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Also called halflings in reference to their diminutive stature, hobbits are generally a shy race, happy to keep themselves to themselves. Fortunately for us, hobbits can perform feats of incredible bravery when it becomes necessary.
10 Tolkien's Hobbits quizzes and 125 Tolkien's Hobbits trivia questions.
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  Four Hobbits   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
Four hobbits set out on the Quest of the Ring, but which of them did what? Test your knowledge of the deeds of Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin. GOOD LUCK!
Average, 20 Qns, LeoDaVinci, Jan 24 14
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  All About Sam    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
From J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings.' Sam is a down-to-earth kind of character, and I've tried to keep the questions down-to-earth as well.
Average, 15 Qns, megn1, Jan 26 17
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  Frodo Baggins    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Think you know Frodo from Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien? Try this quick quiz and find out!
Average, 10 Qns, kittygirl171, Aug 05 07
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  All About Pippin    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
From 'The Lord of the Rings' by J.R.R. Tolkien. See how well you know this character. Correct answers are from the books, not necessarily the movie.
Average, 15 Qns, megn1, Dec 26 16
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  Meriadoc Brandybuck    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is about Meriadoc Brandybuck from "Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien. See how much you know about him!
Average, 10 Qns, kittygirl171, Dec 22 06
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  All About Smeagol    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is about Smeagol from Lord of the Rings.
Easier, 10 Qns, frodolover, Oct 18 20
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  Peregrin Took    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
How much do you know about Peregrin Took from "Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien? Take this quiz and find out!
Average, 10 Qns, kittygirl171, Jan 31 07
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  The Choices of Master Samwise    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
We all know and love Samwise the Brave, but do we all know (and love) every detail of his shining moment in The Two Towers, Chapter 10, "The Choices of Master Samwise"?
Tough, 10 Qns, genilea, Dec 22 06
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  Samwise Gamgee    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz on Samwise Gamgee from "Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien. See how much you know about him!
Average, 10 Qns, kittygirl171, Dec 22 06
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  Samwise the Stouthearted    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Let's see what you know about Samwise the Stouthearted, (a.k.a Samwise the Brave if you're going by the movie, but this quiz is about the book)Tolkien's most loyal character and my favorite hobbit.
Tough, 15 Qns, Luthien05, Dec 22 06
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trivia question Quick Question
Who was the eldest of the four hobbits?

From Quiz "Four Hobbits"





Tolkien's Hobbits Trivia Questions

1. When first we hear of Sam actually talking, he is at "The Green Dragon" sitting across from one of his normal companions trying to tell him that there could be truth in the queer tales going around lately. Who is this companion?

From Quiz
Samwise the Stouthearted

Answer: Ted Sandyman

"Sam Gamgee was sitting in one corner near the fire, and opposite him was Ted Sandyman, the miller's son; and there were various other rustic hobbits listening to their talk. 'Queer things you do hear these days to be sure,' said Sam. 'Ah,' said Ted, 'you do, if you listen. But I can hear fireside tales and children's stories at home, if I want to.' 'No doubt you can,' retorted Sam,' and I'll daresay there's more truth in some of them than you reckon. Who invented the stories anyway? Take dragons now.'"- FOTR, Book I, "The Shadow of the Past"

2. Who was made a 'Knight of the City'?

From Quiz Four Hobbits

Answer: Pippin

Pippin offered his sword to Denethor the steward of Gondor and Denethor readily accepted it. Pippin was liveried in the black and silver of the knights of Minas Tirith, and, despite his stature, was valiant in the city's defence.

3. How did Samwise first injure the great Shelob?

From Quiz The Choices of Master Samwise

Answer: He cut off a claw on one of her feet.

"But almost before she was aware that a fury was upon her greater than any she had known in countless years, the shining sword bit upon her foot and shore away the claw." -LotR Collector's edition

4. In what year of the third age was Merry born?

From Quiz Meriadoc Brandybuck

Answer: 2982

Merry was born in the year 2982 of the third age. He was born to Saradoc Brandybuck.

5. What is the name of Sam's father?

From Quiz Samwise Gamgee

Answer: Hamfast & hamfast & Gaffer & gaffer

Sam's father was also called the "gaffer".

6. How old was Frodo when his parents died?

From Quiz Frodo Baggins

Answer: 12

Frodo was still considered very young when his parents died.

7. What is Smeagol's friend named?

From Quiz All About Smeagol

Answer: Deagol

Deagol was Smeagol's cousin.

8. What is Sam's full first name?

From Quiz All About Sam

Answer: Samwise

His full name is Samwise Gamgee.

9. As Frodo, Sam, and Pippin were travelling to Crickhollow at the end of the first night, Sam suggested that they camp behind a hill that was sheltered from the wind. But in what direction did he say the wind was blowing?

From Quiz Samwise the Stouthearted

Answer: East

"'I'm so sleepy,' he said,'that soon I shall fall down on the road. Are you going to sleep on your legs? It is nearly midnight.' 'I thought you liked walking in the dark,' said Frodo. 'But there is no great hurry. Merry expects us some time the day after tomorrow; but that leaves us nearly two days more. We'll halt at the first likely spot.' 'The wind's in the West,' said Sam. 'If we get to the other side of the hill we shall find a spot that is sheltered and snug enough, sir. There is a dry fir-wood just ahead, if I remember rightly.' Sam knew the land well within twenty miles of Hobbiton, but that was the limit of his geography."- FOTR, Book I, "Three is Company"

10. Which hobbit did NOT set out to Rivendell from Bag-End?

From Quiz Four Hobbits

Answer: Merry

Merry was waiting for the party to arrive in Crickhollow, and did not come with Frodo from Hobbiton. He was not present at the first sighting of a black rider.

11. Where was Shelob's soft spot(besides her eyes)?

From Quiz The Choices of Master Samwise

Answer: She didn't have one.

"But Shelob was not as dragon's are, no softer spot had she save only her eyes. Knobbed and pitted with corruption was her age-old hide, but ever thickened from within with layer on layer of evil growth."

12. What year of the third age was Sam born in?

From Quiz Samwise Gamgee

Answer: 2980

He was the youngest son of Hamfast Gamgee.

13. How did his parents die?

From Quiz Frodo Baggins

Answer: A boating accident

Like most hobbits, Frodo's parents could not swim.

14. What is Smeagol's nickname?

From Quiz All About Smeagol

Answer: Gollum

He got the name Gollum because he has one in his throat.

15. What was Pippin's full name?

From Quiz All About Pippin

Answer: Peregrin Took

16. What name does Sam use when talking about his father?

From Quiz All About Sam

Answer: The Gaffer

17. Which hobbit carried his cooking gear almost all the way to the end?

From Quiz Four Hobbits

Answer: Sam

Sam managed to cook a brace of rabbits with the pots and pans he treasured so dearly while resting in Ithilien. However, he was forced to dispose of them in Mordor when the going got tough. Remember, it was the fire from Sam's cooking that tipped off Faramir as to the whereabouts of Sam and Frodo - perhaps it was a good idea that he dumped them when he had a chance.

18. After Sam wounds Shelob with Sting, she readies herself to kill him. Sam thinks to take out the Phial of Galadriel. Whose name does he mutter?

From Quiz The Choices of Master Samwise

Answer: Galadriel

"...he fumbled in his breast with his left hand, and found what he sought: cold and hard and solid it seemed to his touch in a phantom world of horror, the Phial of Galadriel. 'Galadriel!' he said faintly..."

19. What job did Sam have?

From Quiz Samwise Gamgee

Answer: Gardening

He was a gardener, like his father.

20. Which volcano does Smeagol fall into?

From Quiz All About Smeagol

Answer: Mount Doom

This is the only place that the ring can be destroyed in.

21. How was Pippin related to Frodo?

From Quiz All About Pippin

Answer: They were cousins.

To be precise, Frodo was second cousin to Pippin's father Paladin, so he and Pippin are second cousins once removed.

22. At the beginning of the 'Lord of the Rings', where does Sam's father live?

From Quiz All About Sam

Answer: Bagshot Row

Bagshot Row is dug up by Sharkey's men, but later replaced by 'New Row,' where the Gaffer lives out his days in peace.

23. Sam, as we know, follows Frodo everywhere and when Gimli told Frodo to come see Kheled-zaram with him of course Sam came too. What did Sam say when Pippin asked him what he saw?

From Quiz Samwise the Stouthearted

Answer: He was too deep in thought to answer

"'Come with me, Frodo!' cried the dwarf, springing from the road. 'I would not have you go without seeing Kheled-zaram.' He ran down the the long green slope. Frodo followed slowly, drawn by the still blue water in spite of hurt and weariness; Sam came up behind. Beside the standing stone Gimli halted and looked up. It was cracked and weather-worn, and the faint runes upon its side could not be read. 'This pillar marks the spot where Durin first looked into the Mirrormere,' said the dwarf. 'Let us look ourselves once, ere we go!' They stooped over the dark water. At first they could see nothing. Then slowly they saw the forms of the encircling mountains mirrored in a profound blue, and the peaks were like plumes of white flame above them; beyond there was a space of sky. There like jewels sunk in the deep shone glinting stars, though sunlight was in the sky above. Of their own stooping forms no shadow could be seen. 'O Kheled-zaram fair and wonderful!' said Gimli. 'There lies the Crown of Durin till he wakes. Farewell!' He bowed, and turned away, and hastened back up the green-sward to the road again. 'What did you see?' said Pippin to Sam, but Sam was too deep in thought to answer."-FOTR, Book II, "Lothlorien"

24. Which hobbit greeted Théoden and his entourage in Orthanc?

From Quiz Four Hobbits

Answer: Merry

Merry was smoking pipe-weed when Théoden happened upon the two hobbits; alas, Pippin was "overcome by weariness" and was fast asleep. Frodo and Sam were already well on their way to Mordor by then. Pippin later woke, and Merry and Pippin treated Gimli, Aragorn and Legolas to the flotsam of Isengard.

25. How at last does Sam defeat Shelob?

From Quiz The Choices of Master Samwise

Answer: He shines the strengthened phial in her eyes so that she retreats to her caves.

"As is his indomitable spirit had set its potency in motion, the glass blazed suddenly like a white torch in his hand. It flamed like a star that leaping from the firmament sears the dark air with intolerable light. No such terror out of heaven had ever burned in Shelob's face before. The beams of it entered into her wounded head and scored it with intolerable pain, and the dreadful infection of light spread from eye to eye. She fell back beating the air with her forelegs, her sight blasted by inner lightings, her mind in agony. Then turning her maimed head away, she rolled aside and began to crawl, claw by claw, towards the opening in the dark cliff beyond."

26. What is the name of the forest that Merry and Pippin went into after the Orcs were attacked by the Rohirrim?

From Quiz Meriadoc Brandybuck

Answer: Fangorn & fangorn

Merry and Pippin went into Fangorn Forest to get away from the remaining Orcs.

27. Whose life did Pippin save by informing Gandalf of Denethor's madness?

From Quiz Peregrin Took

Answer: Faramir

Pippin saved Faramir's life by telling Gandalf and Beregond of Denethor's madness.

28. When is Frodo's birthday?

From Quiz Frodo Baggins

Answer: September 22nd

He and Bilbo shared the same birthday.

29. Which hobbit found the ring that Smeagol dropped?

From Quiz All About Smeagol

Answer: Bilbo Baggins

Bilbo found it in the goblin caves in the Misty Mountains.

30. On the journey from Hobbiton to Crickhollow, the hobbits met an old friend of Pippin's. Who was it?

From Quiz All About Pippin

Answer: Farmer Maggot

Frodo was afraid of Farmer Maggot, because Frodo had been caught on his farm stealing mushrooms when he was a young hobbit.

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