10. You camp outside the home of your neighbor who looks like Lij, then peek around the corner to see if GB and Dandy are there.
9.You have attempted to dress your hamster in a muumuu.
8.You are convinced that there *really is* a parallel universe..its called the Decipher Boards.
7.If someone drops crumbs on the floor you freak out shrieking "Pick it up now! i dont want any Smurfs!"
6.You insist that your friend "Rosie" is sharing a jail cell with Sean Astin.
5.When you go see *it* for the 1000th time, you expect to hear "without oants" added to everything..
4.You keep extra spnges and muumuus in your closet.
3.You carry around a dishtowel, insisting that you bear the Tea Towel of Power.
2.You greet everyone you meet with "Well Met! How about a pint?"
And the number one sign that you need a reality check is.....
1. Your mother *spouse/roomie/whatever* wonders at the excessive amount of men's underwear *Fruit of the Mines brand no less* in your laundry and you excalim "But its Gimli's!"

10. When I accidnetly hit Caps Lock on my keyboard the other day, I muttered "Sauron, leave me be!"
9.The majority of my friends don't have names, they have handles *StefBaggins, Fool for a Took...etc*
8.I have actually referred to myself as LilBit
7.I have a "Prancing Pony" section on the contact lists of my various screen names *family,friends,PP*
6.When my sister came home with new sponges I thought "Great! Extras!"
5.Driving down the road I saw a group of people gathered near the curb talking. My first thought? "Party at Old Gaffer's mailbox!"
4.My niece asked if I was thirsty. I told her "no thanks..I just had a pint of wacky-juice"
3.My mom asked why it is so important to post my Fellowship Tales here ASAP..I said "I have to know what Primula thinks!"
2.I begged my sister's fiance to give me his extra signed Dom card, b/c "Stef would love it!" *Darn Stef..I didnt get it..I tried though..:-(*
1.Instead of laughing properly, I have taken to saying "snirkle"

11. You know The LoTR history better then your family history.
10. When you get mad, it's not 'oh ya? I'll get my bf to kick your....." it's "I'll get gimli to kick your....."
9. You've replaced all your family photos w/ LoTR character's photos.
8. You have a mouse named Frodo, a bird named Gollum, and a dog named Gandalf. And that cat that keeps coming around to be petted is Legolas.
7. You know elvish better then english.
6. Whenever something goes wrong, it's Sauron's fault.
5. When you sing in the shower, it's always about Gil-Galad or hobbit walking songs...
4. You know everything about Middle Earth geography, but you can't get someone from your house to the ice cream parlor (ben&jerry :-) Now the nearest movie theater, that is a different story.
3. You shout "Mellon!" at any door you can't get open.
2. You think the names of the 7 dwarves from Snow White are: Gimli, Gloin, Thorin, Gili, Nili, Ori, and Bambour.
1. When your BF kneels down on the floor and presents you with a ring, you look up and solomly say "I will take The Ring, and bear it as long as it is mine to bear." Then go quickly over and throw it into the fireplace.

1. Your teacher gives you a really hard essay to write and you say: "Not with 10,000 hours could I do this!"
2. In Chemistry you spend your whole time at the back of the class with a bunsen burner trying to forge the 'one ring'.
3. In Geography you spend hours looking through the atlas for 'The Shire' in order to show your friends where you are holidaying next year!
4. In PE doing the 1500 metres... you are at the back... suddenly you grab hold of the person in front of you, kneel down before them and say: "I would have gone with you to the end"...before collapsing.
5. In Biology you try to research hobbit genetic crosses in order to find that elusive gene resposible for those really hairy feet.
6. In Ecology you nag your teacher for classification books in order to find "kingsfoil" as your dog has swallowed your BK Nazgul figure!
7. Your French teacher shouts at you, as you read your presentation on French schools systems in Quenya by mistake.
8. In the library 'The Red Book- (your guide to the dewey decimal system)' mysteriously acquires a sticker saying 'of Westermarch'
9. In Music when asked for a compostion you hand in "Concerning Hobbits" harmonised in the style of a Bach chorale.
10. In Food Technology everything you cook contains mushrooms: Mushroom Crispies, Fruit Salad with added mushroom, Chocolate Mushroom cake...
11. In Psychology instead of writing Token Economy you write Tolkien!!!
12. Instead of doing school work you spend your time composing LOTR lists! (a 'lil too close to the truth!!)

10) You cannot throw away the packaging for your Pippin & Merry action figures (even though you have cut out the picture of them both) simply because it's Lord of the Rings, and you just can't make yourself throw it in the bin.

9) You have an Orc prismatic foil card from Topps resting against your computer speaker in full view, even though you think the orcs are ugly and icky.

8) You have seen the film ten times by now and fully intend to go again every week until you can't anymore, despite thinking after the first viewing that you'd 'probably make it to about three, maybe four viewings.'

7) You keep tabs on every award ceremony, no matter how minor, to see if our film got any, even though in previous years you didn't even care about the Oscars.

6) You are seriously trying to talk your boyfriend into growing his hair, because it's curly and you think he'd make a great hobbit.

5) You spend the entire evening on hormone overload, only because DiamondTook showed you an exceptionally cute picture of Billy.

4) You seriously consider buying another Merlin sticker album, just to go through the excitement and fun again of opening a packet of stickers and carefully sticking them in.

3) You seriously consider buying more packets of Topps cards, even though you already have the entire set and loads of doubles, just for the chance that you might get Billy's autograph in it. And yes, you know how small the odds are for that.

2) You walked all across town on a gigantic Lord of the Rings shopping spree, spending far more money than you want to think about and ending in you making a shop get their last hobbit mug out of the window display, because they were the only ones who had it.

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