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In what year did J.R.R. Tolkien publish the essay “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”?
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1936
In Tolkien's legendarium, what is the name of the great island kingdom destroyed beneath the sea?
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Númenor
What is the title of Tolkien's 1964 collection containing the essay “On Fairy-Stories”?
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Tree and Leaf
Which Oxford college employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a professor from 1945 until his retirement in 1959?
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Merton College
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