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          100 Very Best Lord of the Rings Trivia Questions

          100 Very Best Lord of the Rings Trivia Questions

          The Lord of the Rings

          The Lord of the Rings is an epic high-fantasy trilogy written by J.R.R. Tolkien and later adapted to film by director Peter Jackson. The trilogy includes the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) went on to earn the Oscar for Best Picture at the 76th Academy Awards ceremony.

          The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a high-fantasy, epic and is probably the most famous epic fantasy series of all time. If you think you know your Lord of the Rings trivia, try and see how well you do on these trivia questions made specifically for LOTR experts.

          Lord of the Rings — The Backstory

          1. Question: Who is the malevolent dark lord that becomes the ruler of Mordor?

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          Answer: Lord Sauron

          2. Question: Who is the actor that plays Frodo Baggins?

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          Answer: Elijah Wood

          3. Question: Who is the director of the Lord of the Rings?

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          Answer: Peter Jackson

          4. Question: Lord Sauron survives the defeat of the ultimate Dark Lord. Who is the ultimate Dark Lord in LOTR?

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          Answer: Dark Lord Morgoth

          5. Question: Dark Lord Morgoth goes by a second name. What is this other name Dark Lord Morgoth is referred to as? 

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          Answer: Melkor

          6. Question: Which of the three movies in the trilogy went on to win Best Picture at the 2003 Awards Ceremony? 

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          Answer: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

          7. Question: In Saurons plan to take over Middle Earth, he uses a disguise to befriend the elves. What is the name of Saurons disguise?

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          Answer: Annatar or the Lord of Gifts.

          8. Question: What actor plays Legolas Greenleaf?

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          Answer: Orlando Bloom

          9. Question: What is the name of the powerful Elf that Sauron looks to befriend through his disguise? 

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          Answer: Celebrimbor

          10. Question: Who forged the Magical Rings of Power that gives powers to its wearers?

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          Answer: Sauron, Celebrimbor and other Elven-smiths. 

          11. Question: Which actor plays Aragorn?

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          Answer: Viggo Mortenson

          12. Question: Lord Sauron waged a war to try and collect the powerful rings. How many rings did he collect?

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          Answer: 16

          13. Question: What happened to the men who received the rings and wore them? 

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          Answer: They eventually became corrupt and were referred to as the Nazgul, the Black Riders or simply ‘The Nine’.

          14. Question: Why are The Nine considered Sauron’s most greatly feared servants?

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          Answer: Wearing the rings enslaved the nine to Sauron’s will and were bound to Sauron’s through the One Ring.

          15. Question: Who is Eru Illuvatar? 

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          Answer: Eru Illuvatar is the main deity and creator of Arda (the name of the world as a whole)

          16. Question: Which group of beings did Eru Iluvatar first create?

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          Answer: the Ainur

          17. Question: How did the Ainur and Eru Illuvatar create the world of Arda? 

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          Answer: Through singing the holy music called the Music of the Ainur.

          18. Question: Which beings shaped the realm of Arda? 

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          Answer: the Valar

          19. Question: Who are the Valar?

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          Answer: The Valar are the Ainur that chose to go to Ea and shape the realm. These Ainur were considered the Greatest Ainur, and so were given a different name of Valar.

          20. Question: How were Elves and Mankind brought into being in LOTR?

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          Answer: they were brought into being by the thoughts of Eru Illuvatar.

          21. Question: Lord Sauron was taken as a prisoner by which King?

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          Answer: The King of Numenor, Ar-Pharazon.

          22. Question: Who is the King of Arda?

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          Answer: Manwe

          23. Question: What caused the destruction of Lord Sauron’s physical body?

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          Answer: A chasm that was created by Eru Illuvatar in the land of Numenor destroyed Sauron’s physical body.

          24. Question: Which rings were considered the most powerful Rings of Power?

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          Answer: Nine, seven, and three.

          25. Question: Why did the Elves take off their rings?

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          Answer: The Elves took off their rings because they became aware of Sauron’s plan to gain power of them through his powerful One Ring.

          26. Question: What were the three great time periods in the Lord of the Rings?

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          Answer: The Years of Lamps, Years of the Sun, and the Years of the Trees.

          27. Question: At which point did the First Age of Arda start?

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          Answer: The end of the Years of the Trees marks the beginning of the First Age of Arda.

          28. Question: Which race held the remaining Rings of Power Lord Sauron sought to capture?

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          Answer: The Elves

          29. Question: Which group captured Sauron and held him as their prisoner?

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          Answer: The Numenoreans

          Lord of the Rings — The Fellowship of the Ring

          30. Question: How many books is the Fellowship of the Ring divided into?

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          Answer: Two parts.

          31. Question: When was the Fellowship of the Ring first released?

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          Answer: July 29, 1954 in the UK by the publishing company Allen and Unwin.

          Question: How does the fellowship of the ring start?

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          Answer: It starts off with a synopsis of the hobbit and the backstory of the one ring

          33. Question: How does Bilbo Baggins find the ring?

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          Answer: According to the version depicted in the hobbit, he finds the ring while lost in the tunnels near Gollum’s dwellings.

          34. Question: Who is Smeigel originally and what does he become?

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          Answer: Originally, he is a Stoor, which is a type of hobbit. He eventually transforms into Gollum.

          35. Question: How does Smeigel transform into Gollum?

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          Answer: By possessing the Ring for centuries, Smeigel became deformed and twisted into the creature known as Gollum.

          36. Question: Who is Frodo Baggins?

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          Answer: Frodo Baggins is Bilbo Baggins’ nephew.

          37. Question: Where does Frodo Baggins’ story begin?

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          Answer: Frodo’s story begins in Bag End, the Shire.

          38. Question: What are the three main races in Middle Earth?

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          Answer: Men, Elves and Dwarves

          39. Question: How old does Bilbo Baggins turn at his birthday party at the beginning of the Fellowship of the Ring?

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          Answer: Bilbo is turning 111.

          40. Question: Where is Frodo hoping to get when he leaves the Shire? Who gave him the advice to leave Bag End?

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          Answer: Frodo leaves to try and get to Rivendell. Gandalf the Grey told him to go there.

          41. Question: What are the Orcs?

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          Answer: The Orcs are referred to as goblins in The Hobbit.

          42. Question: How long after The Hobbit does the events of the Lord of the Rings take place?

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          Answer: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring starts roughly 60 years after the end of The Hobbit.

          43. Question: How does the Ring corrupt those that have it in their possession? 

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          Answer: The Ring corrupts its wearers by making them crave power and insatiably greedy.

          44. Question: Who does Frodo Baggins escape the Shire with?

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          Answer: His loyal gardener and friend Samwise Gamgee and his two other hobbit friends. 

          45. Question: What are the names of the three other friends Frodo escapes with in search of Rivendell?

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          Answer: Meriadoc Brandybuck, Peregrin Took, and Fredegar Bolger.

          46. Question: Who is Aragorn?

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          Answer: Aragorn II Elessar is next in line to take the thrones of two realms: Gondor and Arnor, and becomes King Telcontar. 

          47. Question: How did the hobbits learn that it was Aragorn who had visited in Rivendell?

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          Answer: Gandalf the Grey sent them a letter revealing it to Frodo and the group.

          48. Question: Who is the Lord of Rivendell?

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          Answer: Lord Elrond.

          49. Question: What do they need to do in order to save Middle Earth from Lord Sauron’s dark powers?

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          Answer: Lord Elrond decides that to save Middle-Earth, the Ring needs to be brought to Mortor and destroyed by the fires of Mount Doom, which is where it was created.

          50. Question: What does the ‘Fellowship of the Ring’ refer to?

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          Answer: The ‘Fellowship’ refers to the group or brotherhood whose purpose was to bring the Ring so that it could be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom and ultimately save Middle-Earth.

          51. Question: Who did the ‘Fellowship’ ultimately come to include?

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          Answer: The Fellowship includes Frodo, his three hobbit friends, Gandalf the Grey, Aragorn, Boromir of Gondor, Gimli the Dwarf, and Legolas the Elf. 

          52. Question: Who began following the Fellowship as they traversed to Mount Doom?

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          Answer: Gollum.

          53. Question: What actor plays Gandalf the Grey? 

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          Answer: Ian McKellen.

          The Lord of the Rings—The Two Towers

          54. Question: What is the name of the mountain range that the Fellowship traverses?

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          Answer: The Misty Mountains

          55. Question: What is the name of the underground kingdom the Fellowship end up using as a route to get to Mount Doom?

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          Answer: Moria

          56. Question: What does Frodo begin realizing towards the end of the Fellowship that sets the stage for the beginning fo the Two Towers?

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          Answer: Frodo starts to see that the ring is having an effect on members of the Fellowship.

          57. Question: How does the Fellowship fall apart?

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          Answer: The Fellowship falls apart when Frodo and Samwise Gamgee leave on their own for Mordor together.

          58. Question: Where do Merry and Pippin go once they escape from the Orcs?

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          Answer: Fangorn Forest.

          59. Question: While Merry and Pippin are in the anthropomorphic forest, what do they encounter?

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          Answer: They meet tree giants called Ents.

          60. Question: When the remaining members of the Fellowship go looking for Merry and Pippin in Fangorn Forest, who do they end up finding there?

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          Answer: Gandalf 

          61. Once they meet and run into Gandalf, where do they (Gandalf, Legolas, Aragorn and Gimli) go?

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          Answer: They go to Edoras

          62. In the film The Two Towers, where are the scenes that take place in Edoras filmed?

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          Answer: New Zealand

          63. Question: The sword that was reformed from the remains of the ‘Sword that was Broken’ is called what new name?

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          Answer: Anduril

          64. Question: What is Legolas’s last name?

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          Answer: Greenleaf

          65. Question: Which actress plays Galadriel?

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          Answer: Cate Blanchett

          66. Question: What happens to Frodo and Samwise as they continue on their journey with the One Ring?

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          Answer: Gollum attacks them to retrieve the Ring.

          67. Question: What does Frodo convince Gollum to do once they capture him?

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          Answer: Frodo convinces Gollum to lead them to the Black Gate of Mordor.

          68. Question: Which Ent does Merry and Pippin meet in Fangorn Forest?

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          Answer: Treebeard

          69. Question: What does Gandalf the Grey become in the Two Towers?

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          Answer: Gandalf the White

          70. Question: Which actress plays Arwen?

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          Answer: Liv Tyler

          Lord of the Rings — The Return of the King

          71. Question: Which character is in love with Arwen?

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          Answer: Aragorn

          72. Question: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King holds the world record for receiving most academy awards along with what two others movies?

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          Answer: Titanic and Ben-Hur.

          73. Question: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the first movie of what genre to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards?

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          Answer: Fantasy

          74. Question: How much money did The Return of the King earn in the box office?

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          Answer: The Return of the King earned over $1.119 billion worldwide.

          75. Question: Who wrote the score for LOTR?

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          Answer: Howard Shore

          76. Question: Who is the King of Edoras?

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          Answer: Theoden

          77. Question: What is the name of the gigantic spider creature Gollum brings Forod and Samwise to?

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          Answer: Shelob

          78. Question: What happens with Shelob the spider?

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          Answer: He bit Frodo and poisoned him.

          79. Question: Which actor plays Boromir?

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          Answer: Sean Bean

          80. Question: How does Boromir die?

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          Answer: Defending Merry and Pippin, Boromir gets shot by arrows from the Orcs.

          81. Question: Which movie is the third and final film of the LOTR trilogy?

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          Answer: LOTR: The Return of the King

          82. Question: Which movie out of the trilogy was most successful in the box office?

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          Answer: LOTR: The Return of the King

          83. Question: In the film The Return of the King, what computer technology do they use to make Gollum look creepy? 

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          Answer: CGI (computer-generated imagery)

          84. Question: How does the film the Return of the King start?

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          Answer: The movie starts with a flashback of Smeagol’s story and how he came across the ring and degraded into Gollum.

          85. Question: Who found the Ring with Smeagol?

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          Answer: His cousin Deagol.

          86. Question: What happens to Deagol when he refuses to give Smeagol the Ring?

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          Answer: Smeagol strangled him to death.

          87. Question: Who is highly suspicious of Gollum throughout the journey to Mount Doom?

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          Answer: Samwise Gamgee

          88. Question: What are the Palantir known as in LOTR?

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          Answer: The seven stones or seven-seeing stones.

          89. Question: What powers do the seeing-stones have?

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          Answer: They were used to communicate throughout Middle-earth.

          90. Question: Which characters have a drinking competition at their post-battle party?

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          Answer: Gimli and Legolas

          91. Question: What is the dream that Eowyn tells Aragorn about? 

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          Answer: She told him about the ‘Great Wave’ flooding a city.

          92. Question: What happens to Pippin when he uses the Seeing Stone?

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          Answer: Lord Sauron attempts to interrogate him through his powers.

          93. Question: What is the name of the capital city of Gondor?

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          Answer: Minas Tirith

          94. Question: What did Pippin’s dream reveal to the group?

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          Answer: That Lord Sauron plans to attack Minas Tirith.

          95. Question: Which ships does Gandalf urge Aragorn to take to go to Minas Tirith?

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          Answer: The Black Ships

          96. Question: Who does Gandalf say is the worst hobbit because of his curiosity?

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          Answer: Pippin.

          97. Question: Why do they need to get Pippin out of Rohan?

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          Answer: Because Lord Sauron was under the impression that Pippin had possession of the Ring.

          98. Question: What vision from the future does Arwen have while she is travelling towards the Grey Havens?

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          Answer: She envisions her future son with Aragorn, Eldarion.

          99. Question: Who is Arwen’s father?

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          Answer: Elrond.

          100. Question: What does Elrond start to realize about Arwen?

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          Answer: That she is becoming mortal.

          101. Question: What is the name of the sword that is used to cut the Ring from Sauron’s hand?

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          Answer: Narsil

          102. Question: Who eventually comes to own this sword (Narsil)?

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          Answer: Aragorn.

          103. Question: What does Pippin see once they arrive at the city of Minas Tirith?

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          Answer: The White Tree

          104. Question: Once arriving in Minas Tirith, who do they (Gandalf and Pippin) go to see?

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          Answer: The steward of Gondor, Denethor.

          105. Question: Who is Sauron’s most deadly servant?

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          Answer: The Witch—king of Angmar.

          106. Question: What does Gollum try to convince Frodo of?

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          Answer: That Samwise is trying to steal the Ring from him.

          107. Question: Which character said this famous line from the movie “Not all those who wander are lost.”

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          Answer: Bilbo Baggins.

          108. Question: What happens with Frodo and Sam on their way to Mount Doom that separates the two?

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          Answer: Gollum’s plan to turn the two against each other is working, and Frodo leaves alone with Gollum. 

          109. Question: Who tries to save Frodo from Shelab the gigantic spider?

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          Answer: Sam

          110. Question: Which actor plays Gollum/Smeagol?

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          Answer: Andy Serkis

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