Meaning of entmoot | Babel Free

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A mythical form of consensus building without time constraints where all ideas and opinions of dissent are thoroughly considered and dwelt upon.

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“‘The next day it was proclaimed that the Folkmoot for Judgement should be held on the morning following, for already five hundred of the headmen had come in, and that was by custom deemed the least number which might count as a full meeting of the Folk.’ A similar scene is described in chapter vii of William Morris's The House of the Wolfings, entitled ‘The folk-mote of the Mark-men’. This kind of compound is imitated in Tolkien's word entmoot, the great gathering of ents at which the decision is (very gradually) taken to destroy Isengard. Many members of the Tolkien Society are also familiar with the considerably livelier event known as ‘Oxonmoot’—the Society's annual gathering in Oxford.”

“Moreover, local governance was neither participative in scope nor democratic in conception. Typically, traditionally village affairs, including allocation of rights over the commons, were managed variously by hereditary headmen acting on behalf of the villagers, or by caste/tribal/village councils, or by feudal lords. In other words, unlike in Tolkien's imagined Middle Earth there is little evidence of any tradition akin of an Entmoot, let alone of one which provided space and voice to women.”

““Yeah, that's our Lana. Let's see. So judging from the shell ejection, she was firing at, what I really hope was not an ent, because that is like the last thing we need. An entmoot. Oh my god. What if I'm gay for Tolkien?” “Dude, seriously, not that it's gonna matter in 30 seconds, but what is your problem?” “Well, besides Lana ditching me--” “For what? An entmoot? You know, because she's got those big ass tree hands?””

“The second subcomponent is the research done on an individual level or though the workings of an entmoot that develop and completely cultivate the original thought. After everyone in that entmoot—our co-sponsors and sponsor—believe that they have reached a conclusion, or the individual studying on his own has successfully petitioned (for example) a hundred individuals in favor of a proposal, either the entmoot or the individual may then take the idea to the governing body, such as officials at city hall.”

“Entmoot dynamics, when each member fills a lacking void in the entmoot itself, brings refinement and improvement to the proposal creation process by providing unique perspectives and shades of light to the idea, unseen or unrealized by the sponsor.”

“Entmoot, from the Dutch word, Entmoet, meaning to gather, is a mythical form of consensus building without time constraints where all ideas and opinions of descent are thoroughly considered and dwelt upon. For the purposes of discussion, a sponsor is the original author who contemplated and initiated the foundational idea. A cosponsor is a member of an entmoot consisting of the proposal sponsor, who may enlist other cosponsors, each of whom has voluntarily committed themselves to the specific single proposal, through the formal written agreement with the sponsor.”

“"Where were you and your group headed?" he asks with a sharp edge to his voice. I make a big dramatic sigh. "Fine. I really shouldn't tell you this. We were on our way to an Entmoot." "What is an ‘Entmoot’?" "I can't be sure. I was told it's where the wisest come together to discuss things. They say it takes a really long time for anything to be resolved."”

“"I used my silencer, but I'm sure someone still heard it. You need to leave quickly." "What about the guy in the hallway?" I ask, remembering the guy who told fauxhawk what an Entmoot was. "I don't know who you're referring to. Nobody was out there when I got here. Now, hurry up!"”

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