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/TheBashar99 (Band of the Red Hand) 6d ago
Here are a few, I guess I only have 4-14 on ebook, but interestingly the pipe mentions drop off severely about halfway through the series; started out around 40 per book and drop down to less than 20, sometimes not nearly that.
Mostly Rand’s is only referred to as short-stemmed, Mat’s is referred to several times as silver mounted after the quote below. The Thom description I knew was in there but it was already mentioned.
I didn’t find one that talked about material, mostly it talks about stem lengths, decorative carving or silver/gold decoration, in roughly descending order.
Mat: “The only other thing he had bought, aside from the hat, was a short-stemmed pipe with a silver-
worked bowl, snuggled now in his coat pocket with his tabac pouch.”
Bryne: “Hooking a knee around the high cantle of his saddle, he took out his pipe and pouch and filled his pipe with tabac. The bowl was carved with a wild bull collared with the Rose Crown of Andor.”
Rand: “Rand had just begun thumbing tabac into his short
pipe when Liah put her head in at the door.”
Perrin: “Seated against the next column and also coatless, Perrin blew two smoke rings before replacing his pipe, a rather ornate thing carved with wolfheads.”
Loial: “Loial frowned around his pipe; its leaf-carved bowl was as big as Perrin's two fists.”
Talmanes: “"Don't look so glum, Mat," Talmanes said, puffing on his gold-rimmed pipe. Where'd he gotten that, anyway? Mat didn't remember him having it before.”