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What is the name of the fictional island kingdom destroyed in the Second Age of Tolkien’s legendarium?
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Númenor
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s university at the time he became Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon?
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University of Oxford
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s best-known scholarly lecture on Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1939 lecture later published as the essay On Fairy-Stories?
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On Fairy-Stories
What fictional language did J.R.R. Tolkien base largely on Finnish while developing Middle-earth?
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Quenya
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What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s best-known scholarly lecture on Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which Tolkien book was edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher in 1977?
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The Silmarillion
What is the name of the hobbit whose home is Bag End in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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Bilbo Baggins