What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional innkeeper in The Lord of the Rings?
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Barliman Butterbur
4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Who edited Tolkien’s unfinished mythology into the 1977 book The Silmarillion?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which character is the central ring-bearer in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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Frodo Baggins
Who edited J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumously published work The Silmarillion?
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Christopher Tolkien
What title did J.R.R. Tolkien give his 1939 lecture later published as an essay about fantasy?
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On Fairy-Stories
Which J.R.R. Tolkien story was first published in 1945 in The Dublin Review?
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Leaf by Niggle
What was the original name of Tolkien’s Mirkwood before it became known by that name?
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Greenwood the Great
Where was J.R.R. Tolkien’s short story Leaf by Niggle first published?
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The Dublin Review
At which university did J.R.R. Tolkien teach before moving to Oxford?
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University of Leeds
What was the name of the literary group J.R.R. Tolkien attended with C.S. Lewis?
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The Inklings
Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien become a professor at in 1945?
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Merton College
What is the title of Tolkien’s 1936 lecture that became a landmark study of the poem Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What Tolkien short story follows the painter Niggle on a symbolic journey?
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Leaf by Niggle
Which Tolkien work contains the poem “Errantry” and was published in 1962?
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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
What was the name of the publishing company that first released J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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George Allen & Unwin
Who edited and posthumously published J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion in 1977?
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Christopher Tolkien
Who carries the One Ring through most of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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Frodo Baggins
What was the full name of the author known as J.R.R. Tolkien?
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture that influenced The Hobbit?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s official academic title at Oxford University?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Which Oxford group did J.R.R. Tolkien attend with C.S. Lewis?
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The Inklings
What fictional language did J.R.R. Tolkien create for the Rohirrim in The Lord of the Rings?
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Old English-inspired Rohirric
How old is Bilbo Baggins at the beginning of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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111 years old