>>719964035
Pipe weed isn't supposed to be DUDE WEED LMAO! It was basically just a way to have tobacco (a new world plant that shouldn't exist in the shire until untold generations later when its brought from the americas).
And they weren't lazy, just an idyllic pastoral pre-industrial agrarian society that had basically everything they needed at their finger tips in abundance.
Yes they like food, and socializing, and all that, but the seven meals a day thing isn't from fantasy, thats how most people ate when their job was working a farm or doing manual labor. Instead of three big meals a day, you have multiple smaller meals every couple of hours so you can keep your energy up without feeling gross and overfull while you're working.
And in tolkien's universe, the hobbits live on such good fertile abundant land because they are a good and humble people who embody the christian virtues of faith, hope, and charity. If you look at the places with the "evil" people they have stripped the land bare and made it a corrupt reflection of themselves.
