Tolkien (2019)

Anthony Boyle: Geoffrey Smith

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• Geoffrey Smith : To love someone, who, for whatever reason, cannot return your feelings is painful. But if you listen to the poets, perhaps there's a kind of beauty to that love. It burns. Bright. And it's never tainted by reality or by - overuse. It's as clear and fierce today as it was the very first day it began. And there's beauty to that, I think. At least, that's what I cling to, anyway.

• Robert Gilson : What you need to understand, Tolkien, you poor lawless orphan, is that we are your brothers. Through everything.

  Geoffrey Smith : Yes, absolutely.

  Christopher Wiseman : Exactly.

  Robert Gilson : This is more than - just a friendship. It's an alliance. An invincible alliance.

• J.R.R. Tolkien : I'm sorry, Geoff.

  Geoffrey Smith : No, it's not your fault.

  J.R.R. Tolkien : No, it is. If it wasn't for me, you'd be in the arms of the delightful Mary by now.

  Geoffrey Smith : Please. The moment I showed any interest, she started talking about her sweetheart.

• Robert Gilson : If Tolkien is betraying the brotherhood with a blank, I'm going to show you something utterly degenerate.

  [shows some drawings of nude women] 

  Geoffrey Smith : This cannot be good.

  Christopher Wiseman : Heavens above.

  Robert Gilson : Copied, unfortunately. And what I need is life models. Not much chance of that, of course.