Waymeet is a publicly accessible, nonprofit digital journal dedicated to sharing pedagogical resources and research for teaching the works and life of J. R. R. Tolkien at the post-secondary level. It began as an outgrowth of the ideas and methods discussed in Approaches to Teaching Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Other Works, edited by Leslie A. Donovan (MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, 2015), but became an independent project when contributors to that project realized the need for practical teaching resources on Tolkien’s works and life had evolved over the process of publishing the MLA collection and would continue to expand in the future. An initial version of Waymeet was launched in 2013, but it was not publicly promoted until the summer of 2015.

Since a variety of resources exist for teaching Tolkien’s works in elementary and secondary school settings, Waymeet instead serves the needs of teachers in post-secondary institutions. Therefore, contributors must be current or former teachers at any type of post-secondary school, including but not limited to public universities, private colleges, community colleges, and technical-vocational institutions. We welcome submissions from tenured or tenure-track faculty, lecturers, adjunct faculty, and graduate teaching assistants. Since resources and research published on Waymeet are organized primarily to serve the practical needs of teachers, works will be published on an ongoing basis, rather than through a sequence of chronological editions or issues, as is traditional in print journals.

All works published on Waymeet must be related to the teaching of J. R. R. Tolkien and/or his works and must have been developed by a teacher who has successfully applied the ideas presented in one or more higher education courses.

Works submitted to Waymeet for publication are peer-reviewed by an Editorial Board consisting of 3-5 members with current or recent teaching appointments in post-secondary institutions. The current Chair of the Waymeet Editorial Board is Leslie A. Donovan, Professor, Honors College, University of New Mexico.

For additional information or questions, contact waymeetfortolkienteachers@gmail.com.