At which university did J.R.R. Tolkien hold the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon?

J.R.R. Tolkien held the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.

Tolkien became Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in 1925, succeeding William Alexander Craigie. The chair was based at Pembroke College, Oxford, where Tolkien taught and continued developing his expertise in Old English and related languages.

He later became Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford in 1945, a position he held until his retirement in 1959. His academic work included influential studies of language, medieval literature, and the poem Beowulf.

Tolkien’s Oxford career is central to understanding his fiction. His professional study of Old English, Old Norse, Welsh, and other languages informed the invented languages, names, histories, and legends of Middle-earth. He was an Oxford professor, not a Cambridge professor.