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==January==
* '''[[29 January|29]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 135c]].
==February==
* '''[[9 February|9]]''' - Actor [[Ciarán Hinds]] is born.
* '''[[11 February|11]]''' - [[Wayne G. Hammond]] is born.

==March==
* '''[[11 March|11]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 135d]].
* '''[[24 March|24]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] meets [[Rayner Unwin]] in [[Oxford]]<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=http://www.hammondandscull.com/addenda/readers.html|author=[[Wayne G. Hammond]] and [[Christina Scull]]|articlename=Addenda and Corrigenda to The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion (2005)|dated=31 March 2015|website=[http://www.hammondandscull.com wayne & christina]|accessed=8 December 2022}}</ref> and then writes [[letter 136]] to his father, [[Stanley Unwin]].
* '''[[30 March|30]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] and [[Edith Tolkien|Edith]] move to [[76 Sandfield Road]].
==April==
* '''[[11 April|11]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[letter 137]].
* '''[[15 April|15]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] gives the [[W.P. Ker Lecture]] at Glasgow University on the religious themes adultery, temptation and repentance in ''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]''.
* '''[[21 April|21]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 137a]].
==June==
* '''[[5 June|5]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 137b]].
* '''[[5 June|5]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 137c]].
* '''[[11 June|11]]''' - ''[[Pearl (E.V. Gordon)|Pearl]]'', edited by [[E.V. Gordon]] and including a contribution by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], is published.
* '''[[22 June|22]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 137d]].
* '''[[24 June|24]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter to George Sayer (24 June 1953)|a letter to George Sayer]].
* '''[[27 June|27]]''' - Actress [[Lorri Holt]] is born.
* '''?''' - [[Christopher Gilson]], linguist, is born.
==July==
* '''? (mid-month)''' - J.R.R. Tolkien receives galley-proofs of the first volume from [[Allen and Unwin]]; he realised that some words have been over-corrected (dwarves to dwarfs, elvish to elfish, further to farther, and worst of all, elven to elfin).<ref>{{L|138}}</ref>
* '''[[8 July|8]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 137e]].
* '''[[28 July|28]]''' - Rayner Unwin presses Tolkien to choose titles for each volume for ''Lord of the Rings''; he erroneously proposes that the general title should belong to the first volume.<ref>{{HM|RC}}, p. xxxiii</ref><ref>{{L|139}}</ref>
==August==
*'''[[4 August|4]]''' – [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 138]].
* '''[[8 August|8]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[letter 139]].
* '''[[15 August|15]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes a [[letter to Ronald Eames]].
*'''[[17 August|17]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] [[letter 140|agrees]] with [[Rayner Unwin]] on the volume titles for the book: they will be ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', ''[[The Two Towers]]'' and (reluctantly) ''[[The Return of the King]]''. 
* '''[[31 August|31]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 140a]].
==September==
* '''[[3 September|3]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 140b]].
* '''[[8 September|8]]''' - Actor [[John McGlynn]] is born.
* '''[[23 September|23]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 140c]].
==October==
* '''[[4 October|4]]''' - Actor [[Chris Fairbank]] is born.
* '''[[9 October|9]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[letter 141]].
* '''[[15 October|15]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 141a]].
* '''?''' - ''[[Essays and Studies 1953]]'', including ''[[The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son]]'' by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], is published.
==November==
* '''[[19 November|19]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 141b]].
* '''[[23 November|23]]''' - Composer [[Johan de Meij]] is born.
* '''[[30 November|30]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 141c]].
==December==
* '''[[1 December|1]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 141d]].
* '''[[2 December|2]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[letter 142]].
* '''[[4 December|4]]''' - An issue of the magazine ''[[Radio Times 4 December 1953|Radio Times]]'' featuring an article by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], is published.
* '''[[5 December|5]]''' - Actor [[Christopher Guard]] is born.
* '''[[10 December|10]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 142a]].
* '''[[28 December|28]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter to Rayner Unwin (28 December 1953)|a letter to Rayner Unwin]].
* '''[[29 December|29]]''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] visits [[Allen and Unwin|Allen & Unwin]] at [[Wikipedia:Museum Street|Museum Street]] in London.
==?==
* '''?''' - [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] writes [[Letter 135b]].
* '''?''' - ''[[Essais de philologie moderne (1951)]]'', including the essay "[[Middle English 'Losenger']]" by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], is published.
* '''Late''' - [[Christopher Tolkien]] draws [[General Map of Middle-earth]].<ref>{{HM|RC}}, p. lv</ref>
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