Tolkien 2019 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Faramir Jones · 06-20-2018, 09:41 AM

I thought I would put up a thread about Tolkien 2019, the conference the Tolkien Society will be holding in the MacDonald Burlington Hotel in Birmingham, England, UK,
for 7th - 11th August 2019, celebrating 50 years of the Society:

https://www.tolkien2019.com/

I hope to go there. Does anyone else here have similar plans?

Aganzir · 09-25-2018, 04:45 AM

I am definitely coming and will run my customary Dwarven beard workshop. I may also contribute something about the Sindarin habit of eating Petty-dwarves.

As many of you undoubtedly know, Dublin is hosting Worldcon a week after Tolkien 2019. Is anybody else planning on being there?

Looking forward to a week and a half of nerdy activities.

(And keeping my fingers crossed my husband can get the time off work to join me.)

Pervinca Took · 12-01-2018, 02:58 AM

I am thinking of going for just the last couple of days, to catch up with friends.

Estelyn Telcontar · 12-11-2018, 01:51 PM

I'm planning to come and combine two Birmingham events - the Festival of Quilts takes place on the weekend before Tolkien 2019. I look forward to seeing as many Downers as possible! I'm not planning a lecture, though it's possible I will present the next Tolkien and music book if the editors can't be there. However, I am planning to sew and show a new costume, so I'll join the Masquerade.

Estelyn Telcontar · 07-02-2019, 12:33 PM

Only five weeks to go - who's coming? I've booked everything and am right now sewing my costume for the Masquerade. No, I won't divulge what/who it is yet - but you ask if it includes a parody element? If you know me by now, you can give yourself the answer: It has to do with the church affiliation of the Pope...

Faramir Jones · 08-02-2019, 05:09 AM

That costume sounds interesting, Esty! I'll see you I(and others) in Brum soon!

Alphaelin · 09-08-2019, 01:20 AM

I hope those who went will post some of their experiences on this thread.

06-20-2018, 09:41 AM	#1
Faramir Jones Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Lonely Isle Posts: 706	Tolkien 2019 I thought I would put up a thread about Tolkien 2019, the conference the Tolkien Society will be holding in the MacDonald Burlington Hotel in Birmingham, England, UK, for 7th - 11th August 2019, celebrating 50 years of the Society: https://www.tolkien2019.com/ I hope to go there. Does anyone else here have similar plans?

09-25-2018, 04:45 AM	#2
Aganzir Woman of Secret Shadow Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells Posts: 4,511	I am definitely coming and will run my customary Dwarven beard workshop. I may also contribute something about the Sindarin habit of eating Petty-dwarves. As many of you undoubtedly know, Dublin is hosting Worldcon a week after Tolkien 2019. Is anybody else planning on being there? Looking forward to a week and a half of nerdy activities. (And keeping my fingers crossed my husband can get the time off work to join me.) __________________ He bit me, and I was not gentle.

12-01-2018, 02:58 AM	#3
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	I am thinking of going for just the last couple of days, to catch up with friends. __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."

12-11-2018, 01:51 PM	#4
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	I'm planning to come and combine two Birmingham events - the Festival of Quilts takes place on the weekend before Tolkien 2019. I look forward to seeing as many Downers as possible! I'm not planning a lecture, though it's possible I will present the next Tolkien and music book if the editors can't be there. However, I am planning to sew and show a new costume, so I'll join the Masquerade. __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

07-02-2019, 12:33 PM	#5
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Only five weeks to go - who's coming? I've booked everything and am right now sewing my costume for the Masquerade. No, I won't divulge what/who it is yet - but you ask if it includes a parody element? If you know me by now, you can give yourself the answer: It has to do with the church affiliation of the Pope... __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

08-02-2019, 05:09 AM	#6
Faramir Jones Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Lonely Isle Posts: 706	That costume sounds interesting! That costume sounds interesting, Esty! I'll see you I(and others) in Brum soon!

09-08-2019, 01:20 AM	#7
Alphaelin Wight Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Tottering about in the Wild Posts: 130	I hope those who went will post some of their experiences on this thread. __________________ Not all those who wander are lost . . . because some of us know how to read a map.