On Saturday <3 and I drove the 200 miles to a little village on the Pembrokeshire coast to take part in a Lord of the Rings themed banquet comprising three returns (or breakfasts as they had become labelled) of three courses plus a subtlety. That's an aweful lot of food, folks -- and it was fantastic, washed down with plenty of ale and mead. Under normal circumstances I would be raving on about how tender and tasty the venison was (which it was), but this time the cooks outclassed themselves with the "bear" (or rather beef cooked like bear -- a C14th recipe which apparently makes a beef joint taste rather more ferocious -- and boy was it good!).
The banquet was graced with a number of hobbits (one of whom had brought a to-scale pint tankard which, we later discovered, held three pints!), a ringwraith, the ghost of Boromir, a few returning entwives, and various other personages both mentioned and unmentioned in the books.
The two of us provided some of the entertainment with (between us) songs, dancing, juggling, clowning, and interactive stuff which didn't require a red button at all. That was fun too.
[Thanks to Nicky for the photo.]
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