457 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
457 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which publisher first issued J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit in 1937?
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George Allen & Unwin
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first name at birth?
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John
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic lecture that reshaped Beowulf criticism?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1939 lecture about fantasy literature?
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On Fairy-Stories
Who became the literary executor and editor of J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumous works?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which Tolkien character says the riddle answer “time” in The Hobbit?
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Bilbo Baggins
Where did J.R.R. Tolkien die in 1973?
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Bournemouth
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1937 book about Bilbo Baggins?
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The Hobbit
Which dragon appears in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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Smaug
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s Oxford professorship from 1925?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
What literary society did J.R.R. Tolkien belong to with C.S. Lewis at Oxford?
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The Inklings
At which university did J.R.R. Tolkien become a professor in 1924, before Oxford?
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University of Leeds
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