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Easy Lord of the Rings Trivia Questions
The easy questions from our lord of the rings set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
Keys 1-4 pick an answer, Enter moves on. Nothing is saved to an account.
The easy questions cover Tolkien and Jackson, the leads of the film trilogy, the peoples of Middle-earth and the two places everyone can name: the Shire and Mount Doom. They work for a table that has only seen the films once.
14 easy lord of the rings trivia questions with answers
The Lord of the Rings was written by whom?
Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien Tolkien was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford and a friend of C.S. Lewis.
The film trilogy was directed by whom?
Answer: Peter Jackson Jackson shot all three films back to back before releasing them a year apart.
Frodo Baggins was played by which actor in the films?
Answer: Elijah Wood Sean Astin played Sam, and Boyd and Monaghan played Pippin and Merry.
Gandalf was played by which actor in the films?
Answer: Ian McKellen McKellen was nominated for an Oscar for the first film.
Frodo belongs to which people?
Answer: Hobbits Tolkien also called them halflings, a name used by other peoples of Middle-earth.
Frodo's home region is called what?
Answer: The Shire Bree is a nearby town of men and hobbits, not Frodo's home.
The One Ring can only be unmade in the fires of which mountain?
Answer: Mount Doom Its Elvish name is Orodruin, and it stands inside Mordor.
Gollum's original name was what?
Answer: Sméagol Déagol is the relative who first found the Ring and was killed for it.
Aragorn was played by which actor in the films?
Answer: Viggo Mortensen Mortensen was cast after filming had already begun, replacing another actor.
Legolas, a member of the Fellowship, belongs to which people?
Answer: Elves He is the son of Thranduil, king of the Woodland Realm.
Gimli belongs to which people?
Answer: Dwarves He is the son of Glóin, one of the dwarves who travelled with Bilbo in The Hobbit.
Which gardener follows Frodo all the way to Mordor?
Answer: Samwise Gamgee Sam is the only member of the Fellowship who goes the whole way with Frodo.
The dark lord who seeks the One Ring is named what?
Answer: Sauron Saruman is the corrupted wizard; Morgoth is Sauron's earlier master from Tolkien's older writings.
The film trilogy was shot mainly in which country?
Answer: New Zealand Jackson filmed across both New Zealand islands over roughly fifteen months.
Answer key
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Peter Jackson
- Elijah Wood
- Ian McKellen
- Hobbits
- The Shire
- Mount Doom
- Sméagol
- Viggo Mortensen
- Elves
- Dwarves
- Samwise Gamgee
- Sauron
- New Zealand
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- Pick a mode: multiple choice, true or false, a 60-second sprint, or the daily quiz.
- Answer with a tap, or press 1 to 4 on a keyboard. The right answer appears straight away with a line explaining it.
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