1964

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Tolkien-related events that took place in 1964.

January

• First or second week: J.R.R. Tolkien invites Walter Hooper to his house. They talk mostly about C.S. Lewis, who recently had died.
• 9 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 254.
• 20 - The 1965 BBC Interview with J.R.R. Tolkien is made.
• 20 - J.R.R. Tolkien starts writing a letter to Professor Przemyslaw Mroczkowski.
• 26 - J.R.R. Tolkien finishes writing a letter to Professor Przemyslaw Mroczkowski.

March

• 5 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Eileen Elgar (of which a part was published as letter 255) and encloses the manuscripts Concerning ... 'The Hoard' and Kinship of the Half-elven.

April

• 20 - Actor Andy Serkis is born.

May

• 13 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 256.
• 28 - Tree and Leaf is first published in the UK.

June

• 7 - Actor Brian Talbot is born.
• 13-15 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a a letter to W.R. Matthews.

July

• 10 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Alan White.
• 15 - J.R.R. Tolkien sends a letter to Miss J.L. Curry.
• 16 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 257.
• ? - L. Sprague de Camp sends Tolkien a copy of his anthology Swords & Sorcery.

August

• 2 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 258.
• 7 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 259.
• 10 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Carole Ward.
• 16 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 260.
• 30 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 261.
• 30 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to L. Sprague de Camp.

September

• 7 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 262.
• 10 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 263.
• 11 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 264.
• 30 - Actor Bernard Rebel dies.

October

• 9 - Guillermo del Toro, co-writer of the upcoming The Hobbit duology, is born.
• 10 - The first episode of the Princess-serialization of The Hobbit is published.
• 10 - Actor Quinton Flynn is born.
• 17 - The second episode of the Princess-serialization of The Hobbit is published.
• 24 - The third episode of the Princess-serialization of The Hobbit is published.
• 31 - The fourth episode of the Princess-serialization of The Hobbit is published.

November

• 1 - Actor Daran Norris is born.
• 7 - The fifth episode of the Princess-serialization of The Hobbit is published.
• 11 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 265.
• 11 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Clyde S. Kilby.
• 14 - The sixth episode of the Princess-serialization of The Hobbit is published.
• 21 - The seventh episode of the Princess-serialization of The Hobbit is published.
• 26 - The 1964 BBC Interview with J.R.R. Tolkien was made.
• 28 - The eighth episode of the Princess-serialization of The Hobbit is published.
• 30 - El hobito, the first translation into Spanish of The Hobbit, is published.
• ? - Robert Groves, Oxford's Professor of Poetry, introduces J.R.R. Tolkien to Ava Gardner. They had never heard of one another, and both did not know why the other was famous.

December

• 5 - The ninth episode of the Princess-serialization of The Hobbit is published.
• 12 - The tenth episode of the Princess-serialization of The Hobbit is published.
• 19 - The eleventh episode of the Princess-serialization of The Hobbit is published.
• 26 - The twelfth episode of the Princess-serialization of The Hobbit is published.
• 31 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Ingeborg Korff and her pupils.

?

• ? - J.R.R. Tolkien writes the essay "The Ulsterior Motive".
• ? - Author Chris Smith is born.
• ? - Artist Quinton Hoover is born.

References

Years 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967