My wife complained about me smoking. I told her she was starting to sound like my ex-wife. She said she didn't know I had been married before. I wasn't, I responded.
I like Tolkien and have read him more than once. But I think the percentage influenced by me smoking a pipe is close to zero. I am a big fan of everything Midcentury, architecture, furniture, fashion, etc. I think that's my main influence.
French pipe makers never focused on a portion of the market because their specialty was the standardization and mechanization of pipe manufacturing in large quantities. Therefore each brand has sublime pipes and pipes that are embarrassing. You have to learn what characteristics a good pipe has...
Yes, I put the link to a news story about the seizure of tons of briar taken from a Spanish national park in a post about the origin of heather. Apparently they are preying on the species for that purpose.