1945

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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.

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.
• 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

Years 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948