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What fictional name did J.R.R. Tolkien use for the region corresponding broadly to northwestern Europe?
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Middle-earth
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s gardener hero in The Lord of the Rings?
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Samwise Gamgee
In what year did J.R.R. Tolkien begin writing The Fall of Gondolin?
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1917
What name was given to the informal Oxford literary group associated with J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis?
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The Inklings
Which real-world language most influenced J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional language Quenya?
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Finnish
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What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s gardener hero in The Lord of the Rings?
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Samwise Gamgee
Which Tolkien work, published in 1998, features a toy dog named Rover?
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Roverandom
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic field in his 1925 Oxford appointment?
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Anglo-Saxon
What was Bilbo Baggins’s birthday in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional calendar?
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22 September
In which biblical book and chapters is the main Noah’s Ark narrative found?
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Genesis 6–9
According to Genesis, what was the prescribed length of Noah’s Ark?
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300 cubits