Which unfinished J.R.R. Tolkien story was published as a standalone book in 2007 by Christopher Tolkien?
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The Children of Húrin
4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What title did J.R.R. Tolkien hold as an Oxford professor from 1925 to 1945?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Who is the central hobbit character in J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit?
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Bilbo Baggins
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s final academic post at Oxford?
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Merton Professor of English Language and Literature
Which Oxford college employed J.R.R. Tolkien as Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor?
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Pembroke College
In which army unit did J.R.R. Tolkien serve during the First World War?
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Lancashire Fusiliers
What was the name of the university where J.R.R. Tolkien studied and later taught?
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University of Oxford
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s middle name, the source of his initials J.R.R.?
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Ronald Reuel
What was the name of Tolkien’s first completed Middle-earth story?
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The Fall of Gondolin
Which Tolkien work was originally delivered as the 1939 Andrew Lang Lecture?
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On Fairy-Stories
Which language did Tolkien invent for the Elves of Doriath?
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Sindarin
What was Tolkien’s first published book about Middle-earth after The Hobbit?
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The Lord of the Rings
Which 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien book introduces Bilbo Baggins?
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The Hobbit
Which Tolkien work was published posthumously in 1977 from his mythology of the First Age?
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The Silmarillion
What subtitle appeared on the first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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There and Back Again
Who was J.R.R. Tolkien’s son and editor of The History of Middle-earth?
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Christopher Tolkien
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture that transformed Beowulf scholarship?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which character is the first speaker in J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit?
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Bilbo Baggins
What was the name of the publisher that first issued J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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George Allen & Unwin