4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which of Tolkien’s children’s books features the dragon Smaug?
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The Hobbit
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional inn in The Lord of the Rings?
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The Prancing Pony
What was the first part of The Lord of the Rings published by J.R.R. Tolkien?
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The Fellowship of the Ring
Where is J.R.R. Tolkien buried alongside his wife Edith?
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Wolvercote Cemetery
What is the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s only completed Middle-earth novel published after The Hobbit?
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The Lord of the Rings
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s full first name, including the names before Tolkien?
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John Ronald Reuel
What Oxford academic chair did J.R.R. Tolkien take in 1925?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
What was J.R.R. Tolkien's first published Middle-earth poem, featuring Tom Bombadil?
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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
At which university did J.R.R. Tolkien hold his famous professorship in Anglo-Saxon?
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University of Oxford
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published academic work on Middle English?
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A Middle English Vocabulary
Which group of writers met at The Eagle and Child pub with J.R.R. Tolkien?
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The Inklings
Which fictional race did J.R.R. Tolkien call the Sindar?
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The Grey Elves
Which Tolkien character bears the One Ring for most of The Lord of the Rings?
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Frodo Baggins
What is the fictional language of Mordor used for the One Ring inscription?
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Black Speech
Which 1936 lecture by J.R.R. Tolkien influenced modern Beowulf scholarship?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which award did J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit win in 1938?
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New York Herald Tribune award
Which 1936 Tolkien essay is a major modern study of the Old English poem Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published book, issued in 1922?
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A Middle English Vocabulary
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1939 lecture on fantasy called?
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On Fairy-Stories
Which fictional language is called the Black Speech in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth?
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Black Speech of Mordor
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic position at Oxford from 1925 to 1945?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon