Personally, when you've grown up with something you don't want someone else putting their finger on it." When I think when we were growing up these were just stories that we were told. In 2001 he spoke to the Daily Telegraph about the first Lord of the Rings film, saying "I am anticipating endless bother when the film actually comes out." He went on to add, "It's quite incredible. Peter in Chains, serving several parishes before retiring in 1994.
Tolkien Gateway, again quoting his letters, notes the grave of his wife bears the name Lúthien, a major Silmarillion character and ancestor of Aragorn and Arwen.Įldest son John, who passed away in 2003, became a priest, and according to The Potteries, a website about notable people in Stoke-On-Trent, he eventually became priest-in-charge at the Church of Our Lady of the Angels and St. In just one example, The Grey Havens quotes a collection of Tolkien's letters, noting that Tom Bombadil was based on son Michael's wooden toy doll. Much of the inspiration for Lord of the Rings came from his family.
Tolkien eventually married Edith, as the film shows, and the two had four children: John Francis, Michael Hilary (named after Tolkien's brother Hilary), Christopher John, and Priscilla Mary Anne. Tolkien's children? Some followed in their father's footsteps. While the film's aim is to show how these formative influences shaped the man who would go on to write The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings trilogy (played by Nicholas Hoult), it ends when the children he has with his love Edith Bratt (Lily Collins) are still young. The biopic Tolkien, out May 10, depicts the famous author's life, but only a specific segment of it - his early life, from childhood through his service in World War I and the immediate aftermath.
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