25 December

Events that occurred on 25 December.

On Earth

• 1903 - J.R.R. Tolkien takes his First Communion.
• 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

At first the Fellowship was to depart on 24 November but later Tolkien changed the date.

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