Fictional food and drink in Middle-earth extended cut of "The Fellowship of the Ring" Legolas says one bite of lembas "is enough to fill the stomach of a grown man" (while Tolkien says that one "whole" cake is sufficient for "a full day's march"). Pippin eats four - a reference to the large appetites of hobbits. "Lembas" is used as a plot device in ""; Gollum uses crumbs of the remaining waybread to frame Samwise Gamgee for consuming all the rations, contributing to his separation from Frodo Baggins prior to his encounter with Shelob. This sequence does not appear in the novel. In the DVD commentaries,
Fourth Age he is believed to have left for Valinor on one of the last ships of Círdan, as he too was a Ring-bearer, having borne the One Ring during Frodo's captivity by orcs. Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took became "Master of Buckland" and "Thain of the Shire" respectively in due time. They remained in close friendship with the royal houses of Rohan and Gondor. When of advanced age they departed for Gondor and Rohan together, and both died around Spring F.A. 63. They were buried in Rath Dínen with the greats of Gondor. Legolas is said to have, after the death