21 dicembre 2004
La villetta al numero 20 di Northmoor Road, a Oxford, in cui J.R.R. Tolkien visse con la famiglia dal 1930 al 1947 e dove ideò ”Il Signore degli Anelli”, è stata venduta lo scorso mese per più di 1 milione e mezzo di sterline
La villetta al numero 20 di Northmoor Road, a Oxford, in cui J.R.R. Tolkien visse con la famiglia dal 1930 al 1947 e dove ideò ”Il Signore degli Anelli”, è stata venduta lo scorso mese per più di 1 milione e mezzo di sterline. Il ministro del Beni culturali britannico, Andrew McIntosh, ha fatto sapere all’acquirente che la casa è intoccabile: i proprietari attuali e futuri non potranno fare cambiamenti all’interno o all’esterno e dovranno rispettare la struttura dell’edificio nelle condizioni in cui vi abitò Tolkien. The most famous resident of Northmoor Road was the Oxford academic and author J. R. R. Tolkien.[4] He lived at No. 22 in 1926–30 and then a larger house at No. 20 in 1930–47. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and most of The Lord of the Rings while living at 20 Northmoor Road.[5][6] There is now a blue plaque on the house. He later lived at Sandfield Road in Headington. When Tolkien took up the professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University in 1925, he looked for a comfortable home for his wife, Edith, and three sons, John, Michael and Christopher. In 1926, the family moved into 22 Northmoor Road in leafy north Oxford. Tolkien became a familiar figure cycling along the Banbury Road, travelling between home and Pembroke College on his extraordinarily high-seated bicycle while wearing cap and voluminous gown. The family was to spend 20 years in Northmoor Road, but not all at number 22. Basil Blackwell, the famous bookseller, had built the house next door, number 20, in 1926. In 1929, the Blackwells moved out and, as John and Priscilla Tolkien relate in their book, The Tolkien Family Album (HarperCollins, London, 1992), the Tolkiens "decided to move in over the fence". They became "deeply attached to this house, which was our home for 17 years". Priscilla, the Tolkiens’ only daughter and fourth child, was born in 1929 and was to spend her entire childhood there. Related Articles (The Telegraph) The Tolkien moved next door in January 1931 into a bigger house, 20 Northmore Road, Oxford, where most of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were to be written (Stuart D. Lee, A Companion to J.R.R Tolkien) http://www.tolkiensociety.org/author/timeline/ dà come data del trasloco il 14 gennaio 1830, data che accetto. cronologia di tolkien in http://www.tolkiensociety.org/author/timeline/