28 August
From Tolkien Gateway
Events which occurred on 28 August.
On Earth
- 1967 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to a Mr Joukes.
- 1968 - Billy Boyd, who would play Peregrin Took in The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy, is born.
- 1973 - J.R.R. Tolkien takes a holiday to visit friends in Bournemouth. He would die there 5 days later.
- 1987 - John Huston, the voice of Gandalf in The Hobbit (1977 film) and The Return of the King, dies.