25 December

Events that occurred on 25 December.

On Earth

• 1914 – The last meeting of the T.C.B.S. takes place in London before Geoffrey Bache Smith, Robert Gilson, Thomas Kenneth Barnsley and Christopher Wiseman join the Great War.
• 1925 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.
• 1928 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.
• 1937 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.
• 1938 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.
• 1943 - Father Christmas writes his last letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.
• 1954 - Singer Annie Lennox is born.
• 1971 - Attacks of Taste, with a contribution by J.R.R. Tolkien, is published.
• 2005 - Reading The Lord of the Rings: New Writings on Tolkien's Classic is published.

In Arda

• T.A. 3018:
  • The Fellowship of the Ring leaves Rivendell at dusk.

Inspiration

Tolkien noted in Nomenclature that the date the Fellowship departed from Rivendell was purposefully chosen.