More food and drink from The Hobbit

[wellinghall]

"High Tea in Tolkien’s The Hobbit"
http://historicalfoods.com/?p=1245

"Ellen-Ealu ‘Elder-Ale’"
http://historicalfoods.com/?p=1807

ETA: Book collecting, "a deeply boring trade"
http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/36/2010042120100421191526985c427d7db/A-deeply-boring-trade.html

Comments

[arda-unmarred.livejournal.com]

There's an error in the first article: the Diamond Jubilee was in 1897, and given that Tolkien hadn't even been born yet in 1887, that should have been obvious :)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Well spotted!

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks, the moral of the story? With something that important, go to your books, and never wikipedia ... I knew something didn't fit ... so I chased it down. historicalfoods.com