Now, here's how the game works:
You have the choice to be either a hobbit, a wizard, an elf, a human or a dwarf. You take a shot (I like to use vodka myself but any liquor will do), anytime one of the events on your list occurs. At the end of the movie you have to recite the complete: "One Ring to Rule Them All" speech (at the bottom of the lists). The first one to do it without slurring or messing up the lines wins!

THE LISTS


The Fellowship (everyone has to take a shot when any of the following occurs)

* Anytime someone in the movie is drinking or talks about drinking
* Somebody gets corrupted or almost corrupted by the ring
* A main character gets killed off
* There's a reference to one of the chapters of the book
* Anytime there happens to be artistically wind-blown hair
* Every time there's an unnecessary shots of shiny blue naked orcs
* Someone has a "Oscar" moment (i.e. somone gives an awe inspiring speech, a heroic battle speech, a heroic death speech, a "remember the taste of strawberries" speech and over dramatic death scenes can be included here also)
* Anytime you actually meet someone who doesn't have blue eyes
* Anytime a huge new CG animal is introduced (wargs, mumakil, fell beasts, Shelob, whatever those rhino-things are)
* Anytime someone asks where they're going, or the fellowship needs to make a decision about which route to take, or they argue over which way to go, in general, pretty much any time they're men who refuse to ask directions
* Someone learns an important "life" lesson
* Anytime the main characters look like they've actually bathed in a week (see "Council of Elrond" scene where Aragorn's hair is clean)
* Anytime you think, geez, these guys could really use girlfriends (or boyfriends)
* Every time there's some great new place and everybody looks all impressed
* Anytime a main character is introduced by their full name (Aragorn son of Arathorn, Gimli son of Gloin, etc.)
* Anytime someone mentions "The Shadow" and you expect Alec Baldwin to show up at any moment
* Whenever someone knows something but refuses to tell (ex: Gandalf and the Baelrog, Aragorn and the fact that he is king, Legolas and the song the elves are singing in Gandalf's memory, the fact that Boromir is dead...etc.)
* Whenever the bad guys fight with each other and you wonder how Sauron ever gets anything done
* Someone's accent slips (happens to Elijah Wood most often)
* The shorter extras are noticeable
* The taller extras are noticeable
* The ring talks in that whispery voice and everyone glances at it
* Giant flaming eyeball cameos
* Every time people hug (two shots if they're both guys, three shots if they're sexy, sensitive guys!)
* Anytime an eagle makes a cameo and you think "Gee, couldn't the eagles have solved this whole problem in ten minutes and just flown them to Mt. Doom right off the bat?"
* Anytime someone has a trippy dream / flashback / near death experience etc. and you wonder just how much pipeweed they've been smoking
* Every time someone actually talks directly to their horse
* Anytime you see the real faces of the Nazgul or a Nazgul speaks
* When an actual cast member does his/her own singing or recites poetry
* Anytime Peter Jackson has a cameo
* Whenever you think the movie is about to end but it doesn't (this can get pretty major during RotK and the extended edition of the TTT so make sure you have enough liquor left at this point)


Hobbit (I personally think this is the hardest to get all the way through)

* Frodo and Sam have a "moment"
* Pippin does something that gets everyone in trouble
* Someone cries (I might almost skip this one for RotK unless you want to be drinking the entire time)
* Anytime the hobbits actually get a chance to fight
* Whenever a pair of hobbits look like they're going to kiss
* Anytime they do finally kiss
* Someone is homesick and/or wants to go home
* Merry acts all brave but no one takes him seriously (poor, poor Merry...)
* The hobbits have to be carried by other members of the fellowship, orcs or anybody else that just happens to pick them up
* Frodo almost dies. . .again
* Someone saves Frodo (two shots if it's Sam)
* Someone is noticeably wearing sneakers
* Anytime Gollum has a conversation with himself
* Every time someone points out the size of the hobbits
* Someone has to run away from something
* Whenever the hobbits have breakfast/second breakfast/elevenzies/brunch/lunch/afternoon tea/supper/dinner etc.
* You see a shot of hobbit feet and think "Someone needs to shave"
* Whenever someone smokes a pipe/talks about smoking a pipe
* Whenever Bilbo appears to have split personalities (kind grandfatherly hobbit . . . .precccccciosssss ring . . . . kind grandfatherly hobbit . . . . gimme the ring . . .)
* The ring is held out on Frodo's hand for just anyone to grab but no one does
* When Merry and Pippin sound high and/or drunk
* Every time it looks like Frodo needs a hug (prepare to wasted . . . this occurs constantly!)


Elf

* Anytime anyone lapses into Elvish
* An elf shows up and a blinding white light takes over the screen
* Whenever you mistake a male elf for a female elf or vice virsa
* Anytime Legolas does something that's totally not possible (gets to walk on snow, mounts a galloping horse upside-down, shield surfing, climbing on the back of a rampaging mumakil....)
* Anytime someone has a much bigger part than they actually did in the book (I don't even have to say who here)
* Legolas makes an impossible shot with his bow and hits and orc every time
* Whenever Legolas gets called a "pointed eared" something or another by Gimli
* You see Elrond and keep expecting him to say "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Andersssson..." then he frowns and looks all indecisive about something
* Galadriel goes all weird and mysterious for no apparent reason
* Galadriel has a telapathic conversion with somebody
* Legolas gets to use E.S.P (Elf Sensory Perception)
* Anytime Legolas saves anybody in the Fellowship
* Every time Legolas says something that's totally obvious: ("The horses are restless, the sun is red, the water is blue, the trees are old, you look terrible..." you get the idea)
* Every time Legolas says something that's totally abstract ("The stars are veiled..." That's because it's cloudy out elf boy, really.)

Wizard

* Gandalf and Frodo have a "moment"
* Gandalf says something wise and/or cryptic
* Anytime Gandalf has a name change (Gandalf the Grey, Gandalf the White, Stormcrow, etc.)
* Every time Gandalf should kick ass but doesn't (i.e. Cave troll)
* When Gandalf actually DOES kick ass (Baelrog, kicking the crap out of Denathor, etc.)
* Anyone refers to Gandalf specifically as 'Gandalf the Grey', 'Gandalf the White' or 'Gandalf the Fool'
* Anytime Saruman says 'flesh'
* Gandalf loses his hat but magically gets it back again (it's good to be a wizard I guess)
* Someone starts to explain something at an inopportune time (i.e. in the middle of a fight, on the top of a mountain in a blizzard)
* Anytime Saruman gets to stand at his window
* Whenever Gandalf uses his "BEHOLD THE POWER OF CLOROX!" move and blinds somebody
* Anytime you see that Gandalf has his pipe disguised as part of his staff
* Anytime there's a closeup shot of Saruman's fingernails
* Whenever Saruman rises his eyebrows in a suggestive way (suggestive of what we're not sure)


Human

* Aragorn and Frodo have a "moment"
* Aragorn and Boromir have a "guy moment"
* Aragorn and Boromir almost get in a fight
* Anytime you can see the ferret in the pub
* Anytime Boromir quite unashamedly leers at Frodo
* Anytime Boromir quite unashamedly leers at Aragorn
* Anytime Denethor quite unashamedly leers at Faramir (well at least we know where Boromir gets it)
* Anytime Boromir says "gap of Rohan" or "Gondor"
* Anytime Theoden is all indesivive about what to do and Aragorn has to tell him
* Aragorn looks like he's going to cry but doesn't
* Whenver Faramir looks like he's going to cry but doesn't
* Whenever Faramir needs a hug / medical attention
* Whenever Boromir or Faramir look like pincushions from being shot with arrows
* Anytime Boromir redeems himself through heroism/flashback
* Whenever Boromir and Faramir have a guy/brother moment
* Whenever Denethor says something cruel and/or crazy
* Whenever Denethor makes gross eating noises
* Whenever Aragorn has a name switch (i.e. Strider to Aragorn to his elvish name etc.)
* Aragorn actually lops off an orc's head or other body part with only one slice
* A character looks particularly dirty and you wonder whether men left to their own devices ever think about bathing (I mean, come on...Galadriel and Arwen live out in the middle of the woods, and they're still clean)


Dwarf (thanks goodness for The Two Towers, it really helped this section)

* Anytime Gimli says something about how the dwarves are better than the elves and you totally agree with him
* Whenever you hear John Rhys-Davies's accent and you half expect Indiana Jones to join the fellowship
* Anytime it looks like someone has rebraided Gimli's beard
* Anytime Gimli counts, or mentions counting, how many baddies he's killed (vs. Legolas's count)
* Anytime Gimli has a 'buddy moment' with Legolas
* Gimli has to hitch a ride on horseback with another cast member
* Anytime Gimli breaks / throws / appears to lose an axe but is always able to whip out another one
* Whenever Gimli defeats someone by hitting them in the crotch
* Anytime Gimli's height comes in to play
* Whenever there is a "dwarf tossing" incident
* Anytime Gimli mentions Moria and how nice it is
* Whenever Gimli goes cross eyed
* Anytime you really want to root for Gimli to win because he's short and not a "Hello-I'm-a-perfect-in-every-way-elf" ("That still only counts as one." You go Gimli!)


The Speech

Here's the speech. You have to recite the whole thing with no messing up and no slurring. Good Luck!

"Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie."


GET DRUNK EXTRA QUICK VERSION

Or you can do the "Get drunk extra quick" version and everybody drinks when any of the following occurs

* Frodo looks scared
* There’s a flashback about the ring (this should get you drunk in the first ten minuets no problem)
* Any of the male cast look really hot/cute (WARNING: if you get too drunk even the dwarf or Elrond starts looking good)
* An orc gets killed (these things must come by the gross)
* Any time a cast character with blue eyes shows up (freakin' everyone in this film has blue eyes! Take a look! Except maybe the orcs, but I bet a few of them have blue eyes too)