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Concerning Pipe weed
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- Apparently the plant grew in Númenor and was brought to Middle-earth by Númenóreans during the Second Age. In Gondor it grew as a wild herb, appreciated primarily for its fragrant blossoms and the Gondorians knew it as sweet galenas or more popularly as westmansweed, a reference to its origin.
It was not until the Third Age when it reached Eriador, probably through the Greenway, and the Bree-hobbits were the first to use it for smoking. From Bree the habit of smoking pipe-weed spread to other regions, as well as to other races, such as Men, Dwarves and Wizards.
But it was in the Shire where it was first domesticated, by Tobold Hornblower of Longbottom in Southfarthing around S.R. 1070. The cultivation and exportation of this herb became a key industry in the Shire, especially in the south. Popular varieties of pipe-weed included Longbottom Leaf, Old Toby, and Southern Star from the Shire.Perhaps less popular was Southlinch from Bree.
The Wizard Gandalf learned to smoke pipe-weed from the Hobbits and was often seen blowing smoke-rings. Saruman initially derided him for this, but at some point he took up smoking himself, and even had commerce with the Shire: After the destruction of Isengard, pipe-weed was found among its stores, but the Hobbits Merry and Pippin failed to realize the sinister implications.
After the War of the Ring, Meriadoc Brandybuck authored Herblore of the Shire discussing the origins and history of the Hobbits' 'art' of smoking Pipe-weed.
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"Your Love of the halfling's leaf has CLEARLY slowed your mind"
Lol, must have been before he took up the habit himself.
A quote from the movie, not the actual book.
FROM THE MOVIE. NOT THE BOOK. PIPE WEED IS NOT MARIJUANA. MARIJUANA IS REFERRED TO AS 'WEED' NOWADAYS. AT THE TIME TOLKIEN WROTE THE BOOKS, IT WAS NOT.
@@smug3311 actually it was... In America. It was only first published as a term for marijuana in the 50's though, long after Tolkien had begun writing. I would be surprised if he or anyone at oxford for that matter would hear the term until at least the mid to late 60's
@@smug3311 You mad?
Amazing. All it took was a simple change of accent, and suddenly I'm homesick for a Shire I've never even been to.
Robert Brown that was lovely to read
Yes lol, I would love to live in the shire eating salted pork, ale and smoke pipe weed and just relax and enjoy the sunset lol
Of course you're homesick, because Tolkien's world is better than our own. It has its problems, yes, but I'd take being hacked apart by an Orc rather than being in real-life prison, or enduring any of the other crazy shit life throws at people.
Try a visit to the west country in the UK, they got it
If you wish to try “Old Toby”, Tolkien’s favorite tobacco was “Capstan: Navy Cut”. After he died, the kids were cleaning out his home and they found hundreds of empty tins in his tool shed. Most likely, that is what he was imagining when he described “Old Toby”.
The sad part is you can no longer get the original.
Country Squire also has a wonderful blend called Old Toby which remains my favorite blend.
P3 Gaming I agree, but even then if it makes you feel better the tobacco today would taste different than the tobacco he smoked back then. Generations of plants later, the Capstan Blue we can get today probably has the same difference in flavor the Navy Cut would have today if it were still produced.
@@HaydenHero Capstan Original Navy Cut is still produced by Mac Baren.
William Barnes Medium Blue isn’t produced anymore even though blue is and even then the tobacco still won’t taste the same due to decades of difference.
The Wizard Gandalf learned to smoke pipe-weed from the Hobbits and was often seen blowing smoke-rings. Saruman initially derided him for this, but at some point he took up smoking himself, and even had commerce with the Shire ;)
You forgot to mention that the Wizard Gandalf learned to smoke pipe-weed from the Hobbits and was often seen blowing smoke-rings.
Well, smoking *is* addictive.
@@tektoastium7241 yeah, but it's fun. Most things people do in daily life are biologically dangerous anyway. You throw out smoking, you might as well throw out fire; a crappy human method of staving off the pain of life, but a method nonetheless.
I used to live in this amazing world. My favorite thing as a child was the LOTR trilogy. The books and movies took me to a place I now find difficult to return to. But I do have my own pipe weed that helps. I have my own world of fantasy that I have yet to put down on paper. I just find it difficult to know where to begin. I suppose maybe something like
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
Just like to point out the randomized writing of Tolkien. He can drift off on to other subjects and people still are intrigued. Chapter 19 of the Sillmarillion. Super random story within a story.
Moral is. Just start.
I started at the beginning of the world.
That, my friend, is the beauty of art. It's completely unintentional.
Incidentally, good luck with your book. I'm working on my own, mostly for fun, which I think won't be published unless my kids find it after I'm dead. And keep smoking the pipe-weed. Unless it's pot and you're in a military. In which case, do tobacco.
that why Hobbits make good ring bearers
It's really not. Both Gandalf and Aragorn smoke and both would be horrible ring bearers.
I always thought it was because they wanted so little in life
If people cherished food, drink and smoke more over horded gold this would be a merrier world lol
Hearing Rob's voice made me smile so big ❤️ I know this is an old video but thank you.
It would be absolutely epic if you did audiobooks for the novels. Beautiful voice for telling tales.
@@CRACKBONE7317 he did. The narrator/voiceover is Rob Ingels
Tolking up
Sitting smoking my pipe.
Hey man what are you doing.
Ohhh just Tolkien
I've subscribed because reality sucks and I'd rather live in a world of fantasy.
Same!
Try some DMT and see if you still feel the same.
@@azreal629 Dmt acid and all that hardcore weird shit just makes you depressed.. that’s literally scientifically proven. Stop telling these kids to do drugs man.
Lord on high, I relate to this. That's the purpose of entertainment. You need to find a way to escape from this world, weather it's eating rotten fruit as a monkey or reading Tolkien and drinking as a human.
@@knightseriou3258 it depends. Do drugs if you have the constitution to do it properly, but if you know yourself well enough to realize that it'll put you in a hole, for the love of God, don't.
My own kids are smart enough to avoid it. My older daughter is in high school, and she doesn't even want to. My son is younger, and he's frightened of drugs from what he's learned. Just goes to show, give kids what they need, and life happens as it should. Give them what they don't, and things will not turn out well for you or them.
I use to read lotr books and smoke pipe in summer days when I had vacation. Oh it's was life.
So yes pipes in the LOTR world would have probably been mostly clay. Clay pipes were always more popular because they gave a cleaner smoke compared to regular wood pipes. This is because they would not have had Briar pipes since they weren't made until the 1850's. I suspect Bilbo's pipe from the Hobbit movies would have actually have ben a clay churchwarden since he was from a well to do family. The books specifically say that Gandalf had a clay pipe as well. So, I actually found an online pipe shop that sells clay LOTR Gandalf and Bilbo pipes. I have only smoked clay pipes and Penn Valley Pipes had just what I have always wanted, a Terracotta clay churchwarden Gandalf pipe that looks almost identical to the movie pipe. Now if I could only grow a long grey beard every time I smoked.
So that's the reason? Damn, I've got to get myself a clay pipe. Or just keep smoking cigars.
Man, I gotta get me a half ounce of that Old Toby
"They have addled his brain and yellowed his teeth!"
Carlos Cespedes you’re thinking if mushrooms and Radagast.
Your also thinking of the peter Jackson movie, not the book. Hollywood encourages drug use, not Tolkien.
Tolkien talks about drinking all the time. Alcohol is a drug
@@ballHand Only if you're a coward.
@@kana22693 no lol that's not how drugs work
I'll have a 8th of southern star plz 😅😂😂😂
I have no idea why this made me so happy to listen too. Adults need story time too
Adults are just kids with bigger (and therefore more painful) brains. We all feel the same emotions, plants, animals, kids, adults. Just with different levels of understanding. Crying as a kid and drinking as an adult are both different solutions to the same problem.
Fun fact: in aztec times, tobacco was next to shrooms and other powerful psychedelics in terms of importance for mind expansion. Why? Because the original strains smoked in that area were very very powerful and somewhat psychedelic. If you can find it, it can give you tons of nicotine and a high not that unfamiliar to cannabis.
Also I want to point out that in europe at the time of writing the books, it was very popular to mix hashish into tobacco. Not that I'm saying he did or is referencing it, but history deems it plausible.
Nicotine overdose is horrible you sweat and puke, they're talking about weed
This is an analysis of botany and a cultural history of a fictional people and a fictional drug in a fantasy novel. There’s multiple strains and plants like old toby and the others. The power of literature! What a fucking writer Tolkien was!!
There are many strains of tobacco too. Virginias, perique, latakia, burley, cavandish, orientals. Old Toby is most likely best represented by Tolkiens favourite blend Capstan Navy Flake. It's worth noting too it was called Tobacco through the entirety of the Hobbit book. He made the name change to more suit the old world setting. Weed was barely being used as a term for marijuana in America at the time of writing so there's no chance an oxford professor of languages would have even heard the slang term for it.
@@prototypep4 in my own head-canon, Hobbits and especially Gondorians surely drink hemp boiled in milk.
*the finest w e e d in the southfarthing*
Which as this video clearly shows is tobacco.
@@thegreasystrangler9341 do you know how often this insufferable joke goes on? It's fucking annoying to a pipe smoker. Every single time I mention I smoke a pipe the very first thing someone is bound to say is "do you smoke weed in it?" fuck you stoners. Stoner culture is cancer.
@@prototypep4 Agreed.
@@thegreasystrangler9341 Exactly it's a joke and funny to enjoy he's Saruman and we're gandalf , gimli, merry and pippin trying to enjoy our salted pork and longbottom leaf lol
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"Where did you get the weed you villains?"
In the prologue to The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien stated specifically that it is "a variety probably of Nicotiana",[1] i.e. tobacco.
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He literally calls it tobacco all through the hobbit. No possibly it’s anything else. Right before talking to golem Tolkien said that bilbo first checked his pipe, then “felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it”
By the way, all of the people who keep going on about how the Hobbits were smoking weed are wrong. It's not marijuana; it's just tobacco.
Tolkien uses the word "tobacco" in The Hobbit, but he changed it to "pipe-weed" in The Lord Of The Rings to sound more antique, since tobacco is a New World word. in this clip, which is taken from the prologue to The Lord Of The Rings, he uses both the words "tobacco" and "nicotiana" the scientific name for tobacco.
In the movies, they play on this misconception, but it's still a misconception.
It's just tobacco, stoners.
Tony Meade fake news its weed
Still, no harm playing with the idea if one finds amusement in it. Whether tobacco or marijuana, pipe smoking is a pleasant comfort when done in moderation.
TheDragon803 look i am a stoner (its legal here in seattle and most ppl do it here)
However, to think its anything other than what the writer meant would be not what the writer intended and a diservice to his work.
pipeweed doesn't specify any flower regardless the word is self explanatory you want a word specifically for tobacco don't use pipeweed it's make you sound high. it is stated that it's tobacco yet it's never actually proven plus in the movies gandalf always puffing on his pipe when he's nerveous, the end of five armies after the battle it's been a big thing to smoke marijuana after a war or battle.
who are we to say what J.R.R. Tolkien meant by it because we still have radagast hallucinating off mushrooms which supports the theory it very well could be marijuana at times maybe gandalf smokes weed & tobacco & the hobbits just smoke tobacco. this is like the people who say it's not based off ww2 but there are signs & inspirations in it that show it is somewhat based off ww2.
That was beautiful.
1:07 I've never been that happy smoking tobacco
Carlos Padilla not everyone needs to alter there mind to have fun. Puffing Tobacco is very peaceful and can take the edge of life .
@@dannyhuskerjay i like altering my mind
Carlos Padilla should go see someone about that .
@@burningwolf4055 probably because your mind is so feeble and pathetic it's pointless being around it unaltered
Carlos Padilla you're*
Most likely similar to golden Virginia.
JRR Tolkien’s favorite tobacco was Capstan Navy Flake. After he died, the kids were cleaning out the place and they found hundreds of empty tins in his tool shed. That is most likely what he imagined Old Toby to be.
Love to fill my churchwarden pipe with some good Old Toby.
now if only this video was 9 seconds longer :P
The art of smoking weed lmao
Texas Viking Tobacco is an art form-especially pipe smoking. It takes a lot of practice to get good at it.
@@taylorwatson7932 I don't think it was necessarily tobacco that Texas Viking was referring to...
@@thalesvondasos it is however tobacco that is meant in the middle earth universe. Tobacco is canon. Weed is demonstrably not.
@@prototypep4 I wasn't even talking about LOTR. Also, how exactly is cannabis "demonstrably not canon"? Tolkien didn't exactly write "There's no such thing as hemp on Arda", did he?
@@thalesvondasos Actually he did. You see this video is a chapter from the actual book, part of the prologue. Tolkien literally says pipe weed is tobacco. Hence it's canon. As for you "not mentioning middle earth" it's a middle earth related video. The original poster was clearly referring to the line about pipe smoking being an artform perfected by Hobbits. So either your comment isn't in context with the original or you were trying to point out the obvious in a non commital way to the discussion. Either way it still doesn't negate any of what I stated.
Excellent!!
Of course frigging Merry would have been the one to write the book on Pipeweed.
This bit broke me on re-read. As Theoden lay dying, he told Merry that he regretted that he never heard Merry relay his herb lore. That’s why Merry wrote this: to honour his dead lord.
Yes, yes, wonderful, but what doth the high feel like?
A nicotine high is about the only high they'd get. Old Toby is most likely based on the original Capstan Navy Flake pipe tobacco which was Tolkiens favourite blend. Also worth noting weed was only ever a reference to marijuana in America and even then was first published in the 50's. You really think an English Oxford professor of olde English and other languages would put a term he most likely never encountered until he got hippy fan mail in the 60's in his books?
Long bottom leaf is Marijuana. Long Bottom Leaf is Ganja 🥦🌲
To the windowlickers freaking out when people say it's marijuana- chill. No one cares if you think you're better than people who smoke. The joy received from pipe-weed in the books gives insights that there is more than a simple tobacco-like high from it's consumption. I will go on considering it to be marijuana, and you will scream into the void. No one cares.
Why should a roman catholic call it weed when it is supposed to be tobacco and risk any misunderstanding? Also Radagasts shrooms do not come from the forest but the fields...A world like Tolkiens without the two of them is just too much for one single human brain, so he got some help from above. And like above, so below. But that is another story.
@@adolfnoise4673 Magic mushrooms grow in both forests and fields.
Salted pork, ale, pipe weed and mushrooms I'm moving to the shire lol
Well Said
This is why they eat so much and are so jolly...
Old Toby, the only tobacco I would smoke.
It's most likely Tolkien envisioned his favourite blend as Old Toby which was Capstan Navy Flake if you're interested.
@@prototypep4 He smoked Capstan Blue as well.
@@troynov1965 he loved capstan blends in general
@@prototypep4 Never tried Capsan myself , I buy bulk blends mostly Cornell and Diehl.
@@troynov1965 can't get Capstan here in Australia and our fucked government just basically made it illegal for individuals to buy from overseas. Orlik golden sliced is still my favourite blend though. That or frog morton cellar (RIP)
and a disclaimer, Tolkien said himself that it was tobacco, not weed.
Yeah, but people don't care. As far as they're concerned, Elves have advanced technology instead of magic, hobbits smoke pot, and Eru Iluvatar is actually Joe Pesci.
And of course you can’t forget about gandolf’s favorite og kush
It is an art. I roll the finest smokes.
It's tobacco and pipe tobacco is substantially better than those ground leaf trimmings used for cigarettes.
@@prototypep4 Who the hell smokes tobacco? Besides its a blend of herbs and tobacco. You don't think Hobbits wouldn't gather cannabis and see if you could smoke it?
@@Mellowcanuck33 Tolkien did. I do and according to every bit of lore so do hobbits. There is no mention of anything in the whole of Arda that resembles cannabis. Nothing.
@@prototypep4 I don't care. I smoke cannabis....so I roll cannabis. And I roll good fucking smokes ok? Get it? Now piss off.
@@Mellowcanuck33 i could not give less of a fuck what you smoke. Don't project your habbits into a lore they don't belong to. Hobbits do not smoke cannabis. And by the way the quote about it being an artform is about the use of pipes themselves not the act of smoking. Any idiot can smoke a cigarette or, evidently in your case, a joint. Very few can pick up a pipe and smoke it successfully first time.
Just needed 9 more seconds of content.
You know hobbits be smoking that daaaaaaank tree
Smoke weed everyday!
wonderful video. :)
.. and 4 minutes and 11 seconds is how long it takes me to smoke a joint.
Then you are smoking it wrong or packing it wrong either way
Do cigarellos count as pipe-weed?
It's whatever I dam well imagine it is! 😂
Good shit my fellow vertically inclined ppls :D
5'5 and a lover of pipeweedz myself
That is sativa northern lights
'Enchanted' pipeweed = tobacco sprinkled with cannibis✌
or better, cannabis sprinkled with hash
You are speaking of Mooks.
Pipeweed was never altered so no. Not canon.
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is it me or was lotr actually a hallucination by the hobbits because of the weed
Weed doesnt make you hallucinate so yes its just you
You just watched a video reading the exact words of Tolkian explaining it's tobacco. And stoners wonder why you get bagged for being fuckwits.
Old Toby!
Sounds like Damiana or Mullein
No wonder the Hobbits eat so much.
Did you bother to listen to the words at all? "a species of nicotania".
@@prototypep4 *sigh*
@P3 Gaming
Wow man this really bothers you, yeah? I've seen several of your comments about this.
Stoners re-imagining pipe weed as cannabis is half the reason the books are so loved.
@@Lugh444 true
I think Hobbits be getting high off that pipe weed lmao.
*sigh* even with the proof literally in front of you that it's NOT weed you stoners just can't help but project.
@@prototypep4 Has it ever occurred to you that we know that it's not actual bud and we just like to play around with the idea? God forbid people have any fun, I guess. Especially these days when fun is in shorter supply than ever...
@@tycad8990 then go write fan fiction.
@@prototypep4 Peter Jackson has winked and nodded that his version of film pipe-weed is somewhat based in a altered state of mind when smoked. And even joked about it more in the hobbit trilogy. Just chill my dude. Meanings of words change with time even when it's not intended by the writer
@@comicnerd420 peter jackson is not the authority nor even the best source on Tolkien. The films are akin to an AU. They are not canon and thus that version of pipeweed is not canon.
Okay so a couple of weeks ago I bought a pipe for weed, and first smoked it less than an hour after watching return of the Kings
wise choice
And was it good?
Lol and don't forget salted pork lol
Let’s be honest here? Hobbits are bunch of stoners! 😂😅
In the books it’s Tobacco
In the movies it’s Ganja
i love weed weed is good just give it to people it make's there day
Tolkien didn't intend pipe weed to be cannabis, we get it. But re-imagining it as cannabis is half the fun and one of the main reasons the books became so popular in the decade after publication, because people in the counter culture related to the fact that they also smoked cured herbs out of pipes. It's a fictional book.
It's fun using your imagination.
I feel like Tolkien would rather people were enjoying his stories than try to stomp on everyone's fun because he smoked a tobacco pipe.
Yeah man, they were all getting high as shit. The books read more vibrantly and fruitful to know they were smoking killer middle earth herbs.
Tolkien was a WWI vet who smoked & wrote about tobacco. With this said that was because he was taught wrong about cannabis like many of his generation & those following. I think were the hobbits real their pipe weed would heal.
I know it was tobacco they smoked but it seems more fitting that they smoke weed as it was only in the late 19th and early 20th century that marijuana was starting to get stigmatized
This was not supposed to comment on this comment but oh well
Legalize old toby!!!
8 ball181 Hand it has been for about 600 years.
It is legal. Toby is a nickname for tobacco.
I knew it.
All the str8 edge kids talking down to stoners in this comment section makes me feel like I'm back in high-school attending a D.A.R.E assembly. XD
Lies... everyone knows it's cannabis. I knew the wizard when he was much younger and back in the day, his nickname was "Ganjalf the green" before he got into dope and became the grey, but he found this got him too tired, so he got into "the white" ; )
tobacco
You
You're wrong.
420
tobacco
It's weed
No.
"Herb"
Mushrooms yellowed your teeth
“Probably” he’s speculating but clearly it’s cannabis
"OK maybe pipe weed is just a coincidence ill look up what is its" *watches video "OK its just marijuana"
P.S. my dad smokes tobacco and says he smokes for the flavor and its an enjoyable hobby
It is enjoyable until you get lung cancer
It's not marijuana. It literally says nicotiana (tobacco) in the video.
@@mcbadrobotvoice8155 you don't inhale pipe tobacco so no, no lung cancer.
@@prototypep4 Right. Mouth, tongue and throat cancer are the common cancers from tobacco pipes.
Same deal with chewing tobaccos.
@@Lugh444 true. And those cancers occur in less than a percent of pipe smokers. It's rare af. It's also worth noting you can get those cancers from a lot of various things. Even just genetics.
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Haha weed
It's cannabis no matter how hard you try, guys. Tolkien might have meant something else, but the movies are what made LotR accessible to so many of us. And in movies, it's clearly cannabis.
The books are 60 years old. The story has been readily available globally for a very long time. Regardless of Jackson's spin pipe weed has and will always be intended as tobacco.
@@prototypep4 its not cannabis or tobacco its a fictional plant that we will never know is like to smoke only the hobbits know how good their weed is
@@yoshiyahu2135 it's literally called tobacco in the Hobbit. Checkmate.
@@prototypep4 it's still a strain of tobacco that doesn't exist
@@yoshiyahu2135 lol you say that like it makes a difference. The only variables between different varieties of tobacco is taste and nicotine content. And much of those variables depend on soil. So yeah nah not a legitimate criticism of my argument. It's still tobacco just as Tolkien himself enjoyed. Since he wrote the lifestyle of Hobbits much after his own views on life.
Tolkien totally legitimised stoners.
Shay Sway Peter Jackson did. The weed references were his idea for comic relief. As you heard, Tolkien’s description was “nicotiana” (nicotine). Tolkien was an avid pipe smoker, a devout conservative Catholic, and a political conservative. I find it unlikely that he would promote marijuana smoking-especially as it would have prevented his books from being published at the time.
@@taylorwatson7932 You can't reason with stupid.
Its a joke about weed
A joke about something Tolkien never used and that was never a published term until the 50's in America. Yeah an oxford professor of languages really made weed references in his books.
its pot
Explain how. Using the books prove how pipeweed being cannabis is canon. Go ahead, I'll wait.
@@prototypep4 @P3 Gaming The amount of people who use the "The halfling's leaf has clearly slowed your mind" quote as a way to justify it being weed is ridiculous. Nobody seems to understand that these are empty words from Saruman, in an attempt to insult Gandalf. This is made obvious by the fact the Saruman picks up the pipe himself, which is why Merry and Pippin find a stash. Why would he smoke the leaf if he thought it would slow his mind? Replace the "halfling's leaf" with anything else in that quote, and it's the same thing. "The TH-cam comment section has clearly slowed your mind." Although I'm sure the TH-cam example holds more merit, with the amount of simpletons in this comment section alone.
@@obischlong5584 it clearly shows tobacco leaves in the barrels under Orthanc too which ends the debate.
@@prototypep4 That's exactly right. Looks nothing like marijuana. You'd think the people who regularly smoke weed would know what their own plant looks like. Many refuse to see reason though. Oh well, I'm glad to enjoy my pipe the way Tolkien did, knowing the truth. Happy piping, friend.
@@obischlong5584 Same to you friend