Timeline for How do the Elves in LOTR (canon) obtain their food?
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| Jun 15, 2014 at 17:25 | comment | added | fantasywind | Farmlands in Rohan and Gondor: Deeping Coomb valley (between Helm's Dike and Deeping Wall of the fortress) and all other rich lands of Westfold, Harrowdale (in parts also densely wooded) and other vales of the mountains, Pelennor fields, rural area of Lossarnach (fertile region), as well as other farming lands in particular provinces, there is also net of well build and maintained roads (think of them like the ancient roman ones) and thriving trade and transport by rivers (ships were travelling up river to ports in Harlond and Osgiliath and others) there's no shortages of food and money. | |
| Jan 14, 2014 at 16:57 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | If you read apocryphal "The Last Ring-Bearer" by Yeskov, you'll love his description of Ithilien: "It is rather hard to analyze the reign of the first Princes of Ithilien, Faramir and Éowyn, in political or economical terms – it appears that they had neither politics nor economics over there, but only a never-ending romantic ballad" | |
| Jan 8, 2014 at 17:45 | comment | added | Oldcat | I had missed the Pelennor fields reference. That's still not much for supplying two cities, Minas Tirith and Osgiliath. Note the border with Rohan is fairly close to the North so there's not a lot in that direction. Also no visible roads for carting in foodstuffs. | |
| Jan 8, 2014 at 2:48 | comment | added | Wrathchild | And the fields of Pelennor are mentioned as being full of farms, only they've been abandoned due to the impending battle. (This mentioned when Gandalf is stopped at the outer wall while he's going to Minas Tirith with Pippin.) But that's Men, not Elves. | |
| Jan 8, 2014 at 1:41 | comment | added | user20178 | Gondor has ports. | |
| Jan 8, 2014 at 1:18 | history | answered | Oldcat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |