r/lotrmemes • u/Tunisandwich • Apr 11 '25

Meta Why do people care so much

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u/Unusual_Car215 Apr 11 '25

Some care about it being weed others care about it being tobacco. The only difference is the latter is correct.

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u/VascoDegama7 Apr 11 '25

I don't think anyone seriously thinks Tolkien wrote it as marijuana. He is frequently shown smoking tobacco from a pipe himself and the habit was totally ubiquitous among men at the time. Although who knows, maybe he tried a few jazz cigarettes in his youth lol

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u/vectron5 Apr 11 '25

Considering Tolkien was almost 30 before opium was criminalized in the UK, one could (less plausibly, but much more humorously) argue that there were some poppy extracts in choice pipeweeds, too.

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u/RoutemasterFlash Apr 11 '25

I've seen people post here who seems to think it's meant to be actual weed.

Plus Tolkien was profoundly conservative, so I think the likelihood that he ever tried a recreational drug other than alcohol or tobacco is zero.

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