Do hobbits get high?

Lintelyg · Post by **Lintelyg** » Wed Sep 25, 2002 2:40 am

I just posted it here, cuz there's no LotR forum:

I believe the hobbits smoke up and take halucinogens. Just think about it: They like to smoke pipe WEED. Described as a herb that calms etc. Sort of like Cannabis. They also like to gather Mushrooms. Nothing more is described about that, but given the first, it seems very suspicious. What do you think?

Beldin · Post by **Beldin** » Wed Sep 25, 2002 2:51 am

Sound thinking @Linty !

I think you're on to something there...

No worries,

Beldin

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Wed Sep 25, 2002 3:37 am

Some people claim to see hobbits when they are high.
Not sure what hobbits see though...

Osiris · Post by **Osiris** » Wed Sep 25, 2002 7:12 am

@ Linty....need more evidence before we can draw a firm conclusion - they could be smoking something as innocent as chamomile tea

Are there any episodes in Hobbit or LOTR where there is
(a) frantic eating
(b) somewhat unnecessary giggling
(c) deep conversations including phrases like "Wow, man" or "Yeah, right" etc.

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Wed Sep 25, 2002 7:56 am

Hmmmmm....

Food for thought: Pipeweed. Hobbits grew the best; Gandalf enjoyed it, Aragorn enjoyed it. The hobbits in the Fellowship went through great pains to take pipes and pipeweed along with them on the journey...which they gladly shared amongst themselves and others. Hmmmmm. Free love, free weed mentality covered here.

Also worth note: Hobbits indeed ate several meals a day, something along the order of seven, if I'm not mistaken. Munchies covered here.

Dialogue between Merry and Pippin: Middle Earth equivalents of "yeah, right, man..." Lingo (and also giggling) covered here.

Gandalf was a ventriloquist and used magic. Case closed. It's official.

Maharlika · Post by **Maharlika** » Wed Sep 25, 2002 9:27 pm

With these two...

Originally posted by Chanak
Gandalf enjoyed it, Aragorn enjoyed it.

...doing all those Puff Daddy thingies, I'm surprised Gandalf didn't end up a Wild Mage though I now understand why Aragorn would always grumble "Day __ , still not King."

As for hobbits, if they have great resistance against the power of the Ring, then taking munchies and weed-smokn' would be just like Bloodstalker drinking NAB (non-alcoholic Beer).

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 8:43 am

It's like this... Hobbits have ne'ry a care in the world, they eat and party all the time, they've all lost their shoes, their growth is stunted through years of excessive use. They have awful short term memory, they eat all the time...how many examples do we need. Did I mention they eat all the time...and their short term memory is awful. I'll be back later, i've got a sandwich to finish before onesies.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 9:15 am

ROFL

And if memory serves (records of my own poor memory exist in another thread

)......didn't the hobbits also have visions whilst peering into Galadrial's pool?

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 9:29 am

by DW
And if memory serves (records of my own poor memory exist in another thread )......didn't the hobbits also have visions whilst peering into Galadrial's pool?

I guess that does sum up well the mushrooms they love to ingest.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 9:34 am

Hmmmm....."pipe weed".....mushrooms...... I am beginning to think that the Shire represents even more of a utopian vision than Tolkien originally intended......

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 9:38 am

Yeah, with Grateful Dead bootleg shows blaring out of everyone's little hole in the wall.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 9:49 am

Originally posted by Ned Flanders
Yeah, with Grateful Dead bootleg shows blaring out of everyone's little hole in the wall.

lol! And maybe Bilbo's birthday party.....,along with Gandalf's fireworks display, was actually a precurser to Woodstock

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 9:50 am

by the time we reached the Shire, we were half a million strong.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 9:54 am

@Ned,
Was that due to gathering up motley souls along the way, or was it one of the many consequences of free love?

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 9:56 am

I don't know, I stole the line from Stephen Stills, or was it...Joni Mitchell. Well, I think she wrote and he sang it, along with crosby, nash, and canada's own Neil Young as well.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 10:01 am

lol! See.... yet another example of my poor memory...and I haven't even dabbled in....ahem.... herbs...recently...

*sigh* I sometimes lament that I was only born in the late sixties....far too late to actually experience them....*sigh*

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 10:05 am

tell me about, I was born in 1971. When I first started gathering info about the 60's counterculture due to an interest in music and other extracurriculars, I was thinking how great my parents had it to be 18 years in 1967, both of 'em. They looked at me with a wry grin, saying "You didn't miss much." Sure I didn't, to this day, my parents still have their beatles, zeppelin, who, hendrix, simon and garfunkel, airplane, et al vinyl sealed in plastic. Oh, the memories.

McBane · Post by **McBane** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 10:06 am

One thing you did miss (as an 18 yr old) in 1967 is the draft. I wonder if I would have visited our neighbors in Canada??

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 10:08 am

My pop was in the service at the time but he never went to the eastern hemisphere of which I am thankful for I might have never been.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 10:11 am

lol! Your parents probably just don't want to admit to you that they too sampled the many pleasures available at the time....either that or they simply don't remember the sixties...

My own parents were rather staid and conservative (in terms of life style) during that time.....