1930

Tolkien-related events that took place in 1930.

[edit] January

• 12 - Musician Glenn Yarbrough is born.

[edit] April

• 18 - Clive Revill, who would voice Thorin in the 2003 video game of The Hobbit, is born.

[edit] May

• 29 - "The Oxford English School", an essay by J.R.R. Tolkien, is published in The Oxford Magazine.

[edit] June

• 3 - Author Marion Zimmer Bradley is born.
• 9 - Author Lin Carter is born.

[edit] August

• 25 - Bruce Allpress, who would play Aldor in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, is born.

[edit] September

• 28 - Illustrator Livia Rusz is born.

[edit] November

• 28 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.

[edit] December

• 24 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.

[edit] ?

• ? - J.R.R. Tolkien completes a full draft of The Silmarillion, which is later printed in The Shaping of Middle-earth.
• ? - Joseph Wright, former tutor of Tolkien, dies.
• ? - War in Heaven, first novel of Inkling Charles Williams, is published.