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Originally Posted by Lalwendë
One thing that always amuses me about the likely results of Saruman's 'asset-stripping' is that all those people he sold Longbottom Leaf to would certainly have wanted more of the weed, so The Shire might well have ended up with a highly profitable trade in the end  |
In the end, the gentle, charming Hobbits killed more folk than Sauron or Morgoth ever did. How's that for irony?
But I assume with the advent of the King returning to reclaim Arnor in the 4th Age, trade boomed for the Hobbits, particularly in pipeweed. Although nearly all the Hobbitish brands of Tobacco have since disappeared (like Old Toby and Long Bottom Leaf), there is still the Camel brand of cigarettes.
'Camel', as any Middle-earth aficionado knows, is merely a Westron bastardization of '
Khamûl', first exported by messrs. Zippo and Lucky Strikeflint in the second century of the 4th Age.