Tolkien (2019)
Harry Gilby: J.R.R. Tolkien (Young)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
