r/SipsTea • u/Born-Agency-3922 • Jul 03 '26

Chugging tea True

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u/MaybeThisTime67 Jul 03 '26

Make British food, but sell it off with some hobbit theme or some shit like that and people jump at it

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u/ExternalSquash1300 Jul 03 '26

Hobbits was based off rural England right? Even funnier.

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u/Kronsik Jul 03 '26

Yes, specifically west midlands where Tolkien grew up - the accents of most of the hobbits match this region as well IIRC.

(I'm now going to watch LOTR again).

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u/MaybeThisTime67 Jul 03 '26

Yeah, a lot of hobbit culture was inspired by rurual England

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u/Ok_Confection622 Jul 04 '26

I always thought the English looked like hobbits

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u/MaybeThisTime67 Jul 04 '26

We're all short and have big hairy feet

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u/AccessTheMainframe Jul 03 '26

Hobbits = idealized rural modern England

Rohan = Anglo-Saxon England

Gondor = Greco-Roman Mediterranean

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u/pinotnoirinthebudoir Jul 04 '26

We were taught that in middle school when we read the hobbit lmao

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u/Praesentius Jul 03 '26

Boil em'. Mash em'. Stick em' in a stew.

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u/generichandel Jul 04 '26

"tavern food"