The Notion Club Papers

The Notion Club Papers is the title of an unfinished novel that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in 1945, published after his death in Sauron Defeated, the ninth volume of The History of Middle-earth. 
== Story ==
The paper is a somewhat science-fictional time-travel story, written at the same time as The Lord of the Rings was being developed. The story itself involves the minutes of the meetings of an arts discussion club at Oxford, a fictionalization of Tolkien's own club, the Inklings.
== Background ==
During these meetings, Alwin Arundel Lowdham discusses his lucid dreams about Númenor; through these dreams, he "discovers" much about the Númenor story and the languages of Middle-earth (notably Quenya, Sindarin, and Adûnaic). While not finished, at the end of the given story it becomes clear Lowdham himself is a reincarnation of sorts of Elendil. (Alwin is a modernisation of the name Ælfwine, Old English for Elf-friend, or Elendil in Quenya.) Other members of the Club also mention their vivid dreams of other times and places. 
Tolkien not only created fictional meetings for these papers; he also created a fictional history for the manuscript of the papers. According to the papers, the meetings occurred in the 1980's; they even mention events that occurred in that and the prior decades. About one-quarter of the papers were found among sacks of waste paper in 2012 at Oxford by a "Mr. Green". Mr. Green published a first edition containing excerpts from these papers, indicating that they were written during the 1980's by one of the participants. Two scholars read the first edition, asked to examine the manuscripts, and then submitted a full report. The "Notes to the Second Edition" mentions contradictory evidence in dating it.
These papers, which make a number of comments on Lewis' Space Trilogy, remind one of C. S. Lewis' commentary on Tolkien's poem The Lay of Leithian, in which Lewis created a fictional history of scholarship of the poem and even referred to other manuscript tradition to recommend changes to the poem.
By an odd coincidence, The Notion Club Papers mentions a great storm occurring during 1987 in England, and indeed the fictional commentary notes that this provides evidence that it could not have been written in the 1940s. In real life the Great Storm of 1987 occurred in October of that year.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Arabic 	أوراق نادي المفهوم
Azerbaijani 	Konsepsiya klubunun sənədləri
Belarusian Cyrillic	Паняцце клубныя дакументы
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Понятието Клубни документи
Burmese 	အဆိုပါအယူအဆကလပ်စာရွက်စာတမ်းများ
Catalan 	Els papers del Notion Club
Chinese 	糯軒俱樂部檔案
Croatian 	Pojam Kluba Dokumenata
Danish 	Den Begreb Klubbdokumenter
Dutch 	De Notie Vereniging Papieren
Esperanto 	La koncepto Klubaj Paperoj
Filipino 	Ang Paniwala Kapisanan mga Dokumento
Finnish 	Konsepti klubi papereita
Gujarati 	આ કલ્પના ક્લબ પેપર્સ
Hebrew 	הקונספט מועדון מאמרים
Hindi 	नोटियन क्लब कागजात
Japanese 	概念クラブ論文
Kannada 	ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ ಕ್ಲಬ್ ಪೇಪರ್ಸ್
Kazakh 	Тұжырымдаманың клубтық құжаттары (Cyrillic) Tujırımdamanıñ klwbtıq qujattarı (Latin)
Korean 	개념 클럽 문서
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Түшүнүгү клуб документтер
Marathi 	नोटियन क्लब पेपर्स
Nepalese 	अवधारणा क्लब कागजातहरू
Norwegian 	Konseptet Klubbpapirene
Persian 	مقالات باشگاه مفهوم
Polish 	Dokumenty klubu koncepcyjnego
Portuguese 	A Noção do Clube de Papéis
Punjabi 	ਸੰਕਲਪ ਕਲੱਬ ਦਸਤਾਵੇਜ਼
Romanian 	Concepeți documentele clubului
Sinhalese 	සංකල්ප සමාජ ලිපිලේඛන
Spanish 	Los papeles del Noción Club
Swedish 	Begreppet Klubbpapper
Tajik Cyrillic 	Клубҳои консептуалӣ коғазҳо
Telugu 	ది నోషన్ క్లబ్ పేపర్స్
Thai 	เอกสารของสโมสรแนวคิด
Turkish 	Konsept kulübü kağıtları
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Поняття клубних документів
Yiddish 	די קאָנסעפּט קלוב פּאַפּערס
Category:Texts by J.R.R. Tolkien
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