Have you ever done any of the following? If you have you should be proud/worried, I recommend a doctor before this gets too far. For us it's too late, I admit to being the one who did all of these, except the child naming, I don't have one yet but am definatly considering the name Luthien...
1. Find a site that has LotR e-cards, send them all to yourself, even worse if you send yourself a little quote to acompany it.
2. Repeatedly go on lordoftherings.net to hear the actors say "welcome to lord of the rings dot net".
3. Scream everytime.
4. Buy every poster, book, game, keyring, mug, beer glass and piece of plastic junk that is to do with LotR.
5. Scream and point at the top of your voice whenever you see the bus which has Gollum on saying "Have you seen us yet my precious?"
6. Memorise every line in the script and get annoyed when one of your friends get it slightly wrong.
7. Avidly watch and record every programme that has the promise of having something to do with LotR.
8. Point at the screen and scream whenever something does come on, much to the annoyance of anyone else trying to watch TV.
9. Almost faint with excitement whenever you see the BT advert, "we will now atemp to recreate a famous movie moment".
10. Name your pets/children after a LotR charachter.
11. Listen to music, then realise that one bar is the same as one from LotR and listen to that in your head instead.
12. Be talking to a friend when you say something LotRsy and lapse into quoting, forgetting the rest of the conversation.
13.Repeatedly drag your friends into a book shop and sit for hours looking through the Lotr books.
14. Dress up as a charachter and walk around school all day, quoting and renacting scenes from the movie.
15. Try to film your own re-make of the movie. (Remembers the Last alliance(as far as we ever got) where there was 5 of us trying to act like 20,000 orcs, men and elves with 2 sticks as swords and a makeshift bow made from a stick(!) and a piece of elastic from TOT's French folder between us.)(Then remembers the 20 or so people who gathered to watch as we made compete and utter fools of ourselves failing miserably to a) look menacing and b) shoot stick arrows with the makeshift bow.) *grimaces*Ahhh fun times.
16. While on a Duke of Edinburgh walk insist on stopping when you see scenery that resembles that from the films, make everyone unpack their bags to get a camera and then take a pic of you in a suitable LotRsy pose.
17. While on said walk, pick up dirty moss and mud covered tree branch and insist on carrying it for the rest of the expedition calling it your "Gandalf stick"
18. Insist on nancing everywhere you go, eg on the way to lunch etc, much to the embarresment of the non LotR obsessed friends.
19. Whenever running, you hum the LotR music and imagine you are Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas running over the lands of Rohan.(Not all 3, pick you fav)
20. Vow to never talk to/maim/kill anyone who says that they don't like LotR.
21. Spot a blackbird/crow/pigeon/sparrow/squirrel and shout at the top of your voice "CREBAIN FROM DUNLAND!"
22. When its windy scream and shout "BLOWY ELF HAIR!" before taking a Legolas like pose.(This one is much funnier if you are there at the time)
23. Find an indoor fan at your local boots and shout "INDOOR BLOWY ELF HAIR!!" then follow the fan back and fourth while trying to pose at the same time.
24. Constantly wear a tacky, "one ring" and become very attached, screaming "PRECIOUS!" at and hitting anyone who tries to see it.
25. Download every possible thing you can to your computer, LotR screensavers, skins, facias, icons, you name it.
26. Have a special folder on your computer nameed "lord of the rings file" or similar, in which is contained any/all of the following; Entire Elvish dictionary, countless pictures, Full scripts of TTT and FotR, The Lord of the Rings book, entirely downloaded from the internet, that inane song "Bilbo Baggins" sung by Mr Spock as well as a shrine to you fave character, Leggie/Gandalf/SEEN BEEN!
27. Cut articles out of the paper if they are to do with LotR and still have the Times and Night and Day magazines from 2 Christmas' ago.
28. When you meet someone who likes LotR, get unbelievably excited and shout "YOU LIKE LORD OF THE RINGS" before possible hugging/kissing them(I haven't done the kissing).
29. Ring up Radio one over 100 times in atempt to win the trip to New Zealand to the films sets and meet the cast (*quails and the thought of it*), even though you are under age and have no hope of winning.
30. Start writing quotes all over every school/work folder you own. When they are full start using your friends/work collegues'.
31. Start thinking about getting personalised number plates involving BE4N, L0TR or PREC1OU2.
