1958

Tolkien-related events that took place in 1958.

January

• 10 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to his grandson Michael George Tolkien.

February

• 17 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes to Wordsworth.
• 21 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 205.

March

• 28 - Actor Stephen Ure is born.
• 28 - J.R.R. Tolkien is invited to attend a "Hobbit Dinner" in Rotterdam.

April

• 2 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Peter Alford.
• 2 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Cees Ouboter.
• 3 - J.R.R. Tolkien, signing as "Gandalf", sends a letter to a Dutchman.
• 8 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letters 206 and 207.
• 10 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 208.
• 12 - Tony Oliver, who would voice Merry in The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring, is born.

May

• 4 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 209.
• 5 - Author James Branch Cabell dies.
• 26 - J.R.R. Tolkien is driven at high speed to ABC Television's studio at Aston, Birmingham.

June

• ? - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 210.

October

• 14 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 211.
• 20 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Misses E. Jones and J. Taylor.
• 20 - Viggo Mortensen, who would play Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings (film series), is born.
• 25 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 213.
• 26 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to L.M. Cutts.
• 28 - C. S. Lewis writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien.

November

• 2 - Taum Santoski, Tolkien linguist, is born.
• 10 - C. S. Lewis writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien.
• 30 - Actor Gareth Jones dies.

?

• ? - Actress Kathryn Hurlbutt is born.
• ? - J.R.R. Tolkien writes two letters to Przemyslaw Mroczkowski.
• ? - The Old English Apollonius of Tyre, containing a prefatory note by J.R.R. Tolkien, is published.
• ? - John D. Rateliff, editor and author, is born.
• ? - Edith Tolkien smashes her left arm in the garden, one of the reasons why that year became frustrating for the Tolkiens, preventing the completion of Letter 214 and further work on the Silmarillion.

Years 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961