4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What is the name of the innkeeper who shelters Frodo’s group in Bree in The Lord of the Rings?
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Barliman Butterbur
What is the name of the fictional book that records Bilbo and Frodo’s stories in Tolkien’s legendarium?
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The Red Book of Westmarch
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s battalion during the Battle of the Somme?
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11th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
Which 1936 Tolkien lecture became famous for defending the monsters in Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture on the Old English epic Beowulf called?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which character does J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit follow on its central adventure?
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Bilbo Baggins
What is the name of the forest called Mirkwood in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit before its corruption?
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Greenwood the Great
Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien teach at as a professor from 1945?
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Merton College
What is the name of the creator of the universe in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium?
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Eru Ilúvatar
What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumously published mythology of the First Age?
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The Silmarillion
Which Old English work inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s word orc?
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Beowulf
What was the original subtitle of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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There and Back Again
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first academic chair at Oxford?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Which medieval poem did J.R.R. Tolkien and E.V. Gordon publish an influential edition of in 1925?
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien hold the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship at?
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Pembroke College
At which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien serve as a professor and tutor?
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Merton College