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Cast

Nicholas Hoult
as J.R.R. Tolkien

Lily Collins
as Edith Bratt

Colm Meaney
as Father Francis

Derek Jacobi
as Professor Wright

Tom Glynn-Carney
as Christopher Wiseman

Anthony Boyle
as Geoffrey Smith

Genevieve O'Reilly
as Mrs. Smith

Patrick Gibson
as Robert Gilson

Craig Roberts
as Private Sam Hodges

Pam Ferris
as Mrs. Faulkner

Laura Donnelly
as Mabel Tolkien

Harry Gilby
as J.R.R. Tolkien (Young)

Adam Bregman
as Geoffrey Smith (Young)

Albie Marber
as Robert Gilson (Young)

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• Feb 10, 2020

  Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins lead the cast in the J.R.R. Tolkien biopic Tolkien. The film looks at the formative years of J.R.R. Tolkien's life; growing up in an orphanage and making lasting friendships that would inspire him. Both Hoult and Collins give strong performances, and director Dome Karukoski uses an interesting visual style that makes allusions to Tolkien's Lord of the Rings mythology. Still, the plot is pretty formulaic and doesn't hold that many surprises. Yet despite a few weaknesses, Tolkien is a compelling look at the man behind one on the most influential novels of the twentieth century.
  

  Dann M Super Reviewer
• Dec 30, 2019

  I'll admit I had some interest when I heard that a Tolkien biopic was in the works, but now that I've actually seen it, I'm very unsure about who was supposed to want this movie? It's just an unbearably clichéd biopic that makes sure it ticks all the boxes a biopic for some reason must. I don't understand how this formula gets forced in to the real-life story of every person who has ever lived a time that was put to screenplay. It's so boring, and it's so done. Who was crying out for a movie that examined famed author J. R. R. Tolkien when he... went from mildly unpopular at fancy pants school, to mildly popular at fancy pants school? Not when he was writing the most famous fantasy series of all time. Not when he was at war (or at least not more than about a cumulative 6 minutes of flashforwards at war). Not his relationship with C. S. Lewis. Not even about going to codebreaking school. Nope, a young Tolkien whose not very likeable and rather lofty for someone who supposedly comes from such a poor background. It does touch on some references to his future writing, adding a little bit of a fantastical element, but it's so afraid of this, its best element, that really only seems to imply that old mate Jirt wouldn't have come up with a single idea for Lord of the Rings unless some sort of external stimulus for it fell in his lap. Another biopic cliché.
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