1925

Tolkien-related events that took place in 1925.

January

• 5 - Wolfe Morris, who would voice of Gollum in the 1968 radio series of The Hobbit, is born.

March

• 14 - John Wain, Inkling, is born.

June

• 6 - Actor Gareth Jones is born.
• 27 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 7.

July

• 22 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 8.
• ? - The Devil's Coach-Horses, an essay by J.R.R. Tolkien, is published.

August

• 23 - The first recorded date in the writing of the Lay of Leithian, at Line 557.

October

• 21 - Tolkien submits his resignation from Leeds, his employment officially ended December 31, 1925.
• 29 - Paul Daneman, who would voice Bilbo Baggins in the 1968 radio series of The Hobbit, is born.

December

• 25 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.

?

• ? - The edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is published.
• ? - Tolkien moves from Leeds to Pembroke College of Oxford where he is elected Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon.
• ? - Tolkien's poem Light as Leaf on Lindentree is published.
• ? - The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor is published.
• ? - The journal The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion Session 1923-24, which includes an essay with a contribution by J.R.R. Tolkien as translator, is published.
• ? - Father Robert Murray, friend of J.R.R. Tolkien and his family, is born.
• ? - Brother Joseph Power, who encountered J.R.R. Tolkien in the 1950s, is born.

Years 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928