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Which Elvish language in Tolkien’s legendarium was influenced partly by Welsh?
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Sindarin
What name appears beside Edith Tolkien’s on her grave in reference to Tolkien’s mythology?
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Lúthien
Which publishing house first published J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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George Allen & Unwin
On what date was J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring first published?
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29 July 1954
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Which publishing house first published J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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George Allen & Unwin
On what date was J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring first published?
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29 July 1954
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s guardian after his mother died?
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Father Francis Morgan
Which 1936 lecture by J.R.R. Tolkien argued that Beowulf should be valued as poetry?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which university employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a professor of English language and literature from 1945?
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University of Oxford