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Is Lord of The Rings 'Geeky' ?

Reply 60

forgottensecret

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You have inspired me to go watch it again :biggrin:

Reply 61

Viz9

You all should play.. Battle for middle earth 2 rise of the witchking :P

Reply 62

Mask Of Sanity

14

You are on TSR. :holmes:

Reply 63

boromir9111

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Tell your friends to never say such blasphemous words ever again his life......

Reply 64

lukejoshjedi

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by Curzon

How does it belong in the 80s and 90s and not now? I'd class a geek as someone who has an extreme, even obsessive interest in something "outside of the norm" like the fictional world of LOTR. I definitely meet this criteria and am a self confessed geek.

I have a problem with people just being branded up front and disregarded by someone just because they're labeled something, I think it's shallow, so I think it's a bit silly to call people geeks just seeing as it's always associated with negativity and being socially awkward or clueless

Buuut I did go off on a bit of a rant, I do still think the word is outdated but your definition does make more sense. But being a geek doesn't mean you have to conform to some silly stereotype ( that was my main point) and hell, I don't often see people calling other people geeks that more anyway... *shrugs*

Reply 65

lukejoshjedi

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by JaggySnake95

'mainstream films' ?

who the **** do you think you are?

Lol'ed at this, hahaha

Reply 66

narusku

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OP: only people who think they're far too superior to anybody else would think such a thing. I've always thought that fantasy is the gateway to imagination.

'When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret...Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness'
C.S. Lewis

oh btw, you should read the narnia books - It'd be a start :wink:

Reply 67

hash007

OP

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by narusku

OP: only people who think they're far too superior to anybody else would think such a thing. I've always thought that fantasy is the gateway to imagination.

'When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret...Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness'
C.S. Lewis

oh btw, you should read the narnia books - It'd be a start :wink:

Read them all :smug:

Have you ever read the Inheritance Cycle? The books about Eragon, they're pretty good fantasy books. Shame they made the movie awful! :mad:

Reply 68

narusku

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by hash007

Read them all :smug:

Have you ever read the Inheritance Cycle? The books about Eragon, they're pretty good fantasy books. Shame they made the movie awful! :mad:

Really!? Then I bite my tongue. No I haven't read the inheritance cycle; when i finished reading Phillip Pullman's, Dark materials I was chuffed and in search of something that could rival it, so you reccomend the inheritance cycle then?

Reply 69

Nucleolus

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I think he'll retract that statement when Gandalf doesn't let him pass.

Reply 70

lonely14

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by hash007

Read them all :smug:

Have you ever read the Inheritance Cycle? The books about Eragon, they're pretty good fantasy books. Shame they made the movie awful! :mad:

Really?

I though that Eragon book was awful. I abandoned it half-way. :dry:

Reply 71

D3stiny

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Kind of

Reply 72

choly7

2

I love LOTRs an I don't think I'm a geek :wink:

Reply 73

concubine

17

It wasn't even 'geeky' when I read it, in 1998 or whatever.

Reply 74

hash007

OP

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Original post

by narusku

Really!? Then I bite my tongue. No I haven't read the inheritance cycle; when i finished reading Phillip Pullman's, Dark materials I was chuffed and in search of something that could rival it, so you reccomend the inheritance cycle then?

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by lonely14

Really?

I though that Eragon book was awful. I abandoned it half-way. :dry:

Hell no! I found it to be a very entertaining book, get's better as the series go along. But sometimes there is a bit too much waffle, nevertheless, I think it's a very good read.

Reply 75

username388799

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by didgeridoo12uk

it's amazing. don't see how Star Wars is nerdy either, they're pretty mainstream films

being able to speak elvish on the other hand would be quite nerdy.

Absolutely. I don't get why you got negged. Star Wars is extremely popular as is LOTR. These films aren't "geeky" anymore and actually I don't think they ever were.

Like you said, speaking Elvish or Klingon and attending Sci-Fi conventions or dressing up like Gandalf the Grey whenever you play DnD, is geeky.

Reply 76

Annora

1

I'm a big Tolkien fan. I've read most of his books. I have a book on Elvish languages and maps of Middle Earth. Does that make me a geek? Why does it even matter? We all have interests.

(edited 14 years ago)

Reply 77

hash007

OP

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by Annora

I'm a big Tolkien fan. I've read most of his books. I have a book on Elvish languages and maps of Middle Earth. Does that make me a geek? Why does it even matter? We all have interests.

I want to get some middle earth maps! Where did you get yours from? Not sure about buying from ebay...

Reply 78

Annora

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by hash007

I want to get some middle earth maps! Where did you get yours from? Not sure about buying from ebay...

I have this. I also have an encyclopedia of Middle Earth I picked up at a second-hand book sale which has maps in. I also have a big poster.

Also, this looks pretty cool.

Reply 79

Bella Occhi

16

Who cares if it's geeky, it's ****ing amazing :biggrin:

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