Aaah, smashing a flask of chocolate milk as the orcs guzzle their grim trail ale is one of the best bits of this whole tradition
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Saved a deer's heart and kidneys to put inside the meat orc this year and they are really cracking
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Good grief two towers is RELENTLESS. Just had gollum's jelly worm and I'm pretty sure we've got a bloody cheese course inminent... and then it's... _the soup_
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This is our ent-draught for today and crikey is it welcome refreshment. Definitely starting to feel a bit beasted at this point.
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Ooh, just had a tiny bowl of tomato soup cos it was in one of the roman scenes and it's somehow sorted me right out
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Rohan scenes, I meant. Imagine if there *were* Romans in LOTR though. Sudden surprise entrance at helms deep, baffling both sets of combatants
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Bit of an onslaught now, as we get Taters Precious (boiled, mashed, stuck in a stew), and fish and chips namedropped in the space of 15 seconds
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Oof, just got hit hard by the grim fish soup scene... the traditional low point of every #ThereAndSnackAgain. But we're past it! Plus our mate Nathan has shown up with his daughter to help us with the stews, and there's no more meals save a bit of trout until ROTK!
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"Uruk-hi there! It's Mog here, the orc commander at Helm's Deep. Just reminding you that - in a spectacular bit of schedule clash - nate also has a book out today, coincidentally about orks. I'd love it... if I could read! Manflesh! *angry honking roar*" amazon.co.uk/Ghazghkull-Thr
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Imagine how radically different the mood of these films would've been if gollum had been holding a loaded handgun at all times
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That'll do it for Two Towers! Taking a short break to freshen up and then we're onto Return Of The King at 3. Currently finalising our Grond gameplan
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Hail the victorious dead! With the looting of isengard's larder and then the rohan feast, there's a big "8pm on christmas day" energy to ROTK's first half hour - pickled veg, cheeses and a bit of preserved ham are the orders of the day
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Just got to the bit in ROTK where you can see two gondorrian watchmen *potentially* eating, but we're enjoying the lengthy respite prior to denethor's grim dinner and so decided to happen to be looking away at that moment...
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Here we go folks, denethor is revving up those grapes
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Crikey. Three of us just monstering a chicken carcass and a load of highly burstable fruit in frenzied silence, during a doomed cavalry charge. Now that's watching a movie.
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"Hey! It's me, Spongegob Scarepants off of Return Of The King. The age of men is over, and you know what that means? The time of the orc is now. By which I mean to say Nate Crowley's Ghazghkull Thraka is out in hardback and audiobook today! GroOwRr!" audible.co.uk/pd/Ghazghkull-
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For this year's interpretation of GROND, we put a half pint of baileys, a couple of different rums and 2 Mars bar ice creams into a blender with a load of milk, then stuck it in skull glasses.
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With grond downed we're on the home stretch of the journey, with very little left to eat, but there's still plenty left to watch
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Come on frodes, remember the taste of these bad lads?
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And here at last, on the shores of the sea, comes the end of our fellowship x
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We did it! All three extended edition movies down, with no pauses except quick between-movie pitstops, and damned well fed. Bravo to for nailing prep yesterday, for his maiden voyage, and & for providing their bow & axe xx
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