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Originally Posted by Zigūr
EDIT: Oddly enough, in "Flies and Spiders" the narration states of the Elvenking "His people neither mined nor worked metals or jewels, nor did they bother much with trade or with tilling the earth." Seems an odd thing of Professor Tolkien to write if they traded little, but also didn't mine and smith their own metal or grow much of their own food, how did they eat and maintain their armouries?
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Well, there
is the small matter of their magically creating and disappearing a feast three times in a row...
Given the nature of
The Hobbit, I think it's entirely feasible that Tolkien was writing them as far more 'fairy' than his normal elves.
Alternately, maybe they lived entirely on hunted white deer and cave-grown mushrooms (washed down with a healthy dose of Dorwinion wine, which was presumably tribute, not trade, if they didn't trade...). Maybe we can craft a fanfic where the early Hobbits pass through Thranduil's halls on their way to the Anduin Vale and pick up their racial +1 to Mushroom-eating there...
