Which Oxford college employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a fellow from 1925?

Pembroke College employed J.R.R. Tolkien as a fellow from 1925.

Tolkien became a professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford in 1925 and held his fellowship at Pembroke College. He remained there until 1945, when he moved to Merton College after taking the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon.

His Pembroke years were especially important creatively. He wrote much of The Hobbit during this period and began developing the larger mythology that would eventually underlie The Lord of the Rings. He also formed or joined literary circles, including the Inklings, whose members discussed works in progress.

Tolkien’s Oxford career combined rigorous scholarship with imaginative writing. His academic interests included Old English, Middle English, philology, and medieval literature. Although readers often focus on his later position at Merton, Pembroke was the college most closely associated with the creation of The Hobbit and the early development of Middle-earth.