#mythmoot — Public Fediverse posts

Last weekend I tried to start a rap-battle with a university president. #Mythmoot

Last weekend I tried to start a rap-battle with a university president. #Mythmoot

Sara Brown just spoke about #Tolkien as a war poet. His poems look internally, where the most famous WWI poets looked outward, bitterly and angrily, toward the people who weren’t on the front. Faërie is the means by which he jumped past those early Kübler-Ross stages. #Mythmoot

Sara Brown just spoke about #Tolkien as a war poet. His poems look internally, where the most famous WWI poets looked outward, bitterly and angrily, toward the people who weren’t on the front. Faërie is the means by which he jumped past those early Kübler-Ross stages. #Mythmoot

Prof. Dickieson would like to use #AI to become more human. I wish him luck. #Mythmoot https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2025/06/09/hnau-ai/

Prof. Dickieson would like to use #AI to become more human. I wish him luck. #Mythmoot https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2025/06/09/hnau-ai/

“Jakob Grimm used the word deutsch to mean whatever he wanted it to mean.” - Tom Shippey #Mythmoot

“Jakob Grimm used the word deutsch to mean whatever he wanted it to mean.” - Tom Shippey #Mythmoot

“#Shakespeare never made up his own plots. Except for The Tempest, which doesn’t have a plot.” -Liam Daley #Mythmoot

“#Shakespeare never made up his own plots. Except for The Tempest, which doesn’t have a plot.” -Liam Daley #Mythmoot

“#Tolkien is always writing alliterative verse, even when it’s rhymed and metrical.” - Corey Olsen #Mythmoot

“#Tolkien is always writing alliterative verse, even when it’s rhymed and metrical.” - Corey Olsen #Mythmoot

Who wants to paint fruit? I want to paint a balrog! #Mythmoot #Tolkien

Who wants to paint fruit? I want to paint a balrog! #Mythmoot #Tolkien

Donato Giancola is the keynote speaker at #Mythmoot. #Tolkien https://donatoarts.com/middle-earth

Donato Giancola is the keynote speaker at #Mythmoot. #Tolkien https://donatoarts.com/middle-earth

#Mythmoot XI has begun! #Tolkien

#Mythmoot XI has begun! #Tolkien

Today is Edith Sitwell’s birthday, so here’s a post about how I think she’s the grandmother of today’s rappers, and quite the opposite of #Tolkien. It’s half of a talk at #Mythmoot in 2020. #poetry

https://www.idiosophy.com/2020/08/j-r-r-tolkien-and-eminem-make-common-cause/

Today is Edith Sitwell’s birthday, so here’s a post about how I think she’s the grandmother of today’s rappers, and quite the opposite of #Tolkien. It’s half of a talk at #Mythmoot in 2020. #poetry

https://www.idiosophy.com/2020/08/j-r-r-tolkien-and-eminem-make-common-cause/

Stephen Cover informs us that the makers of “Legend of Zelda” were inspired by “Twin Peaks”?! #Mythmoot

Stephen Cover informs us that the makers of “Legend of Zelda” were inspired by “Twin Peaks”?! #Mythmoot

Taylor Johnson Guinan investigating the thematic properties of the Abhorsen’s House in Garth Nix. #Mythmoot #Fantasy

Taylor Johnson Guinan investigating the thematic properties of the Abhorsen’s House in Garth Nix. #Mythmoot #Fantasy

Kate Neville on how Aragorn doesn’t have a home, per se. That suits him well to be king of two places. #Tolkien #Mythmoot

Kate Neville on how Aragorn doesn’t have a home, per se. That suits him well to be king of two places. #Tolkien #Mythmoot

“There’s not as much space between #Tolkien and his Modernist contemporaries as we might think.” - Sørina Higgins #Mythmoot

“There’s not as much space between #Tolkien and his Modernist contemporaries as we might think.” - Sørina Higgins #Mythmoot

Sørina Higgins explores the possibilities of staging “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm’s Son” and how it can expand its meaning. #Tolkien #Mythmoot

Sørina Higgins explores the possibilities of staging “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm’s Son” and how it can expand its meaning. #Tolkien #Mythmoot

Brenton Dickieson on “negotiated symbiosis” in the works of Octavia Butler. #Mythmoot

Brenton Dickieson on “negotiated symbiosis” in the works of Octavia Butler. #Mythmoot

Jenn Rogers says #CSLewis tried three times to re-tell the Orpheus myth. He got it right in “The Silver Chair”. #Mythmoot

Jenn Rogers says #CSLewis tried three times to re-tell the Orpheus myth. He got it right in “The Silver Chair”. #Mythmoot

Jacob Schreiner talking about ghosts in Studio Ghibli movies. They seem fairly helpful to have around. #Mythmoot

Jacob Schreiner talking about ghosts in Studio Ghibli movies. They seem fairly helpful to have around. #Mythmoot

Attempted to be the communications officer in a human-in-the-loop simulation of the bridge of a Starfleet warship. Got blown up. #Mythmoot

Attempted to be the communications officer in a human-in-the-loop simulation of the bridge of a Starfleet warship. Got blown up. #Mythmoot

Stunning multi-media lecture by @Gabrielschenk around Tennyson’s “In Memoriam” at #Mythmoot

Stunning multi-media lecture by @Gabrielschenk around Tennyson’s “In Memoriam” at #Mythmoot

Ted Naismith talking about painting “home” at #Mythmoot.

Ted Naismith talking about painting “home” at #Mythmoot.

The plenary session at #Mythmoot kicks off.

The plenary session at #Mythmoot kicks off.

Prof. Dickieson plugs his upcoming conference paper, commemorates the #Mikmaq, talks about #ScienceFiction , and even gets in a little #gardening. #Mythmoot
https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2023/06/21/settler/

Prof. Dickieson plugs his upcoming conference paper, commemorates the #Mikmaq, talks about #ScienceFiction , and even gets in a little #gardening. #Mythmoot
https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2023/06/21/settler/

The #mythgard community and #signum are definitely musts for fans of #tolkien or his circle of friends, the #inklings, as well as other medieval and speculative literature.

Mythgard includes free online seminars and discussions. There is also an annual conference, #mythmoot, in the DC/Baltimore area, as well as various smaller one-day conferences throughout North America and London.

Signum University is a masters degree granting online institution recently licensed by the state of New Hampshire that also offers auditing of their courses. There are courses taught by a range of scholars in things ranging from Old Norse to C.S. Lewis to Science Fiction.

Dr Olsen, aka "The Tolkien Professor" has a couple of long-running podcasts under his own name and Mythgard Academy.

See mythgard.org as a starting point.

Whew! That's much longer than I'd normally post! But you did ask, @freemo ;-)