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He was a soldier in the First World War. He then worked on the Oxford English Dictionary before becoming a University Professor. He was also of course a writer and he published scholarly works related to his academic study of Anglo saxon and Middle English poetry as well as his famous fictional work such as "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings" .

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