Hoendor
Hoendor is the imagined polity that calls for aid whenever the Newfound Glory Hole is at risk of an incomplete hoen — a coinage produced by Evan Bbbender on February 12, 2026 in direct answer to Daniel Miller's call to 'light the hoen beacons.'
Hoendor
Hoendor is the imagined polity whose name is invoked whenever the Newfound Glory Hole is at risk of failing to produce a full hoen. Modeled on the realm of Gondor from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Hoendor exists exclusively as a rhetorical device deployed during attendance crises: when one member has confirmed and the rest have ghosted, the founder lights a beacon, and Hoendor is said to call for aid.
Origin
Hoendor is one of the few concepts in the chat with a single, datable instantiation. On February 12, 2026 at 20:14 UTC, after a sluggish round of "Hoen?" / "Did someone say hoen?" and a mounting sense that the week's hoen lunch might collapse, Daniel Miller posted:
"Light the hoen beacons."
Evan Bbbender responded eleven seconds later:
"Hoendor calls for aid."
The phrase was not workshopped. It arrived fully formed and has not required revision in the months since.
Usage
The full ceremonial form is rare; the chat typically truncates the invocation to a single posted "Hoendor" or to a chained "hoen beacons / Hoendor calls for aid" pair. Most invocations occur on Wednesday or Thursday, when the Friday lunch is in doubt and at least one member is non-committal. The phrase is generally regarded as the heaviest available rhetorical weapon for guilting absent members back into a hoen.