1918

Tolkien-related events that took place in 1918.

Early

• ? - J.R.R. Tolkien recovers from his trench fever to the degree that he can do home service. He is promoted to full lieutenant.

February

• 14 - William Snyder, American producer, is born.

November

• 2 - Roger Lancelyn Green, Inkling, is born.
• 5 - Alan Tilvern, who would voice the "Innkeeper" in The Lord of the Rings (1978 film), is born.
• 11 - The War comes to an end.
• ? - Tolkien is accepted as a junior staff member of the New English Dictionary, later called the Oxford English Dictionary. He worked with words beginning with the letter "w".

?

• ? - A Spring Harvest, containing a foreword by J.R.R. Tolkien, is published.

Years 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921