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 the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s wife and inspiration for Lúthien?
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Edith Tolkien
What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture later published as an influential essay on Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which Tolkien essay, first delivered in 1936, became a landmark study of the poem Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
J.R.R. Tolkien was born in which present-day country?
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South Africa
What name did Tolkien give the great forest later known as Mirkwood?
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Eryn Galen
What name does Tolkien give to the catastrophic but hopeful turn in a fairy-story?
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Eucatastrophe
Which Oxford university held J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1925 professorship of Anglo-Saxon?
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University of Oxford
Which Tolkien novel features the fictional land of Mordor?
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The Lord of the Rings
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic field at Oxford before his retirement?
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English language and literature
Which Oxford university chair did Tolkien hold before becoming Merton Professor?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Which fictional inn do Frodo and his companions visit in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Bree?
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The Prancing Pony
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s Oxford professorship called from 1945 to 1959?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Which Tolkien book was published posthumously in 1980 from unfinished Middle-earth writings?
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Unfinished Tales
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Oxford professorship from 1945 to 1959?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Which fictional city does J.R.R. Tolkien describe as the capital of Gondor?
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Minas Tirith
Which Oxford literary group did J.R.R. Tolkien help make famous?
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The Inklings
Which fictional artifact is central to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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The One Ring
Which fictional character gives J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit its title?
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Bilbo Baggins