Next 2 Tolkien Society Meetings
Each meeting we decide on some reading assignments to undertake before the following meeting. These assignments are COMPLETELY OPTIONAL, you do not need to have started or completed them in order to attend the meeting and be active. They arejust a way to give a little guidance and focus, but we welcome any other topics of discussion you may wish. So, with that disclaimer, here are the assignments for July's upcoming meeting:
- Read Tolkien Letter 13. Topic: international appeal for the Hobbit, especially in America. how JRRT felt about that, and his negative comment about Disney's dwarves.
- Also, there is a research challenge: Find any passages referring to elves, men, dwarves, and hobbits seeing underground or in the darkness. Is the urban legend true, that dwarves in Middle-Earth can see in absolute darkness? How do the races compare with each other in terms of night-vision? Email your comments through Tolkien Scholars email list, or use the contact form here: http://www.tolkienscholars.org/contact-info
We look forward to seeing you all at the next meeting.
Namarie!
--Hawke
Founder, Inland Empire Tolkien Society Smial for the Inland Northwest USA.
http://www.nwtolkien.org
Founder, Tolkien Moot and MerpCon (Tolkien conventions since 2005)
http://www.tolkienmoot.org
Founder occasional co-editor and contributor, Other Minds Magazine
http://www.omzine.org
Creator and co-host with Michael Martinez, Middle-earth Radio Talk Show
http://www.middle-earthtalk.com
Founder, Middle-earth Radio
http://www.middle-earthradio.com
Creator, Eä RPG and Numenor Project
http://www.earpg.com
Founder and Project Lead, RPG Research Project
http://rpgr.org
