4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien serve as a professor at for much of his career?
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Merton College
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime experience that influenced the Dead Marshes in The Lord of the Rings?
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The Battle of the Somme
What is the name of the fictional innkeeper who owns The Prancing Pony in Tolkien’s Middle-earth?
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Barliman Butterbur
At which university did J.R.R. Tolkien teach Old and Middle English?
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University of Oxford
Which Tolkien son edited and published The Silmarillion in 1977?
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Christopher Tolkien
Who is Goldberry’s husband in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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Tom Bombadil
Which book by J.R.R. Tolkien was illustrated and written as a Father Christmas letter collection?
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The Father Christmas Letters
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1945 short story about a painter?
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Leaf by Niggle
What name did J.R.R. Tolkien give to the sudden joyful turn in a fairy tale?
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Eucatastrophe
Which Oxford reference work employed J.R.R. Tolkien after World War I?
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Oxford English Dictionary
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first academic lecture title on Beowulf, delivered in 1936?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Oxford professorship beginning in 1925?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon