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==January== | ==January== | ||
* '''3''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s twenty-first birthday. | * '''[[January 3|3]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s twenty-first birthday. | ||
* '''7''' - [[Francis de Wolff]], who would voice [[Smaug]] in [[The Hobbit (1968 radio series)|the 1968 radio series of ''The Hobbit'']], is born. | * '''[[January 7|7]]''' - [[Francis de Wolff]], who would voice [[Smaug]] in [[The Hobbit (1968 radio series)|the 1968 radio series of ''The Hobbit'']], is born. | ||
==November== | ==November== | ||
* '''19''' - ''[[Exeter College Smoker]]'', featuring a cover illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien, is published. | * '''[[November 19|19]]''' - ''[[Exeter College Smoker]]'', featuring a cover illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien, is published. | ||
==December== | ==December== | ||
* '''1''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] is elected president of Stapledon Society, a student body at Exeter College. | * '''[[December 1|1]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] is elected president of Stapledon Society, a student body at Exeter College. | ||
* '''16''' – In an annual Christmas rugby match at [[King Edward's School]], alumni at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and Cambridge play against the School's First XV. This year, the alumni [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], [[Christopher Wiseman]], [[Thomas Kenneth Barnsley|T.K. Barnsley]], [[Robert Gilson]], [[Geoffrey Bache Smith|G.B. Smith]] and [[Sidney Barrowclough]] lose 14-10. | * '''[[December 16|16]]''' – In an annual Christmas rugby match at [[King Edward's School]], alumni at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and Cambridge play against the School's First XV. This year, the alumni [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], [[Christopher Wiseman]], [[Thomas Kenneth Barnsley|T.K. Barnsley]], [[Robert Gilson]], [[Geoffrey Bache Smith|G.B. Smith]] and [[Sidney Barrowclough]] lose 14-10. | ||
* '''?''' - ''[[From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames]]'' is published in the [[Stapledon Magazine]]. | * '''?''' - ''[[From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames]]'' is published in the [[Stapledon Magazine]]. | ||
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Revision as of 18:22, 17 May 2010
Tolkien-related events that took place in 1913.
January
- 3 - J.R.R. Tolkien's twenty-first birthday.
- 7 - Francis de Wolff, who would voice Smaug in the 1968 radio series of The Hobbit, is born.
November
- 19 - Exeter College Smoker, featuring a cover illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien, is published.
December
- 1 - J.R.R. Tolkien is elected president of Stapledon Society, a student body at Exeter College.
- 16 – In an annual Christmas rugby match at King Edward's School, alumni at Oxford and Cambridge play against the School's First XV. This year, the alumni J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Wiseman, T.K. Barnsley, Robert Gilson, G.B. Smith and Sidney Barrowclough lose 14-10.
- ? - From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames is published in the Stapledon Magazine.
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- ? - Tolkien contacts Edith Bratt, who subsequently breaks off her engagement with another man.
- ? - Tolkien takes a Second Class in exams and transfers from classics to English, with emphasis in philology, and formally studies Old Norse.
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