Food!!!

[Elanor]

There are many interesting mentions of food in these books. What do you think of when you consider food in Middle-Earth? Lembas, of course. What else? What's your most/least favorite Middle-Earth food, and who eats it?

[bmilder]

Lembas is good :). Cram sounds vile.

[anduin]

I am kinda partial to mushrooms!! YUM!

[Elanor]

the Hobbit sure had a lot of food references--Bilbo's dreaming of his tea, etc. Now here's a riddle: What food was the most influencial in the whole story? 100 pts. to whoever guesses.

[peregrin]

Is pipeweed a food? :P

[Smaug the Worm]

I'm very partial to nice plump dwarves.

[Gimli the Dwarf]

Oh, Oh, Oh!!!!!!!!!!!! The awnser to Elanor's riddle is Hobbit finger and ring!!!!!!!!!! Though as a Dwarf I prefer Beorn's cooking. (Lembas is good, but you can get tired of it. Ugghh!)

[Darth Tater]

Theonering.net has a whole section dedicated to fan recipes for food from Middle Earth. I think I'll print some out one of these days and make a great big ancient feast.

[Elanor]

Congratulations, Gimli--the answer was Frodo's finger and the Ring--eaten by Smeagol, they definitely were the most influencial food in the story!! Thanks for playing. :)

[Hernalt]

There is an even More influential food in the Silmarillion...

[Elanor]

Beren's hand and the Silmaril!! I still like Frodo's finger and the ring better, even though I'm sure Smeagol didn't swallow them. :O

[Hernalt]

"Do Virgins Taste Better?" A dragon has come to our village today. We've asked him to leave, but he won't go away. Now he's talked to our king and they worked out a deal. No homes will he burn and no crops will he steal. Now there is but one catch, we dislike it a bunch. Twice a year he invites him a virgin to lunch. Well, we've no other choice, so the deal we'll respect. But we can't help but wonder and pause to reflect. Chorus Do virgins taste better than those who are not? Are they salty, or sweeter, more juicy or what? Do you savor them slowly? Gulp them down on the spot? Do virgins taste better than those who are not? Now we'd like to be shed you, and many have tried. But no one can get through your thick scaly hide. We hope that some day, some brave knight will come by. 'Cause we can't wait around 'til you're too fat to fly. Now you have such good taste in your women for sure, They always are pretty, they always are pure. But your notion of dining, it makes us all flinch, For your favorite entree is barbecued wench. Chorus Now we've found a solution, it works out so neat, If you insist on nothing but virgins to eat. No more will our number ever grow small, We'll simply make sure there's no virgins at all! Chorus

[Darth Tater]

LOL!!! Man, human body parts and the Ring, constantly the most influential foods in Middle Earth :)

[Elanor]

So does anyone know where I can get some of that Ent Draught? I want to be a tall hobbit like Merry and Pippin.

[ArwenUndomiel02]

It's prolly some weird chemical with the reverse effects of too much caffine!

[gdl96]

I would eat whatever is in Bilbo's pocketses. :p

[ArwenUndomiel02]

Why? It would just come out agan later...lol.

[Gimli the Dwarf]

That ent draught would be nice, then I could stand up to all those haughty elves at the Shire, which is a cool board.

[dunedain lady]

Ooooo! I get to torture my family with more mushroom recipes!!! And I have a legitimate reason to! (I'm the only one in my family who likes mushrooms, but we all like Tolkien)
I'd love some of that ent-draught. I'll have to come up with some sort of a recipe.

[Dfsg]

Least favorite foot:

Bombadil's yellow cream.

Yellow cream just dosent sound right...

[Gilthalion]

Please recall that it is a "mighty dish of mushrooms and bacon" that turns hobbits on!

I can personally testify that this is a Good Thing.

Directly inspired by the account, I have melted butter in a skillet, fried bacon just a little, tossed in some chopped onion, fresh crushed garlic, a little red wine, and giant portabello mushrooms over the top.

All of this gets stirred around frequently and the mushrooms turned a couple of times, with a lid to keep the moisture in most of the time.

It doesn't take long!

Soon you have tender mushrooms flavored with bacon, wine, butter, onion, and garlic.

Ooooooooooh!

(And with that, the little hobbit scuttled off to the pantry for an after-dinner corner-filler! Now, if he could only get some Miruvor...)

[Elanor]

Hey I was thinking...(I do this occasionally) and I came up with another very influential food, in the Silmarillion when Ungoliant sucks the light from the Two Trees and drinks dry the wells of Varda. Eventually she devours herself, doesn't she? ugh.

[samwiselvr2008]

Originally posted by Darth Tater
Theonering.net has a whole section dedicated to fan recipes for food from Middle Earth. I think I'll print some out one of these days and make a great big ancient feast.

I'm trying to find some recipies for food from Middle Earth, so dose anyone know exsacly where one theonering.net I can find them? I've been there half a million times, and I haven't seen them!

[francod]

muttton and venison, you could live totaly large on that food stuffs. Beorn food sound tasty but if i am going to fight in the goblin dwarf wars veggies ain't gonna get it done

[Indril Anarion]

I think that Lembas would be nice, but i dislike mushrooms(but i love hobbits, go figure):D

[Lady of Rohan]

Tom Bombadil's water that refreshes you instantly sounds very nice. So does the Lembas bread. Mutton sounds nastey though. I don't like mushrooms so I wouldn't like those either.

[Lizra]

Worst food has to be "Manflesh" (You will taste it!)

[Heather Wooltoes]

How's about some dwarf-ridden pony? mmmmmmmmmm...........if a dragon likes it you know it has to be good!!!

[Tuor of Gondolin]

"And you need not turn up your nose at the provender, Master Gimli," said Merry. "This is not orc-stuff, but man-food, as Treebeard calls it. Will you have wine or beer? There's a barrel inside there-very passable. And this is first-rate salted pork. Or I can cut you some rashers of bacon and broil them, if you like. I am sorry there is no green stuff: deliveries have been rather interrupted in the last few days! I cannot offer you anything to follow but butter and honey for your bread. Are you content?"

Not turkey and stuffing, but still...:)

[Jade of Mordor]

I can't say that lembas sounds appealing to me....ugh. Mushrooms either. I'd like to get my hands on some of Bilbo's cakes, though!

[Bilbo]

Being of the genus Hobbitus Hungarius, I am in fact particular to ALL foods in general.
After asking a few of my friends (who are too shy to join this humble forum), I have decided that some of the foods do not seem to have been thought up out of thin air. Not even Lembas, which seems to be a sort of doughy-cake, has been 100% invented.
This really annoys me. After spending six years eating Lembas iI find it actually tastes like dough.
I do like my cakes:D

[Beor]

lembas has always made me think of hard-tack, the hard as bricks crackers they ate in teh Civil War. I have always wanted to try them, even if they sound horrible, which they do.

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Originally posted by Beor
lembas has always made me think of hard-tack, the hard as bricks crackers they ate in teh Civil War. I have always wanted to try them, even if they sound horrible, which they do.
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You may have been thinking of cram (which I'd forgotten about until lembas was brought up).

"The food was mostly in the form of very thin cakes, made of a meal that was baked a light brown on the outside, and inside was the colour of cream. Gimli took up one of the cakes and looked at it with a doubtful eye.
'Cram,' he said under his breath, as he broke off a crisp corner and nibbled at it. His expression quickly changed, and he ate all the rest of the cake with relish.
'No more, no more!' cried the Elves laughing. 'You have eaten enough already for a long day's march.'
"I thought it was only a kind of cram, such as the Dale-men make for journeys in the wild," said the Dwarf.
'So it is,' they answered. 'But we call it lembas or waybread, and it is more strengthening than any food made by Men, and it is more pleasant than cram, by all accounts.' "

[Beor]

actually, I was thinking of lembas, I dont know, it just seems like it would be like hard tack. Just let me be wierd:D ;) !

by the way, it also reminds me of the pound cakes in MRE's, the food we get now (which is a far cry to the good side of hard tack most likely, but still not quite right):D

[Naugrim]

The worst? Here's a quote from the movies regarding this particular food:

"Meat's back on the menu, boys!"

Orc sashimi...tasty

[Nurvingiel]

Originally posted by Hernalt
"Do Virgins Taste Better?" A dragon has come to our village today. We've asked him to leave, but he won't go away. Now he's talked to our king and they worked out a deal. No homes will he burn and no crops will he steal. Now there is but one catch, we dislike it a bunch. Twice a year he invites him a virgin to lunch. Well, we've no other choice, so the deal we'll respect. But we can't help but wonder and pause to reflect. Chorus Do virgins taste better than those who are not? Are they salty, or sweeter, more juicy or what? Do you savor them slowly? Gulp them down on the spot? Do virgins taste better than those who are not? Now we'd like to be shed you, and many have tried. But no one can get through your thick scaly hide. We hope that some day, some brave knight will come by. 'Cause we can't wait around 'til you're too fat to fly. Now you have such good taste in your women for sure, They always are pretty, they always are pure. But your notion of dining, it makes us all flinch, For your favorite entree is barbecued wench. Chorus Now we've found a solution, it works out so neat, If you insist on nothing but virgins to eat. No more will our number ever grow small, We'll simply make sure there's no virgins at all! Chorus by the Brobdingnagian Bards. The great duo.

I think cram is a little closer to hard tack then lembas, though I always imagined it more like twice-baked bread. I always pictured lembas to look like (but not taste like) these fried, flat, rectangular, golden hash-browns they used to serve at my high school's concession stand.

[Attalus]

I always imagined lembas to taste like Zagnut candy bars. Don't laugh. JRRT is on record as saying that he thought that ambrosia tasted like very sweet Coca-Cola.;)

[Anadriewen]

I always wanted to try lemabas. My guess is that it would taste like a sweet bread-thing-kinda-stuff-thats-good.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Gilthalion
Please recall that it is a "mighty dish of mushrooms and bacon" Directly inspired by the account, I have melted butter in a skillet, fried bacon just a little, tossed in some chopped onion, fresh crushed garlic, a little red wine, and giant portabello mushrooms over the top.
All of this gets stirred around frequently and the mushrooms turned a couple of times, with a lid to keep the moisture in most of the time.

Yep good stuff, and remeber that fresh Thyme leaves are a wonderous match with mushrooms.