What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture that changed modern readings of Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
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What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture that changed modern readings of Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What is the name of the fictional world where most of J.R.R. Tolkien’s major stories are set?
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Middle-earth
Which fictional hobbit is the central character of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit?
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Bilbo Baggins
Which biblical figure narrates C.S. Lewis’s novel Till We Have Faces?
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Orual
Which Oxford literary group included C.S. Lewis and met for readings and discussion?
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The Inklings
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Which fictional hobbit is the central character of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit?
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Which C.S. Lewis novel features the fictional country of Glome?
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What title did C.S. Lewis give his 1943 book of philosophical lectures on education and morality?
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The Abolition of Man
What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s first book published under his initials “C.S. Lewis”?
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Which C.S. Lewis book retells the Cupid and Psyche myth through the voice of Orual?
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Till We Have Faces