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.
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.
Lunch: make your own salad, similar to our make your own pasta bar and make your own gyro bar.
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)
This is part of January Birthdays by iHomeschool Network
I was just Googling Tolkien party food – in prep for his birthday on the 3rd – perfect!
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.
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.
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).
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!
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.
I can’t wait to hear about it! I loved hearing about parts of it through Instagram!!
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.
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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!
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.