#old toby

[theworldsoftolkein]

The Hobbit

This is my favorite book. I would love to live in Bag End, and have a smoke sesh with Gandalf ♥

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[worldstoforge]

I am all for the legalization of a certain organic substances that have been proven to have very little side effects in developed brains. I am cool with you, an adult, smoking or ingesting what you need to get through this time in our history (as long as it doesn’t hurt others). Do I personally partake? No. But I’d be an idiot to think that my choices should have anything to do with what goes in your body. You do you.

HOWEVER… it drives me up a friggin wall when people wink wink nudge nudge each other when talking about hobbits smoking pipe weed. Or implying that hobbits are high during 5 of their 7 meals of the day.

For some context, Tolkien was an avid and prolific tobacco smoker. I would say it might have been his third favorite hobby (languages, writing being his first two). The cannabis connection wasn’t truly a thing until the rise in popularity of LoTR in the. 60s and 70s among counter culture groups and rebellions youth especially those that were already indulging in this newer form of smoking.

Tolkien did not write Old Toby to be weed. He wrote it to be a much more deadly and more addictive substance that was very popular during his generation. Ironic as that may be.

Now if you NEED it to be weed for you to enjoy LotR then more power to you, I can’t stop your imagination filling in that blank and I wouldn’t want to if I had that power. In fact I bet even Pete Jackson agrees with you. The magic of a work is that it can be whatever you need it to be. But please stop making it sound like it’s the only interpretation that is available to us and that you are somehow the most clever person in the world for espousing it.

[darlingzelda]

Even gandalf knows Toby is the worst.

[glazeliights]

what the helllll who are these guys

[pitsazawr]

toby and my waffles!!

[twptwp]

Relevant image for today's news letter

[dirtflunk]

The Original Kin If I Am Being Honest

[paexie]

Redesigned Tobi's clothes. I like them a lot more now and they seem more in line with Old Rot's setting.

[teleostuber]

Hi

[colief]

today is deltarune's 6th anniversary, which means it's a perfect time to post my old work for utdr zine

[gillion-fagstrider]

So in terms of riptide updates...

[axolozzy]

take some silly deltarune art :3

[kadeywadey10]

this is my first post and i’m scared these doodles are shitty but uh you can have them

[obscuretobyfox]

[avirxy]

I’m like two years late with this au but to everyone who said it was Claire cash in