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 J.R.R. Tolkien’s Oxford academic title from 1945 until his retirement in 1959?
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Merton Professor of English Language and Literature
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published scholarly essay on fairy stories?
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On Fairy-Stories
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture that discussed Beowulf as literature?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s wife before marriage?
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Edith Bratt
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic specialty at the University of Leeds?
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English philology
What is the name of Bilbo Baggins’s nephew in J.R.R. Tolkien’s stories?
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Frodo Baggins
Which Tolkien character is known as the father of the Ents?
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Treebeard
Which Tolkien poem tells of a mariner who travels to the heavenly realm of Eärendil?
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The Voyage of Eärendil the Evening Star
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s regiment during his First World War service?
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Lancashire Fusiliers
Which university employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a professor of Anglo-Saxon and English literature?
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University of Oxford
Which Tolkien story features the hobbit Niggle as its central character?
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Leaf by Niggle
Which battle in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit involves five armies?
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Battle of Five Armies
Which book by J.R.R. Tolkien was first published on 21 September 1937?
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The Hobbit
Which medieval poem did J.R.R. Tolkien translate and lecture on in a 1920s Oxford course?
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Which woman did J.R.R. Tolkien marry in 1916?
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Edith Bratt
Which Tolkien scholar edited and published The Silmarillion after the author’s death?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which Tolkien book describes the creation of the world by Eru Ilúvatar and the Ainur?
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The Silmarillion
What was the name of Tolkien’s academic position at Oxford when he delivered his 1936 Beowulf lecture?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Who is Frodo Baggins’s loyal companion in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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Samwise Gamgee
Who edited and published many posthumous works by J.R.R. Tolkien, including The Silmarillion?
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Christopher Tolkien
What is the Elvish language called Sindarin in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium?
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The language of the Grey Elves
Which Tolkien novel features the fictional kingdom of Gondolin?
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The Silmarillion
What are J.R.R. Tolkien’s three given names represented by the initials J.R.R.?
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John Ronald Reuel
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s mother?
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Mabel Suffield