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on: May 23, 2007 08:04
Once I was watching TTT all by myself, but my Gramma was over at my house. She came up to me and said "Your mom lets you watch those?" And I was like "Yeah, I own it."
So she left, and came back again later, during Gollum's skitzo scene. She was like "Where did the movie go?"
And I said "This is it. What did you think it was?"
Then she said "The Alien channel." Aaaaaaah!!!! But I kinda see where that would come from.
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on: May 23, 2007 04:01
Once I was watching TTT all by myself, but my Gramma was over at my house. She came up to me and said "Your mom lets you watch those?" And I was like "Yeah, I own it."
So she left, and came back again later, during Gollum's skitzo scene. She was like "Where did the movie go?"
And I said "This is it. What did you think it was?"
Then she said "The Alien channel." Aaaaaaah!!!! But I kinda see where that would come from.


Great Eru...the Alien Channel? Haha!
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on: May 25, 2007 12:07
We were watching RotK at one of my friend's houses... Nearing the end, she decided to count how many endings there were. Something like 7, I think she got... And she counted so loud and criticised the film so much it completely ruined the moment :banghead:
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on: May 28, 2007 11:00
Argh...that would be awful, bow_and_arrow. My brothers and dad all insist there are too many endings.

More stupid questions, two Earendil-related and one not...:

Me: "...yes, and Earendil..."
Dad: "Who?"
Me: "E--a--ren--dil."
Dad: "Isn't that the grouchy Elf?"

:banghead: He meant Elrond...

My brother: *looks at my drawing of Earendil* "What's up with the thing on his head?"
Me: "It's a Silmaril."
Him: "What?"
Me: "A jewel."
Him: "Oh, right, because everybody wears jewels on their heads..."

I had the Sil out while we were waiting for dinner at a restaurant owned by a friend...

My mom: "What's that?"
Me: *shows her the cover* "The Silmarillion".
My mom: "Is that the one Tolkien didn't finish?"
Me: "Uuum... his son published it after he died."
My dad: "Is it as weird as some of his other writings?"

:twitch: Tolkien? Weird? :banghead: :twitch: :banghead:

Another, while looking at my brother's "Have a LotR Day" drawing (based off a poster he got...)
My mom: "I take it Boromir was killed by arrows?"

[Edited on 28/5/2007 by Michaela]
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on: May 29, 2007 10:49
Ooh I luv Earendil! He's one of my favorites!

I finally have a new one. The other night my family and I were watching FOTR and right after Frodo gets stabbed my mom asked why the Nazgul could still see him if he put on the ring...My dad had to rewind the DVD and really slow it down in order to explain it to her. (It was kinda cool seeing Frodo disappear in slow-mo though )
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on: May 29, 2007 01:43
Okay, this is not really a stupid question, but it made me laugh long and hard.
Me: Oh, dude!! You finally bought some Saranac!
cousin/brother: uhmm, I didn't buy it, I am *drinking* it
Me: Oh, yes dad bought it hey Jordan, what do you think about it?
him: Does it come in pints?
Me: :twitch: :love:
And then two weekend ago Rotk came on tnt
two seconds of Sam's face is shown
me: Ohhh, that's Return of the King! Daaaad, go baaack!
dad: you got that out of that short a time?!
me:remember how many times I've watched the movies?
dad: uhhuh, now, which one was that? Was that the one with the wizard guy, dumbledorf?
Me: Noooo, Harry Potter has DumbelDORE, and LotR has Gandalf, no relation what so ever Awful, I was shocked and hurt.:cry: :evil:
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on: May 30, 2007 11:33
Oooh, rough, Elfalas. et:

I forgot this one...my brother WILL NOT GIVE UP.

My brother, poring over the 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' DVD case: "Hey, Michaela, is the guy who played Willy Wonka's dad the same guy who played Saruman?"
Me: I think so. Check the box, what's the name?
My brother: It says 'Christopher Lee'.
Me: Yup, that's him.
My brother: But didn't he die?
Me: Umm...no.
My brother: But I thought he played Dumbledore..
Me: :banghead: No! That was Richard Harris, who died after they finished filming Chamber of Secrets. Then they hired Michael Gambon. Christopher Lee has nothing to do with Harry Potter.

A friend of a friend at school: Yeah, I played video games and drank a pint of milk.
Me: A pint!?
Him: Um...yeah.
Me: *laughing uncontrollably* It comes in pints? I'm getting one!
Him: *gives me weird look*

Edit: And some new ones. *grr*

Me: *waving around a copy of the Silmarillion*
My dad: So you bought it?
Me: Yeah.
My dad: Why? You already read it.
Me: Well, I still don't understand all of it.
My dad: Some books aren't meant to be understood. Sometimes the authors were stoned when they wrote them.
Me: :twitch: *splutters* :banghead:

-later-

My mom: So you're getting your Silallamarillil...
Me: *having strong urge to go bang head against wall*


[Edited on 1/6/2007 by Michaela]
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on: June 03, 2007 02:48
My dad: Some books aren't meant to be understood. Sometimes the authors were stoned when they wrote them.
Me: *splutters*


I would personally yell at anyone who implies that Tolkien was stoned....
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on: June 04, 2007 08:30
Techinically not a stupid comment...

My friends: Hang on... So this hobbit gets a really cool magic ring that makes him invisible, then goes and tries to kill himself by throwing it in a gaint volcano? Dude...
Me: I never thought about it that way...
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on: June 04, 2007 10:55
Last week I was waiting for class with some other students. They were talking about movies and movie quotes...

Girl 1: Okay, uhm. One Ring to rule them all, one Ring to uhm... something. One Ring something and in the darkness bind them. I can't really remember it.
Me: One Ring to rule them all, one Ring to find them, one Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
Girl 1: Ah. Okay. Bring them all, that was the one I was looking for.
Me: D'you want it in Dark Speech too?
Girl 1: Uhm... what?
Me: Never mind.

And the conversation continued...

Girl 1: So you've read the books?
Me: Yeah
Girl 2: I only saw the two first movies. How many are there?
Me: :twitch: Three. But you should read the books. I think they're better. They made so many changes in the movies.
Guy 1: Yeah, like they sent the elves to Helm's Deep!
Guy 2: That doesn't happen in the books?
Me & guy 1: *long rant about all the small differences between the movies and books*
Guy 2: Eep!

I could've hugged that first guy, lol I actually let him copy my chemistry homework, which is something I never do

And then today at work one of the girls asked me how many LotR books there were. When I said 'three' she was really surprised. "But I thought there were dozens!"

:rolleyes:
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on: June 04, 2007 04:16
MerryandPip -- I nearly did, but I was way too shocked to yell. I just stood there gaping at him.

Homicidal_Hobbit: That is an interesting perspective...

Girl 1: So you've read the books?
Me: Yeah
Girl 2: I only saw the two first movies. How many are there?
Me: Three. But you should read the books. I think they're better. They made so many changes in the movies.
Guy 1: Yeah, like they sent the elves to Helm's Deep!
Guy 2: That doesn't happen in the books?
Me & guy 1: *long rant about all the small differences between the movies and books*
Guy 2: Eep!

I could've hugged that first guy, lol I actually let him copy my chemistry homework, which is something I never do


I wish something like that would happen to me...I NEVER meet other Ringers.
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on: June 05, 2007 10:33
I feel your pain, Michaela! I don't really know other people who are Tolkien geeks...
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on: June 07, 2007 02:14
I feel your pain, Michaela! I don't really know other people who are Tolkien geeks...


I know! It's just so...infuriating that nobody I know shares my Tolkien-geekness. I get blank looks at the simplest references...it just bothers me...

Well, I'm certain I'll have more bad questions in a few days...I'm planning an extendeds marathon with my brother, and we're stuck at our grandmother's house. She of the "I thought Elves were immortal...?" and "We need a miracle!"
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on: June 08, 2007 10:44
I have a Tolkien-freak friend at my church, but lately we haven't really talked about LOTR much. A couple of my friends at school like it, but they aren't geeks like me. So I'm pretty much all alone...
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on: June 12, 2007 01:15
I still can't believe that one.

I was watching the LotR extendeds with my grandmother. She followed it fine (it's her second time watching LotR but her first watching the EEs)...UNTIL they introduced Faramir.

Her "So, who is that guy?"

Me: *pauses movie, explains, puts movie back on*

*"Sons of the Steward" plays*

Her: "So wait...they're the sons of the king?

Me: :banghead:

Alright, another from my grandma, at the beginning of Return of the King...

"But I thought Frodo had the ring?"

[Edited on 14/6/2007 by Michaela]
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on: June 14, 2007 04:24
My dad walked in in the middle of "The Witch King's Hour" and I didn't notice my grandmother wasn't watching until halfway through Theoden's "A red day, a sword day" speech...and when I put it back on...

Grandma: Wait, what's happening? When I last looked up, Gandor was fighting the Wicked Witch!

Me: :twitch: :banghead:
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on: June 16, 2007 06:30
Gandor fighting the WW ...i'll have to remember that one

recently i was on the phone while watching a documentary on Ringers--it's so nice to see there are so many of us out there. i was also suprised CoE wasn't metioned . when a section about fanfiction came up (an actual entire section of the film, complete with an explanation of MarySue and Slash) i about had a heart attack--the normal world knows about this? the normal world makes films about Mary Sue? and the Very Secret Diaries were also quoted! my friend actually thought i was in some kind of trouble and started freaking out, obviously not understanding 'They have MarySue!' and 'There's LoM!'. It took a while to assure him i didn't have a fever of epic proportions. :evil:
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on: June 16, 2007 06:44
Interesting...hehe, I can see why your friend thought you were in some sort of distress.

Yeah, Gandor. I think she may have tried to say Gandalf and Gondor at the same time. And the Wicked Witch...agh. Now every time Eowyn takes the Witch-king down, I'm going to have "Ding, dong, the Witch is dead" stuck in my head.

Also:

Grandmother: "Where did they get all the little people?"
Me: "What?"
Her: "The actors...were they --"
Me: "No!"
Her: "Then how did they...?"
Me: "They had scale doubles, and they used green-screen a lot."
Her: "Oh."

Cousin, aged five, who came in 45 minutes before RotK ended: "Doesn't he look like Harry Potter?"
Me: "Harry-- What? Who?"
Her: "Him." *points*
Me: :twitch: *blinks* "Frodo?!"
Her: "Yeah, him. He looks like Harry Potter."

I had previously explained to my cousin that "the bad guy" couldn't get the Ring or he'd take over the world. So at Mount Doom, when the Ring falls into the lava:

Her: "Oh, no! The bad guy got it!"
Me: "No, they destroyed it. He can't get it now."
Her: "No, I think the bad guy got it."
:banghead:

During Sam and Rosie's wedding...
Cousin: "Isn't it weird that they're both getting married?"
Me: "Huh?"
Her: "They're both getting married. It's weird."
Me: "And by both you mean...?"
Her: "The King got married, and now he is getting married."
Me: "Oh, okay. No, that's not weird."
Her: *points at other hobbits* "Now they need to find people to marry."
Me: :twitch: "OK, if you say so..."

OH, another one...

My dad: So who's the blonde elf?
Me: *thinks for a moment that he means Legolas* Blonde Elf--oh wait. Haldir.
My dad: And how does he fit into the Elven realms?
Me: He's the Marchwa--erm, head of the Guard at Lorien.
My dad: Oh.

EDIT: I just remembered one of my own stupid questions...obviously, this was before I read the Sil.

Arwen: "May the grace of the Valar be with you."

Me: "What's a Valar?"
Dad: "How should I know?"

And if that's not bad enough, I think I butchered the pronunciation.

[Edited on 17/6/2007 by Michaela]
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on: June 17, 2007 09:44
Okay, this was not a question about LotR, but pertained to it and made me smack my sister.

her: So, the book your'e readin', it's about Middle Age right?
Me: Middle age, what?!
her: you know, the whole Middle Age thing you like
me: Middle Earth?!?!??!
her:yeah, that's what it's about right?
Me:no, it's about Achar, and involves no Elves, but Icarii, Avar, and Acharites.
herh, it sounds Middle Age-ish to me
Me::twitch: :banghead: :cry: :nono:
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on: June 17, 2007 06:22
Oooooh, Elfalas, not good. I had the same Middle Ages/ Middle-Earth mixup happen, and it's REALLY annoying.
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on: June 18, 2007 06:53
I was talking to some one on the Internet and they asked me if Frodo dies. I thought that was just bisare.
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on: June 18, 2007 12:49
Ai Elbereth, Mint! That's a bad one! They asked you if Frodo died?
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on: June 18, 2007 01:22
Ai Elbereth, Mint! That's a bad one! They asked you if Frodo died?

Yea, I know, itr's absolutely awful.
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on: June 22, 2007 02:15
- How did Gollum lose the Ring?
- Why does Frodo live with his uncle?
- How did they get the stature right?
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on: June 28, 2007 02:09
When I was at school I went on the Council of Elrond to show my friend (whom I have convinced to read LOTR) anyway, my teacher came over and he saw the title and says:
Teacher: Elrond? What is he? Some kind of actor guy?
Me: Umm...no
Student 1: Isn't he from Lord of the Rings?
Teacher: Lord of the what?
Me: Lord of the Rings.
Teacher: So he wrote LOTR?
Me: :twitch:
Apparently the look on my face was priceless!

Friend: So Bilbo and Frodo have the same party? Are they twins?
Me: :banghead:
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on: June 28, 2007 04:14
Poor you, Eleture... et: Those are awful...worse than most anything I've seen...
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on: June 28, 2007 11:23
Got one. After watching Gandalf fall in Moria.
-Does he die?
me: uhh, you could say that.
-what do you mean, he either did or didn't.
me: oh just watch the movie!
in the Two Towers at Fangorn:
-I thought he died in the Fellwoship
me: well, yeah, he did. but he was brought back because he was still needed yet.
-..., oh, so he died, but didn't die? he was only resting under that mountain
me: sure, sure, why not.
This continued for an houre at least. I gave up and just turned the movie off and walked away. It's gotten to the point where i don't watch them anymore unless they are on tv.
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on: June 29, 2007 07:45
:hug: I feel so sorry for you, Elfalas.
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on: July 07, 2007 03:08
my sister(who can now beat me at trivial pursuit sometimes) just would not shut up when we were watching the movies. Example:
her-(when frodo blacks out before he's in rivendell)did sam just die?
me-no, and thats frodo, not sam
her- but look he's in heaven!
me-thats rivendell, and if you just watch the movies youll find the answwers!
her- look its god!
me-thats gandalf(i get up and walk away)
:banghead:
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on: July 09, 2007 05:33
It's unbelievable how stupid some people can be. There should be classes about lotr or something like that! I've heard some pretty stupid things too, like:

my dad during rotk when pippin finds merry after the battle:
so, are they gay or what?

incredibly stupid people in theatre while Smeagol has his monologue in TTT:
Are there two??
me: :twitch:

and of course my english teacher! who has never read lotr and tried to read the hobbit, but stopped at page 10 because he was confused by the names. Then I had an an oral test about some books so I talked for 15 minutes and he just sat there with a stupid look on his face. This year I had another oral test and again it was about lotr and again he didnt get any of it. it was really funny
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on: July 09, 2007 05:40
Almost forgot this one
My friend has never seen the films or read the books (he fell asleep after 10 minutes fotr) but he always likes to irritate me during class.
me:trying to understand math
friend: Have you seen any walking trees lately?
me: what?
friend: you know, those talking trees. Laura (other friend) told me about them. She said you always talk to them.

I tried to explain the idea of ents the first couple of times, but now I just ignore him. Laura has convinced him that you can see the difference between a tree and an ent because an ent has a whistle to call the trees.

makes sense, doesn't it??
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on: July 09, 2007 12:19
Oh yes, perfect sense!

I was somewhere, can't remember where with some friends and I saw a thing for the Shadows of Angmar.
me: Dude, check it out! man, I want that game. I have to ask mom. Hey Melissa, you think mom would buy me a $50 game?
Moe: Sure, and while you're at it, ask for a ps3 and an x-box 360, she'll be pleased to get them for you. What game is it anyway?
me: Shadows of Angmar.
Moe: Cool, is that like a sequel or something to Wracraft?
me: :twitch: DUDE, are you freakin' serious?!
Moe: what? It looks like warcraft.
me: Not hardly, did you see the words Lord of the Rings when I held it up or what!?
The sad part was, she did see the letters Lord of the Rings. :nono: Oh man, I just wanted to slap her soo bad. Mom would have killed me though cause she's my cousin. She turns 30 on Friday. I would have been in a little bit of trouble if I had, just a little bit. But seriously, Warcraft?!:sob:
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on: July 09, 2007 02:42

Laura has convinced him that you can see the difference between a tree and an ent because an ent has a whistle to call the trees.


Sorry, but that really cracked me up!
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on: July 09, 2007 03:13
One of my friends told me she tried to get her dad to watch LotR. He agreed to watch FotR, skipped TT, then watched RotK. They got to the end of RotK and he leans over and asks her "So why were they trying to destroy this ring thing?"

:twitch: :sob:

[Edited on 10/7/2007 by Griffin]
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on: July 10, 2007 10:35
and of course my english teacher! who has never read lotr and tried to read the hobbit, but stopped at page 10 because he was confused by the names.

:twitch: An English teacher who cannot comprehend The Hobbit? Now that is just sad! :nono:
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