The Proudneck started meeting in june 2000 as suggested by Norbert "Mandos" Spina .
We choose this name in the autumn of 2003.
We are a smial of the Tolkien Society.

We meet once a month to discuss, talk, drink, eat, laugh as hobbits would do in the "Green Dragon" of Bywaters.
Some of us prefer to talk with friends in a pub with a mug of beer or of cider.
Other prefer to improve their own knoledge of professor Tolkien's world.
Other prefer to work hard to widen the knoledge of Middle Earth in our own town.
Some of us meet often. Other are less interested in meetings. Or just have less spare time.
But we are all Proudneck, and we all share a strong sense of independence and a great passion for the books of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.