1928

March

• 17-28 - The second recorded date in the writing of the Lay of Leithian, at Line 1168.

July

• 22 - Orson Bean, who would voice Bilbo Baggins in Rankin/Bass' The Hobbit and Frodo Baggins (as well as Bilbo) in Rankin/Bass' The Return of the King, is born.

September

• 17 - Roddy McDowall, who would voice Samwise Gamgee in Rankin/Bass' The Return of the King, is born.

December

• 29 - Bernard Cribbins, who would narrate several episodes of Jackanory's telling of The Hobbit, is born.

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• ? - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a foreword to A New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District by Walter E. Haigh.
• ? - Tolkien assists Sir Mortimer Wheeler in the unearthing of a Roman Asclepieion at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire.

Years 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931