2017
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Tolkien-related events that took place in 2017.
January[edit]
- 3 - Birthday Toast.
- 27 - Actor John Hurt dies.
- 30 - Actor Victor Platt dies.
- ? - Amon Hen 263 is published.
- ? - Mallorn 57 is published.
February[edit]
- 2 - The Hobbit Movie Trilogy Colouring Book is published.
March[edit]
- 14 - Bodleian Library announce the book Tolkien: The Maker of Middle-earth to go alongside their forthcoming exhibition.
- 25 - Tolkien Reading Day. The Tolkien Society hosts a storytelling of Mr. Bliss at The Story Museum, Oxford.
- 28 - John Ronald's Dragons: The Story of J.R.R. Tolkien is published.
- ? - Amon Hen 264 is published.
May[edit]
- ? - Amon Hen 265 is published.
June[edit]
- 1 - Beren and Lúthien is published.
July[edit]
- 2 - The Tolkien Society Seminar at the Hilton, Leeds.
- 3 - A lawsuit was settled between Warner Bros. and Tolkien Estate.
- 14 - J.R.R. Tolkien the Esperantist: Before the Arrival of Bilbo Baggins is published.
- 21 - J.R.R. Tolkien: Romanticist and Poet is published.
- 31 - The Lord of the Rings Online: Mordor is released online.
- ? - Amon Hen 266 is published.
August[edit]
- 10-13 - Omentielva Otsea - the Seventh International Conference on Tolkien's Invented Languages at California State University, East Bay.
- 31 - Tolkien Calendar 2018 is published.
- ? - Christopher Tolkien resignes from his appointment as director of the Tolkien Estate.
September[edit]
- 15 - The revised edition of Aragorn: J.R.R. Tolkien's Undervalued Hero is published.
- 21 - The deluxe boxed set edition of The History of Middle-earth is published.
- 21 - 24 - Oxonmoot 2017 at St Antony's College.
- 30 - J.R.R. Tolkien: Romanticist and Poet is published.
- ? - Amon Hen 267 is published.
October[edit]
- 8 - Binding Them All is published.
- 9 - Filming began on Tolkien (film), directed by Dome Karukoski and written by David Gleeson.
- 10 - Middle-earth: Shadow of War is released.
- 12 - Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium is published.
- 19 - Middle-earth: From Script to Screen: Building the World of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit is published.
- 19 - The Middle-earth Treasury is published.
- 24 - Faith Faulconbridge dies.
- 26 - Roger Garland dies.
November[edit]
- 2 - The second edition of The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide is published.
- 13 - Amazon acquires the global television rights for the books The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit from Tolkien Estate.
- 30 - The Sweet and the Bitter: Death and Dying in J. R. R. Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings is published.
- ? - Amon Hen 268 is published.
- ? - Mallorn 58 is published.
December[edit]
- 1 - Death and Immortality in Middle-earth is published.
- 17 - "There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale": Essays on Tolkien's Middle-earth is published.
- 22 - The Inklings and King Arthur is published
- ? - The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faerie is published.
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