Lighting up...

[Gorwingel]

I think a good deal of the pipeweed mentioned had to do with the fact that Tolkien equated hobbits with some groups of people who dwelt in Kentucky.

The Shire having to do with Kentucky [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] That is so cool!
I would have never thought about those two places being connected in some way, because initially they seem so different. But then I can now see the similarities. Maybe The Shire is like a British Kentucky [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]