What was J.R.R. Tolkien's academic field at the University of Leeds before he became a professor at Oxford?
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English language and literature
4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
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Which Oxford college employed J.R.R. Tolkien when he wrote The Hobbit?
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Pembroke College
Which 1977 book, edited by Christopher Tolkien, presents J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythology of Arda?
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The Silmarillion
Which British publishing house first published The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings?
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George Allen & Unwin
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1939 lecture about the nature of fantasy?
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On Fairy-Stories
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic lecture that redefined Beowulf criticism in 1936?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was Tolkien’s academic field of expertise?
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Philology
Which Tolkien book is subtitled “There and Back Again”?
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The Hobbit
Which Tolkien novel contains the chapter titled “The Scouring of the Shire”?
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The Return of the King
Which 1937 novel introduced readers to Bilbo Baggins?
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The Hobbit
Which Tolkien work was published posthumously in 1980 as an account of Númenor and Middle-earth?
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Unfinished Tales
Which 1925 poem did J.R.R. Tolkien edit with E. V. Gordon?
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
What was Mirkwood called before it became Mirkwood in Tolkien’s Middle-earth?
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Greenwood the Great
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s full first name, commonly shortened to “J.R.R.”?
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John Ronald Reuel
What was the publication date of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring?
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29 July 1954
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published academic article about?
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The Devil’s Coach Horses
What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1962 collection of poems about Tom Bombadil?
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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
What name does J.R.R. Tolkien give to the calendar used by the Hobbits of the Shire?
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Shire Reckoning
Which Tolkien work includes the essay “On Fairy-Stories”?
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Tree and Leaf
Which 1936 lecture by J.R.R. Tolkien argued that Beowulf should be read as literature?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics