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What did Thorin and company eat in Erebor?

DainPig
Gondor


Oct 20 2016, 6:49pm

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What did Thorin and company eat in Erebor? Can't Post

They clearly spent days and days there. Was there any food? The whole place was abandoned, don't tell me they were killing animals like rats, bats and snakes. I read the book but don't remember if the narrator descibres the food they ate while in Erebor.


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Cirashala
Valinor


Oct 20 2016, 7:17pm

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Probably supplies from Laketown [In reply to] Can't Post

Amongst the supplies the Master gave the company on their extravagant departure from Laketown was food- that's probably (likely) what subsisted the dwarves through their siege Smile



LSF
Gondor

Oct 20 2016, 7:18pm

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I assumed there were food stores of things that wouldn't spoil. Things like military rations for the army in case they had to go anywhere. And it wouldn't be unreasonable for them to kill rats for food if they had to.


Otaku-sempai
Immortal


Oct 20 2016, 8:22pm

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Little biscuit thingies. [In reply to] Can't Post

A assume that the company brought food with them from Lake-town, especially cram. In addition, in the book the company had some time to scavenge off the land around the Desolation, and the ravens brought what food to them that they could find. The storerooms of Erebor might have even had a small amount of stored food that was still edible, such as sealed pots of honey.

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Darkstone
Immortal


Oct 20 2016, 8:48pm

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Better still, they heard that three of their ponies had escaped and were wandering wild far down the banks of the Running River, not far from where the rest of their stores had been left. So while the others went on with their work, Fili and Kili were sent, guided by a raven, to find the ponies and bring back all they could.
They were four days gone, and by that time they knew that the joined armies of the Lake-men and the Elves were hurrying towards the Mountain. But now their hopes were higher; for they had food for some weeks with care-chiefly cram, of course, and they were very tired of it; but cram is much better than nothing...

-The Gathering of the Clouds

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The audacious proposal stirred his heart. And the stirring became a song, and it mingled with the songs of Gil-galad and Celebrian, and with those of Feanor and Fingon. The song-weaving created a larger song, and then another, until suddenly it was as if a long forgotten memory woke and for one breathtaking moment the Music of the Ainur revealed itself in all glory. He opened his lips to sing and share this song. Then he realized that the others would not understand. Not even Mithrandir given his current state of mind. So he smiled and simply said "A diversion.”


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cats16
Half-elven


Oct 21 2016, 7:28am

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Créme de la Cram. // [In reply to] Can't Post

 

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malickfan
Gondor

Oct 23 2016, 10:18am

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The nits and bugs caught in their beards// [In reply to] Can't Post

 








dormouse
Half-elven


Oct 23 2016, 10:46am

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Cram sandwiches // [In reply to] Can't Post

 

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that I have never seen:
in every wood and every spring
there is a different green. . .


Ingwion
Lorien


Oct 23 2016, 1:23pm

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In the book [In reply to] Can't Post

It says they ate cram, but if that was emphasised in the movies it would appear PJ was repeating himself over lembas


It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither. - Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens.

It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen. - The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien

 
 

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