The
Welly-moot group met yesterday at the Embassy Cinema. We have new
members whom we met at the Middle-Earth movie marathon in March this
year. Welcome Kay, Molly and Helena!
Unusually,
we didn’t have a specific Tolkien topic for this meeting. We started as usual with a round
table discussion, with updates, and we shared our experiences of the movie
marathon. After that, it became a very enjoyable non-topic discussion.
We discussed the upcoming Armageddon Expo in Wellington next weekend; the excellent Hobbit Location
Tour "Hairy Feet Hobbit Locations" in Piopio Waitomo; the latest Superhero movies (X-man, Avengers, Captain
America, Superman vs Batman, etc), TV shows, costumes, etc. The Welly-mooters are a wealth of geeky knowledge, and we had no problem filling the afternoon with a wide range of movies, TV series or characters.
Some
updates for everyone.
- There is a Middle-earth-themed LARP event (Live Action Role Playing) in Queenstown later this winter. We will update as soon as we have more details, on this site. In the meantime, if you're interested, follow them on facebook.
- The new Rivendell Rebuild project for Welly-moot is the Bilbo bench/statue in Kaitoke Park. We have two wonderful Sculptors to give us a hand. We will be pushing this project forward this year!
- We're also organising a Welly-moot craft meeting, hopefully for later this year. The idea is to have Kim Beaton (who you may have met at the Marathon) show us how to sculpt a beautiful miniature Hobbit door, to decorate your garden with. There will be somecosts associated with that, so will keep everyone updated as we go.
The next Welly-moot meeting is to be a mid-winter party like we did last year. The date will be Sunday the 31st of July. It will be fun so don’t miss it.
Also, some Welly-mooters are going to the Armageddon with their own costumes this weekend. We (Alex & Jack) will be going on Monday the 6th, if all goes well. See you there!
- Alex & Jack
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