4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which Tolkien children’s story features the talking dog Roverandom?
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Roverandom
What fictional continent contains Mordor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth?
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Middle-earth
Which organization of Oxford writers and scholars included J.R.R. Tolkien?
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The Inklings
At which university did J.R.R. Tolkien teach as a professor of English language and literature?
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University of Oxford
What was the name of the literary society J.R.R. Tolkien helped form at Oxford in 1911?
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Tea Club and Barrovian Society
Which Tolkien work, published in 1949, features the farmer Giles and the dragon Chrysophylax?
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Farmer Giles of Ham
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1931 essay about the nature and purpose of fairy stories?
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On Fairy-Stories
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fellowship of literary friends at Oxford?
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The Inklings
Which Tolkien work was published posthumously in 1976 as a collection of letters?
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The Father Christmas Letters
Which Tolkien novel introduced readers to Bilbo Baggins?
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The Hobbit
Which Oxford university professorship did J.R.R. Tolkien hold from 1925?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s final published Middle-earth book during his lifetime?
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The Road Goes Ever On
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1978 animated film adaptation of his Middle-earth story?
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The Lord of the Rings
What was the name of the university where J.R.R. Tolkien became a professor?
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University of Oxford
At which university did J.R.R. Tolkien become a professor in 1924?
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University of Leeds
Which Tolkien family member edited and prepared The Silmarillion for publication after Tolkien’s death?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which volume of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings contains the destruction of the One Ring?
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The Return of the King