What is the name of the first volume in J.R.R. Tolkien’s History of Middle-earth series?
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The Book of Lost Tales 1
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 first published book written by J.R.R. Tolkien?
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The Hobbit
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s wife and lifelong literary partner?
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Edith Tolkien
What was Mirkwood called before it became the dark forest in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium?
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Greenwood the Great
What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s influential 1939 lecture about fantasy and fairy stories?
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On Fairy-Stories
Which publisher first released J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit in Britain?
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George Allen & Unwin
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s wife and longtime literary inspiration?
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Edith Tolkien
Which fictional inn does Frodo visit in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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The Prancing Pony
At which university did J.R.R. Tolkien teach before returning to Oxford?
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University of Leeds
What kind of creature is Shelob in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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A giant spider
At which university did J.R.R. Tolkien hold most of his academic career?
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University of Oxford
Which character speaks the final words of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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Samwise Gamgee
Who edited J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumous book The Children of Húrin?
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Christopher Tolkien
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s full first name, including the names between John and Tolkien?
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
What title did J.R.R. Tolkien give his 1936 lecture about Beowulf criticism?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which Oxford college employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a fellow from 1925?
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Pembroke College
On what date was J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit first published?
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21 September 1937
On what date is Bilbo Baggins’s birthday in J.R.R. Tolkien’s stories?
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22 September
What is the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture that became a major essay on Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first academic post at Oxford University?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
What was the name of the school in Birmingham where J.R.R. Tolkien studied from 1900 to 1902?
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King Edward’s School
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s military rank when he served in the Battle of the Somme in 1916?
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Second lieutenant