10 January
From Tolkien Gateway
Events which occurred on 10 January.
On Earth
- 1914 - Scholar Angus McIntosh, pupil and friend of J.R.R. Tolkien, is born.
- 1938 - J.R.R. Tolkien goes to London to rehearse his talk at the BBC, four days later.
- 1957 - Bertram Rota writes to William Ready considering the sale of Tolkien's manuscripts to Marquette University.
- 1959 - Screenwriter Fran Walsh is born in Wellington, New Zealand.
- 1966 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Timothy J. Wheeler.
- 1981 - Richard Boone, who voiced Smaug in the 1977 animated version of The Hobbit, dies.
In Arda
- T.A. 3019:
- The Fellowship of the Ring travels towards Caradhras.