2011

Tolkien-related events that took place in 2011.

January

• 3 - Birthday Toast.
• ? - Amon Hen 227 is published.

March

• 21 - Filming begins on The Hobbit (film series).
• 21 - Update 2: Echoes of the Dead, the second update of The Lord of the Rings Online, is released in North America.
• 24 - Update 2: Echoes of the Dead, the second update of The Lord of the Rings Online, is released in Europe.
• 25 - Tolkien Reading Day.
• 26 - 3rd Conference on Middle-earth.
• 26 - Author Diana Wynne Jones dies.
• ? - Amon Hen 228 is published.

April

• 20 - The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game was released.
• 29 - J.R.R. Tolkien's Double Worlds and Creative Process by Arne Zettersten was released.
• 30 - Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity by Carl Phelpstead was published.

May

• 5 - English and Medieval Studies Presented to J.R.R. Tolkien on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday is made available as a print-on-demand publication from HarperCollins.
• 20 - 22 - Unquendor's Lustrumfeest.
• 21 - 22 - The Tolkien Society's Middle-earth Weekend in Sarehole, Birmingham.
• 23 - Update 3: Lost Legends of Eriador, the third update of The Lord of the Rings Online is released.
• ? - Tolkien Studies: Volume 8 is published.
• ? - Amon Hen 229 is published.
• ? - Mallorn 51 is published.

July

• 1 - Tolkien Calendar 2012 is published.
• 5 - A revised printing of Parma Eldalamberon 12 is released.
• 7 - Beowulf and the Critics: Revised Second Edition is published.
• 14-17 - Tolkien Thing 2011.
• 15 - 18 - Mythcon 42 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
• 21 - Light Beyond All Shadow: Religious Experience in Tolkien's Work is published.
• 30 - The Tolkien Society's seminar in York.
• 31 - Picturing Tolkien is published.
• ? - Amon Hen 230 is published.

August

• 11 - 14 - Omentielva Cantea - 4th International Conference on Tolkien's Invented Languages in Valencia, Spain.
• 24 - The Lord of the Rings: War in the North is released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC in North America.
• ? - Tolkien and the Study of His Sources is published.
• (?) - The One Ring (role-playing game) is released.
• ? - The illustrated children's book Oliphaunt is published in a new edition.

September

• 1 - A Tolkien Tapestry is published.
• 1 - A Critical Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien: A Literary Reference to His Life and Works is published.
• 1 - J.R.R. Tolkien, a children's book from Holiday House, was published.
• 23-25 - Oxonmoot 2011 at Lady Margaret Hall.
• 27 - The Lord of the Rings Online: Rise of Isengard is released.
• 29 - A new hardback edition of Mr. Bliss is released.
• ? - Amon Hen 231 is published.

October

• 19 - Brother Joseph Power dies.
• 27 - A revised updated single-edition version of The History of The Hobbit is published.
• 27 - The Art of The Hobbit is published.
• 27 - From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages is published.

November

• 2 - The Loss and the Silence: Aspects of Modernism in the Works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien & Charles Williams is published.
• ? - Amon Hen 232 is published.
• ? - Mallorn 52 is published.

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