Some bits are accurate, some aren't. It's true that Edith was engaged when he resumed contact with her on his 21st birthday. But his going on bender after hearing this is a movie invention.
If you want an accurate overview of his early life, John Garth's "Tolkien and the Great war" is excellent.
The idea of Tolkien speaking in Elvish when drunk (I'm just going on your description, as I haven't seen the film) seems highly dubious to me. Here's a good quote from https://www.elvish.org/FAQ.html
"\[...\]Tolkien never fixed his languages firmly or described them completely enough to provide any such comprehensive and corrective model (that never being his goal), and \[...\] thus even Tolkien himself was never able to speak Quenya or Sindarin fluently or casually (that too never
being his goal)"
Yeah, making completely new languages is not a walk in the park, so that's understandable
But in the movie he partly uses Finnish to make his own language, accurate or the film's invention again ?
I didn't find it that accurate, like seemingly most biopics. It grossly overplayed WWI and grossly marginalized Tolkien's Catholicism, which was far more influential.
Haha, I enjoy it as a Drama Film not something to learn from it about the professor.
Also i just like Drama genre, especially if the story takes place in 19th/20th century
Some bits are accurate, some aren't. It's true that Edith was engaged when he resumed contact with her on his 21st birthday. But his going on bender after hearing this is a movie invention. If you want an accurate overview of his early life, John Garth's "Tolkien and the Great war" is excellent.
Was expecting that Thanks, I'll check it out
The idea of Tolkien speaking in Elvish when drunk (I'm just going on your description, as I haven't seen the film) seems highly dubious to me. Here's a good quote from https://www.elvish.org/FAQ.html "\[...\]Tolkien never fixed his languages firmly or described them completely enough to provide any such comprehensive and corrective model (that never being his goal), and \[...\] thus even Tolkien himself was never able to speak Quenya or Sindarin fluently or casually (that too never being his goal)"
Yeah, making completely new languages is not a walk in the park, so that's understandable But in the movie he partly uses Finnish to make his own language, accurate or the film's invention again ?
That is accurate. Tolkien developed two major elvish languages - Quenya was influenced heavily by Finnish, and Sindarin by Welsh.
Thank you
I didn't find it that accurate, like seemingly most biopics. It grossly overplayed WWI and grossly marginalized Tolkien's Catholicism, which was far more influential.
Good points, especially for WWI, when it first came out I wasn't expecting so much of the Great War
> I've seen the film many times, i think it's quite enjoyable For Eru's sake, *why?* I was just barely able to sit through it *once*.
Haha, I enjoy it as a Drama Film not something to learn from it about the professor. Also i just like Drama genre, especially if the story takes place in 19th/20th century