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Campaign to buy JRR Tolkien’s house backed by Lord of the Rings actors – The Guardian
Ian McKellen and Martin Freeman support £4.5m crowdfunding campaign to turn the Oxford home where Tolkien wrote his most famous books into a museum
A quest to save the home of JRR Tolkien has begun, with Gandalf and Bilbo Baggins or at least their earthly counterparts joining the bid to turn the house where he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings into a museum.
Tolkien and his family moved into 20 Northmoor Road in Oxford in 1930, and lived there for 17 years while he was professor of Anglo-Saxon at the university. It was there he wrote The Hobbit, a novel that began as a bedtime story for his children, and followed it up with The Lord…
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