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Evil~Shieldmaiden
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on: March 28, 2016 01:53
When you buy two cool t-shirts featuring Sauron.

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on: April 06, 2016 12:55
When you first meet somebody and look at their fingers to see if they are wearing a One Ring. (Had a German prof wore one as her wedding ring. Favorite teacher ever!)
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on: April 09, 2016 04:40
When you very recently have finally received your 715-page "The Complete Tolkien Companion" by J.E.A. Tyler and you have reached the letter "O" by now.
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on: April 09, 2016 11:41
When your suppost to prepare three texts for a big exam and those three texts are FotR, TTT, and RotK.
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on: April 15, 2016 01:32
When you spend half an hour standing in the aisle at the grocery store discussing Tolkien with a total stranger who has admired your Mordor Ale t-shirt.

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on: April 16, 2016 02:13
When you have read almost all of your "After The King (©1991)" style books (about eight of them) in the last week because you had the unplanned time to do so.
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on: April 17, 2016 11:46
When you persist in muddling through even though the site is playing silly again.

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on: April 17, 2016 02:00
When JRR Tolkien's face pops up on a slide in class and you sneak out your phone to take a picture of his beautiful portrait.


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on: April 17, 2016 02:06
When your parents give you your own tv because they are tired of LOTR and Hobbit.
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on: April 17, 2016 02:09
When you spend three hours laying out your maps of Middle Earth, Beleriand, Numenor, and Wilderland on the floor of your friend's dorm room to explain Middle Earth.

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on: April 17, 2016 02:12
When you have the Lothlorien leaf necklace, Elrond's brooch necklace, and Tauriel's necklace, AND the evenstar pendant.

of which I actually have all that!!
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Evil~Shieldmaiden
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on: April 18, 2016 01:39
Welcome back, arrow! We've missed you.

When you have two copies of the Ring of Barahir, and wear one on each hand, prompting brilliant comments like: "You do realise you're wearing the same ring on each hand? "

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on: April 18, 2016 06:29
When you have two copies each (one paperback, one hardcover) of The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Lord of The Rings, and Robert Foster's "The Complete Guide to Middle-earth", topping that up with the German translation (© 2012) of Douglas A. Anderson's © 2002 Second Edition of "The Annotated Hobbit" (the German translation being current on information up to its 2012 date), and a © 1992 German three-volume hardcover comic version, continuously paginated to page 134, of The Hobbit.
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on: April 18, 2016 06:52
When you drag your friend to middle earth, and they have to use The Force to get you back to reality
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on: May 08, 2016 04:23
When you wear your Mordor Beer t-shirt to the store for the first time, and spend half an hour explaining what it all means to a total stranger.
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on: May 13, 2016 07:52
When you get offended in a lecture because someone assumes you know nothing about LotR (despite wearing a t-shirt with the One Ring inscription on it), so you school that fool of a Took down with your knowledge of the geography, history and random trivia of Tolkien's world, then finish off by saying "Hobbits" in a disgruntled Gandalf manner.
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on: May 14, 2016 04:16
When you are sitting in your bed room mapping out distances between various locations in Middle Earth and trying to calculate the amount of time it would take to travel between them on horse back because you're writing an LotR fic and want to make sure things are correct. But that means that there's no walking space on your floor or space on your bed because you have eight maps laid out.
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on: May 15, 2016 08:24
When you read the posts by Ildë and Weavie and you realise that you know some really amazing Tolkienites (new word).

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on: May 15, 2016 08:42
and a © 1992 German three-volume hardcover comic version, continuously paginated to page 134, of The Hobbit.

Is it good? I read a graphic novel adaptation of The Hobbit, and the art was middling.

When you do a presentation on the historical developments and relationships between Tolkien's Elvish languages for linguistics class. When you kind of signed up for linguistics class because you knew that Tolkien was a linguist and you wanted to know what they do. When the only concepts in that class that you already are familiar with are the ones you picked up from reading ROTK appendices and Unfinished Tales.
"There shall be war between the Children of Iluvatar and the Ainu Melko. What if we perish in our quest? The dark halls of Vê be little worse than this bright prison" ~ Fëanor
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on: May 15, 2016 10:14
I'm gonna have to partially copy Elfeawen...

When you sign up for a Linguistics class partially because you are an English major but also because Tolkien... and it's because Tolkien that you've developed a love of linguistics and are minoring in it.
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on: May 16, 2016 07:01
I have to triple it.

I initially started reading Tolkien because of his work in philology, and would have done a degree in Anglo-philology had I had the opportunity to go to university.

My interest in the subject continues to this day.

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on: May 18, 2016 08:44
When you measure the "yardage" that your Tolkien (- related) books take up on your shelves (a bit over 215 centimeters respectively seven feet).
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on: May 18, 2016 11:31
When the only books you have on your computer desk shelf are either Tolkien, or Tolkien-related, books.

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on: May 18, 2016 11:42
When the only poster on your wall anymore is a framed Middle-Earth map. (I had to say goodbye to Bowie, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Metallica, Green Day, Elrond and Volbeat posters because my walls were getting busy!)

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on: May 21, 2016 04:54
When you find yourself thinking about Germany's most successful football team (rightly so in one sense, they have done many things better than other teams) in Saruman-like terms (also rightly so, as they have a history of buying off the best players of other teams mainly for the effect of weakening those other teams.) One superbly technical small, quick player they are currently trying to sell right now was a very central player in the second-best German team, but never quite fit in to their playing system. (btw, he shot the goal in the 2014 World Cup final giving Germany the 1:0 win over Argentina). Their top goal-getter (the superstar of the Polish national team), tops in the league this year, was also lured away from the number 2 team, and now one of the best defensive players (with in my opinion occasionally hair-raising errors) of our German national team is again heading from the number 2 team to the number 1 team. These two teams are very currently playing the final of the national cup, and I am very definitely not rooting for the no 1 team!
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on: May 21, 2016 01:27
When you're getting a new dog named "Oscar" and you're seriously considering changing his name to something more Tolkienesque, especially if you can find a name that sounds like "Oscar". Hints anybody?

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on: May 27, 2016 07:54
Ohtar?

When your siblings call you the walking, talking Silmarillion, or the living Silmarillion audiobook.
"There shall be war between the Children of Iluvatar and the Ainu Melko. What if we perish in our quest? The dark halls of Vê be little worse than this bright prison" ~ Fëanor
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on: May 27, 2016 04:26
When your cat's name is Celewen, and her nickname is Ungol. She actually gets called Ungol more often than Celewen.
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on: June 01, 2016 10:47
When your Tolkien books are out of the shelf more often than not.
"There shall be war between the Children of Iluvatar and the Ainu Melko. What if we perish in our quest? The dark halls of Vê be little worse than this bright prison" ~ Fëanor
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on: June 05, 2016 06:50
When you buy a Prancing Pony t-shirt to complement the Mordor Ale t-shirt you already have

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on: June 10, 2016 01:04
When the Hobbit movies are on TV and even though you don't like them, you watch them anyway.
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on: June 12, 2016 07:31
When you spend a significant portion of a Sunday afternoon "competing with Gando in the games threads.

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on: July 27, 2016 05:41
When you have just read LoTR for the umpteenth (about 15+) time, and had Barbara Strachey's "Journeys of Frodo" map book always opened to the map relevant to the chapter.
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on: July 27, 2016 10:24
I am hopeless at Tolkien geography so I purchased ...

Atlas of Middle-earth by Karen Wyn Fonstad

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on: July 29, 2016 02:00
When you get excited over creepy forests where trees grow strange, the wind whispers, and people sometimes disappear! And when it had a stretch where nothing grows you shout "Old Forest!!!"
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