Which Oxford university served as J.R.R. Tolkien’s main academic workplace for most of his career?
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University of Oxford
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Which Oxford university served as J.R.R. Tolkien’s main academic workplace for most of his career?
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University of Oxford
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic friend and fellow fantasy author who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia?
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C. S. Lewis
What is the name of the fictional land where Bilbo Baggins lives in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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The Shire
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic specialty at Oxford before his later English professorship?
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Anglo-Saxon
What is the name of the script Tolkien used for much of the writing on the One Ring?
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Tengwar
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