4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Who was J.R.R. Tolkien’s illustrator for the first edition of The Hobbit?
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J.R.R. Tolkien
Which J.R.R. Tolkien story was published posthumously in 1977 by Christopher Tolkien?
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The Silmarillion
What was Moria originally called in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium?
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Khazad-dûm
What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1937 children’s novel?
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The Hobbit
What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumous 1977 mythology book?
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The Silmarillion
Which book is the first volume of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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The Fellowship of the Ring
What name does J.R.R. Tolkien give the Balrog fought by Gandalf in Moria?
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Durin’s Bane
Which character is the father of Túrin Turambar in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium?
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Húrin Thalion
At which university did J.R.R. Tolkien study and later teach?
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University of Oxford
What is the name of the catastrophic destruction of Númenor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium?
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The Downfall of Númenor
What is the name of the third volume of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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The Return of the King
Which posthumously published book assembled J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythology of the First Age?
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The Silmarillion
Which language does J.R.R. Tolkien use for the inscription on the One Ring?
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Black Speech
What is the name of Tolkien’s 1936 lecture about Beowulf criticism?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which Tolkien book, published in 2007, tells the story of Túrin Turambar?
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The Children of Húrin
What was the Dwarven name for Moria in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium?
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Khazad-dûm
Who prepared J.R.R. Tolkien’s unfinished The Silmarillion for publication after his death?
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Christopher Tolkien
What term did J.R.R. Tolkien use for a sudden, joyous turn in a story?
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Eucatastrophe
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published academic work, released in 1922?
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A Middle English Vocabulary
What title did J.R.R. Tolkien give the creator deity of his fictional world?
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Eru Ilúvatar