Pembroke College, Oxford
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Pembroke College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is located on Pembroke Square, Oxford. The college was founded in 1624 by King James I of England and VI of Scotland, using in part
Pembroke College Hall over the Chapel Quad
Old Quad, with Tom Tower in the distance
College entrance from Pembroke Square, above which Samuel Johnson, as an undergraduate (1728), had rooms on the second floor.
Pembroke College Boathouse on the Isis (left, adjacent to St Edmund Hall Boathouse)
J. R. R. Tolkien
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and academic philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Pembroke College, Oxford
…Orbán and Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski MEP studied at Pembroke, as did the Sultan Haitham bin Tariq of Oman and King Abdullah II of Jordan. J. R. R. Tolkien was a Fellow of Pembroke from 1925 to 1945, and wrote The Hobbit and the first two volumes of The Lord of the Rings during his time there. Since 2013…
Tolkien c. 1925–1926
1892 Christmas card with a coloured photo of the Tolkien family in Bloemfontein, sent to relatives in Birmingham, England
Birmingham Oratory, where Tolkien was a parishioner and altar boy (1902–1911)
King Edward's School in Birmingham, where Tolkien was a pupil (1900–1902, 1903–1911)