What was the name of the Oxford literary group that included J.R.R. Tolkien?
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The Inklings
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What was the name of the Oxford literary group that included J.R.R. Tolkien?
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The Inklings
Which Tolkien child became the literary executor of J.R.R. Tolkien’s unpublished writings?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which university employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a professor before Oxford?
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University of Leeds
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture on heroic literature?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which dragon is the main antagonist of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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Smaug
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Which Tolkien child became the literary executor of J.R.R. Tolkien’s unpublished writings?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which university employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a professor before Oxford?
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University of Leeds
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture on heroic literature?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which First World War battle did J.R.R. Tolkien serve in as a British Army officer?
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Battle of the Somme
Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien attend as a student?
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Exeter College
What is the name of Frodo Baggins’s gardener in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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Samwise Gamgee
Which Tolkien work was published posthumously in 1977 by his son Christopher Tolkien?
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The Silmarillion
Who illustrated the original 1937 edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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J.R.R. Tolkien