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==January== | ==January== | ||
* '''[[18 January|18]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 95]]. | * '''[[18 January|18]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 95]]. | ||
* '''[[21 January|21]]''' - [[Martin Shaw]] is born. | |||
* '''[[30 January|30]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 96]]. | * '''[[30 January|30]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 96]]. | ||
* '''?''' - ''[[Leaf by Niggle]]'' is published in the ''[[The Dublin Review (January 1945)|The Dublin Review]]''. | * '''?''' - ''[[Leaf by Niggle]]'' is published in the ''[[The Dublin Review (January 1945)|The Dublin Review]]''. | ||
==February== | ==February== | ||
* '''[[10 February|10]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] starts writing [[The Name Coventry|a letter to the ''Catholic Herald'']]. | * '''[[10 February|10]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] starts writing [[The Name Coventry|a letter to the ''Catholic Herald'']]. | ||
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==August== | ==August== | ||
* '''[[9 August|9]]''' - As [[wikipedia:Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki|the bombs]] are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] [[letter 102|denounces]] these tactics as "utter folly". | * '''[[9 August|9]]''' - As [[wikipedia:Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki|the bombs]] are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] [[letter 102|denounces]] these tactics as "utter folly". | ||
* '''[[18 August|18]]''' -[Eric Rücker Eddison]] | * '''[[18 August|18]]''' - [[Eric Rücker Eddison]] dies. | ||
==September== | ==September== | ||
Revision as of 03:03, 22 September 2014
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Tolkien-related events that took place in 1945.
January
- 18 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 95.
- 21 - Martin Shaw is born.
- 30 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 96.
- ? - Leaf by Niggle is published in the The Dublin Review.
February
- 10 - J.R.R. Tolkien starts writing a letter to the Catholic Herald.
- 11 - J.R.R. Tolkien finishes writing a letter to the Catholic Herald.
- 11 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 97.
- 23 - A letter by J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Name Coventry", is published in the Catholic Herald.
March
- 18? - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 98.
April
- 18 - Karen Wynn Fonstad, amateur cartographer, is born.
May
- 15 - Charles Williams, Inkling, dies.
- 15 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 99.
- 29 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 100.
June
- 2 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Maegraith.
- 3 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 101.
- 23 - J.R.R. Tolkien is elected Merton Professor of English Language and Literature.
August
- 9 - As the bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Tolkien denounces these tactics as "utter folly".
- 18 - Eric Rücker Eddison dies.
September
- 17 - Bruce Spence, who would play the Mouth of Sauron in the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, is born.
October
- 7 - Author Hal Colebatch is born.
- 11 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 103.
- 22 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 104.
- 26 - Author Jane Chance is born.
December
- 2 - J.R.R. Tolkien submits The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son for publication.
- ? - The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun is published in the Welsh Review.
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- ? - Tolkien states he is putting The Lord of the Rings "before all else".
- ? - Writer Jim Allan is born.
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