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* '''[[February 4|4]]''' - [[C.S. Lewis]] writes to lifelong friend Arthur Greeves on ''[[The Hobbit]]'', saying "''Since term began [on January 15] I have had a delightful time reading a children's story which Tolkien has just written . . . Whether it is really good (I think it is until the end) is of course another question: still more, whether it will succeed with modern children''" (''They Stand Together'', collected letters from Lewis to Greeves, ed. [[wikipedia:Walter Hooper|Walter Hooper]], No. 183). | * '''[[February 4|4]]''' - [[C.S. Lewis]] writes to lifelong friend Arthur Greeves on ''[[The Hobbit]]'', saying "''Since term began [on January 15] I have had a delightful time reading a children's story which Tolkien has just written . . . Whether it is really good (I think it is until the end) is of course another question: still more, whether it will succeed with modern children''" (''They Stand Together'', collected letters from Lewis to Greeves, ed. [[wikipedia:Walter Hooper|Walter Hooper]], No. 183). | ||
==December== | ==December== | ||
* '''[[ | * '''[[December 2|2]]''' - [[Father Christmas]] writes a [[Letters from Father Christmas|letter]] to [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s children. | ||
* '''21''' - Father Christmas writes a [[Letters from Father Christmas|letter]] to [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s children. | * '''[[December 21|21]]''' - Father Christmas writes a [[Letters from Father Christmas|letter]] to [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s children. | ||
==?== | ==?== | ||
* '''?''' - [[Verlyn Flieger]] is born. | * '''?''' - [[Verlyn Flieger]] is born. | ||
Revision as of 10:59, 20 June 2010
Tolkien-related events that took place in 1933.
February
- 4 - C.S. Lewis writes to lifelong friend Arthur Greeves on The Hobbit, saying "Since term began [on January 15] I have had a delightful time reading a children's story which Tolkien has just written . . . Whether it is really good (I think it is until the end) is of course another question: still more, whether it will succeed with modern children" (They Stand Together, collected letters from Lewis to Greeves, ed. Walter Hooper, No. 183).
December
- 2 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.
- 21 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.
?
- ? - Verlyn Flieger is born.
- ? - Tolkien writes the poem Errantry.
- ? - Michael McStay, who would voice Ceorl in the 1981 radio series, is born in Essex, England.
- ? - Michael Deacon, who would voice Gríma Wormtongue in Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings, is born.
| Years 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 |
