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Tolkien was a busy professor in the Oxford English School, serving on many committees. He served in the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of [[Anglo-Saxon]]. | Tolkien was a busy professor in the Oxford English School, serving on many committees. He served in the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of [[Anglo-Saxon]] and was a Fellow of Pembroke College. | ||
During the WW2, many of his colleagues were unavailable and was loaded with | During the WW2, many of his colleagues were unavailable and was loaded with more responsibilities, including organizing special courses for Navy and Air Force cadets. | ||
In [[1945]] he | In [[1945]], after the death of [[Wikipedia:Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld|Henry Wyld]], he was elected Professor of the Merton chair of English Language and Literature, and developed new series of lectures. Later he became a Fellow of Merton College.<ref>{{HM|RC}}, pp. lxxiii-lxxiv</ref> | ||
==Colleges== | ==Colleges== | ||
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The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the United Kingdom. J.R.R. Tolkien studied and taught there.
Tolkien and Oxford
Student
Teacher
Tolkien was a busy professor in the Oxford English School, serving on many committees. He served in the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon and was a Fellow of Pembroke College.
During the WW2, many of his colleagues were unavailable and was loaded with more responsibilities, including organizing special courses for Navy and Air Force cadets.
In 1945, after the death of Henry Wyld, he was elected Professor of the Merton chair of English Language and Literature, and developed new series of lectures. Later he became a Fellow of Merton College.[1]
Colleges
The University of Oxford is comprised of 36 colleges, which are autonomous and self-governing corporations within the University.
- See also: Colleges of the University of Oxford at Wikipedia
Christ Church College
Corpus Christi College
Exeter College
Keble College
Lady Margaret Hall
Magdalen College
Merton College
New College
Pembroke College
Queen's College
Somerville College
St. Antony College
St Edmund Hall
St. Hilda's College
St. Hugh's College
St. John's College
St. Peter's College
Trinity College
University College
Bodleian Library
- The Bodleian Library
External links
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, pp. lxxiii-lxxiv
