Ringers Vs. Trekkies


	Ringers Vs. Trekkies

Ater_Et_Alba

3-17-2008 5:44 PM

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geek, nerd, fandom, lotr, startrek, lord of the rings, ringers, trekkies

Ater_Et_Alba says:

had to leave out a massive amount to make this fit the clipping limit T...T

Intro:
Hard core Lord of the Rings fans have been given a name in the past several years, since the movies premiered and gained a bigger fan base: Ringers. I guess. In an interview a few years ago on the Tonight Show, Elijah Wood described Ringers as kind of like Trekkies. And at first I thought that was kind of unfair…I mean, it’s fantasy versus sci-fi, a show versus a movie: dangit, that wasn’t just an unfair comparison, it was a…a…and then I thought, wait. Maybe…maybe…he had a point. I mean, when I thought about it:

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