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There's not much here to object to, although certain things are missing entirely (Catholicism, anyone?) As an origin story, 'Tolkien,' has its moments of clarity and emotion. The Tolkien estate has distanced itself forcefully from 'Tolkien,' without having seen the film. Flip-flopping back and forth between Tolkien's orphaned childhood/schooling years and a prolonged imagining of his experience during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, 'Tolkien' approaches its subject with maybe a little bit too much reverence, but shows an interest in the development of Tolkien's ideas, his passion for philology (not the most cinematic of subjects), his love of myths and legends.

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Tolkien, The Hobbit, chapter 3īiopics often struggle with this same thing, how to portray the 'good to spend' days of its subject, while gravitating towards the 'gruesome.' 'Tolkien,' directed by Finnish filmmaker Dome Karukoski (“ Tom of Finland”), with a script by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford, does a fairly good job of balancing the 'good to spend' with the 'gruesome,' setting up the various influences and inspirations working on John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, a linguistic prodigy who would end up writing some of the best-selling fantasy books of all time.

'Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, make a good tale, and take a good deal of telling anyway.' - J.R.R.