Posts tagged ‘myth’

November is here, and today I changed my Tolkien calendar and my desktop wallpaper. I have the 2009 Tolkien calendar illustrated by Ted Nasmith, with landscapes from the First Age of Middle-earth, and I continue to use a monthly desktop wallpaper from Smashing Magazine. (The scene in the Tolkien calendar depicts the opening of the [...] Read More...

I’ve always been a huge fan of the Olympic Games, particularly the Winter Games. The twenty-first Winter Olympic Games will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia in February 2010. (I grew up in the Northwest United States, an area that I absolutely love; we had thought about going to Vancouver for the Games, but decided [...] Read More...

I published the fourteenth issue of my online myth magazine Journey to the Sea this morning. This issue includes an article by my friend Jason on Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain Cycle and one by me on the book Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, both typical examples of the kind of modern myth-making we [...] Read More...

October is here, and today I changed my Tolkien calendar and my desktop wallpaper. I have the 2009 Tolkien calendar illustrated by Ted Nasmith, with landscapes from the First Age of Middle-earth, and I continue to use a monthly desktop wallpaper from Smashing Magazine. (The scene in the Tolkien calendar comes from one of the [...] Read More...

This past weekend, I traveled to New Britain, Connecticut for Mythcon 39, the annual conference of the Mythopoeic Society. I heard some good papers on mythopoeic literature and attended panels that provoked some good conversation on myth and fantasy. Read More...

Last summer, I re-wrote my "Song of Kaikeyi" poem using the epic meter of Milton. It was accepted for The Mythic Circle, the fiction anthology of the Mythopoeic Society: my first piece of published fiction. Read More...

I have published the second issue of Journey to the Sea. The first article is an extension of my thoughts from last summer on Satan in Paradise Lost, and the second explains the meaning of the name Journey to the Sea. Read More...

The culmination of a summer filled with promising comic book movies came with the release of The Dark Knight. I saw this movie opening night. Though it was by no means perfect, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Read More...

When I saw the trailer for Hellboy 2 earlier this summer, I was surprised at how good it looked. I had ignored the first Hellboy movie, but after seeing the trailer for the second one I decided to give it a try. Read More...

Halfway through the year, and I have been meeting my goal to spend more time studying myth. I am happy to announce the first issue of my new web site, an online myth magazine, which contains two articles I have written. Read More...

I have made quite a few changes to my site's structure and content to reflect my updated personal tagline (Randy Hoyt: Myth Enthusiast and Web Developer). I wanted to point one new page in particular -- Myth: A Definition. Read More...

This book by Joseph Campbell about mythology and personal transformation caused me to think long and hard about my own bliss. Read More...

Paradise Lost Study: I have been studying this work by John Milton for a few months now, and it has provided much insight into epic poetry. Read More...

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Current Books

• Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew
• Alvin Maker 3: Prentice Alvin
• The Kalevala

Recent Movies

• Where The Wild Things Are
• Heroes, Volume 4
• Public Enemies
• Away We Go