The Tolkien Society of Kansas City

 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.