[mark12_30]

My second dinner party, and third, and fourth, might be a replay of the first with different questions. The fellow wrote a thousand pages, after all, and once we start asking questions I doubt one evening will satisfy our curiosity. However at some point poor Frodo would "politely decline due to a prior engagement: tea with the Sackville Bagginses" at which point we would know we had worn out our welcome.

Following Frodo's exhausted exit, the next dinner party would be a **pot-luck** with the following folk invited:
As is my custom, I will bring assorted tropical melons and summer berries.
Beregond representing the tastes of the Minas Tirith Everyman; bringing Apples from the Winter Store, wrinkled, but still sound and sweet.
Child of the 7th Age who can still cook without electricity, has promised to bring several fine traditional dishes.
Bilbo Baggins for his reputation among hobbits of setting a fine table: plans to bring bacon & mushrooms, seed-cake, and cold chicken and pickles.
Raefindel who can cook for hobbits or elves: for my sake, she plans to bring wheat-free and dairy-free foods. However, miraculously, I can state from personal experience that hers actually taste delicious.
Gildor who sets a fine table in the woods, replete with fruit and vegetables and bread
Aiwendil representing the non-mystical philosophies, may bring whatever he chooses.
Treebeard will bring the finest of Ent-Draughts.
littlemanpoet May also bring the dish of his choice. Representing spiritual philosophy, and as one familiar with the implications of the gastronomical reputation of the last guest, who is:
Gollum. Fully intending to eat Bilbo for lunch, after much debate he was finally convinced to bring some fissssh instead.

The topic of discussion will be:
"Setting the most generically attractive table, or, multicultural menu-ethics in Middle Earth: Vegetarianism, Carnivorism, or Cannabalism?"