News Update
lotr update May 23
Tolkien's home for sale
20 Northmoor Road, the home in Oxford, UK where Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and most of The Lord of the Rings, is up for sale.
JRR Tolkien, his wife Edith and their children moved in there in 1926
(according to the Tolkien Family Album - the blue plaque on the house says 1930. We don't know why the discrepancy!) and lived there comfortably for 17 years. The house is unlikely to be a template for Bag End or any other hobbit home (no round doors or windows, and definitely not underground), but it would have been a good example of the type of comfortable, unassuming middle class home of that time, and was the setting for many years of childhood and family life for the Tolkiens.
Sources estimate that it might sell for around 짙1.5 million (approx US.5 million). Oxford is an expensive area by UK standards.
To see what it actually looks like go here:
http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtour/tolkientour/panoramas/northmoor20.htm
Anthony
-the grey company-
(Tolkien Fanatics Society)
