Next Meetings
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April 27: The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
May 18: The Dark Lord’s Daughter by Patricia C. Wrede
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- Carol Kendall
- Caroline Stevermer and Patricia C. Wrede
- Douglas A. Anderson
- Eleanor Arnason
- A Brief History of the Order of St. Cyprian-the-Athlete by Eleanor Arnason
- A Woman of the Axe-Grinder People
- About Eleanor Arnason’s Ring of Swords
- An Arnason Note
- Eleanor Arnason bibliography
- Review of A Woman of the Iron People
- Ring of Swords: An Appreciation
- The Small Black Box of Morality by Eleanor Arnason
- Vampires and Aliens
- Jack Zipes
- Jane Yolen
- Joan Marie Verba
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- Lucy M. Boston
- Margaret Howes
- Michael M. Levy and Sandra Lindow
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- Comments about Smith’s Wren, by C. Lenander
- Comments by D. Lenander on The Paper Grail
- Comments on 1996 MFA/MSA nominees
- Comments on Blaylock’s All the Bells on Earth
- Comments on Brittle Innings by Michael Bishop
- Comments on Elizabeth Hand’s Waking the Moon
- Comments on Kenneth Morris’s The Dragon Path
- Evangeline Walton, remembered
- G. Funk discusses Cooper, Gray, Jones, and Smith novels
- Houghton Mifflin LotR 1999 Press Release
- Kaveny reviews H. P. Lovecraft
- Kaveny reviews JRRT Artist & Illustrator
- Krentz reviews two Books by Kara Dalkey
- Krentz reviews Waugh and Gray novels
- Last Homely Hearth newsletter
- Once Upon A Time (apa)
- Reports from Ruth Berman
- The Hobbit on Stage
- Wynne reviews Possession by A.S. Byatt
- Event Archives
- Meeting Archives
- A Woman of the Iron People discussion
- C. S. Lewis discussion – The Dark Tower
- Caroline Stevermer discussions, 10-15-88 and 10-25-14
- List of past Rivendell topics from 1980 to 1985
- List of past Rivendell topics from 1997 to 2010
- Lloyd Alexander discussion
- Phyllis Eisenstein discussion
- Readings from Rivendell 12-12-15
- Readings from Rivendell 12-12-2020
- Readings from Rivendell, 12-1-2018
- Readings from Rivendell, 12-10-16
- Readings from Rivendell, 12-13-14
- Readings from Rivendell, 12-14-19
- Readings from Rivendell, 12-9-17
- Rivendell Discussion October 1, 2016 – Eleanor Arnasons’s Hwarhath Stories
- Rivendell Meeting January 30, 2021 – The Ten Thousand Doors of January
- Rivendell Meeting September 19, 2015 – Hobbit Birthday Party
- Rivendell meeting-November 22, 2014-Hobbit movie discussion
- Rivendell Meeting, January 9, 2016 – The Goblin Emperor
- Rivendell Meeting, April 20, 2019 – Jane Yolen
- Rivendell meeting, April 24, 2021 – Snow White Learns Witchcraft by Theodora Goss
- Rivendell Meeting, April 30, 2016 – Rusalka
- Rivendell Meeting, April 7, 2018, Lois McMaster Bujold
- Rivendell Meeting, August 15, 2015 – Catherynne M. Valente
- Rivendell meeting, August 16, 2014 – Moomins
- Rivendell meeting, August 17, 2019 – Seanan McGuire
- Rivendell Meeting, August 20, 2016 – Edward Eager, Seven Day Magic
- Rivendell Meeting, August 20, 2022 – The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker
- Rivendell Meeting, August 26, 2017, Mythcon discussion with David Emerson and David Lenander
- Rivendell Meeting, August 28, 2021 – Readings from Rivendell
- Rivendell Meeting, August 29, 2020 – Author Readings
- Rivendell meeting, December 3, 2022 – Readings from Rivendell
- Rivendell Meeting, December 4, 2021 – Readings From Rivendell
- Rivendell Meeting, February 14, 2015 – Charles Williams Poetry
- Rivendell meeting, February 17, 2018 – Theodore Sturgeon
- Rivendell Meeting, February 20, 2016 – Naomi Kritzer
- Rivendell meeting, February 24, 2024 – One of Me Is Missing by Laramie Sasseville
- Rivendell Meeting, February 26, 2017 – Battle of the Five Armies movie
- Rivendell Meeting, February 26, 2022, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- Rivendell Meeting, February 27, 2021 – Caroline Stevermer, The Glass Magician
- Rivendell Meeting, February 8, 2020 – Ursula LeGuin, Earthsea
- Rivendell Meeting, February 9, 2019 – Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London
- Rivendell meeting, January 10, 2015 – Britomart
- Rivendell Meeting, January 11, 2020, Jonathan Auxier
- Rivendell Meeting, January 12, 2019 : Theodora Goss
- Rivendell Meeting, January 20, 2018 – Tom Siddell
- Rivendell Meeting, January 27, 2024 – Brian Attebery – Fantasy How It Works
- Rivendell meeting, January 28, 2023 – Twelve: A Retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Joan Marie Verba
- Rivendell Meeting, January 29, 2022, Jack Zipes, Little Mole and Honey Bear
- Rivendell meeting, January 7, 2017 – Hrolf Kraki Saga
- Rivendell Meeting, July 16, 2016 – OZ
- Rivendell Meeting, July 18, 2015 – Desolation of Smaug movie
- Rivendell meeting, July 19, 2014 – Green Knowe series
- Rivendell Meeting, July 20, 2019 – Three Parts Dead, Max Gladstone
- Rivendell Meeting, July 22, 2023 – Jack Zipes
- Rivendell Meeting, July 23, 2017 – Michael Levy & Farah Mendlesohn
- Rivendell Meeting, July 23, 2022 – Encanto
- Rivendell Meeting, July 24, 2021 – Jennifer Jodell – Caring for Humanity in a Post-Apocalyptic World
- Rivendell Meeting, July 27-29, 2018 – Charlie Jane Anders
- Rivendell meeting, June 13, 2015 – Franny Billingsley
- Rivendell Meeting, June 16, 2018 – Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, The River Bank, Kij Johnson
- Rivendell meeting, June 17, 2017 – Brian Attebery, Stories about Stories
- Rivendell Meeting, June 17, 2023 – Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
- Rivendell Meeting, June 18, 2016, Lord Dunsany
- Rivendell Meeting, June 22, 2019 – Ka by John Crowley
- Rivendell Meeting, June 26, 2021: The Seal-Wife motif in folklore and fairy tales with Samantha Crain
- Rivendell Meeting, March 11, 2023 – P. C. Hodgell, Deathless Gods
- Rivendell Meeting, March 12, 2016 – Michael Ward’s Planet Narnia
- Rivendell Meeting, March 17, 2018 – Ursula Le Guin
- Rivendell meeting, March 21, 2015 – Secret Murder by Ellen Kuhfeld
- Rivendell Meeting, March 23, 2019, Gregory Maguire, Egg and Spoon
- Rivendell Meeting, March 25, 2017 – David Emerson reads from his paper
- Rivendell Meeting, March 26, 2022 – Beowulf translation and commentary by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Rivendell Meeting, March 27, 2021 – P. C. Hodgell, By Demons Possessed
- Rivendell Meeting, March 31, 2024 – T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon), Nettle and Bone
- Rivendell Meeting, May 11, 2019 – Tomi Adeyemi
- Rivendell Meeting, May 13, 2017 – Modern Surprises and Wondry Dragon Finds a Home by Joan Marie Verba
- Rivendell Meeting, May 19, 2018 – Madeleine L’Engle
- Rivendell meeting, May 2, 2015 – Ruth Berman’s translation of fairy tales of Louise Cavelier Levesque
- Rivendell Meeting, May 20, 2023 – Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison
- Rivendell Meeting, May 21, 2016 – The Fisherman and His Soul
- Rivendell Meeting, November 10, 2018, John Bellairs, The House with a Clock In Its Walls
- Rivendell Meeting, November 18, 2017 – Brian Farrey
- Rivendell Meeting, November 18, 2023: The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
- Rivendell Meeting, November 19, 2016 – Eric M. Heideman and Roy C. Booth’s Raiders of the Seventh Planet
- Rivendell Meeting, November 20, 2021 – A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
- Rivendell Meeting, November 21, 2015 – Terry Pratchett
- Rivendell Meeting, November 23, 2019 – Tolkien movie
- Rivendell Meeting, October 10, 2015 – Kelly Barnhill
- Rivendell Meeting, October 13, 2018 – Charles Williams
- Rivendell Meeting, October 21, 2023 – The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
- Rivendell Meeting, October 24, 2020 – David Emerson, Mythology in Animation
- Rivendell Meeting, October 26, 2019, Naomi Novik
- Rivendell Meeting, October 28, 2017 – Jack Zipes
- Rivendell Meeting, October 30, 2021 – Defying the Ghosts by Joan Marie Verba
- Rivendell meeting, September 17, 2016 – Hobbits’ Birthday Party
- Rivendell meeting, September 21, 2019 – Hobbit Birthday Party
- Rivendell Meeting, September 22, 2018 – Hobbits’ Birthday Party
- Rivendell Meeting, September 23, 2017 – Hobbits’ Birthday Party
- Rivendell Meeting, September 24, 2022 – Rings of Power
- Rivendell Meeting, September 25, 2021 – Hobbit Birthday Party
- Rivendell Meeting, September 26, 2020, Hobbit Birthday celebration
- The Fathergod Experiment discussion
- The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars discussion
- Tolkien’s Fall of Arthur, 9-25-14
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Welcome!
For almost 50 years, the Rivendell Group has been meeting regularly on or near the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus to study, discuss and enjoy myth, fantasy and imaginative literature in the traditions of J.R.R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, Christina Rossetti, … Continue reading
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Rivendell Photos, Old and New
Photo from our September ’06 discussion with Katherine Kohman, author of Lembas for the Soul, a joint meeting with The Minnesota Tolkien Society: (A photo from a Readings from Rivendell meeting from many years back. Terry Garey, on the … Continue reading
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More about the Rivendell Discussion Group
Elsewhere on this site are some reflections on reading Tolkien by David Lenander that were intended for the Mythlore Tolkien memorial issue, but which were never used, and which included an account of Rivendell activities from years ago. As of … Continue reading
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