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About the Author
J. R. R. Tolkien was at Pembroke College, Oxford, as Professor of Anglo-Saxon from 1925 to 1945 and then, until his retirement in 1959, as Merton Professor of English Language and Literature. His chief interest is in the literary and linguistic tradition of the English West Midlands, especially in Beowulf, the Ancrene Wisse, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; but he is better known to the reading public as the author of Farmer Giles of Ham, The Hobbit, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings.