The formative years of the orphaned author J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school.
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Robert Gilson:
I can die in any way the fates choose, that's not up to me. But what is within my power is to decide how I live. Courageously or timidly.
The professor uses the discredited translation of "foolhardy" for Tolkien's last name. Actually the Tolkien name means "son/descendant of Tolk", although Tolkien himself believed the former throughout his life.
English, Middle English, Old English, Latin, German
$20,000,000 (estimated)
$2,200,537 12 May 2019
$4,535,154
$9,090,040