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Tolkien and his family moved to this Oxford house in 1930, and lived there for 17 years while he was an Anglo-Saxon professor at the university. In it, he wrote “The Hobbit”, the novel that began as a bedtime story for his children, and continued with “The Lord of the Rings.”
Author Julia Golding launched Project Northmoor, a charity that has started a crowdfunding campaign to raise 4.5 million pounds ($ 6 million) to buy the house and turn it into a literary center before it hits theaters. sale. The project was supported by actors such as Ian McKellen, who plays “Gandalf” in Peter Jackson’s films from Tolkien’s books, Martin Freeman who plays “Bilbo Baggins” and John Reese Davis, who plays “Gimli,” according to “The Guardian”. “British.
The seven-room house, which contains a large garden, will be renovated to show what it was like when Tolkien lived in it, with plans to hold a series of retreats and cultural events in the building and online. The Grade II listed house does not belong to the foundation that manages Tolkien’s estate (he left it in 1947).
If the project is not fully funded, organizers say the funds raised will be used to meet the charity’s goals of promoting Tolkien’s work, including holding courses and activities about the author to “inspire generations. future writers and artists in the field of fiction and other genres “.
