Fellowship of the Fellowship

I feel I've been hit by a train today. And I very well could have been at some point in the last 24 hours, I just have no brain activity so I really wouldn't remember. Last night I participated in what should be an equivelant competition to the boy's Chicken McNugget Challenge. Last night the youth group at MC had a Lord of the Rings marathon from 9pm-9am, and similar to the Chicken McNugget Challenge, you feel like total trash afterwards and you eat way more than you can handle during those long 12 hours. Going into this adventure I'd seen only the first half of the 1st movie and some clips of the 3rd movie but I was fully aware of what I was getting myself into. That's why I insisted on staying awake through the whole thing because I know myself, and I know I wouldn't have watched all 3 of them probably ever in my lifetime if not for this event. We started at about 9:40pm, took 0 breaks and finished at 9:15am. I moved from the couch to the floor once and shut my eyes right in the middle of the 3rd movie for about 3.5 minutes. 4 out of the 11 of us ate popcorn, brownies, chips & dip, pizza, and cheese puffs literally ALL night just to stay awake. I'm sure all that junk is the reason I can barely walk today. As far as the movies go, they are definetly EPIC. Which of course I knew already. I really liked them but I can promise you I'll have a better appreciation for them next time if it's actually at a proper viewing time. I didn't really learn all of the characters names or get all the little things that would make me a trivial pursuit champion but I'm ok with that. I'm just satisfied that I actually stayed awake during the 3 most action/gospel packed movies of all time pretty much and that we watched all 6 discs in a row. I shall visit the series again, maybe in the form of books one day, but don't count on it. When Gollum goes into the fire at the end all wide-eyed because he finally got what his heart was fixed on but it did him NO good....Vampires, you aint got nothing on that crap.