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Lord of the Ring superfan tucks into movie marathon - meals included

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Gollum gets into a fresh rabbit during The Lord of the Rings.

Gollum gets into a fresh rabbit during The Lord of the Rings.

Nate Crowly is going all the way for a Lord of the Rings binge - recreating meals from Peter Jackson's movie series for his 14-hour marathon.

Crowly, a Walsall author, and his partner sat down to watch all three films in Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy earlier today to honour his father, who died a year ago.

"This seemed by far the most reasonable way to commemorate that," he wrote on Twitter.

Crowly prepared a 14-course meal for the pair to enjoy during their binge with one strict rule: the food had to have been eaten on screen by the film's characters.

Here's the menu, which is based entirely of my rough memory of the key eating scenes in LOTR. Feel free to follow along if you like. LET'S GO pic.twitter.com/IDAbJtdy9V

— Regular Frog (@FrogCroakley) February 18, 2018
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That's a big ask: remember, this is a series in which Gollum tucks into a raw fish plucked straight from the sea.

So no, it wasn't all going to be sausages and lembas bread.

Crowly and his partner kicked off their binge at 6am with "hobbit cake" and a cup of tea.

We just saw a hobbit scarf a cake onscreen, so it's time to begin breakfast pic.twitter.com/ymffGcCKYQ

— Regular Frog (@FrogCroakley) February 18, 2018

Breakfast also included carrots, an apple, fried bacon and mushrooms.

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Bacon and mushrooms are on. Just saw peter jackson eating a raw carrot onscreen so better have these pic.twitter.com/VRNoEPnnas

— Regular Frog (@FrogCroakley) February 18, 2018

What about second breakfast?

Nailed it. pic.twitter.com/GEuWDMPwYH

— Regular Frog (@FrogCroakley) February 18, 2018

Just enjoyed some bacon, field mushroom and thyme-roasted tomato, while the poor hobbits got interrupted from their breakfast by a tense session of Nazgul & Chill pic.twitter.com/isVHP4v9S8

— Regular Frog (@FrogCroakley) February 18, 2018

Then came the sausages and white bread.

The fellowship have paused for some breakfast at the gap of Rohan, and 'probably sausages???' has become a certainty! So glad I remembered this bit. pic.twitter.com/v7JZ77MLum

— Regular Frog (@FrogCroakley) February 18, 2018

After that feed, there was also room for snacks ...

Heading out of Lothlorien now, so it's time for some Lembas bread (jacob's butter puffs) with some pesto hummus and grapes because elves I guess pic.twitter.com/akFME1Sxkm

— Regular Frog (@FrogCroakley) February 18, 2018

... and a chicken, which they didn't eat.

Bit metaphysical, this one - scene 1 of two towers starts with Sam bigging up some salt he brought in case they roast a chicken, so we're having a little taste of rock salt while imagining we're eating this chicken pic.twitter.com/toHc5TBEhQ

— Regular Frog (@FrogCroakley) February 18, 2018

Crowly used the line, "Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys," as an excuse to cook up some ribs.

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L O O K S L I K E M E A T ' S B A C K O N T H E M E N U B O Y S pic.twitter.com/fFWUj8wvUe

— Regular Frog (@FrogCroakley) February 18, 2018

And they followed that up with a cheese board.

After a longish pause, Gimli is tucking into a selection of cheeses, so it would be rude not to follow suit. We are back on the snack train, folks pic.twitter.com/wNSAolMqU1

— Regular Frog (@FrogCroakley) February 18, 2018

To recreate the rabbit stew, Crowly included potatoes "three ways - boiled, mashed and stuck in a stew".

It's brace of coneys time, so we are having a brace of (very small) rabbit stews, plus taters cooked three ways - boiled, mashed, and stuck in a stew pic.twitter.com/LUaxGYPFfe

— Regular Frog (@FrogCroakley) February 18, 2018

Then it was time for more stew, but his gross fish course ended with Crowly throwing it out onto the garden.

Barely 5 minutes after sam's rabbit stew, Eowyn makes this COMPLETELY VILE fish stew that aragorn pretends to enjoy before chucking away pic.twitter.com/JoVTLPO115

— Regular Frog (@FrogCroakley) February 18, 2018

Purely out of a sake of honour towards the task, I have brewed up this hellish broth of sardine paste and rye crumbs, which we are each going to attenpt a spoonful of before politely tipping it into the garden pic.twitter.com/rmKGhSBtj6

— Regular Frog (@FrogCroakley) February 18, 2018

We did it for art. Ok, back to the movie. Helm's deep awaits! pic.twitter.com/bMsO6VFYNw

— Regular Frog (@FrogCroakley) February 18, 2018

After throwing out the stew, Crowly said his marathon had come to a halt for a bit.

"Ok, the fish sludge really threw us a bit, to the extent where I buggered up my threading and had to redo a couple of tweets. We've both had a big glass of water and steadied ourselves now. Fingers crossed it's a while before the next meal."

Unfortunately, the next meal was based on Gollum's raw fish catch.

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Couldn't do raw trout as @Glitter_brawl is pregnant and all, but we could sure as heck manage wriggling: pic.twitter.com/8g4sksMevY

— Regular Frog (@FrogCroakley) February 18, 2018

That was followed up with more trout, and some snacks.

Not exactly desperate for more trout right now, but rules are rules pic.twitter.com/Tx2Ct44fei

— Regular Frog (@FrogCroakley) February 18, 2018

Salt pork with preserved vegetables and rye bread, courtesy of Isengard Kingdom Brunel's storehouse. Gimli bangs on about this one a lot. pic.twitter.com/PcM4e5y4qJ

— Regular Frog (@FrogCroakley) February 18, 2018

Crowly's Lord of the Rings binge continues here.

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