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The feasting might go a little bit easier if you also join in every time the hobbits or Gandalf smoke "pipe weed."
by scrumper 8y ago
The feasting might go a little bit easier if you also join in every time the hobbits or Gandalf smoke "pipe weed."
- jfk13 8y agoThe Appendix offers a number of additional suggestions, including this.
- brootstrap 8y agoTurns out i've already beaten the LOTR challenge mode in a sense. Rainy saturday, all day LOTR marathon on TBS, sack a nugs, plenty of grub to eat while watching the movie all day
- scrumper 8y agoI missed this. Thanks for pointing it out.
- amyjess 8y agoAs much as the terminology used makes it sound like weed, I'm fairly sure Tolkien intended it to be tobacco.
- eponeponepon 8y agoHe definitely did. He was a keen pipesmoker, and very definitely not a stoner. (edit: I think he even pins it to "a plant of the genus Nicotiana" or words to that effect in the LotR appendices) Peter Jackson's presentation of it in the movies though... yeah. No ambiguity there. His hobbits were blazed 24/7.
- acheron 8y agoYes. "weed" was slang for tobacco in middle and early-modern English (shortly after it was introduced to England). This is where he got the term from.