An Underappreciated Passage in LOTR
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Which of the Chronicles is this from? I get the books mixed up sometimes. Is this before the Voyage of the Dawn Treader or after?
The Smoking in the LotR is good stuff. 
Always good to smoke a pipe and reminisce about old friends and old times.
Thank you for helping me remember this! What a wonderful series of books. Tolkien really understood the true magic of the pipe.
A great passage indeed!
The Hobbit begins and ends with pipe smoking. In fact, the last three words in the book are "the tobacco jar"
"'You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!' 'Thank goodness!' said Bilbo laughing and handed him the tobacco-jar."
The Hobbit begins and ends with pipe smoking. In fact, the last three words in the book are "the tobacco jar"
"'You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!' 'Thank goodness!' said Bilbo laughing and handed him the tobacco-jar."
Are those quotes from the book or from PJ’s trilogy as I don’t quite remember hearing that conversation in the movie?
Also, they mention smoking “pipe weed” not tobacco but I’ve always assumed they used that term as to not utter the word tobacco. Either way Tolkien was a pipe smoker indeed and I’m glad PJ included pipe smoking in the trilogy.
Also, they mention smoking “pipe weed” not tobacco but I’ve always assumed they used that term as to not utter the word tobacco. Either way Tolkien was a pipe smoker indeed and I’m glad PJ included pipe smoking in the trilogy.
I'm not sure whether Jackson included these lines in his films.
Tolkien had absolutely no qualms about using the word "tobacco." Nobody did in the 50s. "Pipe-weed" was just the hobbitish appellation for what Tolkien states in the prologue is "a variety probably of Nicotiana."
My daughter was home from college for the weekend so we decided to dial up a movie and she suggested Fellowship of the Ring. This was the first time watching it since I began smoking pipes this year.
As far as memorable scenes, I had always remembered Aragorn's face lighting up in the Prancing Pony, but completely glazed over all the other pipe shots. There so many instances and several scenes with multiple pipe smokers. Going to reread the Hobbit and the trilogy after I finish my current book.
As far as memorable scenes, I had always remembered Aragorn's face lighting up in the Prancing Pony, but completely glazed over all the other pipe shots. There so many instances and several scenes with multiple pipe smokers. Going to reread the Hobbit and the trilogy after I finish my current book.
Playing "spot the pipe" while watching the LoTR trilogy is definitely a fun time!
I think my daughter tired of me saying "OOO! Another Pipe!"
