Stef Midlock

The audio book of “Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many” is now available. Currently, I see it only on Amazon. I realize that many would prefer another source. It should be available on the @ksupress.bsky.social site quite soon. No doubt other vendors will follow.

Enjoy our live show from Oxonmoot! The slides are SO FUNNY! Sara and Kristine and truly the Meme Queens! 👑Don’t sleep on the slides! youtu.be/1HUBvRazbKU

I can’t believe that I have been lucky enough to be part of this show for two years! This Fellowship means so much to me. Their creativity, kindness, and care make @athraplay.athrabeth.com special. Thank you all for being the best, James, Velvet, Tori, Nik, Jude, and our amazing editor Tracy! 💚

Happy Hobbit day! I hope you can join us tonight on Zoom at 8 PM pacific!

Mark your calendars for October 3!

Excited to be the 1,778th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for The One Ring™ RPG: Bestiary, Gondor Campaign & Updated Rules! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/f...

More information on our livestream celebration, including special guests, another drawing for site supporters, and scheduling, can be found here: www.tolkienguide.com/TG20

Super fun Friday of #Oxonmoot! A beautiful play by dear friends, lots of wonderful talks and our trivia team, “Stupid Sexy Sauron” got a very respectable score of 81! A fantastic Friday! Too many photos to fit here but I’ll post more!

I love this design so much! I think it is magical. Like, are you walking around in Oxford or one of the great cities of Tolkien’s legendarium? Who knows! I can’t wait to give away stickers and pins that feature this design at Oxonmoot later this week! Please come find meeee! 💜

The Carrock Smial of Northern California meets tonight! Come talk Tolkien villains with us! All are welcome to join! We meet on Zoom from 8-9 PM pacific. You can join our discord for the Zoom details: discord.gg/8DxzAhvPVn Hope to see you there! 💜

So, I’m kicking my #Oxonmoot bracelet making efforts into high gear for these last two weeks, and not to toot my own horn, but I think I have peaked with this one. 📯 I can’t wait to give this beauty to someone at Oxonmoot! If you’re going, and have a special request, let me know! 🥰

This was such a fun episode to record! Our special guest @davidthengoldo.bsky.social is awesome, and I know you are going to love this episode!

Anyone here use Apple Music and have them switch versions of songs on your playlists? I have VERY SPECIFIC preferences for my Peter Paul and Mary playlist, and methinks Apple has been fiddling with my song versions. Not cool.

I just finished a Signum class about the Children of Húrin with Dr. Sara Brown and it was EXCELLENT! The fascinating discussion questions she posed and her encouragement made participation fun and safe. And the other students were wonderful! Thank you so much, @aranelparmadil.bsky.social! 💜

I am still wrapping my head the concept of luck. I can’t wait to hear from my fellow Carrock members! Join us tonight! All are welcome! 8-9 on Zoom! Join our Discord for more! discord.gg/8DxzAhvPVn

Not to be missed! 🤩 Velvet is SO FUN to watch on these streams, and supporting her is great! 💜💕❤️

I really enjoyed reading the Grey Annals for this month’s episode, however, I find it difficult to talk about this kind of big work. I’m always worried that I missed something, or that something I picked out is covered elsewhere in the legendarium. How do you keep it all organized in your mind?

Tonight!!! Show and tell!!! Come to the Carrock Smial meeting on Zoom and share your favorite Tolkien treasure with us! All are welcome, 8-9 PM pacific. Can’t wait to see you and your treasures there!

Hey lovely Tolkien folks! Due to some technical difficulties, Clare let me know that The Big Read is not happening tonight as planned. Please spread the word! See you next time! 💜

I had such a great time presenting at Westmoot this year! Everyone was so dang funny! Huge thank you to our awesome guests, @itstoriello.bsky.social and @clarelmoore.bsky.social! You were fantastic and it is such a pleasure to work with you! Missed our live show? No worries! Check it out now! 💚

Because @james.athrabeth.com likes to hurt us!!!

This idea came to me in a dream after I ate too much cheese before bed. So, you know… 😂

The 150 lbs of games made it to Westmoot! Woo! Thanks to @james.athrabeth.com and Chad from Texas for moving the “boxen”! Can’t wait to set up the Bywater / Games room on Friday at #wesmtoot26 @westmoot.org! #westmoot #intothewest

I’m on the way to #westmoot! Let’s goooo!

TONIGHT! Carrock! What a great break from Westmoot packing, Hehe! I hope you can join us! 8-9 PM pacific. On Zoom! ✨🩵✨🩵✨🩵✨

I’m currently on hold, and the hold music has a not-insignificant amount of vocal scatting. Boop a doo, skoodily-bee, shoobie-doobie-doo. I’ll add my own. Meep morp.

Oh dang, three of our favorite people, @tenetke.bsky.social, @jankybarns.bsky.social and @james.athrabeth.com are running introductory ttrpg games at #Westmoot! Folks attending @westmoot.org, don’t sleep on this chance to play with these amazing Loremasters! Next Sunday morning!

Just shipped 150 lbs of Tolkien-inspired board games and Games Room supplies to #Westmoot. ✨

Packing up some of the games for the #Westmoot26 game library! Visit the Bywater / Games Room to play these fun Tolkien-inspired games at Westmoot! See you soon, @westmoot.org! #westmoot #intothewest

This one is great! Kelly is so awesome and hearing about her work is inspiring! Do check out the episode and @themiddlepage.bsky.social! 🧡

Congratulations to all the winners!!! 💜💖💜💖💜💖💜💖

I’m headed to the 39th Annual California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art in Davis today. Try saying that a few times fast. I’m off to ACCACccaacacaaaac. artsalliancedavis.org/event/39th-a...

A list of the cool peeps from the @tolkiensociety.org Awards Best Online Content shortlist that we have interviewed on Athrabeth! I feel fortunate to have chatted with all these folks over the years. People in this part of the Tolkien community are so generous with their time, it’s awesome. 💜

April has FLOWN by! Voting for the 2026 Tolkien Society Awards is almost over! Tolkien Society babes, make sure to get your votes in today! ✨💜✨

I’ve got a blanket and a warm cup of tea, and I’m ready to chat about Cozy Tolkien tomorrow at the Carrock Smial meeting! 🫖🥰 Please join us, it is such a nice group of folks! 💜 8-9 PM on Zoom! Email us or join our discord for more: discord.gg/8DxzAhvPVn

Tonight! Big Read session 2! Be there or be square! I’m so excited to hear from my dear friend @clarelmoore.bsky.social! She is brilliant and hilarious and makes learning fun! 😎 Starts at 6 PM for you pacific time zone babies like me! Will I see you there in the zoom chat? 💖

Finally had the time and bandwidth to do a new Loremaster’s Corner for @athraplay.athrabeth.com, looking at one small piece of the wacky history of the elves. Long ago, I aspired to make something like This American Life, and this kinda scratches that itch, but, you know, about elves

There is a new Loremaster’s Corner episode over on @athraplay.athrabeth.com today! 💖 James discusses the Sindar elves and the Silvan elves in relation to the courtly drama going down on the show. It’s super interesting and a quick listen, so check it out! ✨ athraplay.simplecast.com/episodes/lmc...

Guess who is going to see BTS next month!?! It’s @james.athrabeth.com and me! I know, I know, I’m a STAY but I can’t pass this up.

Woooooo new AthraPlay day! What are these little rascals going to get up to this time? Have you check out @athraplay.athrabeth.com yet? We’ll be at Westmoot this year! 💖

Oooh yay! We can’t wait to bring AthraPlay to Westmoot this year! It’s going to be so much fun!

We hope you will join us on April 21st as we talk about the cozier side of Tolkien's works! Clock through the link in our bio to sign up for the mailing list or Discord to get the Zoom link.

I just stayed up all night to watch a four-hour KPop concert live from Korea. I have decided I am too old to stay up all night. Help meeeee. 🫠

WHOA!!! This is so exciting! I can’t believe we are on this shortlist! Thank you so much to the community for nominating our stilly little @podcast.athrabeth.com! Thank you @tolkiensociety.org for shortlisting us! It is a huge honor! Thank you a million times! 🥲

I had the BEST time talking with Jude about this deep philosophical elf stuff- who even am I!?! 😂 I really like this episode and I hope you do too! 💜