26 March

Events that occurred on 26 March.

On Earth

• 1931 - Leonard Nimoy, who would reach cult status with The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins, is born.
• 1938 - "There's magic in The Hobbit", Houghton Mifflin's advertisement for The Hobbit, is printed in Publishers Weekly.
• 2011 - 3rd Conference on Middle-earth in Westford, Massachusetts.
• 2011 - Author Diana Wynne Jones dies.

In Arda

• T.A. 3019:
  • Frodo and Sam, rescued out of the fire, rest in Ithilien.