Irrationalism in 'Rings'? So sayeth he...

[Diamond18]

Ah, but Iarwain, Legolas doesn't smoke. It says so right in the book:

Legolas lay still, looking up at the sun and the sky with steady eyes. At last he sat up and looked at the mortals with the smoke rings curling about their heads. "That stuff will kill you, you know," he remarked.

"So? We're going to die anyway," Merry remarked.

"Yeah, so don't rub it in," Pippin replied with a defiant puff.

Ah, Lush, leave it up to you to elicit giggles in such a serious and politically crackling thread. And right after my serious, thoughtful, depressed post. I'm hurt, I really am. I'm in pain, see. Um..."ow".