pipe smoking

[redrobot]

is there anything to suggest that the 'weed' smoked by hobbits isnt more like cannabis than tobacco? looking at the film as tho gandalf and bilbo were potheads gives it a new dimension.

another point is that the smoking habit seems to have acquired a rather sexist demographic. i'm sure women in history have smoked pipes. not so in hobbiton.

i just noticed that word 'habit', certainly another credible etymology for the word hobbit given their very conservative way of life.

[Krypton_Son]

I doubt it very much. When Tolkien wrote the books, pipes were pretty common, plus he doesn't come across to me as a pothead.

[Otaku-sempai]

Any resemblance between pipe-weed and marijuana is the fault of Peter Jackson and his team. Tolkien's pipe-weed is meant to be a kind of tobacco and is even identified as such in The Hobbit (in the very last sentence of the story if nowhere else).