Mythopoeic SIG History

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He actually read the Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis before Tolkien or the Narnia tales and didn't discover the third of the Oxford Christians, Charles Williams, until college. </div> <div> <B>                                 History of the Mythopoeic SIG:</b> </div> <div>      The SIG began in June 1981. The title of the newsletter, <I>The Cauldron</I> comes from J. R. R. Tolkien's analogy in "On Fairy-stories" (1938) in which he referred to "the cauldron of Story, always boiling, always having new ingredients added, yet also full of many potent, ancient things served up by the author or storyteller." </div> <div>     The word "mythopoeic" in the SIG's name comes from the Greek and means myth-creating and that's what we've been trying to do for all these years. </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER ROWSPAN=3 WIDTH="5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="266" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="5" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="4"><bR> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="521"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="521" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="4" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 144 WIDTH="521"><div> <B> <IMG SRC="03d2c780.jpg" border=0 width="556" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="144" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="4" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="532"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="532" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="618" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="33"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="33" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#0000FF WIDTH="578"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="578" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="514" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 696 WIDTH="0"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="696" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="0" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#0000FF WIDTH="4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="696" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="4" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="0"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="696" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="0" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="497"><div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Issue 1"><U><B>Issue 1</b></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" > (June 1981) </FONT></div> <div> What Is It All About, letters to the editor (Meredy Amyx, Nancy Martsch, Marilyn Heller), On <I>Beyond Bree</I>, <I>The Raw and the Cooked</I> and <I>From Honey to Ashes</I> (both on Claude Levi-Strauss), neocognomina (on <I>Imaginary Worlds</I>, the Grand Music)</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 3"><U><B>issue 3</b></U></A><B> </b><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >(Spring 1982) </FONT></div> <div> "Robin's Quest" (episode 1), letters from Pedro Saaredra (Amadis of Gaul), Katherine Schroeder (Aeblyclaeron), Line of Occurance </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 4"><U><B>issue 4</b></U></A><B> </b><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >(Fall 1982) </FONT></div> <div> "Robin's Quest" (episode 2), on Middle Earth, letter from Katherine, <I> The Dark Tower</I>, etc. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 5"><U><B>issue 5</b></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >   (Winter 1982-3)</FONT></div> <div> <I>"</I>Robin's Quest" (episode 3),<I> Languages of Tolkien's Middle Earth</I>, and Other Stories </div> <div> letters from Katherine, Antoinette Herron, Marilyn Heller, <I>Nostalgia for Paradise</I>, Star Wars/Trek</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 6"><U><B>issue 6</b></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" > (Spring 1983) </FONT></div> <div> "Robin's Quest" (episode 4), letters from Pamela Perce, Jere Guin, Heroics <I>(Familiar Mysteries: The Truth in Myth</I>), Languages, poem by Jim Robinson</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 7"><U><B>issue 7</b></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" > (Summer 1983) </FONT></div> <div> "The Princess and the Goddess" by Naomi Getty, Glottochronology, "Song of the Brigsian </div> <div> Exodus" by Mark Taylor, On Scripts, Steve Mark Deyo's <I>Mythos </I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="issue 8"><U><B>issue 8</b></U></A><B> </b><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >(Fall 1983) </FONT></div> <div> Robin's Quest" (episode 4), "Automan's Bane" by Mark Taylor, Charles Williams, Music (at Windycon X), From Chicago to Tso (Stephen R. Lawhead) </div> <bR> <div> issue 9 (Fall/Winter 1984) </div> <div> "Robin's Quest" (episode 6), Nolendil, Evil in the Movies, Na-Lawai'a </div> <bR> <div> issue 10 </div> <div> "Robin's Quest" (episode 7), Government Sponsorship of Mythopoeia, "Song of Adam" and "Lord of Beasts" </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>