Sunday, April 3, 2022

Tolkien


Saw on TV in Geneve. A biopic about Tolkien- I didn't know a lot about him- that he was an orphan, lived in Africa as a child, studied and taught at Oxford. But the movie overall was just a romantic saga of the lives of four young British men. It points out Tolkien's genius in his reading of Chaucer, but the rest of the story just seemed like another maudlin depiction of the lives of young men in war.