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Na Vedui
Rohan
Jan 26 2015, 4:17pm
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Do you find yourself...
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... giving Middle-earthy names to things in the real world? (I don't mean naming your cat Thrandy or your house Rivendell etc., but generic names). Here are some of mine:
Those cropped trousers that come halfway down the shins: Hobbit-trousers
Bulfinches (a small, very fat and circular British bird): Bomburs
Windblown rags of black bin-bags that get caught in the tops of trees: Nazgul's knickers
Rutilated quartz: Galadriel's hair
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dormouse
Half-elven
Jan 26 2015, 5:05pm
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I tend to use Hobbit or Hobbit-sized a lot....
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Also references to Gandalf. Oh - and mathom (though I usually have to explain that one). But I like your list. Nazgul's knickers is very expressive and conjures up the perfect image! 
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MistyMountain
Lorien
Jan 27 2015, 2:06am
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I play Scrabble a lot on my Kindle and I am always finding myself forming words from ME (or Harry Potter) but then getting annoyed that the computer won't accept them as words.
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Rembrethil
Tol Eressea
Jan 27 2015, 9:26pm
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I don't play as much, as a consequence. Those things should accept new word input, just like Spellcheck!
Call me Rem, and remember, not all who ramble are lost...Uh...where was I?
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Aunt Dora Baggins
Immortal
Jan 27 2015, 10:15pm
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Eggs at our house are almost always "eggses".
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And there are places in our local mountains that I call Lothlorien and Rivendell, and there's a fat squirrel in my backyard that I call Fatty Lumpkin, but those might not fit your criterion.
I'm going to start using "Nazgul's knickers". :-D
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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"A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories
leleni at hotmail dot com
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Meneldor
Valinor
Jan 28 2015, 2:13am
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I've been known to mumble, "What's it got in its pocketses?"
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep. -Psalm 107
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dreamflower
Lorien
Jan 28 2015, 2:16am
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I use the word "mathom" often, as well as the word "faunt". Also often say "precioussss" and so forth. Also, any pony my hubby and I spot when out riding around in the car is "Bill the Pony". There are other things as well, but they are often spur of the moment, so I don't tend to recall them.
(I know you said not pets, but my cat is Miss Belladonna Took".)
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Rembrethil
Tol Eressea
Jan 28 2015, 5:39pm
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In place of more colourful metaphors...
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I've been known to mutter in Elvish and Black Speech. The number of strange stares you get are totally worth it! 
On another note, I've found use for some less-common words I discovered in Tolkien: rick, cot, byre, copse, spinney, and others.
Call me Rem, and remember, not all who ramble are lost...Uh...where was I?
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Na Vedui
Rohan
Jan 28 2015, 7:39pm
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.... now that's a handy one - the house is full of them!
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nandorin elf
Bree
Jan 30 2015, 5:13am
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My dad is a lot taller than me so I have to really adjust the seat if I borrow his van. We call it "hobbit-izing" the seat.
Recently I was surprised to find a bunch of friends sitting in our living room when I got home from class. I had forgotten we had invited them over for dinner. One fellow Tolkien fan called it an unexpected party and we decided to invite a few more people so we could have the proper number. 
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