Which Oxford college did J.R.R. Tolkien teach at from 1925?

J.R.R. Tolkien taught at Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925.

In 1925 Tolkien became Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford and a fellow of Pembroke College. He held the position until 1945, when he moved to Merton College as Merton Professor of English Language and Literature. His Pembroke years were central to both his academic work and the development of Middle-earth.

During this period Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, which was published in 1937. He also began developing material that later contributed to The Lord of the Rings and the mythology surrounding The Silmarillion. Pembroke therefore has a direct connection to the emergence of Tolkien’s best-known fiction.

The college is sometimes confused with Merton because Tolkien spent the later part of his Oxford career there. Exeter College is also important in his biography: he studied at Exeter as an undergraduate. Those are distinct stages, while Pembroke was his Oxford college from 1925.