Ha! Took about 10secs before I realised we we're looking at up-side-down numbers. From right to left they read 86, 87 (hidden by car), 88, 89, 90 & 91.

I'm coming a bit late to this topic but I though you might be interested in a piece I did about updating Asimov's Laws of Robotics for real world applications. Basically I worked out we'd need at least 30 laws - they can be found HERE. I'd be interested in what you think.

Tolkien certainly smoked a lot of pipe tobacco - he always seemed to have a smoking pipe at hand during interviews and lectures, and in almost every photo I've seen of him - but your right, I doubt he meant the many (I think already explicit) references to smoking in LotR & the Hobbit as anything other than tobacco...…

I think you'll find that most of the said "druggie references" ARE actually Tolkien's references (whether he meant them as druggie or not - they were always open to that suggestion), not Peter Jackson's writing crew. Why do you think Tolkien was so popular in the 60s and 70s with all those hippie stoner types... and…