When was J.R.R. Tolkien born?

1/3/1892

11/4/1892

1/16/1896

11/5/1896

What does the second R in Tolkien's name stand for?

Raymond

Reuel

Ronel

Ronald

How old was Tolkien when his father died?

Three

Four

Five

Six

When did J.R.R. Tolkien die?

3/11/1970

5/8/1971

7/5/1972

9/2/1973

Which of these was published first?

Smith of Wootton Major

Farmer Giles of Ham

Leaf by Niggle

The Road Goes Ever On

Tolkien's great lifelong friend

C.S. Lewis

George Orwell

Kurt Vonnegut

James Joyce

Who was Stanley Unwin to Tolkien?

his teacher

his publisher

his uncle

his ass

The Lord of the Rings is fundamentally...

Protestant

Catholic

Lutheran

Not Christian

According to The Lord of the Rings the concept of evil is...

An absence of good

An actual power in itself

Both

Neither

The Lord of the Rings is deeply indebted to...

"The Odyssey"

"Beowulf"

"Hamlet"

All of the Above

What is Ragnarok?

A Sword

Armageddon

A Tree

None of the Above

Tolkien compared his wife and himself to...

Tuor and Idril

Beren and Luthien

Turin and Niniel

Aragorn and Arwen

What was the purpose of The Lord of the Rings?

to satisfy popular demand for a sequel to The Hobbit

to create a world for Tolkien's various languages

to revive old lore from Anglo-Saxon and Norse traditions

All of the Above

Eowyn's defeat of the Chief Nazgul imitate which literary character?

Thor

Macduff

Polonius

Agamemnon

What is the relationship between the names Sackville and Bag End?

No Relationship

Antonyms

Synonyms

None of the Above

Where does the word "burglar" come from?

burgle

bury

borough

bourgeois

What was the greatest difference between LOTR and accepted works of the literati (such as "Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot)?

It has a fantasy setting

It is a heroic epic

It has a seemingly ambivalent conflict and plot

It makes no specific literary allusions

Smith's relinquishing of the fay-star is similar to...

Treebeard finding no Ent-wives

Luthien giving up her immortality

Bilbo giving up the Ring

Frodo's loss of happiness

Niggle is to Tolkien as Niggle's garden is to...

Tolkien's work at Oxford

The Silmarillion

Tolkien's marriage

World War I

Which of the following statements is true?

LOTR is an allegory for World War II

He hated Shakespeare and Milton

Hobbits came from rabbits

None of the Above

Who was R.W. Reynolds to Tolkien?

his neighbor

his teacher

his brother-in-law

his mule

What did Earendil refer to originally?

a person

a ring

a star

a ship

Sending Boromir off in a boat is taken from which tradition?

Viking

Pre-Christian English

Gaelic

Germanic

How many Chairs did Tolkien hold while at Oxford?

One

Two

Three

Four

How many sons did Tolkien have?

One

Two

Three

Four

How many daughters did Tolkien have?

One

Two

Three

Four

Which of these names is not found in the Völuspá?

Balin

Thorin

Fili

Gandalf

Where was Tolkien Born

Poole

Scotland

South Africa

Lancashire

Complete this line: "Thirty white..."

Roses

Swans

Horses

Ships

How large is the discrepancy between the Julian and Gregorian calenders?

Eight Days

Nine Days

Ten Days

Eleven Days