29 November
From Tolkien Gateway
Events which occurred on 29 November.
On Earth
- 1898 - C.S. Lewis, who will play an immense part in the development of J.R.R. Tolkien's works, is born.
- 1916 - G.B. Smith is hit by shrapnel, and wounded on his right arm and thigh.
- 1971 – Edith Tolkien dies after a short but severe illness attributed to an inflamed gall-bladder.
- 1978 - André Morell, the actor who plays Elrond in Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings, dies.