The Carrock Northern California Smial. Join us for our next meeting. Tuesday February 17 8-9pm pacific on Zoom. Theme: Love. Use our Google form to sign up or email us at thecarrocksmial@gmail.com
Hope to see folks at the next Carrock Smial meeting. Click the link in our bio to sign up for our mailing list and Discord!
The Carrock: Northern Calfironia Smial Join us for a Smial meeting Tuesday January 20 8-9 pm pst on Zoom Theme: Tom Emanuel's "The Tale We've Fallen Into" link to paper and video of the talk in info email Use our Google Form to sign up or email us at: thecarrocksmial@gmail.com
Come join the Carrock Smial for some Tolkien talk on Jan 20!
Link in bio to sign up for our mailing list and Discord!
Hope to see all you Carrock members for our meeting on Tuesday! More info below. And any new folks who would like to join us, please sign up at the link in our bio and you will be sent the link for the Zoom!
Check our bio for a link to sign up for our email list and Discord
The Carrock Northern California Smial. Join us for a Smial meeting Tuesday December 16 8-9 PM PST on Zoom Theme: The glorious gifts of Tolkien's Legendarium Use our Google form to sign up or email is at thecarrocksmial@gmail.com
Please give us the GIFT of your presence at our December Smial meeting!
Happy Thanksgiving, Carrock Smial! Thankful for the community we have built together and the fellowship we have enjoyed this year. Wishing you all a great day, however you are spending it.
We do have an email mailing list. If you click on the link in our bio, it will take you to our link tree where you can sign up for the email list, and also join our Discord. Hope you can make the Dec meeting on Dec 16. I will be sending out more info for that soon.
Braved public transit to Pleasanton to meet up with some Bay Area Carrock Smial folks at the Inklings cafe. A bit of a trek, but worth it for Tolkien or Lewis fans to check out. @thecarrocksmial.bsky.social
Thank you for joining us! It's such a great group of folks. It's always as fun time every month! Just posted info about our next meeting, and the email should be coming out soon.
A beige background with a picture of a pumpkin. The text of the picture reads "The Carrock Northern California Smial. Join us in November for a festive meeting of The Carrock Smial. Tuesday November 18 8-9pm pacific on Zoom. Theme: Fabulous Feasts. Use our Google form to sign up or email us at thecarrocksmial@gmail.com
Come join us with as we discuss feasts and food in Tolkien's legendarium at our next Carrock Smial meeting.
Sign up for our mailing list/Discord so you won't miss the announcement for our next meeting where our theme will be "feasting!"
We had a really great discussion last night at our October meeting. The theme was "terrifying Tolkien." We read some poetry, had a really interesting talk about Tolkien's use of the word "horror" vs. "terror," the different types of horror, and the Watcher in the Water.
Hope to see you all tonight!
A green background with a picture of a lighthouse. The text of the picture reads "The Carrock Northern California Smial. Join us in October for a very spooky meeting of The Carrock Smial. Tuesday October 21 8-9pm pacific on Zoom. Theme: Terrifying Tolkien. Use our Google form to sign up or email us at thecarrocksmial@gmail.com
The Carrock Smial hopes that you will join us for our October Smial meeting on Oct 21. More info below. And also use the link in our bio to sign up for our mailing list and Discord!
We hope to see you all tomorrow at the September Carrock Smial meeting!
A graphic that reads the following: The Carrock Nothern California Smial: Join us in September for our next meeting, Tuesday Sept 23 8-9 PM pacific on Zoom. Theme: Healing. Use our Google form to sign up or email us at thecarrocksmial@gmail.com
Come join The Carrock Smial at our September meeting! Join our mailing list or Discord at the link in our bio.
Looking forward to meeting tomorrow night on Zoom!
A green background with a picture of a lighthouse. The text of the picture reads "The Carrock Northern California Smial. Join us for our next meeting. Tuesday August 26 8-9pm pacific on Zoom. Theme: Estel Use our Google form to sign up or email us at thecarrocksmial@gmail.com
Join The Carrock Northern California Smial on August 26 to talk about the role of estel (or hope) in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Link in bio to join our Discord or get on our email list.
A reminder that our July meeting is coming up this Tuesday. Looking forward to seeing everyone. Information in repost below.
Join us for our next meeting. Tuesday, July 22, 8:00-9:00 PM pacific on Zoom. All are welcome! Theme: Women in Tolkien in celebration of the Mythopoeic Society's Online Midsummer Seminar: " More Perilous and Fair: Women and Gender in Mythopoeic Fantasy" Use our Google form to sign up or email us at thecarrocksmial@gmail.com
Hey all! We hope you will join the Carrock Northern California Smial for our July meeting. Info below, and use the link in our bio to sign up for our mailing list and Discord!
Thanks to everyone who made it to our meeting tonight! It was such a great talk from @clarelmoore.bsky.social and I'm so glad so many folks came to hear it. Our next meeting will be on July 22 on Zoom and our theme will be "women and Tolkien." More details to come soon!
It's not an absolute necessity, but It might be worth rereading the Lothlorien chapter of Fellowship.
Just a few days until our June meeting. This is going to be a great one, with guest speaker Clare Moore.
Thank you for being our first guest speaker! Really looking forward to this! Don't miss it, folks!
Join us for the June meeting of The Carrock Smial. June 24, 2025 8:00-9:00 pm PST on Zoom. Special guest, Clare Moore, discussing (Dis)ability &Faerie: Frodo in Lothlorien. Use our Google form to sign up or email us at thecarrocksmial@gmail.com
Come join us at The Carrock Smial for our June meeting, where we are very excited to welcome guest speaker @clarelmoore.bsky.social ! Clare is awesome, so you don't want to miss this one. Sign up for our mailing list or join our Discord at the link in our bio!
It was so great to see everyone at our Carrock meeting last night. It is always a blast, and I look forward to our next meeting on June 24, when we will have our first guest speaker, the amazing @clarelmoore.bsky.social !!
A graphic for the Carrock Smial meeting, May 27, 2025. It has a light blue background with flying birds silhouetted against the background, invoking the idea of memory. There is also the Carrock logo in the lower left corner, showing the bear on top of the Carrock from The Hobbit. The theme of the meeting is Tolkien and Memory.
Tomorrow is the next meeting of the Carrock Smial @thecarrocksmial.bsky.social! It is on Zoom from 8-9 PM pacific, all are welcome to join!
Please sign up using our Google form so we can send you all the deets.
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We also have a fun Discord! discord.gg/8DxzAhvPVn
A commemorative coin with a sailboat and the word "Westmoot"
This is very cool swag!
#westmoot #westmoot25 #intothewest
a museum plaque that mentions J.R.R. Tolkien
Found a familiar name during the WW1 Museum tour
Despite the unfortunate lack of a comma there, I will not, in fact, be wearing a large Carrock button on my beard.
