JRR Tolkien (2009)

This film tells the story of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien English writer Poet philologist and author of many stories including most famously The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings It describes the importance of the rural English West Midlands where Tolkien grew up in shaping his literary imagination and how the ancient northern languages he studied and taught throughout his life influenced his writing These factors stimulated him to provide a context in which his own invented languages might be spokenan imaginary land called Middleearth Accounts of the origins of The Hobbit and of The Lord of the Rings and the phenomenal success that Tolkien somewhat reluctantly enjoyed when taken up by the counterculture of the 1960s are included