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Choose an activity that fits your reading. Test what you remember, follow a connected set of essays, or use the encyclopedia to trace a person or object across different stories.

Public quizzes

The existing Quiz archive remains open, including film quizzes and questions about Middle-earth.

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Advanced reading challenge

A thirty-question Plus quiz adds explanations and references. The quiz is retained in editorial preparation and is not currently published.

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Follow a reading path

Begin with Gandalf and the danger of benevolent power, then consider Bombadil and the limits of explanation. Turn to the Entwives for an example of a question the narrative does not finally answer.

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The encyclopedia supports keyword search, first-letter browsing and topic filters. Interactive family trees, a historical timeline and an original atlas are later development tasks, not completed features on this page.

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