Tolkien Biopic Coming To Cinemas May 10th 2019
February 16, 2019 by brennon
I am a big lover of Middle-earth and Tolkien as an author. So, I'm very excited to see the new biopic about him coming later this year on May 10th, 2019.
The film will look at his early years at school, the friendships he made and the effect that World War I had on him too. Whilst Tolkien always maintained that The Lord Of The Rings was never an allegory for World War I, it no doubt inspired and informed his decisions on certain aspects of the series.
I do hope that it goes deeper into his love for nature and the natural world as well as his religious beliefs which also had a big impact on his writing.
I will most likely be watching this regardless of how it might be received by reviewers to make my own mind up but I do hope it's good!
Will you be watching this?
This looks awesome, I will certainly keep an eye out for it’s release
Well this could be interesting but we shall see.
Perfect, out for my bday so I know what I will be doing that evening!
I have Read that the shire was based on the village life he grew up in,
I would watch this just to visualize the life that created, shaped and dreamt up Middle Earth.
It looks interesting. I am in a funny place having watched the trailer. I am full of hope that it will treat the good Professor with the dignity and respect that he is due and I am simutaneously scared that it may play with the great man’s personality and character for the sake of “a good story”, and this movie will be all that future generations who can’t be bothered to read know of him. I have no basis for my fear* and hope with all my heart that it gives the man his due. I will definately see this.… Read more »
I too cannot wait for this! 🙂
Very much the same – very interested but as with any time I see a biopic or a historical movie being released, weirdly tense ? hopefully they are respectful to the truth.
Yeah, Tolkien disliked allegory, and said so much against it that his friend C. S. Lewis tried to convince him that Narnia wasn’t allegory.
But I wonder what they’ll decide to pull from WWI. I mean, Lord of the Rings is kind of a classic pro-war story (like Sergeant York). Somehow a lot of people have been convinced that it is anti-war, and it seems like it would be much easier to derive an anti-war message from WWI.