What pub did J.R.R. Tolkien and the Inklings often visit in Oxford?
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The Eagle and Child
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 the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumously published translation of the medieval poem Beowulf?
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Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
Who is the hobbit protagonist of J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit?
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Bilbo Baggins
At which Oxford pub did J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary group often meet?
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The Eagle and Child
Who was J.R.R. Tolkien’s third son and literary editor of many posthumous works?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which 1954–1955 Tolkien work is divided into six books plus appendices?
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The Lord of the Rings
Which university did J.R.R. Tolkien serve as Merton Professor of English Language and Literature?
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University of Oxford
What was the name of the woodland later called Mirkwood in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth?
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Greenwood the Great
Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien teach at when he held his first Oxford professorship?
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Pembroke College
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional homeland of the Hobbits called?
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The Shire
Which lecture by J.R.R. Tolkien was published as the essay “On Fairy-Stories”?
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The Andrew Lang lecture
What subject did J.R.R. Tolkien study at Oxford University?
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English language and literature
What was the name of the school literary society J.R.R. Tolkien belonged to as a teenager?
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Tea Club and Barrovian Society
What name does Tolkien give to the central artifact in The Lord of the Rings?
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The One Ring
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s wife and lifelong literary inspiration?
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Edith Tolkien
What catastrophic event destroys Númenor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium?
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The Downfall of Númenor
Which son of J.R.R. Tolkien edited and published much of his father’s later work?
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Christopher Tolkien
What are the three jewels at the center of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion?
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The Silmarils
At which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien study as a student?
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Exeter College
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1925 edition and translation of the medieval poem Sir Gawain?
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight