1980

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Tolkien-related events that took place in 1980.

February

• 9 - Heron Carvic, who voiced Gandalf in The Hobbit, dies.

May

• 11 - Rankin/Bass' The Return of the King is released.
• 29 - Poems and Stories is published.

July

• 25-28 - Mythcon XI.

August

• 22 - Norman Shelley, who voiced Gandalf and Tom Bombadil in the first radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, dies.
• 29 - Author Douglas C. Kenney dies.

September

• 26-28 - Oxonmoot 1980.

October

• ? - A Walk Through the Shire is published.

November

• 18 - Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth is published.

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• ? - Ralph Bakshi wins the Golden Gryphon for The Lord of the Rings.
• ? - Quettar is founded.
• ? - Nevill Coghill, Inkling, dies.
• ? - The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth is published.
• ? - A Reader's Guide to The Silmarillion is published.
• ? - The Lord of the Rings Film Calendar 1980 is released.
• ? - The J.R.R. Tolkien Desk Calendar 1980 is released.
• ? - The 1980 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar is released.

Years 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983