J.R.R. Tolkien Insights on Food, Beer and Smoking. 🍺
J.R.R. Tolkien was not just a philologist and a writer of fantasy; he was a man who cherished the small joys of life a true Hobbit at heart. He loved simple English food bread, cheese, roasted meat, and a good pint of ale. At Oxford’s The Eagle and Child pub, he spent evenings with friends, and he rarely wrote without lighting his pipe first. Food, beer, and tobacco were more than habits they were the quiet inspirations that shaped the warmth of Middle-earth and the peace of the Shire.