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The team of the film "Tolkien" at the Montclair festival in May 2019. Dave Kotinsky / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP

Biopics, filmed biographies of famous people, are in fashion. This time, it's a giant of fantastic literature whose youth is on the screen: Tolkien, the author of the famous heroic fantasy series "The Lord of the Rings". This British film by Dome Korukosky focuses on the training of the young man, a poor orphan, tried by the trenches of the First World War.

Was it during the battle of the Somme, between sleepless nights, bombings, and the desperate search for one of his best friends, that Tolkien had the idea of ​​a merciless confrontation between good and evil? Did the German flamethrowers make him think of a gigantic dragon? The director Dome Korukosky seems to indicate to the audience that the British writer draws his inspiration from his experience as a soldier during the First World War.

The bopic "Tolkien" returns to the youth of the author of "Seigneurs des Anneaux" 19/06/2019 - by Sophie Torlotin Listen