17 February

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Events that occurred on 17 February.

[edit] On Earth

• 1894 - Hilary Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien's brother, is born.
• 1934 - Actor Barry Humphries is born.
• 1919 - Hilary Tolkien returns home after the War.
• 1938 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 23.
• 1958 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes to Wordsworth.
• 1963 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Julie Cape.
• 1991 – The third day of the first "Colloquium on the Languages of Middle-earth" at the house of E.L.F. member Bill Welden.

[edit] In Arda

• T.A. 3019:
  • The Fellowship of the Ring travels south down the Anduin.
  • Gwaihir bears Gandalf to Lothlórien.