Listmembers! This film about Tolkien will have to include his good friend C.S. Lewis. They both taught at Oxford University and wrote fantasy novels, at the same time.
Tolkien’s estate is really starting to milk it. Was this biopic done with Christopher Tolkien’s blessing?
Listmembers! This film about Tolkien will have to include his good friend C.S. Lewis. They both taught at Oxford University and wrote fantasy novels, at the same time.
It looks interesting. I have read a few Narnia books and know that Tolkien influenced CS Lewis, but I have not read LOTR/Hobbit.
If the Christian faith was as instrumental in the life and imagination of Lewis as it was for Tolkien, I would hope the film touches on that...
I wouldn’t be surprised if Hollywood completely ignored the always present Christian influence on his writing. But make no mistake, Tolkien was also fascinated by mythology, particularly Norse mythology, which was pagan. I read his authorized biography a long time ago, and they were both overshadowing themes in his literary studies.
I hope they make a good job of it.
I attended a talk once by the actor Robert Hardy (All Creatures Great and Small, Churchill:The Wilderness Years, Harry Potter etc) who remembered listening with some degree of wonder even then, to CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien during his time at Magdalen. What a pair to be taught by!
Professor Tolkien would be regarded as deeply unfashionable today, and would certainly be sneered at by many on the Left. Aside from his magnificent work with language (as already commented on in this thread) he was a conservative and had a deep passion for (gasp) England.
Why in God’s name would the goddamn nothington post, post anything about personal responsibility?
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