Howard Green

Howard Green was a Man who lived in England during the early 21st century.The History of Middle-earth, Vol. IX: Sauron Defeated, "Part II: The Notion Club Papers: "Foreword and List of Members"
== Biography ==
Mr. Howard Green was a school clerk at the Examination Schools at Oxford. After the Summer Examinations of 2012, Green discovered a disordered bundle of papers on the top of one of a number of sacks of waste paper in the basement of the school. They were loosely tied with red string and on the outer sheet was inscribed in large Lombardic capitals: NOTION CLUB PAPERS.
Upon scrutinizing the papers, Green inferred that the papers had no connection to any other papers in Oxford, and that they may have been intended for publication. While Green discovered that the papers reported approximately one hundred meetings of a discussion club between c. 1980 and 1990.
With the assistance of the famous historian of twentieth century Oxford, Mr. J.R. Titmass, in deciphering the origin of the name "Nicholas Guildford", Green identified that many of the other names that were found within the papers were fictitious.
After the publication of the first edition at an unknown date, Green was approached by Mr. W.W. Wormald and Mr. D.N. Borrow, asking to examine papers. Shortly thereafter, they sent Green a joint report of their analysis, which brought some interesting points to Green's attention.
Green was unconvinced by Messrs. Wormald and Borrow, arguing that the mention of the Great Explosion of 1975 and the Great Storm of 1987 implied a sort of precognition on the part of the author of the papers. However, despite this, Green changed his view, writing in his Second Edition foreword in 2014 that he now believed that the papers were entirely fictitious, offering a "glimpse of the strange processes of so-called literary "invention", with which the Papers are largely concerned."
== References ==
Category:Characters in The History of Middle-earth