1928
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Tolkien-related events that took place in 1928.
January[edit | edit source]
- 12 - A New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District, containing a Foreword by J.R.R. Tolkien, is published.
- 22 - J.R.R. Tolkien reads a paper, The Chill Barbarians of the North, at a meeting of the Newman Society, in Oxford.
March[edit | edit source]
- 27-28 - Tolkien works on the latter part of Canto IV of Lay of Leithian.
April[edit | edit source]
- 7 - The Tablet reports about J.R.R. Tolkien's paper "The Chill Barbarians of the North".
June[edit | edit source]
- 6 - J.R.R. Tolkien is invited to a dinner marking the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary.
July[edit | edit source]
- 22 - Orson Bean, who would voice Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit (1977 film) and Frodo Baggins (as well as Bilbo) in The Return of the King, is born.
September[edit | edit source]
- 17 - Roddy McDowall, who would voice Samwise Gamgee in The Return of the King (1980 film), is born.
December[edit | edit source]
- 20 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.
- 25 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.
- 29 - Bernard Cribbins, who would narrate several episodes of Jackanory's telling of The Hobbit, is born.
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- ? - Tolkien assists Sir Mortimer Wheeler in the unearthing of a Roman Asclepieion at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire.
- ? - Tolkien draws an "Owlamoo".
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