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R Hobbits the dead heads of Middle Earth ?

ForestPark Rivendell Nov 17 2012, 1:52am Views: 720 R Hobbits the dead heads of Middle Earth ? Passion for pipe weed and mushrooms hippy dippy world view ?

Silverlode Forum Admin / Moderator Nov 17 2012, 2:26am Views: 412 Considering the author... Tolkien being not at all "hippy dippy", he meant tobacco (he said so in the Prologue to LOTR) and normal edible mushrooms, both of which he and many other quite non-dippy people enjoy. Those of a hippy persuasion chose to interpret it to suit themselves in spite of evidence to the contrary, and some see PJ's slightly ambiguous portrayal as a deliberate nod in their direction. In the end, I suppose people hear and see what they want to. Silverlode

JWPlatt Grey Havens Nov 17 2012, 2:54am Views: 387 Yup They probably spell words phonetically with a single letter and numbers under their condition too.

JWPlatt Grey Havens Nov 17 2012, 2:57am Views: 445 Ambiguous I understand that Mr. PJ had Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd as Merry and Pippin do some far less ambiguous takes as well.

dijomaja Lorien Nov 17 2012, 10:58am Views: 362 Tolkien - no, Jackson - yes (in one sense only) Jackson certainly had fun with the "pipeweed" references as we all did back in the day ("I was there, Gandalf, three thousand - well, forty-some-odd, years ago!") but Tolkien and his Hobbits were too old-fashioned and traditional to embrace a "countercultural" lifestyle. We (and I think I can say "we") liked the sense of community, of valuing "good food and merry cheer over hoarded gold", of living in closer harmony with the natural world that Tolkien espoused.

ForestPark Rivendell Nov 21 2012, 1:43am Views: 271 Yes and I suppose that people do not see and hear what they do not want as well.

Bombadil Half-elven Nov 21 2012, 5:12am Views: 452 Okay as an Old Retired Hippy from Boulder Colorado I read all 4 books in Christmas 1967. Yes 100s of thousands of us..all over the World from Amsterdam to Haight Asbury...read them too. Yet none of us were "Dippy"...too. When JRRT died in 1973.. thousands morned since it was like OUR Grandfather died... BOMBY even produced a Liquid LightShow backingup Rock Bands "on the Hill" next to CU's campus.. The name my re-occuring LightShow...? "The Arkenstone Lightshow." Bomby wazz jus'... early to this Unexpected Party Looong..before many of you were born. NOTaDippyBomby