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==April== | ==April== | ||
* '''[[April 17|17]]''' - [[Sean Bean]], who would play [[Boromir|Boromir]] in [[The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy]], is born. | * '''[[April 17|17]]''' - [[Sean Bean]], who would play [[Boromir|Boromir]] in [[The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy]], is born. | ||
==June== | |||
* '''[[June 5|5]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] delivers the [[Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford]]. | |||
==July== | ==July== | ||
* '''[[July 16|16]]''' - [[Bob Joles]], who would voice [[Gimli]], [[Treebeard]] and [[Dáin Ironfoot]] in various [[Electronic Arts|EA]] video games, is born. | * '''[[July 16|16]]''' - [[Bob Joles]], who would voice [[Gimli]], [[Treebeard]] and [[Dáin Ironfoot]] in various [[Electronic Arts|EA]] video games, is born. | ||
Revision as of 09:04, 17 August 2010
Tolkien-related events that took place in 1959.
January
- 10 - Screenwriter Fran Walsh is born.
- 12 - Simon Tolkien is born.
April
- 17 - Sean Bean, who would play Boromir in The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy, is born.
June
- 5 - J.R.R. Tolkien delivers the Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford.
July
- 16 - Bob Joles, who would voice Gimli, Treebeard and Dáin Ironfoot in various EA video games, is born.
August
- 1 - J.R.R. Tolkien serves the first Mass of Robert Murray.
- 12 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 216.
September
- 10 - Actor Jim Meskimen is born.
- 11 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 217.
October
- 9 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 218.
- 14 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 219.
- 15 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 220.
November
- 24 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 221.
December
- 29 - Brian Sergent, who would play Ted Sandyman in the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, is born.
- ? - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Przemyslaw Mroczkowski.
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- ? - J.R.R. Tolkien retires from the Merton professorship at the University of Oxford.
- ? - Author Douglas A. Anderson is born.
- ? - Science fiction scholar Michael Martinez is born.
- ? - Peter Emshwiller, who would provide the voice of Thranduil in The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, is born.
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