Naman Ramachandran Ian McKellen, Annie Lennox, Martin Freeman, John Rhys-Davies and Derek Jacobi are among the stars joining author Julia Golding (the “Companions” series) to launch a $6 million crowdfunding campaign to try and save 20 Northmoor Road, the Oxford house in which J.
R. R. Tolkien wrote “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings,” ahead of it being put on the market for sale.The initiative, Project Northmoor, aims to buy the house and set up a literary center in honor of Tolkien, one of the most beloved literary writers of the Twentieth Century.McKellen, who earned an Oscar nomination for his role as wizard Gandalf in “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” and several celebrities associated with Tolkien, have.
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