One Meal to Feed Them All, One Meal to Find Them, One Meal to Bring Them All Where Watching Movies Binds Them

For the second year in a row, I spent the first day of the year going “There and Back Again” with friends, watching all three Lord of the Rings films. Last year we watched the theatrical cut of Fellowship and Return of the King, with the extended Two Towers in the middle (in my opinion, the best version of each film) but this year we stuck with the three theatrical versions, and used the extra hour for eating!Last year Jody Spiro made an amazing potato soup a-la Samwise Gamgee (Po-Tay-Toes!) but this year Jamie offered to keep things simple for the hostess extraordinaire by just ordering pizza. Instead, Jody broke box office records of best-catered Lord of the Rings Marathon in history. The day went as follows—and sorry I didn’t take pictures that day. The following images pale in comparison to the actual offerings that day.

Elevensies: Before the first film we were treated to stacks of pancakes for a wonderful Hobbit-style brunch.

Also for pre-show appetizers we had, in honor of Gollum, smoked salmon and capers.

“Give it to us raw and wrrriggling.”

Fellowship of the Ring Lunch: In honor of Merry, Sam and Pippin’s ill-advised meal on Weathertop, we had bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches.

“Tomatoes…nice crispy bacon.”

For movie snacks, almond biscotti served as Lembas Bread.
“This Elvish stuff’s not bad.”

Two Towers Dinner: Like Sam’s stew made on the hills beyond Emyn Muil, Jody made a “rabbit” stew with potatoes. The rabbit was actually turkey, but was oh so delicious.

“Po-ta-toes. Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew!”

After The Return of the King, we peeled ourselves off the sofas and went to Shari’s Restaurant for choclate/peanut butter milkshakes in honor of…umm…wanting milkshakes!

It was an amazing 12 hours, and still one of the best ways I can think of to start off a new calendar year. Thank you to our Spiro hostesses for the extravagant Hobbit hospitality!

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Posted on Sat, Jan 30th, 2010 at 4:49 am
Filed under Anglophilia, Film, intertextuality, Lists, Pop Culture, Quotes, Seattle.

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Comments: 3

  1. 1 | kim

    January 31st, 2010 at 9:56 pm

    My jaw literally dropped when I got to the lembas bread. This is so brilliant and I’m jealous! I have no shame, I wish had thought of it and eaten it!

  2. 2 | Kj

    January 31st, 2010 at 10:17 pm

    I too wish you had been there Kimmeh

  3. 3 | Jody

    February 25th, 2010 at 10:07 pm

    Lovely post. So glad you’re in my life.

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