LOTR Lady :: Randomness

Randomness

This is my randomness page, dedicated to Elentari.

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This is for Galadriel.

Thanks, Eowyn Tinuviel, for this banner!

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In CoE quizzes, I was doomed to first be Frodo, then Arwen. Cool!!! Two of my fave characters!

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I created this icon...it basically states what I'd love to happen in my life! The only person I want to kiss is my husband.

You know you’re obsessed with LOTR when…
1. You’re scared of spiders because they are definitely Shelob’s offspring.
2. You met your best friend because you both love LOTR.
3. You greet telemarketers with “Elen sila lumenn omentielvo” and continue talking to them in Quenya (or Sindarin, or…).
4. You don’t understand how someone could not be totally in love with the movie and books.
5. You dream about LOTR when you’re asleep.
6. You imagine, pretend, role-play, or etc. that you’re in LOTR.
7. You collect fries containers and paper cups from Burger King with LOTR on it.
8. You collect everything LOTR, from fast food toys to action figures to games.
9. You steam about why there’s so much Harry Potter stuff but not any LOTR stuff in stores, like towels, bedding, and clothes.
10. You’ve written a letter to New Line Cinema complaining about the above.
11. You’re mad at LEGO company because they sell HP LEGOs but not LOTR.
12. You write comics about being “sucked” into LOTR.
13. You wish (and even secretly believe) that Elves are real.
14. You’ve learned or are learning a LOTR language.
15. You know about all the best LOTR websites out there.
16. You have an Elven name, and your friends do, too.
17. You’ve seen the movies more times than you can count.
18. You can’t believe Christopher Tolkien won’t let anyone know where he is. You have so much to ask him!
19. Your bedroom’s walls are covered in LOTR posters, pictures, drawings, maps, etc.
20. You’re ticked off when someone who claims to be a LOTR fan doesn’t even know how to spell the names of the Fellowship correctly.
21. You think you know how to pronounce something because you read the appendices of both LOTR and The Silmarillion, and you won’t agree with any other pronunciation (unless, of course, if it’s by a Tolkien language specialist).
22. You’ve made lembas bread.
23. You’ve read LOTR and The Silmarillion and Roverandom and The Father Christmas Letters and Farmer Giles and Tom Bombadil and…
24. At least one of your English compositions was about LOTR.
25. You’ve drawn a lot of LOTR pictures.
26. You read LOTR, thinking that Elves had short blonde hair, then realized they have long dark hair (except for the house of Feanor). Now you can’t believe you thought they had short hair.
27. You think there’s orcs in your room at night.
28. You wish your dog could talk like Huan, Luthien’s dog in The Silmarillion.
29. You think your mean cat is the feline version of Shelob.
30. You’re sure there are Elves living in woods you visit.
31. You love the stars and moon, just like the Elves.
32. You’ve “adopted” yourself into one of the LOTR species: Elves, hobbits, dwarves, etc.
33. You saw a LOTR ice cream cake at Dairy Queen or somewhere else, and you want it!
34. You dressed up as something from LOTR for Halloween.
35. You sword fight with your brother.
36. You sword fight with pretend orcs.
37. You have scenes from the movie memorized, and you act them out with your siblings (or no one in particular).
38. You are happy when you realize… some of your clothes look like hobbit or Elf clothing!
39. You cry a lot watching ROTK, especially when Sam is rejected by Frodo, and when Frodo leaves Middle Earth.
40. You hate the ending of LOTR. Frodo can’t leave! The Elves can’t dwindle!
41. You hate it that P. J. left out whole chapters from the books when he made the movies. He should have put everything in! Who cares if the movies would be 5 hours long each?
42. You draw Elven dresses, and more, and more!
43. You want to go to New Zealand. Why? Duh!
44. You get elated when some website or magazine article that doesn’t have anything to do with LOTR mentions something from it.
45. You break apart Elven names, finding their true meanings: i.e. Elendil-Elen means “star”; Isildur-Isil means “moon”, dur means “fortress.”
46. You think being obsessed with LOTR is a good thing, as long as it doesn’t turn to idolatry.
47. You think any curly-haired kid is a hobbit, and you tell them so.
48. You see horses in fields and give them LOTR horse names, like Asfaloth.
49. You own almost every LOTR board game out there.
50. You write obsession lists like this.
51. You give LOTR-themed lyrics to well-known songs.
52. You think the hills in WI could be wooded hills of Rohan, that marshes are the Dead Marshes, any river is the Anduin or comes off of it, and you relate other real geographical locations to LOTR geography.
53. You collect LOTR-themed magazine and newspaper clippings.
54. You pretend you’re hitting Sauron or a Ringwraith or an evil being in martial arts lessons.
55. You think, given the chance, Gollum would actually turn into Smeagol and stay as Smeagol.
56. You think that Frodo should have thrown the Ring into the Crack of Doom, because otherwise the story is ruined. Frodo is the hero, not Gollum!
57. You know what mistakes PJ made on the movies.
58. You are eternally grateful to PJ for making the movies as well as he did (even with mistakes).
59. You write lists of the characters and their actors over and over again.
60. You’ve contemplated the idea of making a LOTR-themed newsletter.
61. You have a LOTR website.
62. You insist that LOTR is educational: learn a language-Quenya, etc.; vocabulary (yes, you can learn things that your parents don’t know); linguistics-closely tied with learning a LOTR language; cooking; history; geography and mapography (new word I made up); fine arts-poetry, writing, drawing; family trees; math-3 Elven rings + 1 ruling Ring + 7 Dwarf rings + 9 human rings= 20 rings!
63. You look like (or can make yourself look like) a LOTR actor/actress.
64. You think factories are evil—Saruman devised them! (just joking)
65. You write in Tengwar or the Cirith.
66. You think PJ should make a movie version of The Hobbit, and get ticked off at anyone who says it’s at the beginning of FOTR.
67. Your XP user icon, desktop, AIM icon, and screensaver are LOTR-themed.
68. You have the LOTR songbooks.
69. Your binders have LOTR pictures on them.
70. You have so many LOTR pictures from the Internet saved on your computer, you’ve designed a three-level folder system to organize them all.
71. You’re mad at Microsoft Word because it keeps marking LOTR names as spelled wrong, and you have to add them to the dictionary.
72. You can’t believe LOTR is not included in your classics literature course or on the list of great classics like Dickens or Austen.
73. You own the three movie soundtracks and have memorized songs from them.
74. Your computer has LOTR fonts on it, like Tengwar, but it doesn’t include the LOTR font used on some books any more: American Uncial.
75. You complain about minor details like these.
76. You constantly think, talk, and write about LOTR.
77. You think hosting a LOTR LARP would be awesome, and you’ve planned out where it would be held, who you’d invite, the plot, everything. The only thing is, you know you’d never actually be allowed to host one!
78. You hyperventilate when you hear that the LOTR international exhibit is coming near you: only 4 hours away! You’re deffy going with your LOTR ring of friends.
79. You name your pet(s) with Middle Earth names.
80. You know about all the best LOTR websites: obscure or not.
81. You know that PJ is the drunk guy in the Prancing Pony eating a carrot (in the FOTR movie).
82. You write poetry about LOTR.
83. You write fanfic about LOTR.
84. You have at least 5 LOTR-themed board games.

Blondeness!!!

I have a blonde right pinky, Elentari has a blonde left big toe, Galadriel is a blonde, and Eowyn has a blonde right kneecap. Go airheads/blondes!

An essay I wrote on love:

Most of us have heard of the “True Love Waits” movement, promoting abstinence until marriage as an example of true love for a person’s future spouse. It is a wonderful movement that many teenagers and young adults are taking up as an alternative to today’s sex-ridden culture. However, I believe that true love does not simply entail restraining oneself from giving in to heat-filled desire and passion on a given night. Too many young people go almost all the way, pushing boundaries as far as they can without actually giving away their virginity, believing that they are doing their future spouse a favor by not actually . Instead, I believe that true love, or pure love, waits all the way, both physically and emotionally.

Physically—yes, we’ve heard that before, but I’m talking about waiting farther than abstinence. Saving yourself for your future spouse is not going to be very special, exciting, or appealing, if you’ll give everything away except your virginity. But imagine the ecstasy and the joy that a fiancé would have when they find out that they will be the only one their future spouse will have kissed in their life.

Emotionally—what in the world could that mean? Many teenagers today are going through cycles of happiness and heartbreak, giving themselves over emotionally to their boyfriend or girlfriend, and then having their hearts torn to pieces because that person doesn’t hold them in that special place any more, and is ready to move on to someone else. I am not going to discuss whether courtship or dating is better, because I personally feel that it depends on a person’s circumstances—are they far or close from home; do they come from a good family; how busy is their schedule—and that it is not a global, set-in-black-and-white truth. But I do feel that that a person should wait to begin a special relationship with someone of the opposite sex until the two have become good friends, are old enough to think about marriage, and are not just having a relationship “for the fun of it.”

Think about it this way: your future spouse is somewhere on this Earth, at this very moment. What is he or she doing? What is he saying? What is she thinking? Now imagine this: A guy is putting his arms around your future wife’s waist, and kissing those lips that will someday kiss yours. Or a girl is seductively rubbing your future husband’s shoulders, and running her hand through his hair. How does that make you feel? If you’re like me, that makes you feel jealous, and maybe a little mad. But now turn it around. Are you putting your arms around a girl’s waist that is not your wife’s, or are you running your hand through a guy’s hair that you will never marry? How would your future love think of that? And, to put it in yet another perspective, how would that girl’s and that guy’s future spouse think of you doing that to them? Do you really want to have gone through myriads of relationships, giving yourself away emotionally and physically to many people, before you marry one person that you will be devoted to for the rest of your life? Would you want your future spouse to have done so?

I challenge today’s generation of youth to a higher standard of relational purity, a standard that will only promise wonderful joy and trust in the one relationship that matters: marriage. I challenge today’s generation of youth to fall in love with their future spouses right now, to write love letters to them, and to save themselves completely for them. If we do that, divorce rates will fall, and true love will be the norm for the next generation of marriages.