I guess I came into this the opposite way. I was a BOB, Bridgestone Owner's Bunch member that ended up on the Rivendell mailing list when GP started the company. Although I read the Hobbit and LOTR in middle school, I didn't really make the connection right away. It had been fourteen years or so since I read the books, and "Rivendell" the place didn't really stand out for me. Plus I'm just slow that way.
I'll probably start reading them to my oldest rather soon. Right now going through the L. Frank Baum Oz books which have a lot of the same elements in them. Bonus question: Anybody re-read the LOTR books after seeing the movies, and did that make the books better/worse for you when you read them again? On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Rick <richardholc...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I was a hardcore Tolkein fan from an early age, read everything I > could get my hands on, (Farmer Giles of Ham?) and I have to confess > that when I first encountered RBW, I didn't make the connection. I > was looking on the Waterford website (because a friend had a Gunnar in > a nice color-of-the-month, and it was steel; but was looking for > something with more than one purpose, and lacked the spandex). So on > Waterford there was a link to RBW, one of only a few links, and when I > clicked on it, there was the shot of a cyclist on a trail with a wee > baggins on mark's rack on the front, approaching a small creek, > and . . . it was as if somebody had made a parody of my ideal cycling > shot. For a split second, I did feel as if someone was mocking me. > It was just too accurate. > > The bike was spot on, but I think some percentage of it was also > probably the bag. I have always had a fondness for the c.c. filson > company and the canvas and the wool. When I finally noticed the > Tolkein, I laughed out loud, partly at the confluence of interests, > partly at my mental indolence. > > I like the previously suggested "murder of" but would assign it to > bombadils. Collectively, I don't mind gaggle. (Not so) Specifically, > it should be a rake of ... (romulus, redwood, road, rambouillet, even > rivendells) something alliterative. > > Rick. > > On Feb 2, 1:53 pm, Bill Gibson <bill.bgib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Oh yeah! Sorry; it must be "middle age"... > > > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Seth Vidal <skvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Bill Gibson <bill.bgib...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > But I followed him online > > >> for awhile; no examples of the Rivendell bikes were available to me > > >> until I saw one at a Seattle Bike Show in 1987? 1988? 1989? > > > > > I think you must mean 1997, or 1998. > > > > > -sv > > > > -- > > Bill Gibson > > Tempe, Arizona, USA > > > -- Cheers, David Redlands, CA --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
