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Sir? Where are you going?

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Up the line to find a friend.

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If I'm not back, you know
where to send my things.

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- Well, wait...
- (EXPLOSIONS)

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Sir, wait!

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- Tolkien, sir!
- (EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE)

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Sir, please don't do this.
You need to rest.

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No, I'm fine.

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Go back to barracks
and wait for me there.

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Sir, you really need
to lay down.

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The doctor said that the fever
might get worse.

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- I really don't think...
- Look, Hodges, stay here.

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- That's an order.
- (MISSILE WHIZZES)

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SAM: Cover your face, sir!
Keep down!

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(EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE)

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That water was cold.

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You need to
keep yourself warm, sir.

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It's a long journey
to the front.

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(DISTANT EXPLOSIONS)

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(SNIFFLES)

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I don't think the night
will treat us well, sir.

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(TOLKIEN BREATHING RAGGEDLY)

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(BIRDS CHIRPING)

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(BOYS YELLING)

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BOY 1: Fight, men!

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BOY 2:
There's too many of them!

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BOY 1:
We need reinforcements!

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- BOY 3: Take the banner!
- (YELLS)

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YOUNG TOLKIEN:
Yes, I have the banner!

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BOY 1: Stop them!
He's getting away!

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BOY 4: Where's Tolkien?

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- Where is he?
- BOY 3: Tolkien!

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FATHER FRANCIS: Ah!

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I prayed
for a strong pack mule

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to help carry boxes, and look,

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my prayers have been answered.

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Where are we going?

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Birmingham. I need you to go
to your room and pack.

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- What? Why?
- Because I said so.

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Because Father Francis
has found us some rooms.

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He's been very generous.

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Find a box
and collect your things.

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I don't want to go
to Birmingham.

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Listen, both of you.

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We...

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Come here, Hilary.

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(SIGHS) Boys, we are going
to face some difficult times,

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and we are fortunate to have
the church to support us.

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With your father gone...

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Ronald.

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(PANTING)

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MABEL: Ronald!

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(PANTING)

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<i>"Ubi bene ibi patria."</i>
Remember that, my darling?

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Wherever you feel happy,

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that's your home.

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MABEL: <i>We will find our place,
sweetheart, we will.</i>

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<i>Lock all this
all in your heart.</i>

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<i>Lock it tight, and it will be
there forever, I promise.</i>

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MABEL: <i>Boys, listen to me.</i>

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<i>Do you know what impecunious
circumstances are?</i>

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YOUNG TOLKIEN:
<i>They're what we're in?</i>

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MABEL:
When I was a little girl,

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all the new novels
began like this.

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A family of good
and brave people

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who suddenly find themselves
in impecunious circumstances.

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How did they escape?

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By coming across
some marvelous treasure.

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Or else by marrying well.

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I'm not marrying anyone.

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Well, it will have to be
the treasure then, won't it?

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But, um, people don't
find treasure, Mother.

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Not in real life.

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There's no fooling you,
is there, John Ronald?

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Let's just say
there's treasure...

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and there's treasure.

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And leave it at that.

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Let us begin, Ronald.

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The earth began to shake
with the weight of the dragon

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as he crawled to the water,

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and a cloud of venom
flew before him

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as he snorted and roared!

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But Sigurd waited

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till the dragon had
crawled over the pit

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and then he thrust his sword
under his left shoulder

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and right into his heart.

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The dragon lashed his tail
till stones broke

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and trees crashed about him.

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And then he spoke, as he died,

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and said, "Whoever thou art

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that hast slain me,

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this gold shall be thy ruin

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and the ruin of all who own it."

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Sigurd said,

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"I would touch none of it,

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if even by losing it,
I should never die.

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But all men die

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and no brave man lets death
frighten him from his desire."

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(YOUNG TOLKIEN SPEAKS
UNKNOWN LANGUAGE)

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YOUNG HILARY: (IN ENGLISH)
Do you know

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how ridiculous you sound?

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YOUNG TOLKIEN: Oh, really?

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I'm even funnier in Latin.

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(YOUNG TOLKIEN SPEAKS LATIN)

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(IN ENGLISH)
Do you know what that means?

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An insignificant wart.

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YOUNG HILARY: No.

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I believe you now sound
like a drunken peacock,

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you duffer.

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Hello, Mother.
Did you get my stamps?

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Hello, Mother.

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YOUNG HILARY:
Where did you put them?

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(BREATHES SHAKILY)

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(SOBBING QUIETLY)

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Sir?

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I'm going to
have to keep going.

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SAM: Sir, gas.

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(DISTANT EXPLOSIONS)

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(TOLKIEN BREATHING HEAVILY)

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(DEEP GROWLING)

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- (GAS HISSING)
- (CONTINUES BREATHING HEAVILY)

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(HORSE WHINNIES)

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(HOOVES CLOPPING)

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MRS. FAULKNER: (MUFFLED)
I'm intrigued to see the boys.

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(DOOR OPENS)

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(DOOR CLOSES)

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(EXHALES SHARPLY)

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FATHER FRANCIS:
Well, boys, I was right.

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She's an enormous beast,

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with great scaly feet

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and the most prominent
pair of tusks I've ever seen.

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She's chewing,
on what I can only assume

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is the femur of a small boy.

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(SIGHS DEEPLY)

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On the other hand,
there is cake.

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King Edward's?

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That's a very good school.

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Well, they're very
bright boys, Mrs. Faulkner.

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Very diligent.

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After Africa, their mother
home-schooled them,

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and they are now fluent
in many languages.

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Yes, but I mean socially.

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You boys will be mixing

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with the cream of
Birmingham's <i>bonnes familles.</i>

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And quite a change from
Africa, I shouldn't wonder.

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They've been living in England

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far longer than they ever were
in Bloemfontein.

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Isn't that right, boys?

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Yes, we hardly ever carry
our spears anymore.

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Been difficult to place,
have they?

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They've had one or two
temporary homes.

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What they need, of course,
is the civilizing influence

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of a stable
and refined environment.

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Such as yours, Mrs. Faulkner.

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If I have a fault,
it's that I am...

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too generous
with my young lodgers.

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Too attached.

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Edith, another orphan,

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is like a child of my own.

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(FAINT CREAKING)

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(WIND HOWLING)

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(CREAKING CONTINUES)

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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- (ORGAN PLAYING)
- (BOYS SINGING HYMN)

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Stand up, the new man.

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Tol-Kine.

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It's Keen, sir.

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What?

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It's pronounced Tolkeen, sir.
Not Tol-Kine.

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Sorry.

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Sit down.

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As we are so sensitive

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about pronunciation
this morning,

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perhaps you could
all be so good

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as to take out our Chaucers.

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Mr. Tol-Keen can keep up
as best he can.

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Mackintosh. Begin.

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(READS <i>THE CANTERBURY TALES</i>
IN MIDDLE ENGLISH)

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(MR. HEAP SPEAKS WORDS
IN MIDDLE ENGLISH)

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(MACKINTOSH REPEATS WORDS)

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MR. HEAP: Oh, for heaven's
sake. Goodson-Thomas.

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(GOODSON-THOMAS READS
IN MIDDLE ENGLISH)

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MR. HEAP: Wiseman.

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(CONTINUES IN MIDDLE ENGLISH)

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MR. HEAP: Mr. Tol-Keen.

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(RECITING IN MIDDLE ENGLISH)

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(PLAYERS CLAMORING)

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(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)

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(WHISTLE BLOWS)

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(CLAMORING)

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BOY: Pass to Tolkien.
Out wide!

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(YOUNG ROBERT GRUNTS)

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(WHISTLE BLOWS)

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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YOUNG ROBERT: Moron!

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(ALL CLAMORING)

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Don't speak.

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Don't say a single word.

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What if he asks me a question?

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He won't.

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He's not interested in you.

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(KNOCKS ON DOOR)

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- HEADMASTER: Come.
- (DOOR OPENS)

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Is it that you believe
I have nothing better to do

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than arbitrate
in your quarrels?

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No, sir. Absolutely not.

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Collegiate relationships

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are the cornerstone of learning.

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Isn't that what we say
at King Edward's?

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Headmaster, with respect,

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Gilson and I
were just playing rugby.

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A little forcefully,
I admit, but...

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Men should be comrades.

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Wherever they come from.

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From the highest,

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to the lowest.

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- You and Master...
- Tolkien.

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...will demonstrate this
to the rest of the school.

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You will do
everything together

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for the rest of the term.

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- But, sir...
- Everything.

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Yes, sir.

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YOUNG ROBERT:
He's made us liegemen.

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YOUNG TOLKIEN:
Isn't that a little excessive?

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YOUNG ROBERT:
It's an impossible standard.

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It's designed to humiliate me.

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- Doesn't it also humiliate me?
- You're irrelevant.

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Why do you
keep on saying that?

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- Because it's true.
- No, listen.

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I may not come from
a respectable background...

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It's not that, you idiot.

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You're irrelevant
to the headmaster.

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- And you're not?
- No.

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Oh, because you're special.

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Because I'm his son.

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(MUFFLED PIANO PLAYING
SOFT CLASSICAL MUSIC)

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(PIANO MUSIC CONTINUES)

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- (FLOORBOARD CREAKS)
- (MUSIC STOPS)

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MRS. FAULKNER:
Oh, please don't stop, Edith.

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(RESUMES PLAYING)

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(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

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YOUNG ROBERT:
Christopher, darling.

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YOUNG CHRISTOPHER: Gilson.

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(WHISPERING)
Christopher, sit still.

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- Gilson, don't be absurd.
- Christopher. Sit down.

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- Stop!
- Chris, sit down.

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We're in a library.
Christopher, sit down.

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YOUNG CHRISTOPHER:
What?

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(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

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We're going to take some tea.

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- So?
- So...

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I suppose as we're meant to be
doing everything together...

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I'll stay where I am,
thank you.

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Suit yourself.

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(SIGHS)

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He didn't want to come.

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(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

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YOUNG GEOFFREY:
What Robert meant to say

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is that,

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with a little encouragement
from his friends,

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he has now acknowledged

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that this punishment
was his fault

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rather than yours,

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and he'd like to make amends,
by inviting you to tea.

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You should be flattered,
really.

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It was your cleverness
that rattled him.

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It would rattle you too

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if only you had
a father like Gilson.

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His marks
only have to drop below

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one other boy in the year...

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It's no excuse, but...

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Oh, come on.

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It's a lot more fun
than sitting around

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with a load of old books.

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I like books.

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So do we.

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Geoffrey Bache Smith.

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

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YOUNG ROBERT:
Gentlemen. A thought.

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Tolkien.

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YOUNG ROBERT: Imagine walking
into Barrow's Stores,

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and finding me, guarding the
door with a very big stick...

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Where is this going?

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And I said, there's no need
to eat the cakes here.

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I've done it.

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In fact, I did it so much
it made me sick...

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That is the nature
of parental authority.

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"I've done it.
I've decided it was bad.

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And now I'm going to stop you
from doing it."

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- Cakes in this case being...
- Everything.

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- Everything that's good.
- YOUNG CHRISTOPHER: Right.

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YOUNG GEOFFREY:
Tolkien, this is Barrow's.

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YOUNG CHRISTOPHER:
Our kingdom,

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and the best tea in town.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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- WAITRESS: Another pot of tea?
- YOUNG CHRISTOPHER: Thank you.

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And what do you have
that's under a shilling?

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And isn't toast.

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- Bath buns are four pence.
- Good. A bath bun, please.

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- And three forks.
- YOUNG GEOFFREY: Four.

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YOUNG ROBERT:
And what about the stick?

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YOUNG CHRISTOPHER: The stick?

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My father
is a perfect example.

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He knows about music.
He loves it.

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He spent the greater part
of his youth

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studying and composing music.

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Christopher has had several
musical pieces published.

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YOUNG CHRISTOPHER:
Not several. One.

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Pass me the sugar.

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And yet when it comes to

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pursuing a life
as a composer...

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No. "Musical dreams
are a fantasy.

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You will do as I did.
You will put them aside."

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And where does
the stick come in?

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The stick was a metaphor.
Move on from the stick.

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YOUNG GEOFFREY:
My mother's exactly the same.

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She values poetry.
She loves it.

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She refuses to see it
as a potential career.

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She sees me as...

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a lawyer or an accountant.

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Does she carry a stick?

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I'm gonna go outside and fetch
a stick, how about that?

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Thank you.

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Well, at least
your parents discuss it.

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If I even mentioned becoming
a painter, I'd be disowned.

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- No. I'd be decapitated.
- There!

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That's the stick.

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I didn't even eat the cake
that they ordered.

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Why not?

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I wasn't sure
I had enough money.

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YOUNG EDITH: Oh.

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But this is sweet.

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What about you?

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(CHUCKLES) What about me?

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There must be something
that you want?

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To get out of here.

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To be free.

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I would go somewhere

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where I wouldn't
feel like a poor orphan

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and... everybody
would be dressed

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like kings and queens.

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I wouldn't be there
to play piano.

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Or to carry
Mrs. Faulkner's purse.

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I'd be... greeted and...

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appreciated.

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Welcomed.

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(CHUCKLES) Welcomed.

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(GUNFIRE IN DISTANCE)

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(COUGHING)

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Go back to barracks, Hodges.

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(PANTING)

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Lieutenant Geoffrey Smith
is a friend.

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His mother...

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His mother wrote to me. She...

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She hasn't heard
from him in weeks.

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And he's not responded
to my letters.

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I'm worried he might be...

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I need to know he's all right.

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It really has
nothing to do with you.

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He must be a very good friend,
is he, sir?

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He's the best.

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He'd do the same for me.

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(GUNFIRE CONTINUES)

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Well, if we're halfway there,

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turning back
won't take any longer

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than carrying on, will it?

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Hodges, please.

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Perfectly frank, sir,
by the look on you,

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if I don't come along,

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you're not gonna find

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this Lieutenant
Geoffrey Smith, anyway.

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Let me see if I can find
some medicine for you, sir.

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(BREATHING HEAVILY)

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YOUNG CHRISTOPHER:
Geoffrey, are you trying

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to trap my bishop,
you scoundrel?

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Gentlemen. A thought.

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You know what the trouble is

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with all these legends
Tolkien reads?

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Enlighten me, Robbie.

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They don't have
any women in them.

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I'm not talking about pale,

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shivering maidens
sitting in towers.

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I'm talking about
plump, red-blooded women.

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- Could you sit down, please?
- The women of Southern Europe.

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Women with large flagons
of wine on their heads.

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Robbie, are you incapable
of sitting in silence?

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Like our waitress,
just over there.

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YOUNG CHRISTOPHER:
Oh, for God's sake.

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Robbie, if I lose this game

00:24:39.111 --> 00:24:40.511
because of
your endless prattle...

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You will lose this game
because of me.

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What are you reading now?

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I'm reading about
the realm of the dead.

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- (GROANS)
- Or at least trying to.

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See what I mean?

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Presided over by
a giant woman, as it happens.

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Hel, a huge
and ruthless goddess.

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Is that not red-blooded enough
for you?

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It is our waitress.

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Hel?

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Yes, she rules over the realm
of the dead. Helheimr.

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It's a place
where warriors are sent

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if they die in the wrong way.

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- What's the wrong way?
- Peacefully.

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Illness, old age.

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Anything other than battle.

00:25:12.911 --> 00:25:14.544
Now, that's an idea
I can get behind.

00:25:14.546 --> 00:25:16.813
I'm sorry, you're getting
behind dying in battle now?

00:25:16.815 --> 00:25:17.913
Not literally.

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I can die in any way
the Fates choose,

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that's not up to me.

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But what is within my power
is to decide how I live.

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Courageously or timidly.
(CLAPS HANDS)

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Helheimr! It should be
our warning. Our challenge.

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Yes, I know.

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But you should learn
how to pronounce it first.

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Come on. Challenge me.
Set me a quest.

00:25:35.801 --> 00:25:37.633
I'll show you
how to avoid Helheimr.

00:25:37.635 --> 00:25:39.535
I challenge you to...

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sit in silence for 25 minutes.

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Shut up, Geoffrey.

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I'm serious.

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Propose to the waitress.

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- YOUNG GEOFFREY: Christopher.
- (SCOFFS) What?

00:25:48.580 --> 00:25:49.879
An excellent idea.

00:25:49.881 --> 00:25:51.413
Robbie, don't you dare
do anything of the kind.

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That's what I call
a quest against Helheimr.

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Helheimr!

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Madam. My lady of the lake,
the bearer of my dreams.

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Would you do me
the greatest honor,

00:26:07.266 --> 00:26:10.002
sharing an infinite future
with me...

00:26:20.813 --> 00:26:22.544
(BOYS LAUGHING)

00:26:22.546 --> 00:26:23.949
We should form a club.

00:26:24.350 --> 00:26:26.149
- What?
- A brotherhood.

00:26:26.151 --> 00:26:28.752
Aren't we already a club?
A tea drinking club?

00:26:28.754 --> 00:26:29.755
A tea drinking club,

00:26:30.021 --> 00:26:31.655
sounds like something
my stepmother would go to.

00:26:31.657 --> 00:26:32.691
The Tea Club.

00:26:33.092 --> 00:26:35.592
It doesn't sound any better
just because you repeated it.

00:26:35.594 --> 00:26:36.692
The Birmingham Boys.

00:26:36.694 --> 00:26:38.362
That sounds like a circus act.

00:26:38.930 --> 00:26:41.432
The Boys of Barrow's Stores.

00:26:42.566 --> 00:26:43.902
Barrovians.

00:26:45.003 --> 00:26:47.969
The Tea Club
and Barrovian Society.

00:26:47.971 --> 00:26:49.573
I think that's far too long.

00:26:49.575 --> 00:26:50.674
The T. C. B. S.

00:26:50.676 --> 00:26:52.074
The T. C. B. S.

00:26:52.076 --> 00:26:54.043
Are you sure that doesn't
sound like a disease?

00:26:54.045 --> 00:26:55.445
No, listen, I don't care
what it's called.

00:26:55.447 --> 00:26:57.447
As long as we pledge
our loyalty to each other.

00:26:57.449 --> 00:26:58.449
Exactly.

00:26:58.484 --> 00:27:00.749
T. C. B. S. That's settled.
Now what do we do?

00:27:00.751 --> 00:27:01.883
We change the world.

00:27:01.885 --> 00:27:03.386
Oh, good. Something simple.

00:27:03.388 --> 00:27:04.954
Through art, you clown.

00:27:04.956 --> 00:27:07.059
Through the power of art.

00:27:15.700 --> 00:27:16.700
Brothers,

00:27:17.568 --> 00:27:18.935
will you join your comrades

00:27:18.937 --> 00:27:20.840
in this act
of changing the world?

00:27:28.513 --> 00:27:29.711
- We will.
- We will.

00:27:29.713 --> 00:27:31.380
Helheimr!

00:27:31.382 --> 00:27:33.783
- YOUNG CHRISTOPHER: Helheimr!
- YOUNG GEOFFREY: Helheimr!

00:27:33.785 --> 00:27:35.254
YOUNG ROBERT: Helheimr!

00:27:58.308 --> 00:28:00.008
YOUNG TOLKIEN:
<i>"Not for us, I reckon,</i>

00:28:00.010 --> 00:28:01.110
to follow the wolves,

00:28:01.112 --> 00:28:02.278
to fight amongst each other

00:28:02.280 --> 00:28:04.147
like the cubs
the Fates rear ravenous..."

00:28:04.149 --> 00:28:05.380
TOLKIEN: <i>"...the Norns came,</i>

00:28:05.382 --> 00:28:07.017
<i>to shape out fate
for that kingling;</i>

00:28:07.518 --> 00:28:09.919
they said he'd be the fighter
most famed,

00:28:09.921 --> 00:28:12.089
and be reckoned
the best of princelings.

00:28:12.524 --> 00:28:14.524
They twisted fast
the strands of fate,

00:28:14.526 --> 00:28:17.263
unsettled the strongholds
in Brálund..."

00:28:24.335 --> 00:28:25.503
(KNOCKS ON DOOR)

00:28:43.587 --> 00:28:44.587
This way, please.

00:28:44.722 --> 00:28:47.290
- (SOFT STRING MUSIC PLAYING)
- (WOMAN SINGING ARIA)

00:28:47.292 --> 00:28:51.194
<i>Pale hands I loved
beside the Shalimar</i>

00:28:51.196 --> 00:28:53.963
<i>Where are you now?</i>

00:28:53.965 --> 00:28:58.603
<i>Who lies beneath your spell?</i>

00:28:59.136 --> 00:29:02.438
<i>Whom do you lead on...</i>

00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:03.976
I don't have a hat.

00:29:04.741 --> 00:29:06.945
- What?
- I don't have a hat.

00:29:08.078 --> 00:29:09.313
That's all right.

00:29:09.881 --> 00:29:11.583
They all look ridiculous,
anyway.

00:29:13.450 --> 00:29:15.653
(TOLKIEN SPEAKING
UNKNOWN LANGUAGE)

00:29:21.526 --> 00:29:22.526
What does it mean?

00:29:22.727 --> 00:29:24.361
Oh... It's nonsense.

00:29:24.363 --> 00:29:27.363
It's about an old man
who's watching an unlucky frog

00:29:27.365 --> 00:29:29.864
who can't land softly,
so he gets eaten by a dog.

00:29:29.866 --> 00:29:31.235
(LAUGHS)

00:29:31.937 --> 00:29:34.640
- And you invented that?
- Yes.

00:29:35.641 --> 00:29:37.340
The entire language?

00:29:37.342 --> 00:29:39.811
Verb structures,
vocabulary, everything.

00:29:40.245 --> 00:29:42.714
My next language
will have a music to it.

00:29:42.948 --> 00:29:44.182
"Cellar door."

00:29:44.716 --> 00:29:45.717
Cellar door?

00:29:45.950 --> 00:29:48.584
That's the most musical word
I can think of.

00:29:48.586 --> 00:29:49.517
"Cellar door."

00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:51.120
There's something
about the fall of it.

00:29:51.122 --> 00:29:52.591
The rounding of the mouth.

00:29:52.924 --> 00:29:54.724
Cellar door.

00:29:54.726 --> 00:29:55.859
If you say it over and over,

00:29:55.861 --> 00:29:58.729
it starts to be
something... magical.

00:29:59.063 --> 00:30:01.132
(DRAMATICALLY) Cellar door.

00:30:02.934 --> 00:30:04.335
(TONED DOWN) Cellar door.

00:30:05.937 --> 00:30:07.003
I think that's nonsense.

00:30:07.005 --> 00:30:08.638
I mean, it is
if you say it like that.

00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:12.177
A word isn't beautiful
just because of its sound.

00:30:12.576 --> 00:30:13.575
Cellar door.

00:30:13.577 --> 00:30:16.748
It's the marriage
of sound and meaning,

00:30:16.980 --> 00:30:18.916
the door to the cellar,

00:30:19.351 --> 00:30:20.949
a place where
something magical

00:30:20.951 --> 00:30:22.986
and mysterious might happen.

00:30:22.988 --> 00:30:24.553
I'm sorry,
have you just dismissed

00:30:24.555 --> 00:30:26.322
the basis
of my entire language?

00:30:26.324 --> 00:30:27.657
Your language
isn't worth anything

00:30:27.659 --> 00:30:29.525
unless you remember
this important fact.

00:30:29.527 --> 00:30:31.563
- Oh, is that right?
- It is, yes.

00:30:35.767 --> 00:30:37.036
Listen.

00:30:38.436 --> 00:30:39.237
Hand.

00:30:39.437 --> 00:30:41.604
That might be
a beautiful word...

00:30:41.606 --> 00:30:42.705
Yes, it is.

00:30:42.707 --> 00:30:44.174
But it means so much more

00:30:44.176 --> 00:30:46.278
because of what
we associate it with.

00:30:57.421 --> 00:30:58.489
Touch.

00:30:59.624 --> 00:31:02.294
Things aren't beautiful
because of how they sound.

00:31:03.394 --> 00:31:05.430
They're beautiful
because of what they mean.

00:31:14.672 --> 00:31:15.807
Tell me a story.

00:31:16.341 --> 00:31:17.239
What?

00:31:17.241 --> 00:31:19.377
The story of Cellar Door.

00:31:20.812 --> 00:31:21.811
No, I can't.

00:31:21.813 --> 00:31:22.514
Why not?

00:31:22.747 --> 00:31:24.080
When someone asks me
to play the piano...

00:31:24.082 --> 00:31:25.982
That's a different thing
altogether.

00:31:25.984 --> 00:31:27.385
Tell me a story.

00:31:27.951 --> 00:31:30.020
In any language you want.

00:31:30.421 --> 00:31:32.658
- Don't be ridiculous.
- The legend...

00:31:33.459 --> 00:31:34.659
of Cellar Door.

00:31:34.892 --> 00:31:36.325
No, I'm not
a performing monkey.

00:31:36.327 --> 00:31:38.328
(SIGHS)
It begins with the arrival

00:31:38.330 --> 00:31:40.332
of a proud
and opinionated princess.

00:31:41.032 --> 00:31:42.230
Yes, you're right about that.

00:31:42.232 --> 00:31:43.701
She demands entertainment.

00:31:44.169 --> 00:31:46.671
Princess Cellardoor is bored.

00:31:47.005 --> 00:31:49.238
Bored of cakes and muffins

00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:50.709
- and exquisite china...
- No.

00:31:51.442 --> 00:31:53.211
She longs for another life.

00:31:53.978 --> 00:31:55.580
- It's not a name.
- What?

00:31:55.846 --> 00:31:57.248
It's something else.

00:31:58.482 --> 00:32:01.252
Cellardoor. It's not a
princess's name, it can't be.

00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:04.422
Cellardoor...

00:32:05.623 --> 00:32:06.691
is a place.

00:32:08.594 --> 00:32:11.361
It's a place.
An ancient place.

00:32:11.363 --> 00:32:13.398
Impossible to reach, except...

00:32:13.998 --> 00:32:15.799
by the most treacherous climb.

00:32:15.801 --> 00:32:17.436
It hangs... no...

00:32:18.370 --> 00:32:19.370
No?

00:32:19.403 --> 00:32:21.873
It's not a climb... It's not...

00:32:22.140 --> 00:32:23.441
Door...

00:32:25.509 --> 00:32:26.376
(MUMBLES)

00:32:26.378 --> 00:32:28.410
...road... path. It's a path.

00:32:28.412 --> 00:32:30.846
A path through a dense,
dark forest.

00:32:30.848 --> 00:32:32.148
Oh, is it, now?

00:32:32.150 --> 00:32:33.314
And at the heart
of Cellardoor,

00:32:33.316 --> 00:32:34.419
which is actually a shrine,

00:32:34.686 --> 00:32:36.953
there stands
an extraordinary sight.

00:32:36.955 --> 00:32:40.357
(GASPS) Is it a proud
and opinionated princess?

00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:43.793
It is a place which is revered
by all who know of it.

00:32:43.795 --> 00:32:46.528
A sacred place,
marked at its center by...

00:32:46.530 --> 00:32:47.598
By?

00:32:53.604 --> 00:32:54.672
By trees.

00:32:55.207 --> 00:32:56.341
EDITH: <i>Trees?</i>

00:32:56.841 --> 00:32:58.807
TOLKIEN: <i>One of
the purest black like ebony,</i>

00:32:58.809 --> 00:33:01.312
<i>the other... white as bone.</i>

00:33:02.479 --> 00:33:04.780
<i>They each contain
a deadly poison in their sap.</i>

00:33:04.782 --> 00:33:07.819
But they have grown together
over thousands of years.

00:33:08.253 --> 00:33:10.255
Leaning into each other, like...

00:33:11.021 --> 00:33:12.657
they were fighting, or...

00:33:14.926 --> 00:33:15.926
The roots...

00:33:16.026 --> 00:33:19.861
the branches of the two trees,
reaching, twisting,

00:33:19.863 --> 00:33:21.230
gnarling around each other,

00:33:21.232 --> 00:33:23.969
have finally become
a single knotted trunk.

00:33:25.436 --> 00:33:26.902
Their poisoned saps commingled

00:33:26.904 --> 00:33:28.838
to create a powerful,
life-giving potion.

00:33:28.840 --> 00:33:31.877
The water... of Cellardoor.

00:33:33.077 --> 00:33:34.445
What does it do?

00:33:35.146 --> 00:33:36.579
What does it do?

00:33:36.581 --> 00:33:37.783
Yes.

00:33:38.650 --> 00:33:39.751
What does it do?

00:33:40.918 --> 00:33:42.517
- To drink it...
- Yes?

00:33:42.519 --> 00:33:44.655
The water of Cellardoor,
to taste it,

00:33:45.422 --> 00:33:47.959
is to possess
the power of sight.

00:33:50.261 --> 00:33:51.893
Sight beyond sight.

00:33:51.895 --> 00:33:53.697
Sight into the deepest,

00:33:54.265 --> 00:33:56.098
darkest parts
of the human heart.

00:33:56.100 --> 00:33:58.333
It's a hungry, potent magic.

00:33:58.335 --> 00:34:01.839
A magic beyond anything
anyone has ever felt before.

00:34:22.326 --> 00:34:23.995
(BOTH SNICKER)

00:34:24.995 --> 00:34:26.296
What did you do that for?

00:34:26.730 --> 00:34:29.368
I was filled with the spirit
of Cellardoor.

00:34:29.901 --> 00:34:31.502
Go on. Your turn.

00:34:31.969 --> 00:34:33.101
No.

00:34:33.103 --> 00:34:34.973
What's the worst
that could happen?

00:35:12.310 --> 00:35:13.512
(COINS JINGLING)

00:35:14.344 --> 00:35:15.980
Aren't you supposed
to be studying?

00:35:16.214 --> 00:35:17.549
Oh, yes. Thank you.

00:35:33.732 --> 00:35:36.132
- They sound very exciting.
- Yes.

00:35:36.134 --> 00:35:38.600
I mean, I'm not saying
that everything everyone says

00:35:38.602 --> 00:35:39.902
is going to be
absolutely fascinating.

00:35:39.904 --> 00:35:41.670
- EDITH: It'll be fine.
- TOLKIEN: Yes.

00:35:41.672 --> 00:35:43.608
EDITH: I hope
I've dressed up properly.

00:35:50.448 --> 00:35:51.982
- More tea?
- EDITH: Uh...

00:35:57.754 --> 00:35:59.756
So, what do you
normally talk about?

00:36:00.123 --> 00:36:01.125
CHRISTOPHER: Uh, we...

00:36:01.460 --> 00:36:04.426
We talk about all sorts
of really interesting things.

00:36:04.428 --> 00:36:05.493
Really interesting.

00:36:05.495 --> 00:36:07.398
Interesting
and fascinating, and...

00:36:07.866 --> 00:36:10.498
you know, that's when we're not
trying to change the world.

00:36:10.500 --> 00:36:12.134
GEOFFREY: When we're not
trying to change the world,

00:36:12.136 --> 00:36:15.036
the thing we're focusing
on most, Miss Bratt, is...

00:36:15.038 --> 00:36:16.774
Please. Edith.

00:36:17.741 --> 00:36:19.574
Is our university entrance.

00:36:19.576 --> 00:36:21.111
Are you all trying for Oxford?

00:36:21.578 --> 00:36:23.180
Well, Tolkien and I are.

00:36:23.381 --> 00:36:25.216
The other two are aiming
for Cambridge.

00:36:25.450 --> 00:36:27.250
- Treacherous beasts.
- Are you nervous?

00:36:27.252 --> 00:36:28.620
Robbie isn't.

00:36:28.852 --> 00:36:29.752
Oh.

00:36:29.754 --> 00:36:31.453
I don't believe
in examinations.

00:36:31.455 --> 00:36:32.524
I write what I think.

00:36:32.756 --> 00:36:34.690
And if they want to give me
a mark, it's up to them.

00:36:34.692 --> 00:36:36.324
What a revolutionary approach.

00:36:36.326 --> 00:36:37.366
Why, thank you. (CHUCKLES)

00:36:37.995 --> 00:36:41.265
I would love to hear you play
the piano sometime, Miss...

00:36:41.565 --> 00:36:43.768
- Edith.
- (LAUGHS)

00:36:43.968 --> 00:36:44.933
She plays marvelously.

00:36:44.935 --> 00:36:46.301
EDITH:
You're a composer yourself,

00:36:46.303 --> 00:36:47.370
isn't that right, Christopher?

00:36:47.372 --> 00:36:48.437
Yes.

00:36:48.439 --> 00:36:50.908
- No, he's been published.
- Heavens.

00:36:51.542 --> 00:36:53.077
Which composers do you admire?

00:36:53.344 --> 00:36:55.777
- Um, I like the Romantics.
- So do I.

00:36:55.779 --> 00:36:58.716
Beethoven. Brahms. Wagner.

00:36:58.982 --> 00:37:02.551
I appreciate Wagner.
I'm not sure that I like him.

00:37:02.553 --> 00:37:03.752
You "appreciate" him?

00:37:03.754 --> 00:37:06.290
Yes. As an agent of emotion,
I mean.

00:37:06.757 --> 00:37:09.223
The operas...
They're somehow...

00:37:09.225 --> 00:37:10.494
I love Wagner's <i>Rheingold.</i>

00:37:10.861 --> 00:37:12.962
ROBERT: Christopher
finds those too long.

00:37:12.964 --> 00:37:13.965
No, I don't.

00:37:14.265 --> 00:37:15.663
ROBERT:
Well, nobody blames you.

00:37:15.665 --> 00:37:16.799
It shouldn't take six hours

00:37:16.801 --> 00:37:18.167
to tell a story
about a magic ring.

00:37:18.169 --> 00:37:20.069
No, Gilson, you don't know
what you're talking about.

00:37:20.071 --> 00:37:22.772
Of course, operas can be
considered long and laborious

00:37:22.774 --> 00:37:25.440
but for my music,
whatever the length,

00:37:25.442 --> 00:37:27.176
it is imperative
that it has heart.

00:37:27.178 --> 00:37:28.109
A sensation of intoxication...

00:37:28.111 --> 00:37:30.446
- Look, I'm afraid we must go.
- Already?

00:37:30.448 --> 00:37:32.348
TOLKIEN: Yes, Mrs. Faulkner
will be worried.

00:37:32.350 --> 00:37:33.649
Oh, Tollers,
there's so much tea left.

00:37:33.651 --> 00:37:34.817
No, but we have
exams coming up

00:37:34.819 --> 00:37:36.185
and I, for one, have to study.

00:37:36.187 --> 00:37:37.522
I'm sorry. Goodbye, all.

00:37:38.223 --> 00:37:39.790
It was lovely meeting you.

00:37:40.223 --> 00:37:42.560
- Bye.
- ALL: Goodbye, Edith.

00:37:44.227 --> 00:37:45.796
TOLKIEN: I'll fetch our coats.

00:37:47.431 --> 00:37:49.034
EDITH: Are you ashamed of me?

00:37:49.466 --> 00:37:50.734
TOLKIEN: What?

00:37:51.402 --> 00:37:52.902
EDITH: I can't think
of another explanation.

00:37:52.904 --> 00:37:54.806
TOLKIEN: I don't know
what you're talking about.

00:37:55.439 --> 00:37:57.575
You know
how I spend my days, John.

00:37:57.975 --> 00:37:59.109
You've seen me.

00:37:59.444 --> 00:38:00.679
I'm a companion.

00:38:01.111 --> 00:38:02.279
A prisoner.

00:38:02.879 --> 00:38:06.250
There's no secret
literary societies for me.

00:38:07.518 --> 00:38:08.919
No escape.

00:38:10.721 --> 00:38:13.324
I play piano
for Mrs. Faulkner.

00:38:13.690 --> 00:38:16.660
Terrible, sentimental songs
on the piano.

00:38:17.727 --> 00:38:19.563
I sit with her in the evening.

00:38:19.830 --> 00:38:22.033
Read with her. Sew with her.

00:38:22.232 --> 00:38:23.602
Listen to her.

00:38:24.669 --> 00:38:27.169
I have a passion for Wagner.

00:38:27.171 --> 00:38:30.873
I want to talk about him.
To discuss. To debate.

00:38:30.875 --> 00:38:32.110
But you...

00:38:37.681 --> 00:38:39.584
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

00:38:53.297 --> 00:38:54.832
(DISTANT EXPLOSIONS)

00:39:04.674 --> 00:39:06.210
(EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE)

00:39:15.319 --> 00:39:17.122
(DEEP GROWLING)

00:39:24.596 --> 00:39:26.698
(DISTANT, HEAVY THUDDING)

00:39:34.339 --> 00:39:36.007
(LOW GROWLING)

00:39:40.245 --> 00:39:41.645
(MEN SCREAMING)

00:39:42.781 --> 00:39:44.413
OFFICER: Take cover!

00:39:44.415 --> 00:39:45.951
(MEN SCREAMING)

00:39:47.417 --> 00:39:49.685
- (GUNFIRE)
- (SCREAMING)

00:39:49.687 --> 00:39:51.056
SAM: Run, sir!

00:39:56.727 --> 00:39:58.129
Sir, I think we're safe.

00:40:00.998 --> 00:40:02.067
It's okay.

00:40:04.002 --> 00:40:05.003
(PANTING)

00:40:10.942 --> 00:40:13.178
Sir. Let's stay here, sir.

00:40:13.743 --> 00:40:15.113
Let's stay here, sir.

00:40:19.750 --> 00:40:21.820
(PIANO PLAYING
SOFT CLASSICAL MUSIC)

00:40:45.343 --> 00:40:47.710
Haven't you anything
a little more cheerful, dear?

00:40:47.712 --> 00:40:49.080
(MUSIC STOPS)

00:40:53.651 --> 00:40:55.020
(SIGHS SOFTLY)

00:40:57.488 --> 00:40:59.757
(PLAYING JOLLY MUSIC)

00:41:04.361 --> 00:41:05.527
GEOFFREY: <i>"Shapes in the mist</i>

00:41:05.529 --> 00:41:07.399
It is long since I saw you

00:41:08.299 --> 00:41:11.102
Pale hands and faces, quiet eyes

00:41:11.435 --> 00:41:14.471
Crowned with a garland
that dead hands wrought you

00:41:14.839 --> 00:41:17.075
Out of remembrance
that never dies

00:41:18.609 --> 00:41:21.178
One among you
is tall and supple

00:41:21.678 --> 00:41:23.981
Good to love
and to fight beside

00:41:24.681 --> 00:41:26.817
Only the stain
of a deadly quarrel

00:41:27.084 --> 00:41:29.988
Only that
and the years divide"

00:41:31.622 --> 00:41:33.221
- It's dreadful.
- It's superb.

00:41:33.223 --> 00:41:34.989
- Stop being such a moron.
- It isn't finished.

00:41:34.991 --> 00:41:36.290
ROBERT: It's wonderful.

00:41:36.292 --> 00:41:39.263
It's Greek, in a way.
The love of comrades.

00:41:39.663 --> 00:41:41.866
It's very emotive.
You should be proud.

00:41:43.500 --> 00:41:45.069
Right. Who's next?

00:41:45.402 --> 00:41:46.404
Tollers?

00:41:46.669 --> 00:41:48.305
No, I haven't anything new.

00:41:49.373 --> 00:41:50.640
- ROBERT: Really?
- TOLKIEN: Mmm.

00:41:50.642 --> 00:41:52.942
ROBERT: Well,
if Tolkien is betraying

00:41:52.944 --> 00:41:54.911
the brotherhood with a blank,

00:41:54.913 --> 00:41:58.048
I'm going to show you
something utterly degenerate.

00:41:58.314 --> 00:41:59.415
(LAUGHTER)

00:41:59.417 --> 00:42:00.919
GEOFFREY: This cannot be good.

00:42:01.618 --> 00:42:03.551
CHRISTOPHER: Heavens above.

00:42:03.553 --> 00:42:05.453
ROBERT: Copied, unfortunately.

00:42:05.455 --> 00:42:07.257
And what I need
is life models.

00:42:08.560 --> 00:42:09.994
Not much chance of that,
of course.

00:42:12.897 --> 00:42:14.596
TOLKIEN: I take it
that's not one of yours.

00:42:14.598 --> 00:42:17.401
ROBERT: What, my father's
aristocratic pretensions?

00:42:17.701 --> 00:42:19.801
Needless to say,
he hasn't got a rifle,

00:42:19.803 --> 00:42:22.304
a stately home,
or a pack of spaniels.

00:42:22.306 --> 00:42:23.205
(CHRISTOPHER LAUGHS)

00:42:23.207 --> 00:42:24.647
Have you really
not written anything?

00:42:24.942 --> 00:42:26.878
Not even inspired
by Miss Bratt?

00:42:27.210 --> 00:42:29.913
Don't be an ass, Wiseman.
Edith and I...

00:42:30.747 --> 00:42:31.782
share a lodging.

00:42:32.015 --> 00:42:33.582
So, her heart
is still unclaimed?

00:42:33.584 --> 00:42:34.650
Thank you, Tolkien.
Good to know.

00:42:34.652 --> 00:42:35.917
ROBERT:
So, you've written nothing?

00:42:35.919 --> 00:42:39.222
I can't get into my stride.
I feel... unfocused.

00:42:39.457 --> 00:42:41.617
CHRISTOPHER: You know what
I think that's a symptom of?

00:42:42.694 --> 00:42:43.759
Constipation?

00:42:43.761 --> 00:42:45.594
- (LAUGHS)
- Ha-ha-ha.

00:42:45.596 --> 00:42:47.795
Love.
Requited or otherwise.

00:42:47.797 --> 00:42:49.297
Yes. Thank you.

00:42:49.299 --> 00:42:50.266
What a wonderful insight

00:42:50.268 --> 00:42:52.203
into the human condition,
Chris.

00:42:52.902 --> 00:42:55.205
It's a pity it doesn't find
its way into your music.

00:42:56.940 --> 00:42:59.208
You know, I'm surprised
you expect us to believe

00:42:59.210 --> 00:43:00.708
a single word you say,
Tolkien.

00:43:00.710 --> 00:43:01.870
What's that supposed to mean?

00:43:02.111 --> 00:43:04.311
CHRISTOPHER: You kept the
delectable Miss Bratt from us.

00:43:04.415 --> 00:43:06.449
Who knows what else
you might be concealing.

00:43:06.451 --> 00:43:07.518
Christopher.

00:43:08.051 --> 00:43:09.851
A wife, three children
and a ranch in Argentina.

00:43:09.853 --> 00:43:10.986
Since you ask.

00:43:10.988 --> 00:43:12.754
God, I wish
I had Tolkien's secret life,

00:43:12.756 --> 00:43:13.922
eh, Geoff?

00:43:13.924 --> 00:43:15.656
TOLKIEN: Can we please
just play the game?

00:43:15.658 --> 00:43:17.528
(DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)

00:43:20.064 --> 00:43:21.498
I thought you said
he was away?

00:43:21.832 --> 00:43:24.399
- Yes, he was.
- (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

00:43:24.401 --> 00:43:25.469
He is...

00:43:27.270 --> 00:43:30.440
Geoffrey, give me
that quickly. Thank you.

00:43:32.142 --> 00:43:33.542
ROBERT: Where do I put
these things?

00:43:33.544 --> 00:43:35.279
GEOFFREY: (WHISPERING)
Quickly.

00:43:35.879 --> 00:43:37.314
ROBERT: Shh!

00:43:37.814 --> 00:43:39.883
(FOOTSTEPS GROW NEARER)

00:43:43.254 --> 00:43:44.322
(DOOR OPENS)

00:43:47.158 --> 00:43:49.360
- Sir.
- TOLKIEN: Headmaster.

00:43:49.759 --> 00:43:50.761
What's this?

00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:52.761
You said I might have
some friends here, sir.

00:43:52.763 --> 00:43:53.862
While you were away.

00:43:53.864 --> 00:43:55.266
Your aunt is better.

00:43:56.600 --> 00:43:57.935
I came home.

00:44:00.672 --> 00:44:02.605
I have work to do.
Send them home now.

00:44:02.607 --> 00:44:04.839
I've promised the boys that
they can stay the night, sir.

00:44:04.841 --> 00:44:07.344
Circumstances
have changed, however.

00:44:07.745 --> 00:44:09.480
And now they will go home.

00:44:12.382 --> 00:44:13.917
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

00:44:24.661 --> 00:44:26.029
Helheimr.

00:44:26.430 --> 00:44:27.498
Don't be ridiculous.

00:44:28.632 --> 00:44:29.933
Helheimr.

00:44:31.468 --> 00:44:32.970
Helheimr.

00:44:33.671 --> 00:44:37.075
If not now, then when?
(LAUGHS)

00:44:49.786 --> 00:44:51.022
ROBERT: Sir?

00:44:53.424 --> 00:44:57.295
I prefer not to go back on
my offer of hospitality, sir.

00:44:57.594 --> 00:44:59.363
I think it ungentlemanly.

00:44:59.564 --> 00:45:01.065
You think...

00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:05.402
I'm sorry. What?

00:45:05.902 --> 00:45:08.171
Ungentlemanly, sir.

00:45:09.640 --> 00:45:11.308
Father, I think it rude.

00:45:12.142 --> 00:45:13.574
The boys are here to study.

00:45:13.576 --> 00:45:14.645
And play billiards.

00:45:15.546 --> 00:45:18.049
Yes, and play billiards.

00:45:19.450 --> 00:45:22.317
We've worked hard, sir.
And these are my friends.

00:45:22.319 --> 00:45:24.989
And I have made them
a promise, which...

00:45:26.424 --> 00:45:27.525
with respect,

00:45:28.426 --> 00:45:29.594
I would like to keep.

00:45:33.698 --> 00:45:35.033
Very well.

00:45:40.504 --> 00:45:42.674
- (SIGHS IN RELIEF)
- (BOYS SNICKERING)

00:45:45.942 --> 00:45:48.710
CHRISTOPHER: Gilson.
You're a bloody hero.

00:45:48.712 --> 00:45:51.082
- ROBERT: (WHISPERS) Boys, stop.
- CHRISTOPHER: Bloody hero.

00:45:52.082 --> 00:45:54.451
- Helheimr.
- (ALL LAUGH)

00:46:01.591 --> 00:46:03.093
(DOOR OPENS)

00:46:07.330 --> 00:46:08.964
There's a word in old German,

00:46:08.966 --> 00:46:10.634
it has no translation
in English,

00:46:11.033 --> 00:46:13.234
but it means
a gift offered fearfully

00:46:13.236 --> 00:46:14.672
in the wake of an argument.

00:46:14.872 --> 00:46:16.373
<i>Drachenfutter.</i>

00:46:21.879 --> 00:46:23.681
Literally, "Dragon Food."

00:46:31.922 --> 00:46:33.256
So now I'm a dragon?

00:46:34.725 --> 00:46:36.094
(STAMMERS)

00:46:38.895 --> 00:46:40.462
(BELL TOLLING)

00:46:40.464 --> 00:46:42.632
EDITH: <i>Wagner wrote it
in four acts.</i>

00:46:42.866 --> 00:46:43.966
<i>It starts with a ring,</i>

00:46:43.968 --> 00:46:45.801
a magical ring
which can rule the world

00:46:45.803 --> 00:46:47.569
and which is forged
by a dwarf.

00:46:47.571 --> 00:46:48.772
It's Alberich.

00:46:49.172 --> 00:46:51.408
Well, I have picked up the odd
bit of German mythology.

00:46:51.776 --> 00:46:53.442
But to harness
the ring's power,

00:46:53.444 --> 00:46:55.009
you first have to
renounce love.

00:46:55.011 --> 00:46:57.781
Oh. A very sensible exchange,
in my opinion.

00:46:58.082 --> 00:47:00.551
Well, that's because
you're a coldhearted Viking.

00:47:02.252 --> 00:47:03.755
Two, please. Upper gallery.

00:47:04.455 --> 00:47:06.391
Gallery
and upper gallery full.

00:47:06.924 --> 00:47:07.991
Sorry, what?

00:47:08.357 --> 00:47:11.228
The gallery and upper gallery
are full. I'm sorry.

00:47:13.096 --> 00:47:14.529
Nothing at all?

00:47:14.531 --> 00:47:16.767
That's what we mean
by full, sir, yes.

00:47:17.167 --> 00:47:19.436
There is availability
in the dress circle.

00:47:22.071 --> 00:47:23.507
The dress circle.

00:47:25.375 --> 00:47:27.377
But that's five shillings.

00:47:29.846 --> 00:47:31.413
And we do
respectfully ask patrons

00:47:31.415 --> 00:47:33.817
to dress appropriately
for that tier, sir.

00:47:37.488 --> 00:47:38.522
Come on.

00:47:41.625 --> 00:47:42.727
Edith.

00:47:43.993 --> 00:47:45.228
Follow me.

00:47:48.165 --> 00:47:50.067
- (GATE CREAKS)
- (HORSE NEIGHS IN DISTANCE)

00:47:55.540 --> 00:47:56.707
(DOOR RATTLES)

00:48:12.022 --> 00:48:13.357
Sorry.

00:48:13.790 --> 00:48:14.792
It's fine.

00:48:18.728 --> 00:48:20.098
Humiliating.

00:48:20.997 --> 00:48:24.199
Counting out the pennies.
It's shameful.

00:48:24.801 --> 00:48:26.169
(SIGHS)

00:48:27.238 --> 00:48:29.107
I'm not going
to live like that.

00:48:30.073 --> 00:48:31.307
And neither should you.

00:48:31.942 --> 00:48:33.074
They're just tickets.
We can...

00:48:33.076 --> 00:48:34.243
It's not the tickets.

00:48:34.245 --> 00:48:36.380
It's about not losing
the people you love.

00:48:37.281 --> 00:48:38.748
Looking after them.

00:48:41.151 --> 00:48:42.719
My mother, she...

00:48:44.254 --> 00:48:45.522
She was sick.

00:48:47.991 --> 00:48:49.459
I don't know what it was.

00:48:51.962 --> 00:48:53.631
But, maybe,
if I could have paid...

00:48:54.196 --> 00:48:55.765
for a doctor, I...

00:48:55.998 --> 00:48:57.267
then...

00:49:01.437 --> 00:49:02.539
Sorry.

00:49:03.440 --> 00:49:04.808
This isn't going to work.

00:49:05.743 --> 00:49:07.341
It was a nice idea, though.

00:49:07.343 --> 00:49:09.546
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING
IN DISTANCE)

00:49:13.049 --> 00:49:15.252
(MUFFLED ORCHESTRAL
MUSIC BEGINS)

00:49:50.520 --> 00:49:53.256
- (WOMAN SINGING IN GERMAN)
- (LIP-SYNCHING)

00:49:59.129 --> 00:50:01.332
(MAN SINGING IN GERMAN)

00:50:17.714 --> 00:50:19.249
(WOMAN SINGING)

00:51:53.009 --> 00:51:54.478
MASTER: <i>You may begin.</i>

00:51:54.977 --> 00:51:57.379
Oxford entrance. Paper 1.

00:51:57.381 --> 00:51:59.183
The time is nine o'clock,

00:51:59.482 --> 00:52:01.751
and you have three hours.

00:52:02.953 --> 00:52:04.322
Good luck.

00:52:09.593 --> 00:52:11.127
TOLKIEN:
<i>Look, I can take it again.</i>

00:52:11.460 --> 00:52:13.627
I can take it again,
and I can pass.

00:52:13.629 --> 00:52:15.198
To pass is not enough.

00:52:15.397 --> 00:52:16.800
You need a scholarship.

00:52:18.368 --> 00:52:19.736
I'm worried, Ronald.

00:52:20.603 --> 00:52:24.507
I'm sure Master Gilson
has no need for a scholarship.

00:52:24.875 --> 00:52:26.375
As for Geoffrey Smith...

00:52:26.377 --> 00:52:27.808
This has nothing to do
with my friends.

00:52:27.810 --> 00:52:30.680
We encourage each other,
we push each other on.

00:52:34.084 --> 00:52:35.386
Your fellow lodger.

00:52:35.986 --> 00:52:37.020
Miss Bratt.

00:52:38.189 --> 00:52:40.390
No, Edith has nothing to do
with my failing that exam.

00:52:40.656 --> 00:52:44.027
You were seen coming out
of her room. At night.

00:52:44.261 --> 00:52:45.329
We talked.

00:52:45.629 --> 00:52:46.862
We talk to each other.

00:52:46.864 --> 00:52:48.663
- Oh. So, it's true.
- Yes, of course it's true.

00:52:48.665 --> 00:52:49.964
- It doesn't...
- The night before the exam,

00:52:49.966 --> 00:52:51.866
you accompanied her
to the concert hall.

00:52:51.868 --> 00:52:54.404
That, also,
has nothing to do with this?

00:52:54.870 --> 00:52:57.407
(SIGHS) She's not even
Catholic, Ronald.

00:52:59.910 --> 00:53:01.045
Your mother

00:53:01.877 --> 00:53:03.013
made a sacrifice.

00:53:04.080 --> 00:53:05.446
She knew she was dying

00:53:05.448 --> 00:53:08.985
and she trusted your future
and education to me.

00:53:09.553 --> 00:53:11.522
I intend to honor that.

00:53:12.622 --> 00:53:14.823
The time has come
for you to choose

00:53:14.825 --> 00:53:17.495
whether or not you will follow
in her example.

00:53:18.227 --> 00:53:20.194
I don't think I understand.

00:53:20.196 --> 00:53:21.362
I must ask you

00:53:21.364 --> 00:53:22.864
to have nothing more
to do with Miss Bratt.

00:53:22.866 --> 00:53:25.732
That's ridiculous.
That's completely unfair.

00:53:25.734 --> 00:53:28.037
- Nevertheless.
- No. No, I...

00:53:28.439 --> 00:53:29.603
I can't. I won't.

00:53:29.605 --> 00:53:31.306
I am your legal guardian...

00:53:31.308 --> 00:53:32.841
Yes, but you don't understand.

00:53:32.843 --> 00:53:35.178
- Oh, I understand perfectly.
- No. Father. (SIGHS)

00:53:36.846 --> 00:53:37.948
I love her.

00:53:42.018 --> 00:53:43.187
I wish...

00:53:44.053 --> 00:53:45.687
Ronald, I wish you could enjoy

00:53:45.689 --> 00:53:47.623
the same luxuries
other boys do.

00:53:47.625 --> 00:53:50.391
- I wish...
- No, you're jealous.

00:53:50.393 --> 00:53:52.027
You don't want that at all.
You're jealous.

00:53:52.029 --> 00:53:53.728
You say that but you don't
mean it. You're a priest.

00:53:53.730 --> 00:53:55.429
You don't know anything
about love. How could you?

00:53:55.431 --> 00:53:56.832
- Listen to me.
- You want me to be alone.

00:53:56.834 --> 00:53:58.565
You want me to live alone
like you and have nothing.

00:53:58.567 --> 00:53:59.868
I won't.
I won't live like that.

00:53:59.870 --> 00:54:02.603
If after the age of 21,
you still feel the same way,

00:54:02.605 --> 00:54:05.609
you are, of course,
free to do as you please.

00:54:07.377 --> 00:54:08.778
Until that time,

00:54:09.178 --> 00:54:10.844
you have a duty to fulfill.

00:54:10.846 --> 00:54:13.049
And you will fulfill it,
Ronald.

00:54:13.984 --> 00:54:16.620
So, help me God,
you will fulfill it.

00:54:25.629 --> 00:54:27.096
TOLKIEN:
<i>I can't fail it again.</i>

00:54:27.797 --> 00:54:30.037
And you know what will happen
if I don't get into Oxford.

00:54:34.404 --> 00:54:35.469
I could become a priest,

00:54:35.471 --> 00:54:36.737
but I don't think
a life of celibacy

00:54:36.739 --> 00:54:38.508
is what either of us
had in mind.

00:54:41.877 --> 00:54:42.912
Edith?

00:54:48.917 --> 00:54:51.185
Edith, it's just until
I reach my majority.

00:54:51.187 --> 00:54:52.723
Oh, for God's sake, Ronald.

00:54:53.056 --> 00:54:54.525
Don't be so dramatic.

00:54:56.593 --> 00:54:57.893
It doesn't matter.

00:54:57.895 --> 00:54:59.726
No, don't say that.
Of course, it matters.

00:54:59.728 --> 00:55:01.765
I don't know why
you're taking it so hard.

00:55:01.964 --> 00:55:05.035
Things are just returning
to normal, that's all.

00:55:05.268 --> 00:55:06.435
To reality.

00:55:06.437 --> 00:55:09.270
No, I won't give up
on our future. (SIGHS)

00:55:09.272 --> 00:55:10.274
That's why I'm...

00:55:11.808 --> 00:55:13.544
I refuse to give up on that.

00:55:16.980 --> 00:55:18.248
Of course, you will.

00:55:19.850 --> 00:55:21.719
More quickly than you think.

00:55:25.455 --> 00:55:27.087
- So will I.
- No, that's not true.

00:55:27.089 --> 00:55:28.625
Edith, please. Look...

00:55:31.328 --> 00:55:32.362
I let myself believe

00:55:32.629 --> 00:55:34.698
that there were happy endings
for people like us.

00:55:35.431 --> 00:55:36.700
But there aren't.

00:55:36.933 --> 00:55:37.933
There can't be.

00:55:41.538 --> 00:55:43.306
But you get your happy ending.

00:55:45.776 --> 00:55:47.710
Hope you enjoy Oxford.

00:55:48.477 --> 00:55:50.547
No. Edith.

00:55:52.549 --> 00:55:54.151
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

00:56:15.404 --> 00:56:16.739
I need your help.

00:56:17.140 --> 00:56:18.509
I need to rest, Sam.

00:56:18.908 --> 00:56:20.910
You have to find Geoffrey.

00:56:21.477 --> 00:56:22.676
Sir, I'm not leaving you here.

00:56:22.678 --> 00:56:25.145
- Sam.
- I'm not leaving you here.

00:56:25.147 --> 00:56:27.549
Sam. It's an order.

00:56:27.984 --> 00:56:31.154
Find Geoffrey
and tell him not to lose hope.

00:56:33.390 --> 00:56:35.725
Tell him that
the T.C.B.S., we...

00:56:38.761 --> 00:56:40.163
Just keep him alive.

00:57:00.384 --> 00:57:02.252
(FAINTLY) Thank you, Sam.

00:57:07.223 --> 00:57:09.556
- ROSE: Is it a dragon?
- It's a dragon. It's a dragon.

00:57:09.558 --> 00:57:10.792
CHRISTOPHER:
For goodness' sake.

00:57:10.794 --> 00:57:13.094
I was wondering,
did I mention before...

00:57:13.096 --> 00:57:14.763
The set of the play is
very much inspired

00:57:14.765 --> 00:57:16.031
by the architecture
of Trinity.

00:57:16.033 --> 00:57:16.864
Sorry, chaps.

00:57:16.866 --> 00:57:19.168
- But what's it about?
- Well...

00:57:19.368 --> 00:57:22.270
- And so, you're the poet?
- No, uh, that's Geoffrey.

00:57:22.272 --> 00:57:24.808
I think you Oxford men
should be upping the game. No?

00:57:25.040 --> 00:57:26.774
- Where are we off to next?
- Yes, do tell.

00:57:26.776 --> 00:57:28.942
Yes, where shall we...?
Sorry, excuse me.

00:57:28.944 --> 00:57:30.080
Um...

00:57:30.913 --> 00:57:31.915
Right.

00:57:32.582 --> 00:57:34.350
(BELL TOLLING)

00:57:37.152 --> 00:57:38.987
ROBERT: Stealing a bus?
That's your plan?

00:57:38.989 --> 00:57:41.522
- GEOFFREY: Gilson! Quiet!
- CHRISTOPHER: Hurry up!

00:57:41.524 --> 00:57:42.593
GEOFFREY: Shh!

00:57:42.859 --> 00:57:45.091
I think that particular match
it was the Oxford men

00:57:45.093 --> 00:57:47.027
- versus the Cambridge boys.
- (LAUGHTER)

00:57:47.029 --> 00:57:49.698
ROBERT: Oh, come on,
the referee was blind.

00:57:49.700 --> 00:57:51.098
CHRISTOPHER: I hereby declare

00:57:51.100 --> 00:57:53.734
the third Oxford council
of the T.C.B.S.

00:57:53.736 --> 00:57:55.671
well and truly open.

00:57:55.904 --> 00:57:57.004
And would like to welcome

00:57:57.006 --> 00:57:58.640
our damsels
from the Eagle and Child

00:57:58.642 --> 00:57:59.775
as honorary guests.

00:57:59.777 --> 00:58:01.808
May all our meetings
take place

00:58:01.810 --> 00:58:02.879
on an abandoned omnibus.

00:58:03.113 --> 00:58:04.712
I think the word "abandoned"
might be stretching it.

00:58:04.714 --> 00:58:05.913
- Maybe a bit.
- (LAUGHTER)

00:58:05.915 --> 00:58:07.584
MARY: What is the T.C.B.?

00:58:08.018 --> 00:58:09.886
- ROBERT: Oh, the T.C.B.S.
- Oh.

00:58:10.687 --> 00:58:13.223
I don't think you like me,
Mr. Burglar.

00:58:13.756 --> 00:58:15.957
- Sorry, I was just...
- I apologize for my friend.

00:58:15.959 --> 00:58:17.926
- He's pining for someone.
- What?

00:58:17.928 --> 00:58:19.861
CHRISTOPHER: He's pining
for the delectable Miss Bratt.

00:58:19.863 --> 00:58:20.929
ROBERT: Take no notice of him.

00:58:20.931 --> 00:58:22.129
Who's the delectable
Miss Bratt?

00:58:22.131 --> 00:58:23.663
- She's no one.
- Oh, is she, Tollers?

00:58:23.665 --> 00:58:24.766
The way you've been
moping around

00:58:24.768 --> 00:58:25.944
for the past couple of months.

00:58:25.968 --> 00:58:27.467
It's not very nice
to talk about another lady

00:58:27.469 --> 00:58:28.471
when you're with someone.

00:58:28.739 --> 00:58:30.516
No, you're absolutely right.
I apologize, Myrtle.

00:58:30.540 --> 00:58:32.105
- It's Beryl.
- (LAUGHTER)

00:58:32.107 --> 00:58:34.542
See? See? Sitting in the arms
of a beautiful girl

00:58:34.544 --> 00:58:35.975
and he can't even
remember her name.

00:58:35.977 --> 00:58:37.312
I'm sorry if my difficulties

00:58:37.314 --> 00:58:38.812
are getting in the way
of your diversions.

00:58:38.814 --> 00:58:40.380
Ah, you made a decision,
Tolkien.

00:58:40.382 --> 00:58:41.584
Nobody forced you into it.

00:58:41.884 --> 00:58:43.317
- What?
- CHRISTOPHER: Edith or Oxford.

00:58:43.319 --> 00:58:45.020
You chose Oxford,
and here you are!

00:58:45.022 --> 00:58:47.087
Sat on a commandeered bus
with three beautiful girls

00:58:47.089 --> 00:58:48.922
and your best friends. For
God's sake, enjoy yourself!

00:58:48.924 --> 00:58:50.725
- Nobody forced me?
- CHRISTOPHER: Oh, yes...

00:58:50.727 --> 00:58:52.025
The priest. Your benefactor.

00:58:52.027 --> 00:58:53.387
Chris, this is
getting out of hand.

00:58:53.495 --> 00:58:55.161
- Don't talk about things you...
- Thank you. This was wonderful.

00:58:55.163 --> 00:58:56.596
You let her go.
You didn't want her

00:58:56.598 --> 00:58:57.911
- more than you wanted Oxford.
- No.

00:58:57.935 --> 00:58:59.533
- I didn't have a choice.
- Does that make you a rotter?

00:58:59.535 --> 00:59:00.734
Does that make you
something else?

00:59:00.736 --> 00:59:02.704
- What's the matter with you?
- Just shut up!

00:59:02.904 --> 00:59:04.438
Oh, for God's sake, Tollers.

00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:06.810
- (CHRISTOPHER GROANS)
- TOLKIEN: Chris. Sorry, Chris.

00:59:08.143 --> 00:59:10.312
- Bloody hell, Tollers.
- Are you all right?

00:59:10.747 --> 00:59:11.846
For an intellectual,

00:59:11.848 --> 00:59:13.515
you've quite
an impressive right hook.

00:59:13.517 --> 00:59:15.183
- Hit me back. Please.
- No.

00:59:15.185 --> 00:59:16.887
Hit me back right now.
Please, Chris.

00:59:17.087 --> 00:59:18.919
- Forget it. Forget it.
- TOLKIEN: Chris, please.

00:59:18.921 --> 00:59:20.223
CHRISTOPHER: It's fine.

00:59:22.326 --> 00:59:24.461
No, that was horrible of me.
I'm sorry.

00:59:27.964 --> 00:59:31.335
ROBERT: What you need
to understand, Tolkien, you...

00:59:31.902 --> 00:59:33.569
poor lawless orphan,

00:59:34.069 --> 00:59:36.073
is that we are your brothers.

00:59:36.707 --> 00:59:37.839
Through everything.

00:59:37.841 --> 00:59:39.777
Yes, absolutely.

00:59:40.143 --> 00:59:41.176
Exactly.

00:59:41.178 --> 00:59:44.080
ROBERT: This is more than...
just a friendship.

00:59:44.547 --> 00:59:45.949
It's an alliance.

00:59:46.649 --> 00:59:49.118
An invincible alliance.

00:59:49.785 --> 00:59:50.786
Helheimr!

00:59:51.020 --> 00:59:53.721
- ALL: Helheimr.
- TOLKIEN: Still Helheimr.

00:59:53.723 --> 00:59:55.690
Every time he gets it wrong.

00:59:55.692 --> 00:59:56.757
GEOFFREY:
Right, I need a drink.

00:59:56.759 --> 00:59:57.891
CHRISTOPHER:
Where did the girls go?

00:59:57.893 --> 00:59:59.796
GEOFFREY: (WHISPERS)
Shh. Get down.

01:00:01.297 --> 01:00:03.200
CONSTABLE:
Hold the door, George.

01:00:07.969 --> 01:00:09.973
They let you out in one piece.

01:00:10.906 --> 01:00:13.376
They're speaking to the rector
in the morning.

01:00:14.777 --> 01:00:15.779
What about you?

01:00:16.046 --> 01:00:18.645
Well, Gilson and Wiseman,
the Cambridge swines,

01:00:18.647 --> 01:00:20.015
have been let go already.

01:00:20.415 --> 01:00:21.815
I wasn't quite so lucky.

01:00:21.817 --> 01:00:22.884
Looks like I'll be joining you

01:00:22.886 --> 01:00:24.486
in the rector's office
tomorrow.

01:00:24.488 --> 01:00:26.056
Death by lecture.

01:00:26.489 --> 01:00:27.422
I'm sorry, Geoff.

01:00:27.424 --> 01:00:29.626
- No, it's not your fault.
- No, it is.

01:00:30.058 --> 01:00:31.859
If it wasn't for me,
you'd be in the arms

01:00:31.861 --> 01:00:33.762
of the delightful Mary by now.

01:00:34.062 --> 01:00:36.330
GEOFFREY: Please. The moment
I showed any interest,

01:00:36.332 --> 01:00:38.201
she started talking about
her sweetheart.

01:00:38.502 --> 01:00:40.871
TOLKIEN: I was doing all right
until Wiseman ruined it.

01:00:47.444 --> 01:00:49.313
(BELL TOLLING)

01:01:11.368 --> 01:01:12.902
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

01:01:14.603 --> 01:01:16.806
GEOFFREY: The rector was
honestly writing to my mother.

01:01:17.239 --> 01:01:19.599
Do you think I stand a chance
of becoming a poet after this?

01:01:20.176 --> 01:01:23.243
She's going to lose her mind.
So, that's that.

01:01:23.245 --> 01:01:25.814
ROBERT: Oh, Geoffrey's
only lost his career.

01:01:26.149 --> 01:01:27.917
What did you get, Tolkien?

01:01:29.618 --> 01:01:32.154
- I got sent down.
- (ALL LAUGH)

01:01:33.156 --> 01:01:34.688
(STAMMERS)
Are you joking, Tollers?

01:01:34.690 --> 01:01:35.924
They can't
send you down for that.

01:01:35.926 --> 01:01:37.290
For a bloody picnic on a bus.

01:01:37.292 --> 01:01:38.961
The bus was the least of it.

01:01:40.062 --> 01:01:41.497
I haven't achieved the grades.

01:01:41.696 --> 01:01:42.830
According to the rector,

01:01:42.832 --> 01:01:44.297
I have no flair
for the Greats,

01:01:44.299 --> 01:01:47.469
and only a passing interest
in the ancient Greeks.

01:01:47.471 --> 01:01:48.915
So, they won't endorse
my scholarship.

01:01:48.939 --> 01:01:50.779
Yes, but that doesn't mean
you have to go down.

01:01:50.806 --> 01:01:53.473
No, of course not.
How stupid of me.

01:01:53.475 --> 01:01:55.442
Yes, when Mama gets back
from Monte Carlo,

01:01:55.444 --> 01:01:56.944
I'll ask her
to write another check.

01:01:56.946 --> 01:01:58.148
(SCOFFS)

01:01:59.783 --> 01:02:01.084
What are you going to do?

01:02:02.051 --> 01:02:03.884
They'll endorse my scholarship
until the end of term.

01:02:03.886 --> 01:02:06.022
After that, I have to finance
my own studies.

01:02:06.221 --> 01:02:07.754
Which is, of course,
impossible,

01:02:07.756 --> 01:02:09.558
so, get a job, I suppose.

01:02:11.993 --> 01:02:13.062
Well, doing what?

01:02:14.464 --> 01:02:17.600
I will go back to Birmingham
and work in a bakery.

01:02:18.100 --> 01:02:21.736
Or I will make shoes
for rich dimwits like you

01:02:21.738 --> 01:02:23.018
who come in
waving their wallets.

01:02:23.339 --> 01:02:25.408
I could do with a new pair
of Oxfords, anyway.

01:02:26.042 --> 01:02:27.708
(BOTH CHUCKLE)

01:02:27.710 --> 01:02:28.779
But, in all seriousness,

01:02:28.978 --> 01:02:31.281
you've always had more flair
than any of us.

01:02:32.181 --> 01:02:33.216
And...

01:02:33.917 --> 01:02:34.918
I'll be honest,

01:02:35.218 --> 01:02:36.520
I sometimes hated you for it.

01:02:38.455 --> 01:02:39.154
But, out of us all,

01:02:39.455 --> 01:02:41.491
you're the last person
who should be sent down.

01:02:43.993 --> 01:02:46.194
GEOFFREY:
So, tomorrow is our last game.

01:02:46.196 --> 01:02:48.062
ROBERT: We're gonna really
miss thrashing you, chaps.

01:02:48.064 --> 01:02:49.230
GEOFFREY: Please.

01:02:49.232 --> 01:02:51.134
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

01:02:59.776 --> 01:03:01.542
PLAYER: Wiseman, stop him!

01:03:01.544 --> 01:03:02.578
(SHOUTING CONTINUES)

01:03:07.716 --> 01:03:09.986
- (GRUNTING)
- (BLOWING WHISTLE)

01:03:10.486 --> 01:03:11.518
(CROWD CHEERS)

01:03:11.520 --> 01:03:13.189
- Well done, Tolkien.
- Thank you.

01:03:13.823 --> 01:03:16.024
- (LAUGHING)
- Good game, boys.

01:03:16.225 --> 01:03:18.826
- That was a beautiful run.
- Well played, you big oaf.

01:03:18.828 --> 01:03:20.228
You weren't a total fool,
Tollers.

01:03:20.230 --> 01:03:21.962
GEOFFREY: Sorry, what was
the score, Wiseman?

01:03:21.964 --> 01:03:23.366
(LAUGHTER)

01:03:24.167 --> 01:03:25.569
Well played, lads.

01:03:26.703 --> 01:03:27.969
Hello, Mother.

01:03:27.971 --> 01:03:29.851
- Well played, Geoffrey.
- Thank you for coming.

01:03:30.205 --> 01:03:31.571
Are we still on
for dinner later?

01:03:31.573 --> 01:03:33.075
Yes. Seven o'clock.

01:03:33.276 --> 01:03:35.178
And your father will be there.

01:03:37.013 --> 01:03:38.547
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

01:03:42.685 --> 01:03:43.953
TOLKIEN:
Excuse me, Mrs. Smith.

01:03:44.654 --> 01:03:47.056
I wondered if I might
have a brief word.

01:03:48.290 --> 01:03:49.290
Well?

01:03:49.526 --> 01:03:52.527
It's about Geoffrey and, um,
this business with the rector.

01:03:52.529 --> 01:03:54.094
It's been the most dreadful
misunderstanding.

01:03:54.096 --> 01:03:56.176
I'd prefer not to talk about
that, if you don't mind.

01:03:57.466 --> 01:03:59.567
I'm responsible for everything
that happened that night

01:03:59.569 --> 01:04:01.804
and I assure you
I've been thoroughly punished.

01:04:02.038 --> 01:04:03.203
I'm trying to say,
please don't

01:04:03.205 --> 01:04:04.371
make things harder
on Geoffrey.

01:04:04.373 --> 01:04:07.074
He's one of the most
diligent people I know.

01:04:07.076 --> 01:04:08.076
And the kindest.

01:04:08.210 --> 01:04:09.576
He tries so hard
to make you proud of him.

01:04:09.578 --> 01:04:10.978
And he has such
exceptional talents.

01:04:11.047 --> 01:04:12.413
I know
I'm speaking out of line...

01:04:12.415 --> 01:04:14.315
- And you were responsible?
- Yes.

01:04:14.317 --> 01:04:17.118
Yes, and I've been sent down.

01:04:17.120 --> 01:04:19.489
So, you needn't worry about
my influence anymore.

01:04:20.656 --> 01:04:21.825
And, um...

01:04:22.959 --> 01:04:26.627
What... What talents
are you referring to?

01:04:26.629 --> 01:04:27.728
He's a poet.

01:04:27.730 --> 01:04:30.163
He's had his work published
in college magazines.

01:04:30.165 --> 01:04:32.102
He'd kill me for telling
you this. But he's good.

01:04:32.935 --> 01:04:34.303
Good afternoon to you.

01:04:42.846 --> 01:04:44.081
PORTER: Mr. Tolkien?

01:04:45.214 --> 01:04:47.417
- This is for you.
- Thank you.

01:04:59.828 --> 01:05:01.698
(LIQUID SLOSHING IN BOTTLE)

01:05:03.866 --> 01:05:06.670
(SPEAKING UNKNOWN LANGUAGE)

01:05:28.158 --> 01:05:30.123
PROFESSOR:
Students off the grass!

01:05:30.125 --> 01:05:32.393
Have you any idea
what time it is?

01:05:32.395 --> 01:05:33.460
(SPEAKS UNKNOWN LANGUAGE)

01:05:33.462 --> 01:05:35.198
(IN ENGLISH)
You silly old sod!

01:05:35.497 --> 01:05:38.031
I say, Wright,
is he one of yours?

01:05:38.033 --> 01:05:39.669
I don't believe he is.

01:05:40.435 --> 01:05:42.536
(SPEAKING UNKNOWN LANGUAGE)

01:05:42.538 --> 01:05:44.373
(IN ENGLISH) You silly old...

01:05:45.241 --> 01:05:46.910
PROFESSOR: Get off the lawn!

01:05:58.254 --> 01:06:00.156
Hail Earendel,

01:06:02.959 --> 01:06:05.761
brightest of angels
sent unto men.

01:06:13.002 --> 01:06:14.871
(SPEAKING UNKNOWN LANGUAGE)

01:07:01.183 --> 01:07:03.786
GEOFFREY: Ronald.
Ronald, get up.

01:07:04.419 --> 01:07:06.920
Get up. It's me. Wake up.

01:07:06.922 --> 01:07:07.989
Yes, I'm awake.

01:07:07.991 --> 01:07:09.355
You've woken up
the whole college.

01:07:09.357 --> 01:07:10.690
They can't send me down twice,
can they?

01:07:10.692 --> 01:07:12.661
- Pull yourself together.
- Can they?

01:07:12.962 --> 01:07:15.263
Geoff! Geoff, sit down.

01:07:15.265 --> 01:07:17.397
Have a drink. Wonderful malt.

01:07:17.399 --> 01:07:19.768
I don't want a drink.
Pull yourself together, John.

01:07:20.368 --> 01:07:21.904
(GEOFFREY PANTING)

01:07:24.040 --> 01:07:25.275
(SIGHS)

01:07:27.509 --> 01:07:29.743
Would you like to come
to a wedding?

01:07:29.745 --> 01:07:30.880
What?

01:07:31.279 --> 01:07:33.547
- Very beautiful, English...
- John...

01:07:33.549 --> 01:07:35.652
- ...summer wedding.
- You're not making any sense.

01:07:36.718 --> 01:07:37.720
Edith.

01:07:38.221 --> 01:07:39.556
Congratulations.

01:07:41.089 --> 01:07:42.658
Yes, she wrote to me. She's...

01:07:43.225 --> 01:07:44.493
She's engaged.

01:07:45.093 --> 01:07:46.328
She's getting married.

01:07:47.263 --> 01:07:48.598
Oh, John, that's...

01:07:49.332 --> 01:07:50.866
That's awfully bad luck.

01:07:52.502 --> 01:07:54.467
(VOICE QUIVERING) I'm sorry.
I'm in a bit of a mess.

01:07:54.469 --> 01:07:56.937
- No, that's okay. Hey, hey...
- Sorry, Geoff.

01:07:56.939 --> 01:07:58.605
It's okay. It's okay.

01:07:58.607 --> 01:08:00.610
- That's okay.
- (SOBBING)

01:08:03.846 --> 01:08:05.415
I've got you.

01:08:07.951 --> 01:08:08.952
I've got you.

01:08:09.886 --> 01:08:11.688
REFEREE: Fencers salute!

01:08:16.459 --> 01:08:18.892
- How are you feeling?
- (FOILS CLASHING)

01:08:18.894 --> 01:08:20.729
Oh, absolutely fantastic.

01:08:21.897 --> 01:08:23.099
Delightful.

01:08:23.666 --> 01:08:26.068
And what a marvelous idea
this was, thank you.

01:08:30.674 --> 01:08:31.940
To love someone,

01:08:32.908 --> 01:08:37.145
who, for whatever reason,
cannot return your feelings

01:08:37.346 --> 01:08:39.381
is painful.

01:08:41.617 --> 01:08:43.419
But if you listen
to the poets,

01:08:45.354 --> 01:08:48.892
perhaps there's a kind
of beauty to that love.

01:08:50.760 --> 01:08:51.928
It burns.

01:08:52.595 --> 01:08:53.561
Bright.

01:08:53.563 --> 01:08:57.434
And it's never tainted
by reality or by...

01:08:58.033 --> 01:08:59.035
overuse.

01:09:00.970 --> 01:09:02.735
It's as clear and fierce today

01:09:02.737 --> 01:09:04.637
as it was
the very first day it began.

01:09:04.639 --> 01:09:06.575
And there's beauty to that,

01:09:08.077 --> 01:09:09.379
I think.

01:09:11.746 --> 01:09:13.682
At least, that's what
I cling to, anyway.

01:09:21.756 --> 01:09:23.492
(MASTER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

01:09:26.929 --> 01:09:28.098
WRIGHT: <i>Hails!</i>

01:09:29.832 --> 01:09:31.000
Uh... <i>Hails!</i>

01:09:31.700 --> 01:09:34.334
(CONTINUES SPEAKING
ANCIENT GOTHIC)

01:09:34.336 --> 01:09:36.605
(UNDER BREATH)
Another gobbledygook speaker.

01:09:41.777 --> 01:09:45.581
(IN ENGLISH) How are you, uh,
finding the Gothic Primer?

01:09:46.114 --> 01:09:49.350
Yes. Not bad. The preface
is pretty well written.

01:09:49.352 --> 01:09:51.785
There's not much
of the language itself.

01:09:51.787 --> 01:09:53.856
- Ah, a pity about that.
- Yes.

01:09:54.657 --> 01:09:58.491
- Last night in the quad...
- God. You were there.

01:09:58.493 --> 01:10:01.264
...I heard a language
I was unfamiliar with.

01:10:01.596 --> 01:10:03.129
Well, of course,
the greater part

01:10:03.131 --> 01:10:04.865
of Oxfordshire heard it too,

01:10:04.867 --> 01:10:07.470
right up to
the Chiltern Hills.

01:10:08.537 --> 01:10:10.039
I was very drunk.

01:10:10.473 --> 01:10:11.940
I don't doubt it.

01:10:15.310 --> 01:10:17.179
It was utter nonsense.

01:10:17.746 --> 01:10:19.614
A language I invented
for the fairies.

01:10:20.081 --> 01:10:23.751
I thought perhaps
I heard some Finnish.

01:10:24.220 --> 01:10:26.188
- Yes. I stole a good deal.
- Ah.

01:10:26.522 --> 01:10:28.655
- Not stole.
- No.

01:10:28.657 --> 01:10:30.894
Languages never steal.

01:10:31.493 --> 01:10:33.761
- Right.
- Influenced.

01:10:34.529 --> 01:10:37.000
Sorry, I didn't
catch your name. I'm...

01:10:39.902 --> 01:10:43.573
I'm Tolkien. Ronald.
Exeter College.

01:10:45.340 --> 01:10:46.608
(SIGHS)

01:11:09.465 --> 01:11:10.700
Excuse me.

01:11:18.974 --> 01:11:21.009
A child points,

01:11:22.411 --> 01:11:23.980
and is taught a word.

01:11:25.147 --> 01:11:26.181
Tree.

01:11:26.448 --> 01:11:29.350
Later, he learns
to distinguish this tree

01:11:29.352 --> 01:11:30.618
from all the others.

01:11:30.620 --> 01:11:32.956
He learns its particular name.

01:11:33.688 --> 01:11:35.390
He plays under the tree.

01:11:35.590 --> 01:11:37.359
He dances around it.

01:11:38.059 --> 01:11:42.831
Stands beneath its branches,
for shade or shelter.

01:11:43.599 --> 01:11:46.636
He kisses under it,
he sleeps under it,

01:11:47.135 --> 01:11:48.837
he weds under it.

01:11:49.538 --> 01:11:52.642
He marches past it
on his way to war,

01:11:53.675 --> 01:11:57.279
and limps back past it
on his journey home.

01:11:58.479 --> 01:12:02.084
A king is said to have
hidden in this tree.

01:12:02.684 --> 01:12:07.389
A spirit may dwell
within its bark.

01:12:07.822 --> 01:12:09.255
Its distinctive leaves

01:12:09.257 --> 01:12:12.825
are carved onto the tombs and
monuments of his landlords.

01:12:12.827 --> 01:12:15.995
Its wood might have built
the galleons

01:12:15.997 --> 01:12:18.999
that saved his ancestors
from invasion.

01:12:19.001 --> 01:12:20.703
And all this,

01:12:21.403 --> 01:12:23.736
the general and the specific,

01:12:23.738 --> 01:12:25.172
the national and the personal,

01:12:25.174 --> 01:12:26.743
all this,

01:12:27.343 --> 01:12:28.745
he knows,

01:12:29.144 --> 01:12:30.612
and feels,

01:12:31.080 --> 01:12:34.082
and summons, somehow,
however faintly,

01:12:34.384 --> 01:12:38.288
with the utterance
of a single sound.

01:12:41.224 --> 01:12:42.292
Oak.

01:12:44.792 --> 01:12:47.494
Saxon word. Proto-Germanic.

01:12:47.496 --> 01:12:49.933
Cognates in Old Norse. <i>Eik.</i>

01:12:50.666 --> 01:12:53.232
Language is never nonsense.

01:12:53.234 --> 01:12:55.336
Language is meaning.

01:12:55.636 --> 01:12:58.674
History.
Layer upon layer upon layer.

01:12:59.474 --> 01:13:02.911
And a word without meaning
is what?

01:13:03.612 --> 01:13:05.047
Merely a sound.

01:13:06.047 --> 01:13:07.884
Someone else
once said that to me.

01:13:08.117 --> 01:13:11.054
With a good deal more economy,
I shouldn't wonder.

01:13:11.420 --> 01:13:12.585
(CHUCKLES)

01:13:12.587 --> 01:13:15.254
There are one or two
original Gothic texts

01:13:15.256 --> 01:13:16.356
in the library.

01:13:16.358 --> 01:13:17.427
You should take a look.

01:13:17.626 --> 01:13:19.860
But I can't just walk in
and ask for the originals.

01:13:19.862 --> 01:13:21.931
Tell them Professor Wright
sent you.

01:13:38.915 --> 01:13:40.547
CHRISTOPHER:
<i>He wouldn't have cared.</i>

01:13:40.549 --> 01:13:41.681
That's not the point.

01:13:41.683 --> 01:13:42.915
He's probably
the greatest philologist,

01:13:42.917 --> 01:13:44.450
certainly
of the Gothic language.

01:13:44.452 --> 01:13:45.852
He might have
even been flattered.

01:13:45.854 --> 01:13:47.023
Of course, he was flattered.

01:13:47.290 --> 01:13:49.610
Nobody's taken that book out
of the library in 1,500 years.

01:13:49.791 --> 01:13:51.592
Well, actually,
I had it out last week.

01:13:51.594 --> 01:13:52.793
ROBERT: Oh.
How did you find it?

01:13:52.795 --> 01:13:54.106
I don't want to spoil it
for Tollers.

01:13:54.130 --> 01:13:55.762
He won't finish it. He doesn't
even know who wrote it.

01:13:55.764 --> 01:13:57.799
Please. Will you all just
shut up? It's not funny.

01:13:58.134 --> 01:13:59.535
Listen, Tolkien,

01:13:59.734 --> 01:14:01.670
you absolute clown.

01:14:02.004 --> 01:14:03.872
This is your chance,
can't you see?

01:14:04.072 --> 01:14:06.740
Your Gothic professor
is encouraging you to defect.

01:14:06.742 --> 01:14:07.775
What are you talking about?

01:14:07.777 --> 01:14:09.444
He's enticing you
into his class.

01:14:09.912 --> 01:14:11.477
- (ALL SHUSHING)
- Sorry.

01:14:11.479 --> 01:14:12.479
(WHISPERS) He's right.

01:14:12.881 --> 01:14:15.214
But I can't just breeze
into the philology department.

01:14:15.216 --> 01:14:16.216
Why not?

01:14:16.285 --> 01:14:18.084
Because I don't have
a scholarship, for a start.

01:14:18.086 --> 01:14:19.819
So, are you telling me
that the philology department

01:14:19.821 --> 01:14:21.254
don't give out scholarships?

01:14:21.256 --> 01:14:24.993
Yes, for someone who happens
to be a genius with languages.

01:14:26.094 --> 01:14:28.831
- ROBERT: Moron.
- (CHRISTOPHER LAUGHS)

01:14:29.732 --> 01:14:30.897
Professor!

01:14:30.899 --> 01:14:32.732
- Excuse me, Professor Wright.
- Yes.

01:14:32.734 --> 01:14:34.670
I've been thinking
about the oak.

01:14:34.970 --> 01:14:36.268
Uh, the symbolism of it.

01:14:36.270 --> 01:14:39.271
The guardian tree,
the harbinger of change.

01:14:39.273 --> 01:14:42.610
How fascinating. Are you
a student of arboriculture?

01:14:42.612 --> 01:14:46.346
No. I'm studying Greats.
But I would like...

01:14:46.348 --> 01:14:47.448
That's why I stopped you,

01:14:47.450 --> 01:14:48.748
I'd like to change
to your class.

01:14:48.750 --> 01:14:50.817
- To study philology.
- To my class?

01:14:50.819 --> 01:14:54.754
Yes. I'm Tolkien.
Ronald Tolkien.

01:14:54.756 --> 01:14:56.923
I stood outside your window
and shouted obscenities

01:14:56.925 --> 01:14:58.759
in a kind of
bastardized Finnish.

01:14:58.961 --> 01:15:00.963
And you consider
that a recommendation?

01:15:01.397 --> 01:15:02.695
I know this is irregular,

01:15:02.697 --> 01:15:05.065
but I've realized
my true passion,

01:15:05.067 --> 01:15:07.270
the thing I've been working on
my entire life...

01:15:09.371 --> 01:15:10.803
Can I speak candidly, sir?

01:15:10.805 --> 01:15:13.742
You cannot conceive
how much I would welcome it.

01:15:14.410 --> 01:15:15.508
- I need a scholarship.
- (SIGHS)

01:15:15.510 --> 01:15:18.813
I need a scholarship
to study philology. With you.

01:15:19.281 --> 01:15:20.914
And there are no lengths
I wouldn't go to,

01:15:20.916 --> 01:15:22.582
to prove that
I'm a worthy candidate.

01:15:22.584 --> 01:15:23.786
- No lengths?
- Yes.

01:15:24.019 --> 01:15:25.755
(SPEAKING OLD ENGLISH)

01:15:29.358 --> 01:15:30.426
No.

01:15:31.193 --> 01:15:32.295
- No?
- No.

01:15:32.495 --> 01:15:34.962
No, because if I left you
alone to work in peace,

01:15:34.964 --> 01:15:36.695
then I wouldn't
get the privilege

01:15:36.697 --> 01:15:37.797
of learning from you,

01:15:37.799 --> 01:15:39.332
and that would defeat
the purpose

01:15:39.334 --> 01:15:42.839
of this entire, frankly,
quite terrifying, interlude.

01:15:45.273 --> 01:15:46.272
- Tolkien.
- Yes, sir.

01:15:46.274 --> 01:15:48.142
- German origin.
- I think so, sir.

01:15:48.144 --> 01:15:50.143
From the Anglo-Saxon, perhaps.

01:15:50.145 --> 01:15:52.415
- Exactly.
- <i>Tollkühn.</i>

01:15:53.148 --> 01:15:54.448
I'm assuming you don't need me

01:15:54.450 --> 01:15:57.086
to translate
that particular word for you.

01:15:58.287 --> 01:15:59.355
Foolhardy.

01:15:59.988 --> 01:16:01.120
Professor Wright...

01:16:01.122 --> 01:16:03.390
My class is full, Mr. Tolkien.

01:16:03.392 --> 01:16:07.127
Full with students who can
translate Old English,

01:16:07.129 --> 01:16:09.329
at least as quickly
and skillfully as you,

01:16:09.331 --> 01:16:12.900
and they've already had two
terms to establish themselves.

01:16:12.902 --> 01:16:14.403
Good afternoon.

01:16:14.670 --> 01:16:16.005
Helheimr.

01:16:16.471 --> 01:16:17.806
Professor.

01:16:19.041 --> 01:16:22.075
Since childhood, I have
been fascinated with language.

01:16:22.077 --> 01:16:24.311
Obsessed with it.
I've invented my own.

01:16:24.313 --> 01:16:26.482
Full, complete languages.
Look.

01:16:26.915 --> 01:16:29.452
This is, it's... everything.

01:16:30.118 --> 01:16:34.122
From the <i>Breost-hord.</i>
My heart.

01:16:34.555 --> 01:16:36.091
The treasure of the breast.

01:16:37.526 --> 01:16:38.725
And the drawings?

01:16:38.727 --> 01:16:41.163
I made stories. Legends.

01:16:42.130 --> 01:16:43.829
After all,
what is language for?

01:16:43.831 --> 01:16:45.999
It's not just the naming
of things, is it?

01:16:46.001 --> 01:16:49.137
It's the lifeblood
of a culture, a people.

01:16:49.504 --> 01:16:52.007
- Yes. Exactly.
- Exactly.

01:16:56.577 --> 01:16:58.378
Could you write 5,000 words

01:16:58.380 --> 01:17:02.117
on the influence
of Norse elements in <i>Gawain?</i>

01:17:02.416 --> 01:17:05.453
Yes, absolutely.
When would you like it by?

01:17:05.720 --> 01:17:07.055
WRIGHT: This evening.

01:17:11.594 --> 01:17:12.929
This evening.

01:17:38.620 --> 01:17:41.457
(READING <i>BEOWULF</i>
IN OLD ENGLISH)

01:18:03.545 --> 01:18:05.180
Middle Earth.

01:18:10.318 --> 01:18:11.653
(HORSE NEIGHING)

01:18:13.089 --> 01:18:16.359
<i>"Both of these brothers
marshaled the warriors</i>

01:18:18.225 --> 01:18:20.660
<i>They bid their dear kinsman
through words</i>

01:18:20.662 --> 01:18:23.564
<i>that they had to endure there
in time of need</i>

01:18:24.166 --> 01:18:26.702
<i>make use of their weapons
without weakening"</i>

01:18:27.368 --> 01:18:31.973
The way you follow
the rhythms of the poetry,

01:18:32.940 --> 01:18:34.408
your sensitivity to it.

01:18:34.410 --> 01:18:36.511
I have to tell you,
Mr. Tolkien,

01:18:37.278 --> 01:18:39.681
I've never come across
anything like it.

01:18:40.782 --> 01:18:42.051
Never.

01:18:44.653 --> 01:18:46.388
"Byrthwold spoke out..."

01:18:46.721 --> 01:18:50.056
"Byrthwold spoke out,
brandished his shield..."

01:18:50.058 --> 01:18:54.263
War! War! England's at war!

01:18:54.563 --> 01:18:56.998
Germany's invaded Belgium!

01:18:59.768 --> 01:19:01.636
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

01:19:07.108 --> 01:19:10.145
"He instructed the warriors
most boldly of all:

01:19:13.715 --> 01:19:15.584
Courage must be the harder

01:19:17.353 --> 01:19:18.587
heart the keener

01:19:19.420 --> 01:19:23.058
<i>spirits the greater,
as our strength wanes</i>

01:19:24.660 --> 01:19:27.328
<i>Here lies our lord,
entirely cut to pieces</i>

01:19:27.795 --> 01:19:30.298
<i>a good man in the dirt"</i>

01:19:51.252 --> 01:19:53.456
- (PEPPY JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

01:20:07.568 --> 01:20:10.138
(PIANO PLAYING
SOFT CLASSICAL MUSIC)

01:20:21.916 --> 01:20:22.981
(STOPS PLAYING)

01:20:22.983 --> 01:20:24.652
TOLKIEN: Here you go, Chris.

01:20:28.857 --> 01:20:31.223
Ladies and gentlemen,
Robert Gilson.

01:20:31.225 --> 01:20:32.428
CHRISTOPHER: Gilson!

01:20:33.162 --> 01:20:34.660
Aren't you going to ask me
to dance?

01:20:34.662 --> 01:20:35.662
Did you lose a bet?

01:20:35.863 --> 01:20:38.030
ROBERT: I've had three envious
glances already, actually.

01:20:38.032 --> 01:20:39.533
People must have mistaken you
for the Kaiser.

01:20:39.535 --> 01:20:41.433
What is this?
A war or a tea dance?

01:20:41.435 --> 01:20:43.837
- First-class mustache, Gilson.
- Why, thank you.

01:20:43.839 --> 01:20:46.475
- You need a drink, young man.
- ROBERT: On the ball.

01:20:48.175 --> 01:20:50.442
GEOFFREY: I think
we're all here, Tolkien.

01:20:50.444 --> 01:20:51.447
Yes.

01:20:52.747 --> 01:20:54.215
Shall we make a toast?

01:20:54.950 --> 01:20:57.752
To all the future
T.C.B.S. meetings.

01:20:58.586 --> 01:20:59.721
All across Europe.

01:21:04.559 --> 01:21:05.761
Cheers, gentlemen.

01:21:07.461 --> 01:21:10.198
- Gentlemen! May I?
- I don't see why not.

01:21:10.898 --> 01:21:12.401
ROBERT: Eyes front, Tolkien.

01:21:19.174 --> 01:21:21.310
PHOTOGRAPHER:
And watch the birdie!

01:21:21.943 --> 01:21:23.843
ALL: Helheimr!

01:21:23.845 --> 01:21:24.879
(CAMERA FLASH POPS)

01:21:25.412 --> 01:21:27.280
ROBERT: I've just written a
play where a French waitress

01:21:27.282 --> 01:21:28.914
falls madly in love
with an English hero.

01:21:28.916 --> 01:21:30.016
TOLKIEN: You'll have to shave

01:21:30.018 --> 01:21:31.498
if you want to play
a French waitress.

01:21:31.787 --> 01:21:32.985
ROBERT: Cheers.
Never too many.

01:21:32.987 --> 01:21:34.154
One more?

01:21:34.156 --> 01:21:35.454
ROBERT: All bets
Wiseman goes to sleep first.

01:21:35.456 --> 01:21:36.789
GEOFFREY:
I'll take that bet. Scotch?

01:21:36.791 --> 01:21:37.923
ROBERT: Easy money.

01:21:37.925 --> 01:21:39.461
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

01:21:45.267 --> 01:21:46.469
Good luck, Ronald.

01:21:48.938 --> 01:21:50.239
I'll take that.

01:21:51.773 --> 01:21:53.242
I'll try and hold the ship.

01:21:59.814 --> 01:22:02.384
- EDITH: How's your brother?
- TOLKIEN: He's fine.

01:22:02.716 --> 01:22:04.120
He's in France already.

01:22:05.554 --> 01:22:07.790
How about you?
How's your music?

01:22:08.122 --> 01:22:09.657
EDITH: I teach piano.

01:22:10.291 --> 01:22:11.861
Small girls, mostly.

01:22:12.661 --> 01:22:14.296
Not very good.

01:22:15.229 --> 01:22:16.531
And you're engaged.

01:22:18.666 --> 01:22:19.834
He's very kind.

01:22:21.001 --> 01:22:22.435
Very considerate.

01:22:22.437 --> 01:22:23.602
A good person, really.

01:22:23.604 --> 01:22:25.538
There is something
I have to say...

01:22:25.540 --> 01:22:26.440
Ronald.

01:22:26.442 --> 01:22:28.307
I made the biggest mistake
of my life

01:22:28.309 --> 01:22:30.477
and there hasn't been a day,
a moment...

01:22:30.479 --> 01:22:32.347
I've never stopped
thinking about you.

01:22:32.880 --> 01:22:37.116
You are the most remarkable
spirit I have ever met.

01:22:37.118 --> 01:22:40.456
You have courage
and resourcefulness, talent,

01:22:41.189 --> 01:22:42.457
you're proud,

01:22:42.925 --> 01:22:44.490
maddeningly, wonderfully, so;

01:22:44.492 --> 01:22:47.694
and you are
cunning and vibrant

01:22:47.696 --> 01:22:49.398
and completely alive.

01:22:51.433 --> 01:22:53.769
You deserve
every happiness you find.

01:22:57.104 --> 01:22:58.706
No. No, you don't.

01:22:59.507 --> 01:23:01.544
You don't deserve happiness,
that's not what I...

01:23:05.746 --> 01:23:06.848
What I mean is...

01:23:08.215 --> 01:23:09.884
You deserve much more.

01:23:11.786 --> 01:23:13.255
You deserve magic.

01:23:28.170 --> 01:23:29.705
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

01:23:34.742 --> 01:23:35.777
Is it that one?

01:23:37.444 --> 01:23:38.813
TOLKIEN: It's the <i>Ascanius.</i>

01:23:39.648 --> 01:23:42.384
Sounds like something
out of one of your stories.

01:23:44.086 --> 01:23:47.990
Yes. "Pity the poor citizens
of the kingdom of Ascanius."

01:23:48.322 --> 01:23:49.757
Why shall we pity them?

01:23:50.559 --> 01:23:52.261
For their terrible history.

01:23:53.362 --> 01:23:54.596
For their shame.

01:23:55.898 --> 01:23:56.931
Their regrets.

01:24:00.202 --> 01:24:02.071
They should
forgive themselves.

01:24:02.337 --> 01:24:03.572
They can't.

01:24:05.639 --> 01:24:07.941
MAN: Lancashires
on the <i>Ascanius!</i>

01:24:07.943 --> 01:24:08.943
I'd better...

01:24:11.045 --> 01:24:12.714
This has been so nice.

01:24:16.452 --> 01:24:17.586
Goodbye, little one.

01:24:51.019 --> 01:24:52.021
Edith.

01:24:58.292 --> 01:25:00.392
- I love you.
- I love you.

01:25:00.394 --> 01:25:02.598
- I love you so much.
- I know. (CHUCKLES)

01:25:03.398 --> 01:25:05.130
There's nothing
I could do about it.

01:25:05.132 --> 01:25:07.303
I know. I can't either.

01:25:08.103 --> 01:25:09.471
(BOTH LAUGH)

01:25:10.238 --> 01:25:11.773
(MAN SHOUTING IN DISTANCE)

01:25:13.075 --> 01:25:14.309
I have to go.

01:25:16.010 --> 01:25:17.578
- Stay alive.
- Yes.

01:25:18.346 --> 01:25:19.848
And come back to me.

01:25:21.116 --> 01:25:23.719
Stay alive
and come back to me.

01:25:57.185 --> 01:25:59.485
(FOOTSTEPS SLOSHING)

01:25:59.487 --> 01:26:02.224
SAM: Sir, I found them.
Get up!

01:26:02.491 --> 01:26:04.826
- I found the 19th Lancashires.
- Geoff.

01:26:05.093 --> 01:26:06.191
You have to get up, sir.

01:26:06.193 --> 01:26:07.393
(DISTANT EXPLOSIONS)

01:26:07.395 --> 01:26:09.495
Let's find your friend.
We're almost there.

01:26:09.497 --> 01:26:11.966
- (PANTING)
- (EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE)

01:26:12.768 --> 01:26:14.066
OFFICER: Fire!

01:26:14.068 --> 01:26:15.167
SOLDIER: Get up the ladder!

01:26:15.169 --> 01:26:17.538
- (GUNFIRE)
- (MEN SHOUTING)

01:26:17.840 --> 01:26:19.007
(SCREAMING)

01:26:19.640 --> 01:26:21.509
OFFICER: Attach your bayonets!

01:26:22.210 --> 01:26:23.342
PRIVATE: I can't do it.

01:26:23.344 --> 01:26:24.843
SERGEANT: Come on, Private.
Come on!

01:26:24.845 --> 01:26:26.114
Geoffrey!

01:26:27.314 --> 01:26:28.548
OFFICER: This way! Quickly!

01:26:28.550 --> 01:26:30.717
SOLDIER:
Right, you Lancashires!

01:26:30.719 --> 01:26:31.584
Geoffrey!

01:26:31.586 --> 01:26:33.655
- (WHISTLE BLOWING)
- (MEN CLAMORING)

01:26:34.089 --> 01:26:35.355
Where's Geoffrey Bache Smith?

01:26:35.357 --> 01:26:36.923
Lieutenant
Geoffrey Bache Smith?

01:26:36.925 --> 01:26:39.025
Bache Smith isn't here.
He's already gone over the top.

01:26:39.027 --> 01:26:40.692
- No!
- Yes. Sorry.

01:26:40.694 --> 01:26:42.829
- (SHOUTING CONTINUES)
- (PANTING)

01:26:42.831 --> 01:26:43.695
Geoffrey!

01:26:43.697 --> 01:26:44.996
OFFICER: Don't stop for wounded.

01:26:44.998 --> 01:26:45.998
Geoffrey!

01:26:46.200 --> 01:26:47.933
- Sir, what are you doing? Wait!
- TOLKIEN: Don't follow me.

01:26:47.935 --> 01:26:50.136
OFFICER: Up the ladder,
Lancashires!

01:26:50.138 --> 01:26:51.407
Geoff!

01:26:52.206 --> 01:26:53.472
Geoffrey!

01:26:53.474 --> 01:26:55.877
- (EXPLOSIONS)
- (MEN SHOUTING)

01:26:56.978 --> 01:26:58.043
(SCREAMING)

01:26:58.045 --> 01:26:59.212
- (GUNFIRE)
- (MEN GROANING)

01:26:59.214 --> 01:27:00.748
SOLDIER: Don't slow down!

01:27:03.151 --> 01:27:04.486
Geoff!

01:27:04.952 --> 01:27:06.218
GEOFFREY: Ronald!

01:27:06.220 --> 01:27:07.923
- Geoff!
- (EXPLOSION)

01:27:10.125 --> 01:27:11.493
Geoff!

01:27:13.995 --> 01:27:15.061
Geoff!

01:27:15.063 --> 01:27:16.665
GEOFFREY: Ronald!

01:27:17.131 --> 01:27:18.500
Geoffrey!

01:27:19.501 --> 01:27:20.566
(EXPLOSIONS)

01:27:20.568 --> 01:27:22.638
GEOFFREY: Ronald!

01:27:26.741 --> 01:27:27.743
Geoff!

01:27:31.379 --> 01:27:32.581
What?

01:27:33.147 --> 01:27:34.149
GEOFFREY: Ronald!

01:27:36.050 --> 01:27:37.182
Geoff!

01:27:37.184 --> 01:27:38.687
GEOFFREY: Ronald!

01:27:40.087 --> 01:27:41.456
Ronald!

01:27:44.158 --> 01:27:45.227
Geoff!

01:27:47.895 --> 01:27:49.096
Geoffrey!

01:28:08.015 --> 01:28:09.718
(CAVALRY YELLING)

01:28:34.542 --> 01:28:35.909
SOLDIER: Gas!

01:28:35.911 --> 01:28:37.779
(MEN SHOUTING)

01:28:40.447 --> 01:28:42.017
SOLDIER:
Get that bloody mask on!

01:28:44.819 --> 01:28:46.255
Gas!

01:28:48.724 --> 01:28:50.792
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

01:28:59.533 --> 01:29:01.737
- (GUNFIRE)
- (MEN SHOUTING)

01:29:10.612 --> 01:29:12.681
(GASPING)

01:29:22.189 --> 01:29:23.257
(EXHALES HEAVILY)

01:29:51.886 --> 01:29:53.589
(GROWLING)

01:29:56.623 --> 01:29:58.827
(EERIE, INDISTINCT WHISPERING)

01:30:08.236 --> 01:30:09.837
(DEEP GROWLING)

01:30:12.239 --> 01:30:14.242
(ECHOING VOICES YELLING)

01:30:44.205 --> 01:30:45.806
EDITH: (SOFTLY) Hello.

01:30:49.478 --> 01:30:51.013
Don't try to sit up.

01:30:58.252 --> 01:31:00.554
You've been asleep
for a very long time.

01:31:00.921 --> 01:31:04.058
You've had trench fever,
but you're all right.

01:31:05.126 --> 01:31:06.294
You're home.

01:31:09.897 --> 01:31:11.700
(WEAKLY) I tried to find him.

01:31:14.135 --> 01:31:15.203
Who?

01:31:15.470 --> 01:31:16.872
Geoffrey, I...

01:31:18.239 --> 01:31:19.741
I heard him...

01:31:21.309 --> 01:31:22.444
I could hear him.

01:31:26.380 --> 01:31:29.084
Geoffrey is... is dead.

01:31:30.283 --> 01:31:32.219
He died weeks ago.

01:31:32.519 --> 01:31:33.754
What?

01:31:35.322 --> 01:31:36.422
No.

01:31:36.424 --> 01:31:37.993
Robert Gilson, he was...

01:31:38.658 --> 01:31:40.094
he was hit.

01:31:42.663 --> 01:31:43.864
He's also dead.

01:31:46.835 --> 01:31:48.270
Robbie and Geoffrey.

01:31:49.636 --> 01:31:50.938
I'm sorry.

01:31:51.906 --> 01:31:53.742
Ron, I'm so sorry.

01:31:57.644 --> 01:32:00.447
But you're fine. You're home.
Every...

01:32:01.081 --> 01:32:03.884
Everything's going to be fine.
I promise.

01:32:12.327 --> 01:32:14.493
FATHER FRANCIS:
I spend my every afternoon

01:32:14.495 --> 01:32:17.465
with mothers, widows.

01:32:18.899 --> 01:32:20.367
What can I say to them?

01:32:22.504 --> 01:32:26.140
Your sons have died
in the war to end all wars.

01:32:27.575 --> 01:32:28.977
TOLKIEN: What do you say?

01:32:30.810 --> 01:32:32.412
Words are useless.

01:32:32.712 --> 01:32:34.349
Modern words, anyway.

01:32:36.785 --> 01:32:38.252
I speak the liturgy.

01:32:40.220 --> 01:32:44.091
There's a comfort, I think,
in distance.

01:32:44.626 --> 01:32:45.927
Ancient things.

01:32:49.697 --> 01:32:51.699
Throughout the whole
of your illness,

01:32:52.166 --> 01:32:54.803
Miss Bratt
never left your bedside.

01:32:56.504 --> 01:32:57.939
Not once.

01:33:01.075 --> 01:33:02.978
You were right to pursue her.

01:33:07.614 --> 01:33:08.983
Thank you.

01:33:10.984 --> 01:33:14.822
Oh. This arrived for you via...

01:33:15.322 --> 01:33:16.991
a very circuitous route.

01:33:19.359 --> 01:33:22.496
He wrote it, I believe,
during his last days.

01:33:39.014 --> 01:33:40.648
GEOFFREY:
<i>My dear John Ronald,</i>

01:33:41.648 --> 01:33:45.150
<i>It is my chief consolation
that if I am scuppered tonight</i>

01:33:45.152 --> 01:33:48.454
<i>there will still be left
a great member of the T.C.B.S.</i>

01:33:48.456 --> 01:33:51.826
<i>to voice what I dreamed
and what we all agreed upon.</i>

01:33:52.260 --> 01:33:54.593
<i>That the death
of one of its members cannot,</i>

01:33:54.595 --> 01:33:55.694
<i>I am determined,</i>

01:33:55.696 --> 01:33:58.132
<i>dissolve the T.C.B.S.</i>

01:33:59.000 --> 01:34:03.168
<i>Death can make us loathsome
and helpless as individuals,</i>

01:34:03.170 --> 01:34:05.973
<i>but it cannot put an end
to the immortal four!</i>

01:34:06.541 --> 01:34:08.676
<i>May God bless you,
my dear John Ronald,</i>

01:34:09.109 --> 01:34:11.843
<i>and may you say the things
I have tried to say</i>

01:34:11.845 --> 01:34:14.281
<i>long after I am not there
to say them.</i>

01:34:44.179 --> 01:34:46.081
(BELL TOLLING IN DISTANCE)

01:34:52.621 --> 01:34:54.089
(BIRD CHIRPING)

01:35:00.361 --> 01:35:01.893
STUDENT 1: Good evening,
Professor Tolkien.

01:35:01.895 --> 01:35:03.128
- STUDENT 2: Evening, sir.
- TOLKIEN: Ah.

01:35:03.130 --> 01:35:04.466
(GREETS IN ANGLO-SAXON)

01:35:37.497 --> 01:35:40.201
(BELL TOLLING AND DOG BARKING
IN DISTANCE)

01:35:42.937 --> 01:35:44.506
What are you doing out here?

01:36:01.488 --> 01:36:04.125
We had a jam pudding today
with the children.

01:36:05.393 --> 01:36:06.627
Michael's request.

01:36:08.394 --> 01:36:10.998
He and John put a tray
outside your study.

01:36:11.832 --> 01:36:13.300
I hope you had some.

01:36:13.801 --> 01:36:15.336
I'm sorry, I...

01:36:18.473 --> 01:36:19.506
I'm sorry.

01:36:22.209 --> 01:36:23.909
Edith, it was
a very difficult day.

01:36:23.911 --> 01:36:25.346
Nothing I'm writing...

01:36:27.047 --> 01:36:28.446
You used to
write for pleasure.

01:36:28.448 --> 01:36:29.315
I know, it's...

01:36:29.317 --> 01:36:31.618
- It was a passion.
- I know it's...

01:36:33.587 --> 01:36:34.656
pointless.

01:36:45.666 --> 01:36:46.598
I wish you would decide

01:36:46.600 --> 01:36:48.267
what it is
you want from it, Ronald,

01:36:48.269 --> 01:36:50.138
or abandon it entirely.

01:36:59.380 --> 01:37:00.547
(SIGHS)

01:37:36.917 --> 01:37:38.486
MRS. SMITH: Mr. Tolkien?

01:37:40.087 --> 01:37:41.422
TOLKIEN: Mrs. Smith.

01:37:42.756 --> 01:37:44.826
It's wonderful to see you.
Thank you for coming.

01:37:47.295 --> 01:37:49.663
Robert Gilson was the...

01:37:50.697 --> 01:37:52.999
son of the headmaster
at King Edward's.

01:37:53.201 --> 01:37:54.569
Yes, that's right.

01:37:54.969 --> 01:37:56.671
I remember the stepmother,
I think.

01:37:57.170 --> 01:37:59.473
And Christopher Wiseman?

01:37:59.808 --> 01:38:01.109
He survived.

01:38:03.178 --> 01:38:04.746
Although I'm sorry
to say he's...

01:38:06.581 --> 01:38:09.451
Some of us who came through
have other sorts of scars.

01:38:15.055 --> 01:38:17.257
My sister lost three sons.

01:38:18.125 --> 01:38:19.394
I lost two.

01:38:20.795 --> 01:38:22.363
All in the same week.

01:38:24.165 --> 01:38:25.500
I'm sorry.

01:38:31.672 --> 01:38:33.474
And this is where you sat.

01:38:34.975 --> 01:38:36.176
TOLKIEN: <i>Yes.</i>

01:38:37.778 --> 01:38:39.214
It's very cozy.

01:38:41.983 --> 01:38:44.119
Thank you
for bringing me here.

01:38:45.653 --> 01:38:47.288
I can imagine, I can...

01:38:49.056 --> 01:38:50.457
see you here.

01:38:51.091 --> 01:38:52.292
<i>All of you.</i>

01:38:52.926 --> 01:38:54.394
<i>I can picture it.</i>

01:38:55.261 --> 01:38:57.331
It must have been
a wonderfully happy time.

01:39:02.001 --> 01:39:03.571
This is where Geoffrey sat.

01:39:13.212 --> 01:39:16.183
I was wondering,
with your permission,

01:39:17.350 --> 01:39:18.917
perhaps I might try to get

01:39:18.919 --> 01:39:20.755
a volume
of his poems published.

01:39:22.657 --> 01:39:24.159
His poems?

01:39:25.858 --> 01:39:27.327
I think he was...

01:39:27.862 --> 01:39:28.862
really very talented.

01:39:28.929 --> 01:39:31.031
I would like to bring him
to people's attention.

01:39:31.331 --> 01:39:33.667
I thought, perhaps, I could
write the foreword myself.

01:39:35.068 --> 01:39:36.703
I don't know, I...

01:39:38.538 --> 01:39:40.505
I'm inclined to say no,
Mr. Tolkien.

01:39:40.507 --> 01:39:43.611
He was really very good.
I think it's important.

01:39:46.546 --> 01:39:48.648
I used to be fond of poetry.

01:39:49.582 --> 01:39:52.353
I sometimes wondered
if that was where Geoffrey...

01:39:57.625 --> 01:40:01.395
I'm sorry, I can't see what
possible good it would do.

01:40:02.462 --> 01:40:04.262
It would do the most
extraordinary good.

01:40:04.264 --> 01:40:05.632
Please believe me.

01:40:09.170 --> 01:40:10.738
I never knew Geoffrey

01:40:12.238 --> 01:40:13.875
as much as I would have liked.

01:40:17.010 --> 01:40:18.412
Was he happy?

01:40:19.246 --> 01:40:21.281
Please, tell me.

01:40:24.652 --> 01:40:25.853
Did he know love?

01:40:32.126 --> 01:40:33.561
I was an orphan

01:40:34.028 --> 01:40:35.530
when I came to King Edward's.

01:40:37.197 --> 01:40:38.865
And even at the beginning,
even...

01:40:40.166 --> 01:40:41.736
before we were friends,

01:40:43.837 --> 01:40:44.973
Geoffrey was gentle.

01:40:47.707 --> 01:40:48.809
Kind.

01:40:50.810 --> 01:40:53.078
(VOICE QUIVERS) He was,
I think, of anyone I ever met,

01:40:53.080 --> 01:40:54.482
the person...

01:40:56.149 --> 01:40:58.018
He was the person
who most embodied

01:40:58.352 --> 01:40:59.953
what it means to love.

01:41:03.157 --> 01:41:04.525
And to be loved.

01:41:05.126 --> 01:41:06.494
Truly that's...

01:41:11.197 --> 01:41:13.300
That's why
this is so important. Please...

01:41:14.234 --> 01:41:16.002
forgive me, but you ask...

01:41:16.737 --> 01:41:19.741
what good it could do,
and the... poets,

01:41:21.943 --> 01:41:22.977
the writers...

01:41:24.245 --> 01:41:26.046
or what our art could do.

01:41:29.817 --> 01:41:31.484
I cannot think of anything
more necessary.

01:41:31.486 --> 01:41:33.451
Especially
at a time like this.

01:41:33.453 --> 01:41:34.788
Especially now.

01:41:48.536 --> 01:41:49.971
(MRS. SMITH SNIFFLES)

01:41:55.309 --> 01:41:57.612
A foreword would be lovely.

01:42:00.880 --> 01:42:02.082
Thank you.

01:42:19.733 --> 01:42:22.402
HILARY: Remember how mother
made us kiss the trees?

01:42:23.437 --> 01:42:24.971
And listen to them talk.

01:42:25.605 --> 01:42:27.442
What dark magic was that?

01:42:27.875 --> 01:42:29.542
Come on, you savages.

01:42:29.776 --> 01:42:30.776
Come on.

01:42:30.877 --> 01:42:32.477
Who wants to speak
to the trees?

01:42:32.479 --> 01:42:34.082
MICHAEL: Hey, wait for me.

01:42:36.250 --> 01:42:37.583
LITTLE CHRISTOPHER:
What are you thinking?

01:42:37.585 --> 01:42:38.816
What's your name?

01:42:38.818 --> 01:42:40.955
JOHN: We're not scary.
Don't be worried.

01:42:41.688 --> 01:42:43.422
Children, I need your help.

01:42:43.424 --> 01:42:44.655
Will you do something for me?

01:42:44.657 --> 01:42:46.124
MICHAEL: Is it homework?

01:42:46.126 --> 01:42:47.426
Uh, no, not if I get it right.

01:42:47.428 --> 01:42:48.927
I want you to listen
to a story.

01:42:48.929 --> 01:42:49.860
MICHAEL: What story?

01:42:49.862 --> 01:42:51.396
LITTLE CHRISTOPHER:
Is it a good story?

01:42:51.398 --> 01:42:52.530
TOLKIEN: I hope so.

01:42:52.532 --> 01:42:53.901
MICHAEL: Is it long?

01:42:54.134 --> 01:42:55.433
TOLKIEN: Extremely long.

01:42:55.435 --> 01:42:57.037
Has it been started?

01:42:58.139 --> 01:42:59.507
Yes, I think...

01:43:00.541 --> 01:43:03.408
I think, up here, yes,
I think it has.

01:43:03.410 --> 01:43:04.812
What's it about?

01:43:05.278 --> 01:43:07.714
It's about journeys.
Adventures.

01:43:08.314 --> 01:43:09.817
Magic, of course.

01:43:10.917 --> 01:43:11.917
Treasure.

01:43:12.853 --> 01:43:13.955
And love.

01:43:17.325 --> 01:43:18.723
It's about
all kinds of things, really.

01:43:18.725 --> 01:43:20.493
It's hard to say. I suppose...

01:43:21.495 --> 01:43:23.962
I suppose it's about quests,
to a certain extent.

01:43:23.964 --> 01:43:26.466
The journeys we take
to prove ourselves.

01:43:26.934 --> 01:43:28.436
About courage.

01:43:39.479 --> 01:43:40.848
(QUIETLY) Fellowship.

01:43:44.919 --> 01:43:46.487
It's about fellowship.

01:43:50.357 --> 01:43:51.893
Friendship.

01:43:56.063 --> 01:43:58.562
- Little people just like you.
- I'm not little!

01:43:58.564 --> 01:44:00.731
No. Little in stature.

01:44:00.733 --> 01:44:02.133
Not little in spirit.

01:44:02.135 --> 01:44:03.201
(CHILDREN YELLING)

01:44:03.203 --> 01:44:04.483
TOLKIEN:
<i>It's about wizards, too.</i>

01:44:04.572 --> 01:44:06.003
- LITTLE CHRISTOPHER: <i>Wizards?</i>
- TOLKIEN: <i>Wizards, yes.</i>

01:44:06.005 --> 01:44:10.075
<i>And mountains,
and dragons, and journeys...</i>

01:44:10.077 --> 01:44:11.977
EDITH: Christopher, if you
break your neck wearing those,

01:44:11.979 --> 01:44:14.749
I will not be taking you
to the hospital.

01:45:04.130 --> 01:45:05.165
Hobbit.

01:45:05.189 --> 01:45:25.189
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