Hey I like Tolkien too but if you start your post or article with "A most ______", "Concerning _______", or "Of _______", you're a huge dork and you deserve an atomic wedgie.

  • CommieTommy [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    A similar sort of thing happened with me when I was a little child because I was an extremely avid reader and would just start using words I read in books without knowing what they meant, apart from what I could gather from context and having no idea how to pronounce them (I called trebuchets 'true-buckets', guinea pigs 'goo-ee-nee pigs', and D'Artignon from the three musketeers "Doctor Artigan"), since my favourite type of books were fantasy books ever since I'd found a copy of the hobbit: I ended up speaking like bilbo baggins' diary entries and saying things like "it's most peculiarly strange! What ever shall we do?" in reference to me losing one of my wellington boots. I was a massive dork