knobbits found at mountain lake

[zach]

Knobbits - hand carved from cypress "knees" in designs inspired by
Tolkien. Many resemble Gandalf-like wizards.

I discovered these yesterday at Mountain Lake Resort in Southwest VA. I
thought some on the newsgroups might be interested and there's no previous
mention of knobbits according to the dejanews archives. A local
woodcarver, Bob Evans, has been carving the knobbits for over 20 years and
now has a Gallery at the Mountain Lake resort. There's also a website
where you can see a variety of knobbits: www.knobbit.com

(I am not affiliated with the carver in any way)

Zach

[Banazir the Jedi Hobbit]

zach <zho...@umbc.edu> wrote in message news:<Pine.SGI.4.31L.02.02070...@umbc7.umbc.edu>...

The URL doesn't seem to work for me ATM.

For a sec I thought you were referring to the User Friendly parody of LoTR:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19991018

--
Banazir the Jedi Knobbit

[Laurie J. Campos]

> zach <zho...@umbc.edu> reminded me of better days in message

news:<Pine.SGI.4.31L.02.02070...@umbc7.umbc.edu>...
> > Knobbits - hand carved from cypress "knees" in designs inspired by
> > Tolkien. Many resemble Gandalf-like wizards.
> >
> > I discovered these yesterday at Mountain Lake Resort in Southwest VA. I
> > thought some on the newsgroups might be interested and there's no
previous
> > mention of knobbits according to the dejanews archives. A local
> > woodcarver, Bob Evans, has been carving the knobbits for over 20 years
and
> > now has a Gallery at the Mountain Lake resort. There's also a website
> > where you can see a variety of knobbits: www.knobbit.com
> >

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Banazir the Esteemed Jedi Hobbit <hs...@hotmail.com> replied in message
news:91a1d472.02070...@posting.google.com...

> The URL doesn't seem to work for me ATM.
>

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Ahhh.... These posts brings back some wonderful memories.... I bought a
nice short hobbit
sized walking stick that he carved several years ago. When it is not in
use, I hang it on my wall...

Anyway, the web site is www.knobbits.com and he has been carving the most
wonderful
walking sticks for years.

HTH

--
Laurie Campos
(lca...@alum.mit.edu)

[Laurie Forbes]

"Banazir the Jedi Hobbit" <hs...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:91a1d472.02070...@posting.google.com...

> zach <zho...@umbc.edu> wrote in message
news:<Pine.SGI.4.31L.02.02070...@umbc7.umbc.edu>...
> > Knobbits - hand carved from cypress "knees" in designs inspired by
> > Tolkien. Many resemble Gandalf-like wizards.

[snip]

> The URL doesn't seem to work for me ATM.

http://www.knobbits.com/

Thanks, Zach!