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* '''[[29 May|29]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[letter 100]]. | * '''[[29 May|29]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[letter 100]]. | ||
==June== | ==June== | ||
* '''[[2 June|2]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[ | * '''[[2 June|2]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes a [[letter to Maegraith]]. | ||
* '''[[3 June|3]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[letter 101]]. | * '''[[3 June|3]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[letter 101]]. | ||
* '''[[23 June|23]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] is elected Merton Professor of English Language and Literature. | * '''[[23 June|23]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] is elected Merton Professor of English Language and Literature. | ||
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* '''[[17 September|17]]''' - [[Bruce Spence]], who would play the [[Mouth of Sauron]] in the extended edition of ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'', is born. | * '''[[17 September|17]]''' - [[Bruce Spence]], who would play the [[Mouth of Sauron]] in the extended edition of ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'', is born. | ||
==October== | ==October== | ||
*'''?''' - J.R.R. Tolkien is made a Fellow of Merton College. | *'''?''' - J.R.R. Tolkien is made a Fellow of Merton College.<ref>{{HM|RC}}, p. lxxiv</ref> | ||
* '''[[7 October|7]]''' - Author [[Hal Colebatch]] is born. | * '''[[7 October|7]]''' - Author [[Hal Colebatch]] is born. | ||
* '''[[9 October|9]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes a [[Letter to Christopher Tolkien (9 October 1945)|letter to Christopher Tolkien]]. | * '''[[9 October|9]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes a [[Letter to Christopher Tolkien (9 October 1945)|letter to Christopher Tolkien]]. | ||
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* '''?''' - Writer [[Jim Allan]] is born. | * '''?''' - Writer [[Jim Allan]] is born. | ||
* '''?''' - Actor [[Jeffrey Thomas]] is born. | * '''?''' - Actor [[Jeffrey Thomas]] is born. | ||
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Revision as of 19:31, 14 January 2023
- You may also be looking for Third Age 1945.
Tolkien-related events that took place in 1945.
January
- 18 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 95.
- 21 - Martin Shaw is born.
- 30 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 96.
- ? - Leaf by Niggle is published in the The Dublin Review.
February
- 10 - J.R.R. Tolkien starts writing a letter to the Catholic Herald.
- 11 - J.R.R. Tolkien finishes writing a letter to the Catholic Herald.
- 11 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 97.
- 23 - A letter by J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Name Coventry", is published in the Catholic Herald.
March
- 18? - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 98.
- ? - Christopher Tolkien returns to England after serving in South Africa.[1]
April
- 18 - Karen Wynn Fonstad, amateur cartographer, is born.
May
- 15 - Charles Williams, Inkling, dies.
- 15 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 99.
- 29 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 100.
June
- 2 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Maegraith.
- 3 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 101.
- 23 - J.R.R. Tolkien is elected Merton Professor of English Language and Literature.
August
- 9 - As the bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Tolkien denounces these tactics as "utter folly".
- 18 - Eric Rücker Eddison dies.
September
- 17 - Bruce Spence, who would play the Mouth of Sauron in the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, is born.
October
- ? - J.R.R. Tolkien is made a Fellow of Merton College.[2]
- 7 - Author Hal Colebatch is born.
- 9 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Christopher Tolkien.
- 11 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 103.
- 22 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 104.
- 26 - Author Jane Chance is born.
December
- 2 - J.R.R. Tolkien submits The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son for publication.
- ? - The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun is published in the Welsh Review.
?
- ? - Tolkien states he is putting The Lord of the Rings "before all else".
- ? - Writer Jim Allan is born.
- ? - Actor Jeffrey Thomas is born.
References
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. lxxiii
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. lxxiv
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