The place where Middle-earth began-Tolkien
Let’s talk about the movie "Tolkien" today.
The title is JRR Tolkien / A Light in the Darkness (2019).
This American biographical film focuses on Tolkien, the "Father of Modern Fantasy Literature".
John Ronald Riel Tolkien has many titles, British writer, poet, linguist, university professor, and the most well-known is the creator of Middle-earth.
From 2001 to 2003, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, with good reputation at the box office, became the pinnacle of fantasy movies. From 2012 to 2014, the "The Hobbit" trilogy added another fire and made fantasy lovers linger. In 2021, there will be a TV drama version of "The Lord of the Rings" released.
The author of "The Lord of the Rings" is Tolkien, and subsequent fantasy literature, fantasy movies, fantasy animations, and fantasy games all benefited from Tolkien's creation of a complete Middle-earth system.
The past fantasy stories only tell readers "a long, long time ago, in a distant country..." and will not tell readers the specific location and world of this country.
Tolkien solved this problem fundamentally. He created a complete "Second World" to form a self-consistent and complete worldview. All stories are interpreted here, and all legends are produced here.
The significance of Tolkien is not only to create countless excellent fantasy literary works, but more importantly, to create a platform that allows successors to create endlessly.
This "Tolkien" is where the legend begins. The film will introduce the audience to how the creator of Middle-earth thought of building such a colorful world.
The movie did not choose to show Tolkien's long life, but chose his early life experience with a focus. After all, the various experiences of the first half of life are more suitable to be displayed visually than the long road of creation in the second half of life.
Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa in 1892, and immigrated to the United Kingdom with his family at an early age, studying at King Edward’s School.
Then he met his life partner Edith Blatter, began a love story, applied to Oxford University twice and successfully passed.
After the outbreak of the First World War, in 1916, he followed the British army to the front line and experienced the war firsthand. Later, he was sent back to the country due to trench fever, and since then he opened the road of literary creation.
It can also be seen from his life history that his early years of study, love, and participation in war have become his most important creative cornerstones.
In the process of studying, he met three kind and lovely partners, Weisman, Gilson and Smith. Weisman is proficient in music and mathematics, Gilson is good at writing drama, Smith likes to write poetry, and Tolkien is good at archaeology and linguistics. They had similar interests and formed a brotherhood called TCBS (Barofan Society Tea Party). This witnessed their friendship. In the subsequent "The Lord of the Rings", Tolkien had a lot of descriptions of friendship, which shows that he really missed his old friends.
The love story of Tolkien and Edith is a special book in Middle-earth. In the film, Edith dancing on the grass is a real thing. Tolkien wrote a long poem "Belen and Lucian" on this, depicting the love story of the fairy woman Lucian and the human prince Belen. . After Edith passed away, Tolkien was tearful and tremblingly wrote "Lucian" on the tombstone. Edith is the female elf in his heart.
The tragic scenes of World War I became the best material for the war in Middle-earth. As a war witness and survivor, Tolkien has seen death wandering the battlefield and reaping. In France in 1916, Tolkien participated in the Battle of the Somme as a lieutenant. The battle lasted for four months, and each side lost 1.5 million people. These experiences have become the source of his subsequent creation.
"Tolkien" tells about love, courage and friendship, and it is generally quite satisfactory as a biographical film.
After watching "Tolkien", if you want to watch "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" again, then the film has achieved its purpose.
The cornerstone of fantasy literature,
The place where Middle-earth started.
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