If you’re at a loose end this weekend you could do worse than go and see this absolute masterpiece.
At times sad, poignant and a study in humanity I found it an incredibly moving biography of genius, a man forged in testing circumstances.
Thoroughly recommended.
Humphrey Carpenter’s biography of Tolkien is well worth reading, I haven’t checked to see if the film is based on/references it but I shall certainly go and see it.