Adventures in Middle-Earth

Elevator Pitch

One does not simply walk into Mordor! You and your fellowship will need to get enough miles (1780) to make it across Middle-Earth and take the Ring to Mordor.

Today We’re Doing: 

This is the long-form description of the day’s events.

Things That Happen

Building Barad-Dur

The Dark Eye is on you! Build a tower and top it with our decoy Eye of Sauron. We’ll award miles for the height of your tower in cm.  It has to stand on its own.

Required items:

  • Solo Cups
  • Paper Plates
  • Measuring Device
  • “Eye of Sauron” — we used large googly eyes attached to plastic shot glasses

Setup:

  • Give each team a stack of Solo cups and paper plates

How to play:

Teams will build the tallest tower they can using only cups and paper plates. 

The tower must be topped with the Eye of Sauron.

The tower must stand on its own.

If you don’t have a measuring device: measure the height of a single cup and count tiers to estimate.

Miles: 2 per centimeter

Ringwraith Roundup

The Ringwraiths have found the hobbits on Weathertop! Search the Vendor Hall for hobbits in four different colors and bring them safely back to Rivendell.  We’ll award miles for each hobbit rescued, up to four.

Required items:

  • Hobbit figurines (four different types) 

Setup:

  • Contact vendors and ask for the OK to hide hobbits at their booths. 
  • Distribute hobbits for hiding 

How to play:

We’ll stash hobbits around the dealer hall. Your Fellowship must find and retrieve all four colors. 


Miles: 100 per hobbit

You Shall Not Pass

Gandalf has broken the bridge through Moria. Build a temporary bridge so you can escape! It will have to hold the remaining 8 members of your fellowship!

Required items:

  • Two cones or Solo cups
  • Craft sticks
  • Paper or cardstock
  • 8 figurines or objects, 1 ounce each

Setup:

  • No setup needed

How to play:

Build a bridge between two cones.  You score 50 miles per 1 ounce character that we can place on the bridge.

Dwarf Tossing

Sometimes you just really need to get the dwarf to the right place.

Required items:

  • Bowling Set

Setup:

  • Set up the pins just like you normally would

How to play:

Knock down the Orc pins with the Gimli bowling ball. 40 points per pin.

What has it Got in Its Pocketses

You’re facing a very tricksy hobbit, Precious. Guess what it has got in its pocketses…

Required items:

  • Opaque cloth bags x5
  • 5 items to place in the bags that a hobbit would take on a trip (or not)

Setup:

  • Place the items in the bags and close the bags up.

How to play:

There are five mystery items worth 80 miles apiece.  Identify them without opening their bags.

Supplies: 

Purchased Supplies:

  • Craft sticks
  • Solo cups
  • Paper Plates
  • Paper/Cardstock

Motley Kids Non-Consumable Supplies

  • Bowling Set
  • Traffic cones
  • Hobbit figurines
  • 1 ounce figurines x8
  • Opaque bags
  • Items for blind bags
  • Measuring Device

Notes for Setup/Teardown

This will require you to ask the vendors for permission to distribute hobbits in the hall.