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,
Samwise Gamgee Gamgee, who had heard that his name was in "The Lord of the Rings" but had not read the book. Tolkien replied on March 18: "Dear Mr. Gamgee, It was very kind of you to write. You can imagine my astonishment when I saw your signature! I can only say, for your comfort, I hope, that the 'Sam Gamgee' of my story is a most heroic character, now widely beloved by many readers, even though his origins are rustic. So that perhaps you will not be displeased at the coincidence of the name of this imaginary character of supposedly many