Tolkien Movie Director On Why Not Working With Author's Estate Was The Best Thing To Do. Working with the Estate would have "suffocated" the movie, director says.

Those men are: Geoffrey Bache Smith, Robert Quilter Gilson and Christopher Wiseman, who with Tolkien called themselves the Tea Club and Barrovian Society (or T.C.B.S.) when the four met as teenage ...

“Tolkien" is a too-pretty, too-predictable look at J. R.R. Tolkien’s early life, writes film critic Eleanor Ringel-Cater. A much better title for the squishily disappointing new bio-flick ...

But that’s not quite as fun as lords and rings. By virtue of its marketing campaign (and, um, its name), the film “Tolkien” suggests that it is a portrait of the formative years of J.R.R ...

There's no denying the genius of fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien, the enormously influential creator of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and its "Hobbit" prequel. Without Tolkien and his imagination, ...

Tolkien movie taught me I've been saying Tolkien wrong all this time The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings author was a master of languages, but not all of us are. Gael Cooper.

First, a bit of movie history concerning films based on works by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. There was the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy (“The Fellowship of the Ring,” “The Two Towers ...

Almost 50 years have passed since the animated Lord of the Rings movie bombed in cinemas and effectively prevented anyone ...

The War of the Rohirrim isn't the first animated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien books, in fact the '70s and '80s ones were extremely weird.

Although “Tolkien” presents the bond among the T.C.B.S. as brotherly, one relationship, it suggests, was particularly special: that between Tolkien and Anthony Boyle’s doomed poet Geoffrey ...