‘The Lord of the Rings’ Trilogy Marathon, Brisbane

They’re taking to hobbits to Isengard at Palace James Street this March, with one movie marathon to rule them all. Round up the Fellowship, stock up on lembas bread for sustenance and hide your finest pipe-weed from the Southfarthing for one sitting of all three of Peter Jackson’s beloved OG Tolkien film adaptations.

Kicking off with The Fellowship of the Ring and ending with The Return of the King, this cave troll of a marathon clocks in at over nine hours plus intermissions — with the journey starting at 12pm on Saturday, March 13.

If you make it through breakfast and second breakfast to the final handful of endings, you can pat yourself on the back and smash a ringwraith screech at the nearest person on your way…