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 did J.R.R. Tolkien translate into modern English with E.V. Gordon?
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
What was Gandalf called before becoming Gandalf the White in Tolkien’s legendarium?
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Gandalf the Grey
What name does Tolkien give to the cataclysm that destroys Númenor?
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Akallabêth
What date is shared by Bilbo and Frodo Baggins’s birthdays in Tolkien’s stories?
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22 September
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published fantasy story for children?
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The Hobbit
What was the name of the battalion in which J.R.R. Tolkien served during the First World War?
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11th Lancashire Fusiliers
For which reference work did J.R.R. Tolkien work as an assistant between 1919 and 1920?
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The Oxford English Dictionary
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first Oxford job, where he worked on the Oxford English Dictionary?
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Assistant lexicographer
What was the name of the Christmas character in J.R.R. Tolkien’s illustrated family letters?
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Father Christmas
What is the name of the final volume in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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The Return of the King
Which organization did J.R.R. Tolkien help establish with C.S. Lewis at Oxford?
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The Inklings
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture that reshaped modern scholarly discussion of Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the name of Tolkien’s academic subject at Oxford University?
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English language and literature
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published scholarly essay about Beowulf called?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which mill near Birmingham influenced J.R.R. Tolkien’s childhood imagination?
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Sarehole Mill
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first professional job after graduating from Oxford?
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Assistant lexicographer