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Tolkien (2019)

Biography | 111 minutes
3,14 250 votes

Genre: Biography / Drama

Duration: 111 minuten

Alternative title: A Light in the Darkness

Country: United States

Directed by: Dome Karukoski

Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins and Pam Ferris

IMDb score: 6,8 (50.817)

Releasedate: 3 May 2019

Tolkien plot

"A Life of Love, Courage & Fellowship."

The biographical story about the writer of the world's most beloved fictional world Middle Earth, JRR Tolkien. This film explores the orphaned author's formative years when he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration between a group of outsiders at school.

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JacoBaco

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Didn't really know what to expect from this movie. Perhaps this is for the real Tolkien fans, because I can't do much with this. Yes, the biography makes clear where his inspiration came from, but I don't find it really fascinating. A friend of mine told me at the time of The Lord of the Rings films that Tolkien is quite extensive and spent a complete page in his book(s) describing, for example, an oak tree. This makes the way of telling quite viscous/creepy. Just like this movie.

I was hoping this Tolkien biography would be more engaging, but that's probably just me because I have a limited or different view of it. The Fellowship of the Ring is in my top 10 favorite movies of all time and from this movie/biography I expected something different, but I'm not really sure what. Unfortunately it was a scant experience for me. What I've seen is a somewhat boring film about a group of friends with a touch of romance, pieces of WWI and the occasional fantasy.

It has mostly become a superfluous film for me.

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IH88

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“Things aren't beautiful because of how they sound. They're beautiful because of what they mean.”

Strong film about the life of Tolkien. I especially liked the way in which the makers deal with language and the power of imagination, and the actors also know how to deliver the sometimes woolly texts with conviction. Hoult, Collins and all the supporting actors, they're all doing great. The bond between the four friends is strongly developed, and the bond between Tolkien and his later wife Edith is also a strong subplot.

The last section covers Tolkien's war years, and this section also works. We had hardly had Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit… This last part has a nice kind of melancholy about it, and it's interesting to see how Tolkien gets a new puzzle piece every time in his search for his voice as a writer . We all know where it eventually leads.

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blurp194

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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

I cannot simply explain how important Tolkien's books have been to me. I was seven or eight when I first read them, and I've reread them countless times, both Dutch and English. Three copies of each volume have worn out over time, despite the beautifully embroidered covers my mother had made for them. And later the Silmarillion, and the Letters.

Enough to immediately see numerous errors, romanticizations and embellishments in the story of this film - it's much more like 'based on' than 'actually happened'. But what I normally really like about that, in this case, to my own surprise, I'm at peace with it, and that's probably in large part due to the fragile way Hoult plays his part, the authenticity (uch) with which the other roles are played, the beautiful locations. And of course it also helps that Edith is played by Lily Collins - and if you compare her photo on the wikipedia, she looks a bit like it too.

And perhaps it is also okay to keep the life story of one of the greatest fairy tale writers ever somewhat fairytale-like. It does have a certain poetic balance to it. It's a pity about the dream images in the trenches, I really think that's a miss. How unimaginable it must have been to live in those times, to experience those horrors, and then to have to go back to normal bourgeois existence again. How spoiled we are, in the time we live in now - where we worry about less vacation time, less money to party with. Something different than three out of four friends gone, two dead and one in the insane asylum.

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