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==February== | |||
* '''[[13 February|13]]''' - [[Mary Jane Stow]] dies. | |||
==March== | ==March== | ||
* '''?''' - Earliest "evidence" of Tolkien working on "fairy language". | * '''?''' - Earliest "evidence" of Tolkien working on "fairy language". | ||
==April== | |||
* '''?''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes the poem ''[[Goblin Feet]]''. | |||
==June== | ==June== | ||
* ''' | * '''[[10 June|10]]''' - Exams start at [[Oxford University]]. Because of [[Great War|the war]], only Tolkien and 24 others remain in the entire University. Tolkien passes. | ||
* '''[[28 June|28]]''' - Tolkien applies at the Oxford recruiting office to join the army. | |||
* '''[[28 June|28]]''' - [[Przemyslaw Mroczkowski]], scholar and friend of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], is born. | |||
* '''?''' - Tolkien is awarded First Class Honours degree in English Language and Literature. | |||
==July== | ==July== | ||
* ''' | * '''[[15 July|15]]''' - Tolkien is commissioned as a second lieutenant of the 13th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, and begins training at Bedford. | ||
==September== | |||
* '''[[25 September|25]]''' - The Big Four of the [[T.C.B.S.]] - Tolkien, [[Geoffrey Bache Smith|Smith]], [[Christopher Wiseman|Wiseman]] and [[Robert Gilson|Gilson]] - have their last meeting. | |||
==October== | |||
* '''[[4 October|4]]''' - Translator [[Tore Zetterholm]] is born. | |||
==November== | |||
*'''?''' - Tolkien writes his earliest version of ''[[Kortirion among the Trees]]''. | |||
* '''[[21 November|21]]''' - G.B. Smith is shipped to France. | |||
* '''[[26 November|26]]''' - Tolkien writes [[Letter 3]] with a copy of ''Kortirion'' to [[Edith Bratt]] from Rugeley Camp, Staffordshire. | |||
==December== | |||
*'''?''' - Tolkien might have written the poem ''[[Habbanan beneath the Stars]]''. | |||
==?== | ==?== | ||
* '''?''' - The poem [[Goblin Feet]] is published. | * '''?''' - The poem "[[Goblin Feet]]" is published in ''[[Oxford Poetry|Oxford Poetry 1915]]''. | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:13, 10 September 2023
Tolkien-related events that took place in 1915.
February[edit | edit source]
- 13 - Mary Jane Stow dies.
March[edit | edit source]
- ? - Earliest "evidence" of Tolkien working on "fairy language".
April[edit | edit source]
- ? - J.R.R. Tolkien writes the poem Goblin Feet.
June[edit | edit source]
- 10 - Exams start at Oxford University. Because of the war, only Tolkien and 24 others remain in the entire University. Tolkien passes.
- 28 - Tolkien applies at the Oxford recruiting office to join the army.
- 28 - Przemyslaw Mroczkowski, scholar and friend of J.R.R. Tolkien, is born.
- ? - Tolkien is awarded First Class Honours degree in English Language and Literature.
July[edit | edit source]
- 15 - Tolkien is commissioned as a second lieutenant of the 13th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, and begins training at Bedford.
September[edit | edit source]
October[edit | edit source]
- 4 - Translator Tore Zetterholm is born.
November[edit | edit source]
- ? - Tolkien writes his earliest version of Kortirion among the Trees.
- 21 - G.B. Smith is shipped to France.
- 26 - Tolkien writes Letter 3 with a copy of Kortirion to Edith Bratt from Rugeley Camp, Staffordshire.
December[edit | edit source]
- ? - Tolkien might have written the poem Habbanan beneath the Stars.
?[edit | edit source]
- ? - The poem "Goblin Feet" is published in Oxford Poetry 1915.
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