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 Grey Templar wrote:
So Hobbits are just humans that have been sucking back joints for countless generations.

So in a couple thousand years Cali will be the Shire. Not sure how to react

Its the right side of the map.

Travel across county and you'll have a skirmish or two in the middle then onto Mordor which will either be NY or FL.

And then we get to them taking a short cut to 'shrooms...


/sitar music and swirly colors...

Nah, if the Shire is in Cali, Mordor is... Texas?

I just had a revelation, Frazz is SAURON!!!

Words cannot express my disdain.

The hobbits' habit of overeating and sedantary lifestyle would probably be a health issue comparable to smoking, I would think. I haven't heard any outcry from a pack of overly emotional fatties on that score.

See, I think most Fat people accept its bad for their health and have either decided that thats ok and they'll just deal with it or they really don't care.

Pipe weed is tobacco, guys.

"2. Concerning Pipe-weed
There is another astonishing thing about Hobbits of old that must be mentioned, an astonishing habit: they imbibed or inhaled, through pipes of clay or wood, the smoke of the burning leaves of a herb, which they called pipe-weed or leaf, a variety probably of Nicotiana. A great deal of mystery surrounds the origin of this peculiar custom, or ‘art’ as the Hobbits preferred to call it. All that could be discovered about it in antiquity was put together by Meriadoc Brandybuck (later Master of Buckland), and since he and the tobacco of the Southfarthing play a part in the history that follows, his remarks in the introduction to his Herblore of the Shire may be quoted"


Don't you ever try to associate middle earth with drugs lol. Weed is "a vile weed that stinketh." So is tobacco, of course. But there isn't really an idiotic subculture of tobacco users.

This just in:

The Hobbit condones stealing from dragons!

Also:

"Riding in barrels down a river is dangerous, and should not be attempted unless you are a trained professional."

It should be pointed out that it wasn't theft. Smaug made a hostile takover of the dwarves property. And as Thorin is the King, he is lawfully allowed to bring Smaug to justice.

So it is only natural that he was a bit miffed at Bard taking the law into his own hands and taking Smaug out himself, and why Thorin didn't dispense a reward.

 GalacticDefender wrote:
So is tobacco, of course. But there isn't really an idiotic subculture of tobacco users.

I see you've never been to a posh cigar shop.

There's a distinct lack of patchouli at a cigar shop. I think they win this battle.

It should be pointed out that it wasn't theft. Smaug made a hostile takover of the dwarves property. And as Thorin is the King, he is lawfully allowed to bring Smaug to justice.

While that is true, it can also be said that it started a horrible trend that continues to this day of encouraging bands of adventurers to get drunk in a tavern, and then go out and murder unsuspecting dragons for their money, some of who may have simply found their hoards in abandoned ruins!

It's downright criminal, and with the numbers of dragons and their birth rate, may even fall under the Protected Species Act.

 Mr. Burning wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
He did get pretty paranoid as the story moved along...

Frodo: 'Sam, stop stealing my ring you hairy footed gakker!'
Sam: 'Relax dude, you are having a whitey'
Frodo: 'The eagles are coming!'
Sam: 'Just the ambulance crew old buddy, you bit your own finger off'.

kids, just say no to Toke-ien.

Thats getting sigged

 d-usa wrote:
I always figured they were all smoking weed in their pipes anyway.

Same here! I thought the saying - the finest weed in the south farthing - was a dead give away.

Think for your self, not about things told to you to think about.

 GalacticDefender wrote:
Pipe + weed, a match made in Hobbit heaven guys.

Fixed

 AegisGrimm wrote:

It should be pointed out that it wasn't theft. Smaug made a hostile takover of the dwarves property. And as Thorin is the King, he is lawfully allowed to bring Smaug to justice.

While that is true, it can also be said that it started a horrible trend that continues to this day of encouraging bands of adventurers to get drunk in a tavern, and then go out and murder unsuspecting dragons for their money, some of who may have simply found their hoards in abandoned ruins!

It's downright criminal, and with the numbers of dragons and their birth rate, may even fall under the Protected Species Act.

Of course given the regularity in which dragons are found in abandoned ruins may suggest that the dragon population is much higher than one would assume from them having a low birth rate.

 Grey Templar wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:

It should be pointed out that it wasn't theft. Smaug made a hostile takover of the dwarves property. And as Thorin is the King, he is lawfully allowed to bring Smaug to justice.

While that is true, it can also be said that it started a horrible trend that continues to this day of encouraging bands of adventurers to get drunk in a tavern, and then go out and murder unsuspecting dragons for their money, some of who may have simply found their hoards in abandoned ruins!

It's downright criminal, and with the numbers of dragons and their birth rate, may even fall under the Protected Species Act.

Of course given the regularity in which dragons are found in abandoned ruins may suggest that the dragon population is much higher than one would assume from them having a low birth rate.

Most likely this would be due to the extraordinary life span dragons have leading to any number of dragon generations being alive at one time of varying reproductive age allowing them to keep their numbers at a manageable level