1928

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Tolkien-related events that took place in 1928.

January

• 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

• 27-28 - Tolkien works on the latter part of Canto IV of Lay of Leithian.

April

• 7 - The Tablet reports about J.R.R. Tolkien's paper "The Chill Barbarians of the North".

June

• 6 - J.R.R. Tolkien is invited to a dinner marking the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary.

July

• 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

• 17 - Roddy McDowall, who would voice Samwise Gamgee in The Return of the King (1980 film), is born.

December

• 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".

Years 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931