4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What is the earlier name of Mirkwood in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium?
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Greenwood the Great
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1949 comic fantasy story about a farmer and a giant?
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Farmer Giles of Ham
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s title at Oxford University when he held the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship?
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Professor of Anglo-Saxon
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s military unit during the Battle of the Somme in World War I?
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11th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
What was the name of Tolkien’s Oxford college when he became a fellow in 1925?
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Pembroke College
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s full first-and-middle-name sequence?
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John Ronald Reuel
Which Tolkien novel follows The Hobbit as the story of Bilbo’s heir and the One Ring?
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The Lord of the Rings
Which story by J.R.R. Tolkien features the painter Niggle?
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Leaf by Niggle
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s final published work of fiction during his lifetime?
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Smith of Wootton Major
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture on the literary value of Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Who edited and helped prepare J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion for publication?
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Christopher Tolkien
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythology, what is the name of Gandalf’s horse?
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Shadowfax
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s son who edited many of his posthumously published works?
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Christopher Tolkien
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1925 Oxford professorship specifically called?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
In which English coastal town did J.R.R. Tolkien die on September 2, 1973?
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Bournemouth
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, what is the name of the mountain where Smaug lives?
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The Lonely Mountain
Which 1967 story by J.R.R. Tolkien was published as a standalone work about a royal smith?
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Smith of Wootton Major