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NEW GAMES: Legolas played by Orlando Bloom, Gandalf played by Ian McKellen and Aragorn played by Viggo Mortensen in The Lord of the Rings: Another King. Photo: PIERRE VINEN / NEW LINE PRODUCTIONS
They want to raise almost 60 million crowns to buy the house and turn it into a Tolkien center.
The actors who play the wizard Gandalf and the hobbit Bilbo Lommelun in the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films lead a fundraising campaign to buy the house in Oxford where JRR Tolkien wrote the books on which the films are based .
Report to various international media on Friday.
– We can’t do this without the support of the worldwide Tolkien fan community, our brotherhood of economic supporters, says noble actor Ian McKellen who plays Gandalf in the movies.
The fundraising campaign is called “Project Northmoor” and aims to raise the amount in three months.
Martin Freeman, who plays Bilbo in the Hobbit movies, John Rhys-Davies, who plays the dwarf Gimli in the Lord of the Rings movies, and artist Annie Lennox, who was behind the song under the title of the latest Lord of the Rings movie, are among the other stars associated with the project. .
HOBBIT: Martin Freeman as Bilbo Lommelun in the first Hobbit movie. Photo: WARNER BROS / WARNER BROS
British author Julia Golding is leading the project. She believes it is a great challenge to collect the money in such a short time, but is hopeful that it is possible.
– Still, we just have to see Frodo and Sam’s journey from Kløvendal to Dommedagsberget which took the same amount of time, so we think we can do this too, he says.
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With the money, they want to buy the house first, then renovate it, and then turn it into a museum and literature center, he writes the fundraising campaign on the website.
The house has seven bedrooms, a large garden and is located at 20 Northmoor Road in Oxford.
Together with his family, Tolkien moved into the house in 1930 and lived there for 17 years while he was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.
Despite being a world-renowned author, according to the campaign, there is no literary center dedicated to Tolkien, not in Britain or anywhere else.
