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Which writer and scholar was J.R.R. Tolkien’s close friend in the Inklings literary group?
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C.S. Lewis
What was the name of the Tolkien society founded in 1969 to study J.R.R. Tolkien’s work?
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The Tolkien Society
In which year did J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings begin publication in the United Kingdom?
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1954
When did J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit first appear in print?
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21 September 1937
What is the name of the fictional book that supposedly records the history of the Hobbits in The Lord of the Rings?
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The Red Book of Westmarch
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What was the name of the Tolkien society founded in 1969 to study J.R.R. Tolkien’s work?
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The Tolkien Society
When did J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit first appear in print?
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21 September 1937
What is the name of the fictional book that supposedly records the history of the Hobbits in The Lord of the Rings?
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The Red Book of Westmarch
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s publisher for the first edition of The Hobbit?
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George Allen & Unwin
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s professorship at Oxford from 1925 to 1945?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon