Usually ideas/planning is left to my friends and family, and they have always turned out lovely; including a surprise party by my friends one year, and my family taking me out to an amazing 'around the world' buffet. But I'm even happy with something as simple as my flatmates buying me a caterpillar cake and singing Happy Birthday as loud as they can over a couple drinks!
The reason I am posting this on here is because this party idea runs with the theme of this blog.
Here it is:
I want a Lord of the Rings/Hobbit inspired birthday party!
My heart fluttered when the idea popped into my head, and it won't go away! I've thought about doing it before, usually just while musing about ideas for Halloween costumes. They even did a LOTR kids party on the show 'Gilmore Girls'.
But is it too "geeky"? Even as someone who has generally been accepted as a 'geek' by friends, since being at uni I have been forced to almost wipe out these 'die-hard' tendencies. But with a new set of friends this year, most being Tolkien fans, not to mention my family and a couple of old friends at home, I feel like now is the time to do something like this- now or never!
I say this, as I also had the idea, if this one didn't roll out, of having a 'computer games' themed party, which would be equally awesome, and perhaps a little more accessible.
In planning this party, and coming up with ideas for it, I would expect the whole 'shabang'! I mean dressing up, decorations, food, perhaps films or background music too. I would want to do full-out dressing up, and I don't think this would be too difficult for me and everyone else, though I wouldn't be unrealistic in expectations of how far people would go about buying or making costumes.
In 'Gilmore Girls' they provided basic dressing up tools, such as Elf ears, toy weapons, they watched the films and had cardboard cut-outs of the film characters!
I will be browsing the internet for other Tolkien fans' party ideas, and try to base my ideas realistically off theirs, perhaps.
To say that I haven't already tried my best to dress up as an Elf, specifically Arwen, would be a fierce lie... makeshift ears and all!
I'll update with ideas when I have the time!
ALSO: If anyone knows how to get any members of the film cast that do party visits, or perhaps Gandalf and his famous fireworks, let me know! ;)
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