What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture later published as an influential essay on Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
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What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture later published as an influential essay on Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which Tolkien work was published posthumously in 1980 as an edited collection of Middle-earth legends?
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Unfinished Tales
What is the name of the sword reforged from the shards of Narsil for Aragorn?
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Andúril
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic field at Oxford, where he taught Old and Middle English?
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Philology
Which Egyptian pharaoh’s tomb was discovered nearly intact by Howard Carter in 1922?
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Tutankhamun
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