Events[]
January[]
- 1 - A Spring Harvest, containing a foreword by J.R.R. Tolkien, is published.
- ? - J.R.R. Tolkien recovers from his trench fever to the degree that he can do home service. He is promoted to full lieutenant.
February[]
- 14 - Producer William Lawrence Snyder is born.
November[]
- 2 - Roger Gilbert Lancelyn Green, Inkling, is born.
- 5 - Alan Tilvern, who would voice the "Innkeeper" in The Lord of the Rings (1978 film), is born.
- 11 - The War comes to an end.
- ? - Tolkien is accepted as a junior staff member of the New English Dictionary, later called the Oxford English Dictionary. He worked with words beginning with the letter "w".