1958
From Tolkien Gateway
March
- ? - J.R.R. Tolkien is invited by the Dutch publisher Het Spectrum to attend a "Hobbit Dinner" in Rotterdam. Tolkien is especially delighted by the "maggot soup" and the three barrels of tobacco he receives.
October
- 20 - Viggo Mortensen, who would play Aragorn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings, is born.
?
- ? - Taum Santoski, Tolkien linguist, is born.
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