What is the name of the language used for the Ring-inscription in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth?
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Black Speech of Mordor
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 novel was published posthumously in 1977 by Christopher Tolkien?
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The Silmarillion
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s father?
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Arthur Reuel Tolkien
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthplace?
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Bloemfontein
Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien join as a fellow in 1925?
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Pembroke College
What was the first published book illustrated by J.R.R. Tolkien himself?
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The Hobbit
Which fictional forest is home to Treebeard in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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Fangorn Forest
Which Oxford professorship did J.R.R. Tolkien hold from 1925 to 1945?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
What was the name of the Oxford literary group that included J.R.R. Tolkien?
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The Inklings
Which Tolkien child became the literary executor of J.R.R. Tolkien’s unpublished writings?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which university employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a professor before Oxford?
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University of Leeds
What was the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture on heroic literature?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Which First World War battle did J.R.R. Tolkien serve in as a British Army officer?
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Battle of the Somme
Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien attend as a student?
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Exeter College
What is the name of Frodo Baggins’s gardener in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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Samwise Gamgee
Which Tolkien work was published posthumously in 1977 by his son Christopher Tolkien?
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The Silmarillion
Who illustrated the original 1937 edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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J.R.R. Tolkien
Which Oxford university chair did J.R.R. Tolkien hold from 1945 to 1959?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien join as a professor in 1945?
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Merton College
What is the name of the supreme creator figure in J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythology?
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Eru Ilúvatar
What was the name of the battle in which Tolkien served as a signals officer in 1916?
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Battle of the Somme
Which university employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a professor from 1925 to 1945?
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University of Oxford
What was J.R.R. Tolkien's full first name, including the names commonly represented by his initials?
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John Ronald Reuel