Maybe the Dwarves were more "Americanized" than the Hobbits, who, in English-fashion, drank tea?
In my opinion, the coffee beans were grown by the Dwarves: The heat from the deep-down recesses of the world (especially the recesses near the Balrog) would have been sufficiently warm enough for the growing of coffee beans. And the plants would have gotten their photosynthetic light from the gleaming mithril in the walls around them! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
As for the Hobbit's acquisition of the coffee, it probably came from Bree, via the Brandybucks, who traveled there on occasion.
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