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01-19-2007, 04:10 PM
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Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
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Following the links around the internet, I found another goodie: Shelob cake. Now isn't that appetizing?!
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01-20-2007, 03:32 AM
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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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My last birthday my father (
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01-20-2007, 04:13 AM
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In that far land beyond the Sea
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  (ENVY!!!)The only similar thing I remember in my life was me trying to make lembas when I was about 9 years old... I still wonder by what miracle our kitchen didn't catch fire... and that it was almost edible in the end (although it was probably as close to lembas as to a baked balrog wing... no wonder, since I made the recipe myself...).
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01-20-2007, 06:14 AM
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Was it an extra big flaming eye candle for Barad-dur? Well done Noggie and Sister of Lommie.. I have decided that a Cerin Amroth cake would be great - fulfilling my profound longing for mellyrn in combination with a cake that could be eaten (the hill bit saing the sugar craft trees) .... And Lal..wouldn't attacking a cake Minas Tirith be so much more fun than most wedding receptions? You could have load little catapaults with maltesers for added chocolate ...  But if you won't have it as a wedding cake .. how about a confectionery based reconstruction of the battle of the Pellenor Fields as an Oxonmoot event ..... got to be better than that chap's singing  .
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01-20-2007, 06:33 AM
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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
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I'm all for some messing about with food at Oxonmoot! Can we involve some bacon and cheese as I'm partial to me savouries? I could make Cheesestring ropes, pork pie rock missiles, and chicken wing fell beasts. Tell you what, the Dark side can be savoury and Gondor can be sweet! The Dead Army can be represented by me, hoovering up all that meat and cheese...and to keep davem happy, we shall represent the River Anduin with a trail of Hobgoblin ale with little boats made from cheese Doritos and Mars bars. Listen, some macrobiotic food made of mung beans and carpet would be better than that singing... This is a very good idea!
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01-20-2007, 06:53 AM
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Guard of the Citadel
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oxon
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nice idea, maybe Battle of the Pelennor Fields next with candy Mumaks?
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01-20-2007, 12:23 PM
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Reflection of Darkness
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull.
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A couple of years ago my birthday cake was an ice cream cake decorated as the Gates of Moria. A bit tricky for the poor cake decorator, but it turned out quite lovely. I really hated to eat it...
I'm sure my mom has a picture of it somewhere. I suppose I could ask her to email it to me so I could post what it looked like. 
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01-22-2007, 12:24 PM
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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... On the savoury side I will mock up mount doom as a setting for my Chocolate fountain but run it with thai chili sauce instead ... have prawn tempura orcs ..love Japanese food..and how about lamb cutlet spiders? Brinniel ...that sounds incredible .. if it wouldn't be too much trouble for your mamma ? *looks hopeful*
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01-24-2007, 01:59 PM
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Cryptic Aura
Join Date: May 2002
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Gummy orcs, now wouldn't they take the cake!
I found a rather bizarre link when I tried to google Tolkien Food under images. This is the image I got, from an American library website, Book Buzz:  I wonder if it has something to do with hobbit dietary practices?
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01-24-2007, 02:15 PM
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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: under the bed
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Teriyaki Orc would be very tasty - could use strips of chicken and mushroom with noodles for their whips. And for spiders how about queen scallops with strings of dill for their legs ("they don't need them...")? I think Sauron though must be the supreme goods of all savoury foods...how about a great big (red) rib-eye steak?
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01-25-2007, 08:27 AM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: The Party Tree
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The Shelob cake reminds of Steal Magnolias when Shelby's (Julia Roberts) mother-in-law made that armadillo cake with red velvet insides. I suppose Shelob would have lime green insides.
Here's my attempt at Ted Nasmith's Bag End as seen on the front cover of The Hobbit (Bantam). It was for my second daughter's fifth birthday back in '02. We didn't get to eat it cause I stored it over night in the oven and didn't realize the pilot light would melt it. 
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