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Lord of the Rings Movie night snacks

January 1, 2015 Ticia 11 Comments

As I was signing up for a birthday post this month I KNEW I wanted to write on Tolkien.  After all we were going to watch the last Hobbit movie this Christmas, I watched all of the Lord of the Rings movies in the theaters on opening day.  I’ve read the books, and then I started thinking about what I would write.  And I got stuck.

Then I wrote an entire post that I’ve now deleted and rethought because TODAY we are having a Middle Earth Feast.  One of our local movie theaters is showing a Middle Earth Movie Marathon.  They’re starting at 7:00 am and including a 9 course meal as they watch all 6 movies.  It’s going to be over 20 hours long.

Middle Earth Movie feast

We are going to copy this tomorrow, and I’ll update this with better pictures once we’ve completed the entire thing, but for now, here’s our menu (we’ve imitated a Hobbit’s meal plan for this):

Breakfast: pancakes, and we’ve got some special butters and syrups to try with it

Second breakfast: fruit and cheese because Aragorn threw an apple at the Hobbits when they suggested second breakfast

Elevensies: scrambled eggs, because Superman wanted to do eggs.

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Lunch: make your own salad, similar to our make your own pasta bar and make your own gyro bar.

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Tea: cheese, crackers, and lots of tea

Dinner: chinese pork ribs and fried rice (and I apparently have not posted this delicious recipe, I must fix this)

Supper: sandwiches (I figure this will be close to midnight and we’ll want a snack, but something simple)

 

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Comments

  1. Almost Unschoolers says

    January 1, 2015 at 10:48 am

    I was just Googling Tolkien party food – in prep for his birthday on the 3rd – perfect!

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    • Ticia says

      January 2, 2015 at 1:50 pm

      I’m so glad it’s a help! It was great fun, thought we did not make it through all the DVDs, probably complicated by our watching the extended editions. But, it was wildly popular with everyone, and we did actually eat all those meals.

  2. Min says

    January 1, 2015 at 11:12 am

    Impressive! We just did the LOTR marathon. Next year, we will do the Hobbits marathon once the last one comes out on dvd. It was nice watching the movies back to back.

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    • Ticia says

      January 2, 2015 at 1:50 pm

      I think next time we’ll just do Hobbit OR LOTR, not both as we didn’t finish either (what with the last Hobbit not being out on disk).

  3. Hwee says

    January 1, 2015 at 11:57 am

    Wow, this is a huge undertaking! Good luck with the food preparation! I’m sure it’ll all turn out very well, and very exciting too! Happy New Year!

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    • Ticia says

      January 2, 2015 at 1:50 pm

      It turned out great and was lots of fun. Later today or tomorrow I’m going to add in the pictures from actually doing it.

  4. Lindsay @ BytesofMemory says

    January 2, 2015 at 8:42 am

    I can’t wait to hear about it! I loved hearing about parts of it through Instagram!!

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    • Ticia says

      January 2, 2015 at 1:51 pm

      It was so amazingly fun! So many dishes though, we ran at least 5 loads of dishes. And I still need to unload the last load we ran.

  5. Annette Whipple says

    January 9, 2015 at 6:51 am

    🙂

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  6. Marie-Claude Leroux says

    January 11, 2015 at 1:03 pm

    Huge undertaking indeed – and now I’m certainly in the mood for a LOTR marathon (we have yet to make it to see final Hobbit movie as I’ll only payout on cheap Tuesdays and it just hasn’t worked out – now worried we won’t see it on the big screen!

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    • Ticia says

      January 12, 2015 at 7:57 am

      I’m sure it’ll make it to the cheap theaters eventually. I’m waiting for Annie to make it there to take my daughter to it.

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