Fun place. Lots of bad puns and bad hobbits.
I attended and played harp in a bardic circle led by the most Gracious and Mighty Diana Paxson herself. Also in attendance: Sherwood Smith as Guest of Honor, Brenda Clough, Gregory Feeley, Rosemary Edgehill and a number number of fans and presenters.
I was on one panel (not unusual for Mythcon since it's mostly academic and scholarly papers) but it was on Writing Fantasy in the Shadow of Tolkein. I was the only person on the panel who was able to say I did not read LOTR before I started writing and selling my own stuff. There has to be a paper in that...
(WARNING: EVIL TWIN REMARK --and you soitanly need all them papers to catch all that scholarly poop they was spewing...)
But it was Fun. We went to the Parthenon and worshiped at the feet of the bawdy looking goddess Athena (one of the comments from one of my fellow writers: "You can tell a 27 year old male made that statue--I have NEVER seen Athena displayed with THAT much cleavage...")
Oh, and I bought a Squeaky David by Michaelanglo... Yes, it is an authentic rubber replica of the Statue of David--sans the figleaf one usually sees dressing him--and when you squeeze him, he squeaks...
It was too hilarious to pass up...
Laura J. Underwood