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==April== | ==April== | ||
* '''[[2 April|2]]''' - Marriage of [[Christopher Tolkien]] and [[Faith Faulconbridge]]. | * '''[[2 April|2]]''' - Marriage of [[Christopher Tolkien]] and [[Faith Faulconbridge]]. | ||
==May== | |||
* '''[[12 May|12]]''' - Tolkien completes the tale of Beren and Lúthien in a new version of the ''[[Quenta Silmarillion (Lost Road)|Quenta Silmarillion]]''. | |||
* '''[[21 May|21]]''' - Artist [[Angelo Montanini]] is born. | |||
==September== | ==September== | ||
* '''[[10 September|10]]'''-'''[[September | * '''[[10 September|10]]'''-'''[[13 September|13]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] attends the Congrès Internationale de Philologie Moderne at the University of Liège, where he delivers the paper "[[Middle English 'Losenger' (essay)|Middle English 'Losenger']]". | ||
* '''[[September | * '''[[13 September|13]]''' - [[Bruce Phillips]], who would play [[Grimbold]] in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'', is born. | ||
==October== | |||
*Tolkien's arm suffers "a terrible bout" of fibrositis and neuritis.<ref name=l133>{{L|133}}</ref> | |||
==November== | ==November== | ||
* '''[[November 25|25]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[ | * '''[[19 November|19]]''' - [[Rayner Unwin]] writes to Tolkien expressing his interest in seeing the ''Silmarillion''.<ref name=l133/> | ||
* '''[[25 November|25]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes a [[letter to Iona and Peter Opie]]. | |||
==Late== | ==Late== | ||
* '''?''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes the [[ | * '''?''' (probably fall) - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes the [[letter to Milton Waldman|famous letter]] to [[Milton Waldman]] ([[Letter 131]]) explaining what his [[Legendarium]] is about, hoping to get ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' published. His attempt is unsuccessful. | ||
* '''?''' - Tolkien is working on several things, such as ''[[Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin]]'', the [[Grey Annals]] and the [[Annals of Aman]]. | |||
==Unknown== | |||
*'''?''' - Second edition of ''[[The Hobbit]]''.<ref>{{HM|RC}}, p. lxviii</ref> | |||
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Latest revision as of 21:15, 13 January 2023
Tolkien-related events that took place in 1951.
April[edit | edit source]
- 2 - Marriage of Christopher Tolkien and Faith Faulconbridge.
May[edit | edit source]
- 12 - Tolkien completes the tale of Beren and Lúthien in a new version of the Quenta Silmarillion.
- 21 - Artist Angelo Montanini is born.
September[edit | edit source]
- 10-13 - J.R.R. Tolkien attends the Congrès Internationale de Philologie Moderne at the University of Liège, where he delivers the paper "Middle English 'Losenger'".
- 13 - Bruce Phillips, who would play Grimbold in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, is born.
October[edit | edit source]
- Tolkien's arm suffers "a terrible bout" of fibrositis and neuritis.[1]
November[edit | edit source]
- 19 - Rayner Unwin writes to Tolkien expressing his interest in seeing the Silmarillion.[1]
- 25 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Iona and Peter Opie.
Late[edit | edit source]
- ? (probably fall) - J.R.R. Tolkien writes the famous letter to Milton Waldman (Letter 131) explaining what his Legendarium is about, hoping to get The Lord of the Rings published. His attempt is unsuccessful.
- ? - Tolkien is working on several things, such as Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin, the Grey Annals and the Annals of Aman.
Unknown[edit | edit source]
- ? - Second edition of The Hobbit.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 133, (dated 22 June 1952)
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. lxviii
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