4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What term did J.R.R. Tolkien use for a sudden joyful deliverance in a story?
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Eucatastrophe
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythology, what are the two trees of Valinor called?
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Telperion and Laurelin
Which Tolkien story features the dragon Glaurung and the hero Túrin Turambar?
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The Children of Húrin
Which lecture did J.R.R. Tolkien deliver in 1936 that influenced modern fantasy criticism?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What is the name of the Tolkien manuscript collection held at Marquette University that includes The Lord of the Rings drafts?
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The J.R.R. Tolkien Collection
What is the name of the cataclysm that destroys Númenor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium?
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The Downfall of Númenor
Which poem by J.R.R. Tolkien was published in The Oxford Magazine in 1934?
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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Which 1936 lecture by J.R.R. Tolkien became a landmark essay on Old English literature?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which Tolkien book contains the story of Túrin Turambar in a standalone published form?
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The Children of Húrin
Which language family did J.R.R. Tolkien’s invented language Sindarin belong to?
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Elvish languages
Which Tolkien novel begins with the line “In a hole in the ground…”?
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The Hobbit
Which character is the father of the dragon Smaug in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth writings?
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No father is named
Which fictional people did J.R.R. Tolkien call the Ents in The Lord of the Rings?
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Tree shepherds
In which British Army battalion did J.R.R. Tolkien serve during the Battle of the Somme?
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11th Lancashire Fusiliers
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic title at Oxford when he specialized in Old English?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
What is the name of the powerful jewel central to Tolkien’s First Age mythology?
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The Silmarils
What is the name of the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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The Fellowship of the Ring
What was the name of the fellowship formed in Rivendell in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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The Fellowship of the Ring
At which university did J.R.R. Tolkien become a professor of Anglo-Saxon?
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University of Oxford
What is the name of the One Ring’s language in its inscription in J.R.R. Tolkien’s world?
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Black Speech of Mordor
Which Tolkien character was the father of the dragon-slayer Túrin Turambar?
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Húrin Thalion
What was the title of Tolkien’s first major academic essay on Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the name of the fictional device Tolkien used to explain why Bilbo’s story appears within The Red Book?
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The Red Book of Westmarch
Which Tolkien character is known as the Grey Pilgrim?
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Gandalf
Which Tolkien work was first published in three volumes from 1954 to 1955?
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The Lord of the Rings