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What is the name of the hidden Elvish refuge ruled by Elrond in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth?
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Rivendell
What was the name of the fictional language Tolkien developed from Finnish for Middle-earth?
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Quenya
Which character cuts the One Ring from Sauron’s hand in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium?
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Isildur
What fictional metal does J.R.R. Tolkien associate with the mines of Moria?
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Mithril
Which fictional people built the underground city of Khazad-dûm in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth?
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Dwarves
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J.R.R. Tolkien was born in which present-day country?
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South Africa
What name did Tolkien give the great forest later known as Mirkwood?
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Eryn Galen
What name does Tolkien give to the catastrophic but hopeful turn in a fairy-story?
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Eucatastrophe
Which Oxford university held J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1925 professorship of Anglo-Saxon?
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University of Oxford