University of Oxford
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- "What do you take Oxford for, lad? [...] it's a factory! And what's it making? I'll tell you. It's making fees. Get that in your head, and you'll begin to understand what goes on."
- ― Joseph Wright's warning to young J.R.R. Tolkien[1]
The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the United Kingdom. J.R.R. Tolkien studied and taught there.
Tolkien and Oxford
Student
Tolkien (22) was an undergraduate when the Great War broke out (August 1914) but he wanted to complete his studies. He joined the Officers Training Corps at Oxford. He had his degree in June 1915 and applied for a commission.[2]:p. lxxviii
That time Tolkien was awarded "First Class Honours degree in English Language and Literature".
Teacher
Tolkien was a busy professor in the Oxford English School, serving on many committees.[2]:p. lxxiii He served in the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon and was a Fellow of Pembroke College.[2]:p. lxxiv
During WW2, many of his colleagues were unavailable and he was loaded with more responsibilities, including organizing special courses for Navy and Air Force cadets.[2]:p. lxxiii
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.[2]:pp. lxxiii-lxxiv
Tolkien Professorship
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J.R.R. Tolkien Professorship of English Literature and Language was established in 1980. As of 2022, the Faculty of English intends to appoint to the J.R.R. Tolkien Professorship as a fully endowed chair, in association with Lady Margaret Hall.
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
- Official website
- University of Oxford at Wikipedia
- Tolkien at Oxford - Podcasts that explore the relationship between J.R.R. Tolkien's works and Oxford University