Literary Criticism:
- The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)
Salem on History:
Encyclopedia:
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales)
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
Calendar of Literary Facts:
- J. R. R. Tolkien dies
- J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Return of the King, volume 3 in the Lord of the Rings trilogy
- J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, volumes one and two of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, are published
- J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again
- J. R. R. Tolkien is born
