# Sing and rejoice, ye fans of Tolkien... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 1, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sing-and-rejoice-ye-fans-of-tolkien/809846 "2018-03-01T19:01:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sing-and-rejoice-ye-fans-of-tolkien/809846/1 "2018-03-01T19:01:19Z")
…[Back To Middle-Earth Month](https://b2mem.dreamwidth.org/profile) is here again! I discovered B2MEM three years ago. I _love_ the Tolkien fandom, and having a month of new fics every day makes March one of my favorite months. It’s like camping out in a library, only everything is Tolkien! I’m, um, not very articulate in spreading the word. I don’t really know how to say how excited I am in a way that gets other people excited too. But I just wanted to let you guys know about it, if you don’t already. [My favorite fic from last year](https://b2mem.dreamwidth.org/465734.html) [My favorite fic from the year before](https://b2mem.dreamwidth.org/339589.html) ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sing-and-rejoice-ye-fans-of-tolkien/809846/2 "2018-03-01T20:04:27Z")
Thank you for sharing this. I will be checking it out. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sing-and-rejoice-ye-fans-of-tolkien/809846/3 "2018-03-02T03:17:29Z")
Tolkien fandom is a big place. There are many groups, publications, and websites related to it which have many ways of appreciating Tolkien and related literature. I recommend the Mythopoeic Society and Mythcon: [http://www.mythsoc.org/](http://www.mythsoc.org/) ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sing-and-rejoice-ye-fans-of-tolkien/809846/4 "2018-04-02T01:22:33Z")
And now another March has passed into the West. Another month of stories long and short, joyful and tragic, and simply thought-provoking. This was a very unusual B2MEM for me- I never thought I’d be participating, let alone three times. It was a dizzying experience, to publish a story on the internet and to have to writers I’ve followed and recc’d and fangirled over reading something I wrote. I think my favorite story this year was a very short (hasty?) one, about where Ents got their [distinct verbal tics](https://b2mem.dreamwidth.org/522055.html). Headcanon accepted. If any of you were following Back To Middle-Earth Month, how did you like it? What was your favorite story? ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sing-and-rejoice-ye-fans-of-tolkien/809846/5 "2019-03-04T22:47:09Z")
['Tis the season once more.](https://b2mem.dreamwidth.org/) (This bump is a few days late, but I’ve been a bit distracted with reading, writing, and reading in order to put off having to write). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![HyacinthBucket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hyacinthbucket/32/3063_2.png) [@HyacinthBucket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HyacinthBucket)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sing-and-rejoice-ye-fans-of-tolkien/809846/6 "2019-03-12T04:27:00Z")
Thanks very much for the reminder! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sing-and-rejoice-ye-fans-of-tolkien/809846/7 "2019-03-12T13:55:31Z")
Yes, indeed. And see this thread as to the upcoming Tolkien biopic: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=872189](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=872189)