What was the name of Tolkien’s first son, who became an editor of his writings?
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Christopher Tolkien
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What was the name of Tolkien’s first son, who became an editor of his writings?
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Christopher Tolkien
What was the name of Tolkien’s 1939 lecture that became a landmark defense of fantasy?
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On Fairy-Stories
What is the name of the fictional language created by Tolkien and inspired mainly by Finnish?
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Quenya
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s Oxford professorship before he became Merton Professor?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
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What was the name of Tolkien’s 1939 lecture that became a landmark defense of fantasy?
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On Fairy-Stories
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s Oxford professorship before he became Merton Professor?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
When was J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit first published?
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21 September 1937
Who completed and edited J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumous book The Silmarillion?
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Christopher Tolkien
What is the name of the New Year's Eve firework festival held at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill?
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Edinburgh's Hogmanay