The Tolkien Society of Kansas City

  November 2023: Updates from the Smial of the Withywindle Announcements: This month, we'll be having a virtual meeting on Discord, a week earlier than usual.  Then, on January 3, the annual Toast to the Professor, in real life.  Details below. The Next Meeting of the Tolkien Society: Wednesday, December 20, 6:30 PM We'll be meeting via Discord, to give our remote members an opportunity to join in.  At the last meeting, we discussed reading Farmer Giles of Ham.  Please note, we'll be meeting a week earlier than usual this month! Also, please bring any ideas you have for readings for next year. To join our Discord, email tolkiensocietykc@gmail.com The Toast to the Professor Update!  Plans have been finalized, we will meet at ReRoll Tavern, 7-9PM on January 3.  Toast will be at 9PM. Our tentative plan is to meet at ReRoll Tavern (or possibly at their holiday pop-up next door) on Wednesday, January 3, at 7PM, for the annual Toast to the Professor, to cele...

  October 2023: Updates from the Smial of the Withywindle Ok, so this month's newsletter is a little late, I was tied up at World Fantasy Convention late in the month, and since then I've been catching up on things.  You'd think a retired person would be caught up all the time, but here we are. - Bob Clark, Chief Newsletter Hobbit Announcements: Online meeting in November, back to The Silmarillion , Hobbit Party, MiddleMoot report... As we mentioned last month, we're going to try doing some meetings on Discord, for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that some of our members are remote, and this gives them an opportunity to join in.  More details below. At our October meeting, we discussed Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.   We're going back to be reading from The Silmarillion  for our November meeting. I attended MiddleMoot in October, and I wrote up my report below. We haven't had a Hobbit Party in some time, and we're hoping to hold Hobbit Christ...

  September 2023: Updates from the Smial of the Withywindle Hobbit Day has Come and Gone Like Bilbo and Frodo This month's meeting appropriately met on Hobbit Day (September 22nd), the day that Bilbo and Frodo left the Shire.  We turn now to the spooky month of October and (hopefully) a cooler fall season! Announcements:  Meeting date change, book for October, more... We met this past Friday at ReRoll Tavern, to talk about Beren and Luthien, and play some retro Tolkien games on their PS2.  (ReRoll's PS2, I mean.  I don't think B&L have one...) We've noticed that several folks frequently have other commitments on Fridays, so we're going to try meeting on the fourth Wednesday of the month, which was a date that worked for all of us in attendance.  We'll see how that works out.  If you have better ideas about a meeting date for the future, don't hesitate to bring them up on Discord! Also, we're going to meet at Apparition Spookeasy in October!  T...

 August 2023:  Updates from the Smial of the Withywindle Another Scorcher Well, August certainly came in like a lion and is leaving like one too: with any luck this will be the last of an extremely hot summer.  I hope cooler times are ahead! Latest Library Lecture Series Comes to an End This summer we had three lectures at Mid-Continent Public Libraries (MCPL).  Our final lecture for the series, "Exploring Frank Herbert's 'Dune'" will be this Wednesday, August 30th at 6pm at MCPL South Independence Library.  We look forward to seeing you all there! The Next Meeting of the Tolkien Society: Friday, September 22nd at 6:30pm For September's meeting, please plan on reading Chapter 18 'Of Beren and Luthien' in The Silmarillion as well as the companion book, 'Beren and Luthien.'  We will be discussing Tolkien's many interpretations of this Great Tale.  If you don't have time to read all of Christopher Tolkien's notes, don't fret!  His ...

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