| You Know You're Obsessed With Lord of the Rings When. . . | |||||||||
| 1. You name your children after characters. 2. You've named your animals after the characters. 3. You superglue your ears into elf ears. *Avoids eye contact and whistles softly*. 4. You can relate anything to the Lord of the Rings. 5. You know what LOTR, FOTR, TTT, and ROTK stand for. 6. Pictures of the Lord of the Rings cover your walls. 7. You've memorized parts of books. 8. Better yet! You've memorized all of the books! 9. You speak Elvish, or any of the other languages of Middle Earth and you consider yourself bilingual/multilingual. 10. No one asks what you want for your birthday or Christmas. 11. You've created a name for yourself in every Middle Earth language possible and know what they mean. 12. You only respond to the names. 13. You daydream constantly about you're "favorite" character. 14. If anyone gets a detail wrong, you correct them and tell them what part of the book/movie they are in. 15. You write stories, poems, songs, etc about Middle Earth. 16. You come up with an obsessed list. 17. You dress up to see the movies in theaters. 18. You have the One Ring. 19. You have other jewelry. 20. You get sick and wish an Elf was there to heal you. 21. Every piece of paper in the house is covered in LOTR doodles. 22. You start eating breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner, and supper. 23. You organize your clothes in your closet as to what each character would wear. 24. You randomly say, "Nobody tosses a dwarf." 25. You wear earthy colors and insist on walking (or riding a horse) everywhere. 26. You have learned to walk on snow. (Very difficult, believe me.) 27. Someone does something stupid, you cry, "Fool of a took!" 28. Your favorite song is 'The Road Goes Ever On and On." 29. You hear a bell ring at school and yell, "The Horn of Gondor!" even if it sounds nothing like it. 30. When someone knocks on your door, you say, "Speak friend and enter," and don't let them in until they say, "Mellon." 31. You decorate your room to resemble your favorite place in Middle Earth. 32. If any of your friend's names remotely resemble a name from LOTR, you nickname them that name. (Ex: Samuel=Samwise, Fred=Frodo, etc.) 33. Elephants are now oliphaunts. 34. You start craving pipeweed. 35. Everything is "my precious." 36. You talk to trees and swear they talk back to you. 37. "Lord of the Rings" is the magic phrase to get you out of/in to la-la-land. 38. You write songs, poems, and stories that would go with LOTR. 39. You can't count on your fingers and/or toes how many times you've seen the movies. 40. You stare at birdbathes and deep dishes trying to see things that were, things that are, and some things that have not yet come to pass. 41. You steal vegetables from your neighbors garden. 42. Better yet, you steal veggies out of YOUR OWN garden! 43. You actually make the food, such as lembas, from LOTR. 44. You wear your LOTR costume and it's not Halloween. 45. You've changed your favorite colors to earthy colors. 46. You ask your history teacher when you're going to learn about Middle Earth. 47. You are far from home and wish an eagle would come pick you up. 48. You walk on your knees to appear shorter or walk on your tiptoes to appear taller. 49. You read these lists (to get ideas for your own). 50. Have one or more of the weapons. 51. Whenever you need help, you wish Gandalf were there to advise you. 52. You try to surf down stairs. 53. You make all your introduction as follows: "This is *insert name* son/daughter of *name of father*." 54. You will never throw rocks in water again. 55. Whenever something goes missing, you say "it's fallen into shadow." 56. WHen you are punished, your parents take away your LOTR stuff. 57. While watching the movies, you imagine yourself as one of the characters and say all of their lines. 58. In RE to #57: You pick a different character each time you watch. 59. Whenever you ride your bike you say, "Noro Lim Asfolath! Noro Lim!" 60. You draw LOTR stuff on every scrap of paper you can get your hands on. 61. You claim to be an Elf, Hobbit, Dwarf, etc. 62. You feel sick and tell the nurse, "I've been stabbed by a Morgul blade. I need Elvish medicine, this is beyong your skill to heal." 63. You display anything having to do with LOTR in your "Lord of the Rings museum" (really your room). 64. Instead of making a snowman, you make a snowelf/wizard/hobbit/dwarf. 65. You swear the big gray animals at the zoo are baby oliphaunts. 66. When someone next to you can't see, you ask if they would like either describe the scene or get them a box. |
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