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I have 4 pipes and they are all meaningful to me for different reasons. My wife bought me all of them but one. She bought me a churchwarden a couple of years ago that I like to show off. It’s fashioned as a replica pipe of the one used by Aragorn(Viggo Mortenson) in the Lord of the Rings trilogy of movies. It has an oak stem and a briar bowl and it’s 10.5″ long. The stem has a gentle curve to it and it fits the hand nicely. It’s not the “official” film re-creation version of Aragorn’s pipe that you might see online nowdays. That one has an acrylic mouthpiece where mine does not.
The stem is long but it isn’t too long. The length helps to cool the smoke a bit, making for a more pleasant smoke.
The shape of the bowl is very easy to hold while sitting down.
It doesn’t have the acrylic mouthpiece so it’s more likely to get damaged, but it also gives it more of an air of realism.
The briar that the bowl is made of is stained dark but the parts that show are very pretty.
The air hole in the bottom of the pipe’s bowl it located dead center in the bottom of the pipe. In my opinion that makes it burn more evenly than any pipe I own.
The bowl is briar but the stem is oak.
It has what looks like an aluminum shank that connects stem to bowl.
You can buy this pipe here.
