Which Oxford college employed J.R.R. Tolkien when he became professor of Anglo-Saxon in 1925?

Pembroke College employed J.R.R. Tolkien when he became professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford in 1925.

Tolkien held the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon from 1925 until 1945. During that period he was a fellow and tutor of Pembroke College, where he taught and continued developing the languages and mythology that informed his fiction.

His Oxford academic career later moved to Merton College. In 1945 he became the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, a position he held until his retirement in 1959. This change is why references to Tolkien’s Oxford colleges can produce different answers.

Pembroke is also associated with the early development of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien’s academic work included Old English literature, philology, and the study of languages, rather than creative writing as a university subject.