For the Oxford University map site, click here.
Some of the colleges of Oxford:
Christ Church College down St. Aldate's Street:
For more information about Christ Church, click here.
Tom Tower, the main bell tower of Christ Church College:
Sebastian Flyte from Brideshead Revisited (another of my favorite works) is a fictional alumnus of Christ Church. W.H. Auden, a great admirer of Tolkien's work, was also an alumnus of Christ Church.
Two views of Pembroke College, the college where Tolkien had his first faculty fellowship:
For more information about Pembroke, click here.
Two images of the Bridge of Sighs, in Hertford College near the Bodleian Library:
For more information on Hertford, click here.
Hertford is famous as the college of author Evelyn Waugh, and his Brideshead Revisited character Charles Ryder may also have been a fictional alumnus of the college.
The University Examination Schools, where Tolkien would have taught larger lectures and where exams are given:
To learn more about "The Schools," click here.
Three views of Magdalen College (pronounced "MAUD-lin"):
For more information about Magdalen, click here.
Clive Staples Lewis, Tolkien's close friend and fellow Inkling, was a former fellow of Magdalen. So was Oscar Wilde, another of my favorite authors.
Merton College, where Tolkien was Professor of English from 1945-59 and was in residence when he died in 1973:
For more information on Merton, click here.
Merton also can claim T.S. Eliot as a graduate student alumnus. Yet another of my literary heroes...
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