This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Valinor and Middle-Earth before The Lord of the Rings, Chapters 1-2, The Texts and Their Relations, The Later Annals of Valinor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which gates reappeared from the Lost Tales?
(a) Of Life.
(b) Of Morning.
(c) Of Death.
(d) Of Evening.

2. When Morgoth moved north, what was broken between the earth and water?
(a) Breaks.
(b) Divisions.
(c) Lines.
(d) Symmetry.

3. Which manuscript was set aside when the material was sent out for publication?
(a) Music of the Ainur.
(b) Valar of Annui.
(c) Annals of Valinor.
(d) Simarillion.

4. Who would act as ears according to Elendil?
(a) Marcus.
(b) Albion.
(c) Elendil.
(d) Audion.

5. Who was Elros?
(a) Brother of Elrond.
(b) Sister of Elder.
(c) Child of Eric.
(d) Mother of Elsie.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Tolkien recount a discussion he had with C.S. Lewis, where they decided who would write stories about two of the big "plot devices" of the day?

2. What were the ships west of the isle drawn into?

3. Whose theology does Elendil explain to Herendil?

4. What does not come to Valinor?

5. Which evil person was mentioned in the second manuscript?

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