Pasta la feasta, baby: Re: Grasping at straws and underwater basket-weaving

» proudfoot - Re: Grasping at straws and underwater basket-weaving

In response to message posted by CunningVixen:

Primitive cultivated maize... I can go along with that. Must remember to tell myself that LOTR and Middle-Earth in general is not necessarily a complete clone of 11th century Europe. I always supposed lembas had a honey wheat flavor, because Gimli scarfs an entire serving based on taste. I think Tolkien slipped up on the corn/maize comaprison when he described it as basket material. As a former country boy and descendant of farmers, I cannot seriously imagine using any part of corn to make a useful basket. (Although if anyone could do so, it would be the Elves.)

-- posted by proudfoot