Harry Gilby credited as playing...
J.R.R. Tolkien (Young)
- J.R.R. Tolkien (Young): It's Keen, sir.
- English Master: What?
- J.R.R. Tolkien (Young): It's pronounced Tolkeen, sir. Not Tol-Kine. Sorry.
- English Master: Sit down. As we are so sensitive about pronunciation this morning, perhaps you could all be so good as to take out our Chaucers. Mr. Tol-*Keen* can keep up as best he can.
- Mabel Tolkien: Boys, listen to me. Do you know what impecunious circumstances are?
- J.R.R. Tolkien (Young): They're what we're in?
- Mabel Tolkien: When I was a little girl, all the new novels began like this: a family of good and brave people who suddenly find themselves in impecunious circumstances...
- J.R.R. Tolkien (Young): How did they escape?
- Mabel Tolkien: By coming across some marvelous treasure. Or else, by marrying well.
- Hilary Tolkien (Young): I'm not marrying anyone!
- Mabel Tolkien: Well, it'll have to be the treasure then - won't it?
- J.R.R. Tolkien (Young): But, um, people don't find treasure, mother. Not in real life.
- Mabel Tolkien: There's no fooling you, is there, John Ronald? Let's just say there's treasure, and there's *treasure* - and leave it at that.
- Christopher Wiseman (Young): Now what do we do?
- Robert Gilson (Young): We change the world.
- Geoffrey Smith (Young): Oh, good. Something simple.
- Robert Gilson (Young): Through art, you clown. Through the power of art.
- J.R.R. Tolkien (Young): Brothers, will you join your comrades in this act of changing the world?
- Robert Gilson (Young), Geoffrey Smith (Young), Christopher Wiseman (Young): We will.
- Robert Gilson (Young): Gentlemen. A thought. You know what the trouble is with all these legends Tolkien reads?
- J.R.R. Tolkien (Young): Enlighten me, Robbie.
- Robert Gilson (Young): They don't have any women in them. I'm not talking about pale, shivering maidens sitting in towers. I'm talking about plump, *red-blooded* women... The women of Southern Europe. Women with large flagons of wine on their heads.