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May 8, 2019 · Yes. The true story behind the Tolkien movie confirms that two of the four members of the Tea Club, Barrovian Society were killed in the Great War. This includes artist Robert 'R.Q.' Gilson and poet Geoffrey 'G.B.' Smith. Gilson was killed by a shell burst on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916.
J. R. R. Tolkien repeatedly dealt with the theme of death and immortality in Middle-earth. He stated directly that the "real theme" of The Lord of the Rings was "Death and Immortality." [T 1] In Middle-earth, Men are mortal, while Elves are immortal.
- Was Tolkien Born in Africa and Later Orphaned?
- Did Tolkien Form A Literary Society While in School?
- What Were The Circumstances Under Which Tolkien Fell in Love with Edith Bratt?
- What Were Tolkien’s Experiences Fighting in WWI and The Battle of The Somme?
- Did Tolkien Rekindle His Relationship with Bratt After Returning from War?
- When Did Tolkien Write The Hobbit, and What Inspired Him to Write It?
Yes. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on Jan. 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, which was then part of the Orange Free State before it was later annexed by the British, eventually becoming part of South Africa. Tolkien’s parents were British — his father Arthur Reuel Tolkien was a bank manager, and his mother Mabel Suffield Tolkien had been a missionary i...
In the film, Tolkien enters school and befriends the headmaster’s son as well as a group of literary young men who meet for tea to discuss art and ideas after classes. That “fellowship” helps spur Tolkien’s passion for literature and languages. The real Tolkien did form a literary society with a group of school friends, just like in the movie. Dubb...
The film also hews closely to the general facts of Tolkien’s relationship with Edith Bratt. As in the movie, Bratt and Tolkien lived in the same boarding house, and when Tolkien was 16 and Bratt 19, they began dating. Tolkien’s guardian, Father Francis, eventually told Tolkien that he was forbidden to communicate with Bratt until he was 21, an orde...
In the movie, Tolkien is shown stumbling through the trenches at the Somme, trying desperately to find one of his boyhood friends. Though the specific events of the battle were likely fictionalized in the film, Tolkien did in fact serve on the western front and fight in the Battle of the Somme. Just as in Tolkien, two of the four members of the T.C...
In the film, Tolkien and Bratt encounter each other again just before Tolkien is sent to join the fighting on the western front. When he returns, waking up in a hospital in England, he finds Bratt waiting for him. The real story played out a bit differently. According to the Tolkien Society, the young Tolkien actually wrote to Bratt on his 21st bir...
After returning from the war, Tolkien eventually became a professor at Oxford, where he gave lectures on philology. At the end of the movie, the professor sits down to begin writing what would become his signature fantasy series. Tolkien actually did write The Hobbit while a professor at Oxford, though his real impetus for beginning the project may...
When Tolkien died in 1973, my mother sent me a newspaper clipping with the news. I still have that clipping. Favorite quote (among many): Gandalf: ‘He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.’ (LOTR Vol I p 272)
May 10, 2019 · Tolkien is a dramatized account of the true story of J.R.R. Tolkien, linguist and writer most famous for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings - but how accurate is it to real life, and what happened next? Every biopic has to strike a careful balance between truth and fiction.
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May 30, 2015 · Does the destruction of the One Ring mean that all evil was eradicated from the world? Are there any canon stories or follow-ups (from Tolkien) of what happens next to Middle-earth?
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“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
