tolkien society UNQUENDOR lustrum day saturday 19 june 2021 celebrating unquendor's 40th anniversary theme: númenor 1 programme book COLOPHON This programme book is offered to you by the Lustrum committee 2021. Bram Lagendijk and Jan Groen editors Bram Lagendijk design and lay out For the benefit of the many international participants, this programme book is in English. However, of the activities, only the lectures are all in English. The other activities will be in Dutch, occasionally interspersed with English. tolkien society unquendor E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.unquendor.nl Instagram: www.instagram.com/unquendor Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/unquendor Twitter: www.twitter.com/unquendor Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/tolkiengenootschap Discord: www.discord.gg/u3wwqHt9RE June 2021 CONTENTS Getting started ... 4 A short history of Unquendor 5 Things you need to know 6 Númenor: The very short story 7 Programme and timetable 8 y Lectures 9 Denis Bridoux Tall ships and tall kings Númenor: From Literary Conception y to Geographical Representation 9 Renée Vink Three times three, The Uncharted Consequences of y the Downfall of Númenor 9 What brought they from Hedwig SlembrouckThe Lord of the Rings Has the history of the Fall of Númenor y been told in ?? 9 the foundered land José Maria Miranda y Law in Númenor 9 Paul Corfield Godfrey, Simon Crosby Buttle Over the flowing sea? WorkshopsThe Second Age: A Beginning and an End 910 y Seven stars and seven stones Nathalie Kuijpers y Drabbles 10 QuizJonne Steen Redeker 10 And one white tree. Caroline en Irene van Houten y Jan Groen Gandalf – The Two Towers y Poem in many languages 10 Languages of Númenor 10 Peter Crijns, Harm Schelhaas, Dirk Trappers y Dirk Flikweert IntroducingLive cooking: the presentersNúmenórean fish pie 1011 Festive toast and … 14 Participants 15 Númenórean fish pie 16 Númenóreaanse vispastei 17 GETTING STARTED… p deze Lustrumdag vieren we het 40-jarig Obestaan van Unquendor! Natuurlijk, we had- den een groot Lustrumfeest voor ogen, ons achtste. In een kasteel in een prachtige heuvelachtige streek die de Gouw naar de kroon steekt. Dat dat niet kon doorgaan, hebben we zo snel mogelijk proberen te vergeten. We besloten snel het Lustrumfeest om For though the Valar had te zetten naar een online Lustrumdag. Met lezingen van sprekers uit heel Europa (gelukt!), met een quiz (gelukt!), met een toost van mythische proporties (ge- rewarded the Dúnedain with lukt!) en nog zo wat meer. Dit programmaboek leidt jullie door het hele programma heen, van de plenaire opening via de serieuze lezingen en de minder serieu- long life, they could not ze quiz, drabbles en kookactiviteit, naar de gezellige sluiting. take from them the Namens het bestuur en de Lustrumcommissie van Unquendor wens ik alle deelnemers uit heel Europa een fantastische Lustrumdag! weariness of the world Jan van Breda Voorzitter Unquendor that comes at last, n this Lustrum Day we celebrate the birth of OUnquendor 40 years ago. And of course we and they died, first had a huge Lustrum Feast in mind, the eighth. In a castle in a beautiful hilly region of our country to match the Shire. We have tried to forget even their kings of as quickly as we could that we had to cancel it and soon decided to turn the Lustrum Feast over into an online Lustrum Day. With lectures by speakers from all over Europe (check!), with a quiz (check!), with a the seed of Earendil … toast of mythical proportions (check!), and so on. This programme book will guide you through the complete programme, from the plenary opening, via the serious The Silmarillion – Akallabêth lectures and the not so serious drabbles and cooking- activity, to the sociable closing. On behalf of the Unquendor board and the Lustrum committee I wish all participants from all over Europe a fantastic Lustrum Day! Jan van Breda Chairman Unquendor 4 A SHORT HISTORY OF UNQUENDOR nquendor was founded 22 September Sadly, a Lustrum only occurs every five years, U1981. At first, there were only some and because of covid, we had to cancel the ten members. Over the years the 2021 Lustrum Feast... But let us not be too number of members increased slowly but sad. We have organisedJoel- this and Lustrum Slotfeesten Day. steadily. At the moment there are some Thefor yourJoelfeest pleasure! And apart from that, ages220 andUnquendorians, professions. widely spread over there are the yearlySlotfeest the Netherlands and abroad, of all sizes, (Yule Feast) is held on a day in December, the (Closing Feast)slot du- ring a weekend in late Spring/early Summer. yOver the the 1990 years Worldcon there hevein The been Hague plenty with of Tom high Shippey- Sometimes it takes place in a real castle or , so- lights.and Tothe mention Mike & aMaggie few: Percival ballet performance metimes in pubs or other locations. Sometimes with of Beren and Lúthien; international guests, but always well-frequented and y the exhibition in 1992 at the Royal Library in The very cosy. In the last couple of years, we have also be- Hague on occasion of Tolkien’s birth centenary, with gun to organise organise a Hobbit Day to commemo- the one-man act by Rob Inglis as Bilbo Baggins; rate the birthdays of Bilbo and Frodo. We also take y the ‘Dutch-Finnish’ room party at the centenary con- part in the world-wide toast on 3 January, to comme- ference in Oxford in 1992; morate the birth of Tolkien on that day. y the symposium in Birmingham, in honour of fifty years The Lord of the Rings in 2005. An Unquendor Throughout the country, we have a number of delegation presented a varied programme that was so-called Inns. These are local meetings at members’ well received; homes, often organized around a theme and some- y the Unquendor programme at the Return of the Ring times with the possibility of sleeping over. There have conference in Loughborough in 2012; always been Inns, from 1981 onwards. There also is y the first Unquendor Seminar in 2018; a Travelling Inn, alternating between the homes of y many Unquendor Lustrum Feasts. members who form part of the organizing collective. Lembas has Unquendor has its own website: www.unquendor.nl. We also have a page on Facebook, and are active on In- From the earliest days on, the magazine stagram, Twitter and Discord. And we have a neat stand been published four to five times a year. Unquendor for presenting ourselves at fantasy fairs and the like. also produces all sortsUnquendor of publications, Chronicle be it poetry collections by members, songbooksLembas and even Extra a. Thisnot- At the age of 40, Unquendor is very much alive! soshort history, the . One publi- cation deserves special attention: beis a reached. collection Lembas of longer, Extra in-depth sometimes essays contains in English papers on a more scientific level, so that a wider audience can issueread atof Lembasprevious Extra events.. Some of the lectures from this Lustrum Day will be included in a forthcoming In June 2016, Unquendor celebrated its seventh Lu- strum in The Hague and Leiden. Tolkien lovers from twelve countries gathered to join in the festivities. Previous celebrations took place in Leiden (2x), Delft, Den Briel and Baarlo (2x). Guests of honour on those occasions were, among others, the founder of the Tol- kien Society Vera Chapman, Tolkien publisher Rayner Unwin, Tolkien illustrator Cor Blok and the renowned Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey. In 2016, we welcomed Thomas Honegger in this much-valued role. 5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW zoom rooms e will make use of the online commu- Wnication programme ZOOM for the Lus- When you are admitted to the ZOOM meeeting for the trum Day. Together with the 'practical Lustrum Day, you will ‘enter’ the ‘main room’. This is information', you have received a short ZOOM manu- the virtual room where the opening and closing parts yal. WePlease recommend read this the manual use of carefully.a laptop or A a few pc. points of of the programme will take place. The lectures and yattention: For the best quality, we recommend an internet con- workshops will take place in ‘breakout rooms’. nection via a cable instead of WiFi. If you want to use y Main room – Armenelos. a connection via WiFi, try to do this in a place where yFor Breakout this event room we have 1 for giventhe lectures them the – Andustar. following names: the signal is strong. y Breakout room 2 for the workshops – Orrostar. y Check for the latest update of ZOOM. y Test the video and sound settings of your connection. helpdesk y Mind the light conditions in your room. important log in information We have tested the technical ZOOM aspects, so we You can log in from 11.40 am. are confident that everything will work well. Never- theless, you could experience a (connection) problem for the Lustrum Day with ZOOM. When this happens, you can contact Ra- importantFor security that matters, you are each recognized participant as willa participant. be admit- foe Rademaker, telephone: +31 (0)6-48072999 or ted through a ‘waiting room’. This means that it is e-mail: [email protected]. When logging in, therefore, state your first and last name as you entered them when you registered. So, for example, not the name of your PC or an alias. 6 NÚMENOR: THE VERY SHORT VERSION eaders of The Lord of the Rings first hear For many years, Númenor maintains friendship with about ‘Númenor’ in Rivendell, when Frodo the Elves, but (inevitably, perhaps), slowly the Nú- and Bilbo are talking about (and with) Stri- menóreans start to envy the Elves their immortality.