1959

Tolkien-related events that took place in 1959.

January

• 10 - Screenwriter Fran Walsh is born.
• 12 - Simon Tolkien is born.

February

• 5 - Peter Emshwiller, who would provide the voice of Thranduil in The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, is born.

March

• 5 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to William Ready.
• 20 - Game designer Anders Blixt is born.

April

• 17 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 215.
• 17 - Sean Bean, who would play Boromir in The Lord of the Rings (film series), is born.

May

• 26 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Miss Robinson.

June

• 5 - J.R.R. Tolkien delivers the Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford.

July

• 16 - Bob Joles, who would voice Gimli, Treebeard and Dáin Ironfoot in various EA video games, is born.

August

• 1 - J.R.R. Tolkien serves the first Mass of Robert Murray.
• 12 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 216.

September

• 10 - Actor Jim Meskimen is born.
• 11 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 217.

October

• 9 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 218.
• 15 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 220.
• 16 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 219.

November

• 8 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Naomi Mitchison.
• 24 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 221.
• ?' - The poem "The Passing of the Elven-kind" by Ted Johnstone, the oldest known published Tolkien fan faction, is published.

December

• 9 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 222.
• 29 - Brian Sergent, who would play Ted Sandyman in the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, is born.
• ? - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Przemyslaw Mroczkowski.

?

• ? - J.R.R. Tolkien retires from the Merton professorship at the University of Oxford.
• ? - Author Douglas A. Anderson is born.
• ? - Science fiction scholar Michael Martinez is born.

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