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* '''[[21 August|21]]''' - Artist [[John Howe]] is born. | * '''[[21 August|21]]''' - Artist [[John Howe]] is born. | ||
* '''[[August | * '''[[24 August|24]]''' - Actor [[Stephen Fry]] is born. | ||
* '''[[August 25|25]]''' - Author [[Ian Brodie]] is born. | * '''[[August 25|25]]''' - Author [[Ian Brodie]] is born. | ||
==September== | ==September== | ||
Revision as of 15:12, 9 June 2011
Tolkien-related events that took place in 1957.
January
- 15 - J.R.R. Tolkien is interviewed by Ruth Harshaw for the NBC radio program "Carnival of Books".
March
- 21 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 196.
May
- 9 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 197.
June
- 7 - Marquette University acquires many of Tolkien's manuscripts for 1,500 pounds.
- 24 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 199.
- 25 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 200.
- 26 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Deirdre Levinson.
August
- 21 - Artist John Howe is born.
- 24 - Actor Stephen Fry is born.
- 25 - Author Ian Brodie is born.
September
- 2 - Professor William Craigie, Tolkien's predecessor as Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, dies.
- 7 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 201.
- 11 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 202.
October
- ? - Scholar Christopher Mitchell is born.
November
- 6 - Actor Cam Clarke is born.
- 17 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 203.
December
- 7 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 204.
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- ? - The Lord of the Rings is awarded the International Fantasy Award.
- ? - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Przemyslaw Mroczkowski.
- ? - Beregond, Anders Stenström, scholar of J.R.R. Tolkien, is born.
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