Stupidest things non Tolkien fans have said about LOTR.

[Celebrochwen]

If someone is that dumb they really need to work on some issues. Possibly they could just be a loser trying to upset people.

[Larien]

If you read the Rest of his Web page you'll see that he is REALLY mean to people that write to him.

[Anárion]

This is an old post...brought back from 2 months ago...

When I went and saw TTT with my friend, he claimed it was boring halfway through and went to sleep!
Arrrg....made me want to throttle him

[33Peregrin]

Many of my 'friends' claimed they fell asleep during the movies...... I got so mad. Then I find one that has all of the books in her room..... I take one out and ask her if she has read it...... "I think so......" she says. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
We aren't friends anymore, but not because of that.

[LadyDernhelm]

I know that this isn't an unusual comment, but it was really annoying coming from someone who had READ the books.

Me: So did you like FoTR?

*: No, it was stupid.

Me: What???

*: Well, it was three hours of pointless stuff.

Me: Why???

*: They didn't destroy the ring did they?

Grrr.

Or things like -

"So, Bilbo is Frodo's father?"

[Melko Belcha]

I have heard a person say that, 'The Lord of the Rings is a rip-off of Star Wars and all the other fantasy writings of the late 70's and early 80's'. And he was talking about Tolkien not the movies, he thought that in was published in the late 80's.

I also have a friend that says, 'I don't care to read LotR or see the movies because I hate fantasy, all it will have is odd creatures running all over the place'. But he considers Star Wars Episode 2 as one of the greatest movies ever made. Hey, doesn't Star Wars have odd creatures running all over the place?

[LadyDernhelm]

Oh yeah, and I can't forget my friend's dad who came away from FoTR vowing not to let his children see it because it was "evil" and "too dark". I mean, come ON!!! ;)

[33Peregrin]

Yesterday I was giving my piano teacher my e-mail address (all about HairyFeetAreCool) she didn't know what it meant. She thought that I just though regular hairy feet were cool. I had to explain to her all about hobbits and everything. She told me she hadn't seen either of the movies and 'she had no desire to'. She's the second person who has told me that they 'had no desire to see it'. That makes me mad.... I told her I didn't really want to see FOTR at first, but....
I am going to bring my FOTR VHS to her to borrow. I got it before we got a DVD player. It will be hard for some people to know me and not see LOTR, let alone read it.
Maybe I'll get her the book for Christmas.

[LadyDernhelm]

HA! HA!

GIVING YOUR VHS TO YOUR PIANO TEACHER??????????????????????????????????????

[Raithnait]

MY mom, never having read the books, went to see FotR with me(my second time, her first) and at the very end she leans over to me(I've got tears streaming down my face) and says " Okay, so who just died and why should I care? and why didn't the other guy like him?" (I was devastated).

[Mindy_O_Lluin]

Why don't you learn some of the best pieces from the LOTR's score and play them for her on the piano. Maybe that would impress her without her even knowing why.

[33Peregrin]

A funny thing is is that I just got an LOTR piano book..... I'll bring that too. I have tried a few peices, it's really awesome. Before I got it, I could play the hobbit melody and when the fellowship is going down the staris in Moria.

I'm only lending the movie to her....... it's not as if she can go on without seeing it. In fact, I think she'll enjoy it.

[LadyDernhelm]

I love that book!!! How many pieces does it have in it?

EDIT: I just realized how stupid that sounded. What I mean was, I've had an LOTR piano book and I love it! ;) But just to verify that it's the SAME book...how many pieces does yours contain???

[Gandalf_White]

I love playing piano. I really wish I could get a copy of the LOTR book. Where do you think I could get one? Any help will be great.

[LadyDernhelm]

LadyOfIthilien got hers (the one I mentioned before, that I had) at the New Line Cinema shop in our local mall...if you have a NLC shop near you you could check it out.

If not, there are places I've seen it online. www.sheetmusicplus.com is a great resource.

[Saucy]

what do u mean?

[Anárion]

Pooey! I wish I had a piano, Ive always liked them, but I dont know how to play b/c of my older sister.
We used to have a piano but my sister is a spoiled rotten lazy ugly good for nothing brat.
She "didnt feel like" playing the piano so my mom and dad got rid of it, so now when other people are born they never get to experiance it!:mad:
Curses...makes me want to...kill someone...or at least eat something.

[LadyDernhelm]

I hate things like that. Just eat, don't kill, that's the key.

Gasp! Horror! Whatever happened to the art at the top of the page??? It's - it's GONE!

[Anárion]

Mmmm....puppy chow.
Hey! YOUR RIGHT! Whatever happened to that pretty picture of...umm...whatever was there? I loved that picture! I loved it so much I cant remember what it was right now. This is an outrage! Outrage I tell you!
Must....eat......more.....puppy chow....

[LadyDernhelm]

Puppy chow= disgusting.

It was a forest. It was pretty. Very pretty.

[Anárion]

Puppy chow is good, besides we dont have any chocolate.:p
Well, they shouldnt have tooken it down without the consent of the commonfolk (thats us).
I say we go on strike! We can make picket signs and go on parades! Woo hoo! Parades!

[BlackCaptain]

Mmm... I love puppy chow. How can you not! But I myself hate Peeps. Eww. Horrible little devilfood

[LadyDernhelm]

Peeps are DISGUSTING.

[Farin]

I periodically go to that website (plez don't ask why cause i don't even know why) and he wasn't just being mean by dissing lotr. If its new and big, he'll make up a big story and turn it down---> harry potter, sims, lotr, matrix, you name it. and he hates ppl that critisize him.

Its really sad. Sad and stupid.

[Anárion]

That I must agree with. Peeps are nasty and should be burned immediatly!

[aDaHe]

what are "peeps"?????

[Shadowfax]

They are marshmallow easter candy- and I for one LOVE them. They are also very useful, as shown here: http://www.lordofthepeeps.com/index.html

[LadyDernhelm]

HA HA HA!

Peeps are nasty, but that is hilarious....

[aDaHe]

so all they are is marshmellow thingys...
i love marshmellow - do you think that i would like these...

[LadyDernhelm]

NO! They're nasty. ;)

[Shadowfax]

Don't listen to her. They're wonderful if you have as much of a sweet tooth as I do. Mmmm... sugar....

[Ol'gaffer]

Another stupid thing was said to me the other day about LOTR:

"It's (LotR) is just racist propaganda of a white man who didn't have anything better to do!"


Grrrr, I got so angry at the person. :mad:

[Shadowfax]

Yeah, 'cause y'know, hobbits saving the world didn't have ANYTHING to do with the moral of "there's more to someone than what's outside".... sheesh! How did Eowyn and Galadriel escape that person's notice? They had more than enough estrogen for the entire book!

[Saucy]

sounds like he has some self esteem issues or something:rolleyes:

[aDaHe]

i have discused that subject somewhere else and i think that we came up with the general idea that no they did not have enough estrogen, yes their testtosterone levels would have rivaled those of a numorean male in mating season with no females on board his ship and he just left port...

[Gandalf_White]

When I went to see TTT for the second time there were these really annoying 10 year old girls sitting in front of me who talked during the whole movie. I yelled at them several times. Anyways... "One of them said is that Gollum guy supposed to be one of those gross bad guys?" I assumed she meant orc. I'm like no you are so dumb!!!

[e.Blackstar]

My ex-not-really-kinda-sorta friend said numerous times(about the movie)
"They show the ring in his hand too many times! geez! its just a ring!"

And i say to that, "hah! JUST a ring?! This tiny thing is the focus of strong, very evil powers. Frodos descision about it will make or break the balance of good and ill in the world!"

[e.Blackstar]

I saw a cartoon that had two guys talking.

1-So did you see LOTR?
2-yeah. It is the bomb!
1-who's your fave character?I like Tom Bombadil.
BLANK STARES
2-book freak
2-pop culture lemming

hehehehehehehehehe:D :) :D :)

[Tirmintus]

How could people not know of the boks almost everybody at my school loves LOTR especially my two friends and me. One of my friends has the One Ring thing that's gold.

[Luthien Tunivel]

One girl in a LOTR chait on AIM said the stupidest thing. We were all talking about the characters in ROTK and the last chapters of TTT, and she keeps asking things like, "Who is Shelob? Who is Denthor?" We assumed that she hadn't read ROTK and answered her. Then she asked, "Who is Frodo?" We all stopped dead in the middle of our conversation. Then we all blocked her.

My friend and I were watching FOTR for the upteenth time. Her brother was also watching. When the fellowship set out, her brother said, "What's the big deal about all of this? It's just a ring." I was shocked. Something else really sad about that is that he has seen the movie about 12 times. Even the movie should be able to tell him that!

[Wonko The Sane]

My brother who isn't my brother and I were watching the FotR movie and drinking Jone's soda and he said this: (This was before he was a fan.)

"This movie would be a LOT better with some laser gun fights or something like Star Wars had. C'mon people! Marketing! Give the masses what they want!!!"

Or something like that. :) I think he was kidding...but I hit him anyway.

[Helcaraxë]

I once said to someone "So, do u like LotR?" he said, "I dunno: I have'nt seen it yet." Ever since, its been eating away at me that such ignorance can possibly exist.:mad:

[Helcaraxë]

Also, one time I was at the movies and some girl and her father were talking. He said "LotR was really long and boring." she asked how long and he said "2 and a half hours." LOL! what an idiot. Only by a SUPREME effort of will on my part is his face fully intact right now.

[Tirmintus]

Oh yeah I remember lasy year at my school said the exact same thing Morgoth and everyone else said something about the Council of Elrond chapter, like they were just sitting there talking about one stupid ring. Well most people in my class last year said some very stupid things about FOTR last year during my school.

[Helcaraxë]

Lol! It really bugs me. Half of me wants to knock their teeth out if they insult it, half of me wants to explain the entire thing 2 the 1s who are simply ignorant, and a tiny voice tells me to have pity on them. A very, very tiny voice. I always smother that voice. *Snicker Snicker*

[Helcaraxë]

Originally posted by LadyDernhelm
NO! They're nasty. ;)

PEEPS?!?!?!?!?!?!?! NASY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!

Have you gone mad?!

I luv peeps.

I even love the sound of the word. PPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSSSS... ...............................;) :rolleyes:

[Helcaraxë]

Whoops. Nasy. Thats a pretty funny screw-up.

[EllethBronwe]

I had a girl ask me one time: "So is this like a movie or a book" and another person asked me if it was like the same story as The Ring. Stupid people *shakes her head and sighs*.

[Arvedui]

One simple request:

If you are unable to stay on topic, don't post!

I will keep my (evil) eye on this thread, and if the standards continue to decline, measures will be taken.

Keep contributing to the topic, and make this very good thread prospering.
Refrain from contributing to closing it.

Okay?

[Luthien Tunivel]

My grandparets who came over said some EXTREMELY stupid things.

No. 1

Grandmother: Who's that on the poster on your wall?
Me: Legolas. He's a character in the Lord of the Rings books.
Grandmother: Legless? Is that his name?

No. 2

Grandmother: So what do you want to name your dog when you get one?
Me: Frodo
Grandmother: Oh. Is that person a new popular singer?
I sighed and tried to explain who he was to her, and I eventually had to settle for, "He's the main character in the Lord of the Rings books.

No. 3 (this is the funniest/stupidest)

Me: Maybe I should show you the Fellowship of the Ring movie show you'll understand some of this stuff
Grandfather: Is the movie about baseball?
(he said that because we were talking about baseball before)
I bursted out laughing and I was laughing so hard that my mom had to take him through the whole explanation. Funny thing is, she hasn't read the books either!

[Gandalf_White]

Ha Your grandparents are funny.:D

My mom is messed up we were watching FOTR and she had never watched it before. So she was asking me all these dumb questions. I tried not to laugh at some of them.

"So is that Gimli an elf?"

"Why was it so bad for Bilbo to keep the Ring?"

"Is Sam a little slow? (mental retard)"

"So why are the elves immortal til there marry a human?"

There are more but these are the only ones I could think of right now.

[Boromir]

The stupidest thing that any one has said is "If you want to ruin somebodys Christmas tell them to go see the Lord of the Rings movie" and a critic said that, I don't like him.

[Captain]

Once when I was reading "The Atlas of Middle-earth" by Karen Wynn Fonstad some girl in my class said, "Why are you so obsessed? It's just a movie."
It's probably not that funny but I gave her a disdaining look and kept reading about Amon Sul.

[Boromir]

Oh, one time I was talking with my friend on the phone about TTT, and she said that she called the theater to see when the movie was playing, and the machine that tells you all the times said "Find out if the evil wizard Gandalf takes the ring for himself, and becomes the next dark lord." I was laughing a bunch.:D

[Luthien Tunivel]

Originally posted by Boromir
Oh, one time I was talking with my friend on the phone about TTT, and she said that she called the theater to see when the movie was playing, and the machine that tells you all the times said "Find out if the evil wizard Gandalf takes the ring for himself, and becomes the next dark lord." I was laughing a bunch.:D

ROFL!!!!!!!!!! THAT IS SOOOOOOOO FUNNY!!

[Veramir]

Me and my friend were watching a snidey copy of TTT on video earlier (by the way, he isn't really that 'up' on the LOTR story) and he asked if Gandalf's horse is called Hallifax! Like the bank! I was like 'it's SHADOWFAX u idiot!'. Yeah, u prolly had to be there, it was just so funny at the time.
I guess things like that are funny to someone who's really into it when someone is totaly ignorant of it all!
Well I just thought i'd share with you guys...
~V~

[BlackCaptain]

I have moments like those all the time... My Dad reffers to Sam as Samgee Gamgee...

"Do you think Samgee Gamgee and poor little Frodo gave up when Gollum (he pronounces it Goal-uhm) and Shelob (pronounced Shee-lobe) tried to destroy the Ring?!"

Oh father of mine... where have I gone wrong?

[Ledreanne313]

lol. Yep, same with me! My dad called Gandalf 'Gandarf'. I just shook my head and walked away...

Anne

[Rangerdave]

At least your friend didn't ask you why Gandalf's horse was named after a bizzare 80 fusion jazz band.


RD

[Vixen Evenstar]

Ick! My sister calls "Orcs" Glorks. Honestly!:rolleyes:

[Veramir]

Oh thank god i'm not alone!!! My boyfriend also called Gandalf 'Grandolf', i was like huh, u mean like a large dolphin?!
~V~

[Zale]

What's always puzzled me is in that in one of the appendices to LotR, it says that at the end of a word 'f' should in fact be pronounced 'v'. I thought it didn't sound right: "Gandalv". Now is it just me reading it wrong?

[Hobbit-GalRosie]

Actually, I believe that's only at the end of Elvish words, and Gandalf would be a name given to him by men...or so I thought.

[Lantarion]

Halifax, LOL! :D
My family isn't that into Tolkien.. :( But whenever they use the name of the character, they have learned to get it right around me.. Hee hee. :)

[33Peregrin]

My friend's dad calls Frodo 'Farto' but that might be because my friend just started The Hobbit and she calls him Bilbo Baggins all the time.

[Eliot]

My Dad once said Tolkien like "Toy-ken". :D I was just like "um, yeah Dad, right....".

[HLGStrider]

You know it might be a decent idea to merge this with the "Stupidest things non-LotR fans have said about LotRs" thread in this section. . .It is basically the same thing.

Love,
Elgee the Meddler

[VioletFalcon129]

This is something dumb i heard my cousin viki ask my mom:
Viki: in LOTR, what is the names of the twins?
My mom: what twins
viki: you know, those other two hobbits that go with frodo and sam

my mom told her they weren't twins and their names but i was surpriesed. very surprised. strange cousin of mine.

[Ledreanne313]

If I were you I wouldn't say that she was related...

Is she half blind? No offense to your cousin and all...but they look nothing alike!

[Anamatar IV]

I liked to humor them

Ignorant older sister: What you wanna be GIndalf for halloween?

Me: Yeah, but I'll need to buy a wizard's hat, a wand, and a flying broom stick. Can I barrow some money?

[Veramir]

Now i'm doing it myself... yesterday i said 'Gondolin' instead of 'gondola'!
~V~

[Gandalf_White]

My mom is so funny. I have watched FOTR like a hundred times and finally one day she decides to watch it with me.

Mom:
Is that ArwIn or Galdrill. I can't tell who is who?

Isn't Gimli an elf?

Then what's that Legolost guy?

just a few of her dumb questions....

[liteheartdmerry]

ya my mom was watchin' fotr for the 1st time here's our lil conversation

mom; so who's the lord of the rings

me: sauron

mom: oh that guy who's always wearing white and carries a staff

me: no that's saruman

mom: well what's he

me: a wizard

mom: but isn't that other guy, ya know the one with the pointy hat a wizard

me: yes they both are

mom; ok, so who's the lord of the rings

me: sauron

mom: who's sauron

me: the lord of the rings

mom: i mean what does he look like

me: a big fiery eyeball

mom: huh what big fiery eyeball

me: the one frodo sees when looking into galadriel's mirror, and when he puts the ring on

mom; ok ok so that guy who always dresses in white is the lord of the rings

me; *groans* nevermind

[Captain]

lol liteheartdmerry!

[VioletFalcon129]

One time when i was watching FOTR, i was watching it with a few other people, and my grandpa. After Galdalf had fallen, the fellow ship where at a stream, and my grandpa said " Look, here comes Gando floting down the creek. The creek was at the botom of that pit and he's floating back out. What? I geuss gando really is dead" he meant that, bt all he said was " Here comes Gando floating down the creek. Oh no, he's not." my realatives. honestly.

[Wolfshead]

A friend of mine once asked me if Dandalf comes back in the 2nd film. We mocked her.

[liteheartdmerry]

ya these kids at my school were calling pippin pimpin, i was all its pippin there's no m, and then we were watchin my lotr movie in class and on the part when merry goes 'yes pippin my point is he's clearly overreactin' they were all hey look it's pimpin

[e.Blackstar]

I guess I'm just lucky than. My mom was the one that interduced me to the books, and my sister is just as much a fanatic as I! My dad says stupid things though.
:rolleyes:

For example...
He tries to imitate Gollum but says"me precious" instead of "My precious"

He constantly gets Sauron and Saruman mixed up

I have to explain things 5,000,000,000,000 times (give or take a few hundred) before he gets it, and then he says, "Well, why didn't you say that in the first place?!"
Argh!

ETC.

[liteheartdmerry]

Originally posted by Treyar
"me precious"
ETC.


it's the new irish version of gollum

[VioletFalcon129]

OMG!!!! That is funny! I knw, i'm overreacting but, it is still funny. My friend (aske anne for details, as it is her) has a sister who dea a AWFUL gollum impression and Ann freaks out on her. Funny.

[Ledreanne313]

Yep...it's sad. My mom and sister always say that and they sound nothing like him!! ACK!! I hate that! My mom thinks she does soun like him, my sister just does it to bother me! And my sister tries to do a Stitch impression (from Lilo and Stitch) and that bothers me too. Man they bother me...:rolleyes:

Anne

[Popqueen62]

A friend of mine's Mom does that too. When she does it, it's pretty cool though. My family calls the orcs "those disgusting evil nasty looking thingies"

[HLGStrider]

That's actually very discriptive. I'm sure that's what Orc means in Elvish.

[e.Blackstar]

My friend Andrew, who has read the books, etc. and should know better, always does Gollum waaaaaaaaay to high pitched. Hes like, "Squeak!" and I just sigh.

My dad , just the other day, said something about how Smeagol is so repulsive and evil, and I said" Its gollum, dootbrain!" and he said, "Thats what I said"

My friends said, after seeing TTT, "I thought Sauron was a HE"

[Wolfshead]

Originally posted by Treyar
My dad , just the other day, said something about how Smeagol is so repulsive and evil, and I said" Its gollum, dootbrain!" and he said, "Thats what I said" Eh? But Smeagol is Gollum :confused:

[Frodorocks]

Originally posted by liteheartdmerry
ya these kids at my school were calling pippin pimpin

My dog's name is Pippin, and last summer all of the campers at the camp I went to were calling her "Pimpin." :rolleyes: :D
The other day I was talking about FotR with a friend of mine, (it's the only one he's read, he has "no time" for the rest) and he called Rivendell "that Elf hotel.":p

[Wonko The Sane]

I was in English class and we were talking about Prospero from The Tempest and the teacher (who's big into LotR and stuff and whose husband owns swords and chain mail and things) said "Ok...think of him as a wizard, a long beard, and robes...like Gandalf"


I said, "Actually, Gandalf's not a wizard."


She was like, "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you wanna get techincal with me we can do that after class. I'm waiting for August 26 with baited breath too."

And then she went back to teaching, and the girl next to me said, "If Gandalf's not a wizard what is he?"

And I said, "He's Maia"

And she was like, "Maya? Aren't they those indians from Mexico?"

I wanted to laugh so hard...but I just couldn't cos I wanted to be nice....I explained it to her after class. :)

[Shadowfax]

Heh- I've given up trying to explain exactly what Gandalf is. You're braver than I am.

[BlackCaptain]

Gandalf's not a wizard?:confused: :confused:

I've seen so many times in Tolkien's works where he says ''The wizard replied''. Or ''The wizard strode..yada yada'' I know he's a Maia, and I know he's from the Istari, but not a wizard?!!?!

[Wonko The Sane]

Well...wizard is a word used to try to explain things that are not easily understood by both the readers and the characters in the book.
Gandalf was hiding his status as one of the Istari for his own reasons, and since nobody knew what he was (except maybe Aragorn or Elrond or whatever) they had to have a word to explain it. Wizard was the closest thing they could find.
But actually he's not a wizard at all.
Since you understand the Maiar-Istari thing I'll not get into that here. :)

And yeah, Shadowfax...it was REALLY difficult.
I think she thought I was crazy! :)

[BlackCaptain]

Ohh I guess I get it. People sort of just reffered to them as Wizards so they went with that?

[Rangerdave]

Originally posted by Gandalf_White

"Is Sam a little slow? (mental retard)"



Well, Sam is not retarded, but he's not the sharpest tool in the shed.

I really think that Samwise Gamgee is a distant ancestor of Homer Simpson


RD

[BlackCaptain]

Hahaa I wonder how that would happen.... Selma's cousin's dog is Bill the Ponie's sister?!:eek:

[Wonko The Sane]

Hehe. Selma isn't related to Homer Simpson by blood so that wouldn't work. ;) Selma is Marge's sister. :)

ANYway, yes. People called them wizards, so they went with it, because it was the best way to describe themselves in ways that "mortals" and even elves could understand without giving away his Istari status.

[Shadowfax]

Originally posted by Rangerdave
Well, Sam is not retarded, but he's not the sharpest tool in the shed.

I really think that Samwise Gamgee is a distant ancestor of Homer Simpson


RD

Now that I definitely don't agree with. Book!Sam is very sharp (can make up rhymes on the spot, anticipate people's actions), however, he was raised in a society that frowned on intellect in the lower classes, and so learned to hide it.

Or that's my theory anyways. Me? Spend too much time thinking about hobbits?

Nah....;)

[BlackCaptain]

Actualy they are related by blood. You'll remember the episodes where Maggie shot Mr.Burns Marge said she took up Simpson's DNA, even though she was a Bovieux. So Marge must STILL have some Bovieux blood in her, and so there has to be SOME connection.

I think.

Anyhoo Dave only said related, not blood:D

[Niirewen]

Now that I definitely don't agree with. Book!Sam is very sharp (can make up rhymes on the spot, anticipate people's actions), however, he was raised in a society that frowned on intellect in the lower classes, and so learned to hide it.
I agree with you, Shadowfax. And although Sam's heart is the better part of him, rather than his head, he isn't stupid.

[Wonko The Sane]

Nah...Sam's stupid. And I'd really like to know about this supposed relation to the Simpsons through the Bouviexs....or however you spell it...



Anyway, I was online today with a friend who asked me what I was doing and I said, "Posting on TTF" and she was like "What's that?" and I said "The Tolkien Forum" and she said "Oh...is that where you talk about those movies" and I said "Yes. Among other things." She was like..."Damn...those movies sucked. I sat through the whole first one and was waiting for an ending and there was nothing...what a crappy way to end it. And then I thought the second one would solve it but nope. No solution. Those movies suck."

I wanted to hit her. :)

[Aulë]

What's with all these "Bouviex's"???
It's Bouvier!

And BC:
Who Shot Mr. Burns Part 2
Marge: The police have such a strong case against Homer. Mr. Burns said he did it, they have Homer's DNA --
Lisa: They have Simpson DNA! It could have come from any of us, except you, since you're a Bouvier.
Marge: No! No, no, when I took your father's name, I took everything that came with it -- including DNA.
Lisa: [giving up] OK, Mom.

That was just Marge being stupid. Her DNA would be different.

[Wonko The Sane]

See! I thought so! :)
But this is NOT a Simpson's thread....

[Arebeth]

Last week I was chatting with a friend on msn and (as I often do when I don't have much to say), I asked her
-Did you see LOTR? (I didn't even bother asking if she had read the books, it would have been a waste of time). Anyway, she answered:
-No, I didn't.
So I asked:
-Maybe you don't like fantasy or something?
-No. (I suspect she didn't know what fantasy is.)
-So why the ... didn't you see those films?
-I've heard it was complicated and that there was strange names. I didn't want to bother remembering them.

Another one.
She told me:
-I hate LOTR. The EE is even worse than the normal one. I hate fantasy and I hate sci-fi.
Me:
-May I know why?
-It's not true.
-???
-I don't see the point of watching a film which talk about things that have never happened and will never happened.
-??? (I couldn't find nothing to say, for once)
-I prefer true stories. Social dramas (argh!) and things like that. There is no such thing as magic (How dare you?). I like biographies of real people (Wait a moment. I like autobiographies too. But not this feminist stuff you keep reading. Forgive me.)

And, I think I've already wrote something about my beloved English teacher.
-So, for next week you prepare a presentation about a British celebrity.
-May I talk about Tolkien?
-Who's Tolkien? (yes. Yes. That's TRUE.)
- *Keeping my self-control* The man who wrote the Lord of the Rings.
-I didn't see the film.
-But there was a book before the film.
-Oh really?

[Ieth]

Originally posted by Treyar
He constantly gets Sauron and Saruman mixed up
I have to explain things 5,000,000,000,000 times (give or take a few hundred) before he gets it, and then he says, "Well, why didn't you say that in the first place?!"
Argh!
ETC.
Ha ha. My dad is exactly like that!! We'll watch the movie and then when it's over I usually talk about. Anyway one time I was talking to my mum about how Saruman was going to die (she hasn't read the bookds yet) and my dad comes up and asked "Which one is Saruman?" Dad said he was doing great telling everyone apart in FOTR, but then in TTT they had to bring Gandalf back and in the same colour as Saruman no less. He says that were he gets lost. My poor dad.:p
Ah well, I love him anyway:D

[Wonko The Sane]

Originally posted by Arebeth
And, I think I've already wrote something about my beloved English teacher.
-So, for next week you prepare a presentation about a British celebrity.
-May I talk about Tolkien?
-Who's Tolkien? (yes. Yes. That's TRUE.)
- *Keeping my self-control* The man who wrote the Lord of the Rings.
-I didn't see the film.
-But there was a book before the film.
-Oh really?

HAH! This was the funniest to me. :) It drives me nuts...HOW CAN PEOPLE NOT KNOW THE BOOK EXISTS?!
I forgive them for not reading it...but my GOODNESS...How can they NOT know!?

I mean, when I was younger I hadn't read LotR...I didn't read it until I was 18...
But I HAD read The Hobbit LOADS of times...
I just never owned or got around to reading LotR...but I still knew it existed..

CRAZIES!!!

[Shadowfax]

Originally posted by Wonko The Sane
HOW CAN PEOPLE NOT KNOW THE BOOK EXISTS?!


More importantly- how can an ENGLISH teacher not know it exists!?

[Estella Bolger]

My sister asked why the hobbits are small (in the film at least). For shame.

[Gilgallad II]

I agree with Shadowfax how can u be an english teacher and not know LOTR exists?:confused:

[Samweis]

Originally posted by Arebeth
And, I think I've already wrote something about my beloved English teacher.
-So, for next week you prepare a presentation about a British celebrity.
-May I talk about Tolkien?
-Who's Tolkien? (yes. Yes. That's TRUE.)
- *Keeping my self-control* The man who wrote the Lord of the Rings.
-I didn't see the film.
-But there was a book before the film.
-Oh really?

Yes - this was really good.

[Saucy]

me and some gurl got in an argument cause she was convinced it was smeabal not smeagal:rolleyes:

[klugiglugus]

Stupidest things non-Tolkien fans have said about LOTR:

Using political correctness and religion to bash LOTR, saying its racist because it only expresses European folklore and values or saying its Satanic and Pagan because it uses magic and stuff like that, people used to say that allot in the early 80's and 90's before Harry Potter and the general degeneracy of Christianity, the saying its satanic I mean.

They only recently started saying it was racist, I think that’s got something to do with the fact it didn't have a token ethnic minority in the film which quite hypocritical for anti-racists and political correctness people to say really. This sort of thing is probably the zenith of stupid things people can say about LOTR and they have said them and will continue to say them but why?

Why do these people dislike something that is so majestic and glorious? Why do they feel the need to slander something that is so European and makes people happy? Maybe because of a lack of empathy and understanding or a feeling of absolute conformity towards the current state...

[spirit]

when TTT came out my cousin said they had copied it from the tein towers and still calles that movie the twin towers

bafoon

[Sephiroth]

Originally posted by Muffinly
People have told me Star Wars was better.
Those poor, miguided people. :(

you call people stupid for having their own opinions ??

[Sarah]

oy, must we have another stupid debate in here too?

[spirit]

yes children, you mustnt fight! hehe

and starwars is **** neways.