#also the cream and honey and bread in beorn's house....... wholesome food in a fantasy book is something that can be so personal

[southfarthing]

I've been re-reading the fellowship of the ring, and these descriptions of food so far have me Yearning......

Pippin afterwards recalled little of either food or drink, for his mind was filled with the light upon the elf-faces, and the sound of voices so various and so beautiful that he felt in a waking dream. But he remembered that there was bread, surpassing the savour of a fair white loaf to one who is starving, and fruits sweet as wildberries and richer than the tended fruits of gardens; he drained a cup that was filled with a fragrant draught, cool as a clear fountain, golden as a summer afternoon.

(three is company, p. 109)

Tom Bombadil burst out laughing. 'Well, my little fellows!' said he, stooping so that he peered into their faces. 'You shall come home with me! The table is all laden with yellow cream, honeycomb, and white bread and butter. Goldberry is waiting. Time enough for questions around the supper table. You follow after me as quick as you are able!'

(the old forest, p. 159)

In a twinkling the table was laid. There was hot soup, cold meats, a blackberry tart, new loaves, slabs of butter, and half a ripe cheese: good plain food, as good as the Shire could show, and homelike enough to dispel the last of Sam's misgivings

(at the sign of the prancing pony, pp. 203–4)

#also the cream and honey and bread in beorn's house....... wholesome food in a fantasy book is something that can be so personal #lotr #tolkien #mp #food #sunny reads lotr