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 the army unit J.R.R. Tolkien served with during the First World War?
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Lancashire Fusiliers
What is the title of chapter one in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring?
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A Long-expected Party
Who was J.R.R. Tolkien’s son and literary executor who edited The Silmarillion?
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Christopher Tolkien
What reference work did J.R.R. Tolkien help edit early in his career?
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Oxford English Dictionary
Which Elvish language did J.R.R. Tolkien call Quenya?
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High-elven language
What is the surname of Bilbo in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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Baggins
Which battle did J.R.R. Tolkien fight in during World War I?
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Battle of the Somme
Which 1977 book did Christopher Tolkien edit and publish from J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings?
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The Silmarillion
Which fictional people did J.R.R. Tolkien call the Ents in Middle-earth?
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Tree shepherds
At which Oxford college was J.R.R. Tolkien a professor from 1945 to 1959?
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Merton College
What is the name of Tolkien’s unfinished mythology first published posthumously in 1977?
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The Silmarillion
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, what object must Frodo destroy?
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The One Ring
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s close literary group with C.S. Lewis?
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The Inklings
What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s three-part sequel to The Hobbit?
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The Lord of the Rings
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic subject at Oxford when he became a professor at Merton College?
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English Language and Literature
Which language family includes Quenya, one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Elvish languages?
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Elvish languages
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, what are the three jewels called the Silmarils made from?
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The light of the Two Trees
Which 1936 Tolkien lecture argued that Beowulf should be valued as poetry, not merely historical evidence?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What is the name of the hobbit who owns Bag End in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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Bilbo Baggins