1959
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Tolkien-related events that took place in 1959.
January[edit]
- 10 - Screenwriter Fran Walsh is born.
- 12 - Simon Tolkien is born.
February[edit]
- 5 - Peter Emshwiller, who would provide the voice of Thranduil in The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, is born.
March[edit]
- 5 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to William Ready.
- 20 - Game designer Anders Blixt is born.
April[edit]
- 17 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 215.
- 17 - Sean Bean, who would play Boromir in The Lord of the Rings (film series), is born.
May[edit]
- 26 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Miss Robinson.
- 30 - Swedish-French director Charlotte Brändström is born.
June[edit]
- 5 - J.R.R. Tolkien delivers the Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford.
July[edit]
- 16 - Bob Joles, who would voice Gimli, Treebeard and Dáin Ironfoot in various EA video games, is born.
August[edit]
- 1 - J.R.R. Tolkien serves the first Mass of Robert Murray.
- 12 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 216.
September[edit]
- 10 - Actor Jim Meskimen is born.
- 11 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 217.
October[edit]
- 9 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 218.
- 15 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 220.
- 16 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 219.
November[edit]
- 2 - Actor Peter Mullan is born.
- 8 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Naomi Mitchison.
- 24 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 221.
- ?' - The poem "The Passing of the Elven-kind" by Ted Johnstone, the oldest known published Tolkien fan faction, is published.
December[edit]
- 9 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes letter 222.
- 29 - Brian Sergent, who would play Ted Sandyman in the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, is born.
- ? - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Przemyslaw Mroczkowski.
?[edit]
- ? - J.R.R. Tolkien retires from the Merton professorship at the University of Oxford.
- ? - Author Douglas A. Anderson is born.
- ? - Science fiction scholar Michael Martinez is born.
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