Hobbit & LOTR Party Ideas

Hobbit hole and eye of Sauron cupcakes!

I waited a whole year after moving into the Hobbit house to finally throw a housewarming party! It Shire was a super fun day and night with 40 of our good friends! Picking the Hobbit theme for the party was easy since the house had a Hobbit hole demeanor about it.

I picked out this metal “No Admittance Except on Party Business” door sign to ensure the theme was present from the moment our guests reached the front door.

Food Fit for Middle Earth

Unfortunately, I was a fool of a Took and didn’t think to take photos until after it was already over; I’ll share the Hobbit themed items and the photos I could scrounge together below. There was enough food for dozens of Hobbits and dwarves, in true Hobbit fashion we had a spread with fresh veggies, loaves of French bread, a handful of fancy cheeses, fruit and berries, and more sustaining options like burgers and hotdogs. There were

• Funyons and Ring Pops as rings

• Gummy bear Beorns

• PO-TA-TOE salad

• Lembas bread

• Gollum goldfish

• Geode and mushroom-shaped meringues

• Farmer Maggot’s garden veggies

• Lonely Mountain Sno-Caps

• Keebler Elf cookies

• Chocolate coins

Smaug’s Treasure

I knew when I picked the Hobbit themed for the housewarming party that I wanted to focus on the treasures associated with Bilbo’s adventure as well as the nature along his journey from Bag End in Hobbiton to the Lonely Mountain.

Chocolate gold coins!

I scattered dozens and dozens of gold coins and fake acorns over dark green tablecloths. To deliciously represent Smaug’s hoard of stolen loot, we had chocolate coins and beautiful geode meringue cookies bejeweled with rock candies.

Continuing with the idea of treasure, I crafted a make-your-own Arkenstone keepsake station. Thorin's very own PRECIOUS— The Arkenstone: The Heart of The Mountain, The Jewel of Kings. "It was a globe with a thousand facets; it shone like silver in the firelight, like water in the sun, like snow under the stars, like rain upon the Moon!" I picked up some charms, gems, and stones for partiers to craft their own Arkenstone keepsake, whether to them that meant crystals, druzy stones, hematite dragon fangs, shimmering dragon scales, or whatever else they fancied.

For the less creative, more analytical Hobbits, we had a 652-piece Hobbit LEGO set that needed put together. Once all the pieces were together the masterpiece was Bilbo’s Hobbit Hole, complete with dwarf visitors and Gandalf.

More Hobbit Treats

We had the most realistic mushroom-shaped meringues. A few sweet friends helped me frost some hobbit hole and eye of Sauron cupcakes. We had “elf and hobbit” fudge cookies thanks to Keebler, and Lonely Mountain snowcaps.

Since updating the exterior of our home, it looks less “hobbity” and more homey. Though it still has diamond-shaped stained glass in the front of the house, not unlike Bilbo’s hobbit hole. I’ve decorated here and there with homages to our hobbit house and where its name comes from. This is my favorite, a Hobbit meal themed kitchen clock.

I printed out a line I recalled from “The Hobbit”, something Bilbo said while recollecting on Rivendell— “That house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear and sadness.”

It was a really fun housewarming party.