Not long ago, the first Caste of the Amazon episodic version of The Lord of the Rings was determined to be an Australian young sister named Maceira Kavinach.
Although it is a face that is not familiar, it still explodes a lot of fans, and the focus of everyone's discussion is also transferred to who the little sister plays, to whether our Aragon and the elven prince can return.
Who doesn't love the Emperor and Little Leaf?
Before the official Twitter of the Lord of the Rings wrote a sentence "Welcome to the Second Age", the implication is that we don't expect to see the emperor and the little leaf in the episode version...
What era the Second Era is, that is, the era when the grandfather of the Emperor of Man, who had been for many generations, was active
According to the plot of Tolkien's novel, the Second Age is the era when the demon king Sauron was particularly active, and many major events were indispensable to him, such as the completion of the forging of the Ring, the fall of the Nine Kings into the Ring, and the thousand-year-long war between him and the elves.
At the end of the Second Age, Sauron was cut off by Essidor, the son of the human leader Elandir, and lost his ring. This 39th-generation descendant of Escidor is Aragon.
Being able to write thousands of years of middle-earth as if it had really happened makes people have to admire the hills in the chest of Toro, and this year there is a biopic about him [Tolkien] released.
[Tolkien], Douban score 6.8, IMDb 6.9
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The scores given by Chinese and foreign fans are objective, and as a biopic, [Tolkien] is indeed the level at which he will pass.
As critics at the well-known film site Indiewire put it, [Tolkien] told the story too "narrowly" and too small.
However, film critics also mentioned that although the film only traces the formation of Tolkien's language system, it is already very valuable
The New York Times film critics affirmed Nicholas Holt, who plays Tolkien in the film.
The delicacy with which Niko handles feelings is also one of the few points of [Tolkien].
The film begins with the time when the old man was still a child, this boy who died early in his unfortunate parents, under the care of the priest, grew up to be an Oxford talent, and met a stinking confidant.
Later, he married his first love, went to the battlefield, and recovered a life after nine deaths.
Then, after the end of the war, he returned to campus and became a young professor, delving into academia while beginning literary creation.
Then the movie ends, which is equivalent to the director quickly reading me Tolkien's encyclopedic entry in the literary dictionary...
Well, there are places that don't read right, no wonder the old man's family is not very satisfied.
Like the chronicles of Middle-earth, the life of Toray can never be told in two words.
It can be seen that the film is intended to tell how life inspired Tolkien to start writing "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings", but director Dom Karukuski dug a good pit and told a good story.
No, we have to fill the pit for him.
According to Tolkien's growth trajectory, first of all, we start with his family.
Tolkien was born in South Africa and returned to England with his family to visit relatives at the age of three. The family's original plan was that Tolkien's mother and son would go first, and his father would catch up later, but his father died suddenly of rheumatic fever before he could leave.
Tolkien's mother is played by Laura Donnelli, a great beauty who played "The Legend of Merlin"
With no means of subsistence, Tolkien's mother took her two young sons to her family in Birmingham. This thin and peaceful living environment allowed little Tolkien to enjoy himself, and the indisputable town and Aunt Tolkien's farm "Bag End" provided the initial inspiration for his future creations.
Hobbit Bilbo Baggins' home is called the "Bottom of the Bag Hole."
However, Little Tolkien was not a playful child, and his mother became his enlightenment teacher, teaching him a lot about botany and Latin.
There is a bridge section in the movie [Tolkien], the classmates pranked, took away Tolkien's textbook, never expected him to directly look into recitation, this is not the protagonist aura, it is true that Tolkien has a solid foundation in linguistics since childhood.
But you have to admit that most of the school bullies are born with buffs
Therefore, Tolkien's almost obsessive passion for linguistics and botany when he grew up came largely from the influence of his mother's family education.
Unfortunately, at the age of 12, Tolkien's mother died of acute diabetes, and he and his brother have been orphaned ever since. Fortunately, with the help of his mother's good friend Father Morgan, Tolkien attended king Edward School and met his "stinky" friends.
In fact, the highlight of [Tolkien]'s movie is almost all about Tolkien and his T.C.B.S secret society.
T.C.B.S, an acronym for Tea Club and Barrovian Society, was created by Tolkien and his three high school friends, Rob Gilson, Joffrey Smith, and Christopher Weissman.
The name was given because they often liked to sneak to the Barrow shop near the school to chat about literature and art while drinking tea, and a few leather children even smuggled teapots into the school library.
T.C.B.S members meet
Among the members, Joffrey Smith, who loved poetry, had a great influence on Tolkien, and the seemingly rambling discussions of the T.C.B.S members deepened his obsession with the art of language and writing.
At the same time, this friendship, similar to that of the Brotherhood, invisibly became the original inspiration for Tolkien to conceive of the Nine-Man Ring Squad in the future.
The Rings Squad in [The Lord of the Rings], assembled by members of various races
Even as they approached their secondary school graduation, the members of T.C.B.S maintained a very close relationship, exchanging and tasting poems or other works they had created. Loving literature and art, it was obvious that they would not be held back by their examination results, and in the summer of 1911, the children became new students at Oxbridge, one step closer to their respective dreams.
If not because of the war.
A slight departure from the film where Tolkien went to war at the beginning of the war, in reality he joined the army after his degree in 1915, when he was appointed second lieutenant of the Lancashire Infantry Regiment.
The war cast a haze over Tolkien's life and creation
Tolkien arrived at the battlefield on the Somme and suffered from trench fever in just a few months, and health problems forced him to withdraw from the battlefield, while the rest of the T.C.B.S. were not so lucky.
Rob Gilson and Joffrey Smith, who had inspired Tolkien in poetry, did not make it out of the fierce battlefield alive and buried the Bones of the Somme.
Many years later, when readers tried to relate the characters in Tolkien's work to events and World War II, Tolkien fought back indignantly:
"Only those who have experienced war know the oppressiveness of war, and with the loss of time, people seem to forget that the young people who were forced into war in 1914 experienced nothing less terrible and ugly than in 1939. In 1918, all but one of my friends died. ”
War is a motif that Both Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings can't get around.
Although it is not as exaggerated as torkin's direct sighting of fire-breathing dragons on the battlefield in the movie, through this epic Middle-earth legend, readers can always read the traces of Tolkien's deep war effects.
Tolkien on the battlefield in the movie
At the beginning of the First World War, Tolkien, who was still in Oxford, had the idea of creating a mythical story, because only in mythology could he extract himself from the overwhelming news of the war reports and get a moment's breath.
Often the darker it is, the more people yearn for the light, and it was during this period that the elves in The Lord of the Rings were born from Tolkien's brain. He conceived a unique cultural background and language system for this species that represents all good qualities. In particular, the creation of a special language completely ignited Tolkien's enthusiasm.
With the Elves, and right after that, Tolkien began to divide the countries of Middle-earth, but before the map was finished, it was time for him to go to war.
Map of Middle-earth
Tolkien, who had just arrived on the battlefield, worked as a signal soldier, and it was the experience of going in and out of the trenches for several months that allowed him to observe these ordinary soldiers. They have courage and perseverance, and they are extremely loyal to their superiors, but this loyalty sometimes seems a little blind.
In short, the image of a loyal creep became clearer and clearer in Tolkien's mind. Many years later, he named the creep Sam Wise Gamzi.
Sam was Frodo's most loyal companion and had always had a common "leader & servant" relationship in the British army
As mentioned earlier, around October 1916, Tolkien, who had contracted trench fever on the battlefield, returned to his hospital in Birmingham for recuperation. War made him start thinking about more than just a city, a place or a role. What is good and evil? Is killing in the name of justice just? So who is responsible for the ordinary people who lost their lives innocently as a result of the war?
Like his two friends who were lost forever in the war, who is responsible for them?
Before the members of T.C.B.S took to war, Tolkien shared his vision of Middle-earth with his friends. This magnificent idea once made several young people very excited, but it was a pity that Rob Gilson and Joffrey Smith finally did not have the opportunity to read the "Lord of the Rings".
After recovering from his illness, Tolkien did not return to the front line and recuperated in Staffordshire in the rear. After that, he was stationed in Kingston on the hull river, where a beautiful story was born.
In the movie [Tolkien], Lily Collins plays Tolkien's wife Edith, which is slightly different from reality, and the film uses a "wait for me to come back from the battlefield to marry you" romance routine, in fact, before Tolkien went to the front, the two were already married.
During Tolkien's illness, Edith often accompanied him, walking in the nearby forest. One day, Edith danced in a forest of blossoming hemlocks, a scene that was almost permanently engraved in Tolkien's heart.
The beautiful Edith dances for her lover
His wife's inspiration led Tolkien to write the character of Lucien, the elf in The Silmarillion. The mortal Beren fell in love with the elf Lucien, and in order to ask the elf king to marry Lucian, Beren risked the risk of snatching the elven diamond from the original Dark Lord.
When Edith died in 1971, Tolkien was so sad that he recalled:
"I never called Edith Lucien, but she was the inspiration for the pokémon story. The story was first conceived by me in a wooded clearing in Rose, Yorkshire. In those days, her hair was jet-black, her skin was white, her eyes were brighter than ever, and she could sing and dance. ”
Although Edith did not hear her husband address her by the name of the elf "Lucien", until Tolkien's death, the tombstones where the two were buried together, under their respective names, were written "Lucien" and "Belém".
Tomb of Tolkien and his wife Edith
There is also a moving plot in [Tolkien], Edith loves opera, Andrkin wanted to go to watch "Beowulf" with her, but he was shy, and the two could only sneak into the chaotic backstage of stacked props and put on costumes to imitate the scenes in the play.
Tolkien and Edith backstage in Beowulf
Whether this anecdote exists in reality is unknown, but one thing is certain, Tolkien's creation of The Lord of the Rings was largely influenced by the monsters and dragons, heroes and adventures in Beowulf.
Tolkien's love of Beowulf was extraordinary, and after the war, he returned to Oxford to teach Beowulf, where he taught Beowulf specifically to his students.
Later, the author of the "War Book", the famous poet Westan Hugh Oden, once recalled that Tolkien recited "Beowulf" with a loud voice, as if he were a living Gandalf!
[Tolkien] This movie, until Tolkien returned from the battlefield and returned to campus, came to an abrupt end.
In fact, in the process of Tolkien's creation of "The Lord of the Rings", there are too many interesting stories, such as his and the author of "The Chronicles of Narnia", C. S. Louis made friends, the two agreed to write a children's literature work each, Tolkien chose time as a clue, Louis chose space as a clue, which led to the two masterpieces of the next two.
For example, during World War II, Tolkien was assigned to the Guard corps and was responsible for night patrols, and with this time, he was able to observe the sunrise and moon, the stars moving, and these natural wonders were also written into "The Lord of the Rings".
From the perspective of the film itself, [Tolkien] has all kinds of imperfections, but we still have to thank this film for giving us the opportunity to see this fantasy literary giant up close.
With the Lord of the Rings series in full swing, we're also convinced that there will be a "Tolkien fever" in the near future that will sweep the world, as it did when the [Lord of the Rings] series of movies was released.
Dear friends, you may wish to make a pact and let us see you in Middle-earth.