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The Major Tolkien Societies
The Tolkien Society. Anyone interested in Tolkien should join the Tolkien Society. The society publishes Amon Hen, a newsletter that includes numerous articles and announcements of interest to the Tolkien collector. They also offer for sale a multitude of Tolkien items that are only available in England. They make payment easy by taking credit cards. Link to their site and sign up for membership.
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The Mythopoeic Society. The Mythopoeic Society is a non-profit international literary and educational organization for the study, discussion, and enjoyment of fantasy and mythic literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. Members of the Mythopoeic Society include scholars, writers, and readers of mythic and fantasy literature. The Society sponsors an annual Mythopoeic Conference (Mythcon), Discussion and Special Interest Groups, the Mythopoeic Awards, and three periodical publications
French Tolkien Society. This society publishes the Dictionary of Elven Languages. Although the society is French, this dictionary is in English.
Unquendor-The Dutch Tolkien Society.
 Forodrim. The Stockholm Tolkien Society, is a non-confessional, non-political association for people who love the works of the British author and philologist J.R.R. Tolkien. The word Forodrim is Sindarin Elvish, and it means People of the North. Forodrim was founded in 1972.
The University of Wisconsin Tolkien Society. The Tolkien Society at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was founded in September, 1966. It has been meeting once a month ever since (during the first several years, twice a month), with a very few misses here and there (e.g., there were a couple of years when the group did not meet during the summer, but usually it did). We discuss the work of Tolkien (fiction, poetry, scholarly work, drawings and illustrations) or related matters such as: critical essays about Tolkien; adaptations of Tolkien's work (movies, plays, radio drama, comics); the work of the Inklings and his other friends (such as C. S. Lewis, W. H. Lewis, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield); other fantasy and science fiction (e. g., E. R. Eddison, Kenneth Morris, William Morris, T. H. White, Peter S. Beagle, Ursula K. Le Guin, Patricia Wrightson, et al.); the literature of the Middle Ages (especially the works that Tolkien himself studied, such as the Old English Beowulf and the Middle English Sir Gawain and the Green Knight); world mythology (Tolkien was particularly interested in Germanic and Celtic myth); and language (invented languages like Quenya and Sindarin as well as primary world languages). Our journal, ORCRIST, appeared irregularly, and has not been published in some years, though we still may revive it sometime. Most back issues are out of print (numbers 1, 2, 4, 5, 6), but we still have some copies of others (numbers 3, 7, 8) - $1.00 each plus postage, for those who are interested. Namarie, Richard West 207 Wendt Engineering Library, 262-3536 . Contact Richard West for a schedule of speakers and other activities. Richard West
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