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Tolkien is a 2019 biographical drama film directed by Dome Karukoski and written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford.

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Tolkien is a 2019 biographical drama film.
It was directed by Dome Karukoski.
It was written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford.
It is about the early life of English professor J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as notable academic works.
The film stars Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney, and Derek Jacobi.
Tolkien was released in the United Kingdom on 3 May 2019.
In the United States on 10 May 2019, by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
It was the first feature film released after the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney.
The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $9 million worldwide on a $20 million budget.
This is Finnish director Dome Karukoski’s first English language movie.
The Tolkien family and the Estate issued a statement before the film’s release to make clear that they did not approve of, authorize or participate in the making of this film, and did not endorse it or its content in any way.
A member of the TCBS chastises Wagner’s ‘Das Rheingold,’ saying it shouldn’t take six hours to tell a story about a ring. Of course, the film adaptations of Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings would clock in at over seven hours and nine hours, respectively.
The names mentioned in the epilogue, the elven lady and the man, are Beren and Luthien. Their story is told in The Silmarillion, Tolkien’s posthumous book of compiled stories.
Nicholas Hoult’s second performance as a famous author, having previously portrayed J.D. Salinger in Rebel in the Rye (2017).
Lily Collins once auditioned for the role of Tauriel that went to actress Evangeline Lilly in Peter Jackson’s ‘Hobbit’ films.
While many aspects of Tolkien ‘s school experience were dramatized the T.C.B.S was really formed between those 4 friends as a brotherhood of aspiring poets and artists who often discussed art and literature while daydreaming about their futures.
The actors that played both the younger (Ty Tennant) and the older (Tom Glynn-Carney) Christopher Wiseman, later also played the younger and the older Prince Aegon Targaryen in House of the Dragon.
This is Lily Collins’s second biographical drama to be released in the United Kingdom on May 3rd, 2019.
Nicholas Hoult has worked with several actors who played Tolkien’s characters. He and Ian McKellen appeared together in X-Men: Days of Future Past and Jack the Giant Slayer, the latter of which also featured Bill Nighy and Andy Serkis. He also appeared in The Current War with Benedict Cumberbatch.
Film debut of Ty Tennant.
Nicholas Hoult also appeared in X-Men: First Class as Dr. (Hank) McCoy, a character previously played by Star Trek actor Kelsey Grammer. Tolkien also created the character Eomer who, in Peter Jackson’s films, is played by Karl Urban, who appeared in Star Trek as Dr. (Leonard) McCoy.
Tolkien has grossed $4.5 million in the United States.
$4.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $9 million.
In the United States and Canada, the film was released alongside Pokémon Detective Pikachu, Poms and The Hustle.
It was projected to gross $2–4 million from 1,425 theaters in its opening weekend.
It ended up debuting to $2.2 million and finishing in ninth.
On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 51%, based on 198 reviews, and an average rating of 5.8/10. The website’s critical consensus reads, “Tolkien has the period trappings and strong performances of a worthy biopic, but lacks the imagination required to truly do its subject justice.”
On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 48 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.
Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “A−” on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it a 76% positive score.
Giving the film two out of five stars, Wendy Ide for The Observer commented “[a] decades-long trudge through Middle-earth would seem like a carefree skip through the park compared to this slog of a literary biopic