Tolkien Director on Tracing Iconic Author’s Life From War to Middle Earth
The Finnish director Dome Karukoski’s biopic Tolkien traces the future of the “Lord of the Rings” author’s path from his peripatetic tween years through his Oxford attendance, intercut with his nightmarish experience fighting in the Battle of the Somme during World War I. Throughout, Karukoski offers a poetic depiction of the author’s fomenting imagination, seen through Tolkien’s eyes in the shadows of a child’s spinning light globe or marauding in the battlefield as Tolkien,
Tolkien Trailer Reveals the man Behind The Lord of the Rings
Long before millions of people were obsessed with Game of Thrones and the seven kingdoms of Westeros, there was J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic, masterly “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. The densely layered, vastly populated world Tolkien created in Middle Earth was one of the most astonishing feats of world-building, ever. It eventually became a massive trilogy on the big screen, too, thanks to director Peter Jackson‘s Herculean efforts to adapt Tolkien on an appropriately grand scale.
