The Disney+ platform includes in its catalog the film “Tolkien”, a biographical film dedicated to the novelist of “The Lord of the Rings”, which was released on our screens in 2019! In addition to the work, here is a brief summary of the life of the British author!
“There lived a hobbit in a hole.”
With these few words – it is now considered the most famous J.R.R. In Tolkien’s career – the biographical film dedicated to the legendary British writer, which was released in cinemas on Wednesday, has been completed. Starring Nicholas Hoult and directed by Dome Karukoski, the film really gives us a glimpse into Tolkien’s most creative years (and the shadow of his major works) through the many events that shaped his past.
His early years in the English countryside, orphaned teenage years, romance with the beautiful Edith, his budding love of words and languages, the creation of his first club and the horrors of the First World War… until that fateful day. When, without realizing it, soothed by the laughter of his children, Tolkien began tracing the inaugural line of his most famous work to them, risking a timid first step into the still uncharted paths of what would soon become…Middle Earth.
What’s next? Tolkien fans are all familiar with him, and Dome Karukoski’s film clearly allows others to guess him. Nevertheless, why not outline here the main events that accompanied Tolkien in the second part of his life?
Professor Tolkien
After his first work at the Oxford English Dictionary, where he devoted himself to the letter “W” of the German alphabet. Tolkien He took his first teaching post at the University of Leeds in Northern England. He taught English literature there for 5 years, while he devoted himself to writing his first works: mainly academic essays, but also the roots of the world, the immensity of which he still did not doubt.
In 1925, and for the next 20 years, he returned to Oxford and taught Old English at Pembroke College. It is there, while correcting the students’ copies (as opposed to what we see in Tolkien’s film, where he is with his family), that he writes the very first sentence on a piece of white paper. The Hobbit. A work he first intended for his children (as well as his Letters from Santa Claus), but whose exceptional success prompts him to continue his journey to Middle-earth.
Gradually connecting the adventures of Bilbo and Gandalf with the giant world that has been formed in his imagination for several years, he decides (with the impetus of the publishers) to offer a continuation of his story, and then writes the first two parts. Lord of the Rings (It will take him more than 10 years to create the entire trilogy).
The patient weaver, the meticulous architect, builds brick by brick these future monuments of literature, Tolkien Nevertheless, he spends most of his time in the Oxford amphitheatres, where he performs his main function. takes 70 to 136 lessons a year (when his contract only calls for 36, according to the book JRR Tolkien Encyclopedia) He is the admiration and admiration of most of his students, who he leaves behind real “shows”, which are often met with applause, and despite a slight speech impediment, which can sometimes make it difficult to understand him.
INKLINGS
If no Tolkien Alone with his manuscript, when he gives life to Frodo, Aragorn or even Gandalf, he makes his pen respectably significant with regular other companions and letters. TCBS (Tea Club Barrovian Society), which he formed during his studies with fellow students and which we see clearly in the film. Dome KarukoskiThis is just the first example of his affinity for clubs and communities.
Thus, during his years at Oxford, he met his writer friends in the pub every Thursday evening. The eagle and the child The result of long literary discussions. The Inklings (a name that can be translated as “idea” or “hunch” but which begins with the word “ink”) include Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, WH Lewis, and his brother CS Lewis.
The latter, a famous author Narnia’s chronicles (also adapted into film) figured heavily in Tolkien’s life, and despite some notable disagreements between the two writers, they encouraged each other in the design of their fantasy worlds. As will be explained Lewis in his work Surprised with joyThis was during a particularly long discussion Tolkien He converted to the Christian faith: the central pillar of his entire work.
As for teamwork, Tolkien also participated in the Nazi code-breaking program during World War II. An opportunity for him to put his passion for languages and puzzles to the service of his country.

Beren and Luthien
A few years later a triumphant success Lord of the Ringsthree volumes of which were published in 1954-1955, Tolkien In 1959, he left the university and then devoted himself to translation and writing. Suspicious of his growing popularity, he went into exile with his wife Edith in the seaside town of Bournemouth in 1968.
There he resumes the development of myths and legends parallel to the history of the ring and fades back into the world that began to develop before the story of Bilbo’s journey. Although he didn’t publish much during his lifetime, Tolkien left behind a veritable world of sketches and annotations when he died in 1973 at the age of 81.
Among the many texts collected and published posthumously by his son, Christopher, we find in particular The SilmarillonThe genesis of his world, a rich and complex work, hides within its pages the story he began to paint in the 1920s: the tender and grand romance of Beren and Lúthien.
An impossible idyll between a young mortal and an elven princess, a passionate love that will later ignite the love of Aragorn and Arwen. Lord of the Ringsand Tolkien Created out of his own feelings for Edith. Before the death of the latter, about two years before him, the writer had engraved the name “Luthien” on the tombstone of a loved one. Today, his own name also appears there in eternal letters, engraved under his wife’s, followed by a second name: “Beren”.
Sources: JRR Tolkien Encyclopedia / Mental Floss / Gospel Coalition / JRR Tolkien’s Purgatory Myth / mythopoeic society
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