What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s gardener hero in The Lord of the Rings?
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Samwise Gamgee
4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which Tolkien work, published in 1998, features a toy dog named Rover?
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Roverandom
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic field in his 1925 Oxford appointment?
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Anglo-Saxon
What was Bilbo Baggins’s birthday in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional calendar?
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22 September
What is the name of the creator deity in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium?
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Eru Ilúvatar
Which Tolkien story features the character Tuor and the hidden city Gondolin?
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The Fall of Gondolin
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture that changed modern views of Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the name of Tolkien’s first academic publication on the poem Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which fictional metal is used to forge the blade Narsil in Tolkien’s legendarium?
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No fictional metal specified
Which Tolkien character is the father of Legolas?
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Thranduil
What was the original title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s poem later published as The Adventures of Tom Bombadil?
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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Which Tolkien character carries Frodo after Shelob’s attack in The Lord of the Rings?
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Samwise Gamgee
Which language does Tolkien call the Black Speech of Mordor?
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Black Speech
Which Tolkien character is also known as Strider?
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Aragorn
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s final academic lecture at Oxford, delivered in 1959?
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Valedictory lecture
Which Tolkien novel was published posthumously in 1977 from his Middle-earth writings?
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The Silmarillion
Which of J.R.R. Tolkien’s sons edited and published The Silmarillion in 1977?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which university employed J.R.R. Tolkien before his Oxford career?
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University of Leeds
Which posthumous J.R.R. Tolkien book presents the creation of Middle-earth?
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The Silmarillion
What is the name of the first chapter of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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A Long-expected Party
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, what is the name of the mountain where Smaug lives?
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The Lonely Mountain
Which son of J.R.R. Tolkien edited and published much of his father’s unfinished Middle-earth work?
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Christopher Tolkien
What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s three-volume epic published between 1954 and 1955?
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The Lord of the Rings
What was the name of Tolkien’s academic lecture that became the essay Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the original name of Moria in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium?
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Khazad-dûm
What term did Tolkien use for a sudden turn from despair to joy in a fairy-story?
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Eucatastrophe
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythology, where was the One Ring forged?
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Mount Doom
Which Tolkien essay examines the purpose and value of fairy-stories?
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On Fairy-Stories