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In Tolkien’s legendarium, what is the name of the giant spider who attacks Frodo in Cirith Ungol?
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Shelob
What is the name of the dragon who attacks Lake-town in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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Smaug
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1925 Oxford professorship in Anglo-Saxon?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Which fictional language is associated with many Elves of Beleriand in Tolkien’s works?
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Sindarin
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What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1925 Oxford professorship in Anglo-Saxon?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
In Tolkien’s legendarium, who is Arwen’s father?
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Elrond
Who edited and published many of J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumous works?
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Christopher Tolkien
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture on Beowulf called?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Who leads the Dwarves’ quest in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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Thorin Oakenshield
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien's first published academic essay on Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics