4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What is the title of the middle volume of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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The Two Towers
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1939 lecture about the nature and purpose of fantasy?
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On Fairy-Stories
Which fictional country did J.R.R. Tolkien describe in the 1937 story Farmer Giles of Ham?
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The Little Kingdom
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, what does the name Middle-earth derive from?
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Old English middangeard
Which Oxford literary discussion group did J.R.R. Tolkien belong to?
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The Inklings
What was the name of Tolkien’s first published scholarly paper on Beowulf, released in 1936?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s role on the Oxford English Dictionary project after the First World War?
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Assistant lexicographer
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1939 lecture on fantasy literature?
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On Fairy-Stories
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1922 work on Middle English vocabulary?
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A Middle English Vocabulary
Which fictional region is the setting of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth stories?
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Middle-earth
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic subject in his 1925 Oxford professorship?
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Anglo-Saxon
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic lecture that became a major essay on fantasy?
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On Fairy-Stories
At which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien begin teaching as a professor?
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Pembroke College