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Summer AV Club #4: 'Tolkien' (2019)
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Summer AV Club #4: 'Tolkien' (2019)

Who exactly was this film actually for?

With the promise of academia, whether light or dark, for JRR Tolkien’s journey to academia, a lifelong professorship at Oxford University and creating one of the most beloved fantasy worlds in history, I was a bit surprised to find that ‘Tolkien’ was a war romance film instead.

I’ll be totally up front here: I hate war films so that immediately tarnished…

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