1913
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Tolkien-related events that took place in 1913.
January[edit | edit source]
- 3 - J.R.R. Tolkien's twenty-first birthday.
- 3 - Tolkien contacts Edith Bratt, who subsequently breaks off her engagement with another man.
- 7 - Actor Francis de Wolff is born.
- 8 - Engagement of J.R.R. Tolkien and Edith Bratt
- 21 - Actor Heron Carvic is born.
- ? - J.R.R. Tolkien begins his diary "JRRT and EMB in account together, AMDG".
February[edit | edit source]
- 1 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a postcard to Edith Bratt.
May[edit | edit source]
- 16 – Norman Davis is born.
October[edit | edit source]
- 11 - Actor John Bryning is born.
November[edit | edit source]
- 19 - Exeter College Smoker, featuring a cover illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien, is printed.
December[edit | edit source]
- 1 - J.R.R. Tolkien is elected president of Stapledon Society, a student body at Exeter College.
- 16 – In an annual Christmas rugby match at King Edward's School, alumni at Oxford and Cambridge play against the School's First XV. This year, the alumni J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Wiseman, T.K. Barnsley, Robert Gilson, G.B. Smith and Sidney Barrowclough lose 14-10.
- ? - From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames is published in the Stapledon Magazine.
- ? - "Oxford Letter", J.R.R. Tolkien's report on former King Edward's pupils at Oxford, is published in The King Edward's School Chronicle.
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- ? - Tolkien takes a Second Class in exams and transfers from classics to English, with emphasis in philology, and formally studies Old Norse.
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