Halflings' Leaf

Halflings' Leaf
   Another name for pipe-weed.
   Tobacco; smoking was invented by the Hobbits, and great quantities of Leaf, as it was called, were grown in the Shire, especially the warmer regions of the Southfarthing.

J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth glossary. . 2003.

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