** Are YOU Addicted?

You Know You're Addicted to LotR When...

• You start quoting from the movie as part of regular conversation. [Hey!!! Don't laugh at how I talk!!]
  

• 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. [LOL]
  

• 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 [uhmm... no comment]
  

• 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. [uhmm...again...no comment :P ]
  

• 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 mean they have OTHER names???]
  

• You wear hobbitish clothing as part of your normal wardrobe. [It's called "fashion" :P]
  

• 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. [It's not a "replica"... It's .... errr..... :P ]
  

• 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. [Hey!!!! It was a good book!!!]
  

• 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. [Ssssso what???]
  

• 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. [Dangit!!! I found none!]
  

• You have begun calling your husband / wife / girlfriend/ boyfriend / computer/ animal or kid my precioussss.
  

• You happily travelled 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 than English.
  

• Whenever something goes wrong, it's Sauron's fault. [Well it ISSS!!!! ]
  

• 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 parlour. 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 Bambour. [I don't think so!! I KNOW so!!!]
  

• 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. [*goes in a daze at the utterance of the word "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. [That dead end you see is but an illusion... that sauron put there to hinder us from our journey!]
  

• 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. [Are you mocking my unborn???]
  

• 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!" [Yes!!! Evil is out there!]
  

• 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. [It's a GREAT alternative to any expletive].
  

• A shadow and a threat is growing in your mind. [Indeed!]
  

• You now refer to your friends as your 'Fellowship' and insist that you have epic adventures. [Adventures that only the wraith-mobile will know of!]
  

• You stand in the doorway and tell your dog that he 'Can not pass'. [duh!]
  

• You wash your face in the sink and expect to see things that are, that have been or that will be. [*scary thing that is... I saw my village overrun with orcs this morning when I washed my face!]
  

• 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.
  

• You decide to relive the trilogy in your blog long after it has ended... [ahemmm!!!!]