What do they eat

what do they eat

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They import lembas bread.
that’s The elven major export after the Mithril market crash in the late 2nd age when a balrog swept the mine crippling the economy of the dwarves as gold inflation was out of control after Bilbo and the gang flooded the market with Smaug’s treasure

what was their tax policy?

clearly in the movie it shows them eating chicken and Toh-matoes for elevensies

there literally isn't a single road leading out of the city

Eagle drops

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>gold inflation was out of control after Bilbo and the gang flooded the market with Smaug’s treasure
brutal

When did they go to the Americas and bring over tomato plants?

Just desserts.

Food from the miles of farmland surrounding the city that weren't included in the film for budget reasons.

10% of everything you produce goes to the crown.

Going through these movies again as a fifty year old, I realize how fucking trite they are.

Middle Earth feels like it spans 50 square kilometers and is inhabited by 100 people at most.
Rohan is an empty wasteland pretty much like where the Mongols once roamed, even though you never even see the Rohan herd cattle (so what are they eating?).
Osgiliath is the same size as my 1,000 people village even though it's supposed to be trading hub of Gondor.

The fellowship never travels on a single road, just go through empty plains.

Was Middle Earth just that empty?

elves brought tomatoes over from the undying lands

>The fellowship never travels on a single road
They do up until they're forced to pass through Moria, but you're right about pretty much everything else. Jackson is a hack, a brainlet, and fat.

what was Denethor's agricultural policy?

The Pellenor Firlds actually had fields where they grew shit, its just missing in the movie adaption.

>Tolkien based his universe on early medieval Europe
>Middle Earth is not covered in forests
>parts where forest is missing somehow hasn't been made into farmland
Time to face it, the movies AND the books were retarded.

Most of those problems are budgetary, are you expecting them to build fully fleshed out cities with millions of people in them?

>Was Middle Earth just that empty?
Yes, as described in the books there's been a gradual period of over 2 thousand years of decline in the human realms.

:)

To the south-eastern end of Mordor, Sauron had kept the folks there for agricultural purposes. Don't know if they were slaves or not, though...

Ass

There should've been a population boom centuries in the making. Farmers should see all that empty land and realize what makes sense for them to do.

they were depressed

There are main roads all over the maps. The Fellowship were actively trying to avoid those. And there are numerous descriptions of foods. What books were you reading?

But I will say you're right about the population. Seems sparse.

they just order EagleEats

This. If I recall correctly Middle Earth was full of all sorts of wild animals. Like how it was IRL before we thinned them out so much. You can't take 5 steps without seeing something.

Cherry tomato

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The "Golden Age" of Middle Earth was supposed to be long-gone, hence the cities were a shadow of their former glory and population sizes

Read on the fall of the Roman Empire.

>Middle Earth is not covered in forests
Numenor cut them all down to make ships. Europe's forests were cut down too. You know jack shit, Tolkien knew what he was talking about.