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Selmo · 03-03-2003, 08:38 AM

Some posters have questioned the fact that Tolkien's pipeweed is tobacco.
It definitely is.

In the prologue to "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", Tolkien refers to pipeweed as Nicotiana, the botanists' name for the tobacco plant.

03-03-2003, 08:38 AM	#34
Selmo Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: The Shire (Staffordshire), United Kingdom Posts: 273	Some posters have questioned the fact that Tolkien's pipeweed is tobacco. It definitely is. In the prologue to "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", Tolkien refers to pipeweed as Nicotiana, the botanists' name for the tobacco plant.