A few friends and I have been plotting for some time to sit down together and watch the ENTIRE the Lord of the Rings movie (extended edition, naturally) in one day. Well, that day is today!
Collaborating with my friend Gabe, his wife Mary and my wife we are putting on a Traveling Lord of the Rings Party! We’re going to start in the shire (Wilmore) at my hobbit hole at the end of bohicket road. We have coney stew (white chili), 
lembas bread, and other delicacies from the shire (my wife made LOTR cut-out cookies last night). I have all my LOTR gear (mostly books, i’m not THAT nerdy) out on display for discussion. Since most of the folks who are attending are seminary students, I’m hoping for some discussion on Tolkien’s cosmology (creation and structuring) of Middle Earth, theodicy (why there is evil in Middle Earth), and perhaps even just war … and you thought Lord of the Rings couldn’t get nerdier : ) Oh, just wait…
So this is a “traveling fellowship.” We begin in the shire in my hobbit hole watching The Fellowship of the Ring and Part I of The Two Towers. Then we travel through Rohan (Jessamine station road area where the horse ranches are) into the realm of Gondor (Nicholasville) to Gabe’s fortress Minas Tirith where we will watch Part II of The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.”
