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To: Overtaxed
Ok, the elves called it cake...Gimli refered to it once as being better than "honey-cake" but Tolkien refered to it as a wafer, more thank cake. Sometimes elf-cakes.

I maintain that "wafer" was the primary word used by Tolkien and only the "characters" called them cakes, because they didn't know a better word for them...
36,026 posted on 10/22/2002 7:28:23 AM PDT by 2Jedismom
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To: 2Jedismom
'Nilla Wafers....snack of the Elves.
36,029 posted on 10/22/2002 7:30:25 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: 2Jedismom; Overtaxed
I maintain that "wafer" was the primary word used by Tolkien and only the "characters" called them cakes, because they didn't know a better word for them...

You know 2J, there's something strangely disturbing about that...

36,033 posted on 10/22/2002 7:33:31 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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