The results of our  fictional food survey are in, and it’s clear that the place we’d all most like to picnic is J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth.

Earlier this month, we shared a series of posts on food and literature, including  Our Books, Ourselves: What Fictional Food Says About Us and Want to Know an Author? Read Her Menu, where we waxed poetic about everything from Charles Dickens’ roast goose  to young Francie Nolan’s stale bread in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

Then we asked you to tell us your favorites. Hands down, most of you went with hobbits and friends.

From the Lord of the Rings trilogy, many readers chose lembas, the elves’ super-filling waybread, as their favorite