4751 J.R.R. Tolkien Trivia Questions with Answers
4751 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which university awarded J.R.R. Tolkien an honorary Doctor of Letters in 1954?
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University of Liège
Which forest is the home of the Ents in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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Fangorn Forest
Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien teach at from 1925?
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Pembroke College
Where does Bilbo Baggins live in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
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Hobbiton
What was the name of Tolkien’s fictional pub where Frodo meets Aragorn?
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The Prancing Pony
On what date is Bilbo Baggins’s birthday celebrated in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fiction?
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22 September
Who directed the film trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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Peter Jackson
Who edited and helped publish J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion after Tolkien’s death?
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Christopher Tolkien
What academic title did J.R.R. Tolkien hold at Oxford University from 1925?
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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture and essay on the critical study of Beowulf?
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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Who is Aragorn’s father in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth?
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Arathorn II
What honor did J.R.R. Tolkien receive from Queen Elizabeth II in 1972?
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire
What is the title of the second volume of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
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The Two Towers
What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first published book?
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The Hobbit
Which battle did J.R.R. Tolkien experience as a British Army officer in 1916?
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The Battle of the Somme
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, who is Faramir’s father?
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Denethor II
Which Tolkien character says, “Not all those who wander are lost”?
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Bilbo Baggins
Who edited and arranged J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion for publication after Tolkien’s death?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which university awarded J.R.R. Tolkien an honorary doctorate in 1954?
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University of Liège
Who was J.R.R. Tolkien’s wife?
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Edith Tolkien
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s full first name?
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John Ronald Reuel
What was J.R.R. Tolkien’s military unit during the Battle of the Somme in 1916?
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11th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
Which Oxford university did J.R.R. Tolkien teach at for most of his academic career?
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University of Oxford
Who edited J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumously published novel The Children of Húrin?
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Christopher Tolkien
Which Tolkien work was published posthumously in 1977 as a mythology of Middle-earth?
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The Silmarillion