Old photographs

[bunn]

I have uploaded some old banquet photos here for those who may remember them.

The username and password are both taruithorn.

Obviously this isn't particularly to make them private, it's just I'd rather they didn't get picked up by search engines and displayed in random image searches.

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Rather embarrassingly, no, not all of them!

I am fairly sure that they span at least 3 banquets* and a punt party.

*I'm pretty sure that the blacked up Nazgul are from 1991 but that most of the rest are from 1992-3. Somewhere or other, I have a suspicion there are more photos of earlier events, but who knows where they have got to.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

That would explain why I don't recognise more of them - my first banquet was in '94 (although I had met a few Taruithornites at the '93 Oxonmoot - kargicq and skordh for two, and possibly their partners for two more.

[chainmailmaiden]

I think I met you at the '93 Oxonmoot too, but things are a bit blurry due to the amount of alcohol I drank!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You might be right. I'll dig out my '93 Oxonmoot photos sometime (and my '94 banquet photos). I might even scan a few!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

We were certainly at Priscilla's together, as witnessed by my photo of you.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I just had a very quick look through my albums (in the 20 minutes I'm home for lunch) and fortunately I labelled the back of my photos. The blacked-up Nazguls are March 1992, from the Barad-dur banquet at New College. The Shire banquet was in March 1993, in Magdalen, which also accounts for quite a lot of your pictures.

We have far more pictures of Arthurian banquets than Taruithorn ones - including our fair share of embarrassing Bunn photos, I should add. I won't bother putting the albums away, in case anyone wants a nostalgia trip next weekend.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Was it? Oh well. It was a very long time ago, I know that much.

[lanciatore.livejournal.com]

"The blacked-up Nazguls are March 1992, from the Barad-dur banquet at New College"

Clearly George Lucas was hanging around and nicked this look for Darth Maul

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I had a look at my old Miruvors last night, and I think I was getting confused because there was also a Barad Dur banquet in 1990. I can't remember if I went to that, or anything about it, nor can I remember anything about the pesky 1991 banquet, even though I am *sure* I must have gone to it, and I think I can even vaguely remember one of the planning committee meetings. Unless that was for one of the others, of course...

I think my brain is going.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I have a few pics of the 1990 banquet. I can't see you in any of them, but I don't have enough pictures to be sure. I expect you'd remember it if you'd gone to it, since it was the memorable one where IP (remember him?) got taken to hospital (in full Nazgul regalia), after an encounter with JO's sword outside in the quad of New College.

I'm fairly sure the 1990 banquet was in late November, like the Arthurian one. The 1992 one was in March. Is it possible that there wasn't actually a 1991 banquet at all, since a decision was taken to move it to Hilary rather than Michaelmas?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

There wasn't!

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tolksoc/history.html

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Philmophlegm has just asserted loudly that the blacked up Nazgul are definitely 1990, not 1992. Could it be that the 1992 Nazgul are different ones?

I really can't remember if I actually went to the 1990 banquet, or was just told about it at length. I definitely went to the 1992 one though, as my old friend K booked the room, and attended (rather out of place) as an Ent.

Philmophlegm is convinced that there was some sort of Taruithorn event at the hall in Polstead road before 1997 as well, and as I'm fairly sure he didn't attend any of the Arthurian events there, I think he might be right...

Heavens, what a graphic demonstration of the unreliability of primary sources this is.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Aha! He's right. On the first point, anyway. I have a picture of him as a Nazgul at the 1992 event, and he's modelling slightly different Nazgul fashions than he is in your photo. I don't have a picture of him at the 1990 one, but I do have a picture of... what did you call him? ProudTwinlyParent? His costume and make-up match your picture.

No trace in our albums of any Taruithorn even at Polstead Road before summer 1994. After that, though... I dunno.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Yes - Bunn's photos of me and Gimli blacked up are definitely from 1990, and were taken in my house at the time - 1 Longwall Street. The first is specifically inside the back door, and was taken by my nextdoor neighbour who, in later life would go on to marry King Henry VIII. I'm trying hard to remember who else was there. I do remember pyromaniac building society (see what I did with that pseudonym there?) having to be taken to hospital by the then Miruvor editor (herself on crutches) after an unfortunate accident with a sword.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the Polstead Road event I am thinking of was a birthday party for (tries to think of appropriate pseudonym and fails) the author of "Enhancing Theorem Prover Interfaces with Program Slice Information" who lived nearby at the time.

[tovaglia.livejournal.com]

Ah! good to see the 1992 pictures (I'd been told about this banquet about 50 times by various people* trying to explain Taruithorn banquets to me during my first year, and the pictures are even funnier than I'd imagined).

I do remember the names of almost everyone in the 1993 pictures, if that helps. And I also remember exactly where I bought all the components of my costume, except for the waistcoat which was kindly loaned to me by Na-Lon.

*although you wouldn't think some of them remembered that much of it themselves, looking at the state of them in those photos!

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

There is a reason why my recollection of events is more accurate than, say ladyofastolat's...