Which Tolkien children’s story features the farmer who confronts the dragon Chrysophylax Dives?
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Farmer Giles of Ham
4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic lecture that reshaped Beowulf studies in 1936?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s invented dragon in the poem “The Adventures of Tom Bombadil”?
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Chrysophylax Dives
Which day is Bilbo Baggins’ birthday in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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22 September
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic professorship at Oxford from 1945 to 1959?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Which Tolkien work was published posthumously in 1980 as a collection of Middle-earth texts?
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Unfinished Tales
Which Tolkien story features the artist named Niggle?
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Leaf by Niggle
Which Tolkien character carries the sword Sting after Bilbo gives it to him?
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Frodo Baggins
What is the title of the final volume of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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The Return of the King
What is the name of the catastrophe that destroys Númenor in Tolkien’s legendarium?
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The Downfall of Númenor
Which Tolkien work features the dragon Chrysophylax Dives?
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Farmer Giles of Ham
Which Tolkien child edited The Silmarillion for publication?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which Tolkien novel contains the characters Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee?
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The Lord of the Rings
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic subject at Oxford University from 1925?
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Anglo-Saxon
Which World War I battle did J.R.R. Tolkien fight in as a British Army officer?
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Battle of the Somme
Which Tolkien work was published posthumously in 1977 as an edited collection of mythology?
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The Silmarillion
Which 1954 volume of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings begins with the hobbits leaving the Shire?
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The Fellowship of the Ring
Which actor portrayed Saruman in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy?
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Christopher Lee
What name is given to the book that records the history of the Shire in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fiction?
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The Red Book of Westmarch