Are Elves vegatarian?

[mhagain]

Originally Posted by Alfirin

when I feast heard lembas called waybread, I though they meant wheybread i.e. bread made with milk whey instead of water

Even without the misreading they still need fields (or at least "guarded lands and sunlit glades") for growing wheat (which Letter 210 states to be the primary ingredient; I know JRRT said "corn" in the Lembas essay, but in the UK "corn" is just a generic term for any cereal; "maize" is the New World cereal). It's certainly the case that JRRT didn't write much about Middle-earth agriculture, but that doesn't mean that it didn't exist.