1930
From Tolkien Gateway
Tolkien-related events that took place in 1930.
January
- 12 - Musician Glenn Yarbrough is born.
April
- 18 - Clive Revill, who would voice Thorin in the 2003 video game of The Hobbit, is born.
May
- 27 - The University Press of Oxford sends J.R.R. Tolkien a copy of A Middle English Reader.
- 29 - "The Oxford English School", an essay by J.R.R. Tolkien, is published in The Oxford Magazine.
June
- 3 - Author Marion Zimmer Bradley is born.
- 9 - Author Lin Carter is born.
August
- 25 - Bruce Allpress, who would play Aldor in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, is born.
September
- 28 - Illustrator Livia Rusz is born.
November
- 28 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.
December
- 24 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.
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- ? - 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.
Years 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 |