4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What language did J.R.R. Tolkien study in the Old English poem Beowulf?
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Old English
Which two Trees of Valinor did J.R.R. Tolkien name as Telperion and Laurelin?
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The Two Trees
Which 1977 book did Christopher Tolkien edit and publish four years after his father’s death?
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The Silmarillion
Who drew the original dust-jacket illustration for Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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J.R.R. Tolkien
Which Tolkien-created people are known as the Ents in The Lord of the Rings?
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Tree shepherds
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s lecture later published as the essay Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What Oxford academic chair did J.R.R. Tolkien hold from 1925?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Which university did J.R.R. Tolkien attend as an undergraduate before beginning his academic career?
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University of Oxford
What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumously published 2013 poem about King Arthur?
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The Fall of Arthur
Who publishes the first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit in 1937?
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George Allen & Unwin
Which university employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a professor?
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University of Oxford
Which 1939 essay by J.R.R. Tolkien discusses fantasy, recovery, escape, and consolation?
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On Fairy-Stories
Which character gives Bilbo Baggins the mithril coat in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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Thorin Oakenshield
Which Tolkien essay is famous for arguing that Beowulf is primarily poetry, not merely historical material?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s official Oxford professorship from 1945 to 1959?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture that helped renew interest in Beowulf as literature?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which actor played J.R.R. Tolkien in the 2019 biographical film Tolkien?
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Nicholas Hoult