*You start quoting from the movie as part of regular conversation. * You like to tell your mom that you are hungry by quoting: "Merry, I'm hungry." * She used to just laugh, but now she says, "What would you like to eat, Pippin?" * You continually ask your parents for second breakfast. * All the staff at your local cinema knows you by your first name and even before you open your mouth to speak, they say "Ticket for 'Fellowship of The Ring?'" * You hate Burger King food, butyou ate nothing else for a month to get the toys. * You've crammed up your computer's memory by downloading every single screensaver from www.LordoftheRings.net * You wander around the house in a knee length nightie, pyjama trousers and an unfastened dressing gown (to give you a train). * You are trying to be an elf, and actually manage to forget that the nightie is blue with dolphins, the trousers have teddies on and the dressing gown is tartan. * Your Lord of the Rings shirt has not yet met the washing machine. * You don't have enough money to buy groceries for the next week before payday, yet you charge £50 on your credit card to get a three year charter membership in the official LOTR fan club. Who needs food anyway? * You refer to parts of your town as parts of Middle-Earth. * You wear hobbitish clothing as part of your normal wardrobe. * You sometimes let your hair go curly after a wash, and then run around the house in bare feet yelling "I'm a hobbit!" * You hate it when Elves are only thought of as 'Santa's little helpers' and have tried to explain the difference between Santa-elves and Syrian Elves to your 5-year old cousins. * You speak in Quenya just to annoy your friends. * You refer to regular elephants as oliphaunts. * While buttering a piece of bread, you suddenly think of Bilbo (remember when he was talking to Gandalf about feeling tired) saying that he felt 'like butter spread over too much bread.' * You renamed your car the Wraith-mobile. * You have a replica of The One Ring. * You are beginning to resemble a panda due to the fact that you've stayed up until 2 am reading and re-reading the great books. * You actually managed to read the Silmarillion without being tempted to give up on this whole middle earth malarkey. * You now have a lifetime fear of black horses! * You haven't removed the soundtrack from your CD player since you bought it. * You have sssudenly developed a hisssing lisssp every time you sssay the letter ssss. * You have looked both on the net and in the phone book to see if archery and sword fighting lessions are offered in your area. * You have begun calling your husband / wife / girlfriend/ boyfriend / animal or kid 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. * You have called every theatrical or specialty makeup company in town looking for pointy ear or hairy feet prosthetics. * You've worn your plastic "one ring" that came on your Legolas bookmark so much the gold is completely worn off. * You've begun drafting a letter to the Webster's dictionary people requesting that they include "Ringers" in their next edition. * At Christmas time relatives find you chatting with the tree and sharing eggnog draughts. * Single ads with the description," short plump and big hairy feet" seem much more appealing. * 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. * You know Elvish better then English. * Whenever something goes wrong, it's Sauron's fault. * When you sing in the shower, it's always about Gil-Galad or hobbit walking songs... * You know everything about Middle Earth geography, but you can't get someone from your house to the ice cream parlor. Now the nearest movie theater, that is a different story. * You think the names of the 7 dwarves from Snow White are: Gimli, Gloin, Thorin, Gili, Nili, Ori, and Bombur. * You have developed your own special Tolkien handwriting. "A firm, flowing script..." * Words like "Yrch" make sense to you. * You've become strangely obsessed with mushrooms. * Whenever you close a door, you say "They have a cave troll!" * When you come to a dead end you're still convinced that the road goes ever on and on. * There's a sign on your door saying "Speak Friend and enter!" * 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. * Every time you see birds in the sky you have the urge to say "Fly you fools!" * When someone knocks on your door you grab them, pull them inside and ask "Are you frightend?... Not nearly frightend enough!" * Your computer's screensaver is a marquee reading, "Ennyn Durin atan Moria: pedo mellon a mino" and the password is actually "mellon". * 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 now referring to your friends as your 'Fellowship' and insist that you have epic adventures. * You stand in the doorway and tell your cat that he 'Shall not pass'. * You wash your face in the sink and expect to see things that are, that have been or that will be. * Your wedding band has started to weigh you down with it's evil powers. * Spending $35 at the grocery store seems expensive but its Perfectly fine to spend $70 on the Hardcover LOTR book with Alan Lee Illustrations. * You start keeping a LOTR Journal to write poems and inklings in. * You face every difficult decision with the thought "now what would Gandalf advise me to do?" * You know what Entmoot, Ent draught, or an Ent is for that matter. * You've gained 20 pounds because you've started eating a "Second Breakfast" * A walking stick... you never leave home with out it. *Whenever you go through big diouble doors you pretend you're Aragorn and push them open majestically. * You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends who are addicted to Lord of the Rings. *

Closing this thread as it has the same content of this one.
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