17 August

Events that occurred on 17 August

On Earth

• 1953 – J.R.R. Tolkien agrees with Rayner Unwin on the book titles for his sequel to The Hobbit: they will be The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
• 1971 - Linguist Helge Fauskanger is born.
• 1973 - Mythcon 4 in Santa Barbara, California.
• 1975 - Mythcon 6 at Scripps College in Claremont, California.
• 1992 - Tolkien Centenary Conference, a combination of Oxonmoot 1992 and Mythcon 23, at Keble College, Oxford.
• 2008 - Mythcon 39 at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut.
• 2012 - The Return of the Ring, Tolkien Society conference at Loughborough University, England.

In Arda

• T.A. 3018:
  • Gandalf is held captive by Saruman on the pinnacle of Orthanc.
  • Boromir travels towards Rivendell to ask for counsel.
• T.A. 3019:
  • New Moon