1917
Preceded by
1918
Year
1919
Followed by
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 - Producer William Lawrence Snyder 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.
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