Orthanc bought for a quid

[Lalaith]

But £1 million needed to restore it (http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jan/29/tower-inspired-tolkien-bought)

[Inziladun]

The eyeball-shaped windows at the top of Perrott's Folly look down in one direction on where JRR Tolkien lived as a child, and in the opposite direction on the Oratory, where he went to school.

Ha!. I wonder if the Nazgûl secretly called Barad-dûr Sauron's Folly.:D

[Galadriel55]

Ha!. I wonder if the Nazgûl secretly called Barad-dûr Sauron's Folly.:D

Haha!

As it turned out, my CEO is a Tolkien fanatic, and so the deal was done

That's what Tolkien does to you. :D