Mereth Aderthad Interview: Interview with Zdenka by Himring

Interview with Zdenka by Himring - featured poet for "Love, Grief, and Alliterative Verse in Tolkien’s Legendarium" and featured musician for "Mythmakers vs. the made myths: Exploring a reader’s levels of religious alienation and connection in works about and by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis" - Silmarillion Writers' Guild - Mereth Aderthad 2025 - July 19, 2025 - Burlington, VT, and online - a celebration of creativity and scholarship inspired by the works of J.R.R. Tolkien

Zdenka is a fanfiction writer, a poet, and a musician who has engaged with Middle-earth through these talents for many years now. At Mereth Aderthad 2025, Zdenka will be performing both a song and an alliterative poem, the former for Acha Rezak's presentation "Mythmakers vs. the made myths: Exploring a reader’s levels of religious alienation and connection in works about and by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis" and the poem for Paul D. Deane's presentation "Love, Grief, and Alliterative Verse in Tolkien’s Legendarium." Himring spoke with Zdenka about her love of music and her evolving understanding of what it means to be a Jewish Tolkien fan.

You can read Himring's interview with Zdenka here.

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