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In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
Born: Jan 3, 1892
Died: Sep 2, 1973

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