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Tolkien is a 2019 biographical drama film directed by Dome Karukoski and written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford. It is about the early life of English professor and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit (1937), The Lord of the Rings (1954–55), and The Silmarillion (1977) as well as notable academic works.
- 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...
May 8, 2019 · Did a young J.R.R. Tolkien really impress his peers with his knowledge of Middle English? A Tolkien movie fact-check reveals that this scene is likely fictional. His school days were dramatized for the movie.
Aug 22, 2024 · Tolkien is a 2019 biographical drama film that depictes J.R.R. Tolkien 's early life in Birmingham and King Edward's School, as an undergraduate at Oxford and serving in the Great War. Directed by Dome Karukoski and written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford, the film stars Nicholas Hoult as Tolkien, Lily Collins as Edith Bratt, Colm Meaney ...
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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 27, 2019 · The new biographical movie Tolkien (2019), about the life of the world-famous writer and academic J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), could not count on the approval of the descendants of Tolkien.
Tolkien is a biographical drama about the early life of J.R.R. Tolkien, released in May 2019, by Chernin Entertainment and Fox Searchlight Pictures. It is directed by Finnish filmmaker Dome Karukoski, with a screenplay by Stephen Beresford and David Gleeson. English actor Nicholas Hoult portrays...
