26 September

Events that occurred on 26 September.

On Earth

• 1902 - Academic Clyde S. Kilby is born.
• 1947 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a letter to Jennifer Brookes-Smith.
• 1947 - Voice actor Graham Faulkner is born.
• 1980 - Oxonmoot 1980 at The Turf Tavern.
• 1981 - Oxonmoot 1981 at The Turf Tavern.
• 1982 - Oxonmoot 1982 at the Cotswold Lodge Hotel.
• 1987 - Oxonmoot 1987 at Oxford Town Hall.
• 1998 - Oxonmoot 1998 at Exeter College.
• 1999 - Oxonmoot 1999 at Exeter College.
• 2002 - Ida Gordon dies.
• 2002 - The Xbox version of The Fellowship of the Ring are released in North America.
• 2006 - Fantasy novel Here, There Be Dragons, featuring J.R.R. Tolkien as a fictional character, is published.
• 2008 - Oxonmoot 2008 at Christ Church.
• 2009 - Oxonmoot 2009 at Lady Margaret Hall.
• 2010 - Oxonmoot 2010 at Lady Margaret Hall.
• 2010 - Lasse Lanta Autumn Meeting of Austrian Tolkien Society.
• 2010 - Decentennial Celebration and Hobbit Birthdays, North East Tolkien Society.
• 2012 - Tolkien's World: A guide to the peoples and places of Middle-earth by Gareth Hanrahan and Peter McKinstry was published.
• 2019 - Tolkien's Lost Chaucer will be published.

In Arda

• T.A. 3018:
  • The Hobbits leave Fredegar Bolger back in Crickhollow to impersonate Frodo. They enter the Old Forest.
  • They encounter Old Man Willow and are rescued by Tom Bombadil who hosts them to his house. Frodo dreams about Gandalf.
  • Two Nazgûl come to Bree from the South road.
  • Gandalf hurries towards The Shire on Shadowfax.
  • Boromir travels towards Rivendell to ask for counsel.