4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which Oxford college employed J.R.R. Tolkien when he began teaching there in 1925?
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Pembroke College
What name did J.R.R. Tolkien give to the main landmass of his legendarium?
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Middle-earth
What are the names on J.R.R. Tolkien’s grave in Oxford?
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Beren and Lúthien
What is the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture about the Old English poem Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien's first published academic work on the Middle English poem Ancrene Wisse?
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Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad
Which Middle-earth people did J.R.R. Tolkien call Ents in The Lord of the Rings?
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Tree shepherds
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s lecture that introduced the “monster” view of Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which 1949 children’s book by J.R.R. Tolkien features the dragon Chrysophylax Dives?
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Farmer Giles of Ham
What is the name of the fictional inn in Hobbiton that appears in J.R.R. Tolkien’s stories?
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The Green Dragon
Which Tolkien book did Christopher Tolkien publish in 1977?
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The Silmarillion
What name does J.R.R. Tolkien give the ring forged by Sauron?
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The One Ring
Which group of writers and scholars included J.R.R. Tolkien at Oxford?
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The Inklings
What award did J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit win in 1938 from the New York Herald Tribune?
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Children’s Spring Book Festival award
Which First World War battalion did J.R.R. Tolkien serve with at the Battle of the Somme?
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11th Lancashire Fusiliers
What is the name of the fictional historical manuscript containing much of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth story?
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The Red Book of Westmarch
Which Tolkien novel features the character Frodo Baggins as its central hero?
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The Lord of the Rings
What title did J.R.R. Tolkien give the large eagle who rescues Gandalf from Orthanc?
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Gwaihir the Windlord
Which Oxford lecture by J.R.R. Tolkien was published in 1936 and transformed Beowulf criticism?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the name of Tolkien’s 1938 lecture that became a landmark essay on fantasy?
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On Fairy-Stories
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime unit in the British Army in 1916?
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11th Service Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
Which Tolkien story is described as the earliest Middle-earth tale in his legendarium?
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The Fall of Gondolin
Which author became J.R.R. Tolkien’s close friend in the Inklings?
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C.S. Lewis
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic field at Oxford when he became a professor in 1945?
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English language and literature
What was the name of the First World War battle where J.R.R. Tolkien served as a signals officer?
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Battle of the Somme