Timeline for Where did the Dwarves get their food from?
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| Sep 11, 2021 at 8:09 | history | edited | fez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 15, 2017 at 21:24 | comment | added | Werrf | Anyone else get the clear impression that those roots were the first potatoes ever eaten by men? | |
| Jun 24, 2015 at 16:56 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Maksim: Why do you have trouble believing that? After all, don't numerous human farmers today patiently work the fields and farms to feed all those city dwellers? | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 23:58 | comment | added | Shamshiel | @Maksim: Yes, exactly, that's the implication. Dwarves foraged and farmed up until they could get away with just selling craft. | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 20:10 | comment | added | Maksim | I'm wondering about the dwarves in the Blue Mountains (Ered Luin) and in the Iron Mauntains. There must have been thousands of them, if not hundreds of thousands. I have a hard time believing that numerous elves and humans humbly and patiently worked the fields and farms to feed all those dwarves. Plus, not everyone was friendly with dwarves, so I doubt all of the dwarves' food came from humans and elves. I think there must've been dwarven farms and pastures that the books simply don't mention. | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 0:53 | comment | added | Shamshiel | @user867: Yes, Thorin claims that in his time Erebor was so filthy rich they didn't have to grow or find food for themselves. | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 0:04 | comment | added | user867 | I could've sworn that during Bilbo's tea-party one of the dwarves proudly asserted that when they ruled the lonely mountain they were able to trade for food instead of lowering themselves to farming. Alas, I don't have my copy of The Hobbit handy to check. | |
| Jun 22, 2015 at 22:42 | history | edited | Shamshiel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 22, 2015 at 22:39 | comment | added | Shamshiel | @Maksim: "They had come to Mĭm's house, Bar-en-Nibin-noeg, which only ancient tales in Doriath and Nargothrond remembered, and no Men had seen." ..."it had been deepened and bored far under the hill by the slow hands of the Petty-dwarves, in the long years that they had dwelt there, untroubled by the Grey-elves of the woods." Just FYI. :) The history of the Petty-dwarves is unfortunately kind of mysterious. This is actually almost all we know, aside from them being hunted by Elves like animals, and them being the castoffs of the Dwarves. | |
| Jun 22, 2015 at 22:38 | comment | added | Maksim | Thanks, you provided a good overall answer to my question. | |
| Jun 22, 2015 at 22:37 | vote | accept | Maksim | ||
| Jun 22, 2015 at 22:35 | comment | added | Shamshiel | @Maksim: Mim did have an ancestral home, Amon Rudh. It's where he and the Outlaws were staying. Nargothrond was also an ancient home of the Petty-dwarves. Elves, Men, and Dwarves all did what they had to survive, which was forage, farm, and hunt. Later on, yes, Dwarves did outsource most of their food-gathering activities. | |
| Jun 22, 2015 at 22:33 | comment | added | Maksim | Mim was one of the Petty Dwarves, the exiles without a home, so yes they did forage for food. My question was more about the established communities and kingdoms of dwarves. | |
| Jun 22, 2015 at 17:10 | history | edited | Nerrolken | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Jun 22, 2015 at 14:49 | history | suggested | Bergi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 22, 2015 at 14:11 | comment | added | algiogia | Yet I think this demonstrates that dwarves did forage part of their food. | |
| Jun 22, 2015 at 13:30 | comment | added | Bob Tway | A good answer, but it's worth remembering that Mim was a petty-dwarf and not a true dwarf. Culturally, they were quite distinct groups. So he may be of limited value as an example. | |
| Jun 22, 2015 at 9:53 | history | answered | Shamshiel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |