The Middle Earth Popularity Cup

[Morthoron]

Originally Posted by Andsigil

Unlike Lalwendë, I don't see any hippie characteristics in Gandalf, other than the fact that he has no visible means of support and always seems to live at other peoples' residences.

If I did see him as a hippie, I'd be voting for the Lady of Lorien, instead.

Gandalf might not have been a hippie, but he certainly put Hippie-ish thoughts into the impressionable minds of teenagers in the 1970's. After reading the smoke ring sequence with Gandalf and Bilbo, I went out and purchased a churchwarden pipe...

http://vegassmokes.com/churchwarden_pipes.htm

I still have it, proudly displayed in an oaken Bronzeworth barrister bookcase. I haven't smoked...ummm...anything from it in decades, but since everyone in my house is carping about my cigarettes, perhaps I'll go to Churchill's Tobacconists and buy some vanilla black Cavendish, which, if I remember correctly, had a great aroma.