silwritersguild | Aug. 19th, 2025

As part of our twentieth birthday celebration at Mereth Aderthad 2025, we put together a fanzine to honor the fannish traditions of our foremothers, who in the pre-internet days, gathered in living rooms to squee over their fandoms and assemble and mail zines by hand. Without the internet to zip our thoughts halfway around the globe in less than a blink, this is how early fan communities celebrated and debated the texts that they loved. (If you're curious about early Tolkien fanzines, check out Marquette University's online Tolkien fanzine archive.)

We have thirty print copies of the zine left that we are now making available to anyone who wants a copy! The cost of the zine is the cost of printing ($7.70 USD) plus shipping. No profit is made on the zine. (You can view the Mereth Aderthad 2025 financial information here for full details.) A free digital copy of the zine can be downloaded here.

We are using the third-party provider Shopify to handle financial transactions. If Shopify cannot ship to your country, contact us and we will try to find another way to get your zine to you.

The last day for zine sales will be September 30.

You can order your copy of the Mereth Aderthad 2025 fanzine here.