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Showing posts with label Mythgard Institute. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mythgard Institute. Show all posts
05 June 2017

Wonder Invoked -- On the Uses of Enchantment

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Trying to find my room on day one of Mythmoot The theme of the most recent Mythmoot --  held just this past weekend in the Khaza...
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05 January 2017

Mythmoot IV -- A New Hope

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Here it is, folks, the very first, entirely unofficial, totally parodic, commercial for Mythmoot IV. (That may or may not be Harold Bloom...
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03 November 2015

A Few Poems, mostly silly, from Mythgard's "Almost an Inkling" Writing Contest

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First the rather ridiculous, a couple of clerihews , none too good: Sauron Moron No Ring Nothing. *** Ar-Pharazôn Beyond compari...
14 October 2015

Hobbit Verses Versus Verses by Hobbits: Orality, Poetry, and Literacy in Bilbo's Shire

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On Saturday 3 October I had the good fortune to attend the The Mythgard Institute 's Midatlantic Speculative Fiction Symposium at the ...
28 September 2015

An Allusion to Rupert Brooke in Tolkien?

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In addressing the assumptions of some readers that The Lord of the Rings  was about World War II, Tolkien reminds us that he had been in Wor...
04 July 2015

Not What You Might Expect From Beowulf

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A few months back I began a project I had long wished to undertake.  Ever since I was a lad and first read The Lord of the Rings,  I had wa...
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28 March 2015

Again That Vile Creature, With A Special Guest Appearance by Grendel

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In a series of recent posts I've been analyzing the portrayal of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings  prior to his entry to the stage in Th...