It's Not A Gandalf! (mini rant)

[ocpsdan]

+1 zanthal check out Robert Engel. Sp? You won't be dissappointed.
I get this all the time at the shop where I work. People ogle the pipe cabinets and exclaim, "oh! It's a gandalf pipe!"
I sigh, and begin educating. Can't fault the enthusiasm though.

 

[baronsamedi]

I gotta admit, Ian McKellen made it look really cool. This thread reminds me a little like the Hatfied thread. It's not going to be easy not calling Costner's pipe "the Hatfield" even after we find what the foxtrot it is.

 

[locopony]

I feel the same way about a certain pipe that is advertized as a Bilbo. Its a short round little pipe. Its a nice pipe, but if you want to make a pipe and call it by a certain name because you are inspired by them.....well good, but as a marketing gimmick .....get stuffed. Cyndi go get em tiger. I'm with ya.

 

[judcole]

The amusing thing is, in The Hobbit, Gandalf is smoking the short clay, and Bilbo is smoking the churchwarden.

 

[baronsamedi]

Yeah, you can't deny the influence of the Cinema.

 

[thebigar]

luna pipes gandalf!
luna pipes
hehe just playing devils advocate

 

[thebigar]

wow that pic ended up being HUGE

 

[bailey331]

The amusing thing is, in The Hobbit, Gandalf is smoking the short clay, and Bilbo is smoking the churchwarden.

True that Jud.

 

[ohiopuffer]

I think vauen made functional pipes that were movie replicas.

 

[barkar]

Ya they have been around since the third age of middle earth!....lol...Just kidding.... ::

 

[hobie1dog]

Too many pipes out there to keep up with.

 

[seanavan]

The Boswell's have a line of 'Wizard' pipes (here) that are altogether something different from churchwardens. I wonder how often they experience confusion on the part of the shopper.

 

[undecagon]

WHAT?!?! No way, I always believed there were only two styles of pipes in the world: "Gandalf" or "Sherlock Holmes"
Those guys invented pipes....or so I thought.... :?
Guess I'm out of the loop, I'll have to look more into this "truth" you speak of :nana:

 

[steyrshrek]

If it gets people interested and smoking pipes I could really care less what they call them. Then hopefully once they start smoking pipes people will nicely educate them (rather than bitch at them). Everybody starts somewhere and I'm sure everyone has mistakenly named some new object in their life.

 

[waznyf]

I can see where your frustration is coming from Cyndi. Just because Gandalf smoked one doesn't mean it is name that.

Just because "Joe" smokes Rhodesians doesn't mean we call it a "Joe" pipe.

The only reason I would side with it being called Gandalf is due to the fact that more people can relate it to Gandalf. If I had never heard of a Churchwarden I too would most likely call it a Gandalf pipe. It is for the uneducated pipers!

 

[steyrshrek]

What they mean when they say "I want a Gandalf pipe", is actually "I want a pipe like Gandalf's."

 

[busyhands94]

Cindi, just out of curiosity what length constitutes a churchwarden?

 

[winterland]

I never noticed the Boswells wizard pipes on their site before. One of them is a Churchwarden at least.

 

[lazydog]

Also, I think Gandalf himself would maybe be a bit upset. Maybe not. Did Bilbo Baggins smoke a pipe? Don't enter the Shire without a briar?

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

Wait, Churchwardens existed before that lame Trilogy. Shocking. What's more annoying to me than people calling them names after LotR is the fact they're LotR nerds and only smoke a pipe because of those movies. Everybody knows Star Wars is the greatest Trilogy. LOL
Of course that's just my opinion. I never could get into the LotR.