You know you're addicted to LOTR when...

[ringsandcoffee]

(I got this from blogthings.com; the list was longer so I only kept ones that apply to me)

You start quoting from the movie as part of regular conversation.

You've crammed up your computer's memory by downloading every single screensaver from www.LordoftheRings.net  (Not screensavers, but images that I've made into my screensaver) 

Your Lord of the Rings shirt has not yet met the washing machine. (Not very often, and the dryer only once.  I've also considered getting a second, identical shirt, just in case...)

You don't have enough money to buy groceries for the next week before payday, yet (in December I will charge $30+ ) on your credit card to get the (Return of the King Extended Edition dvds). Who needs food anyway? 

You refer to parts of your town as parts of Middle-Earth.

You sometimes let your hair go curly after a wash, and then run around the house in bare feet yelling "I'm a hobbit!" (I could do that actually)

You refer to regular elephants as oliphaunts.

You actually managed to read the Silmarillion without being tempted to give up on this whole middle earth malarkey. (I've started it!  I really will finish it someday!)

You haven't removed the soundtrack from your CD player since you bought it. (Ok, for a while I had Jars of Clay in, but otherwise it's been one of the 3 soundtracks)

You have sssudenly developed a hisssing lisssp every time you sssay the letter ssss.

You have begun calling your friends or animals my precioussss.

You happily traveled over an hour to the next town to see "it" because that theater has a better sound system than the one 5 minutes down the road. (I'd do the drive in again, that was the best way to see it!)

You know The LoTR history better then your family history.

You have a mouse named Frodo, a bird named Gollum, and a dog named Gandalf. And that cat that keeps coming around to be petted is Legolas.  (LOL I really do call one of my cats Legolas sometimes, and he just jumped in my lap.  My fish are named Viggo and Legolas)

When you sing in the shower, it's always about Gil-Galad or hobbit walking songs...(Or some other soundtrack song is in my head)

Whenever you get a chance, you burst into song. Preferably one that has more than 20 verses.

You change your name by deed poll to a Tolkien character and seriously consider naming your children after LOTR characters.

You cannot see a beer without blurting out "It comes in pints? I'm getting one!"

You just can't keep yourself from saying "nobody tosses a Dwarf" at inappropriate moments.

A shadow and a threat is growing in your mind.

You stand in the doorway and tell your cat that he 'Can not pass'.

Spending $35 at the grocery store seems expensive but its Perfectly fine to spend $70 on the Hardcover LOTR book with Alan Lee Illustrations. (It will be mine, oh yes, eventually it will be mine!)

You start keeping a LOTR Journal to write poems and inklings in. (or a livejournal so you can talk about it, even if no one else reads it)

You know what Entmoot, Ent draught, or an Ent is for that matter

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends who are addicted to Lord of the Rings.

Comments

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

A shadow and a threat is growing in your mind. hah

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

i dare ya...crawl around in my brain. it's a scary place ;)

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

Oh please, you're talking to the master of scary brains. Feh. You might be older than me but my power of obession is fanatical.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

The older you get, the worse it gets. Your power of obsession for Stargate outdoes my obsession of LOTR (I won't touch LOTR fanfic, why mess with the masterpiece?) but then again, you haven't spent time with me in person.

I think insanity comes with the name. Insanity and ubercoolness.

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

If I recommended some fanfic I thought was really good, would you read it? I don't choose or accept crap to read. Heck, if the synopsis has any mistakes in it I won’t even click on the story. Of course, there would be *no* Mary Sue’s in my recs either.

Ubercoolness? Yessss... I like it. Muhahah.

Hey, do you care about giving our your address? Because I found the perfect Christmas present for you. It was just one of those things I had to get and want to send. Email me.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Oh, I believe you when you say you only read quality fic. I read some pretty crappy XF fic back in the day. I wrote a really crappy xf fic back in the day. (I won't tell you where it's posted, you'll have to find it if you really want to read it)

What is a mary sue anyway?

As for me reading it, I just sort of one day decided against reading any LOTR fic. You'd have to present a really good argument to convince me to read it.

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

A Mary Sue is a female character written into a story by the author to essentially be *her*. She’s perfect, saves the days and does it better than the men. Everyone just luuuuves her.

Mmm... if I where to give you any fanfic it would probably be this one: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/439625/1/

It's been quite a while since I read it but I just remembered I enjoyed it a lot. It takes place during the span of the Fellowship's journey and has a lot of great Legolas/Gimli rivalry. I thought it was pretty well written.

My other suggestion is a little out there, and I was just as surprised that I liked it. It takes place in the future and involves reincarnation of the Fellowship, though several familiar faces are still… around. I know, I know, weird. I usually hate AU stuff or crap like that because with LOTR it’s bad, terribly bad. But there’s always an exception to every rule.

Their synopsis of this fic is:

This story is an Alternate Universe, and one that is set approximately halfway through the 21st century. The shattered world governments are trying to rebuilt after a devastating war that was fought with the worst weapons that humankind can create. Imagine being able to nuke an enemy city...or sending in necromancers to raise their own dead against them. This is a world where magic, both good and ill, holds sway, where entire cities are dragged into shadows.

Manhattan was hit hard. A bustling, modern metropolis, now an island of darkness and despair, where magical creature stalk the streets, and mage gangs battle for dominance.

It is a world waiting for heroes.
Some heroes never die.
Others have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, back to the light.


There’s a bit of language but it’s rated PG-13. There’s one thing that I’m not a big fan of but the writing and the idea is just so fun that I’m willing to overlook it and I hope you can to. It’s a “more than friends” relationship between two of the male characters, but it’s not bawdy and the authors even say it’s not a major plot device. The story itself looks huge (and is still a work in progress), but each “chapter” is filled up with a bunch of song lyrics and by the time you get to the story, there’s not a lot left.

Look, you don’t have to read it… but at least go to chapter five for the heck of it. I won't take you long to read, I swear. Please, just go to these few chapters and get the idea. It’s quite unique. I’m starting you off at chapter one technically (skipping their author’s notes): http://www.fanfiction.net/s/938055/2/

guh!

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

where's the friggen quote button? anyway, the implication of a legolas/aragron or legolas/gimli or orli/viggo, etc, etc, relationship bugs me. I go on random LJ searches and find slash communities. people totally read into things. why does everything have to be sexual, just cos they are good friends? sheesh.

let me mull over the fanfic thing. i'll get back to you if i read it.

Re: guh!

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

I understand about the slash thing... but I'm telling you, everything else about this story is so beyond it. It's mainly Aragorn/Arwen actually. And the "couple" in the story is Sam and Frodo... which... well, you've read the books so I can see how such a deep friendship could translate into something... err... more... nowadays. At least read the fist five parts for amsuement sake. I actually took the first and second chapter to school just to show people 'cause it was quite funny.

I will rant on one aspect of the slash thing. If someone wants to write stories about Aragorn and Legolas being in love? Whatever, they can do what they want. However, using real actors draws the line in my mind. Saying that Viggo and Orlando are in love is something completely different. Use the fictional characters as you want but leave the real people out of it.