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*'''[[22 July|22]]''' - [[Orson Bean]], who would voice [[Bilbo Baggins]] in [[The Hobbit (1977 film)|''The Hobbit'' (1977 film)]] and [[Frodo Baggins]] (as well as Bilbo) in ''[[The Return of the King (1980 film)|The Return of the King]]'', is born. | *'''[[22 July|22]]''' - [[Orson Bean]], who would voice [[Bilbo Baggins]] in [[The Hobbit (1977 film)|''The Hobbit'' (1977 film)]] and [[Frodo Baggins]] (as well as Bilbo) in ''[[The Return of the King (1980 film)|The Return of the King]]'', is born. | ||
==September== | ==September== | ||
*'''[[17 September|17]]''' - [[Roddy McDowall]], who would voice [[Samwise Gamgee]] in '' | *'''[[17 September|17]]''' - [[Roddy McDowall]], who would voice [[Samwise Gamgee]] in [[The Return of the King (1980 film)|''The Return of the King'' (1980 film)]], is born. | ||
==December== | ==December== | ||
* '''[[20 December|20]]''' - [[Father Christmas]] writes a [[Letters from Father Christmas|letter]] to [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s children. | * '''[[20 December|20]]''' - [[Father Christmas]] writes a [[Letters from Father Christmas|letter]] to [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s children. | ||
Revision as of 11:03, 16 December 2012
- You may also be looking for Third Age 1928.
Tolkien-related events that took place in 1928.
January
- 12 - A New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District, containing a Foreword by J.R.R. Tolkien, is published.
March
- 27-28 - Tolkien works on the latter part of Canto IV of Lay of Leithian.
June
- 6 - J.R.R. Tolkien is invited to a dinner marking the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary.
July
- 22 - Orson Bean, who would voice Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit (1977 film) and Frodo Baggins (as well as Bilbo) in The Return of the King, is born.
September
- 17 - Roddy McDowall, who would voice Samwise Gamgee in The Return of the King (1980 film), is born.
December
- 20 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.
- 25 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.
- 29 - Bernard Cribbins, who would narrate several episodes of Jackanory's telling of The Hobbit, is born.
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- ? - Tolkien assists Sir Mortimer Wheeler in the unearthing of a Roman Asclepieion at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire.
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