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Originally Posted by Morthoron

Excellent segue back to Middle-earth, Al.

Thanks. I too fear the coming of the chat-skwerlz.

One would think that Tolkien, based on his lifelong smoking and drinking proclivities, would consider the ban nonsense. I concur.

But is this due to his usage, or would it be due to some other reason, like his experiencing the war, where afterwards he may have thought, "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die"?