Cambridge

J.R.R. Tolkien is known to have visited Cambridge at least once in his youth, for a King Edward's School 1st XV football match against the Leys School on 1 November 1910.

As a fellow of Merton College he visited the college's estates in Cambridge in September 1947. These included Merton Hall and Pythagoras Hall.

He later visited Corpus Christi College in Cambridge on a number of occasions to view the manuscript of Ancrene Wisse: September 1948, 11–18 August 1952 (see also a photograph of Tolkien at the Garden House Hotel during this period, “The Laughing Philosopher” Tolkien Estate website), October–November 1952, December 1956, 7 May 1957.

Between the 8 and 15 May 1954, Tolkien was in Cambridge as an elector for the chair of Medieval and Renaissance English, a post designed for C.S. Lewis. Although Lewis was initially reluctant to take the post, he eventually accepted.

Tolkien is recorded as having dined formally a couple of times ad eundem in Cambridge, 22 May 1954, 9 July 1960 and 23 July 1966; less formally, he dined or stayed with individuals in Cambridge: he dined with Hugh Brogan on 20 March 1949 (where he fell down the stairs); at a house with no radio 30 October 1955 (so he missed a discussion of his works); staying in Cambridge at the end of July 1960; and with Glyn Daniel in August 1973

In mid-May 1961, one of Tolkien's visits to Cambridge included a Sunday spent with a fan club at Queen's College.

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