Tolkien

On Digital/Release Date: 05-10-2019

TOLKIEN explores the formative years of the renowned author’s life as he finds friendship, courage and inspiration among a fellow group of writers and artists at school. Their brotherhood strengthens as they grow up and weather love and loss together, including Tolkien’s tumultuous courtship of his beloved Edith Bratt, until the outbreak of the First World War which threatens to tear their fellowship apart. All of these experiences would later inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-earth novels.

Directed by:

Dome Karukoski

Screenplay by:

David Gleeson, Stephen Beresford

Produced by:

Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, David Ready, Kris Thykier

Cast:

Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney

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TOLKIEN explores the formative years of the renowned author’s life as he finds friendship, courage and inspiration among a fellow group of writers and artists at school. Their brotherhood strengthens as they grow up and weather love and loss together, including Tolkien’s tumultuous courtship of his beloved Edith Bratt, until the outbreak of the First World War which threatens to tear their fellowship apart. All of these experiences would later inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-earth novels.

Directed by:

Dome Karukoski

Screenplay by:

David Gleeson, Stephen Beresford

Produced by:

Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, David Ready, Kris Thykier

Cast:

Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney

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