Directed by Dome Karukoski. With Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney, Derek Jacobi. The formative years of the orphaned author J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school.

A good film, but I don’t think it went into the horrors of world war 1 deep enough to really show it’s effects on Tolkien’s stories.

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Tolkien originally appeared on Adam Selvidge’s Website on August 4, 2019.