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Originally Posted by Selmo
As an English hobbit, I can no longer fulfill one of my cherished ambitions
For many years I have been determined that, one day, I would visit The Eagle and Child (The Bird and Baby) in Oxford, sit where Tolkien sat with the Inklings, enjoy a pint of good English ale and smoke a pipe of tobacco in the Professor's honour.
That dream has been snatched from me.
It is now illegal to smoke in any enclosed public or work place in England.
It may be good for my health but I feel that I am now deprived a part of my Hobbit cultural heritage.
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You could of course wait til after closing time and the stay behind as this is what happens in Ireland - the ashtrays come out from behind the bar come 11.30pm and the curtains being drawn - may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb eh?
anyway, I've done it - well, it was ciggies and Magners cider instead of a pipe and English ale, but it was nevertheless marvellous. As was the landlord's beef stew and dumplings.
In modern England, Tolkien would be classed as the height of evil, being someone who liked beer and fags!
