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Stef Midlock
@stef.athrabeth.com
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Co-host of Athrabeth, a podcast exploring the lesser-trod paths of Tolkien’s legendarium. (she/her)
Check us out over at @podcast.athrabeth.com

I also play Hildigard Took on @athraplay.athrabeth.com

https://linktr.ee/athrabeth
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Happy birthday to my dear husband, my best friend, and the greatest Lore Master and podcast producer to ever walk Middle-earth! Love you @james.athrabeth.com!
A profile shot of James Pierson, looking at a tank filled with multiple white moon jellies against a blue light.
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Tonight is the next meeting of The Carrock Smial!

Northern California peeps (and anyone else who would like to come) please join us for Tolkien’s unknowable horrors and groovie goolies!

Our theme for tonight is Terrifying Tolkien! 👻 8-9 PM on Zoom!

Come join us @thecarrocksmial.bsky.social!
An invitation to the Carrock Smial meeting on Zoom on Tuesday October 21 from 8-9 PM pacific. There are etching-type graphics of an animal skull, two months, and a candlestick with lit candle. The theme is “Terrifying Tolkien”!
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Happy birthday to @athraplay.athrabeth.com’s favorite emo Ranger! Love you @tenetke.bsky.social! 💚
Nik dressed as their AthraPlay character Cael at Westmoot 2025, wearing a dark green tunic, tight black trousers, tall black books, smiling coyly at the camera, in a crowded room.
October 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Ten years with the handsome and talented @james.athrabeth.com! How lucky am I!?! The luckiest!!!

Love you, dearest! 💜
James and me on our wedding day, holding hands in front of a wooden ornate door. I am wearing a white wedding gown and holding a bouquet of flowers. James is wearing a gray suit with a dark green tie. We are smiling at each other.
October 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Happy birthday to my lovely pal, @itstoriello.bsky.social! Creating stories with you on @athraplay.athrabeth.com is a privilege and a joy! Wishing you a wonderful year! 💖
A photo of Tori at Oxonmoot wearing her elf ears and sunglasses, with a big smile.
September 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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There is also a gentleman there who will show you how to press your own “Treasured” bookmark!
A man rolls paint onto a metal plate to print the word “Treasured”.
September 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Folks at #oxonmoot! There is a Tolkien Father Christmas letter in the free “Treasured” exhibition in the Weston Library!
An image from the Treasured exhibition showing an illustrated page by JRR Tolkien (Polar Bear felling down the stairs) and the Father Christmas letter that goes with it.
September 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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A great morning with @itstoriello.bsky.social and @jude.athrabeth.com at the Bodleian Libraries!

#oxonmoot
Stef, Tori and Jude posse in the Proscholium outside the Old Bodliean Library. Tori and Jude in the Divinity School in the Bodliean Libraries. Beautiful vaulted ceilings are seen above them. Tori poses in the beautifully wood paneled Duke Humphrey’s Library. Jude outside the Sheldonian Theatre on Broad Steet in Oxford, posting with a sculpture- the head of a man with a voluminous beard.
September 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Okay total #oxonmoot friendship bracelet count is 73! Now I just need the courage to give them out!
73 friendship brackets made from brightly colored pony beads laying in piles on a brown desk.
September 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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What better way to start #oxonmoot than with dinner and hangs with these lovely folks! I feel so fortunate to have spent tonight with them. Thank you @jude.athrabeth.com, @itstoriello.bsky.social, @mercuryreads.bsky.social, and @julialindenlaub.bsky.social!
A happy selfie outside the Red Lion Pub in Oxford with Tori, Stef, Jude, Mercury and Julia. The beautiful moon over a darkened Oxford street on my walk home. A stone wall, an octagonal stone building, and some trees are lit by silver moonlight.
September 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Who is going to SpeedMoot tomorrow night at #Oxonmoot?

I loved this event in 2023, and am definitely going again this year.

I made some special bracelets for my new SpeedMoot pals! Be my partner, please!

See you tomorrow @tolkiensociety.org!
Four friendship bracelets made in multi-colored pony beads, with text that reads “Mellon” (“friend” in Sindarin).
September 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Oxford, here I come! #oxonmoot #tolkiensociety
A scene from Paddington Station in London showing travelers bustling around and the digital notice board directing you to your train. The digital notice board at Paddington Station showing the Great Western Railway train I am taking to Oxford. Great Western Railway train engine in Paddington Station.
September 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Got to see the glorious Bergen girls in Kentish Town last night! They took me to the Parakeet Pub for a wonderful dinner. I love them with my whole heart. We have decided that we are a coven.
Three ladies, Katie Bergen, me, and Molly Bergen, taking a selfie outside The Parakeet Pub in Kentish Town, London.
September 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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I had a wonderful time at the London Museum Docklands the other day. The museum is huge and full of interesting stories. Secrets of the Thames was a fantastic exhibition! Well worth a visit!
Me posing outside of the Museum of London Docklands on a sunny day. There is a tall brick building behind me and a conical black and white river buoy to the side. A photo from from inside the Secrets of the Thames exhibition, a didactic panel reads “River of Migration” and a number of artifacts including a Viking axe and part of a drinking horn are nearby. A large wood and iron capstan at the Museum of London Docklands, with a glowing screen in the background. A blacksmith forge and tools that are part of an exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands.
September 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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The Sunday Roast today was excellent! Wayyyy too much food for one person, next time I need someone to come with me. Any takers? 🥰
Sunday Roast with all the fixings- a roasted chicken on a bed of mashed potatoes on a main plate, with smaller silver dishes all around containing vegetables, Yorker Pudding, cauliflower cheese, roasted potatoes and green beans. Eton Mess- a mound of meringue and whipped cream, with raspberry sorbet in the middle, topped with berry sauce and shaved pink and white chocolate.
August 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Beautiful restaurant, Berners Tavern!
The interior of Berners Tavern in London, with high and heavily plastered ceilings, round chandeliers, and countless paintings framed in gold leaf. The interior of Berners Tavern in London, with high and heavily plastered ceilings, tables and chairs, and countless paintings framed in gold leaf.
August 31, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Heck yes! Next stop, London! #oxonmoot
The TV in the airplane that reads, “next stop, London”
August 30, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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I’m officially on my way to #oxonmoot! Woooot! I forgot so many things, this was an extremely disorganized lead-up, but at least I made it to the airport! 🤣

I’m now enjoying some airport tennis, I know @clarelmoore.bsky.social will be proud of me. 🎾
An image of a TV, showing a tennis player holding a racket, about to do something tennis!
August 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Too silly? #oxonmoot
Two friendship bracelets made of rainbow-colored pony beads, both with the same lettering, “You Reuel”.
August 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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DONE, dearest! 💜🍇☂️🪻🪁
A friendship bracelet made of pony beads in various purple hues, with lettering that reads “Andreth”.
August 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Help I can’t be stopped! #oxonmoot
A friendship bracelet made of rainbow-colored pony beads that reads, “Stupid sexy Sauron” with a small heart.
August 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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@jude.athrabeth.com Your ❤️Finrod❤️bracelet is done!
A friendship bracelet made of pony beads in hues of dark green, gold, and silvery blue with the word “Finrod” surrounded by hearts.
August 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Okay I love this one. It is VERY wordy, so the bracelet is huge, but I love it. I’m keeping it, but i can make more if anyone likes this one! 🐦‍⬛🖤

#jailcrowofmandos
A friendship bracelet with black pony beads and white lettering that reads, “Thou jailcrow of Mandos” (JRR Tolkien).
August 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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I ✨finally✨started my #oxonmoot friendship bracelet prep this evening! I need to make way more.

If anyone going to Oxonmoot has a request, please let me know! 💜
Colorful friendship bracelets made of plastic pony beads piled on a wooden table.
August 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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These G.U.Y.S. look great! 💜
July 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM