J. R. R. Reading Day

25 March

 

(Not that there’s anything to

Mind, but)

How was this decided?

What happens in the story

To commemorate?

What’s in the lore?

 

Having a day made right

For reading about rings

Or the Silmarils

Or ships retiring west to

Middle-Earth’s Elysian

Shores—or imposing corsairs

Creasing through southern

Waters

 

All this is good

If a day to be celebratory

Even better

 

An excuse to wake up our

Hobbit aspects and have

Bilbo’s birthday party, after

Reading, under the great

Shire tree

 

Not having to wait

‘Til 22 September

 

When we can make the party

More fantasy

Officially

Again