From The Peoples of Middle-earth, Of Lembas
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The Eldar grew it in guarded lands and sunlit glades; and they gathered its great golden ears, each one, by hand, and set no balde of metal to it. The white haulm was drawn from the earth in like mnner, and woven into corn-leeps for the storing of the grain; no worm or gnawing best would touch that gleaming straw, and rot and mould and other evils of Middle-earth did not assail it.
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We know that they did raise the corn used to make Lembas. I don't know why farming would be considered something Elves would not do.
[ September 14, 2003: Message edited by: Eladar ]