Ian McKellen, Annie Lennox, Martin Freeman support US$6mil campaign to save Tolkien home.
Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins and other luminaries have formed a new crowd-funding fellowship to raise US$6mil (RM24.4mil) to buy the Oxford home of "The Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien. Actors Ian McKellen and Martin Freeman, stars of Peter Jackson's Oscar-winning film adaptations, have joined the "Project Northmoor" campaign to turn the sprawling house into a museum in honour of the fantasy writer.
"To raise US$6mil in three months is a huge challenge," British novelist Julia Golding, who is leading the campaign, said in a statement.
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