About the Turondo Potters
Before BoE, I had a hobby: making pottery. Fun, relaxing,
creative...all that good stuff. Every potter faces one
problem, though: eventually you become saturated with ceramic
pieces and have to figure out how to unload them.
Friends and family can soak up a certain amount of pottery at
first, but they, too, start to max out after a while. You get
to a point where you rather hope things will get broken, just to
give you an excuse to make a replacement. Fortunately, ceramics
are known to do just that, but unfortunately, the rate of breakage
generally doesn't keep up at all with the rate of
production--unless you supply the recipients with pet gorillas.
To make matters worse, Oregon has
more potters per capita than almost any other state (if not the
most). Which means that pottery is kind of like garden-grown
zucchini around these parts--you end up having to leave bags of
ceramics on your neighbor's porch when they're not home, since they
already have more than they need and are often making their
own!
The next logical step is to sell your pottery to strangers.
There is a nearly infinite supply of strangers out there, after all,
and some of them even have their own gorillas! Hence the origins of
Turondo Pottery (turondo being sort of Quenyan for
"master of stone").
These pieces are all hand made by two LOTR fans, myself and my
friend Kat. Each is a signed, unique work of art. Except for the
Chia Feet, all pieces are stoneware, suitable for use indoors or
out, and are food-, dishwasher-, and microwave-safe.