1) Get a Lord of the Rings Tattoo
Who says only the LotR actors should get tattoos?? LadyCeleborn and Naurlas decided that this shouldn’t be the case. Both realmers went together for a joint LotR tattooing session, and came out with their names tattooed in elvish on their forearms. LadyC decided that wasn’t quite sufficient, so she also had JRRT’s initials tattooed onto her wrist and the White Tree on her left ankle! She says that it hurt a lot, but that Naurlas can vouch for her being very brave and not crying once.

2) Must have the Precious…
Go out and get your own replica of the One Ring, and then wear it always. LadyCeleborn was given the One Ring a present, and when naïve and uninformed folk occasionally ask her what the inscription on it is they often end up receiving more information than they bargained for!

2) Ship-Shape that drabby ‘ol License Plate
That’s what LadyCeleborn did—her license now reads “LOTRFAN”. Tolkien-illiterates are often foolish enough to ask her what it means…they learn the hard way.

3) “Take up the Sword of Elendil”
Who says that remark was made only for Aragorn? Naurlas decided that he shouldn’t be allowed to keep such a pretty sword all to himself…so she went out a bought it! It now hangs on her wall, and is the prize of her collection.

4) Spiff up your ring-tone with some Elvish Verse
Tired of listening to the same old pop song whenever your cell-phone goes off? How about some elvish wailing instead? Nenya_Ring decided she wanted to do just that, and so now every time someone calls, she gets to listen to Aragorn’s voice screaming his lungs out in Elvish…what could be better??? For more on Elvish wailings, go here!

5) Impress Your Friends with your Poetical Eloquence
If you enjoy poetry, than what are you waiting for?? Tolkien’s works are just stuffed with poetry of all types, from Hobbity limericks and pub songs to elegant Elvish sonnets—why not memorize a few? That’s just what Gwaihir_Goldenfeather did. Day in and day out she practiced over and over, stanza by stanza, until she had the entire poem on the Elven-maid ‘Nimrodel’ memorized. So well memorized, in fact, that although she is completely unable to recall half of what she learned in school last year, but she will always remember this poem!

6) Sew yourself an Elven Cloak
For all those of you who have some talent with needle and thread, why waste it? Put those skills to work and make yourself a truly memorable, home-made LotR garment. Talented seamstress LinweSingollo put her skills into practice one year and sewed an elven cloak out of green light-weight wool, bought herself a replica of the elven brooch, and made a hobbity-looking pouch to sling over her shoulder. She then proceeded to wear this ensemble to a showing of the Return of the King, and got plenty of admiring remarks!

7) Make a Miniature Middle Earth
Not so skilled with thread and needle? Model and miniature-making more up your alley? Well, try to top this: Ten-year-old Olero and her Dad spent a year and a half constructing a set of mock-up miniatures of the Shire, Misty Mountains, Mirkwood, and the rest. Sadly, they didn’t survive the time that has past…first the placticine melted in a garage, and then her hamster ate a couple of the hills! But she still has the green round door of Bilbo’s house, a one-eyed Smaug, bestrewn with coloured pastes, and a whole bunch of fun memories.

8)Start a LotR collection
Think you have a lot of LotR copies floating around? Planning to start a collection? Before you start boasting your number of copies, check out what avid reader longbe4thesun has amassed. There are enough copies of the trilogy in her house that all five family members (including herself) can all keep one copy! An artsy family member even bought a copy containing all of the original art in it. If any of them want the other books, they have to find matching covers so that they have a matching set…whew!

9) Provide amusement in Movie Theatres
Have you ever felt that the movie Legolas is getting far too much attention for his own good? Do you ever get tired of all the cooing and googly-eyes whenever he happens to enter the screen? Well, one of our realmer’s friends was watching The Two Towers in the theatres with a bunch of buddies, and they were feeling just that. After getting more and more disgruntled by all the giggles and cooing that were happening around them, they decided (as a group) to fight the fan girlishness and root for Gimli instead! So, for the rest of the movie whenever Gimli appeared they would whistle, coo, and cheer him on–they got plenty of odd looks, but had a great time!

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