Actors, novelists battle to save Tolkien's Oxford home

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They have joined the ‘Project Northmoor’ campaign to turn the sprawling house into a museum in honour of the fantasy writer. FMTNews FMTLifestyle JRRTolkien Books Crowdfunding

Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins and other luminaries have formed a new crowd-funding fellowship to raise US$6 million to buy the Oxford home of “The Lord of the Rings” author J R R Tolkien.

“To raise US$6 million in three months is a huge challenge,” British novelist Julia Golding, who is leading the campaign, said in a statement. With seven bedrooms and a spacious garden, 20 Northmoor Road in Oxford is a far cry from the modest hobbit dwelling at Bag End inhabited by the Baggins clan.

 

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