TOLKIEN SCAVENGER HUNT

1.      What do the initials J.R.R. stand for? 

2.      What year was Tolkien born?  

3.      Where was he born? 

4.      What happened in February 1896 that caused the Tolkien family to return to England?

5.      From a young age, Tolkien showed an affinity for learning this? 

6.      What pseudonym did Tolkien occasionally write under? 

7.      What was Tolkien's wife's name? 

8.      Tolkien served as a lieutenant in what war? 

9.      At what university was Tolkien a professor of Anglo-Saxon language and English language and literature until he retired? 

10.   What was the name of the literary club both C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien belonged to?

11.   Tolkien was a philologist.   What does that mean?

12.  What happened when Tolkien was 8 years old that estranged his mother and her children from their extended family? 

13.   In what year was The Hobbit  published?  

14.  What Walt Disney animated film hit the theaters in the year The Hobbit was published? 

15.   What disaster occurred in Lakehurst, NJ in that same year? 

16.  Who edited and published Silmarillion  and other of J.R.R. Tolkien's works posthumously?