What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Old English poem translation published posthumously in 2014?
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Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which military conflict did J.R.R. Tolkien serve in as a British Army officer?
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First World War
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture that became a major essay on fantasy literature?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s employer when he worked on the Oxford English Dictionary?
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Oxford University Press
Which fictional hobbit is the main character of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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Bilbo Baggins
What organization did J.R.R. Tolkien help form with school friends at King Edward’s School?
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Tea Club and Barrovian Society
Which Tolkien story features Túrin Turambar as its central tragic hero?
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The Children of Húrin
What is the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1945 story about an artist and a tree?
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Leaf by Niggle
Which Tolkien character discovers the One Ring before Frodo inherits it?
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Bilbo Baggins
Which essay by J.R.R. Tolkien discusses the meaning and value of fantasy and fairy-stories?
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On Fairy-Stories
Which Tolkien work contains the story of the dragon Chrysophylax Dives?
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Farmer Giles of Ham
What title did J.R.R. Tolkien hold at Oxford from 1925 as a professor of Old English?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
According to J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, on what date was Bilbo Baggins born?
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22 September
Which J.R.R. Tolkien story was first published in 1949 and follows a farmer facing a giant?
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Farmer Giles of Ham
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythology, who is Arwen’s father?
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Elrond
What was J.R.R. Tolkien's full birth name, including his middle names?
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Who designed the original dust jacket for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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J.R.R. Tolkien