At which university did J.R.R. Tolkien study English Language and Literature?

J.R.R. Tolkien studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.

He entered Exeter College, Oxford, in 1911. His studies included classics at first, but he changed direction toward English language and literature. This shift allowed him to pursue the historical languages and texts that became central to both his scholarship and creative writing.

Tolkien’s academic career at Oxford lasted for decades. He became Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford from 1925 to 1945, then Merton Professor of English Language and Literature from 1945 until 1959. His work on Old English, Middle English, and related languages strongly influenced his invented languages and fictional histories.

The answer is sometimes confused with the University of Leeds, where Tolkien later taught from 1920 to 1925. Oxford, however, was the university where he studied and where he spent much of his professional life.