02-21-2002, 03:42 PM | #1 |
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Wafer of Lembas
The most famous food from LOTR, as its elf quality helps Sam and Frodo through thick and thin.
How-ever.... ive just noticed that while reading ive never really had a picture of it, in my head. Does anybody have an illustraition of it, or picture from the films? If not, what do u guys think it looks like?? andy
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02-21-2002, 03:59 PM | #2 |
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jum jum jum
Personally I hope it looks at tastes like rice cookies. I loooove those. I don't think Tolkien went into great detail describing lembas. Or (just to be on the safe side)at least he didn't to that in any of his books that I have read so far.
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02-21-2002, 04:00 PM | #3 |
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sort of big oatcakes all standing in a tightly packed line wrapped in leaves?
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02-21-2002, 04:57 PM | #4 |
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I thought of a thin, tannish, wafer wrapped in big green leaves.
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02-21-2002, 05:31 PM | #5 |
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I always thought it looked like those little wafer thingies of rice paper. You know what I mean?> Kind of off-white, really thin and flat, ...
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02-21-2002, 05:36 PM | #6 |
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Its weird, I never thought about it until now....but I picture it as the wafers you receive at church. I know thats weird...but thats how I pictured it
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02-21-2002, 08:23 PM | #7 |
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I always pictured them as round, flatish, honey-colored, seed cakes. Almost oatmeal cookie-like.
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02-21-2002, 08:53 PM | #8 |
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02-21-2002, 09:23 PM | #9 |
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I see them kind of like Bregalad's, a lot like oatmeal cookies, only paler in color.
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02-21-2002, 11:10 PM | #11 |
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I pictured them as a sort of almost pie crust 'sandwich', with the center being kind of creamy. They were round and about as big as a human palm. Well, in my mind, anyway.
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02-22-2002, 12:00 AM | #12 |
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I pictured them as big round yellow cookies. Seriously. You won't find out in the movies though. They cut out the lembas. I found it on a reliable Two Towers spoiler page.
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02-22-2002, 02:01 AM | #13 |
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I used to picture them as thickened church communion host bread.
But lately I've been thinking more of granollas which I have for lunch in the office.
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02-22-2002, 02:32 AM | #14 |
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I always thought of it like flaky pita bread... says here it was "in the form of very thin cakes, made of a meal that was baked a light brown on the outside, and inside was the color of cream." Doesn't go into consistency, but I assume the outer part at least has to be fairly rigid, considering it can be broken.
Also, I think the leaf wrappings mentioned are just as important to what we call lembas as the contents itself. To me, that's what makes it lembas. They found me. I don't know how, but they found me.
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02-22-2002, 05:41 AM | #15 |
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I always thought of it as a kind of thin, papery, pale red wafters wrapped in a large leaf.
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02-22-2002, 10:28 AM | #16 |
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yeah ive ha a couple of thogut recently
1. Rice cakes, just round flat, like rice crispys, in a disc, TASTELESS! 2. Jakobs crakers, that we would have with cheese. But we know for certain that they came in big leaves. Aragorn, i cant beleive they left them out of the movies!!!!!!!!!!!!! BTW dont give me the link to that page, but i am very upset about them being left out, (if its true) this post has a good load of replys' cheers andy
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While we're on the subject, what do you picture cram as looking like?
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Oh man, I'm getting hungry...gonna find me something to eat
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Yeah, huh! I don't have my book with me, Aldesign, but one of the elves explicitly says to keep them in their leaf wrappings so they can last a while. Not to tear you down or anything .
I should just say that's my opinion, because... well, it is. Leaves and lembas go hand-in-hand in my little world, but not necessarily in yours. Oh, and on cram, since Gimli mistook lembas for cram at first, I'd say they look similar... more tough, kind of like hardtack. I'm off to the drugstore to whistle at girls.
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