What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1925 Oxford academic post?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which 1936 lecture by J.R.R. Tolkien helped establish Beowulf as serious literature?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the name of Tolkien’s academic lecture that inspired the modern study of Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Who was J.R.R. Tolkien’s son and the editor of The Silmarillion?
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Christopher Tolkien
What is the title of Tolkien’s 1949 short story about a farmer and a dragon?
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Farmer Giles of Ham
What was the name of the university where J.R.R. Tolkien studied English?
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University of Oxford
What title did J.R.R. Tolkien hold as a professor at Oxford’s Merton College?
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Merton Professor of English Language and Literature
What is the name of the hobbit who leaves the Shire in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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Bilbo Baggins
Which Tolkien work was published in 1976 as a collection of letters from Father Christmas?
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The Father Christmas Letters
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic title at Oxford beginning in 1925?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
What 1931 lecture by J.R.R. Tolkien became the essay On Fairy-Stories?
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Andrew Lang Lecture
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1977 posthumous collection of First Age mythology?
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The Silmarillion
What are the three jewels called in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion?
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The Silmarils
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s private literary group with C.S. Lewis?
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The Inklings
What is the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture later published as a landmark Beowulf essay?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s younger son who edited many posthumous works?
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Christopher Tolkien
What is the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumous novel about Túrin Turambar, published in 2007?
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The Children of Húrin