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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?

Sound thinking @Linty !

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




No worries,

Beldin

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

@ 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.

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.

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).

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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*

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.

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??

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.

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.....