Tolkien slept here

[wellinghall]

"On the whole, Tolkien was a dab hand with names (and a lecturer friend assures me this is because he was so terribly embarrassed about his own — indeed, Gollum’s now infamous postural shenanigans owe their origin to Tolkien’s frequent pacing around his Oxford study room cursing his ancestors for not being Smiths or O Donovonovons)"
http://abysswinksback.blogspot.com/2011/02/importance-of-names-in-fantasy.html

Also -

"New owners will be bound by an unusual sale clause – they will have to lock the cemetery gates each night to keep residents including Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkein safe."
http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/8846849.Council_puts_buildings_up_for_sale/?ref=rss

Comments

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

The old lodge building at Wolvercote has been on the market a goodly while then, didn't you post about it last Spring?

Mind you the 'lock the gates at night' clause would surely put buyers off, after all no holidays (well unless you could get someone in to do it for you when they fed the cat etc) and always needing to make sure that there was nobody doing a last bit of weeding, or having a quiet cry in the grounds.

As for the first link, 'oh really?' springs to mind.