At which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien serve as a professor and tutor?

J.R.R. Tolkien served as a professor and tutor at Merton College, Oxford. He held the Merton Professorship of English Language and Literature from 1945 until his retirement in 1959.

His Oxford career also included positions at the University of Leeds and Pembroke College, Oxford. At Pembroke, he was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and wrote much of The Hobbit and the early parts of The Lord of the Rings.

Merton College is one of Oxford’s constituent colleges and has medieval origins. Tolkien continued to live and work in Oxford after moving from Pembroke to Merton. His academic specialization in languages and medieval texts strongly influenced the invented languages, histories, and literary forms of his fiction.