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The Notion Club Papers is the title of an abandoned novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, published in Sauron Defeated, the 9th volume of The History of Middle-earth. It is a space/time/dream 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 (and a pun on) Tolkien's own Club, The Inklings.
In the Papers, Alwin Arundel Lowdham is having lucid dreams about Númenor, and in so doing "discovers" much about the Númenor story and the languages of Middle-earth (notably Quenya, Sindarin, and Adûnaic — the last very interesting since it is the sole source of most of the material on this language). 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.)
The Notion Club Papers ties in directly with The Lost Road, published and discussed in The Lost Road and Other Writings, as being another attempt to tie the Númenórean legend in with a more modern tale.
By an odd coincidence The Notion Club Papers mentions a great storm occurring during 1987 in England. In real life the Great Storm of 1987 occurred in October of that year.
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