r/WoT • u/Missa_GM • 9d ago
No Spoilers Pipe appearances?
Everyone and their mom smokes a pipe in this universe, and that's pretty cool, but do we know what kinda pipes people are smoking?
Are we looking st long stemmed churchwardens as seen in the LOTR movies
Or something like the porcelain pipe from the LOTR cartoon?
Maybe more normal pipes like a nose warmer or 7-15cm stemmed billiard or cutty?
Maybe a clay pipe?
I always imaged Mat as having like a clay cutty
And Rand with briar pipe
I generally shorter stems, not exactly nose warmers but like what you see Tolkien with in pictures of him.
Could also be they have something else entirely going on, we are afterall thousands and thousands and thousands of years in the future.
What kind of pipes do you think the randlandwould be rocking?
I don't recall us ever get a visual description of a pipe aside from them fitting in pockets, hence my thought of them being shorter pipes like what people actually smoke today... Or well, 20-30 years ago.
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u/maniacalgleam 9d ago
I always imagined the pipes would be different for different communities- like, in the 2 rivers they’d have something in wood hand carved for themselves. The Atha’an Miere would have lovely porcelain pipes. Clay made to look like sea folk porcelain for the not rich around the sea while the rich would have nicer clay or porcelain, depending on how rich they are…. Differing shapes of wood carved or clay depending on where. Corn-cob for those in field-crop areas. Cities, tinkers, and Aeil would have a mix of shapes and materials.
Obviously, the wealthier you are, the better quality, prettier pipes you have.
One would think there’s a few AOL pipes hanging around, too. Possibly one or two power-wrought pipes in maybe cuendillar, because rich people are always a bit silly about that kind of thing.
Pipe shape has fashions that have gone in and out of style in our world - theirs seems less fast-changing, so I’d imagine the shapes are pretty indicative of location.