Glen GoodKnight

There, in 1967, he organized his first Tolkien event, a playful picnic in the city's Highland Park, with the theme of the Hobbits, Bilbo and Frodo Baggins.

The success of that event led him to found the Mythopoeic Society for the study of the work of Tolkien and other fantasy authors.

[1][2][3][4] His "day job" was as an elementary school teacher, but he was an expert on and enthusiastic collector of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and his fellow Inklings, the Oxford literary group around C. S. Lewis and like-minded writers such as Charles Williams.

He was a distinctive character at Mythopoeic Society events; Valerie Nelson of The Los Angeles Times reports that he "would sometimes show up dressed in the flowing robes of Elrond", the Elf-lord of Rivendell described in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

He died on 3 November 2010 in Monterey Park, California, survived by his partner Ken Lauw.