After World War I, Tolkien began to work as an Assistant Lexicographer on the New English Dictionary. He wouldn't be there for long as he soon was appointed the senior post of Reader in English Language at the University of Leeds. He returned to Oxford to fill the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford that had become vacant. Ronald fit right into the largely male world of teaching, research, the exchange of ideas and occasional publication. His publicatins were rare, but very influential. His academic life was unremarkable and in 1945 he changed his chair to the Merton Professorship of English Language and Literature. He remained here until his retirement in 1959.
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