JRR Tolkien: the Fellowship of the Ring mobilizes to give a second youth to his house

A project to support them all in the light.

Supported by Gandalf and Bilbo, a fundraising campaign hopes to turn Tolkien's family home in Oxford, where the famous British author wrote

and

into a museum

.

The “Northmoor Project”, named after the street where the house is located, was launched by British novelist Julia Golding, who gave herself three months to raise the money needed for this project.

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master designer

, tells about his life in the service of Tolkien and heroic fantasy

The stated goal is to raise 4.5 million pounds (5 million euros) to renovate this seven-bedroom house, which has a large garden, in order to recreate the interior in which Tolkien lived.

But also to organize retreats, writers' residences and cultural events.

"

", explain the organizers of this fundraising in a press release.

The famous British author moved to this mansion in north Oxford in 1930 and lived there for seventeen years, teaching English at a nearby university.

It was in this large brown stone house that he wrote

, originally thought of as a children's tale to read before going to bed.

Then, a little later

.

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The project has already received support from actors Ian McKellen and Martin Freeman, who respectively play Gandalf and Bilbo in film adaptations of Tolkien's works.

"

", pleaded Ian McKellen, appealing for the generosity of this "

".

They are joined by John Rhys-Davies (the interpreter of Gimli), Annie Lennox, who sang on the soundtrack of The

, Derek Jacobi, who played in the biopic

, or John Howe, famous illustrator of The

.

"

comments John Rhys-Davis in the video.

"

," Julia Golding conceded, "

"