1997

Tolkien-related events that took place in 1997.

January

• 6 - A new edition of The Monsters and the Critics is published.

March

• 20 - Translator Britt G. Hallqvist dies.

April

• 25 - Tyalie Tyelellieva issue 10 is published.
• ? - Vinyar Tengwar 38 is published.

May

• 9-11 - Bree Moot 3.

July

• 23 - Tyalie Tyelellieva issue 11 is published.

August

• 1 - The German Tolkien Society Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V. is founded.
• 8-11 - Mythcon 28.
• 18 - The audiobook Pearl and Sir Orfeo by J.R.R. Tolkien, read by Terry Jones, is published.
• ? - Production begins for The Lord of the Rings (film series).

September

• 19-21 - Oxonmoot 1997.
• 30 - The album An Evening in Rivendell is released.
• ? - The Hobbit audiobook topped the bestseller list for audiobooks for children.
• ? - Mallorn 35 is published.

October

• 20 - Actor John Bell is born.
• 24 - Don Messick, who voiced Balin and the Lord of the Eagles in The Hobbit (1977 film), dies.

November

• 13 - Peter Jackson sends a parcel containing "Forgotten Silver" and "Heavenly Creatures", and a letter explaining an upcoming movie project to Alan Lee.
• 13 - The Brazilian Tolkien Society is founded.

December

• 14 - Owen Barfield, Inkling, dies.

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• ? - Tales from the Perilous Realm is published.
• ? - A Question of Time is published.
• ? - News from the Shire and Beyond - Studies on Tolkien, the first book of the Cormarë Series, is published.
• ? - The Hobbit (1968 radio series) is released on CD.
• ? - The Hobbit Companion is published.
• ? - Artist Maret Kernumees dies.
• ? - The Middle-earth Puzzles are released.
• ? - Middle-earth: The Lidless Eye card game is released.
• ? - Middle-earth: Against the Shadow card game is released.
• ? - Middle-earth: The White Hand card game is released.
• ? - Hands of the Healer is published.
• ? - Tolkien's Hobbit: A Book of 20 Postcards is published.
• ? - Tolkien Calendar 1998 is released.

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