Have you ever wondered how much food it would take for you to go from Rivendell to Mount Doom to destroy the one ring of business leader ? Well , fortunately , scientists Skye Rosetti and Krisho Manoharan have figure it out for you .
Their findings usher that a 92 - 24-hour interval walk for an assembly of nine appendage ( four hobbit , one extremely low frequency , three humans and a gnome ) would require a minimum of 1,780,214.59 Calories . The resultant are published inJist .
Rosetti and Manoharan had previouslycalculatedthe canonical metabolic pace of each coinage : A humanoid mintage from Middle Earth is estimate to require around 1,700 Calories per Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , a jackanapes elf needs only 1,400 , and grabby hobbits require 1,800 Calories . While this might not seem like much when equate to our diet ( the recommended daily Calorie intake for a human male person is 2,500 ) , hobbit are small – on average 107 centimeter ( 3.5 foot ) – which have in mind they undergo a immobile rate of high temperature loss because their open domain is self-aggrandising liken to their volume . Hence , they need more Calories to sustain their body temperature .
But how could anyone carry this much food for 92 day ? Hopefully , the resolution lies in the Lembas bread . These cakes are described as being very thin , made of repast and light Robert Brown on the outside but the color of pick on the inside . They are also packed with Calories . Gimli crunch one up when he realizes it ’s wonderfully delightful , and the elves of Lothlorienexclaimthat he has already eaten enough " for a long daylight ’s march ! "
free-base on this and the followingdescriptionfrom the elves , the research worker cipher how many Calories were in the bread .
" Eat petty at a time , and only at penury . For these thing are give to help you when all else fails . The cakes will keep sweet-smelling for many many days , if they are unbroken and will in their leaf - wrapping , as we have brought them . One will keep a traveller on his foot for a day of foresighted toil , even if he be one of the tall Men of Minas Tirith . "
From this , they estimated Lembas to hold 2,638.5 Calories . By this calculation , the fellowship would postulate to bring more or less 675 loaves with them : 304 for the hobbits , 214 for Gandalf , Aragorn and Boromir , 99 for Gimli and only 60 for Legolas .
It makes you wonder how on Middle Earth the fellowship ever manage to make it to Mordor . These solvent do n’t even account for diversions in the journeying , breaks , or reference deaths .
It is the wise word of Boromir that summarize up the conclusion of the paper .
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