New England Moot 2026 Registration

Signum University invites you to join us on Saturday, 24 October in Derry, NH, USA, for New England Moot. We return to our usual Derry location, Studio Lab, home of Rings & Realms. As we gather in Studio A for our annual get-together, this year's theme cordially invites you to enjoy "filling up the corners" as you partake in The Second Breakfast Club: Food, Feasting, and Famine in the Legendarium.

From the seed-cakes of Bag End to the lembas of Lórien, from Beorn’s honeyed cream to Gollum’s raw fish, food in Tolkien’s legendarium stimulates both body and soul. It is a moral language, a marker of civilization, a weapon of hospitality, and sometimes a haunting absence. Food and drink in Tolkien also connects to ritual, gender, class, and the environment. A single Ent draught from Wellinghall, salted pork from Bree, or the wine of the Elvenking’s halls; each carries economic, political, and sometimes even liturgical weight. It is a moral language, a marker of civilization, a weapon of hospitality, and sometimes a haunting absence. The “Second Breakfast Club” invites presentations that take food, drink, and their lack through famine, war, and pestilence, as a narrative, theological, and ecological force in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and beyond.

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