If he knew..

[Makar]

Originally Posted by Eruanna

I too had a sense of this. Mainly in the scene when Merry and Pippin greet the others at Orthanc after the Battle of Helm's Deep ('Flotsam and Jetsam') although it's obvious that they have been drinking they seem to put their rather dizzy behaviour down to pipeweed.

Not to mention the extended scene in TT with Merry and Pip in the gate house, laughing hysterically, with smoke pouring out of the door and Treebeard "hmmmming". The same is true in the scene where Gandalf is choking off of his pipe. He's laughing and he keeps hitting it while he cough's. And then there's Saruman's line about the clouding of minds.