The extended DVD edition of Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is coming out in just over a week and I’ll be having a little party to watch it with my friends. I was thinking of making it a theme party, but not with costumes and things… just with ring-shaped foods and decorations.
Other than doughnuts and onion rings, though, I’m not sure what I can make for snacks that would be simple, cheap, and ring-shaped. Delicious would be good too.
Any ideas?
Bagels, or bagel chips. Pineapple rings, apples cored then cut into rings. Spaghetti-Os. A Bundt cake.
If you were in England I’d say Hula Hoops (ring shaped potato chips.)
Make a yummy salad out of a sliced onion and a sliced cucumber soaked in a mild vinegar for 24 hours.
Chex mix with Cheerios in place of Chex.
I’d go the complete opposite direction and try to recreate a meal from one of the books – perhaps The Hobbit, where Bilbo Baggins first meets the dwarves type spread. Make it a potluck, if your friends are game, and have everyone bring a different dish: Roast mutton. Roast potatoes. Raspberry jam. Biscuits. (These are “cookies”, right?) Apple tarts. Mince pie. Cheeses. Pork pie and salad. Cold chicken. Pickles. Ale. Cakes. As host, you can provide coffee, several kinds of tea and red wine. And while not exactly authentic to the books, I’d have a whole heap of both fried mushrooms, stuffed mushrooms and marianated teriyaki mushrooms, too.
Afterwards, your friends will do all the cleaning up while you sit around and smoke a pipe.
Orc-ios. They’re really Cheerios, but they’re LotR-themed because they’re Orc-ios. 'Cause, y’see… Orcs, and…
Um… Okay. I got nothin’.
Unless…
Shortbread. Wrap it up in grean, leaf-shaped paper and call it ‘lembas’.
Just don’t get all cutesy and call the doughnuts “Fro-doughnuts,” or serve a bowl of apples for Pippen.
Lembas!
Cram.
Hey, if you’ve got the recipes, I’ll put in the effort…
And Askia, I would have loved to make a huge hobbity feast, but it’ll be right after final exam crunch time and nobody will have enough energy left to do anything complicated like roasting mutton! But I may do something like that anyway, when our brains have recovered from this abuse.
I think foods from the books would be good too. Rabbit stew. Sushi for Gollum. Cheese. Boiled eggs. Tea. Apples. Cake.
I think you have the food aspect covered, but for beverages you only have one stop- Mead. Its a liquor made from honey (or sweetened by honey. Something to do with honey.) and was the favourite tipple of vikings and normans and the like. While its never mentioned in the books or films (i think) it would sit well with any medievel feast. Mead! A million sweaty barbarians cant be wrong!
If you want to stick with the ring shaped food… I’ve never had them, but White Castle has chicken rings. It’s like they’re not even trying to pretend the chicken is natural.
Wow, and even as I go to find a link to it on White Castle, I see it’s on their front page
This is a stretch, but you could serve as dessert Salerno butter cookies (but only if their fingers are thin enough to bite the cookie edges until its a worn ring) 
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I’m pretty sure Lembas is a Keebler product.
Lifesavers.
Pretzels in rings. Don’t know where you’d get them, but I’ve seen them.
I’ve seen ring shaped calazone before. You could always make a molded food, using a ring shaped mold. Mousse, (dessert or something like salmon) jello, or bread comes to mind. Hope this helps.
You could just bake a focaccia bread and cut it into little squares and pass it off as Lembas. I have an easy recipe on my website:
http://www.geocities.com/bigbadvoodoolou/food.html
Maybe Spaghetti-Os for more rings? Can’t go wrong with some coneys, although you could always substitute coney dogs (hot dogs with chili, cheese, mustard, and onions) for dead rabbits. And don’t forget the PO-TAY-TOES.
