Just saw the trailer for Tolkien and it's gotten me excited for this film. It's true that Tolkien, a hyperpolyglot*, invented his own languages before he started writing his tales of Middle Earth. Interesting to see that it will also look at the history of the founding of Inklings, which boasted many members who went on to become acclaimed writers, including C.S. Lewis (author of the Narnia Chronicles) and many more. Tolkien was very much a nerd before his time. His views on environmentalism in a time when nobody really cared about that sort of thing was also quite visionary.

I hope that this film will do his life justice and I'm looking forward to checking it out.

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*Greek for "many tongues"; a person who has mastered an unusually high number of languages -- the minimum number varies but I think the current consensus is 6 or more languages at a fluent level