White ash wood churchwardens...good or bad?

[photoman13]

Not much of a reader but I did enjoy reading LOTR for the most part. I didn't care to much for the hobbit until I was about half way through it.

 

[corvinvelegost]

The Hobbit is a much more child oriented book than LotR, ive known quiet a few adults who struggled to get into it because of that

 

[locopony]

They left Tom Bombadil out of the movie. That was pretty sad to me.

 

[corvinvelegost]

yea...they used the excuse he was too minor of a character with too big a time slot...i disagree though, he was a huge player in the first book

 

[ravkesef]

I enjoyed the books when I read them in the 60s. The films were too disorganized and frenetic and didn't come close to doing justice to the books. And yes, I missed old Tom Bombadildo too. (There--I had to say that!)

 

[flintliddon]

I own both a Luna and a Macqueen. Hands down Luna is the better pipe. My own humble opinion is that Macqueen makes sort of a toy pipe, or a pipe mainly for sitting on the shelf of a fantasy fan. The Macqueen had a very high-drilled draft hole which I've heard complained of numerous times on the web. The Luna is a well-crafted pipe built to be smoked. I have seen numerous reports of bowl-cracking with the Macqueens. Cherry wood, and other non-briar, are well known to crack and split. That's why they aren't used very often for smoking pipes. Btw, huge LOTR fan here. Books, movies. I love all of it.

 

[masterpython]

There are people on here with decades old corn cob pipes. Unless your are talking pine or balsa I don't think many wood pipes are going to be much less durable if you don't abuse them.