J.R.R. Tolkien taught at the University of Oxford in Oxford.
Oxford was the setting for much of Tolkien’s academic career. He held several teaching and research positions there, including the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon and the Merton Professorship of English Language and Literature. He was also a fellow of Pembroke College and later Merton College.
Tolkien’s Oxford work focused on languages, philology, and medieval literature rather than creative writing alone. His scholarship on Old English, Middle English, and related Germanic languages influenced his invented languages and fictional histories. The city also connected him with fellow writers such as C.S. Lewis, though Tolkien’s stories were developed from his own long-running linguistic and mythological interests.