Are you a true Lord of the Rings fan? Test your knowledge with this collection of trivia questions and answers related to one of the most epic fantasy trilogies in cinema history!
From characters and plot points, to directors and other behind-the-scenes facts, this quiz will challenge even the most ardent fans. See how much you know about Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn, and the rest of their companions who embarked on this epic journey.
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100 Lord Of The Rings Movie Trivia Questions and Answers To Test True Fans
Lord Of The Rings Movie Trivia: The Fellowship of the Ring
What is the name of the ring that the Fellowship is trying to destroy?
Answer: The One Ring.
What is the name of the main protagonist of the movie?
Answer: Frodo Baggins.
Who plays the role of Frodo Baggins in the movie?
Answer: Elijah Wood.
Who is the author of the book on which the movie is based?
Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien.
Despite playing a dwarf, ______ is the tallest of the actors who play members of the Fellowship. He is 6′ 1″. Who is he?
Answer: John Rhys-Davies (Gimli).
What is the name of the wizard who guides the Fellowship?
Answer: Gandalf.
What is the name of the elf who accompanies the Fellowship?
Answer: Legolas.
What is the name of the land where the majority of the movie takes place?
Answer: Middle-earth.
What is the name of the land where the hobbits live?
Answer: The Shire.
What is the name of the dwarf who accompanies the Fellowship?
Answer: Gimli.
What is the name of the ring-bearer who had the One Ring before Frodo?
Answer: Gollum.
What is the name of the river that the Fellowship has to cross in the beginning of the movie?
Answer: The Brandywine.
What is the name of the hobbit who accompanies Frodo?
Answer: Samwise Gamgee.
This actor had to gain thirty pounds for his role as Samwise Gamgee. What is his name?
Answer: Sean Astin.
What is the name of the ancient forest where the Fellowship travels through?
Answer: Lothlórien.
What is the name of the mountain where the One Ring must be destroyed?
Answer: Mount Doom.
The different colors of blue for the elves’ eyes revealed what race they were. Do you know the difference?
Answer: The Lothlorien elves had light blue eyes, and the Rivendell elves’ eyes were dark blue.
What is the name of the creature who attacks the Fellowship at the mines of Moria?
Answer: The Balrog.
Who is the main antagonist of the movie?
Answer: Sauron.
What is the name of the actor who plays the role of Gollum?
Answer: Andy Serkis.
What is the name of the river that the Fellowship has to cross to get to Rivendell?
Answer: The Bruinen.
What is the name of the creature that attacks Frodo and Sam in the middle of the movie?
Answer: The Watcher in the Water.
What is the name of the wizard who is corrupted by the One Ring?
Answer: Saruman.
Who plays the role of Gandalf in the movie?
Answer: Ian McKellen.
What is the name of the city where the Fellowship is formed?
Answer: Rivendell.
What country was used as a filming location for the Shire scenes?
Answer: New Zealand.
Who plays the role of Legolas in the movie?
Answer: Orlando Bloom.
Orlando Bloom originally auditioned for the part of _____, a supporting character (eventually played by David Wenham) in the next two movies. He was, instead, given the more prominent role of Legolas.
Answer: Faramir.
Three were given to the Elves, immortal, wisest, and fairest of all beings. How many of the Great Rings were given to the race of Dwarf Lords?
Answer: Seven.
How many of the Great Rings were given to the race of Men?
Answer: Nine. Nine rings were gifted to the race of Men, who above all else desire power.
What band of nine supernatural beings are hunting Frodo?
Answer: The Nazgûl, ringwraiths that are neither living nor dead.
What species of creature heals Frodo after he is stabbed by a Morgul blade?
Answer: Elves.
Who plays the role of Galadriel in the movie?
Answer: Cate Blanchett.
Where was the Ring of Power forged?
Answer: In the land of Mordor in the fires of Mount Doom.
What is the name of the character who helps the Fellowship escape from the mines of Moria?
Answer: Légolas.
The cast often had to fly to remote shoot locations by helicopter. This actor was afraid of flying and would only do it when absolutely necessary. Instead of flying up the snowy mountains to get to set, he would instead spend two hours every morning climbing from the base of the mountain to the set near the top, already dressed in character. Who was it?
Answer: Sean Bean (Boromir).
Sir Ian McKellen based Gandalf’s accent on whose real-life accent?
Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien.
Who plays the role of Aragorn in the movie?
Answer: Viggo Mortensen.
Who is the real-life father of the actress that plays Arwen?
Answer: Stephen Tyler (Arwen is played by Liv Tyler).
Who defeated Sauron in the Battle of Dagorlad?
Answer: Isildur of Gondor.
What species found the Ring after it abandoned Gollum? Do you know the character’s name?
Answer: A Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins of the Shire.
What element is the only thing that reveals the One Ring’s markings?
Answer: Fire. When cast into fire, the inscription appears as burning letters inside and outside the Ring.
Lord Of The Rings Movie Trivia: The Two Towers
What is the name of the fortress that Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli try to save in the movie?
Answer: Helm’s Deep.
What is the name of the tree-like creature that helps Merry and Pippin escape from the orcs?
Answer: Treebeard.
What item does Pippin drop to help make him and Merry easier to track for Aragorn?
Answer: His brooch.
What is the name of the kingdom where Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli meet Éowyn and Éomer?
Answer: Rohan.
What is the name of the fortress where Frodo and Sam are taken by Faramir?
Answer: Osgiliath.
What is the name of the land where the Ents live?
Answer: Fangorn Forest.
What is the name of the wizard who battles Saruman in the movie?
Answer: Gandalf.
Why was Gandalf the Grey resurrected as Gandalf the White?
Answer: His job on Middle Earth was not finished.
Who is the King of Rohan in the movie?
Answer: Théoden.
What is the name of the creature that Gollum leads Frodo and Sam to in the movie?
Answer: Shelob.
Who is the leader of the Ents in the movie?
Answer: Treebeard.
What is the name of the army that attacks Helm’s Deep?
Answer: The Uruk-hai.
What is the name of the character who tries to steal the One Ring from Frodo in the movie?
Answer: Boromir.
What is the name of the river that Frodo and Sam have to cross to get to Mordor?
Answer: The Anduin.
What is the name of the fortress that Sauron’s army is preparing to attack in the movie?
Answer: Minas Tirith.
What is the name of the creature that Legolas shoots down at Helm’s Deep?
Answer: A warg.
What is the name of the orc who was previously a slave of Saruman but later switches sides?
Answer: Wormtongue.
What’s Wormtongue’s first name?
Answer: Gríma.
Who does Frodo almost kill in a fit of rage at Osgiliath?
Answer: Sam.
What is the name of the creature that carries Gandalf to safety after he falls in Moria?
Answer: Gwaihir.
What is the name of the creature that Frodo and Sam see in the Dead Marshes?
Answer: The Dead Men.
What is the name of the weapon that Gimli wields in battle?
Answer: The Axe.
Lord Of The Rings Movie Trivia: The Return of the King
What is the name of the final battle that takes place at the end of the movie?
Answer: Battle of the Morannon or the Battle of the Black Gate.
What is the name of the sword that Aragorn wields in “The Return of the King”?
Answer: Andúril.
In the movie, Arwen gets on the ship to go with her kin to the Undying Lands, from which she can never return. What vision does Arwen have that makes her return?
Answer: Her and Aragorn’s child.
What is the name of the giant spider that attacks Frodo and Sam in “The Return of the King”?
Answer: Shelob.
In the flashbacks to the moment that Smeagol found the One Ring, we see him fishing with a friend in the river and having a lovely day. What was the name of his friend?
Answer: Deagol.
How does Gollum finally manage to turn Frodo against Sam?
Answer: He tricks Frodo into thinking Sam ate all the food.
Although Gollum finally managed to separate Frodo from Sam, he still isn’t capable of killing him. Gollum’s plan was to lure Frodo to who?
Answer: Shelob.
Who is the leader of the Nazgûl in “The Return of the King”?
Answer: The Witch-King of Angmar.
Who is the king of Rohan in “The Return of the King”?
Answer: Théoden.
What is the name of the tower where Sauron resides?
Answer: Barad-dûr.
What is the name of Merry and Pippin’s favorite pub in the Shire?
Answer: The Green Dragon.
What is the name of the city that is under siege by Sauron’s forces?
Answer: Minas Tirith.
What is at the top of Minas Tirith?
Answer: A white tree.
What did the orcs catapult over the walls of Minas Tirith?
Answer: Severed heads.
As Frodo and Sam continue to get closer to the fires of Mount Doom, they come to a bridge that leads to a city known as the Dead City. What is the name of the Dead City?
Answer: Minas Morgul.
What is the name of the creature that leads the charge against the Rohirrim at the Battle of Pelennor Fields?
Answer: The Witch-king of Angmar.
Who does Theoden name as heir?
Answer: Eowyn.
Who is the steward of Gondor in “The Return of the King”?
Answer: Denethor.
What is the name of the character who sacrifices himself to allow Frodo and Sam to continue on their journey?
Answer: Boromir.
Who is the character that leads the Rohirrim into battle?
Answer: Théoden.
What is the name of the creature that Aragorn and Legolas fight at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields?
Answer: The Oliphaunt.
Who is the character that Frodo and Sam meet in the ruins of Osgiliath?
Answer: Faramir.
Which hobbit assists Éowyn in killing the Witch King of Angmar during the Battle of Minas Tirith?
Answer: Merry.
Who is the character that leads the army of the dead?
Answer: Aragorn.
Who dies at the top of Mount Doom?
Answer: Gollum.
What does Aragorn say before charging into the armies of Mordor?
Answer: “For Frodo.”
Lord Of The Rings Trivia: Memorable Movie Quotes
Which character said the following quote: “Not all those who wander are lost.”
Answer: Bilbo Baggins.
Which character said the following quote: “Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”
Answer: Aragorn.
Which character said the following quote: “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”
Answer: Galadriel.
Which character said the following quote: “Your time will come. You will face the same Evil, and you will defeat it.”
Answer: Arwen.
Which character said the following quote: “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
Answer: Arwen.
Which character said the following quote: “The Ring has awoken, it’s heard its master’s call.”
Answer: Gandalf.
Which character said the following quote: “Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.”
Answer: Bilbo Baggins.
Which character said the following quote: “A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early; he arrives precisely when he means to.”
Answer: Gandalf.
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