playing...then you stay to watch the rest of it... or tell your parents as they drag you away "Cruel men hurts us, master tricked us!". ~Anonymous
-You sign other people's yearbooks "I know I'm obsessed, and I'm sorry you have a problem with it". ~Anonymous
-People ask you to write/speak Elvish for them. ~Anonymous
-People say you are starting to look like an Elf/Hobbit, and they mean without the cape and feet/ears. ~Anonymous
-You've used up all of your notebook paper writing the name of your favorite LOTR hotties all over the sheets and are constantly asking your friends for more. ~Orlandoluvr6151
-You Have an LOTR buddy icon,Wallpaper,screen saver,and mouse pad. (and that's only the computer stuff.... ) ~Orlandoluvr6151
-Hot Topic is your favorite store just because they have a wide collection of Legolas memorabilia. ~orlandoluvr6151
-You'll buy a magazine that you'd ordinarily never read like GQ (Gentleman's Quarterly) just because there is a sentence about your favorite LOTR hottie. ~Orlandoluvr6151
-After arriving at a new school and only having been there for three weeks people you have never met come up to you calling you the 'lotr girl' or 'elven child' ~Silvren Ithildin
-You have made a name for yourself from Quenya or Sindarin and know exactly what it means. ~Silvren Ithildin
-Your friends have forgotten your real name because you are always refered to by your elven name. ~Silvren Ithildin
-You don't remember your own name. ~Silvren Ithildin
-You know every poem in the book as well as the lesser imformation (name of Eomer and Theoden's sword, Prince Imrahil's daughter and who she married) without looking in the book. ~Silvren Ithildin
-If you instantly hate anyone who says Legolas, Aragorn, Theoden, or Eomer has the best horse in the LOTR series. ~Love4Shadowfax
-You question things that even tolkien has dismissed - is Tom Bombadil and Illuvatar in some way related or are they the same person. ~Feaerainu
- When you refer to Washinton Dc as Minas Tirith ~Aragorn Rocks
- Whenever you see a swamp you feel this odd compulsion to fall face first into it. ~Jessie
- You edit the movie so that it's you not Arwen kissing Aragorn. ~Livy
- You complain to the text book company because they... don't consider The Red Book a classic, the rule of King Elessar is not completely discussed in history, Time isn't divided into BF and AF (Before Fellowship, After Fellowship), and they didn't consider Gandalf's fireworks a great scientific discovery. ~Jessie
- When somebody says something against Lord of the Rings you immediately start to tell them reasons why it is the best trilogy ever written. ~Eowyn
- A sign on your door reads, 'Speak friend, and enter!' or 'You shall not pass!' ~LadyLathril
- You can't walk into your room without kissing and or staring at the posters of LOTR guys. ~valar_anduril
- Your mother tells you that you're going to go to the largest independant bookshop in the United States, and all you can think about is the beautiful Tolkien display they must have. Once you get there, she literally has to drag you away from all the pretty books, but you end up sprinting back to see them as soon as she's not looking. It takes her about five seconds to find you again, but this time she just gives up and leaves you there until it's time to go. ~Rohirric Chick
- Your ears are starting to look a little pointy... ~OrliFreak123
- You have every single LOTR edition game: Monopoly, Risk, Trivial Pursuit, chess... ~RaggedyAnndy
- You're willing to clean your room so that your dad will buy you the extended version of one of the movies as a reward. ~Valerie
- You bring LOTR related things to read to a summer camp since you know that you'd be forced to live without it otherwise. ~Valerie
- You spend hours a day on the computer...learning elvish. ~Pippin's Girl
- You spend hours a day on the phone talking to your best friend...in elvish. ~Pippin
- Everytime you see Arwen riding Asfaloth you say 'Give Glorfindel back his horse!' ~Mary
- You spend hours looking for any and every it of info on LOTR-cast. ~Baggins7349
- You actually eat breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, afternoon tea, luncheon, dinner, and supper. ~Arwen Undomiel
- The best thing that's ever happened to you was getting your cousin obessed with LOTR (no you have some one to share your awesome song parodies with!) ~Orlando Lover 6151
- You read these, realize only one or two apply (and only a little), and are completely ashamed of yourself. ~Lady Voldything
- You can PROVE Sam and Frodo aren't gay. ~LOTRbookworm
- You keep a drawer full of The One Rings that come along with merchandise. ~Linwe
- You obsess over all sorts of rings hoping they might be magical in some way. You then keep them all on a chain around your neck. ~Linwe
- You gather weeds hoping they might have some sort of healing properties like Athalas/Kingsfoil. ~Anonymous
- you have acheap immatation of the one ring and after wearing it the gold paint flakes off so you paint it with gold nail polish....and have to do so about twice a week. ~Elvenfreak
- You make lambas and insist that you only need one bite a day. ~Samwisebrave842
- You act out scenes from the movie with your best friend. With props. In public. ~Suzzie93
- In geography lessons you refer to the world as 'middle-earth'. ~Haldirlover
- You got arrested for carrying Sting around town. ~imaLOTRnutkASE
- You go into a giggle fit or start quoting the LOTR movies when you drive by a corn field. "It was only a couple of cabbages...". ~Anonymous
- You end up with several small injuries after attempting the "Smeagol is freee!" dance. ~ kira and katie
- You act out the "potato scene" with Smeagol and Sam whenever you're eating potatoes for dinner... ~Kira and Katie
- You maddly bang on the tv and yell at the screen when the Fellowship is in times of danger... ~Kira and Katie
- you attempt to construct your own "ring" by combining nail polish colors to make gold... ending up with a discusting ear wax color... then proudly displaying is around you neck anyways... ~Kira and Katie
-You read Beowulf twice, thrice, or four times to see all the connections to LOTR. ~Elfstone312931
- You create a cloak and 2 wooden swords in Elvish style as well as a crude homemade bow along with 4 daggers that substitute as arrows to use against trick-or-treaters that arent dressed in LOTR attire. ~Elfstone312931
- You try to kill your friend when they dont spell a LOTR name right( Like seriously ppl its Merry not Marie or Marry like come on!) ~Pippin
- You SCREAM and TWITCH when some poor unsuspecting fool says those heart stopping words: "What is LOTR?" ~Wilde
- You see a hill and ask "Where are the hobbits?". ~Mrs. Gamgee
- During recess, your mother packs some crunchy garlic bread for you. You offer your friends and say"Anynone for Lembas?" ~Sheildmaiden
Your ears are trained to pick up anything that sounds like LOTR out of anything in a crowd, and if it's something insulting, you march right over there and give that random stranger a piece of your mind. ~Amy
- When you travel to another country just to go to a bookstore and drool over they're Lotr section. ~Elrond is the height of cool
- When you try to count all of the orcs going to Helms Deep, just to make sure PJ didn't just put in a measly 9,000! ~Elrond rocks
- Your friends have to read "How To Protect Yourself From A LOTR-Crazed Friend". ~Cuthien Moonleaf
- Spend an hour reading this list then start to send your own(which happens to be mostly personal experiences) ~Luthien Earfalas
- When you slide down the stairs on your mom's best tea tray pretending to shoot a bow. ~Serethiel
- You've done the "potato scene" so much that your little sister is always able to do it with you. The same is true for the "second breakfast scene". ~Valerie
- You eat an early breakfast, only to discover your dad making breakfast a couple of hours later. When you say that you already had breakfast, he asks "You've had it already?" you say, "I had one, yes. What about second breakfast?" ~Valerie
- You want to be Awen for Halloween, and you fear that someone who supposedly has a crush on you and doesn't take LOTR seriously will dress up as Aragorn, meaning you'll have to go around with him all day. ~Valerie
- You write every line that every character in all 3 movies said ( I actually did this). ~Belfalas Silverwood
- You had to beg money off your parents to buy the 3 soundtracks again. The first copies got worn through. ~Legsiepoo
- You watch ROTK standing in the Wal-Mart entertainment center, and glare meancingly at people who walk in front of the screen or even walk behind you becuase they're disturbing our preciousss LOTR time. ~Faerie In Combat Boots
- You mourn for days if one LOTR thing goes permantly missing. ~Faerie In Combat Boots
- You've been bored enough to reinact the battle of Helm's Deep with a mass amount of coins and deeply frightened all around you. ~Amatria
- You've searched EVERY toy store in a 30 mile radius for an action figure that resembles you even slightly so you could go on adventures with the Fellowship. ~Amatria
- Mushrooms have a profound meaning to you (and you've started eating them!) ~Amatria
- You've actually role played as Celeborn.(And was damn proud!) ~Amatria
- You laugh when Boromir dies (and know why's it's funny) ~Amatria
- You've named your couch Viggo or Aragorn (or any other random object by a cast member/character name) ~Amatria
- When driving through tunnels or crawling through them at the park you exclaim, "Welcome to Moria!" ~Amatria
- written books about things most can't explain. (Like, how does Gandalf and the Balrog FALL for like, three hours and then end up on TOP of a mountain?) ~Amatria [Webmistress note: Tells you right there in the books: They climbed stairs after they landed.]
- When you win a game, you yell in victory, "OSGILIATH HAS FALLEN!" ~Amatria
- You notice that when you first see Galadriel in Lothlorien, her left ear looks a little bent out of shape in comparison to her right. ~Amatria
- You beg and plead for that Legolas standee at Specs, threatening to disown your parents if they don't meet your demands, so far it hasn't worked. ~Lady Greenleaf of Mirkwood
- You refuse to eat melon because Mellon means friend. ~Galenfea
- You scream, MY Preciousssss!" whenever you drive by a donut shop. ~Zia
- You change the novel you were writing from historical fiction that takes place in the middle east to a sword and sorcery fantasy much like LotR. ~Shend�lf�a
- You now own a bow and a quiver full of arrows and you absolutely refuse to use any special equipment like stabilizers, sights, etc. and you also absolutely refuse to use any other bow other than a recurve because the archers in LotR didn't use any of that stuff and you want to be as authentic as possible. ~Shend�lf�a
- You admire Tolkien for his work in creating the elvish language (among others) and in creating a detailed history of a ficticious land, making it sound so real that you believe it does exist. You want to be just like him, so you invent languages of your own and then write your own detailed history of an imaginary land, working with it so much that you begin to believe that it and every character in it are real. ~Shend�lf�a
- You actually know the meaning of Elijah's name. ("The Lord is God" 1 Kings 17:1 in the MacArthur study Bible.). You also know that the prophet Elijah had to hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the river Jordan and you find this interesting because Jordan is Elijah's middle name. You love to read 1 Kings and 2 Kings just because they use Elijah's name so often. ~Shend�lf�a
- You've downloaded the Tengwar (Sindarin and Quenya) to use as a font on your computer. ~Shend�lf�a
- You start talking to all the trees in your neighborhood in entish. ~Danielle
- You look for hobbit pictures on the internet all lunch time! ~Misty
- You want to be the first one to live in a hobbit hole. ~Pippin*Elwing
- You stole your mother's best kitchen knife and named it Sting. If ever something blue became reflected in it's metal, you become incredibly nervous and attack the next thing moving. ~Maroozer
- Your grandfather's nickname (much to his bewilderment) is �Sharkey�. ~Maroozer
- You regularly make humorous mentions about "Safety Sam" and Tig....and are hurt when others are not amused. ~Maroozer
- You cried during the second movie...not because it was touching, but because the Entmoot WAS ALL WRONG! ~Maroozer
- If called on in World History Class, you proceed to list all the Ainur by name, personality, and spouse, and tell the shocked class, �Well, how else do you think Arda came to be?� ~Maroozer
- When you heard about Lord of the Rings: The Musical all you could say was, "Pfft, I already did that.� ~Maroozer
- When your mother threatened to take away your dvd's if you didn't clear your bedroom walls of pictures and posters of LotR scenes, actors, etc., you took them down....but secretly made a collage on the inside of your closet door. ~Maroozer
- Because you HAD to watch every movie with Elijah Wood, the Faculty is the only rated R movie your mother has actually let you watch (for the slightly younger crowd--talkin' 12, 13). ~Maroozer
- You nearly passed out when you realized that you had the same birthday as one of the actors from LotR (my birthday=Orlando Bloom's birthday!) ~Maroozer
- Just from reading that, you knew right away exactly what day my birthday is. =) ~Maroozer
- You've named all your favourite pencils after LotR charaters. ~Elenen Ithildin
-You and your friends made your own Inklings group in honor of Tolkien; and call it the Bird and the Baby. ~ Anonymous
- When you & your best friend start writing the characters names in permanent ink on your body. ~***Inwe***~
- After the first three weeks of school your official name is "Mrs. Bloom" ~Pippinspaz
- Just by someone mentioning "Eleven" you shriek and laugh and then say "Elevenses! I love elevenses! It comes after second breakfast, right?" ~Pippinspaz
- The word "tricksy" has been added to your vocabulary, and whenever possible you end a sentence with the word "before" in a slightly English accent just like Frodo did three times in the first couple of scenes. ~Pippinspaz
- You know all of the words to "Half Fling" -- the song Elijah Wood and Dom Monaghan sing -- and no one knows what the crap you're doing; in fact, you often say "Dip in Goo" and laugh at the puzzled expressions on people's faces. ~Pippinspaz
- You know all the rules to play Foo, Cup, and Tig. ~Pippinspaz
- Instead of putting '2004' on your school papers you put '4th Age'. ~Melian Undomiel
- You know all the words to "The Road goes ever on and on" and you even made up your own tune to it and sing to yourself quite often. ~Pippinspaz
- You type your school reports in Tengwar and get upset when your teachers can't read it. ~Arafangiel
- When you spend hours at a time trying to get the one ring to land on your finger. ~Curly Hobbit Wig
- You talk like Gollum to anyone who annoys you...or anybody at all! ~Elendae
- You defend every actor from LOTR, even if they're your least favourite. Hey, they DID act in LOTR... ~Elendae
- You learn and Preform Merry and Pippins Green dragon table dance for your friends. ~Pippin*Rox*My*Sox
- When ever someone says "let's play tag!" you automaticly play tig then stand there confused when people don't know what your doing. ~Gaby Wood
- You start inviting random people to your wedding between you and an LotR character. ~Inwe O Lorien
- You refer to your home/room as Bag End. ~Anonymous
- You get up at 5am just so you can eat breakfast and second breakfast before anyone else can steal the food. ~Lothiriel
- You say "knew it!" to every single fact about film, book, cast or character someone tells you. ~Lothiriel
- Everything you write includes something LOTR related. ~Lothiriel
- You have a word document with every LOTR related site ever heard of and you go through the list everyday. ~Lothiriel
- You call up your friends at 2am just to tell them that you've thought of something to do with the books, the films, the characters, the cast or if you've found out something new like what new film one of the cast is going to appear in. ~Lothiriel
- Not only can you quote all of LOTR (books and films) but you can quote any other film that any LOTR actor (main cast, speaking part, non speaking part, extra) has been in (even if only for a second). ~Lothiriel
- If someone has annoyed you you banish them to Mordor. ~Lothiriel
- If you are walking on the road and a car or something is coming you proceed to shout "Get off the road QUICK!" and when people fall on top of you as you pull them off the road you complain about broken carrots. ~Lothiriel
- After hopelessly searching every toy store in your state you are forced to make your own LOTR lego's and reinact Helm's Deep with them. ~Tinuviel Taralom
- You get a burger kiing pippin doll,and talk to him like he is real! ~ pippin 028
- You buy lotr's the complete guide to middle earth and try to explain to your teachers that this is the real dictionary. ~ orli4eva
- You start eating like Denethor at the table... ~Cutie Smeagol
- You have to do a seminar about genetic enzyme crap for Year 13 Biology and end up talking about Sauron genetically engineering Orcs. ~Aislinn
- You get the 'nine' tattoo in elvish in all the places the fellowship have them... even though it means you have it nine times! ~Aislinn
- You translate the entire Silmarillion into the Tengwar by hand using a quill pen - just for fun ~Aislinn
- You begin quoting 'it's a dangerous business...' followed by a rousing rendition of 'the road goes ever on (and on)' every time you step out your front door. ~Aislinn
- You spend your weekends visiting all the sites where lotr was filmed and recreating the scenes...alone...because all your friends are tired of going with you. ~Aislinn
- You lined up to watch the Premiere parades at midday... the day before. ~Aislinn
- When you and your friends start having conversations in Elvish, Dwarvish, or Entish. ~Luthien
- You know exactly how many orcs each character kills in all three movies *shifty eyes* no...hehehe.... i don't know....*looks around nervously*. ~Luthien
- You go to www.quizilla.com and take every single quiz/story quiz that has anything to do with Lotr. ~Luthien
- You fake sick from school just to watch all three movies and their special features at least twice. ~Luthien [Webmistress note, I do not encourage skipping school.]
- You're absolutely excited when you discover that there's a neighborhood in Fort Collins, CO called "The Shire" and that one of the streets in it is called "Hobbit St." You then have to tell everyone you know about this. Afterwards, you and all your friends go there to take pictures of yourselves in front of it. ~Shend�lf�a
- When you're walls are covered in pictures and you look at them at night, hoping that they'll jump out and ask you to visit them at any time. ~Sarah Darling
- You crack a funny joke about lotr that no one gets then give yourself a hi 5. ~Elendil
- Upon meeting Billy Boyd you are so nervous you actually forget how to smile! ~Belewien
- You spend your classes rewriting all of JRRT poems in Tengwar. ~Linahnidah
- You know the difference between Eowyn and Theoden's swords. ~Linahnidah
- When you start writing your notes in Tengwar. ~Linahnidah
- When you randomly quote the council of Elrond in the middle of a play. ~Linahnidah
- You have a site dedicated to LOTR. ~Morgoth Lady
- You own a set of lotr tarot cards! ~Morgoth Lady
