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What food did they eat in The Hobbit? ›

Food would include either a meat dish, such as sausages, or pastries and muffins, which Hobbits have a fondness for. The Hobbit mentions seed cake among the food in Bilbo's larder that he serves to the Dwarves: a form of pound cake made with caraway seeds.

Hobbit Meal Times

If you want to dine like a hobbit, these are the names and meal times of each feast: Breakfast - 7 a.m. Second Breakfast - 9 a.m. Elevenses - 11 a.m.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

In literature and film. In J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit, the protagonist Bilbo Baggins eats a second breakfast, and in the preface to its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien mentions that hobbits prefer to eat six meals a day.

Elevenses, eaten at 11:00 as the name suggests, typically consists of tea or coffee, often with a few biscuits. Sometimes, cake or other snacks are eaten instead.

A plain and comforting beer, I reckon. Something unpretentious, and certainly not a “fancy” ale. We know the beer at the Green Dragon is brown. Hobbits also like to drink a fair quantity of ale, so something sessionable would be preferred.

Lembas bread, the magical Elven food, sustains the Fellowship on their arduous journey. Here's what Tolkien tells us about lembas: "the food was mostly in the form of very thin cakes, made of meal that was baked a light brown on the outside, and inside was the colour of cream."

Do Hobbits drink coffee? ›

Coffee was a beverage known at least by the Hobbits and the Dwarves in the Third Age.

Tolkien's The Hobbit ends with “'You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all! 'Thank goodness! ' said Bilbo laughing, and handed him the tobacco jar.” And these two sentences sum up so completely what the book is about.

My precious. Yes, my precious. Eventually Gandalf was able to persuade Bilbo to relinquish the Ring, but Bilbo's behavior and his use of the word "precious" alarmed the wizard and spurred him to investigate the history of Bilbo's magic ring, leading him to Isildur's scroll.

One of Bilbo's favorite foods is seed-cake, a sweet cake made with a variety of seeds and nuts. He is also fond of scones, crusty bread, and honey-cakes.

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Smaug had no problem eating Dwarf, and on the day he attacked the great Dwarven kingdom, he likely had enough bodies to last him a long while. But over the decades, the bodies would've decomposed, leaving only whatever meals the Dwarves left behind.

Gollum is a slimy creature that lives in complete darkness in the caves of the Misty Mountains. He scrounges around for food and eats dead fish, parts of goblins, and any other live being that he can find.