The Lord of the Patty: The Fellowship of the Spatula is a 2004 epic animated fantasy film directed by Stephen Hillenburg based on the first volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. It is the first instalment in The Lord of the Patty series, and was followed by The Two Resturants (2005) and The Return of the Formula (2006), based on the second and third volumes of The Lord of the Rings.