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A Took and a Brandybuck (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The books, Tolkien's letters, and a section of the appendices at the end of RoTK all explicitly say it's tobacco.

Tolkien was a big smoker. You rarely see pics of him without a pipe in his mouth.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Cannabis had at least some level of presence in Europe for centuries. Robert Hooke, a contemporary of and fierce rival to Isaac Newton experimented with it in 1689. Still though, I have no idea to what extent. You may well be right that Tolkien never heard of it.