I think we can all agree that it was weed, right? Tolkien lived in a time where weed smoking was common.
In fact, I believe smoking the herb gave him inspiration and helped him with creating the world of lotr.
>literally called pipeweed not 20 minutes into the movie
>OP thinks this was some huge mystery
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>>85662163
It's tobacco, it's literally on page 6 or something of fellowship iirc
>>85662163
>>85662519
however, I will concede the movies treat it as cannabis. pretty obvious especially in the extended edition and the hobbit movies (Radagast)
>>85662627
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
No, you literally see it as tobacco leaves when Merry and Pippen find the longbottom leaf barrels in Isengard
no it's tobacco faggot read the book.
>>85662627
Yeah it's clearly meant to be weed. You can tell by their expression when smoking. Pippin obviously loves his food but I'm pretty sure pippin got the munchies at one point, from what I remember.
tolkien probably never smoked weed in his life
>>85662768
He was a soldier so... He probably did some crazy shit back in the day.
>>85664153
They had snuff anon
>>85664153
You think there was Hashish all over the fucking battle field in WW1? this ain't the Ottomans, mutherfucker
>>85662751
Don't reproduce.
>>85664153
He served in Belgium and Western France, it doesn't exactly grow wild.