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What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s guardian after his mother died?
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Father Francis Morgan
Which 1936 lecture by J.R.R. Tolkien argued that Beowulf should be valued as poetry?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which university employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a professor of English language and literature from 1945?
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University of Oxford
What is J.R.R. Tolkien’s middle name represented by the initial “R”?
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Reuel
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What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s guardian after his mother died?
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Father Francis Morgan
Which 1936 lecture by J.R.R. Tolkien argued that Beowulf should be valued as poetry?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which university employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a professor of English language and literature from 1945?
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University of Oxford
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Oxford professorship from 1925 to 1945?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
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Houston
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