12 August
From Tolkien Gateway
Events which occurred on 12 August.
On Earth
- 1911 - Felix Felton, who would play Bilbo Baggins, the Black Captain and Sauron in The Lord of the Rings (1955 radio series), is born.
- 1915 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 5.
- 1944 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 78.
- 1959 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 216.
- 2004 - Peter Woodthorpe, who voiced Gollum in both Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings as well as The Lord of the Rings 1981 radio series, dies.