These question rounds, of 8-10 questions each, are all on Tolkien's works as represented in films and other media beyond their original book format. Most are from past Varsity quizzes and are thus arranged by the year they were asked.
This section contains 3 rounds, with a total of 28 questions.
2024 (Tolkien fandom)
1. Who sang the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins?
2. The “Pondering my Orb” meme was made from art of which Tolkien character?
3. Who interviewed Elijah Wood about his use of wigs in the Peter Jackson trilogy?
4. Which cast member of the Peter Jackson trilogy breaks a bone on film?
5. Name all speaking characters in the video edit “Taking the Hobbits to Isengard”.
6. Name 3 of the 5 most popular relationships on the Archive of Our Own “Tolkien J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms” archive (this means, relationships which are in the most fics).
7. Name the fanfiction with the most “hits” (views) on the same archive.
8. Which controversial early 2000s “Big Name Fan” wrote “The Very Secret Diaries”, including the diaries of Aragorn, son of Arathorn; Legolas, son of Weenus; and Ringwraith No. 5?
9. Who, according to Tolkien, did C.S. Lewis like “least of all” in the Lord of the Rings?
10. Who wrote in their 1956 review of the Lord of the Rings, “Nobody seems to have a moderate opinion: either, like myself, people find it a masterpiece of its genre or they cannot abide it”?
2014
1. Where does the Middle Earth franchise currently rank on the highest-grossing movies list?
2. According to the films, and entirely misrepresenting the whole situation, why does Thorin need the Arkenstone?
3. What animal does Thranduil apparently use, probably fairly ineffectively (edit: the third film suggests otherwise), as a war steed?
4. How does Saruman (rather gruesomely) die?
5. Who plays Bard, the only inhabitant of the Soviet gulag that is Laketown who looks like he might have heard of washing?
6. “And who is this horrid creature? A goblin mutant?” describes which character?
7. Reprise(-ish) from the book round: complete this stanza: “The bells shall ring in gladness/at the mountain-king's return...”
8. What are the names of Bard's daughters?
9. And who does the actresses' real-life father play?
10. What is Radagast's sled pulled by?
2010
1. What is the first line of Leonard Nimoy's song, "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" ?
2. What is the final event depicted in Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version of "The Lord of the Rings"?
3. In what year did a West End musical version of the Lord of the Rings open?
4. Who voiced Frodo in the BBC radio adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings"?
5. Other than himself, which artist did Tolkien choose to illustrate some of his works?
6. Who provided the artwork for the first illustrated edition of The Silmarillion?
7. If played back to back, what would the total combined running time for the extended editions of the three recent Lord of the Rings movies be?
8. How many pieces of armour did Weta Workshop create as props for the three recent Lord of the Rings films?