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Tolkien explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. This takes him into the outbreak of World War I, which threatens to tear the “fellowship” apart. All of these experiences would inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-Earth novels.

2019 · 1h 52m
Director Dome Karukoski

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Tolkien explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. This takes him into the outbreak of World War I, which threatens to tear the “fellowship” apart. All of these experiences would inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-Earth novels.

COMMON SENSE

Cautious biopic about LOTR author has intense war scenes.

TOMATOMETER
Average 5.8
Reviews 197
Fresh 100
Rotten 97

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Studio
Fox Searchlight
Released
2019
Run Time
1 hr 52 min
Rated
PG-13 for some sequences of war violence.
Region of Origin
United States
© 2019 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.

Languages

Original Audio
English, English (United Kingdom)
Audio

English (United States) (AD, AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩), French (France) (AAC), Spanish (Latin America) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (United States) (CC, SDH), French (Canada) , Spanish (Latin America)

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen, to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.