What is the fictional metal used to forge Bilbo’s sword Sting in Tolkien’s legendarium?
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No named fictional metal
4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
In which English county was J.R.R. Tolkien’s childhood village of Sarehole?
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Worcestershire
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime regiment in World War I?
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Lancashire Fusiliers
Which woman is buried with J.R.R. Tolkien under the name Lúthien?
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Edith Tolkien
Which major battle does J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Children of Húrin center on?
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Battle of Unnumbered Tears
Which 1936 lecture by J.R.R. Tolkien helped establish Beowulf as serious literary criticism?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1976 posthumously published collection of letters from Father Christmas?
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The Father Christmas Letters
Which 1964 book by J.R.R. Tolkien included the story Leaf by Niggle?
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Tree and Leaf
Which editor compiled J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumously published The Silmarillion?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which volume of The Lord of the Rings was published first in 1954?
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The Fellowship of the Ring
What was the name of the Balrog confronted by Gandalf in Moria?
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Durin’s Bane
Which J.R.R. Tolkien essay appears in the collection Tree and Leaf?
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On Fairy-Stories
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s youngest child, born in 1929?
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Priscilla Tolkien
Which Oxford university held J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1945–1959 chair as Professor of English Language and Literature?
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University of Oxford
Which Tolkien novel was published first on 29 July 1954 as the first volume of The Lord of the Rings?
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The Fellowship of the Ring
What academic subject did Tolkien teach at Oxford’s Pembroke College?
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Anglo-Saxon
Which Tolkien book contains the creation account known as the Ainulindalë?
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The Silmarillion
Which Tolkien film won all 11 Academy Awards for which it was nominated?
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The Return of the King
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published scholarly edition of a medieval text?
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Which Oxford chair did J.R.R. Tolkien hold from 1925 to 1945?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
What were J.R.R. Tolkien’s three given names at birth?
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John Ronald Reuel