When Thorin and Company are fed by the Elves of Rivendell, the dialog implies that the Elves do not serve meat to the Dwarves. However, at one point Fili tosses a sausage to Bombur, who is seated on a table. The extra weight of the sausage is enough to cause the table to collapse. The only Elves specifically said to be vegetarians were the Green-elves of Ossiriand. Have you read our other Tolkien and Middle-earth Questions and Answers articles? Your email:. I knew it haha, stupid stereotypes again.
Dagoranna Heiress of Ecthelion of the Fountain. What do elves eat? Because I have ever read that they eat salad. But they eat meat too. Do they have cookies? Do they have breads? Do they have candies? Can you list some of the elven diet? Where do they get their food supplies? Zombie elves would eat brains. Idk, but I'm interested to see responses here. Click to expand Elthir Active Member. Elves eat food I can't recall Tolkien ever going into that much detail here, outside of lembas.
They drink wine and mead according to the early-ish poem The Lay of the Children of Hurin , and Some think the Green Elves of Ossiriand did not eat meat, as they sent messengers to Finrod , complaining that Men were: "hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends" Lembas "journey bread" was made for those who had need to go on a long journey in the wild, or for the hurt whose life was in peril.
In Middle-earth the Eldar grew it in guarded lands and sunlit glades check your maps and guess I guess , gathered its golden ears by hand, and from ear to wafer none were permitted to handle this grain save the Yavannildi , the maidens of Yavanna.
Starbrow Tolkien Fan. The elves of Mirkwood drank wine, butter, and apples. Starbrow said:. After a lot of wine Must be the wines of Dorwinion. Prince Ashitaka New Member. If so where?
I don't recall it mention they eat meat exactly. I remembered when reading Silmarillion can't remember the chapter or page number that the elves would go off riding and go hunting. I doubt they would be hunting vetagbles. So this makes me think that they eat meat.
Maybe only the green elves are vegetarian and possibly the Noldorin elves were meat eaters. Why do people think that the Green Elves didn't eat meat? I was literally going to post that passage. I was trying to find that in Silmarillion but you beat me to it. The wine, and other goods, were brought from far away, from their kinsfolk in the South, or from the vineyards of Men in distant lands.
When it is time for the Elves to cast the Dwarf-filled barrels into the river, the handlers notice the extra weight. The Elves' merry barrel song suggests that the barrels are returning to the sources of their food, which includes beef and "berries" grapes? Yet violence is done to the olvar which have a kinship with the bodies of the Incarnate, be it remote , and these are denied the fulfilment of their own lives and final shapes. Therefore we must hold that the Incarnate belong by nature to Arda Marred and to a world in which death, and death by the violence of others, is accepted.
Neither Elves nor Men eat willingly things that have not died by violence. The Nature of Middle-earth - "Death". I think that elves just eat less meat and more vegetables. They probably are not entirely vegetarian but more on the herbivore side. On the fellowship of the ring the hobbits were cooking sausages and Legolas may had to eat them.
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Monty Monty In the movie version of The Hobbit, The Dwarves are seen eating vegetabes served to them by the Elves. They complained about their not being any meat. And is the Elvish Diet anything like Slimming World? I don't agree with the suggestion that we hear more about the Dwarven diet than the Elven diet. The only thing I can recall hearing about Dwarf food is that Gimli assumed Lembas was "Cram", a Dwarven waybread made with honey, but otherwise apparently similar to hardtack.
Cram is made by the men of dale, not the dwarves — user Bored of the Rings has an amusing take on this. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I'm not sure if a whole diet was specified in detail, but one question that was answered conclusively here was whether Elves were vegetarians: no, at least some of them [1] ate meat: Tolkien's Elves appear to eat meat according to the earlier stages of the legendarium.
From The Lay of the Children of Hurin , for example: On a time was Turin at the table of Thingol there was laughter long and the loud clamour of a countless company that quaffed the mead, amid the wine of Dor-Winion that went ungrudged in their golden goblets; and goodly meats there burdened the boards , neath the blazing torches. This also indicates mead and wine as drinks. As an additional evidence, we see in The Hobbit as the party witnesses the Elves cooking meat in Mirkwood: The smell of the roast meats was so enchanting that, without waiting to consult one another, every one of them got up and scrambled forwards into the ring with the one idea of begging for some food.
Silmarillion As a side note, if you're interested in food in LOTR in general, Michael Martinez used to have an interesting essay on the topic archive. Also, Lembas was not an everyday Elvish food. Improve this answer. This website saves cookies to your browser in order to improve your online experience and show you personalized content.
Read our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy to get more information and learn how to set up your preferences. From The Lay of the Children of Hurin, for example: On a time was Turin at the table of Thingol there was laughter long and the loud clamour of a countless company that quaffed the mead, amid the wine of Dor-Winion that went ungrudged in their golden goblets; and goodly meats there burdened the boards, neath the blazing torches This also indicates mead and wine as drinks.
As an additional evidence, we see in The Hobbit as the party witnesses the Elves cooking meat in Mirkwood: The smell of the roast meats was so enchanting that, without waiting to consult one another, every one of them got up and scrambled forwards into the ring with the one idea of begging for some food. Likes
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