What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first Oxford English Dictionary assignment after World War I?
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Waggle to Warlock
4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which university employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a professor from 1925 to 1959, with one chair change?
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The University of Oxford
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s abandoned sequel to The Lord of the Rings?
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The New Shadow
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s invented cosmic music that begins the creation story in The Silmarillion?
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The Music of the Ainur
What is the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published novel-length book?
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The Hobbit
Which Oxford club did J.R.R. Tolkien help found with C.S. Lewis?
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The Inklings
What language did J.R.R. Tolkien teach at Oxford University from 1925?
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Anglo-Saxon
Which Tolkien book was published in 1962 as a collection of poems about Tom Bombadil?
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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
What is the title of Tolkien’s poem about the medieval hero Beorhtnoth?
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The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son
What is the name of the sacred white tree associated with Gondor in Tolkien’s writings?
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White Tree of Gondor
Which of J.R.R. Tolkien’s children completed and edited The Silmarillion?
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Christopher Tolkien
What is the name of Bilbo Baggins’s birthday date in The Lord of the Rings?
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22 September
What title did J.R.R. Tolkien give his 1939 lecture about fairy stories?
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On Fairy-Stories
What name did J.R.R. Tolkien use for the central continent of his legendarium?
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Middle-earth
What was J.R.R. Tolkien's 1936 lecture about Beowulf titled?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
In which city did J.R.R. Tolkien die?
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Bournemouth
Which Oxford academic position did J.R.R. Tolkien take up in 1925?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Who completed and edited J.R.R. Tolkien’s unfinished mythology for publication as The Silmarillion?
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Christopher Tolkien
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s medieval poem edition published with E. V. Gordon in 1925?
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
At which university did J.R.R. Tolkien hold the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship from 1925?
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University of Oxford
Which of Tolkien’s four children became the literary executor of his Middle-earth writings?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which posthumous book by J.R.R. Tolkien was published in 1977 by his son Christopher?
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The Silmarillion
Which 1954 J.R.R. Tolkien novel features the chapter “The Council of Elrond”?
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The Fellowship of the Ring
Which fictional object does J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings center on?
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The One Ring
What is the name of the ring Bilbo Baggins finds in The Hobbit?
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The One Ring