1911
From Tolkien Gateway
Summer
- ? - The Tolkiens go to holiday in Switzerland, where he (alledgedly) finds a postcard of Der Berggeist.
October
- 3 - Michael Hordern, who would voice Gandalf in the 1981 radio series of The Lord of the Rings, is born.
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- ? - J.R.R. Tolkien creates the Tea Club and Barrovian Society at grammar school.
- ? - Tolkien's first poem, The Battle of the Eastern Field, is published in the chronicle of King Edward's School.
- ? - J.A.W. Bennett, Inkling, born in New Zealand.
- ? - Åke Ohlmarks, translator, is born.
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