The Next Meeting of the Tolkien Society of Kansas City

At the recent January meeting, we discussed chapters 15 - 17 of The Hobbit, and then took turns reading aloud chapter 18.  Nine members were in attendance, including one new person!

We'll be holding our next meeting on Wednesday, February 26, at Cardboard Corner Cafe, at 9240 Metcalf Ave, Overland Park, KS.  We'll be in the Sci-Fi room, the more appropriate Fantasy Room being unavailable once again!  We'll be discussing the final chapter of The Hobbit, which is chapter 19 as well as The Quest for Erebor, which is available in Unfinished Tales, and also in The Annotated Hobbit.

We also made lots of plans for future events: (I stole heavily from Elizabeth's Discord post for the following!)

We talked about Westmoot, and having our folks involved volunteering as Stewards. Elizabeth will be organizing volunteers soon, email tolkiensocietykc@gmail.com for details.

We decided to start doing Hobbit Happy hour again, 2nd Mondays at 6:30pm - meeting virtually in the Party Tree channel on Discord.

Jordan, who does the LOTR Soundscape, will do a sample for us virtually on Feb 13th at 6:30pm (might be on Zoom, links to come)

We also agreed to start doing a blog again for the website (separate from newsletter), and everyone can take a turn each month contributing. Topic can be anything Tolkien related - e.g. comparing recipes out of the cookbooks from Christmas, Steve’s trip to NZ, thoughts on the movie we watched, collecting…anything that is fun or interesting to us!  Contact the email address if you have an idea for a post you'd like to submit!

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