Saturday, January 7, 2017: Our topic is both the original Hrolf Kraki Saga, in any of various translations, and the Poul Anderson retelling in novel form, Hrolf Kraki Saga.
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Future meetings:November 23: Ink, Blood, Sister, Scribe by Emma Törzs
December 7: Readings from Rivendell
January 18, 2025: Summoned by Dragons by Joan Marie Verba
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- 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 27, 2024 – The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
- Rivendell Meeting, April 30, 2016 – Rusalka
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- 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, August 4, 2024 – Eleanor Arnason
- 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 18, 2024 – The Dark Lord’s Daughter by Patricia C. Wrede
- 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 26, 2024 – The Goodnight Agency by Tyler Tork
- 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 21, 2024 : 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
- Rivendell Meeting, June 22, 2024, Alex Jennings, The Ballad of Perilous Graves
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