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Dates
Probably introduced during the middle years of the Third Age1
Location
Species
A variety of pipe-weed
Culture
Important peaks
Grew on the Bree-hill
Meaning
'South ridge' or 'south terrace'2
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The Hobbits of the Bree-land had grown pipe-weed on the southern slopes of the Bree-hill for centuries. 'Southlinch' was the name of a series of fields on the slopes of the hill where the plant was grown (and the derivation of the name suggests that these fields may have been divided into terraces). Pipe-weed had originally been found growing wild on the hill, and though we are not told when cultivation began, this seems to have been before about III 2670 (or 1070 by the Shire-reckoning). It was at about this time that the Leaf was apparently discovered in the Bree-land by Tobold Hornblower and taken back to the Southfarthing of the Shire (Tobold himself would not reveal how he acquired the plant, but this seems the most likely course of events). The Halflings' Leaf was still being grown on the slopes of the Bree-hill more than three centuries later, at the time of the War of the Ring. It was smoked in Bree by Hobbits and Men alike, though even they acknowledged that the Southlinch Leaf did not compare to that grown in the Southfarthing of the Shire. Notes
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