Tolkien

I really enjoyed it. Of course a biopic, any biopic, is much more engaging if you want to know about the character portrayed. Maybe I had a bit of an advantage not knowing very much about Tolkien. Just the basic facts that I gathered from some documentary on one of the LOTR bonus discs. I am sure there is some artistic freedom involved and that facts are sacrificed on the altar of drama. It was interesting to see where the ideas for his stories originated from. I wouldn't have minded some added running time to help adding more depth to certain aspects. Like everything it is a matter of taste but all things considered one of the better movies I watched this year.

Not knowing much about Tolkien’s life, I like experiencing this the way it is done. The war scenes - oh, so he sees himself as Frodo, with a high impossible task … and his squire, Sam. Then… the headmaster at first seemed an inspiring source for Gandalf, although really just in the first scene. The four friends… ah, Marry, Pippin, Sam and again, Frodo? Edith… is she Galadriel? Or maybe Arwen? The priest seems to have inspired Bilbo. Funny, how “Sam” would mention there’s a problem with there not being any women in “Tolkien’s” books :sweat_smile: there really barely are any worth mentioning, we all know that. When they’re running through the hallway at around 25 minutes it looked like they were bumping into Aragorn. Either way, I get all teary from youthful, deep friendship like that. When they talk about Wagner, and how it shouldn’t take six hours to tell the story of a magical ring… I giggled. For some reason, I had been under the impression that Tolkien wrote most of TLOTR imprisoned. However, that was never mentioned, and does not show up anywhere online either. Strange, I was so convinced. Maybe I was thinking of Wilde.