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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc
Somehow anyway, in general, the image of an Elf toiling in a field doesn't really seem all right, so I would guess the Elves would mostly live on the diet of "what the earth gives freely"; of course the regime would be probably somewhat different in hyper-effective and "technological" military states of the Noldor in the First Age.
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It was indeed:
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Originally Posted by The Lay of the Children of Húrin
...they came to a country kindly tended;
through flowery frith and fair acres
they fared, and found of folk empty
the leas and leasows and the lawns of Narog,
the teeming tilth by trees enfolded
twixt hills and river. The hoes unrecked
in the fields were flung, and fallen ladders
in the long grass lay of the lush orchards.
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The scene is Túrin and Flinding approaching the gates of Nargothrond and illustrates that at least the Noldor did practice a micture of horti- and agriculture. (This, or at least the last two and a half verses, was in some prominent Downer's signature for quite a while; don't remember whose, but that's why the quote stuck with me.)