Pembroke College

Pembroke College is one of the University of Oxford's 39 constituent colleges.

J.R.R. Tolkien became Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in 1925. Despite being a fellow at the college he chose not to live at the college. During this period he wrote The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers as well as Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics. He kept the position for twenty years before moving to Merton College in 1945 and taking up the position of Professor of English Language and Literature. Tolkien seemed to have disliked Pembroke. In a letter (Letter 96) to his son, he described Pembroke as "miserable" and said he desired be in a "real college".

Since 2013 Pembroke Colleges has delivered an annual lecture called The J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy.

In 2024 a memorial to J.R.R. Tolkien was unveiled, created by Tim Tolkien, the great-nephew of J.R.R. Tolkien.