¹⁴⁰ John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) is as famous as he deserves to be. However, it may not be amiss to mention that when he and Jack met in 1926 he was already the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. He ‘changed chairs’ to become the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature in 1945. See Surprised by Joy and Humphrey Carpenter’s J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography (1977).