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\u2026\u00a0 Actors including Gandalf himself, Ian McKellen<\/a>, and Martin Freeman, who played Bilbo in \u2018The Hobbit\u2019 films, have launched the “Project Northmoor”<\/a> crowdfunding campaign to purchase Tolkien’s home and transform it into a literary center in his honor.<\/p>\n If the campaign succeeds, the home where Tolkien lived from 1930 to 1947 will be the first center dedicated to the fantasy author anywhere in the world, said John Rhys-Davies, who played beloved dwarf Gimli in \u2018The Lord of the Rings\u2019 series.<\/p>\n A Tolkien-esque challenge lies ahead, though — Project Northmoor has just three months to raise $6 million. Author Julia Golding, who’s leading the project, compared their fundraising challenge to the perilous journey of two of Tolkien’s best-loved characters.<\/p>\n “However, we need only to look at Frodo and Sam’s journey from Rivendell to Mount Doom, which took that same amount of time — and we are inspired that we can do this too\u2026”<\/p>\n \u2026 Project Northmoor is asking Tolkien readers — who McKellen called \u2018our fellowship of funders\u2019 — to donate what they can to the cause. There are \u00a0various tiers of fundraising<\/a>\u00a0the group hopes to reach — including one that would restore Tolkien’s garden and another that would install a lair for the fearsome dragon Smaug.<\/p>\n Read more….<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" J.R.R. Tolkien’s house on Northmoor Road, Oxford, where he penned \u2018The Hobbit\u2019 and \u2018The Lord of the Rings\u2019 trilogy, will soon hit the market, so to preserve it for fans and writers, the actors who brought Tolkien’s worlds to film … Continue reading