11/29/2022 0 Comments Lotr inspired pipe![]() ![]() First, Tolkien’s own description of pipe-weed from the Lord of the Rings prologue: If you are still unconvinced, let us look at the facts. If he did know if it, it is even more unlikely that he knew of its future uses and popularity. Written between 19, it is unlikely that Tolkien, despite being a scholar, knew of marijuana. Tolkien’s fantasy trilogy was taking hold in popular culture and marijuana was taking hold as a recreational drug of choice. It was described in a Chinese medical reference from 2737BC and was widely regarded as an aid to reaching euphoria. If JRR Tolkien’s innocent smoking habits aren’t enough to convince you that the hobbit’s pipe-weed is something simply comparable to tobacco, let us examine briefly marijuana and its place in the world at the time Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings. “But come on is that really tobacco in that pipe?” He is famously quoted in saying that he was a “hobbit in all but size.” So, just as Tolkien enjoyed smoking a pipe and tobacco, his favorite race enjoyed smoking a pipe and tobacco as well. Out of all the races in Middle-earth, Tolkien had a soft spot for hobbits and closely identified with the race. A lot of footage exists that documents that fact, showing him smoking his pipe. JRR Tolkien was a huge fan of smoking pipes. ![]() When attempting to understand pipe-weed, one must look no further than the author himself. ![]() So, grab your pipe, a barrel of Old Toby and perfect your smoke-ring blowing, because today we are going to talk all about the issue concerning pipe-weed. What exactly is that stuff? Is it tobacco? Or perhaps something more?” Increasingly however, after the portrayal of the smoking of pipe-weed in Peter Jackson’s 2001 Lord of the Rings film trilogy, more and more people have raised the question “No. Even then there were parallels drawn between the recreational drug and Gandalf’s recreational smoking. It is something that the Shire itself is most famous for, and perhaps, in recent years, is infamous for, as this innocent halfling’s leaf has sparked a great deal of debate.īoth marijuana and The Lord of the Rings became increasingly popular in the 1960s and 70s. Pipe-weed: It is grown and smoked by the hobbits of the Shire and enjoyed by men and wizards alike. ![]()
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