Tolkien Reading Day is an annual event, launched by The Tolkien Society in 2003, that takes place on 25 March. It has the aim of encouraging the reading of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, and the use of Tolkien’s works in education and library groups. The date of March 25 was chosen in honor of the fall of Sauron.

These are the first lines of the poem “Namárië” by J.R.R. Tolkien, which has been released into the public domain by its creator Tiger Tjäder.