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What was the name of Tolkien’s first published Middle-earth story, appearing in 1937?
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The Hobbit
What name did J.R.R. Tolkien give to the great island kingdom destroyed before The Lord of the Rings?
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Númenor
At which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien serve as Merton Professor of English Language and Literature?
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Merton College
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Which Tolkien language was chiefly inspired by Welsh?
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Sindarin
Who killed Smaug in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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Bard the Bowman
Which university awarded J.R.R. Tolkien a professorship in Anglo-Saxon in 1925?
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University of Oxford
Which son of J.R.R. Tolkien became the principal editor of his father’s unpublished legendarium?
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