The International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Invented Languages
6–9 August 2009
Whitehaven, England, United Kingdom
Facilities Coordinator: Tuilinde, Susan Edwards
Secretary: Beregond, Anders Stenström
| Thursday | 7 p.m. | farmhouse high tea is served |
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| 715 p.m. | Opening of the conference Welcome, practical information. |
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| 730 p.m. | Guild-meeting — around the tea-table, all participants join the present members of the Mellonath Daeron for a traditional Thursday-evening meeting of the language guild. | |
| Friday | early morning | breakfast |
| 9 a.m. | Helios De Rosario Martínez: A Methodological Study of Elvish Writing Systems | |
| 10 a.m. | Towards an Encoding of Tengwar and Cirth in the Universal Character Set (workshop led by Michael Everson) | |
| 12 noon | lunch | |
| 1 p.m. | Petri Tikka: God’s Names in Elvish | |
| 215 p.m. | An Elvish Learning Curve — report from a primary school Tolkien Reading Fellowship (by members of the Fellowship: Jodi Storer, Abbie Taylor, Natasha Mitchell, Tayah Tailby, and Mick Ennis) | |
| 315 p.m. | Obscure Names in Elvish (seminar led by Beregond, Anders Stenström) | |
| 630 p.m. | dinner | |
| 730 p.m. | Practical Elvish (led by Petri Tikka) — tea | |
| Saturday | early morning | breakfast |
| 9 a.m. | Helge Fauskanger (in absentia): Challenges in the Exegesis of Tolkien's Linguistic Material | |
| 10 a.m. | Måns Björkman: Verb Classes in Late Quenya | |
| 11 p.m. | Forces of Language Change in Elvish (discussion led by Beregond) | |
| 12 noon | lunch | |
| 1 p.m. | Valeria Barouch: Arvernien, or, On the Winding of Rivers | |
| 2 p.m. | Melinea, Agnieszka Tańczuk (in absentia): The Language of Magic in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Works | |
| 315 p.m. | Elven Poesy (discussion led by Tuilinde, Susan Edwards) | |
| 6 p.m. | festive dinner | |
| 730 p.m. | Elvish Poets' Circle (led by Tuilinde) — tea | |
| 1030 p.m. | Whitehaven Festival fireworks | |
| Sunday | morning | breakfast |
| 930 a.m. | The Future: we took thought of the Omentielvar in 2011 and 2013 | |
| 1045 a.m. | Shared bus to Carlisle departs |