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Tolkien was a British Army officer in WW1. He then worked at the Oxford English Dictionary before going to lecture at the University of Leeds. However he spent most of his working life as a Professor at Oxford University (Pembroke and Merton Colleges).

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JRR Tolkien served in the army during WW1, then worked for a short time at the Oxford English Dictionary. He taught for a few years at Leeds University before getting a post at Oxford University where he remained for the rest of his working life.

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J.R.R. Tolkien was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford from 1925 to 1945. He later became the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford from 1945 to 1959.

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J.K. Rowling once worked as an English Teacher, and some type of animal thing in France, I forgot...

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Tolkien is a Germanic name. JRR Tolkien, the famous author, was English.

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