One of the nice things about finishing and releasing my big Tolkien book, at last, is that I’ve been able to watch the recent ‘young Tolkien’ biopic film in its extended form (i.e. complete with 12 minutes of deleted scenes on the DVD version). I hadn’t wanted to watch Tolkien (2019) before now, due to the risk of skewing my book.

Here are some notes…

Update: These notes have now been replaced by my full polished review in the free Tolkien Gleanings PDF issue 1.