Middle-earth Reunion Smial

Who are we?

• Middle-earth Reunion Smial (MeRS) was founded in May 1996, the idea being to connect folk interested in how JRR Tolkien's sub-created realm of Middle-earth relates to our own, Primary world.
   
• MeRS is an international postal/email smial of the Tolkien Society. Membership of the smial is free and you do not have to be a member of the TS to join.
    
• There is a modest charge for our quarterly smial magazine Reunion.
   
• Providing their Reunion subs are up to date, members receive the smial newsletter Parish's Garden free of charge.

What do we do?

• Reunion magazine
  Published quarterly (Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec), Reunion: the Journal of Middle-earth Studies is the principal organ of Middle-earth Reunion Smial.
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• Parish's Garden newsletter
  Parish's Garden is the smial's newsletter. It is published quarterly (April, July, October, January).
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• Trees for Tolkien
  This initiative seeks to raise money to plant trees and assist a little in the Greening of Arda. Central to our aim is the Buy Books, Plant Trees! scheme, run in Association with online booksellers Amazon.co.uk.
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• Arda Online website
  Maintained by the smial organizer, the main purpose of this website (the one you are looking at!) is to showcase the works & projects of smial members; also to bring the smial to a broader audience. If you are reading this page we must be doing something right!
   

How do I join?

• You don't have join Middle-earth Reunion Smial to subscribe to Reunion magazine but membership is free & you will receive our newsletter Parish's Garden at no additional cost, so why not join today!
   
• To subscribe to Reunion magazine, to join MeRS or for further information contact mers@seventhage.freeserve.co.uk