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 character bears the Ring to Mount Doom?
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Frodo Baggins
What is the Elvish name of Rivendell in Tolkien’s legendarium?
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Imladris
What is the name of the inn at Bree where Frodo meets Aragorn?
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The Prancing Pony
Which Tolkien essay introduced the term “eucatastrophe”?
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On Fairy-Stories
Which character is the central protagonist of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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Bilbo Baggins
Which Tolkien work began as a 1936 lecture on the poem Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s university degree subject at Oxford?
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English Language and Literature
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published scholarly work on Beowulf called?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first son, born in 1917?
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John Francis Reuel Tolkien
Which character is the title figure in J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1937 novel The Hobbit?
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Bilbo Baggins
Which Oxford professorship did J.R.R. Tolkien hold from 1945 to 1959?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Which battle did J.R.R. Tolkien experience as a British Army officer during World War I?
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The Battle of the Somme
Which 1936 lecture by J.R.R. Tolkien argued for taking Beowulf's monsters seriously?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
What Old English word inspired Tolkien’s name Middle-earth?
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middangeard
What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumously published 1977 legendarium collection?
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The Silmarillion
At which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien serve as a professor from 1925 to 1945?
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Pembroke College
Who edited and helped prepare J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion for publication after his death?
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Christopher Tolkien
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, what city is the capital of Gondor?
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Minas Tirith