*Groan* Why am I so given to obsession??

[blpurdom]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "rainy_lilac" <rainy_lilac at y...> wrote:

> Now look what has happened: I have become a LotR fiend! 
> 
> I have seen the film twice, and I cannot put down the books. I 
> have joined a Yahoo group to learn how to speak the high elven 
> tongue, developed a liking for green jewels and long gowns, and 
> now ....Argh! Now I have a torch to carry for Aragorn as well as 
> Sirius Black!! I even have a mini-torch to carry for Boromir (more 
> available than Aragorn, even though he is dead.)I could even take 
> a fancy to Faramir....
> 
> I ask you what is a girl to do? I do not have pointy ears.

LOL! My husband has always maintained that I am actually an elf, 
because he DOES think my ears are just a touch pointy.  I insist 
that it's my Vulcan genes peeking through (a Vulcan who gets yelled 
at by her HP_Psych listees for making them cry all the time--go 
figure how an ISTP writes this stuff anyway).  

> You see I have this glowing fantasy life against which the work-a-
> day muggle world appears increasingly faint and grey. Argh! What 
> are my chances of finding a real mortal man who can compete with 
> the romantic images you-know-you that are stampeding through my 
> head?

I have no idea; I was confronted with someone I thought was out of a 
fantasy almost half my life ago now, and I married him and have been 
living the fantasy ever since....Of course it didn't hurt that he 
wrote incredible poetry, had a rapier wit and looked like a cross 
between a ninja and a flame-haired Viking when he was doing kata 
(2nd degree Shotokan karate black belt).

> How do others here live with their loopiness? I have got to make a 
> plan!

You simply succumb to your insanity and trust that it will make you 
happy.  That's what the HP fandom has done for me, especially HPfGU.

> Suzanne, whose Elven name is apparently "Indil"

Of course, technically, I am an elf now that I am HPfGU list-elf 
Babs, but that's a slightly different type of elf from the Liv Tyler 
breed.  (Being mistaken for Liv Tyler--don't I wish!)

--Barb
(who will probably sneak off to see FOTR again this week)