LONDON —Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins and other luminaries have formed a new crowd-funding fellowship to raise $6 million 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 honor of the fantasy writer.
“To raise $6 million (4.5 million) in three months is a huge challenge,” British novelist Julia Golding, who is leading the campaign, said in a statement.
“However, we need only to look at Frodo and Sam’s journey from Rivendell to Mount Doom — which took that same amount of t…
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