LOTR and school ::cringes::

[Black Rider]

yes, my friends, there's that dreaded word once again. School. ::gasps:: but as the adolescent and pre-adolescent (and maybe adult) community gears up for that exciting, and often abhored time of year, questions arise in my mind for the LOTR community.
first of all, for those joining their peers in the grinding daily ritual of lacking sleep only to be taught *important* matters such as stoichiometry and algebra at an ungodly hour once again (but with one year more experience than last year): what classesare you taking? are you doing anything different than last year? are you plastering your bookbags with LOTR merchandise and crudely printed photos of Orli and Elijah? have you been pathetically planning your first-day-back outfit since june (yes, i have, and let me tell you it DOES include the one ring ;))?

and for everyone: are/were you known around your school as "that Tolkien kid" or is it just me?

[Nessa]

Well, I've been in school since the fifteenth of August, and it hasn't been so bad. I think a big difference is that I'm an upper classmen (junior). There aren't any classes I have that I dislike, my favorate being psychology, my least of course being Algebra 2.

Regarding Lotr, I've mentioned the book or the films once or twice, but no one except my three best friends know the extent of my obsession....... I have close friends at school but I would most likely never hear the end of it.... lol

There is a guy in my school sometimes hailed as "the Tolkien kid," and he's very well-liked. He's not the smart time, a flunkee and a goof-off (great guy, btw). Despite his terrible behaviour he can be seen every so often pulling out a tattered copy of Fotr, TTT, or Rotk. I've talked to him about it a few times (I become terribly shy in his presence), and he's always spoken earnestly if not lengthily about it. :)

[A! Elbereth]

Sadly, I have no friends who enjoys LOTR, not even one who has seen it. I am quite alone when it comes to expressing my obsession with others. Because frankly, no one cares. mecry Of course, I will have a few picture from FOTR in my locker, but none will be showing on ym binders, as I will be most likely to get evil looks, as most the people in my awful school community has a strange disliking for LOTR. Beg your pardon, but they are all a bunch of 'follow the crowd', popular wannabe's, if you ask me. heh, I hope to make a new friend who loves LOTR as I do, now that I am running out of trustworthy friends.
And about those classes.... (ACK! NOT THE CLASSES) I am not taking anything out of what you would get in elementary school. All the required classes, and a-bit-o french, orchestra, and art on the side. heh quite boring if you ask me... I have no clue what my future will bring and what I may want to do with it.

I am going back to school on sept. 3rd by the way... and OH! How I dread the day!mecry

[TheRingBearer]

I'm heading off to college on September 9th so i'm really nervous. School wasn't so bad for me. Most of my friends were/are film fanatics so when they saw the film they loved it (except for one who prefers Star Wars episode II... :rolleyes: ) but none have read the book.

[Black Rider]

yeah Nessa, go juniors! i start the 4th with what's labeled 'the toughest year of them all" in regards to colleges and high school. and i also know waht you mean, elbereth, with those wannabe's. luckily for my school it's big enough that they dont take the advanced classes so i never get to see them hahaha lol.
this year i'm taking survey of British Literature a, but i'm pretty sure Tolkien will not be mentioned, just shakespeare, shakespeare, and shakespeare. although in my desktop publishing class i'm looking forward to playing around with graphics and making movie and book jackets, (and fan art ;))

[Orkybash]

I'm a high school senior this year, but unfortunately i'm not taking any classes where tolkien is even gonna *begin* to come up.

I tried to get them to do a tolkien class a senior english elective, though. =D But it was shot down instantly... :(

But you know what really gets me? My summer reading was "prayer for owen meany". My friend, who goes to a different school, had "the hobbit"! grrr....

[Little Devil]

I'm going back to school on the 11th of Sep so I've got bout another week!!! Oh I'm so happy.

[Galadriel]

well i have just started school last week and if has been hectic. we had meessed up schedules and every thing. We talk about Lort in my ewnglish class because it was on of my summer reading books. Also I have a friend who loves LORt. So we tlk about it pretty often. I Know people in my english class that thought LORt was boring or even hard to understand because of all the characters. I was like What? No way!

[Little Devil]

I know people who dont understand Lotr or find it boring, their just silly and have no idea what they're missing out on :)

[A! Elbereth]

yeah... I took one of my friends to the movie because all my other friends were going crazy for it, but she didn't like it... For some reason she would rather watch thos un-realistic disney movies on TV... ugh pfbbt She has no Idea of the true nature of the story, because she is blinded by those 'made-4-teens' movies. yuck

[Little Devil]

Yep, I did the same with one of my friends and she hated it! how could she? I guess she was to thick to understand it as LOTR is kinda like there's more to what you just see. :)

[Galadriel]

Well yeah i guess you are all right. I went to see LOTR with two of my friends. My and my other friend loved it and would go see it like a million more times. This was also before i had read the booka nd I couldn't wait to do that either. biut the other girl we wemt with thought it was just alright. She admitted it kept her enterained but she said that she wouldn't go see it again and thought the books boring. I was like No way

[Black Rider]

whenever i went to see it, and the theatre was packed, the audience would always laugh at the pipe-weed scene "finest weed in the south farthing" "roflmao roflmao " it was so pathetic

[Akiba]

I know people who've seen it and like it but really don't care much for it and actually most people i talk to haven't even seen it one of my friends loved it and was all into it but now she doesn't even really seem to wanna even watch it one more time and at the beginning I couldn't understand why she liked it so muh cause she saw it before meand then when I started liking it she stopped so I have no one to talk lotr to anyways about school I start this thursday and actually kinda looking forward to it maybe not the work but the socialism I actually got pretty good classes pplwise

[HobbitFriend]

ah! i missed my LOTR talk in english!! (Kimmy never told me either!) argh... stupid schedule mess-ups! As far as i can tell, not too many people are into LOTR in my school like Galadriel was saying. Some people didn't even read it!! (when it was required) and they were going to get sparknotes and i was like "NO! you gotta read the book! it's really good!" lol i don't know how anyone can not like Tolkien's books!

Anyway, as far as my schedule goes... i'm hoping to get into an already crowded honors english class where LOTR was a summer reading requirement. but as i said before, everyone's schedules were messed up so i don't even know if i'll be able to get in. :(

[Pil]

Good luck HobbitFriend! entdraught

I made my G.C.S.E. options...(like, on top of the compulsary ones)...

ART, FRENCH, HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, ELECTRONICS. :(

Why ELECTRONICS????!!!!! What was i thinking?

I am lucky to have the only english teacher in the school to actually like LOTR...and she has promised me some discussions... veryhappy

But on the down side...the teacher is foreign and people have to correct her spellings all the time! :huh: :nono:

[Little Devil]

Hehe..I've got to make my G.C.S.E potions this year! arrghh,I know for sure I'm taking music and probably drama. :)

[TheRingBearer]

Pil, those are nearly the same options I took, except for Geography and Electronics. You should enjoy History and hope fully French won't be too hard for you as I had the WORST teacher. She couldn't control a class to save her life lol

[Galadriel]

Hobbit Friend! What do you mean Kimmy and I never told you about our discussion. We never had one. like I said no one cares anout the book and the teacher is more concerned with the other two we had to read. You reall need to let me know if your getting in the class. I mean Let me no soon. the wait is killing me.

[A! Elbereth]

Well, I just got back from my first day of school, and I have never been so sorry to going anywhere than today. What tortue! What an awful experience! I tried to think about LOTR during those bad embarassing moments... but it sadly did not help.

I took this class and I have never been so desperate to drop a class... I am going to change it to a study hall first thing in the morning.

P.S. Sorry 'bout my complaining... i had to tell someone ya know?

[Little Devil]

Has anyone taken R.E? I think I have to as I go to a bloody Convent!!!! :angry:

[Black Rider]

i dont know what r.e. is, or g.c.s.e. either, but all i know is that i've got school tomorrow and i'm posting at 10:15 at night!! i gota wake up at 6 tomorrow. aargh. i hope we talk about lotr in my class, the name of the class is british literature for christs sake lol. but at least this year i'm an upperclassmen AND there's prom at the end of the year. ooh woe is me, i'm looking forward to school functions...

wish me luck...

[Akiba]

good luck oh no I start school in one day and I just got sick and I'm still desperately trying to change my schedule That is so not cool I didn't have LOTR for my reading assignments I had these extremel;y boring freak me out books juat went school shopping usually fun but ugghh what a nightmare! I felt like I was gonna scream at that stupid store but yeah enough out of me

[Pil]

Originally posted by Black Rider
i dont know what r.e. is, or g.c.s.e. either

R.E. is religious education...something i've had to study for the last three years and now is outta there! :hooray:

G.C.S.E. is a qualification in a subject usually sat by 16 year olds (yr elevens at any rate). It gets studied for two years, yr 10 and yr 11.

Or....if ur MY school. You'll make us do G.C.S.E.s when we are 14...and after studying it for a few months...aaaaaah! But that's over and done with now...and i move on to year 10 with better hopes for G.C.S.E. teaching! :)

Oh...and....I GO BACK TO SCHOOL TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!! mecry verymad mecry

[Little Devil]

I think that most schools go back tomorrow....but I have bout another week!!!! :hooray: :whoohoo:
I hate R.E, what is the point of it???? verymad verymad

[TheRingBearer]

I don't start till Monday hahahahaha... sorry :grin:

Don't worry it'll be torture for me too as I'm starting somewhere new.

[Black Rider]

oh ok thanks pil, i didn't know that about those subjects. yah, i'd probably go mad if i had to take religious studies, i'm so atheist and would get so frustrated with that subject. and g.c.s.e. sounds like our s.a.t.'s or similar.

omg i started school wednesday, and i'm completely stressed out of my wazoo! it's horrible. i have like 16 books, that's 2 per class average, and let me tell you we don't get any in gym or computers ;) and if my a.p. class doesn't kill me, then i certainly will be reaching death by the time the exam pops up in may. i'm glad the forums closed for a while or i'd be so behind, because i have NO time to go on on the weekdays, excely at like 10 when i'm dead tired. aargh. so i now have the holy weekends to be free, AFTER homework.
ok sorry i was just venting. resume your normal activities now, if indeed you were paying attention. (it's really not that bad, account for some exageration when reading, i'm using my poetic license lol)

[Nessa]

I feel your pain Black Rider!!! Here's what I'm looking at: A.P. History, A.P. Psychology/Sociology, Honers English, Honers Chemistry, Algebra 2 (this being harder than the AP classes combined, for me) among others. :o Add about three soccer games a week and practice every other day in between....

And to think I still had time to miss this place. :cool: lol

I think I should add how completely average as far as intelligence goes.... I got into these classes by working my rear off, and thats the only way I'm surviving them. ;) I figure all that will look pretty good when I'm try to get into college.....

Oh, and I'm not complaining at all! I'm having a good ol' time wearing myself out impossibly. lol

[Black Rider]

Originally posted by Nessa
I figure all that will look pretty good when I'm try to get into college.....


that is my creed!!

and good luck with the a.p.'s i'm sure you'll be fine, sometimes one is smarter than one thinks...
i wanted to take a.p. psych, but it's only offered to seniors b/c of the mass popularity :-( and i took algebra 2 last year (i'm in precalc this year :o ) and if it's the same in your area of the country as it is in mine, it's not THAT hard. (i'm NOT a math person also)

and if you're ever stuck: just solve for x. the golden rule lol

[Little Devil]

Originally posted by TheRingBearer
I don't start till Monday hahahahaha... sorry :grin:



I got your beat I start on Wednesday, Sep 11th arghh bit creepy.
And good luck at your new school RB!! :thumbs: ;)

[Nessa]

Originally posted by Black Rider
and if you're ever stuck: just solve for x. the golden rule lol

roflmao Thanks, Black Rider. ;) Wait! There's a Y in this one!!! ARGH!

;)

[Rameces]

ppl are very scared of me at school cuz i'm alwayz talking to that cheap little 2 dollar one ring that comez with the book markz, i love scaring ppl with it. i have almost all the teacherz cept that darn spanish teacher scared of me. anywayz i'm making progress.

:flamer: Rameces :flamer:

[TheRingBearer]

Hey I'm the real Ring Bearer around here lol :flamer:

Welcome Rameces by the way.

[Black Rider]

Originally posted by Nessa
Wait! There's a Y in this one!!! ARGH!



roflmao roflmao roflmao

[Narsil's weilder]

I am taking 2 hours of Graphic Design
one hour of transit back to school from the design studio
English 11 :snooze:
Algebra :(
US History :thumbs:
Auto Tech! ;)

[Akiba]

ok my ap bio teacher scared the **** out of me andeveryone else in my class. We had to write n essay in honors english the first day ad I had no clue what to do I freaked!!! School is a nightmare Algebra 2 has actuall been pretty eas mind yu I've only been there two days yep stil no LOTR talk

[A! Elbereth]

I can do LOTR talk with someone I know now!!!! yay! But I don't see her too much.... lets see... the first week was pretty bad..

English and History is great! Funny teachers :thumbs:
Algebra is a snooze fest...:snooze:
French... :knight: :elfeek: <---We have a witch for a teacher that likes to make you dance and sing in french to the garbage can if you have gum....:o

my other classes are so god awful I feel like running out of the room screaming just to have something even remotely interesting to do....lol

[Black Rider]

lol

we got so many books in a.p. history that my friend and i were stacking them and making little models of things like Minas Tirith, and hills with hobbit-holes. it was so sad.

[A! Elbereth]

roflmao

[Nessa]

roflmao

I guess my school is easy.... we only got one book for A.P. History.... of course it 3, 879 pages long. ;) (Yup, exaggerating.)

[Akiba]

uucchh I hate history so i took that in summer school and I learned nothing I usually cannot understand anything my French teacher says and I swear she looks like she's been dead forever it's freaky in most of my classes I just talk to people and in my bio class there's this girl who looks like she's gonna eat me!!!!aaaah!! and still no LOTR talk

[TheRingBearer]

I found history very interesting ;) I did the American West and Crime and Punishment :thumbs:

And I agree: Alegbra = :snooze:

[Little Devil]

Maths = :snooze: I hate it and my maths teacher looks like Snape from Harry Potter!!! (she's a women so to speak) ;)

[Black Rider]

any math = :snooze:

i'm so not a math person. it's my worst class. this year my precalc teacher is so perky, i want to slam the book over her head to get her to slow down:trout:

[Akiba]

actually math is my best subject but my teacher is the one:snooze: she talks so slow ad drawly it's unbearable i wanna slam a book over her head to get her to wake up

[Little Devil]

Yeh, you should give her a really hard Thawack!!!! :trout:

[Akiba]

One ofthese days I will but a really hot guy sits in front of me:loveyou: so that makes everythig ok kinda sorta:thumbs:

[Black Rider]

mmmmmm. hot guys......:loveyou:

you are lucky, all the guys are nasty in my school (at least from my view lol) they're nice tho

[Akiba]

alot of guys at my school are nappy too but once in a while you spot a hot one and I just happen to haveone in my class so oh yeah lucky me oh and frenc is starting to com back ummm oh Comment ca va? Je suis bien et J'aime le LOTR oh yeah:grin: (did I say that right?) this is fun as long as I don't have to speak it ok sorry enough with th french au revoir heeheehee roflmao ok done:thumbs: roflmao roflmao

[Bonos-Girl]

everyone here's lucky...i go to a dam single-sex school....yup that's right, absoluely no guys....apart from teachers......ummm...yep...we don't wanna go there!!!

i had to do some french homework over the weekend and i can't remember anything, it's zawful...i'm not a languages person at all....i am most definitely a maths person.....

[Black Rider]

awh, dont worry bonos! we have hot techers at uor school it's so sad. and there's something to be said about a school that has no guys, you dont get the nasty fights in the hall, or the immature talk of things that can't be said on the forums, or the sexist talk that the guys are always doing in our school.

oh and akiba, i went to Quebec over the summer and it's actually Le Seigneur Des Anneaux!!!! how hot is that?!?!?!:cool: so now us cool french speaking ppl should all go around typing "oh yeah, i love SDA!!!" how funny would that be roflmao roflmao roflmao

[A! Elbereth]

*Hrmpf!* pfbbt Today in English we went down to the library to take a tour etc. and we had 10 min. to look for a book... So i, of course, go to Tolkien's little section, when I overhear my teacher talking with a student about The Lord of the Rings. Me, being very nosey when it comes to LOTR interrupted and said, "WHAT" So he said they were discussing LOTR and he said he didn't like it much because he wasnt much of a fantasy person and that it was too long....

He got a word of two from me... lol ;) I completely couldn't hold it in and just nearly said, "NO! but its so good, I love it! I actually didn't think it was long enough..."

He said ok and I think I scared him hahaha... but he was an english teacher and he thought a book was too long? I pity him. pfbbt If he, a grown man, cannot sit through a long book as well as a student 2 times younger, I don't know why he said he loved to read lol

[Little Devil]

I have to go to school tomorrow :mecry: don't have that much time to talk to you guys. But I guess I should count myself lucky as I've had bout another week more then most schools.
Bonos I feel your pain as I go to a single-sex school too urgghhh verymad

[Akiba]

Originally posted by Black Rider

oh and akiba, i went to Quebec over the summer and it's actually Le Seigneur Des Anneaux!!!! how hot is that?!?!?!:cool: so now us cool french speaking ppl should all go around typing "oh yeah, i love SDA!!!" how funny would that be roflmao roflmao roflmao
yeah took me awhile to get that gottaadmitsat there fo while "what are you talking about SDA" but get it now and oh yeah how's this Jaime Le Seigneur Des Anneaux oh yeah!! :grin: merci beaucoup Black Rider roflmao roflmao gonna take that suggestion and put it into action
An all girls school:o nnnnnnnoooooooooooo That guy in math awwww he has blue eyes and balck spikey hair how hot is that!!!!! yeah but that's it for really hot guys in my classes
I thinkmmy best subject would be math today I was so hyper n French and started talking about video games andpractically the whole class joined the conversation then the teacher had to tell me to shut up aout a million times butit's not like anyone listens to her( wow this is long hope I'm notboring yu) and can you believe nobody had playedMario Tennis aaaahh I love Luigi
and love zelda link reminds me of legolas and sorry totaly went off topic there

[Black Rider]

haha! guess wher i am RIGHT NOW!! i'm in school. eww. we've got a class called desktop publishing, and i always finish the projects mad fast so we're allowed to go on the internet :p it's great. i'm planning on making some mad cool lotr art projects on the computer :grin: but it's my only laid-back class, the last one of the two days (we're on block schedule, 1.5 hrs of computer;) )

[Little Devil]

Uhhhh....went to school today after a glorious summer...and it was yuk! pfbbt My new english teacher is a total freak! And whoever told her black was slimming was blind or something. ;)

[Akiba]

just got back doing ap bio homework soo frustrating aaaggggghhhhh umm yeah went crazy in French today again :grin: kept the class entertained though teacher threatened me with a referral :p about the millionth time she does that too my general arts class is hilarious cause there's this guy who can't speak english and this other guy who is just comedy trying to teach himroflmao roflmao roflmao anyways that's not cool I can't go on the internet in any of my classes but most of my classes are laid back have so much school talk so annoying but don't worry I won't go on :thumbs:

[A! Elbereth]

our school does not allow going on internet sites not having to do with school projects! pfbbt.... take that you... you... evil-secret-government-people-only-dressed-up-as-teachers-to-blind-us! Muahahah! you cannot fool ME!
I see your mind! *catches on* You will takes us all to Sauron! you will betray us!.... *snaps into reality*

hum dee dum dee dum...roflmao

[Catz]

lol lol roflmao roflmao lol lol
:catz:

[A! Elbereth]

lol

[Bonos-Girl]

i feel like that bout some of our teachers sometimes!!!

[A! Elbereth]

No... but you see... they really ARE from the government! :o lol Do not let them blind you!!!!!! lol :elfeek: RUN!

[Mathew6]

what u talking bout!! all my freinds school freinds like lotr, and if they dont they just CANT be my friends

[Mirkgirl]

hehe, mathew6... isn't it a bit too harsh... but you can say it after all...

Only a few people in my class have read LotR and they aren't the closest to me... there are other thing out there but LotR, didn't you know?

School starts for me on Monday :( Oh, well I can survive one more year can't I?!?

[Little Devil]

I guess, good luck! :thumbs:
No-one in my class has read LOTR, soo annoying.

[Akiba]

ooh this girl in my english class is reading the hobbit but don't talk to her too quiet maybe I'll get to know her later supposed to be doing hw but I just don't want to better get started cause won't have any time tomorrow wow mathew6 how big is your social circle? yep still no LOTR talk

[Black Rider]

aah i hate school!!!!!!!!!!!! just thought i'd share...

[Akiba]

ha doesn't everybody ok maybe not everybody ooh yesterday my General Arts teaher was playing the LOTR soundtrack and since nobody seemed to be peying attention I felt like yelling hey it's LOTR and I just saw a LOTR poster in my english classroom cool

[Black Rider]

ahh that's the coolest thing. there is absolutely nothing lotr in my school. my friend and i get so desperate we looked up Beowulf in our brit lit book and we were worshiping the entire paragraph that talks about Tolkien. it was so pathetic, but great at the same time

[A! Elbereth]

You are so lucky!!! I bring my CD player to school everyday to listen to LOTR soundtrack in study hall... :grin: We have it in the cafeteria... and I sit all alone, so one is there to care...

[Akiba]

there's no LOTR talk in my school either just that and it amzed me maybe I should start a LOTR club hahahaha sure uhhuh my friends came over today and ne of them likes lOTR the other one had never seen it oops finish this l8er gotta go pronto!!!!

[Pil]

I only listen to the soundtrack when no-one else is in the formroom...else i reckon i would get kicked OUT of the formroom...:( lol

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[TheRingBearer]

omg that looks so cool.

[Pil]

I know! I want it! :thumbs:

[Akiba]

haha that's cool would never get it but it's pretty cool ok I went to homecoming yesterday and we lost no surprise there but this si what was the most humiliating we lost 54 to 8!!!!!!!!! I mean I knew we were gonna lose but not like that!!!!!!!! And I have a mad crush on the captain and at hte end he had kinda fallen and gotten hurt I wanted to run down there and help him but he was all mad so he pushed this guy who tried to help him it was hilarious he's in my french class too he is so hot!!!!!!!! but I mean 54 to 8 at OUR homecoming!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Little Devil]

Wow! but quite funny about the captain.

[Pil]

So this was american football right? :huh: :blush: :duh:

[Akiba]

yes with the tackling and the throwing and the touchdown and the hot captain in my french class getting hurt and mad and yeah american football awww don't wanna go back to school tomorrow stupid school

[Pil]

Is it really that bad...if you ask me i'd say yes...:(...i lost the sheet i was supposed to be copying my art hw from...am I gonna get it tomorrow... mecry :angry:

[Little Devil]

Does anybody copy hw here? just wondering

[Akiba]

All the time me passing Geometry last year was all thanks to my mad copying skillz! and my extremely smart friend I was too lazy to do my hw last year don't copy on tests though for some reason it makes me feel stupid

[Little Devil]

I copy a lot of hw too! Once 4 of my friends got put in detention for copying,hehe somehow never me.....:p

[Akiba]

have never gotten caught either how cool