1930

Tolkien-related events that took place in 1930.

January

• 12 - Musician Glenn Yarbrough is born.

April

• 18 - Clive Revill, who would voice Thorin in the 2003 video game of The Hobbit, is born.

May

• 29 - "The Oxford English School", an essay by J.R.R. Tolkien, is published in The Oxford Magazine.

June

• 3 - Author Marion Zimmer Bradley is born.
• 9 - Author Lin Carter is born.

September

• 28 - Illustrator Livia Rusz is born.

November

• 28 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.

December

• 24 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.

?

• ? - J.R.R. Tolkien completes a full draft of The Silmarillion, which is later printed in The Shaping of Middle-earth.
• ? - Joseph Wright, former tutor of Tolkien, dies.
• ? - War in Heaven, first novel of Inkling Charles Williams, is published.

Years 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933