Which company first published J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring in 1954?
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Allen & Unwin
4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which medieval poem inspired Tolkien’s 1925 scholarly edition with E.V. Gordon?
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Which company first published The Lord of the Rings in the United Kingdom?
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George Allen & Unwin
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s full first name, beyond the initials J.R.R.?
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John Ronald Reuel
What is the title of Tolkien’s 1939 lecture that became a major essay on fantasy?
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On Fairy-Stories
Which fictional region is home to the Ents in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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Fangorn Forest
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published poem, according to his bibliography?
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The Battle of the Eastern Field
Who completed and edited J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumous novel The Children of Húrin?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which battle ends J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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Battle of Five Armies
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1949 novella about a farmer and a dragon?
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Farmer Giles of Ham
Which actor provided the voice of Smaug in the 1977 animated film The Hobbit?
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Richard Boone
Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien join as a fellow in 1945?
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Merton College
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture that reshaped modern study of Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first Middle-earth story collection, begun around 1917?
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The Book of Lost Tales
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, what is the name of the innkeeper who runs The Prancing Pony?
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Barliman Butterbur
Which Tolkien essay contains his influential discussion of fairy-stories and “eucatastrophe”?
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On Fairy-Stories
Which Oxford college employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a fellow and tutor?
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Merton College
What subject did J.R.R. Tolkien teach as the Merton Professor at Oxford?
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English Language and Literature