Not ready to move into a hobbit house? Now there’s a better way to live in the world of your favorite fantasy novels.
The long-time home of author J.R.R Tolkien is on the market — and it’s big enough to house Gandalf, Frodo, Bilbo Baggins, and pretty much everyone else in Middle Earth.
The charming home is where the author penned his classicThe Hobbitand parts of its follow-up trilogyThe Lord of the Rings.
The 4,000-square-foot, 6-bedroom property in Oxford, England — listed at $5,866,000 — features “a 27-foot drawing room [that] benefits from triple aspect windows and double doors opening on to the garden,” reads the listing from realtorsBreckon & Breckon.
There are also two additional “reception rooms,” a kitchen with an eat-in breakfast, a walk-in pantry, as well as a shower room and separate “loo.”
Breckon & Breckon. Inset: Can Sengunes/Getty.
Breckon & Breckon
Upstairs, two of the six bedrooms have en suite bathrooms. There’s also a shared bathroom that features a roll-top tub.
“The property was built in 1924 and awarded Grade II listed status in 2004 due to the fact that J.R.R. Tolkien lived in the property throughout the 1930s and 40s,” the listing states — meaning it’s now legally defined in the U.K. as a building “of special interest, warranting every effort to preserve it.”
Breckon & Breckon.
It has been almost entirely unaltered since it was built, the brochure details, continuing that the house has “a generously sized reception hall” and is situated on a sizable plot “within a leafy Central North Oxford suburb.”
Since its release in September 1937,The Hobbithas sold around 100 million copies worldwide. TheLord of the Ringstrilogy — published between November 1954 and October 1955 — has estimated sales of over 150 million.
The fantasy classics have also been made into $5 billion blockbuster Hollywood trilogies starringElijah Wood,Orlando Bloom,Cate BlanchettandViggo Mortensen.
source: people.com
