Over at Fellowship of Fans (FoF), Austrawandil has put together a detailed look at the election of Tolkien to the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon, at the players involved, his application, and his activities while in that position. People here (Trotter and onthetrail and myself - I am also part of FoF) and well as two archivists (for Pembroke College as well as Oxford University itself) helped with sourcing documents, like letters and the minutes of the meeting of the electors.

https://fellowshipoffans.com/news/j-r-r-tolkien-professor-of-anglo-saxon/

Austrawandil has a number of rather in-depth articles that certainly add a more scholarly air to our little fan news site. Given the recent publication of Andrew Higgins' article Tantalizing Fragments of a Larger Linguistic Tapestry: Exploring Nala Lambë, Mago/Magol, and the Dunlendish Languages in Tolkien's World-Building, people might be interested to see the analysis that suggests that Mágol/Mágo is possibly the basis for the "Rhûnic" conlang in Rings of Power, given we know from hints that it is based on a yet-unpublished language created by Tolkien, Mágol is "Hungarian" in flavour, and the sound palate that the creators of "Rhûnic" used.

EDIT: whoops, I forgot to add the link to Austra's other article! Here it ishttps://fellowshipoffans.com/news/rhunic-revealed/