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I have published the eighth issue of my online myth magazine Journey to the Sea [http://journeytothesea.com/]. This issue includes an article by society member...
hoytrand
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Feb 2, 2009
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20325
Greetings! Welcome to my newsletter for January, 2009! Please feel free to forward this to anyone you think would be interested in keeping up with me. To...
jef.murray
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Feb 6, 2009
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20326
Greetings! Two bits of news came up just after I'd sent out my newsletter for February that I thought I'd share now rather than postponing. First, the St....
jef.murray
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Feb 10, 2009
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... From: "Susan Sielinski" <susansielinski@...> To: <mythsoc-owner@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:50:56 -0500 Subject: Odyssey Writing...
Joan.Marie.Verba@...
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Feb 10, 2009
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I attended Odyssey in 2006 and highly recommend it. I thought I knew a few things about writing, but I learned enough in the first week that if I had to go...
Ellen
wrexali
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Feb 10, 2009
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The deadline for submitting nominations for the 2009 Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards (Adult Literature and Children's Literature) and the Mythopoeic Scholarship...
Oberhelman, D
davidoberhelman
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Feb 12, 2009
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Do any of you know of any estimates of the number of Tolkien fans worldwide? Especially (but not necessarily) with a comparison of fans of the books vs. fans...
Cole Matson
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Feb 14, 2009
5:39 pm
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Cole, It depends what numbers you're measuring. This list says that The Lord of the Rings has sold about 150 million copies: ...
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wendell_wagner
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Feb 14, 2009
6:01 pm
20332
What are you considering to be a Tolkien fan? Someone who's read the book? For the films, someone who's seen them? That's excessively generous. Or, someone...
David Bratman
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Feb 14, 2009
6:13 pm
20333
My publisher tells me that my book, _Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion_, should be released within the next two weeks. ...
Doug Kane
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Feb 14, 2009
6:16 pm
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David, I definitely think that you count as nine Tolkien fans! :-) _____ From: mythsoc@yahoogroups.com [mailto:mythsoc@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David...
Doug Kane
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Feb 14, 2009
6:28 pm
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Just to make the link clickable: http://www.arda-reconstructed.com/ _____ From: mythsoc@yahoogroups.com [mailto:mythsoc@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Doug Kane...
Doug Kane
voronwe1
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Feb 14, 2009
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20336
... But am I therefore likely to see some film about Tolkien nine times?...
David Bratman
dbratman1
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Feb 14, 2009
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... Probably not, if they are anything like the Jackson films! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Doug Kane
voronwe1
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Feb 14, 2009
7:15 pm
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Actually, I've seen Jackson's Fellowship five times, a number that fills me with horror. But I had good reasons. The first time was to see what all the fuss...
David Bratman
dbratman1
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Feb 14, 2009
9:02 pm
20339
Well, it could be worse. You could have seen the Bakshi film five times, or worse, the Rankin-Bass debacle ROTK. Remember Saruman/Aruman with his twenty pounds...
Marc Drayer
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Feb 14, 2009
9:09 pm
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... Yes, I still chuckle when I think, "It's still round!" ... And such an excellent essay it was, too. Consider your sacrifice to have been well worth it. ...
David Emerson
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Feb 14, 2009
10:51 pm
20341
I just noticed that this note, which I had meant to forward to the list back in December, probably never went out. It concerns one of the books that our list...
David Lenander
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Feb 15, 2009
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20342
Hi, (Not sure if this is off-topic of not - if so, many apologies...) Does anyone know of any other authors who write in a similar vein to Charles Williams?...
John Davis
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Feb 16, 2009
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You might enjoy the books of Tim Powers. His _Declare_ is the novel which most shows his Christianity. (He's a Catholic Christian.) All of his novels are...
Berni Phillips
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Feb 16, 2009
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Hi Berni, Thanks for that - I'll give them a try. Although it is probably the non-Christian elements of Williams' books that most appeal to me, which is to say...
John Davis
mcxg46
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Feb 17, 2009
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John, Try Gustav Meyrink's The Golem (1915). It's just one novel and so wouldn't tide you over much, I guess; but to me, it very much has a Charles Williams...
Jason Fisher
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Feb 17, 2009
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I told Mr. Barfield that I would forward his announcement to the discussion list as of general interest... ... David Lenander d-lena@... or...
David Lenander
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Feb 17, 2009
7:42 pm
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Just to clarify my previous message, the publisher now tells me that Amazon should have it in stock 4-6 weeks from when it is released, so it should be ...
Doug Kane
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Feb 18, 2009
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I have these books for anyone who might want to review them for Mythprint. Contact them and I will send them to you. Ginger McElwee gingermc@... From:...
Ginger McElwee
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Feb 18, 2009
3:58 am
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In that case, I'd suggest you go behind Williams and give Algernon Blackwood's JOHN SILENCE a try. And also Wm Yeats' "Rosa Alchemica" (most easily found,...
John D Rateliff
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Feb 18, 2009
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Thanks for everyone's suggestions. I'll give them all a try. John ... From: John D Rateliff To: mythsoc@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:33...
John Davis
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Feb 18, 2009
9:21 am
20351
This should interest the medievalists in the group. UCLA has created a catalog with links to as many online digitized images of complete medieval manuscripts...
David Bratman
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Feb 18, 2009
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I was so wrapped up in looking at the Old English stuff that I forgot to check the Middle English section, where one obvious gem is Cambridge Corpus Christi...
David Bratman
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Feb 18, 2009
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Has anyone received the February issue of Mythprint yet? emerdavid ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet ...
David Emerson
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