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Old 05-14-2014, 05:44 PM   #12
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One thing we can say that Elves probably don't eat is mushrooms.

This comes from a passage omitted from the Druedain material in UT but given in Of Dwarves and Men:

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To the astonishment of Elves and other Men they ate funguses with pleasure ... the Eldar did not eat these things.
Tolkien struck this passage out, noting that it was "too like Hobbits", so it's up to us to decide if this was also a rejection of Elves not eating mushrooms.

Note also that he said "Eldar", so the Avari possibly do eat them.
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