This should be a rhetorical question...

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by Holbytlass

I have to respectfully disagree with the lembas being a kind of chocolate theory only for the fact (according to movie Legolas) that one bite is enough to go on

In Mexico in the Mayan time chocolate was used as an energy drink. And just one sip could keep even a warrior going for a day. Or maybe thats more like the drink the hobbits are given lotr (I forget its name).