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 subject did J.R.R. Tolkien teach from 1945 to 1959?
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English language and literature
Who edited and published J.R.R. Tolkien’s unfinished novel The Silmarillion after his death?
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Christopher Tolkien
What was the name of Tolkien’s school literary society formed with three friends?
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Tea Club and Barrovian Society
What is the Elvish language called Quenya in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth?
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High-elven language
What academic subject did J.R.R. Tolkien teach as a professor at Oxford?
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English language and literature
Which university did J.R.R. Tolkien attend for English language and literature?
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University of Oxford
Which 1916 battle did J.R.R. Tolkien experience during his military service in World War I?
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The Battle of the Somme
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published scholarly essay on the medieval poem Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1939 lecture that introduced the term “eucatastrophe”?
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On Fairy-Stories
What was the name of the Oxford college where J.R.R. Tolkien was a fellow from 1925 to 1945?
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Pembroke College
What was the title of Tolkien’s 1977 posthumous collection of Middle-earth myths?
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The Silmarillion
Who published J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion after Tolkien’s death?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which 1945 short story by J.R.R. Tolkien features the painter Niggle?
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Leaf by Niggle
What name did J.R.R. Tolkien give the creator deity in his fictional mythology?
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Eru Ilúvatar
Who edited and arranged J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion for publication?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which Oxford university professorship in Anglo-Saxon did J.R.R. Tolkien hold from 1925 to 1945?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Which Tolkien essay, first published in 1936, changed modern academic views of Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which Tolkien work was published posthumously in 2007 as a complete standalone story?
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The Children of Húrin