I hope they make a good job of it.
I attended a talk once by the actor Robert Hardy (All Creatures Great and Small, Churchill:The Wilderness Years, Harry Potter etc) who remembered listening with some degree of wonder even then, to CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien during his time at Magdalen. What a pair to be taught by!
Professor Tolkien would be regarded as deeply unfashionable today, and would certainly be sneered at by many on the Left. Aside from his magnificent work with language (as already commented on in this thread) he was a conservative and had a deep passion for (gasp) England.
I took Music Literature from a white-male-hating Marxist in 2004.
She brought up W. H. Auden in class. After class, I mentioned that Auden had been a student of Tolkien, and that his favorable review helped get The Fellowship of the Ring published.
She responded by saying,”Tolkien was a racist, you know!” in a nasty tone, and stalked away without giving me any opportunity to respond.
I was incensed. Tolkien was, of course, no racist. It was a typical leftist lie.