Pipe Weed, Good or Bad - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Kalimac · 10-14-2002, 10:50 PM

Child, you said everything [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img].

It is rather anachronistic to criticize a movie like this because it shows smoking; ESPECIALLY a movie like this; I mean, it's next to impossible to run down to your local drugstore and pick up a pack of Southfarthing Cigs. As for whether it's good or bad for the hobbits - well, once you start something like that, it's hard to stop. If the pipeweed is bad for hobbits, can Sam's carbohydrate-laden taters be any better? That rabbit Gollum caught probably wouldn't be FDA-approved after he'd had his hands on it. How far past its sell-by date was that lembas?

It's not that the stuff is good or bad for them, the standards for judging them simply don't exist in that world and weren't created until very recently (and occasionally I wish they hadn't been - imagine growing up in a time when having a good steak meant you were lucky and not guiltily starving yourself for the next 3 days to work off the calories).

No worries here. In the end, we're all dead (except Elves).

10-14-2002, 10:50 PM	#11
Kalimac Candle of the Marshes Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Flyover Country Posts: 780	Child, you said everything [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]. It is rather anachronistic to criticize a movie like this because it shows smoking; ESPECIALLY a movie like this; I mean, it's next to impossible to run down to your local drugstore and pick up a pack of Southfarthing Cigs. As for whether it's good or bad for the hobbits - well, once you start something like that, it's hard to stop. If the pipeweed is bad for hobbits, can Sam's carbohydrate-laden taters be any better? That rabbit Gollum caught probably wouldn't be FDA-approved after he'd had his hands on it. How far past its sell-by date was that lembas? It's not that the stuff is good or bad for them, the standards for judging them simply don't exist in that world and weren't created until very recently (and occasionally I wish they hadn't been - imagine growing up in a time when having a good steak meant you were lucky and not guiltily starving yourself for the next 3 days to work off the calories). No worries here. In the end, we're all dead (except Elves). __________________ Father, dear Father, if you see fit, We'll send my love to college for one year yet Tie blue ribbons all about his head, To let the ladies know that he's married.