Q 01/05

Which birthday does Bilbo celebrate before leaving the Shire at the start of The Fellowship of the Ring?

A) 11th

B) 33rd

C) 111th

D) 222nd

Answer · why

C) 111th

111th. Hobbits call it his eleventy-first, and he ends his birthday speech by slipping on the Ring and vanishing in front of his guests.

Q 02/05

Frodo's cover story for leaving Bag End is a move to a little house at which place?

A) Crickhollow

B) Bywater

C) Michel Delving

D) Tuckborough

Answer · why

A) Crickhollow

Crickhollow. Frodo really does buy the house, over the river in Buckland, and it is there that his friends reveal they have known about the Ring all a...

Q 03/05

In Tolkien's book, what drives off the Black Rider stalking Frodo's party in the Shire woods?

A) The barking of farm dogs

B) The singing of passing Elves

C) A sudden thunderstorm

D) The first light of dawn

Answer · why

B) The singing of passing Elves

The singing of passing Elves. Their leader, Gildor, then takes the three hobbits in for the night, the first of many rescues by strangers on the road.

Q 04/05

Which farmer drives Frodo and his friends to Bucklebury Ferry in The Fellowship of the Ring?

A) Cotton

B) Proudfoot

C) Bracegirdle

D) Maggot

Answer · why

D) Maggot

Maggot. Frodo has been afraid of him since boyhood, when the farmer set his dogs on him for stealing mushrooms, but he turns out to be a staunch frien...

Q 05/05

Which ancient tree-spirit traps Merry and Pippin in the forest on the edge of Buckland?

A) Old Man Willow

B) The Party Tree

C) Fimbrethil

D) Quickbeam

Answer · why

A) Old Man Willow

Old Man Willow. Tolkien lifted him from a poem he had published twenty years earlier, in which the same willow sings its victim to sleep and shuts him...