Why is it when you tell people that you love Lord of the Rings and have read the book multiple times, they say that you are a geek? It amazes me that people do not want to read it because they associate this truly brilliant work with being a geek thing.
heck..over the past 3 years i've read the book...oh...4 or 5 times...but thats nothing compared to Christopher Lee. He's read the books once a year for the past 5 decades. if we're geeks then he's an ultra geek or something...
no i don't think we're geeks.
i think we're tolkien fanatics.
Love is a very powerful force, especially when its formed into a coherent beam of death.
I was just floored today when my sister-in-law said she had never even watched the movies because they are geek material. Wow. I was so shocked and ashamed to be related to someone who has not watched the movies. Not everyone is into reading, but not seeing LOTR.
fuscia said this in post #3 : I was just floored today when my sister-in-law said she had never even watched the movies because they are geek material. Wow. I was so shocked and ashamed to be related to someone who has not watched the movies. Not everyone is into reading, but not seeing LOTR.
Hmmm, should we start a geek thread on the lines of the nerd thread or would that one suffice?
"Every positive integer is one of Ramanujan's personal friends."—J. E. Littlewood.
I dunno... people who I know that don't like LotR mostly don't like it cos it's "fantasy". And they wanna, you know, 'keep it real'. *rolls eyes*. What's bad with bits of magic and fantasy? But I agree stuff like learning elvish are too much, although to really get to the story you gotta be a bit crazy. Live in a world of your own. Things like that.
I am a very proud LOTR geek! I have read the books so many times I lost count and I have memorized almost every line in The Fellowship of the Ring movie. I am close to memorizing Two Towers. I didn't try to memorize them, it just happened because I have seen them sooooo many times. Now I have to go see Return of the King in the movies several times. Then I will buy the DVD when it comes out and memorize that movie too. I still haven't bought the extended versions of the first two. When I do that, my life will be complete...just joking about the last part.
12-18-2003 11:18 PM
