YOU SAID:
Tolkien was a professor?
INTO JAPANESE
トールキン教授であったか。
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Was Tolkien?
INTO JAPANESE
トールキンをだったか。
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Tolkien was.
INTO JAPANESE
トールキンはだった。
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Tolkien was.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.