What was the name of Tolkien’s Oxford professorship in Old English from 1925?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Who edited Tolkien’s posthumous collection Unfinished Tales?
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Christopher Tolkien
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s middle name commonly shortened to as “R.R.”?
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Ronald Reuel
What is the Elvish writing system Tolkien called Tengwar?
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A script
Which 1936 Tolkien essay is famous for defending the monsters in the Old English poem Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s full first name, including the initials usually printed in his pen name?
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John Ronald Reuel
What was the publication date of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first novel, The Hobbit?
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21 September 1937
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s younger brother?
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Hilary Tolkien
Which Tolkien work was published posthumously in 1980 from edited writings about Middle-earth?
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Unfinished Tales
In The Lord of the Rings, what creature is Shelob?
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A giant spider
What was the name of the Tolkien society founded in 1969 to study J.R.R. Tolkien’s work?
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The Tolkien Society
When did J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit first appear in print?
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21 September 1937
What is the name of the fictional book that supposedly records the history of the Hobbits in The Lord of the Rings?
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The Red Book of Westmarch
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s publisher for the first edition of The Hobbit?
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George Allen & Unwin
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s professorship at Oxford from 1925 to 1945?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Who illustrated the dust jacket and interior pictures for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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J.R.R. Tolkien
What was the original name of Moria in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth?
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Khazad-dûm
What was J.R.R. Tolkien's Oxford professorship called when he taught Old English?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, what inn stands in Bree?
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The Prancing Pony
Which Tolkien book contains the lecture later published as On Fairy-Stories?
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Tree and Leaf
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s Oxford academic title when he was appointed in 1925?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon