This are just a couple of my thoughts, not an actual review.
I can't believe how tender the portrayal of male characters was, including Tolkien himself. And more specifically his friend group in his youth. I mean these men loved each other, cared for each other, cried and laughed together. Tell me one major movie in recent years with so many male leads who are not afraid of being so vulnerable sentimentally with each other. I'm honestly listening, I want to watch. The first one that comes in my mind is of course LOTR but you know who wrote it.
The main theme that played whenever he started forming thoughts about Middle-earth was amazing. I could honestly tell each time a new idea was forming in his mind.
I can't actually believe they included the time when he stole a bus in Oxford.
And for the matter Oxford as a whole and the conversations he had with his linguistics professor.
I absolutely adore how interested everyone seemed in his ideas and that no one laughed whenever he started talking in whatever language he chose to. Be it latin or old english or the elven languages. I have never been able in my life to talk freely about this side of myself, or my interest in languages or fantasy without being mocked or laughed at. It was so nice a change of pace to see him appreciated for his interests.
I swear everyone in the theater cried towards the end of the movie when he meets with the mother of one of his deceased friends and they decide to publish his poetry.
I love how they portrayed the idea of the nazgul, sauron and the balrog forming in his mind during the war scenes. Absolute amazing.
And of course Edith. God I love how they show that she was a major influence in his writing. And that basically the entire Lord of the Rings is a love letter to her love for the Ring of the Nibelungs.
I can't believe how tender the portrayal of male characters was, including Tolkien himself. And more specifically his friend group in his youth. I mean these men loved each other, cared for each other, cried and laughed together. Tell me one major movie in recent years with so many male leads who are not afraid of being so vulnerable sentimentally with each other. I'm honestly listening, I want to watch. The first one that comes in my mind is of course LOTR but you know who wrote it.
The main theme that played whenever he started forming thoughts about Middle-earth was amazing. I could honestly tell each time a new idea was forming in his mind.
I can't actually believe they included the time when he stole a bus in Oxford.
And for the matter Oxford as a whole and the conversations he had with his linguistics professor.
I absolutely adore how interested everyone seemed in his ideas and that no one laughed whenever he started talking in whatever language he chose to. Be it latin or old english or the elven languages. I have never been able in my life to talk freely about this side of myself, or my interest in languages or fantasy without being mocked or laughed at. It was so nice a change of pace to see him appreciated for his interests.
I swear everyone in the theater cried towards the end of the movie when he meets with the mother of one of his deceased friends and they decide to publish his poetry.
I love how they portrayed the idea of the nazgul, sauron and the balrog forming in his mind during the war scenes. Absolute amazing.
And of course Edith. God I love how they show that she was a major influence in his writing. And that basically the entire Lord of the Rings is a love letter to her love for the Ring of the Nibelungs.