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,
Peregrin Took of the Fellowship and spend much of "The Two Towers" with their own story line. Impetuous and curious, he enlists (in "The Return of the King") as a soldier in the army of Gondor and fought in several battles during the War of the Ring. In the epilogues to the main story, Pippin returns to the Shire and becomes "Thain" or hereditary leader of the land before dying and being buried as a hero in Gondor. Peregrin was the only son and heir of Paladin Took II, the Thain of the Shire. His best friend Meriadoc Brandybuck, more commonly known