Tolkien at Oxford

by Jasmine Revels
For the first week of July 2020, I had set aside plans to travel from Los Angeles to the United Kingdom to study at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. As a student of English literature, studying abroad in England is a goal, but studying at the University of Oxford is a dream. It was an opportunity provided by my university that I could not possibly pass up. I had never gotten the chance to study abroad as an undergraduate, so I was determined to do so as a graduate student. I had applied and been accepted to study at Oxford in July for one month. We were either goi...