You know you're a LOTR fan when...

BlackReaper · **Posted:** Sat Oct 01, 2011 1:12 am

Dead Marsh Spectre wrote:

When you've got the writing from the ring tattooed right up your forearm!!!

and there it is..................

Does it glow when you stuck it in fire? :lol:

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sat Oct 01, 2011 6:50 am

lol not even a dragons fire :wink:

Draugluin · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:52 am

... you die a little when you watch LotR everytime there's a difference between it and the book.

WayUnderTheMountain · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:49 am

When you yell "Forth Eorlingas!" when you declare a charge with your Grail Knights in a Warhammer Fantasy megabattle.

When your D&D characters are named after your favorite LOTR heroes and no one else in your party knows who they are. I played as Mithrandir and Erkenbrand. Out of eight people, two figured out who Mithrandir was... mostly because I was using a Gandalf the Grey miniature. No one figured out Erkenbrand(including a friend who played SBG), despite using his actual miniature.

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:39 pm

...when every project for school, college an duniversity in which we have free choice over, you have to make them LOTR-related.

@Draugluin, They wouldn't be a match, because many of Sauron's servants were uruk-hai not orcs, then there's the trolls, and all the evil humans, and all the northern forces. The only advantage the Us has is modernised warfare.

WayUnderTheMountain · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:53 pm

When you strive for years to make lembas bread.....

TheBucklandBrewer · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:30 pm

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Draugluin · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:02 pm

... you compare your level of physical fitness, not to olympians, but to the Three Hunters, as in, "if Aragorn can run 80 leagues in 3 days, I can at least run 1.5 miles in 9 minutes!"

Draugluin · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:37 pm

... you have the Theatrical AND Extended Editions on VHS, DVD, Bluray AND on your IPod

WayUnderTheMountain · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:44 pm

When people stare at you in traffic because you have one of the LOTR soundtracks playing as loud as you can in your car and the windows are open.

Draugluin · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 12:15 am

...you HATE the taste of alcohol, yet REALLY want a pint from The Prancing Pony.

BlackReaper · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:05 pm

WayUnderTheMountain wrote:

When people stare at you in traffic because you have one of the LOTR soundtracks playing as loud as you can in your car and the windows are open.

All the time! Just wish I had a sub-woofer to do it justice.

When one of your recurring themes when doodling is LotR Stick-Figure battles. :^D

Elros of Numenor · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:06 pm

When you're walking down the street listening to music on your mp3 player and then you feel like a boss when 'The Bridge of khazad-dum' starts up, so you start running and pretend you've got your own fellowship running with you :rofl:

I did that a couple of days ago haha

WayUnderTheMountain · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 3:37 am

When you're fighting (in game, non-LotR) a creature in a gloomy cave with a body of water and you automatically assume it's Gollum before frantically looking for the lesser ring of power.

GooberNumber9 · **Joined:** Mon Nov 07, 2011 9:19 pm **Posts:** 21

...you laugh at the fact that GW named a model "The Dwimmerlaik" because you know that phrase was meant as an insult. You've researched and found it means "fledgling sorcerer".

Draugluin · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2011 6:25 pm

Where did you find that?

GooberNumber9 · **Joined:** Mon Nov 07, 2011 9:19 pm **Posts:** 21

It's a slight stretch, but based on "Dwimmorberg" clearly meaning "Enchanted Mountain", "Haunted Mountain" or "Magic Mountain", we can see that "dwimmer" or "dwimmor" can be loosely interpreted as "magic", or "mystical". That part's easy. [Edit: Even easier than I thought! "Dimmer" is defined in English as a noun meaning "Magic, sorcery or spell".]

Some sources define a word in English "laik" as a verb meaning "to play" in the sense of not working, or not professional. Again, in English, it seems to be a cousin of the noun or adjective "lay" meaning non-professional or non-clergy. In several languages (Czech, Polish, and Serbo-Croation among them), "laik" directly means "non-professional" or "non-clergy".

Combining Tolkein's penchant for backwards-reverse-forwards etymological style of word creation, along with his pulling from Middle English ("lathspell" is a great example), along with the context (it totally fits Eowyn's character to boldly insult the Lord of the Nazgul), the best interpretation of "dwimmerlaik" seems to be "one who plays with magic, as a child with toys". Personally, I laugh when I read that part, because it's such a great insult for the Witch King of Angmar.

More Edit:
Now I'm on round two of researching this, and I came across this little gem:

Quote:

" laik (=corpse) is cognate with lych or lich, as in the lych-gate of a cemetery where coffins are sheltered before funerals."

But now I'm a little more happy with "play" because I think I got that from the OED one day:

Quote:

"-laik in 'dwimmerlaik' is derived from the ON leikr, cognate to OE la'c, both meaning 'to play', while the OE can also mean 'dance, ritual, or sacrifice'. It has no connection to words for body or corpse. [source: OED]

The compounds 'dwimmerlaik' and 'dwimmercraft' both mean illusion, an act of sorcery or magic, and jugglery (!). The last evokes an image of Sauron dressed in motley juggling pins or setting plates spinning atop rods. "

Just having this conversation means we're not only LoTR fans, we're total LoTR nerds! Yay?

Draugluin · **Posted:** Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:42 pm

I always assumed that Dwimmorberg meant Ghost Mountain, and laik meaning corpse, so I assumed that Dwimmerlaik meant something along the lines of Ghost Corpse. Still sorta an insult, but not as much as Fledgling Sorcerer. Even if Dwimmor is magic, Dwimmerlaik would mean Magic Corpse, which makes sense because I never really pictured Eowyn fruitlessly insulting the WK right before fighting him. I think Magic Corpse is more fitting, though all 3 could be used.

WayUnderTheMountain · **Posted:** Wed Nov 23, 2011 10:03 pm

.... when you take the time to research what the name "Dwimmerlaik" actually means.

.... when you participate in the Unofficial Lord of the Rings Quiz Thread

Erurainon the Trombonist · **Posted:** Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:37 pm

When you spend your maths classes drawing pictures of Barad-dur, Orthanc and Dol Guldur in your file.

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