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March meeting, 3/14, 1–3 p.m. CT
Reading The Silmarillion, chapter 24, “Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath” and Verlyn Flieger’s “A Lost Tale A Found Influence: Earendel and Tinúviel.”
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Passcode: Smial
Image: Tuor comes to Gondolin during the Long Winter, by Ted Nasmith
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This month it’s all about Gondolin: reading Unfinished Tales, chapter 1: “Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin” and The Silmarillion, chapter 22, “Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin.”
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Our next meeting will take place on Jan. 10 at 1 p.m. Central.
Reading: The Silmarillion, chapter 21: On the Ruin of Doriath; also chapter 1 of Unfinished Tales, Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin.
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Meeting ID: 862 6418 6030
Passcode: Smial
Fëanor in dark colors, long dark hair, looking defiant and bearing the three shining Silmarils in a necklace on his breast.
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September 13, 1 p.m. Central Time
Reading: The Silmarillion chapters 5 through 13, Of the Return of the Noldor
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August 9, 1 p.m. Central Time
Reading: The Silmarillion, through chapter 4, Of Thingol and Melian
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June Meeting of Smial of Avallónë (Tolkien Society of Iowa City)
June 14, 1 p.m. Central Time
Reading:
• Verlyn Flieger’s Splintered Light (pp. 97–130)
• Tolkien: ”On Fairy-Stories,” “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics,” “Sigelwara Land”
——May 2025 meeting announcement——
Saturday, May 10, 1–4 p.m. Central Time
Location: Zoom (us02web.zoom.us/j/8626418603...)
Reading: Flieger’s Splintered Light, chapters 8 to 11 (“A Disease of Mythology” to “amazing wine and cellar doors”)
Gá-tirianna ‘na lothron – Toukokuun kokoukseen asti!
Brilliant colored light flashing through a field of stars, with beams and swirls containing musical notes and sound histogram waves, converging on a small sphere: the Music of the Ainur coalescing into the created world, Arda.
——April 2025 meeting announcement——
Saturday, April 12, 1–4 p.m. Central Time
This month we’ll continue our conversation about Verlyn Flieger’s Splintered Light. Reading for the month is everything up to chapter 8, “A Disease of Mythology.”
Location: Zoom
(Image: “Ainulindalë,” by Anubis1000)
Theodor Kittelsen's Fairy Dream (1909). A man in hiking clothes is ensnared by a glowing nude fairy-woman who floats above him.
——March 2025 meeting announcement——
Date and time: Saturday, March 8, 1–4 p.m. Central Time
Description:
We’ll continue our close reading of Verlyn Flieger’s Splintered Light, chapters 5–11 (pp. 45–95, 2d edition).
Extra credit: Tolkien, “The Monsters and the Critics”
Location: Zoom
On this day in 1983: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays is published. Edited by Christopher Tolkien, it is a collection of 7 essays (6 of which originally lectures) by #Tolkien, which relate to language, fairy-tales and fantasy, and medieval literature. #OTD
On 25 February, T.A. 3019 in Middle-earth: the Fellowship pass the Argonath, and then camp on the Parth Galen on the shores of Nen Hithoel.
The Argonath were erected around 1,800 years earlier and show Isildur and Anárion.
Image: The Argonath by Ted Nasmith #Tolkien
An excellent reading of “On Fairy-Stories.”
Theodor Kittelsen's Fairy Dream (1909). A man in hiking clothes is ensnared by a glowing nude fairy-woman who floats above him.
——March 2025 meeting announcement——
Date and time: Saturday, March 8, 1–4 p.m. Central Time
Description:
We’ll continue our close reading of Verlyn Flieger’s Splintered Light, chapters 5–11 (pp. 45–95, 2d edition).
Extra credit: Tolkien, “The Monsters and the Critics”
Location: Zoom
