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 J.R.R. Tolkien’s Unfinished Tales, published after Tolkien’s death?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which group did J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis belong to at Oxford?
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The Inklings
Which of J.R.R. Tolkien’s sons edited and published much of his posthumous Middle-earth writing?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which Tolkien short story features a farmer who faces the giant Gogmagog?
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Farmer Giles of Ham
Which university employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a professor from 1945 to 1959?
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University of Oxford
Which mountain is the home of Smaug in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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The Lonely Mountain
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s profession at Oxford University before his retirement?
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Professor of English Language and Literature
Which university employed J.R.R. Tolkien before he returned to Oxford?
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University of Leeds
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1939 lecture on fantasy?
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On Fairy-Stories
What was the name of the secret society of Tolkien’s school friends that influenced his early creative life?
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Tea Club and Barrovian Society
Which Tolkien child edited and published The Silmarillion after his father’s death?
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Christopher Tolkien
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published poem, appearing in 1911?
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The Battle of the Eastern Field
Which Tolkien work was published posthumously in 1977 and describes the history of Arda?
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The Silmarillion
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1967 fairy story about a smith and an enchanted star?
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Smith of Wootton Major
Which character owns Bag End before Bilbo Baggins in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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Bilbo’s parents
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1925 scholarly edition of the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Which publisher first published J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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George Allen & Unwin
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s eldest child?
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John Tolkien
Who edited and arranged J.R.R. Tolkien’s unfinished mythology for the posthumous 1977 book The Silmarillion?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which 1936 J.R.R. Tolkien lecture became a landmark study of the Old English poem Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s full first-name sequence before his surname?
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John Ronald Reuel
What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1939 lecture that discusses fantasy and fairy-stories?
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On Fairy-Stories