![]() ![]() Two scholars read the first edition, ask to examine the documents, and then submit a full report. Green publishes a first edition containing excerpts from the documents. The notes, written by one of the participants, include references to events that 'occurred' in the 1970s and 1980s. These documents, the Notion Club Papers of the title, are the incomplete notes of meetings of the Notion Club these meetings are said to have occurred in the 1980s. Green finds documents in sacks of waste paper at Oxford in 2012. Both are set in the future Tolkien created the work in 1945. ![]() The main story (the Notion Club, itself the frame of the Númenor story) is set within a frame story. The Notion Club Papers is elaborately constructed. ![]() Other members of the Club mention their vivid dreams of other times and places. While not finished, at the end of the given story it becomes clear Lowdham himself is a reincarnation of sorts of Elendil. Through these dreams, he "discovers" much about the Númenor story and the languages of Middle-earth (notably Quenya, Sindarin, and Adûnaic). ![]() During these meetings, Alwin Arundel Lowdham discusses his lucid dreams about Númenor, a lost civilisation connected with Atlantis and with Tolkien's Middle-earth. The story revolves around the meetings of an Oxford arts discussion group, the Notion Club. Further information: Tolkien's frame stories ![]()
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