16 August
From Tolkien Gateway
Events which occurred on 16 August.
On Earth
- 1920 - Max Schuchart, the first person to translate The Lord of the Rings, is born.
- 1943 - Sharon Baird, the voice of Frodo in the 1978 animated film of The Lord of the Rings, is born.
- 1964 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 260.
- 1975 - Mythcon VI.
- 1976 - Mythcon VII.
- 1981 - The twenty-fourth episode of the 1981 radio series of The Lord of the Rings is aired on BBC Radio 4.
- 1982 - Mythcon XIII.
- 1984 - The Book of Lost Tales Part 2 is published.
- 1992 - The first part of the 1992 radio series of Farmer Giles of Ham is aired on BBC Radio 5.
- 1992 - Tolkien Centenary Conference, a combination of Oxonmoot and Mythcon.
- 2002 - The Annotated Hobbit: Revised and Expanded Edition is published.
- 2008 - Mythcon XXXIX.
- 2010 - "Edge of the Wild", Tolkien art exhibition in Moreton-in-Marsh.
- 2012 - The Return of the Ring, Tolkien Society conference at Loughborough University.