Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien hold the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship at?

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

Tolkien became a fellow of Pembroke College in 1925 and taught there until 1945. His academic work focused on Old English language and literature, subjects that strongly influenced his fictional languages, names, poetry, and mythology.

While at Pembroke, Tolkien wrote or developed major parts of The Hobbit and the early sections of The Lord of the Rings. He also worked on The Silmarillion, the legendarium that provides the deeper history behind Middle-earth. His academic career and creative writing therefore developed side by side.

In 1945, Tolkien moved to Merton College, where he became the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature. The Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship specifically refers to Anglo-Saxon studies and should not be confused with his later Merton chair.