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 title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture that influenced his essay “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What 1936 lecture by J.R.R. Tolkien became a landmark essay on Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumously published 1977 Middle-earth legendarium?
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The Silmarillion
What is J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional inn called in Bree in The Lord of the Rings?
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The Prancing Pony
Which chapter of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit introduces the riddle contest between Bilbo and Gollum?
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Riddles in the Dark
Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien serve as a fellow and tutor after returning from Leeds?
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Pembroke College
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first academic position at the University of Leeds?
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Reader in English Language
Which 1939 lecture by J.R.R. Tolkien argued that fantasy deserves serious literary study?
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On Fairy-Stories
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published scholarly paper on Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
On what date is Bilbo Baggins’s birthday in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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22 September
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first child, born in 1917?
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John Francis Reuel Tolkien
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture on Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the original name of Mirkwood in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth?
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Greenwood the Great