4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which real English village inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hobbiton?
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Sarehole
What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s three-part novel about the One Ring?
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The Lord of the Rings
At which university did J.R.R. Tolkien serve as a professor and spend most of his academic career?
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University of Oxford
What fictional language did J.R.R. Tolkien call Quenya?
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An Elvish language
Who published the first British edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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George Allen & Unwin
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime battalion in the British Army?
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11th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
Which Tolkien novel was published posthumously in 2007 after editing by Christopher Tolkien?
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The Children of Húrin
Who co-wrote A Middle English Vocabulary with J.R.R. Tolkien?
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Kenneth Sisam
What is the name of the first chapter of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring?
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A Long-expected Party
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic field at Oxford from 1925?
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Anglo-Saxon
What is the name of the first story in Tolkien’s earliest Middle-earth collection, The Book of Lost Tales?
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The Cottage of Lost Play
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s undergraduate literary society at Oxford?
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The Tea Club and Barrovian Society
Which military battle inspired the Dead Marshes in Tolkien’s writing?
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The Battle of the Somme
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1939 lecture about fantasy and fairy tales?
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On Fairy-Stories
Which Oxford university held J.R.R. Tolkien’s position as Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon?
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University of Oxford
Which Tolkien concept means a sudden joyful turn in a tragic story?
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Eucatastrophe
Which Tolkien work was originally written for his children as letters from Father Christmas?
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The Father Christmas Letters
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, who gives Frodo the One Ring?
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Bilbo Baggins
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythology, who destroyed Númenor?
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Eru Ilúvatar
Which Tolkien work was published posthumously in 1980 as Unfinished Tales?
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Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
Which fictional metal is used to make the sword Anglachel in Tolkien’s legendarium?
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Meteoritic iron
Which fictional land did Tolkien describe as the home of the Ents?
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Fangorn Forest