4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which Tolkien child became the literary executor and editor of his father’s posthumous works?
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Christopher Tolkien
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published book of Middle-earth poetry and stories after The Hobbit?
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The Lord of the Rings
Which Tolkien work, published posthumously in 1977, presents the mythology of Arda?
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The Silmarillion
Which literary award did The Lord of the Rings win in 1957?
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International Fantasy Award
Which military regiment did J.R.R. Tolkien serve with during the Battle of the Somme?
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Lancashire Fusiliers
Which publishing house first published J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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George Allen & Unwin
On what date was J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring first published?
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29 July 1954
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s guardian after his mother died?
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Father Francis Morgan
Which 1936 lecture by J.R.R. Tolkien argued that Beowulf should be valued as poetry?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which university employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a professor of English language and literature from 1945?
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University of Oxford
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Oxford professorship from 1925 to 1945?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
What was the name of the forest inhabited by Treebeard in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth?
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Fangorn Forest
Which poem by J.R.R. Tolkien was published in 1931 and features the character Tom Bombadil?
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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Which Tolkien book was first published in 1937?
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The Hobbit
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s academic field at Oxford primarily called?
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Philology
Who edited J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumous book Unfinished Tales?
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Christopher Tolkien
What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1954 novel about Frodo’s quest?
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The Fellowship of the Ring
What literary society did J.R.R. Tolkien attend with C.S. Lewis in Oxford?
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The Inklings
Who edited J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumously published book Unfinished Tales?
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Christopher Tolkien