16 January

Events that occurred on 16 January.

On Earth

• 1937 - Artist Klaus Ensikat is born.
• 1938 - The Observer newspaper publishes a letter asking about the The Hobbit's links to Beowulf, as well as the origins of Tolkien's Hobbits.
• 1965 - The fifteenth and last episode of the Princess-serialization of The Hobbit is published.
• 2005 - The final day of the first "The One Ring Celebration".
• 2015 - Perilous and Fair: Women in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work and Life is published.
• 2020 - Christopher Tolkien dies at the age of ninety-five.

In Arda

• T.A. 3019:
  • Frodo wakes and hears Orcs moving past the flet on which he is sleeping, along with Gollum climbing the trunk of the tree.
  • The Fellowship of the Ring is led through Lórien.
  • Last quarter of the Moon.

Notes

The text mentions that Frodo sees the "sickle Moon". According to astronomy, this moon should really be exactly half-full in 3019, rather than sickle, eight days after the full moon.