If we cross into Middle-earth, what is the first thing to do? Is it to join the garrison of Gondor and become a proud knight of the country? Learn the skills of forging metals and jewels from dwarves? Or go to the elves to explore the secret of eternal life? At least as a foodie, if I come to Middle-earth, I must first rush to the Green Dragon Tavern in Shire, ask for a glass of mead, and then ask the shopkeeper to give me everything about their signature food. Today, we will talk about what people in Middle-earth eat! There are many nationalities in the soil of Qinglong pub. Although their cultures and beliefs are different, their diet structure is mainly wheat and potatoes, supplemented by meat, because their social structure and productivity are basically in an agricultural society (except orcs and goblins). Lemba The food we are most familiar with in movies is probably the Lemba of the Elf. In The Lord of the Rings War, Galadriel prepared this food for the Lord of the Rings team who left Lorraine. This is a crisp and thin biscuit with a special taste. Its appearance is brown and its inside is milky white. When Galadriel provided it to the team members, it was also wrapped in dragon leaves, so that it could be preserved for a long time. However, Rambas is not entirely elf food. It was originally made by Yavana (Vera in charge of everything on earth) from wheat in Amen. On the way to the great migration of the elves, Yavana gave them this food and taught them how to make it. This special skill can only be mastered by a few women in the Elf clan, and the Elf who has mastered this skill enjoys a lofty position in the clan, and is called "the maid of Avana" and is respected as a food giver. Yavana Rambas is nutritious and can quickly replenish physical strength for consumers. From these descriptions, Rambas is like a modern compressed biscuit, and its taste may be similar, because according to people who have eaten it, Rambas tastes "very special, not delicious, but very special." However, as a kind of dry food for marching, we can't ask for more. In the forest next to Lalos Falls, powerful orcs in Saruman captured Merry and Pippin. Driven by Saruman's spiritual will, these orcs frantically rushed to Iszing. Strong orcs, Aragon, Legolas and Jinli chased after them for four days, with a journey of 45 leagues (about 220 kilometers), all relying on eating Rambas to support their physical strength. It is said that in the first era, the elves also fed Rambas to the wounded to help them heal their wounds (this effect was almost as effective as that of Dou Xian). Cram is also a staple food, which is made by people in lake towns and valley cities in the north. It is similar to dry bread, and they also share this food with dwarves in trade. In The Hobbit, a group of people from the Gushan team ate this kind of bread on their journey from Lake Town to Gushan. When she was a teenager, Kimberly the dwarf often shuttled between the valley city and Tieshan. He often eats cramming. When he gave it to Rambas, he mistakenly thought that the elf gave him Cram. He often ate it, but after eating it, he said Rambas was better. Another food with similar effects to Rambas is Dunidan's army food. This advanced war food can also make consumers recover quickly. Usually, they are kept in sealed bags around Dunidan soldiers' waists. It is said that Numenor, the ancestor of Dunidan people, learned the method of making Rambas from the elves and improved it to make it more suitable for human tastes. I can't find the picture. Think of this as rations. In the Honey Cake in The Hobbit, the Gushan team and Gandalf entered the hall of Beorn in order to avoid the pursuit of the orcs. There, Bion, the shapeshifter, entertained them with a honey cake, which was baked several times, with a golden crisp surface and a mass of honey inside. Dwarves like this kind of food very much. Bilbo said it was too sweet, which made him thirsty. Eating Honey Cakes Hobbits Hobbits are the best in Middle-earth, much like China. They will use various methods to make themselves more comfortable. Food and alcohol are two indispensable tools. If conditions permit, Hobbits eat six meals a day: breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, two dinners and supper (which Pippin mentioned in the movie). In fact, from the beginning of the movie The Hobbit, we can feel their passion for food. Bilbo inexplicably entertained 13 dwarves, starting with sage fried bass, bread and butter, cheese, apple pie, minced meat pie, ham, dried fruit, bacon and pickled cucumber. These dwarves searched his storeroom. On the other hand, it can be seen that Hobbits really enjoy it. But the Hobbit's favorite food is actually mushrooms. Few other races in Middle-earth like to eat mushrooms, because they think mushrooms are ugly and dangerous, and they can't tell which ones are poisonous and which ones are edible. Others call mushrooms orc grass and think that they look like that because of the corruption of Morgos. But hobbits know that these people are idiots. Mushrooms are the most delicious food in the world. They can easily distinguish edible mushrooms at a very young age. There is even a large mushroom plantation on Charles' farm, which is incredible for strangers. Frodo used to sneak into the plantation to steal mushrooms when he was a child, and he was severely beaten. During the Lord of the Rings War, when Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin left the shire along the path, Pippin was almost discovered by the Black Knight for picking mushrooms by the roadside. Hobbit's obsession with mushrooms may come from the author Tolkien himself, who once expressed his love for this food in his letter. Alcohol is also an indispensable thing in Hobbit's life. There are many pubs and inns in Shire and its surrounding areas, such as Da Qiao Inn, Golden Perch Inn, Green Dragon Inn and Ma Yue Inn. These hobbits drink, chat, sing and dance in it every day. Their favorite is the beer produced in East Hades. The beer brewed from this barley is light gold, rich in foam and rich in wheat flavor, and it is one of the main export commodities of Shire. In addition, for a pampered Hobbit, smoking a bucket of tobacco leaves is the beauty of life. The pipe grassland they smoked was called Galanas, which was originally grown on Numenor Island, and the exiled Numenor people brought it to Middle-earth for breeding. But those humans used them as incense at home and didn't realize their unique functions. Around the Third Age, Hobbits first discovered the unique efficacy of this plant. They found that the leaves of these plants can be dried and ignited, thus producing a stronger fragrance, so the habit of smoking slowly spread in that area. The prancing horse pub in Bree became the main communication place for smokers at that time because it was located on the main road. Everyone exchanged roasted tobacco leaves and shared the skills of making pipes, which gradually influenced other races. Humans, dwarves and even wizards began to smoke. Tobacco, like beer, is another major export commodity of Shire, among which three kinds of tobacco leaves, namely, long grain leaf, old Toby and Nanxing, are the most famous. Gandalf likes old Toby best. He often spent time with Hobbits, so naturally he learned this habit first. Saruman once laughed at him at the White Road meeting, saying that he was tired of playing with things and started to smoke, but before long, Saruman began to smoke himself. After Eisinger was captured by Shuren, Merry and Pippin found a large number of long leaves in Saruman's supplies, which indicated that Saruman's spy network had already penetrated into the shire. Generally speaking, we think that the life of the elves is detached, and their diet should be light and vegetarian. This can be seen from the fact that in The Hobbit, the dwarves participated in the banquet hosted by the elves in rivendell, and the meals of the elves seemed to be leaves and roots. Son, green leafy vegetables are good for your health, but this is not the case. Elves still eat meat, but they are a little more restrained than humans and dwarves in this respect. They will hunt animals in the Woods of their own kingdom, and the main cooking method is baking. Tell a story that you may not have thought of. Elves killed dwarves in the early days. Around the middle of the first era, the first awakening elves had been wandering in middle-earth for quite a long time. Dwarves are a late awakening race, and their seven ancestors woke up in the mountains respectively. Dwarf clan has been living in the mountains as a tribe for a long time. They don't know what the outside world is like, and other races don't know the existence of this race. After a period of development, several dwarf clan in the east were divided, and some short and unsociable dwarves were expelled. They are at a loss in the face of this new world and become more timid and closed. They are called dwarfs by their own people. Sometimes they crawl on all fours, so that the Sinda elves mistake them for animals and occasionally hunt them. In the early days of the first era, the elves themselves were in the stage of ignorance. They thought they were the spirit of all things and the only intelligent creature created by Iruvita. I never thought that these creatures in front of me were intelligent creatures like them. In the book Children of Lin Hu, it is implied that elves once hunted dwarfs and ate them, which they called "sacred meat". However, the elves quickly corrected this mistake. After contact with real dwarves, they realized that the short creatures wandering in the forest might be relatives of dwarves, and this hunting behavior soon stopped. In addition, elves often drink more than other races, and the scene of Bilbo's rescue of dwarves in The Hobbit begins with the elf's wine cellar. The elves' favorite is Dovini's strong liquor, which comes from a place called Dovini's Ann on the north side of the west coast of Lunei. People in Lake Town often trade these wines with elves and dwarves along the running river. This wine is used at the banquet of Elf King Seranduy, and it is the only wine that can make the elves drunk. After pouring the wine, they directly throw the barrels into the dense forest river in the wine cellar and let them drift back to lake-town, and the wine merchants will recycle them. The most important three-way chase action scene we saw in the movie was developed from this detail. Merry and Pippin had the privilege of drinking this artificial drink twice when they lived in the Tree Beard Garden. Two people feel that water makes them full of vitality. "Even their hair stood on end, lengthened and curled up." The unique magic of Entwater doesn't stop there. In the next few days, both of them grew more than three inches, even surpassing their ancestors. Dobras Tuck, the tallest "Roaring Bull" class among Hobbits, became the tallest two among all. Vera's drinks are in Verino. Vera and the elves drink a drink called Miruvor at the party. It is said that it is brewed from the nectar of Avana Garden, or it may be mixed with the essence of two sacred trees, which makes this drink extremely precious. However, this nectar is rarely drunk, and no one evaluates its taste. After all, it is not human food. When the Ring Team left rivendell, Ellund sent some Mirovo to Gandalf, but the formula of these Mirovo may not be exactly the same as that of Velino, which can be regarded as a special edition of China. Gandalf took it out when they crossed the misty mountains and gave it to all the members, so that they could get rid of fatigue and keep their bodies active.