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Was it this version of the Bakshi LOTR? https://vimeo.com/217693315
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They say its tobacco but they act like its weed. Given nobody in Rohan has any idea of it and Saruman is paying high prices for it Im pretty sure hobbit parties are [w i l d]
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Apr 28, 2022 13:39
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They’re just constantly grouchy because they’re jonesing for their next fix, they can only be chill when they’re hitting the pipe. Gandalf specifically blames this for that one time he tells Pippin to go commit die
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Apr 28, 2022 14:43
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In the Appendices JRRT explicitly says pipeweed is probably a variety of Nicotiana, which is the genus of tobacco plants. 
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I prefer to think of it as cannabis because that means Blibo is Gandalf's redneck cousin who he goes out to get high and shoot fireworks off with every few months and that make him more relatable to me.
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Presto posted:In the Appendices JRRT explicitly says pipeweed is probably a variety of Nicotiana, which is the genus of tobacco plants. That word probably leaves room, and theres no reason it cannot be both in a magical setting (even if my heart knows its tobacco) David D. Davidson posted:I prefer to think of it as cannabis because that means Blibo is Gandalf's redneck cousin who he goes out to get high and shoot fireworks off with every few months and that make him more relatable to me. Bilbo's retirement is listening to the greatest hits of freeform elvish jam sessions and open mic night poetry slams, but he still brought a sick as hell knife and armor with him in case you know, he gets up to adventuring in the bushes or whatever.
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Apr 28, 2022 20:18
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The idea of Gandalf constantly fiending for a cig is way sadder and less magical than him ascending taniquetil
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I shall smoke grass!
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Presto posted:I shall smoke grass! 
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it's weed hth
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Hobbits are just what you naturally get when you smoke weed all day. The reason their race dissappeared was the outlawing of the drug and the shire became a corporate headquarters for Westron Energy.
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Barudak posted:Hobbits are just what you naturally get when you smoke weed all day. The reason their race dissappeared was the outlawing of the drug and the shire became a corporate headquarters for Westron Energy. and ol' sharkey? he's on the board
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indigi posted:The idea of Gandalf constantly fiending for a cig is way sadder and less magical than him ascending taniquetil Gandalf is that homeless guy you see looking for cigarette butts in the gutter
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Apr 29, 2022 06:12
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And so, for saving Middle Earth they gifted Gandalf rolling papers made from the wood of the white tree of gondor
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crosspost from funny pics thread
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Lazy_Liberal posted:crosspost from funny pics thread And that is why Thorin died without a son
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This maneuver is always successful.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
Hey, Tolkien's the one who called it pipeweed, not me, and I didn't even imply they'd be getting high (actually, how compatible are being constantly stoned and despairing anyway?). Though if that was accurate, perhaps instead of the Gardener he'd be the Dank Lord Samwise. Technically he did name his daughters after various flowers, so he does have a lot of flower children following him even in canon...
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it's not weed it's tobacco you loving nerds
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MadDogMike posted:(actually, how compatible are being constantly stoned and despairing anyway?) Extremely
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MadDogMike posted:Hey, Tolkien's the one who called it pipeweed It's "pipe-weed," and like other hyphenated words in LotR, it's a case where the fictional translator is taking a single Westron word that does not translate directly and translating it as a compound word. Like "barrow-wight" or "elf-friend." I'd say that it probably was because the plant in question was not exactly the same as modern tobacco, though it is certainly a close relative (same genus, different species or subspecies or something like that), and besides, it was just translated as "tobacco" in The Hobbit anyway. (Of course, in reality, it's because Tolkien decided that he didn't like the word "tobacco" on linguistic grounds.)
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It’s weed, Nerd.
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it’s definitely without a doubt weed
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Zesty posted:It’s weed, Nerd. You know who else was a nerd? J.R.R. Tolkien. The man who wrote this book. It's tobacco.
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Tolkien didn’t even know if Gandalf was Manwe or not how can we trust his horticultural knowledge
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Gandalf was NOT Manwë he was a maia. He was sent across the ocean as an angel to guide, aide, and defend the denizens of Middle-earth, and he was a maia to Aulë. God He did totally cuck Celeborn though. That part is real.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:He did totally cuck Celeborn though. That part is real. teleporno is into it tho
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Gandalf was NOT Manwë Tolkien said he didn’t know if this was true. so why should I believe him about pipe weed
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DontMockMySmock posted:It's "pipe-weed," and like other hyphenated words in LotR, it's a case where the fictional translator is taking a single Westron word that does not translate directly and translating it as a compound word. Like "barrow-wight" or "elf-friend." I'd say that it probably was because the plant in question was not exactly the same as modern tobacco, though it is certainly a close relative (same genus, different species or subspecies or something like that), and besides, it was just translated as "tobacco" in The Hobbit anyway. (Of course, in reality, it's because Tolkien decided that he didn't like the word "tobacco" on linguistic grounds.) It's whatever feel good plant they've got on hand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanical_identity_of_soma%E2%80%93haoma
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sweet geek swag posted:You know who else was a nerd? J.R.R. Tolkien. The man who wrote this book. It's tobacco. Tolkein isn’t even in the top 5 writers of LOTR content.
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Top 1 in quality
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Just wait until the new Amazon Rings of Power series is out
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Manwe wouldn't have gotten
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Gandalf was NOT Manwë he was a maia. He was sent across the ocean as an angel to guide, aide, and defend the denizens of Middle-earth, and he was a maia to Aulë. God Saruman was the Maia of Aulë. Olórin lived in the gardens of Lórien and liked to hang out with Nienna. I always thought it was interesting that both Sauron and Saruman had been originally associated with Aulë, who himself had something of an ambitious nature (c.f. the creation of the Dwarves, although that turned out okay because he'd just got carried away). Tolkien's sensibilities definitely included seeing craft and making as something that could lead one astray if left unchecked.
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Closing in on the end of the book, we have reached the "where the gently caress is gollum" part of the story. As for creation, Im not knee deep in the silmalrillion but it comes across to me as a collective versus individual thing and creation used for self aggrandizement or not for collective good is a dangerous path to tread. Knowledge (with Saruman) gets the same spiel of its good being in its collected use.
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My wife found a treasure at the thrift store so now we don't just have RotK, we have the entire animated saga. I'm unbelievably happy about this DVD for children. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 22:05 on May 13, 2022 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:My wife found a treasure at the thrift store so now we don't just have RotK, we have the entire animated saga. post some screenshots
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