Entmoot

This page is about the zine. For the glossary term, see Moot.

Zine
Title:	Entmoot
Publisher:
Editor(s):	Greg Shaw, ed. (with David Hall for first 2 issues)
Date(s):	1965-1966
Frequency:
Medium:	print
Size:
Fandom:	Tolkien
Language:	English
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Entmoot is a gen Tolkien anthology, "the leading exponent in the US of the psychedelic-hippie side of Tolkien fandom." (David Bratman) [1]

Issue 1

Entmoot 1 was published in June 1965.

• "Message in Sindarin" by Greg Shaw
• "An Elven Sage" poem by Greg Shaw (reprinted from Wanderlust)

Issue 2

cover of issue #2

Entmoot 2 was published in 1966.

• "The Hobbit, a Review" by Greg Shaw
• "A Proposed System for the Phonetic Representation of English Sounds With the Feanorian Letters as Told to Greg Shaw by Don Simpson" by Greg Shaw

Issue 3

cover of issue #3

Entmoot 3 was published in 1966.

• "Arwen's Song in Gondor" poem by E. E. Evers
• "Tolkien in Paperback!?" by Ned Brooks (this has page conversion formulas for everything in print at the time)
• "Gilgalad Was an Elven King" by Ruth Berman (filk, set to an old Hebrew folk tune)
• "Prolegomenon to a Variorum Tolkien" by BanksMebane (concerns the variations in the revised Ballantine paperback edition)
• "Hope" poem by Ned Brooks (in English, Tengwar and Angerthas)

Issue 4

Entmoot 4 was published in August 1966.

• "Fragments of a Translation" poem by E. E. Evers
• "The Passing of the Elven-Kind" by Ted Johnston (a song, but music not given. Reprinted from Roquat #10 where it was reprinted from All Mimsy #5, November 1959)
• "Costuming From Tolkien" by Felice Rolfe
• "The Elven Ship" poem by Peter Sloman
• "An English Certar Mode" by Mark Mandel
• ""A Fellowship of the Thing" poem by Michael Laton