The Tolkien Society of Kansas City

Our March meeting was at the Lansing Library, where we did a Tolkien Reading for Tolkien Reading Day, with some members in costume.  Then we went back to the home of some local members for our usual discussion. Our April meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 22, at 6:30 PM.  This month, we'll be back at the Irish Center, at Drexel Hall, at 3301 Baltimore Ave, Kansas City, MO.  Enter through the main entrance on Baltimore. The reading for this month is The Two Towers, Book Four (book four being the second part of that volume) Chapters II - IV.

 Our March meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 25, at 6:00 PM, please note the earlier time! That also happens to be Tolkien Reading Day, which commemorates the destruction of The One Ring, and the fall of Sauron.  So we'll be celebrating with a program at Lansing Library, 730 1st Terrace, Lansing, KS.  We'll be doing a reading from Tolkien, and there will be crafts.  Everyone who can is encouraged to dress in costume, and be ready to answer questions about Tolkien and the books.  It will be a fun, casual program for all ages! If we end up having time and energy left after that, we'll be discussing the last two chapters of Book III and the first chapter of Book IV, in The Two Towers.  But if not, we'll save those chapters for April!

Our February meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 25, at 6:30 PM.  This month we'll be reading chapters VII - IX of the first half of The Two Towers.   For our meeting location, we've got good news!  Starting this month, we'll be meeting at Drexel Hall, at 3301 Baltimore Ave, Kansas City, MO.  We can bring our own food and drink.  This will relieve the overcrowding we've had recently.  There will be occasional conflicts during the year that we may have to work around, but it should be an excellent location for us.  

The December party was a great success, with a White Oliphant exchange, and plenty of po-ta-toes and other appropriate delicacies.  Many thanks to Steve and Cindy for hosting! We took a break from our reading in TLOTR for the month of December, to discuss Letters to Father Christmas , so for January we're back on track, reading chapters IV - VI of the first half of The Two Towers .  We'll be meeting at Cardboard Corner once again, at 6:30 on January 28.  The address is 9240 Metcalf Ave, Overland Park, KS We're currently researching a new venue, since we've outgrown the 12-person limit for the Cardboard Corner rooms.  We've got some ideas that we'll be investigating this month.

At the recent November meeting, we discussed the first three chapters of The Two Towers, chapters I - III.  Once again, we had a large crowd!  We're going to be looking for a bigger space to meet, since we've outgrown the rooms at Cardboard Corner. For December, we're having a party, on Friday, December 19, starting at 6:00 PM.  We'll be having Tolkien-themed food, things like lembas bread, taters, anything else that you can think of.  We'll also have a White Oliphant gift exchange, so please bring a wrapped gift if you'd like to participate in that (Tolkien-themed gifts are recommended), and we'll discuss Letters to Father Christmas, so read that ahead of time if you're interested; also, we may watch the animated Hobbit movie, if time permits! Please email us at tolkiensocietykc@gmail.com to let us know you're coming, and we'll send you the address. And please post what food you're planning to bring, to the Discord and/or the email list, so ...

At the recent October meeting, we discussed the last four chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two Chapters VII - X.  We had what may have been our biggest crowd ever, at least since the start of the pandemic! We'll be holding our next meeting on Wednesday, November 19, at 6:30, at Cardboard Corner Cafe, at 9240 Metcalf Ave, Overland Park, KS.  PLEASE NOTE - This will be the THIRD Wednesday of the month, we've rescheduled to avoid Thanksgiving week.  We'll be in the Fantasy Room this time. We'll be discussing the first three chapters of The Two Towers, chapters I - III. For December, we're looking at having a Christmas Hangout/Party some time early in the month, location TBD.  If you have thoughts on what that can look like, feel free to discuss on Discord or the Google Group email list!