What would be the first thing we would do if we traveled to Middle-earth? Join the garrison of Gondor and become a proud knight protecting the country? Learning the art of forging metal and jewelry from the dwarves? Or run to the elves to explore the secret of eternal life? At least as a foodie, if I come to Middle-earth, I will rush to the Green Dragon Tavern in Shire first, ask for a glass of mead, and then ask the shop owner to serve me each of their signature delicacies. Today let’s talk about what people in Middle-earth eat! There are many races in the Green Dragon Tavern. Although they are all different from culture to belief, the social structure and productivity are basically agricultural societies (except for orcs and goblins), so their diet mainly consists of wheat. It mainly consists of potatoes and potatoes, supplemented by meat. Lembas: Perhaps the food we are most familiar with in the movies is the elven lembas. Galadriel prepared this food for the Fellowship of the Ring when they left Lothlorien during the War of the Ring. . This is a crispy and thin biscuit with a unique taste. It is brown on the outside and cream on the inside. When Galadriel provided it to the team members, she thoughtfully wrapped it in turtle leaves so that it could be preserved for a long time. Rambas, but strictly speaking, Rambas is not the food of elves. It was first made by Yavanna (the Valar in charge of all things on earth) using wheat from Aman. When the elves began their great migration, Yavanna Na gave them this food and taught them how to make it. This special skill can only be mastered by a few elven women today. The elves who master this skill enjoy a high status in the clan and are called "Yavanna's maids" and are regarded as food givers. People admire. Yavanna lambas are rich in nutrients and can quickly replenish the energy of the eater. Judging from these descriptions, lambas are like modern compressed biscuits, and they may taste similar, because according to people who have eaten them, lambas The taste of Si "is very special, not to say delicious, but very special." However, as a kind of dry food on the march, we can't ask for more. In the forest next to the Rallos Falls, Saruman's orcs kidnapped Merry and Pippin. These orcs were driven by Saruman's spiritual will and ran toward Isengard like crazy. The orcs Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli chased behind for 4 days and traveled 45 leagues (approximately 220 kilometers). They relied on eating lambas to support their physical strength along the way. It is said that in the first era, elves also fed lambas to the injured to help them heal their wounds (this effect is almost as good as fairy beans). Cram is also a staple food, similar to dry bread, made by the humans of Laketown and Dale in the north, who also share this food with the dwarves in trade. In "The Hobbit", the Lonely Mountain team ate this kind of bread during their journey from Lake Town to Lonely Mountain. The dwarf Gimli often traveled between Riverdale City and the Iron Hills when he was a boy. He often ate Kram. When he was given Rambas as a gift, he mistakenly thought that the elf gave him only Kram that he often ate. However, after eating it, he Said Rambas is more delicious. Clam Dúnedain military ration Another food that is very similar to Rambas is the Dúnedain military ration. This high-end field food can also allow the eater to quickly restore physical strength. It is usually stored in the Dúnedain people. In a sealed bag on the soldier's waist. It is rumored that the Numenoreans, the ancestors of the Dúnedain, learned the making method of 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 military rations. Honey Cake. In "The Hobbit", the Lonely Mountain team and Gandalf entered Beorn's hall to avoid being pursued by the orcs. There, Beorn the Skinchanger entertained them with honey cake, a cake that had been baked several times, with a golden and crispy surface and a dollop of honey inside. The dwarves loved this food very much. Bilbo said it was too sweet and made him thirsty. Honey Cake Eaters: Hobbits The best eaters in Middle-earth are undoubtedly the hobbits. In this respect, they are very similar to us Chinese. They will use various methods to make themselves more comfortable, and food and alcohol are two essential tools. If conditions permit, hobbits will eat 6 meals a day: breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, two dinners and supper (this is mentioned by Pippin in the movie). In fact, we can feel their passion for food from the opening of the movie "The Hobbit". Bilbo inexplicably entertained 13 dwarves in a dazed situation, starting with fried seabass with sage, bread with butter, Cheese, apple pie, mince pie, ham, dried fruit, cured meats, pickled cucumbers, the dwarves rummaged through his hoard. On the other hand, it can also be seen that hobbits really enjoy themselves. 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 cannot tell which ones are poisonous and which ones are edible. Others refer to the mushrooms as orc grass, believing that they grew that way because they were corrupted by Morgoth. But the hobbits knew that these people were idiots, that mushrooms were the most delicious food in the world, and that they could easily tell which mushrooms were edible at a very young age. There is even a large mushroom plantation on Charles's farm, which is simply unbelievable to a stranger. When Frodo was a child, he sneaked into the plantation to pick mushrooms and was beaten severely.

During the War of the Ring, when Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin were leaving the Shire along the path, Pippin was almost discovered by the Black Knight for picking mushrooms on the roadside. The hobbit's obsession with mushrooms may come from the author Tolkien himself, who once expressed his love for this food in his letters. Alcohol is also an indispensable thing in the life of Hobbits. There are large and small taverns and inns in the Shire and surrounding areas. Famous ones include: Bridge Inn, Golden Perch Tavern, Green Dragon Inn, and Prancing Pony Tavern. These hobbits drink, chat, sing and dance inside every day. Their favorite is the beer produced in the eastern part of the Shire. The beer brewed from this barley is light golden in color, with rich foam and rich malty aroma. It is one of the main exports of the Shire. Prancing Pony Tavern In addition, for hobbits who are full of wine and food, smoking a pipe of tobacco is a beautiful thing in life. The pipe grass they smoke is called Galanath, which originally grew on the island of Numenor and was brought to Middle-earth by the exiled Numenorians for breeding. But those humans originally only used them as home incense and did not realize their unique functions. Around the third era, the Hobbits first discovered the alternative effects of this plant. They discovered that drying the leaves of these plants and then burning them could produce a richer fragrance, so the habit of smoking slowly spread in that area. Since then, the Prancing Pony Tavern in Bree has become the main communication place for smokers at that time due to its location on a traffic artery. Everyone exchanged each other's roasted tobacco leaves there and shared pipe-making skills, which gradually affected other races. Humans, dwarves and even wizards also began to smoke. Tobacco, like beer, is another major export of the Shire, of which the three most famous are longleaf, Old Toby, and South Star. Gandalf's favorite was old Toby. He often stayed with the hobbits, so naturally he was the first to learn this habit. Saruman once laughed at him at the White Council, saying that he was playing with things and that smoking leaves made his head twitch. But it didn't take long for Saruman himself to start smoking. After Isengard was captured by the trees, Merry and Pippin discovered a large number of long grain leaves from the southern region of the Shire in Saruman's supplies, indicating that Saruman's spy network had already penetrated into the Shire. Generally speaking, we think that elves' eating habits are relatively detached, and their diet should be relatively light, mainly vegetarian. This can be seen from "The Hobbit", when the dwarf team attended the banquet held for them by the elves in Rivendell. , the elves’ meals seem to consist of leaves and roots. Son, green leafy vegetables are good for your health, but that is not the case. Elves are still carnivorous, but they are more restrained than humans and dwarves in this regard. They hunt animals in the woods of their kingdom and their main cooking method is roasting. Let me tell you something that you may not have thought of. In the early days, elves hunted dwarves. Around the middle of the First Age, the first awakened elves had been wandering in Middle-earth for a long time. The dwarves are a race that woke up relatively late. Their seven ancestors woke up in the mountains. For a long time, the dwarf clans have been living in the mountains as tribal units. 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, a split occurred within several dwarf clans in the east, and some dwarves who were shorter and less gregarious were expelled. They were at a loss to face this new world and became more timid and closed-minded. They were called Petty-dwarves by their own tribe. Sometimes they crawl on all fours, causing the Sindar to mistake them for animals and occasionally hunt them. As early as the early First Age, the elves themselves were also in a stage of ignorance. They believed that they were the spirits of all things and the only intelligent creatures created by Ilúvatar. I never thought that these creatures in front of me were also intelligent beings like them. In the book The Children of Hurin, it is hinted that the elves once hunted the dwarves and ate them, which they called "godly meats". However, the elves quickly corrected this mistake. After contacting the real dwarves, they realized that the short creatures wandering in the forest might be relatives of the dwarves, and this hunting behavior soon stopped. In addition, elves often drink alcohol, and their drinking capacity is greater than that of other races. The scene in "The Hobbit" in which Bilbo rescues the dwarves begins in the elves' wine cellar. The elves' favorite is the strong wine of Dovinion, which is produced in a place called Dovinion on the northwest side of the Inner Sea of ??Rune. The humans in Changhu Town often transport this wine along the rushing river to trade with the elves and dwarves. This wine was used at the banquet of the Elf King Thranduil, and it was the only wine that could make the elves drunk. After they poured the wine, they threw the barrels directly into the forest river in the wine cellar and let them float back to Long Lake Town, where wine merchants would recycle them. The most important three-way chase action scene we see in the movie is started by this detail. Ent-draughts: When Merry and Pippin lived in Treebeard Garden, they had the pleasure of drinking Ent-draughts twice. The pair felt the water invigorated them, "even their hair stood on end and became longer and curlier." The unique magic power of the Ent Water does not stop there. In the following days, both of them grew more than three inches each, even surpassing their ancestors; Bandob, the tallest "roaring bull" among the hobbits Russ Took became the two tallest men among the tribe.

Drinks of the Valar In Valinor, the Valar and the elves drank a drink called Miruvor at the banquet. It was said to be brewed from nectar in the garden of Yavanna, and may have been mixed with the Two Saints. The essence of the tree, which makes this drink extremely valuable. However, few people have drunk this kind of nectar, and no one comments on its taste. After all, it is not a mortal food. When the Fellowship of the Ring left Rivendell, Elrond gave some miruvo to Gandalf. However, the formula of these miruvo may not be exactly the same as that of Valinor. It can be regarded as a special version of Middle-earth. . Gandalf took it out and gave it to all the members as they crossed the Misty Mountains to help them get rid of their fatigue and keep their bodies alive.