| 100% | WEAPON | 6 | Glamdring, Dramborleg and Grond in Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasies |
| 44% | SHIRE | 5 | The region of Tolkien's Middle-earth in which Bilbo and Frodo Baggins live |
| 33% | MANTLE | 6 | Middle layer in the Earth's internal structure |
| 32% | GEOLOGIST | 9 | Expert in the Earth's rocks and minerals |
| 30% | ROHAN | 5 | Realm of Tolkien's Middle-earth |
| 29% | INNS | 4 | Middle-earth's Green Dragon and Prancing Pony |
| 29% | FLAG | 4 | Mexico's is green, white, and red, with an eagle in the middle |
| 29% | ARGON | 5 | Third-most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere, after nitrogen and oxygen |
| 29% | DWARVES | 7 | Tolkien spelling for little people in fantasy |
| 28% | WIND | 4 | Earth, ___ & Fire, "Let's Groove" band and recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 |
| 28% | UNIVERSES | 9 | Earth-616 and Earth-688, in Marvel comics |
| 28% | MAGNESIUM | 9 | Earth metal Mg, used in fireworks and photography |
| 28% | HEALTH | 6 | Middle word in WHO, with World and Organization |
| 28% | WIZARD | 6 | In fantasy, he who uses magic and sorcery |
| 28% | OHIO | 4 | It's high in the middle and round at both ends, in an old joke |
| 28% | MCCLURE | 7 | Doug —, actor who played David Innes in 1976 fantasy film At the Earth's Core |
| 27% | YOYODIET | 8 | Go in and out of middle management? |
| 27% | CGI | 3 | FX in much sci-fi and fantasy |
| 27% | BOLIVIA | 7 | Paraguay and __ are landlocked in S. America |
| 27% | OGO | 3 | Six-satellite NASA program that studied the Earth's magnetosphere in the '60s and '70s (abbr.) |
| 27% | OHIO | 4 | Answer to the old riddle, "What's high in the middle and round at both ends?" |
| 27% | STS | 3 | Lombard and Market, in S.F. |
| 27% | ORCS | 4 | Monsters in Tolkien's books |
| 27% | AGE | 3 | Middle ___ (life phase for people in their 40s and 50s) |
| 27% | GRIMDARK | 8 | Fantasy genre in which life is nasty, brutish, and short |
| 27% | NARNIA | 6 | Fantasy land in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" |
| 27% | PITA | 4 | Flatbread in much Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine |
| 27% | BENCRENSHAH | 11 | US Masters Champion ('84 and '95) who's considered to be golf royalty in the middle east? |
| 27% | TYRABANKS | 9 | American supermodel who wore the bejeweled Victoria's Secret Fantasy Bra in 1997 and 2004: 2 wds. |
| 27% | ORC | 3 | Monstrous brute in Tolkien's tales |