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Lalwendë · 10-30-2006, 11:35 AM

Hothouses? Could work.

Well Hobbits must have a certain knack with growing things and discovering innovative uses for plants, or they would not have come up with the ingenious idea of drying and curing tobacco and smoking it. There are no Native Americans to demonstrate the arts of smoking, so a Hobbit must have discovered it in some strange and peculiar way. If they have such greenfingers and ingenious minds it s no big leap of the imagination for them to grow coffee in hothouses - note they also had tomatoes which do not do very well out of doors in the English climate (assuming The Shire is anything like the English climate which it seems we are doing). Likewise such people could easily have come up with other plants to produce 'coffee' and could easily have discovered how to make sugar from non-cane sources.

10-30-2006, 11:35 AM	#96
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	Hothouses? Could work. Well Hobbits must have a certain knack with growing things and discovering innovative uses for plants, or they would not have come up with the ingenious idea of drying and curing tobacco and smoking it. There are no Native Americans to demonstrate the arts of smoking, so a Hobbit must have discovered it in some strange and peculiar way. If they have such greenfingers and ingenious minds it s no big leap of the imagination for them to grow coffee in hothouses - note they also had tomatoes which do not do very well out of doors in the English climate (assuming The Shire is anything like the English climate which it seems we are doing). Likewise such people could easily have come up with other plants to produce 'coffee' and could easily have discovered how to make sugar from non-cane sources. __________________ Gordon's alive!