Samwise Gamgee, how the fuck do you know what potatoes are? Potatoes were cultivated in SOUTH AMERICA roughly 7000 years ago and Europeans only came into contact with them in 1537 AD.
hobbits also have corn!
THEY DO.
EXPLAIN, MOVIE. EXPLAIN!!!
Due to Belladonna Took’s fairy heritage shenanigans, the Shire is actually a few square kilometres of late 18C/early 19C English West Country, made to vanish from its timestream along with its potatoes, corn, and tobacco. Although I’m not sure that “corn” doesn’t actually refer to wheat or barley in this context.
In support of this thesis, I submit that no other Middle Earth regions BUT the Shire produce potatoes and tobacco.
(Source: houch)
