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,
Fictional food and drink in Middle-earth and cream-coloured on the inside. The making of "Lembas" is a closely guarded secret, and only on rare occasions is it given to non-Elves. Like other products of the Elves, it is offensive to evil creatures; Gollum outright refuses to eat it, even when faced with starvation. Melian, the queen of Doriath, originally held this recipe. Later it was passed to Galadriel and other Elves. Galadriel gives a large store of "lembas" to the Fellowship of the Ring upon its departure from Lothlórien. Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee subsist on it through the majority of their journey from there into