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==November== | ==November== | ||
* '''[[November 4|4]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[letter 156]]. | * '''[[November 4|4]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[letter 156]]. | ||
* '''[[November 6|6]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Robert Burchfield 6 November 1954|a letter to R.W. Burchfield]]. | |||
* '''[[November 7|7]]''' - [[Guy Gavriel Kay]], who would assist [[Christopher Tolkien]] with the writing of ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', is born. | * '''[[November 7|7]]''' - [[Guy Gavriel Kay]], who would assist [[Christopher Tolkien]] with the writing of ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', is born. | ||
* '''[[November 11|11]]''' - ''[[The Two Towers]]'' is published. | * '''[[November 11|11]]''' - ''[[The Two Towers]]'' is published. | ||
* '''[[November 27|27]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[letter 157]]. | * '''[[November 27|27]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[letter 157]]. | ||
==December== | ==December== | ||
* '''[[December 2|2]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[letter 158]]. | * '''[[December 2|2]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[letter 158]]. | ||
Revision as of 22:28, 11 February 2011
Tolkien-related events that took place in 1954.
January
- 22 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 143.
- 29 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to the Rector of the University of Liège.
April
- 14 - Comics writer Charles Dixon is born.
- 25 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 144.
- 30 - Programmer Don Woods is born.
May
- 13 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 145.
June
- 4 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 146.
- 15 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 147.
July
- 20 - J.R.R. Tolkien receives a D. Litt. from the University of Dublin.
- 29 - The Fellowship of the Ring is published.
August
- 7 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 148.
September
- 9 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 149.
- 9 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to the Rector of the University of Liège.
- 18 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letters 150 and 151.
- 22 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 152.
- 25 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 154.
October
- 2 - J.R.R. Tolkien receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Liège.
- 18 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to the Rector of the University of Liège.
- 31 – "The Hero Is a Hobbit", a review by W.H. Auden of The Fellowship of the Ring, is published.
November
- 4 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 156.
- 6 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to R.W. Burchfield.
- 7 - Guy Gavriel Kay, who would assist Christopher Tolkien with the writing of The Silmarillion, is born.
- 11 - The Two Towers is published.
- 27 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 157.
December
- 2 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 158.
- 3 - The BBC Third Programme broadcasts the radio play of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth.
- 14 - James Horan, who would voice several character in video games, is born.
- 25 - Singer Annie Lennox is born.
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