Addicted much?

*a list compiled by Arwen Evenstar, and reposted here by Eowyn of Rohan.

You know you're addicted to the Lord of the Rings when...

• You’ve read The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Books of Lost Tales, The Silmarillion and everything else Tolkien has written – heck, everything he’s even touched – more than ten times.
• No one in your family is allowed to speak, breathe, or otherwise suggest their existence while you’re watching the trilogy for the 57th time.
• You know exactly what the characters in the movies are going to say next because a) you’ve watched them 57 times, b) you actually have the script and have read it over and over again, and c) you recorded the sounds with your mp3 player and keep listening to it all day.
• You’ve been caught talking to trees and sympathizing that “nobody cares for the woods anymore”.
• You want to petition your school to add Elvish 101 and The History of Middle Earth to your curriculum.
• Anyone who dares to criticize, or heaven forbid, compare The Lord of the Rings to Harry Potter gets treated to a passionate two-hour rebuttal from you.
• You’ve memorized quotes from the books.
• You’ve memorized quotes from the movies.
• You’ve memorized Elvish phrases.
• You’ve memorized EVERYTHING connected to Tolkien!
• You use “mellon” as your password.
• You take more notes and pay more rapt attention when reading The Books of Lost Tales than when studying for your final History of Civilization exam.
• Your mom warns visitors who have limited time to never mention “Tolkien”, “The Lord of the Rings”, and other similar words to you.
• You start saying “eleventy-one” instead of “one hundred eleven” and refer to potatoes as “taters”.
• There are more Lord of the Rings posters in your room than pictures of your family and friends.
• You try to convince your married friends to throw their wedding rings into the fire.
• All your favorite things are your “preciousssss”.
• You decide whether the people you meet have good taste or not by asking them what they think of The Lord of the Rings.
• You refer to your friends as your “Fellowship”.
• You feel proud that you’re only five feet tall, because even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
• You refer to meetings as “councils” and “Entmoots”.
• You are seriously considering plastic surgery on your ears.
• You think the world has changed. You feel it in the water. You feel it in the earth. You smell it in the air.
• You know who Glorfindel is.
• You seriously consider wearing green on your wedding day and walking down the aisle holding a banner.
• You try to buy lembas bread at the bakery.
• You know what LOTR, FOTR, TTT, ROTK, BOLT and Sil stand for and use them often.
• You know exactly where and how the movies deviate from the books.
• When you have no load or you’re in a place where there’s no network coverage, you try use beacons to communicate long distance.
• You’ve memorized Middle Earth geography while you can’t quite remember whether Samar is in Visayas or
  Mindanao.
• You’ve spent hours looking for “There and Back Again – A Hobbit’s Tale” in the library.
• Fifty percent of the sites on your bookmarks are about The Lord of the Rings.
• You know what happened in the Second Age of Middle Earth but don’t know the year that the Japanese landed on Philippine shores.
• When you’re worried, you say that “a shadow and a threat is growing in your mind”.
• When you’re sick, you ask for athelas, or kingsfoil. You’re also convinced that the doctor is a king in disguise, because “the hands of the king are the hands of a healer”.
• You can relate to this list and…
• You make lists like this.

*from: www.arwenevenstar.wordpress.com