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Pipe-weed (also known as Halflings' Leaf) is, in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien the name of a...

Pipe-weed (also known as Halflings' Leaf) is, in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien the name of a plant, a variety probably of Nicotiana. It was developed by the Hobbit of the Shire, the production of which is a major industry there, especially in the south. Among the Dￃﾺnedain it is known as sweet galenas, and in Gondor it grows as a wild plant, appreciated primarily for its sweet-scented flowers. In Gondor it is known popularly as westmansweed, a reference to its origin: it was apparently brought to Middle-earth by Nￃﾺmenￃﾳreans during the Second Age. It was first grown among Hobbits by Tobold Hornblower in Longbottom (a region in the Shire) around S.R. 1070 (T.A. 2670). Despite its foreign origins, the Hobbits (possibly those in Bree) were the first to use it for smoking (as the Hobbits point out, not even the Wizards had thought of that). Popular varieties of pipe-weed include Longbottom Leaf, Old Toby, and Southern Star. The Wizard Gandalf learned to smoke pipe-weed from the Hobbits. In The Hobbit he turns smoke-rings into different colours. (In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, he turns one into the form of a ship.) Since the 1960s some