(ANSA) - NEW YORK, 03 DEC - The house where JRR Tolkiens wrote "The Hobbit" and much of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy is about to return to the market and an international crowdfunding campaign has been launched in the hope of being able to buy it and transform it into museum.
"Project Northmoor", this is the name of the initiative that takes its name from the North Oxford street on which the writer's house stands, has garnered the support of fans and celebrities including many stars of Peter Jackson's film.
The goal is to raise at least $ 5.3 million in three months.
The master of the fantasy genre lived in the house at 20 NorthmoorRoad with his wife Edith and four children from 1930 to 1947, while teaching Anglo-Saxon literature at nearby Oxford University.
"We will never be able to achieve this without the support of Tolkien fans around the world," IanMcKellan said in a video posted on the initiative's website.
Magician Gandalf was joined by John Rhys Davies (Gimli) and Martin Freeman (Bilbo Baggins), "Lord of the Rings" illustrator JohnHowe, and Annie Lennox, who in 2004 won the Oscar for Best Original Song with "Into the West "from" The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ".
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