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 posthumous book presents the creation of Arda and the history of the First Age?
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The Silmarillion
Which Tolkien essay argues that fairy-stories can offer recovery, escape, and consolation?
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On Fairy-Stories
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture that influenced his fantasy writing?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien join as a student in 1911?
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Exeter College
Which 1936 Tolkien essay is a landmark study of the Old English poem Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s undergraduate degree subject at Oxford after he changed course?
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English language and literature
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1939 lecture about fantasy and fairy stories?
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On Fairy-Stories
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first academic professorship at the University of Leeds?
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Professor of English Language
Which language did J.R.R. Tolkien study at Oxford and teach as a professor?
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Anglo-Saxon
Which Oxford college held J.R.R. Tolkien’s professorship from 1945 until 1959?
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Merton College
Which Oxford academic group did J.R.R. Tolkien regularly attend with C.S. Lewis?
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The Inklings
Which Tolkien work was published posthumously in 1977 as a collection of mythic histories?
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The Silmarillion
Which poem did J.R.R. Tolkien publish in 1925 with E.V. Gordon as an edition and commentary?
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published poem in the English language?
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The Battle of the Eastern Field
What is the Elvish script created by J.R.R. Tolkien called?
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Tengwar
Which real-world battle inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s account of the Dead Marshes?
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The Battle of the Somme
What is the name of the fictional language spoken by the Orcs in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Ring inscription?
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Black Speech of Mordor
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, what are the three jewels created by Fëanor called?
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The Silmarils
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture that influenced his essay on fantasy literature?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1949 comic novella about a farmer and a giant?
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Farmer Giles of Ham
Which fictional people are known as the Dúnedain in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth?
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Descendants of Númenor
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional innkeeper in Bree?
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Barliman Butterbur