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15 Cards in this Set
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When was the Hobbit originally published?
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September 1937
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Where did J.R.R. Tolkein work?
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Oxford University
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How did he begin the book?
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Started it when he was working in Oxford and was tired of grading papers, then he wrote the first sentence of the Hobbit and made the map.
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Between what years did he write the first version of the Hobbit?
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Between 1929 and 1932
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Was the Hobbit popular?
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It was popular immediatly.
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When did J.R.R. Tolkein start writing the Lord of the Rings Trilogy?
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He started in December 1937
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When did he complete the Lord of the Rings Trilogy?
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1949
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Where and when was he born?
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Born in South Africa in 1892
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When did his father die?
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1896
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Where did he go to college?
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Oxford University?
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When did he die and at what age?
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He died in 1973 at age 81.
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What did he write that he thought was going to be more important than the Hobbit?
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The Silmarillion
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Who was J.R.R. Tolkein's first main character that he made up for the Hobbit?
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Bladdthorin, a magical head dwarf.
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How did he split his first main character in to two?
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He made the head dwarf part as Thorin and the magical part into Gandalf.
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Where did he get Gandalf's name?
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He got his name from an old poem.
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