What is the full title of Tolkien’s Oxford chair held from 1945 to 1959?
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Merton Professor of English Language and Literature
4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s final major novel published during his lifetime?
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The Lord of the Rings
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime fellowship of friends and fellow students?
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Tea Club and Barrovian Society
Which J.R.R. Tolkien character carries the One Ring to Mordor?
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Frodo Baggins
Which Oxford subject did J.R.R. Tolkien chiefly teach as a professor?
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Anglo-Saxon
Who was J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary executor and editor of The Silmarillion?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which Oxford university served as J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic employer for most of his career?
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University of Oxford
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first Oxford professorship?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
At which university did J.R.R. Tolkien teach before joining Oxford University?
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University of Leeds
What was the name of the Oxford college where J.R.R. Tolkien was a fellow and tutor?
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Exeter College
Which Oxford academic position did J.R.R. Tolkien receive in 1925?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
In what language is the inscription on the One Ring in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fiction?
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Black Speech of Mordor
What was the first name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s son who edited The Silmarillion?
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Christopher
What fictional book contains the history of the One Ring in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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The Red Book of Westmarch
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythology, what are the three Silmarils made from?
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The light of the Two Trees
Which Tolkien son became the chief editor and posthumous publisher of The Silmarillion?
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Christopher Tolkien
What is the name of the essay in which J.R.R. Tolkien explained the idea of “eucatastrophe”?
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On Fairy-Stories
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s invented group of stories about an imaginary club of time-traveling scholars?
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The Notion Club Papers
Which hobbit is the central protagonist of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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Frodo Baggins