Tolkien house on the market for €2.25m

LORD OF THE RINGS fans are being offered the chance to buy their own corner of Middle Earth, as long as they have €2.25 million to spare.

The house in a leafy corner of North Oxford, where author JRR Tolkien is believed to have written The Hobbit and begun the Lord of The Rings, is to go on the market this week.

The house in Northmoor Road was Tolkien’s family home for 17 years during his time as a professor of Anglo Saxon at Oxford University.