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(HORSE NEIGHS)

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(HORSE NEIGHING)

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(DISTANT GUNFIRE)

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(EXHALES DEEPLY)

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(SNIFFLES)

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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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.

253
00:17:48,065 --> 00:17:49,666
- Stop!
- Chris, sit down.

254
00:17:49,668 --> 00:17:51,332
We're in a library.
Christopher, sit down.

255
00:17:51,334 --> 00:17:52,636
YOUNG CHRISTOPHER:
What?

256
00:17:53,136 --> 00:17:54,839
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

257
00:18:05,482 --> 00:18:07,451
We're going to take some tea.

258
00:18:07,786 --> 00:18:09,185
- So?
- So...

259
00:18:09,187 --> 00:18:11,420
I suppose as we're meant to be
doing everything together...

260
00:18:11,422 --> 00:18:12,822
I'll stay where I am,
thank you.

261
00:18:12,824 --> 00:18:13,925
Suit yourself.

262
00:18:18,896 --> 00:18:20,064
(SIGHS)

263
00:18:24,835 --> 00:18:26,070
He didn't want to come.

264
00:18:28,405 --> 00:18:30,041
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

265
00:18:36,514 --> 00:18:38,649
YOUNG GEOFFREY:
What Robert meant to say

266
00:18:38,848 --> 00:18:39,916
is that,

267
00:18:39,918 --> 00:18:42,487
with a little encouragement
from his friends,

268
00:18:43,054 --> 00:18:44,120
he has now acknowledged

269
00:18:44,122 --> 00:18:45,321
that this punishment
was his fault

270
00:18:45,323 --> 00:18:46,324
rather than yours,

271
00:18:46,892 --> 00:18:49,628
and he'd like to make amends,
by inviting you to tea.

272
00:18:50,562 --> 00:18:52,460
You should be flattered,
really.

273
00:18:52,462 --> 00:18:54,832
It was your cleverness
that rattled him.

274
00:18:55,566 --> 00:18:56,698
It would rattle you too

275
00:18:56,700 --> 00:18:58,536
if only you had
a father like Gilson.

276
00:18:58,803 --> 00:19:00,569
His marks
only have to drop below

277
00:19:00,571 --> 00:19:02,007
one other boy in the year...

278
00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:04,875
It's no excuse, but...

279
00:19:07,245 --> 00:19:08,346
Oh, come on.

280
00:19:08,645 --> 00:19:10,211
It's a lot more fun
than sitting around

281
00:19:10,213 --> 00:19:11,313
with a load of old books.

282
00:19:11,315 --> 00:19:12,584
I like books.

283
00:19:13,218 --> 00:19:14,518
So do we.

284
00:19:17,521 --> 00:19:19,490
Geoffrey Bache Smith.

285
00:19:20,624 --> 00:19:22,693
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

286
00:19:23,428 --> 00:19:24,892
YOUNG ROBERT:
Gentlemen. A thought.

287
00:19:24,894 --> 00:19:25,497
Tolkien.

288
00:19:26,030 --> 00:19:27,264
YOUNG ROBERT: Imagine walking
into Barrow's Stores,

289
00:19:27,665 --> 00:19:29,532
and finding me, guarding the
door with a very big stick...

290
00:19:29,534 --> 00:19:30,568
Where is this going?

291
00:19:30,834 --> 00:19:32,534
And I said, there's no need
to eat the cakes here.

292
00:19:32,536 --> 00:19:33,537
I've done it.

293
00:19:33,738 --> 00:19:35,704
In fact, I did it so much
it made me sick...

294
00:19:35,706 --> 00:19:37,439
That is the nature
of parental authority.

295
00:19:37,441 --> 00:19:39,374
"I've done it.
I've decided it was bad.

296
00:19:39,376 --> 00:19:40,942
And now I'm going to stop you
from doing it."

297
00:19:40,944 --> 00:19:42,879
- Cakes in this case being...
- Everything.

298
00:19:42,881 --> 00:19:45,048
- Everything that's good.
- YOUNG CHRISTOPHER: Right.

299
00:19:45,348 --> 00:19:47,217
YOUNG GEOFFREY:
Tolkien, this is Barrow's.

300
00:19:47,219 --> 00:19:48,516
YOUNG CHRISTOPHER:
Our kingdom,

301
00:19:48,518 --> 00:19:50,055
and the best tea in town.

302
00:19:51,623 --> 00:19:53,124
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

303
00:20:01,199 --> 00:20:03,466
- WAITRESS: Another pot of tea?
- YOUNG CHRISTOPHER: Thank you.

304
00:20:03,468 --> 00:20:05,133
And what do you have
that's under a shilling?

305
00:20:05,135 --> 00:20:05,969
And isn't toast.

306
00:20:06,270 --> 00:20:08,370
- Bath buns are four pence.
- Good. A bath bun, please.

307
00:20:08,372 --> 00:20:10,605
- And three forks.
- YOUNG GEOFFREY: Four.

308
00:20:10,607 --> 00:20:11,707
YOUNG ROBERT:
And what about the stick?

309
00:20:11,709 --> 00:20:12,807
YOUNG CHRISTOPHER: The stick?

310
00:20:12,809 --> 00:20:14,576
My father
is a perfect example.

311
00:20:14,578 --> 00:20:16,411
He knows about music.
He loves it.

312
00:20:16,413 --> 00:20:17,813
He spent the greater part
of his youth

313
00:20:17,815 --> 00:20:19,180
studying and composing music.

314
00:20:19,182 --> 00:20:21,817
Christopher has had several
musical pieces published.

315
00:20:21,819 --> 00:20:23,253
YOUNG CHRISTOPHER:
Not several. One.

316
00:20:23,255 --> 00:20:24,352
Pass me the sugar.

317
00:20:24,354 --> 00:20:25,420
And yet when it comes to

318
00:20:25,422 --> 00:20:26,988
pursuing a life
as a composer...

319
00:20:26,990 --> 00:20:29,492
No. "Musical dreams
are a fantasy.

320
00:20:29,494 --> 00:20:31,593
You will do as I did.
You will put them aside."

321
00:20:31,595 --> 00:20:33,497
And where does
the stick come in?

322
00:20:33,998 --> 00:20:35,898
The stick was a metaphor.
Move on from the stick.

323
00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:38,035
YOUNG GEOFFREY:
My mother's exactly the same.

324
00:20:38,268 --> 00:20:40,403
She values poetry.
She loves it.

325
00:20:40,938 --> 00:20:43,642
She refuses to see it
as a potential career.

326
00:20:44,275 --> 00:20:45,776
She sees me as...

327
00:20:46,110 --> 00:20:47,575
a lawyer or an accountant.

328
00:20:47,577 --> 00:20:49,711
Does she carry a stick?

329
00:20:49,713 --> 00:20:52,081
I'm gonna go outside and fetch
a stick, how about that?

330
00:20:52,083 --> 00:20:53,051
Thank you.

331
00:20:53,317 --> 00:20:54,651
Well, at least
your parents discuss it.

332
00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:57,955
If I even mentioned becoming
a painter, I'd be disowned.

333
00:20:58,421 --> 00:21:00,555
- No. I'd be decapitated.
- There!

334
00:21:00,557 --> 00:21:01,892
That's the stick.

335
00:21:25,182 --> 00:21:27,486
I didn't even eat the cake
that they ordered.

336
00:21:27,884 --> 00:21:28,952
Why not?

337
00:21:29,719 --> 00:21:31,519
I wasn't sure
I had enough money.

338
00:21:31,521 --> 00:21:32,890
YOUNG EDITH: Oh.

339
00:21:33,556 --> 00:21:34,793
But this is sweet.

340
00:21:39,463 --> 00:21:40,731
What about you?

341
00:21:41,098 --> 00:21:42,765
(CHUCKLES) What about me?

342
00:21:42,767 --> 00:21:44,870
There must be something
that you want?

343
00:21:46,071 --> 00:21:47,272
To get out of here.

344
00:21:48,206 --> 00:21:49,207
To be free.

345
00:21:50,507 --> 00:21:51,573
I would go somewhere

346
00:21:51,575 --> 00:21:53,877
where I wouldn't
feel like a poor orphan

347
00:21:54,545 --> 00:21:57,278
and... everybody
would be dressed

348
00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:59,116
like kings and queens.

349
00:21:59,683 --> 00:22:01,252
I wouldn't be there
to play piano.

350
00:22:02,353 --> 00:22:04,989
Or to carry
Mrs. Faulkner's purse.

351
00:22:06,090 --> 00:22:08,927
I'd be... greeted and...

352
00:22:10,026 --> 00:22:11,228
appreciated.

353
00:22:12,029 --> 00:22:13,197
Welcomed.

354
00:22:14,098 --> 00:22:16,100
(CHUCKLES) Welcomed.

355
00:22:29,180 --> 00:22:30,882
(GUNFIRE IN DISTANCE)

356
00:22:38,323 --> 00:22:39,554
(COUGHING)

357
00:22:39,556 --> 00:22:41,058
Go back to barracks, Hodges.

358
00:22:43,995 --> 00:22:45,863
(PANTING)

359
00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:51,937
Lieutenant Geoffrey Smith
is a friend.

360
00:22:53,470 --> 00:22:55,739
His mother...

361
00:22:57,874 --> 00:22:59,243
His mother wrote to me. She...

362
00:23:00,344 --> 00:23:02,313
She hasn't heard
from him in weeks.

363
00:23:02,947 --> 00:23:05,283
And he's not responded
to my letters.

364
00:23:08,486 --> 00:23:09,955
I'm worried he might be...

365
00:23:13,723 --> 00:23:15,993
I need to know he's all right.

366
00:23:17,628 --> 00:23:19,597
It really has
nothing to do with you.

367
00:23:20,230 --> 00:23:22,066
He must be a very good friend,
is he, sir?

368
00:23:23,567 --> 00:23:24,835
He's the best.

369
00:23:27,371 --> 00:23:28,806
He'd do the same for me.

370
00:23:30,275 --> 00:23:31,810
(GUNFIRE CONTINUES)

371
00:23:37,614 --> 00:23:38,880
Well, if we're halfway there,

372
00:23:38,882 --> 00:23:40,615
turning back
won't take any longer

373
00:23:40,617 --> 00:23:41,751
than carrying on, will it?

374
00:23:41,753 --> 00:23:42,919
Hodges, please.

375
00:23:42,921 --> 00:23:44,820
Perfectly frank, sir,
by the look on you,

376
00:23:44,822 --> 00:23:46,188
if I don't come along,

377
00:23:46,190 --> 00:23:47,055
you're not gonna find

378
00:23:47,057 --> 00:23:48,959
this Lieutenant
Geoffrey Smith, anyway.

379
00:23:53,264 --> 00:23:55,367
Let me see if I can find
some medicine for you, sir.

380
00:23:58,670 --> 00:24:00,337
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

381
00:24:08,078 --> 00:24:10,044
YOUNG CHRISTOPHER:
Geoffrey, are you trying

382
00:24:10,046 --> 00:24:11,650
to trap my bishop,
you scoundrel?

383
00:24:14,719 --> 00:24:16,487
Gentlemen. A thought.

384
00:24:16,819 --> 00:24:17,986
You know what the trouble is

385
00:24:17,988 --> 00:24:19,655
with all these legends
Tolkien reads?

386
00:24:19,657 --> 00:24:20,723
Enlighten me, Robbie.

387
00:24:20,725 --> 00:24:21,922
They don't have
any women in them.

388
00:24:21,924 --> 00:24:23,692
I'm not talking about pale,

389
00:24:23,694 --> 00:24:25,628
shivering maidens
sitting in towers.

390
00:24:25,630 --> 00:24:27,563
I'm talking about
plump, red-blooded women.

391
00:24:27,565 --> 00:24:30,032
- Could you sit down, please?
- The women of Southern Europe.

392
00:24:30,034 --> 00:24:32,435
Women with large flagons
of wine on their heads.

393
00:24:32,437 --> 00:24:35,204
Robbie, are you incapable
of sitting in silence?

394
00:24:35,206 --> 00:24:37,171
Like our waitress,
just over there.

395
00:24:37,173 --> 00:24:38,640
YOUNG CHRISTOPHER:
Oh, for God's sake.

396
00:24:38,642 --> 00:24:40,109
Robbie, if I lose this game

397
00:24:40,111 --> 00:24:41,511
because of
your endless prattle...

398
00:24:41,513 --> 00:24:43,579
You will lose this game
because of me.

399
00:24:43,581 --> 00:24:44,713
What are you reading now?

400
00:24:44,715 --> 00:24:46,482
I'm reading about
the realm of the dead.

401
00:24:46,484 --> 00:24:48,117
- (GROANS)
- Or at least trying to.

402
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:49,150
See what I mean?

403
00:24:49,152 --> 00:24:52,123
Presided over by
a giant woman, as it happens.

404
00:24:52,590 --> 00:24:55,959
Hel, a huge
and ruthless goddess.

405
00:24:56,260 --> 00:24:57,927
Is that not red-blooded enough
for you?

406
00:24:57,929 --> 00:24:59,464
It is our waitress.

407
00:25:00,265 --> 00:25:01,065
Hel?

408
00:25:01,399 --> 00:25:03,534
Yes, she rules over the realm
of the dead. Helheimr.

409
00:25:03,767 --> 00:25:06,001
It's a place
where warriors are sent

410
00:25:06,003 --> 00:25:07,902
if they die in the wrong way.

411
00:25:07,904 --> 00:25:10,173
- What's the wrong way?
- Peacefully.

412
00:25:10,507 --> 00:25:12,443
Illness, old age.

413
00:25:12,709 --> 00:25:13,909
Anything other than battle.

414
00:25:13,911 --> 00:25:15,544
Now, that's an idea
I can get behind.

415
00:25:15,546 --> 00:25:17,813
I'm sorry, you're getting
behind dying in battle now?

416
00:25:17,815 --> 00:25:18,913
Not literally.

417
00:25:18,915 --> 00:25:21,251
I can die in any way
the Fates choose,

418
00:25:21,552 --> 00:25:22,786
that's not up to me.

419
00:25:23,254 --> 00:25:26,523
But what is within my power
is to decide how I live.

420
00:25:26,723 --> 00:25:29,792
Courageously or timidly.
(CLAPS HANDS)

421
00:25:29,794 --> 00:25:31,794
Helheimr! It should be
our warning. Our challenge.

422
00:25:31,796 --> 00:25:32,729
Yes, I know.

423
00:25:33,030 --> 00:25:34,130
But you should learn
how to pronounce it first.

424
00:25:34,132 --> 00:25:36,799
Come on. Challenge me.
Set me a quest.

425
00:25:36,801 --> 00:25:38,633
I'll show you
how to avoid Helheimr.

426
00:25:38,635 --> 00:25:40,535
I challenge you to...

427
00:25:40,537 --> 00:25:42,604
sit in silence for 25 minutes.

428
00:25:42,606 --> 00:25:43,706
Shut up, Geoffrey.

429
00:25:43,708 --> 00:25:44,805
I'm serious.

430
00:25:44,807 --> 00:25:46,007
Propose to the waitress.

431
00:25:46,009 --> 00:25:47,811
- YOUNG GEOFFREY: Christopher.
- (SCOFFS) What?

432
00:25:49,580 --> 00:25:50,879
An excellent idea.

433
00:25:50,881 --> 00:25:52,413
Robbie, don't you dare
do anything of the kind.

434
00:25:52,415 --> 00:25:54,885
That's what I call
a quest against Helheimr.

435
00:25:58,422 --> 00:25:59,857
Helheimr!

436
00:26:01,424 --> 00:26:05,328
Madam. My lady of the lake,
the bearer of my dreams.

437
00:26:06,095 --> 00:26:07,765
Would you do me
the greatest honor,

438
00:26:08,266 --> 00:26:11,002
sharing an infinite future
with me...

439
00:26:21,813 --> 00:26:23,544
(BOYS LAUGHING)

440
00:26:23,546 --> 00:26:24,949
We should form a club.

441
00:26:25,350 --> 00:26:27,149
- What?
- A brotherhood.

442
00:26:27,151 --> 00:26:29,752
Aren't we already a club?
A tea drinking club?

443
00:26:29,754 --> 00:26:30,755
A tea drinking club,

444
00:26:31,021 --> 00:26:32,655
sounds like something
my stepmother would go to.

445
00:26:32,657 --> 00:26:33,691
The Tea Club.

446
00:26:34,092 --> 00:26:36,592
It doesn't sound any better
just because you repeated it.

447
00:26:36,594 --> 00:26:37,692
The Birmingham Boys.

448
00:26:37,694 --> 00:26:39,362
That sounds like a circus act.

449
00:26:39,930 --> 00:26:42,432
The Boys of Barrow's Stores.

450
00:26:43,566 --> 00:26:44,902
Barrovians.

451
00:26:46,003 --> 00:26:48,969
The Tea Club
and Barrovian Society.

452
00:26:48,971 --> 00:26:50,573
I think that's far too long.

453
00:26:50,575 --> 00:26:51,674
The T. C. B. S.

454
00:26:51,676 --> 00:26:53,074
The T. C. B. S.

455
00:26:53,076 --> 00:26:55,043
Are you sure that doesn't
sound like a disease?

456
00:26:55,045 --> 00:26:56,445
No, listen, I don't care
what it's called.

457
00:26:56,447 --> 00:26:58,447
As long as we pledge
our loyalty to each other.

458
00:26:58,449 --> 00:26:59,249
Exactly.

459
00:26:59,484 --> 00:27:01,749
T. C. B. S. That's settled.
Now what do we do?

460
00:27:01,751 --> 00:27:02,883
We change the world.

461
00:27:02,885 --> 00:27:04,386
Oh, good. Something simple.

462
00:27:04,388 --> 00:27:05,954
Through art, you clown.

463
00:27:05,956 --> 00:27:08,059
Through the power of art.

464
00:27:16,700 --> 00:27:17,602
Brothers,

465
00:27:18,568 --> 00:27:19,935
will you join your comrades

466
00:27:19,937 --> 00:27:21,840
in this act
of changing the world?

467
00:27:29,513 --> 00:27:30,711
- We will.
- We will.

468
00:27:30,713 --> 00:27:32,380
Helheimr!

469
00:27:32,382 --> 00:27:34,783
- YOUNG CHRISTOPHER: Helheimr!
- YOUNG GEOFFREY: Helheimr!

470
00:27:34,785 --> 00:27:36,254
YOUNG ROBERT: Helheimr!

471
00:27:59,308 --> 00:28:01,008
YOUNG TOLKIEN:
<i>"Not for us, I reckon,</i>

472
00:28:01,010 --> 00:28:02,110
to follow the wolves,

473
00:28:02,112 --> 00:28:03,278
to fight amongst each other

474
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,147
like the cubs
the Fates rear ravenous..."

475
00:28:05,149 --> 00:28:06,380
TOLKIEN: <i>"...the Norns came,</i>

476
00:28:06,382 --> 00:28:08,017
<i>to shape out fate
for that kingling;</i>

477
00:28:08,518 --> 00:28:10,919
they said he'd be the fighter
most famed,

478
00:28:10,921 --> 00:28:13,089
and be reckoned
the best of princelings.

479
00:28:13,524 --> 00:28:15,524
They twisted fast
the strands of fate,

480
00:28:15,526 --> 00:28:18,263
unsettled the strongholds
in Brálund..."

481
00:28:25,335 --> 00:28:26,503
(KNOCKS ON DOOR)

482
00:28:44,587 --> 00:28:45,522
This way, please.

483
00:28:45,722 --> 00:28:48,290
- (SOFT STRING MUSIC PLAYING)
- (WOMAN SINGING ARIA)

484
00:28:48,292 --> 00:28:52,194
<i>Pale hands I loved
beside the Shalimar</i>

485
00:28:52,196 --> 00:28:54,963
<i>Where are you now?</i>

486
00:28:54,965 --> 00:28:59,603
<i>Who lies beneath your spell?</i>

487
00:29:00,136 --> 00:29:03,438
<i>Whom do you lead on...</i>

488
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:04,976
I don't have a hat.

489
00:29:05,741 --> 00:29:07,945
- What?
- I don't have a hat.

490
00:29:09,078 --> 00:29:10,313
That's all right.

491
00:29:10,881 --> 00:29:12,583
They all look ridiculous,
anyway.

492
00:29:14,450 --> 00:29:16,653
(TOLKIEN SPEAKING
UNKNOWN LANGUAGE)

493
00:29:22,526 --> 00:29:23,526
What does it mean?

494
00:29:23,727 --> 00:29:25,361
Oh... It's nonsense.

495
00:29:25,363 --> 00:29:28,363
It's about an old man
who's watching an unlucky frog

496
00:29:28,365 --> 00:29:30,864
who can't land softly,
so he gets eaten by a dog.

497
00:29:30,866 --> 00:29:32,235
(LAUGHS)

498
00:29:32,937 --> 00:29:35,640
- And you invented that?
- Yes.

499
00:29:36,641 --> 00:29:38,340
The entire language?

500
00:29:38,342 --> 00:29:40,811
Verb structures,
vocabulary, everything.

501
00:29:41,245 --> 00:29:43,714
My next language
will have a music to it.

502
00:29:43,948 --> 00:29:45,182
"Cellar door."

503
00:29:45,716 --> 00:29:46,717
Cellar door?

504
00:29:46,950 --> 00:29:49,584
That's the most musical word
I can think of.

505
00:29:49,586 --> 00:29:50,517
"Cellar door."

506
00:29:50,519 --> 00:29:52,120
There's something
about the fall of it.

507
00:29:52,122 --> 00:29:53,591
The rounding of the mouth.

508
00:29:53,924 --> 00:29:55,724
Cellar door.

509
00:29:55,726 --> 00:29:56,859
If you say it over and over,

510
00:29:56,861 --> 00:29:59,729
it starts to be
something... magical.

511
00:30:00,063 --> 00:30:02,132
(DRAMATICALLY) Cellar door.

512
00:30:03,934 --> 00:30:05,335
(TONED DOWN) Cellar door.

513
00:30:06,937 --> 00:30:08,003
I think that's nonsense.

514
00:30:08,005 --> 00:30:09,638
I mean, it is
if you say it like that.

515
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,177
A word isn't beautiful
just because of its sound.

516
00:30:13,576 --> 00:30:14,575
Cellar door.

517
00:30:14,577 --> 00:30:17,748
It's the marriage
of sound and meaning,

518
00:30:17,980 --> 00:30:19,916
the door to the cellar,

519
00:30:20,351 --> 00:30:21,949
a place where
something magical

520
00:30:21,951 --> 00:30:23,986
and mysterious might happen.

521
00:30:23,988 --> 00:30:25,553
I'm sorry,
have you just dismissed

522
00:30:25,555 --> 00:30:27,322
the basis
of my entire language?

523
00:30:27,324 --> 00:30:28,657
Your language
isn't worth anything

524
00:30:28,659 --> 00:30:30,525
unless you remember
this important fact.

525
00:30:30,527 --> 00:30:32,563
- Oh, is that right?
- It is, yes.

526
00:30:36,767 --> 00:30:38,036
Listen.

527
00:30:39,436 --> 00:30:40,237
Hand.

528
00:30:40,437 --> 00:30:42,604
That might be
a beautiful word...

529
00:30:42,606 --> 00:30:43,705
Yes, it is.

530
00:30:43,707 --> 00:30:45,174
But it means so much more

531
00:30:45,176 --> 00:30:47,278
because of what
we associate it with.

532
00:30:58,421 --> 00:30:59,489
Touch.

533
00:31:00,624 --> 00:31:03,294
Things aren't beautiful
because of how they sound.

534
00:31:04,394 --> 00:31:06,430
They're beautiful
because of what they mean.

535
00:31:15,672 --> 00:31:16,807
Tell me a story.

536
00:31:17,341 --> 00:31:18,239
What?

537
00:31:18,241 --> 00:31:20,377
The story of Cellar Door.

538
00:31:21,812 --> 00:31:22,811
No, I can't.

539
00:31:22,813 --> 00:31:23,514
Why not?

540
00:31:23,747 --> 00:31:25,080
When someone asks me
to play the piano...

541
00:31:25,082 --> 00:31:26,982
That's a different thing
altogether.

542
00:31:26,984 --> 00:31:28,385
Tell me a story.

543
00:31:28,951 --> 00:31:31,020
In any language you want.

544
00:31:31,421 --> 00:31:33,658
- Don't be ridiculous.
- The legend...

545
00:31:34,459 --> 00:31:35,659
of Cellar Door.

546
00:31:35,892 --> 00:31:37,325
No, I'm not
a performing monkey.

547
00:31:37,327 --> 00:31:39,328
(SIGHS)
It begins with the arrival

548
00:31:39,330 --> 00:31:41,332
of a proud
and opinionated princess.

549
00:31:42,032 --> 00:31:43,230
Yes, you're right about that.

550
00:31:43,232 --> 00:31:44,701
She demands entertainment.

551
00:31:45,169 --> 00:31:47,671
Princess Cellardoor is bored.

552
00:31:48,005 --> 00:31:50,238
Bored of cakes and muffins

553
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:51,709
- and exquisite china...
- No.

554
00:31:52,442 --> 00:31:54,211
She longs for another life.

555
00:31:54,978 --> 00:31:56,580
- It's not a name.
- What?

556
00:31:56,846 --> 00:31:58,248
It's something else.

557
00:31:59,482 --> 00:32:02,252
Cellardoor. It's not a
princess's name, it can't be.

558
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,422
Cellardoor...

559
00:32:06,623 --> 00:32:07,691
is a place.

560
00:32:09,594 --> 00:32:12,361
It's a place.
An ancient place.

561
00:32:12,363 --> 00:32:14,398
Impossible to reach, except...

562
00:32:14,998 --> 00:32:16,799
by the most treacherous climb.

563
00:32:16,801 --> 00:32:18,436
It hangs... no...

564
00:32:19,370 --> 00:32:20,170
No?

565
00:32:20,403 --> 00:32:22,873
It's not a climb... It's not...

566
00:32:23,140 --> 00:32:24,441
Door...

567
00:32:26,509 --> 00:32:27,376
(MUMBLES)

568
00:32:27,378 --> 00:32:29,410
...road... path. It's a path.

569
00:32:29,412 --> 00:32:31,846
A path through a dense,
dark forest.

570
00:32:31,848 --> 00:32:33,148
Oh, is it, now?

571
00:32:33,150 --> 00:32:34,314
And at the heart
of Cellardoor,

572
00:32:34,316 --> 00:32:35,419
which is actually a shrine,

573
00:32:35,686 --> 00:32:37,953
there stands
an extraordinary sight.

574
00:32:37,955 --> 00:32:41,357
(GASPS) Is it a proud
and opinionated princess?

575
00:32:41,359 --> 00:32:44,793
It is a place which is revered
by all who know of it.

576
00:32:44,795 --> 00:32:47,528
A sacred place,
marked at its center by...

577
00:32:47,530 --> 00:32:48,598
By?

578
00:32:54,604 --> 00:32:55,672
By trees.

579
00:32:56,207 --> 00:32:57,341
EDITH: <i>Trees?</i>

580
00:32:57,841 --> 00:32:59,807
TOLKIEN: <i>One of
the purest black like ebony,</i>

581
00:32:59,809 --> 00:33:02,312
<i>the other... white as bone.</i>

582
00:33:03,479 --> 00:33:05,780
<i>They each contain
a deadly poison in their sap.</i>

583
00:33:05,782 --> 00:33:08,819
But they have grown together
over thousands of years.

584
00:33:09,253 --> 00:33:11,255
Leaning into each other, like...

585
00:33:12,021 --> 00:33:13,657
they were fighting, or...

586
00:33:15,926 --> 00:33:16,827
The roots...

587
00:33:17,026 --> 00:33:20,861
the branches of the two trees,
reaching, twisting,

588
00:33:20,863 --> 00:33:22,230
gnarling around each other,

589
00:33:22,232 --> 00:33:24,969
have finally become
a single knotted trunk.

590
00:33:26,436 --> 00:33:27,902
Their poisoned saps commingled

591
00:33:27,904 --> 00:33:29,838
to create a powerful,
life-giving potion.

592
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,877
The water... of Cellardoor.

593
00:33:34,077 --> 00:33:35,445
What does it do?

594
00:33:36,146 --> 00:33:37,579
What does it do?

595
00:33:37,581 --> 00:33:38,783
Yes.

596
00:33:39,650 --> 00:33:40,751
What does it do?

597
00:33:41,918 --> 00:33:43,517
- To drink it...
- Yes?

598
00:33:43,519 --> 00:33:45,655
The water of Cellardoor,
to taste it,

599
00:33:46,422 --> 00:33:48,959
is to possess
the power of sight.

600
00:33:51,261 --> 00:33:52,893
Sight beyond sight.

601
00:33:52,895 --> 00:33:54,697
Sight into the deepest,

602
00:33:55,265 --> 00:33:57,098
darkest parts
of the human heart.

603
00:33:57,100 --> 00:33:59,333
It's a hungry, potent magic.

604
00:33:59,335 --> 00:34:02,839
A magic beyond anything
anyone has ever felt before.

605
00:34:23,326 --> 00:34:24,995
(BOTH SNICKER)

606
00:34:25,995 --> 00:34:27,296
What did you do that for?

607
00:34:27,730 --> 00:34:30,368
I was filled with the spirit
of Cellardoor.

608
00:34:30,901 --> 00:34:32,502
Go on. Your turn.

609
00:34:32,969 --> 00:34:34,101
No.

610
00:34:34,103 --> 00:34:35,973
What's the worst
that could happen?

611
00:35:13,310 --> 00:35:14,512
(COINS JINGLING)

612
00:35:15,344 --> 00:35:16,980
Aren't you supposed
to be studying?

613
00:35:17,214 --> 00:35:18,549
Oh, yes. Thank you.

614
00:35:34,732 --> 00:35:37,132
- They sound very exciting.
- Yes.

615
00:35:37,134 --> 00:35:39,600
I mean, I'm not saying
that everything everyone says

616
00:35:39,602 --> 00:35:40,902
is going to be
absolutely fascinating.

617
00:35:40,904 --> 00:35:42,670
- EDITH: It'll be fine.
- TOLKIEN: Yes.

618
00:35:42,672 --> 00:35:44,608
EDITH: I hope
I've dressed up properly.

619
00:35:51,448 --> 00:35:52,982
- More tea?
- EDITH: Uh...

620
00:35:58,754 --> 00:36:00,756
So, what do you
normally talk about?

621
00:36:01,123 --> 00:36:02,125
CHRISTOPHER: Uh, we...

622
00:36:02,460 --> 00:36:05,426
We talk about all sorts
of really interesting things.

623
00:36:05,428 --> 00:36:06,493
Really interesting.

624
00:36:06,495 --> 00:36:08,398
Interesting
and fascinating, and...

625
00:36:08,866 --> 00:36:11,498
you know, that's when we're not
trying to change the world.

626
00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:13,134
GEOFFREY: When we're not
trying to change the world,

627
00:36:13,136 --> 00:36:16,036
the thing we're focusing
on most, Miss Bratt, is...

628
00:36:16,038 --> 00:36:17,774
Please. Edith.

629
00:36:18,741 --> 00:36:20,574
Is our university entrance.

630
00:36:20,576 --> 00:36:22,111
Are you all trying for Oxford?

631
00:36:22,578 --> 00:36:24,180
Well, Tolkien and I are.

632
00:36:24,381 --> 00:36:26,216
The other two are aiming
for Cambridge.

633
00:36:26,450 --> 00:36:28,250
- Treacherous beasts.
- Are you nervous?

634
00:36:28,252 --> 00:36:29,620
Robbie isn't.

635
00:36:29,852 --> 00:36:30,752
Oh.

636
00:36:30,754 --> 00:36:32,453
I don't believe
in examinations.

637
00:36:32,455 --> 00:36:33,524
I write what I think.

638
00:36:33,756 --> 00:36:35,690
And if they want to give me
a mark, it's up to them.

639
00:36:35,692 --> 00:36:37,324
What a revolutionary approach.

640
00:36:37,326 --> 00:36:38,328
Why, thank you. (CHUCKLES)

641
00:36:38,995 --> 00:36:42,265
I would love to hear you play
the piano sometime, Miss...

642
00:36:42,565 --> 00:36:44,768
- Edith.
- (LAUGHS)

643
00:36:44,968 --> 00:36:45,933
She plays marvelously.

644
00:36:45,935 --> 00:36:47,301
EDITH:
You're a composer yourself,

645
00:36:47,303 --> 00:36:48,370
isn't that right, Christopher?

646
00:36:48,372 --> 00:36:49,437
Yes.

647
00:36:49,439 --> 00:36:51,908
- No, he's been published.
- Heavens.

648
00:36:52,542 --> 00:36:54,077
Which composers do you admire?

649
00:36:54,344 --> 00:36:56,777
- Um, I like the Romantics.
- So do I.

650
00:36:56,779 --> 00:36:59,716
Beethoven. Brahms. Wagner.

651
00:36:59,982 --> 00:37:03,551
I appreciate Wagner.
I'm not sure that I like him.

652
00:37:03,553 --> 00:37:04,752
You "appreciate" him?

653
00:37:04,754 --> 00:37:07,290
Yes. As an agent of emotion,
I mean.

654
00:37:07,757 --> 00:37:10,223
The operas...
They're somehow...

655
00:37:10,225 --> 00:37:11,494
I love Wagner's <i>Rheingold.</i>

656
00:37:11,861 --> 00:37:13,962
ROBERT: Christopher
finds those too long.

657
00:37:13,964 --> 00:37:14,965
No, I don't.

658
00:37:15,265 --> 00:37:16,663
ROBERT:
Well, nobody blames you.

659
00:37:16,665 --> 00:37:17,799
It shouldn't take six hours

660
00:37:17,801 --> 00:37:19,167
to tell a story
about a magic ring.

661
00:37:19,169 --> 00:37:21,069
No, Gilson, you don't know
what you're talking about.

662
00:37:21,071 --> 00:37:23,772
Of course, operas can be
considered long and laborious

663
00:37:23,774 --> 00:37:26,440
but for my music,
whatever the length,

664
00:37:26,442 --> 00:37:28,176
it is imperative
that it has heart.

665
00:37:28,178 --> 00:37:29,109
A sensation of intoxication...

666
00:37:29,111 --> 00:37:31,446
- Look, I'm afraid we must go.
- Already?

667
00:37:31,448 --> 00:37:33,348
TOLKIEN: Yes, Mrs. Faulkner
will be worried.

668
00:37:33,350 --> 00:37:34,649
Oh, Tollers,
there's so much tea left.

669
00:37:34,651 --> 00:37:35,817
No, but we have
exams coming up

670
00:37:35,819 --> 00:37:37,185
and I, for one, have to study.

671
00:37:37,187 --> 00:37:38,522
I'm sorry. Goodbye, all.

672
00:37:39,223 --> 00:37:40,790
It was lovely meeting you.

673
00:37:41,223 --> 00:37:43,560
- Bye.
- ALL: Goodbye, Edith.

674
00:37:45,227 --> 00:37:46,796
TOLKIEN: I'll fetch our coats.

675
00:37:48,431 --> 00:37:50,034
EDITH: Are you ashamed of me?

676
00:37:50,466 --> 00:37:51,734
TOLKIEN: What?

677
00:37:52,402 --> 00:37:53,902
EDITH: I can't think
of another explanation.

678
00:37:53,904 --> 00:37:55,806
TOLKIEN: I don't know
what you're talking about.

679
00:37:56,439 --> 00:37:58,575
You know
how I spend my days, John.

680
00:37:58,975 --> 00:38:00,109
You've seen me.

681
00:38:00,444 --> 00:38:01,679
I'm a companion.

682
00:38:02,111 --> 00:38:03,279
A prisoner.

683
00:38:03,879 --> 00:38:07,250
There's no secret
literary societies for me.

684
00:38:08,518 --> 00:38:09,919
No escape.

685
00:38:11,721 --> 00:38:14,324
I play piano
for Mrs. Faulkner.

686
00:38:14,690 --> 00:38:17,660
Terrible, sentimental songs
on the piano.

687
00:38:18,727 --> 00:38:20,563
I sit with her in the evening.

688
00:38:20,830 --> 00:38:23,033
Read with her. Sew with her.

689
00:38:23,232 --> 00:38:24,602
Listen to her.

690
00:38:25,669 --> 00:38:28,169
I have a passion for Wagner.

691
00:38:28,171 --> 00:38:31,873
I want to talk about him.
To discuss. To debate.

692
00:38:31,875 --> 00:38:33,110
But you...

693
00:38:38,681 --> 00:38:40,584
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

694
00:38:54,297 --> 00:38:55,832
(DISTANT EXPLOSIONS)

695
00:39:05,674 --> 00:39:07,210
(EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE)

696
00:39:16,319 --> 00:39:18,122
(DEEP GROWLING)

697
00:39:25,596 --> 00:39:27,698
(DISTANT, HEAVY THUDDING)

698
00:39:35,339 --> 00:39:37,007
(LOW GROWLING)

699
00:39:41,245 --> 00:39:42,645
(MEN SCREAMING)

700
00:39:43,781 --> 00:39:45,413
OFFICER: Take cover!

701
00:39:45,415 --> 00:39:46,951
(MEN SCREAMING)

702
00:39:48,417 --> 00:39:50,685
- (GUNFIRE)
- (SCREAMING)

703
00:39:50,687 --> 00:39:52,056
SAM: Run, sir!

704
00:39:57,727 --> 00:39:59,129
Sir, I think we're safe.

705
00:40:01,998 --> 00:40:03,067
It's okay.

706
00:40:05,002 --> 00:40:06,003
(PANTING)

707
00:40:11,942 --> 00:40:14,178
Sir. Let's stay here, sir.

708
00:40:14,743 --> 00:40:16,113
Let's stay here, sir.

709
00:40:20,750 --> 00:40:22,820
(PIANO PLAYING
SOFT CLASSICAL MUSIC)

710
00:40:46,343 --> 00:40:48,710
Haven't you anything
a little more cheerful, dear?

711
00:40:48,712 --> 00:40:50,080
(MUSIC STOPS)

712
00:40:54,651 --> 00:40:56,020
(SIGHS SOFTLY)

713
00:40:58,488 --> 00:41:00,757
(PLAYING JOLLY MUSIC)

714
00:41:05,361 --> 00:41:06,527
GEOFFREY: <i>"Shapes in the mist</i>

715
00:41:06,529 --> 00:41:08,399
It is long since I saw you

716
00:41:09,299 --> 00:41:12,102
Pale hands and faces, quiet eyes

717
00:41:12,435 --> 00:41:15,471
Crowned with a garland
that dead hands wrought you

718
00:41:15,839 --> 00:41:18,075
Out of remembrance
that never dies

719
00:41:19,609 --> 00:41:22,178
One among you
is tall and supple

720
00:41:22,678 --> 00:41:24,981
Good to love
and to fight beside

721
00:41:25,681 --> 00:41:27,817
Only the stain
of a deadly quarrel

722
00:41:28,084 --> 00:41:30,988
Only that
and the years divide"

723
00:41:32,622 --> 00:41:34,221
- It's dreadful.
- It's superb.

724
00:41:34,223 --> 00:41:35,989
- Stop being such a moron.
- It isn't finished.

725
00:41:35,991 --> 00:41:37,290
ROBERT: It's wonderful.

726
00:41:37,292 --> 00:41:40,263
It's Greek, in a way.
The love of comrades.

727
00:41:40,663 --> 00:41:42,866
It's very emotive.
You should be proud.

728
00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:46,069
Right. Who's next?

729
00:41:46,402 --> 00:41:47,404
Tollers?

730
00:41:47,669 --> 00:41:49,305
No, I haven't anything new.

731
00:41:50,373 --> 00:41:51,640
- ROBERT: Really?
- TOLKIEN: Mmm.

732
00:41:51,642 --> 00:41:53,942
ROBERT: Well,
if Tolkien is betraying

733
00:41:53,944 --> 00:41:55,911
the brotherhood with a blank,

734
00:41:55,913 --> 00:41:59,048
I'm going to show you
something utterly degenerate.

735
00:41:59,314 --> 00:42:00,415
(LAUGHTER)

736
00:42:00,417 --> 00:42:01,919
GEOFFREY: This cannot be good.

737
00:42:02,618 --> 00:42:04,551
CHRISTOPHER: Heavens above.

738
00:42:04,553 --> 00:42:06,453
ROBERT: Copied, unfortunately.

739
00:42:06,455 --> 00:42:08,257
And what I need
is life models.

740
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:10,994
Not much chance of that,
of course.

741
00:42:13,897 --> 00:42:15,596
TOLKIEN: I take it
that's not one of yours.

742
00:42:15,598 --> 00:42:18,401
ROBERT: What, my father's
aristocratic pretensions?

743
00:42:18,701 --> 00:42:20,801
Needless to say,
he hasn't got a rifle,

744
00:42:20,803 --> 00:42:23,304
a stately home,
or a pack of spaniels.

745
00:42:23,306 --> 00:42:24,205
(CHRISTOPHER LAUGHS)

746
00:42:24,207 --> 00:42:25,642
Have you really
not written anything?

747
00:42:25,942 --> 00:42:27,878
Not even inspired
by Miss Bratt?

748
00:42:28,210 --> 00:42:30,913
Don't be an ass, Wiseman.
Edith and I...

749
00:42:31,747 --> 00:42:32,782
share a lodging.

750
00:42:33,015 --> 00:42:34,582
So, her heart
is still unclaimed?

751
00:42:34,584 --> 00:42:35,650
Thank you, Tolkien.
Good to know.

752
00:42:35,652 --> 00:42:36,917
ROBERT:
So, you've written nothing?

753
00:42:36,919 --> 00:42:40,222
I can't get into my stride.
I feel... unfocused.

754
00:42:40,457 --> 00:42:42,493
CHRISTOPHER: You know what
I think that's a symptom of?

755
00:42:43,694 --> 00:42:44,759
Constipation?

756
00:42:44,761 --> 00:42:46,594
- (LAUGHS)
- Ha-ha-ha.

757
00:42:46,596 --> 00:42:48,795
Love.
Requited or otherwise.

758
00:42:48,797 --> 00:42:50,297
Yes. Thank you.

759
00:42:50,299 --> 00:42:51,266
What a wonderful insight

760
00:42:51,268 --> 00:42:53,203
into the human condition,
Chris.

761
00:42:53,902 --> 00:42:56,205
It's a pity it doesn't find
its way into your music.

762
00:42:57,940 --> 00:43:00,208
You know, I'm surprised
you expect us to believe

763
00:43:00,210 --> 00:43:01,708
a single word you say,
Tolkien.

764
00:43:01,710 --> 00:43:02,745
What's that supposed to mean?

765
00:43:03,111 --> 00:43:04,913
CHRISTOPHER: You kept the
delectable Miss Bratt from us.

766
00:43:05,415 --> 00:43:07,449
Who knows what else
you might be concealing.

767
00:43:07,451 --> 00:43:08,518
Christopher.

768
00:43:09,051 --> 00:43:10,851
A wife, three children
and a ranch in Argentina.

769
00:43:10,853 --> 00:43:11,986
Since you ask.

770
00:43:11,988 --> 00:43:13,754
God, I wish
I had Tolkien's secret life,

771
00:43:13,756 --> 00:43:14,922
eh, Geoff?

772
00:43:14,924 --> 00:43:16,656
TOLKIEN: Can we please
just play the game?

773
00:43:16,658 --> 00:43:18,528
(DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)

774
00:43:21,064 --> 00:43:22,498
I thought you said
he was away?

775
00:43:22,832 --> 00:43:25,399
- Yes, he was.
- (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

776
00:43:25,401 --> 00:43:26,469
He is...

777
00:43:28,270 --> 00:43:31,440
Geoffrey, give me
that quickly. Thank you.

778
00:43:33,142 --> 00:43:34,542
ROBERT: Where do I put
these things?

779
00:43:34,544 --> 00:43:36,279
GEOFFREY: (WHISPERING)
Quickly.

780
00:43:36,879 --> 00:43:38,314
ROBERT: Shh!

781
00:43:38,814 --> 00:43:40,883
(FOOTSTEPS GROW NEARER)

782
00:43:44,254 --> 00:43:45,322
(DOOR OPENS)

783
00:43:48,158 --> 00:43:50,360
- Sir.
- TOLKIEN: Headmaster.

784
00:43:50,759 --> 00:43:51,761
What's this?

785
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:53,761
You said I might have
some friends here, sir.

786
00:43:53,763 --> 00:43:54,862
While you were away.

787
00:43:54,864 --> 00:43:56,266
Your aunt is better.

788
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:58,935
I came home.

789
00:44:01,672 --> 00:44:03,605
I have work to do.
Send them home now.

790
00:44:03,607 --> 00:44:05,839
I've promised the boys that
they can stay the night, sir.

791
00:44:05,841 --> 00:44:08,344
Circumstances
have changed, however.

792
00:44:08,745 --> 00:44:10,480
And now they will go home.

793
00:44:13,382 --> 00:44:14,917
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

794
00:44:25,661 --> 00:44:27,029
Helheimr.

795
00:44:27,430 --> 00:44:28,498
Don't be ridiculous.

796
00:44:29,632 --> 00:44:30,933
Helheimr.

797
00:44:32,468 --> 00:44:33,970
Helheimr.

798
00:44:34,671 --> 00:44:38,075
If not now, then when?
(LAUGHS)

799
00:44:50,786 --> 00:44:52,022
ROBERT: Sir?

800
00:44:54,424 --> 00:44:58,295
I prefer not to go back on
my offer of hospitality, sir.

801
00:44:58,594 --> 00:45:00,363
I think it ungentlemanly.

802
00:45:00,564 --> 00:45:02,065
You think...

803
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,402
I'm sorry. What?

804
00:45:06,902 --> 00:45:09,171
Ungentlemanly, sir.

805
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:12,308
Father, I think it rude.

806
00:45:13,142 --> 00:45:14,574
The boys are here to study.

807
00:45:14,576 --> 00:45:15,645
And play billiards.

808
00:45:16,546 --> 00:45:19,049
Yes, and play billiards.

809
00:45:20,450 --> 00:45:23,317
We've worked hard, sir.
And these are my friends.

810
00:45:23,319 --> 00:45:25,989
And I have made them
a promise, which...

811
00:45:27,424 --> 00:45:28,525
with respect,

812
00:45:29,426 --> 00:45:30,594
I would like to keep.

813
00:45:34,698 --> 00:45:36,033
Very well.

814
00:45:41,504 --> 00:45:43,674
- (SIGHS IN RELIEF)
- (BOYS SNICKERING)

815
00:45:46,942 --> 00:45:49,710
CHRISTOPHER: Gilson.
You're a bloody hero.

816
00:45:49,712 --> 00:45:52,082
- ROBERT: (WHISPERS) Boys, stop.
- CHRISTOPHER: Bloody hero.

817
00:45:53,082 --> 00:45:55,451
- Helheimr.
- (ALL LAUGH)

818
00:46:02,591 --> 00:46:04,093
(DOOR OPENS)

819
00:46:08,330 --> 00:46:09,964
There's a word in old German,

820
00:46:09,966 --> 00:46:11,634
it has no translation
in English,

821
00:46:12,033 --> 00:46:14,234
but it means
a gift offered fearfully

822
00:46:14,236 --> 00:46:15,672
in the wake of an argument.

823
00:46:15,872 --> 00:46:17,373
<i>Drachenfutter.</i>

824
00:46:22,879 --> 00:46:24,681
Literally, "Dragon Food."

825
00:46:32,922 --> 00:46:34,256
So now I'm a dragon?

826
00:46:35,725 --> 00:46:37,094
(STAMMERS)

827
00:46:39,895 --> 00:46:41,462
(BELL TOLLING)

828
00:46:41,464 --> 00:46:43,632
EDITH: <i>Wagner wrote it
in four acts.</i>

829
00:46:43,866 --> 00:46:44,966
<i>It starts with a ring,</i>

830
00:46:44,968 --> 00:46:46,801
a magical ring
which can rule the world

831
00:46:46,803 --> 00:46:48,569
and which is forged
by a dwarf.

832
00:46:48,571 --> 00:46:49,772
It's Alberich.

833
00:46:50,172 --> 00:46:52,408
Well, I have picked up the odd
bit of German mythology.

834
00:46:52,776 --> 00:46:54,442
But to harness
the ring's power,

835
00:46:54,444 --> 00:46:56,009
you first have to
renounce love.

836
00:46:56,011 --> 00:46:58,781
Oh. A very sensible exchange,
in my opinion.

837
00:46:59,082 --> 00:47:01,551
Well, that's because
you're a coldhearted Viking.

838
00:47:03,252 --> 00:47:04,755
Two, please. Upper gallery.

839
00:47:05,455 --> 00:47:07,391
Gallery
and upper gallery full.

840
00:47:07,924 --> 00:47:08,991
Sorry, what?

841
00:47:09,357 --> 00:47:12,228
The gallery and upper gallery
are full. I'm sorry.

842
00:47:14,096 --> 00:47:15,529
Nothing at all?

843
00:47:15,531 --> 00:47:17,767
That's what we mean
by full, sir, yes.

844
00:47:18,167 --> 00:47:20,436
There is availability
in the dress circle.

845
00:47:23,071 --> 00:47:24,507
The dress circle.

846
00:47:26,375 --> 00:47:28,377
But that's five shillings.

847
00:47:30,846 --> 00:47:32,413
And we do
respectfully ask patrons

848
00:47:32,415 --> 00:47:34,817
to dress appropriately
for that tier, sir.

849
00:47:38,488 --> 00:47:39,522
Come on.

850
00:47:42,625 --> 00:47:43,727
Edith.

851
00:47:44,993 --> 00:47:46,228
Follow me.

852
00:47:49,165 --> 00:47:51,067
- (GATE CREAKS)
- (HORSE NEIGHS IN DISTANCE)

853
00:47:56,540 --> 00:47:57,707
(DOOR RATTLES)

854
00:48:13,022 --> 00:48:14,357
Sorry.

855
00:48:14,790 --> 00:48:15,792
It's fine.

856
00:48:19,728 --> 00:48:21,098
Humiliating.

857
00:48:21,997 --> 00:48:25,199
Counting out the pennies.
It's shameful.

858
00:48:25,801 --> 00:48:27,169
(SIGHS)

859
00:48:28,238 --> 00:48:30,107
I'm not going
to live like that.

860
00:48:31,073 --> 00:48:32,307
And neither should you.

861
00:48:32,942 --> 00:48:34,074
They're just tickets.
We can...

862
00:48:34,076 --> 00:48:35,243
It's not the tickets.

863
00:48:35,245 --> 00:48:37,380
It's about not losing
the people you love.

864
00:48:38,281 --> 00:48:39,748
Looking after them.

865
00:48:42,151 --> 00:48:43,719
My mother, she...

866
00:48:45,254 --> 00:48:46,522
She was sick.

867
00:48:48,991 --> 00:48:50,459
I don't know what it was.

868
00:48:52,962 --> 00:48:54,631
But, maybe,
if I could have paid...

869
00:48:55,196 --> 00:48:56,765
for a doctor, I...

870
00:48:56,998 --> 00:48:58,267
then...

871
00:49:02,437 --> 00:49:03,539
Sorry.

872
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:05,808
This isn't going to work.

873
00:49:06,743 --> 00:49:08,341
It was a nice idea, though.

874
00:49:08,343 --> 00:49:10,546
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING
IN DISTANCE)

875
00:49:14,049 --> 00:49:16,252
(MUFFLED ORCHESTRAL
MUSIC BEGINS)

876
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:54,256
- (WOMAN SINGING IN GERMAN)
- (LIP-SYNCHING)

877
00:50:00,129 --> 00:50:02,332
(MAN SINGING IN GERMAN)

878
00:50:18,714 --> 00:50:20,249
(WOMAN SINGING)

879
00:51:54,009 --> 00:51:55,478
MASTER: <i>You may begin.</i>

880
00:51:55,977 --> 00:51:58,379
Oxford entrance. Paper 1.

881
00:51:58,381 --> 00:52:00,183
The time is nine o'clock,

882
00:52:00,482 --> 00:52:02,751
and you have three hours.

883
00:52:03,953 --> 00:52:05,322
Good luck.

884
00:52:10,593 --> 00:52:12,127
TOLKIEN:
<i>Look, I can take it again.</i>

885
00:52:12,460 --> 00:52:14,627
I can take it again,
and I can pass.

886
00:52:14,629 --> 00:52:16,198
To pass is not enough.

887
00:52:16,397 --> 00:52:17,800
You need a scholarship.

888
00:52:19,368 --> 00:52:20,736
I'm worried, Ronald.

889
00:52:21,603 --> 00:52:25,507
I'm sure Master Gilson
has no need for a scholarship.

890
00:52:25,875 --> 00:52:27,375
As for Geoffrey Smith...

891
00:52:27,377 --> 00:52:28,808
This has nothing to do
with my friends.

892
00:52:28,810 --> 00:52:31,680
We encourage each other,
we push each other on.

893
00:52:35,084 --> 00:52:36,386
Your fellow lodger.

894
00:52:36,986 --> 00:52:38,020
Miss Bratt.

895
00:52:39,189 --> 00:52:41,390
No, Edith has nothing to do
with my failing that exam.

896
00:52:41,656 --> 00:52:45,027
You were seen coming out
of her room. At night.

897
00:52:45,261 --> 00:52:46,329
We talked.

898
00:52:46,629 --> 00:52:47,862
We talk to each other.

899
00:52:47,864 --> 00:52:49,663
- Oh. So, it's true.
- Yes, of course it's true.

900
00:52:49,665 --> 00:52:50,964
- It doesn't...
- The night before the exam,

901
00:52:50,966 --> 00:52:52,866
you accompanied her
to the concert hall.

902
00:52:52,868 --> 00:52:55,404
That, also,
has nothing to do with this?

903
00:52:55,870 --> 00:52:58,407
(SIGHS) She's not even
Catholic, Ronald.

904
00:53:00,910 --> 00:53:02,045
Your mother

905
00:53:02,877 --> 00:53:04,013
made a sacrifice.

906
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:06,446
She knew she was dying

907
00:53:06,448 --> 00:53:09,985
and she trusted your future
and education to me.

908
00:53:10,553 --> 00:53:12,522
I intend to honor that.

909
00:53:13,622 --> 00:53:15,823
The time has come
for you to choose

910
00:53:15,825 --> 00:53:18,495
whether or not you will follow
in her example.

911
00:53:19,227 --> 00:53:21,194
I don't think I understand.

912
00:53:21,196 --> 00:53:22,362
I must ask you

913
00:53:22,364 --> 00:53:23,864
to have nothing more
to do with Miss Bratt.

914
00:53:23,866 --> 00:53:26,732
That's ridiculous.
That's completely unfair.

915
00:53:26,734 --> 00:53:29,037
- Nevertheless.
- No. No, I...

916
00:53:29,439 --> 00:53:30,603
I can't. I won't.

917
00:53:30,605 --> 00:53:32,306
I am your legal guardian...

918
00:53:32,308 --> 00:53:33,841
Yes, but you don't understand.

919
00:53:33,843 --> 00:53:36,178
- Oh, I understand perfectly.
- No. Father. (SIGHS)

920
00:53:37,846 --> 00:53:38,948
I love her.

921
00:53:43,018 --> 00:53:44,187
I wish...

922
00:53:45,053 --> 00:53:46,687
Ronald, I wish you could enjoy

923
00:53:46,689 --> 00:53:48,623
the same luxuries
other boys do.

924
00:53:48,625 --> 00:53:51,391
- I wish...
- No, you're jealous.

925
00:53:51,393 --> 00:53:53,027
You don't want that at all.
You're jealous.

926
00:53:53,029 --> 00:53:54,728
You say that but you don't
mean it. You're a priest.

927
00:53:54,730 --> 00:53:56,429
You don't know anything
about love. How could you?

928
00:53:56,431 --> 00:53:57,832
- Listen to me.
- You want me to be alone.

929
00:53:57,834 --> 00:53:59,565
You want me to live alone
like you and have nothing.

930
00:53:59,567 --> 00:54:00,868
I won't.
I won't live like that.

931
00:54:00,870 --> 00:54:03,603
If after the age of 21,
you still feel the same way,

932
00:54:03,605 --> 00:54:06,609
you are, of course,
free to do as you please.

933
00:54:08,377 --> 00:54:09,778
Until that time,

934
00:54:10,178 --> 00:54:11,844
you have a duty to fulfill.

935
00:54:11,846 --> 00:54:14,049
And you will fulfill it,
Ronald.

936
00:54:14,984 --> 00:54:17,620
So, help me God,
you will fulfill it.

937
00:54:26,629 --> 00:54:28,096
TOLKIEN:
<i>I can't fail it again.</i>

938
00:54:28,797 --> 00:54:31,000
And you know what will happen
if I don't get into Oxford.

939
00:54:35,404 --> 00:54:36,469
I could become a priest,

940
00:54:36,471 --> 00:54:37,737
but I don't think
a life of celibacy

941
00:54:37,739 --> 00:54:39,508
is what either of us
had in mind.

942
00:54:42,877 --> 00:54:43,912
Edith?

943
00:54:49,917 --> 00:54:52,185
Edith, it's just until
I reach my majority.

944
00:54:52,187 --> 00:54:53,723
Oh, for God's sake, Ronald.

945
00:54:54,056 --> 00:54:55,525
Don't be so dramatic.

946
00:54:57,593 --> 00:54:58,893
It doesn't matter.

947
00:54:58,895 --> 00:55:00,726
No, don't say that.
Of course, it matters.

948
00:55:00,728 --> 00:55:02,765
I don't know why
you're taking it so hard.

949
00:55:02,964 --> 00:55:06,035
Things are just returning
to normal, that's all.

950
00:55:06,268 --> 00:55:07,435
To reality.

951
00:55:07,437 --> 00:55:10,270
No, I won't give up
on our future. (SIGHS)

952
00:55:10,272 --> 00:55:11,274
That's why I'm...

953
00:55:12,808 --> 00:55:14,544
I refuse to give up on that.

954
00:55:17,980 --> 00:55:19,248
Of course, you will.

955
00:55:20,850 --> 00:55:22,719
More quickly than you think.

956
00:55:26,455 --> 00:55:28,087
- So will I.
- No, that's not true.

957
00:55:28,089 --> 00:55:29,625
Edith, please. Look...

958
00:55:32,328 --> 00:55:33,362
I let myself believe

959
00:55:33,629 --> 00:55:35,698
that there were happy endings
for people like us.

960
00:55:36,431 --> 00:55:37,700
But there aren't.

961
00:55:37,933 --> 00:55:38,868
There can't be.

962
00:55:42,538 --> 00:55:44,306
But you get your happy ending.

963
00:55:46,776 --> 00:55:48,710
Hope you enjoy Oxford.

964
00:55:49,477 --> 00:55:51,547
No. Edith.

965
00:55:53,549 --> 00:55:55,151
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

966
00:56:16,404 --> 00:56:17,739
I need your help.

967
00:56:18,140 --> 00:56:19,509
I need to rest, Sam.

968
00:56:19,908 --> 00:56:21,910
You have to find Geoffrey.

969
00:56:22,477 --> 00:56:23,676
Sir, I'm not leaving you here.

970
00:56:23,678 --> 00:56:26,145
- Sam.
- I'm not leaving you here.

971
00:56:26,147 --> 00:56:28,549
Sam. It's an order.

972
00:56:28,984 --> 00:56:32,154
Find Geoffrey
and tell him not to lose hope.

973
00:56:34,390 --> 00:56:36,725
Tell him that
the T.C.B.S., we...

974
00:56:39,761 --> 00:56:41,163
Just keep him alive.

975
00:57:01,384 --> 00:57:03,252
(FAINTLY) Thank you, Sam.

976
00:57:08,223 --> 00:57:10,556
- ROSE: Is it a dragon?
- It's a dragon. It's a dragon.

977
00:57:10,558 --> 00:57:11,792
CHRISTOPHER:
For goodness' sake.

978
00:57:11,794 --> 00:57:14,094
I was wondering,
did I mention before...

979
00:57:14,096 --> 00:57:15,763
The set of the play is
very much inspired

980
00:57:15,765 --> 00:57:17,031
by the architecture
of Trinity.

981
00:57:17,033 --> 00:57:17,864
Sorry, chaps.

982
00:57:17,866 --> 00:57:20,168
- But what's it about?
- Well...

983
00:57:20,368 --> 00:57:23,270
- And so, you're the poet?
- No, uh, that's Geoffrey.

984
00:57:23,272 --> 00:57:25,808
I think you Oxford men
should be upping the game. No?

985
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:27,774
- Where are we off to next?
- Yes, do tell.

986
00:57:27,776 --> 00:57:29,942
Yes, where shall we...?
Sorry, excuse me.

987
00:57:29,944 --> 00:57:31,080
Um...

988
00:57:31,913 --> 00:57:32,915
Right.

989
00:57:33,582 --> 00:57:35,350
(BELL TOLLING)

990
00:57:38,152 --> 00:57:39,987
ROBERT: Stealing a bus?
That's your plan?

991
00:57:39,989 --> 00:57:42,522
- GEOFFREY: Gilson! Quiet!
- CHRISTOPHER: Hurry up!

992
00:57:42,524 --> 00:57:43,593
GEOFFREY: Shh!

993
00:57:43,859 --> 00:57:46,091
I think that particular match
it was the Oxford men

994
00:57:46,093 --> 00:57:48,027
- versus the Cambridge boys.
- (LAUGHTER)

995
00:57:48,029 --> 00:57:50,698
ROBERT: Oh, come on,
the referee was blind.

996
00:57:50,700 --> 00:57:52,098
CHRISTOPHER: I hereby declare

997
00:57:52,100 --> 00:57:54,734
the third Oxford council
of the T.C.B.S.

998
00:57:54,736 --> 00:57:56,671
well and truly open.

999
00:57:56,904 --> 00:57:58,004
And would like to welcome

1000
00:57:58,006 --> 00:57:59,640
our damsels
from the Eagle and Child

1001
00:57:59,642 --> 00:58:00,775
as honorary guests.

1002
00:58:00,777 --> 00:58:02,808
May all our meetings
take place

1003
00:58:02,810 --> 00:58:03,879
on an abandoned omnibus.

1004
00:58:04,113 --> 00:58:05,712
I think the word "abandoned"
might be stretching it.

1005
00:58:05,714 --> 00:58:06,913
- Maybe a bit.
- (LAUGHTER)

1006
00:58:06,915 --> 00:58:08,584
MARY: What is the T.C.B.?

1007
00:58:09,018 --> 00:58:10,886
- ROBERT: Oh, the T.C.B.S.
- Oh.

1008
00:58:11,687 --> 00:58:14,223
I don't think you like me,
Mr. Burglar.

1009
00:58:14,756 --> 00:58:16,957
- Sorry, I was just...
- I apologize for my friend.

1010
00:58:16,959 --> 00:58:18,926
- He's pining for someone.
- What?

1011
00:58:18,928 --> 00:58:20,861
CHRISTOPHER: He's pining
for the delectable Miss Bratt.

1012
00:58:20,863 --> 00:58:21,929
ROBERT: Take no notice of him.

1013
00:58:21,931 --> 00:58:23,129
Who's the delectable
Miss Bratt?

1014
00:58:23,131 --> 00:58:24,663
- She's no one.
- Oh, is she, Tollers?

1015
00:58:24,665 --> 00:58:25,766
The way you've been
moping around

1016
00:58:25,768 --> 00:58:26,769
for the past couple of months.

1017
00:58:26,968 --> 00:58:28,467
It's not very nice
to talk about another lady

1018
00:58:28,469 --> 00:58:29,471
when you're with someone.

1019
00:58:29,739 --> 00:58:31,274
No, you're absolutely right.
I apologize, Myrtle.

1020
00:58:31,540 --> 00:58:33,105
- It's Beryl.
- (LAUGHTER)

1021
00:58:33,107 --> 00:58:35,542
See? See? Sitting in the arms
of a beautiful girl

1022
00:58:35,544 --> 00:58:36,975
and he can't even
remember her name.

1023
00:58:36,977 --> 00:58:38,312
I'm sorry if my difficulties

1024
00:58:38,314 --> 00:58:39,812
are getting in the way
of your diversions.

1025
00:58:39,814 --> 00:58:41,380
Ah, you made a decision,
Tolkien.

1026
00:58:41,382 --> 00:58:42,584
Nobody forced you into it.

1027
00:58:42,884 --> 00:58:44,317
- What?
- CHRISTOPHER: Edith or Oxford.

1028
00:58:44,319 --> 00:58:46,020
You chose Oxford,
and here you are!

1029
00:58:46,022 --> 00:58:48,087
Sat on a commandeered bus
with three beautiful girls

1030
00:58:48,089 --> 00:58:49,922
and your best friends. For
God's sake, enjoy yourself!

1031
00:58:49,924 --> 00:58:51,725
- Nobody forced me?
- CHRISTOPHER: Oh, yes...

1032
00:58:51,727 --> 00:58:53,025
The priest. Your benefactor.

1033
00:58:53,027 --> 00:58:54,096
Chris, this is
getting out of hand.

1034
00:58:54,495 --> 00:58:56,161
- Don't talk about things you...
- Thank you. This was wonderful.

1035
00:58:56,163 --> 00:58:57,596
You let her go.
You didn't want her

1036
00:58:57,598 --> 00:58:58,567
- more than you wanted Oxford.
- No.

1037
00:58:58,935 --> 00:59:00,533
- I didn't have a choice.
- Does that make you a rotter?

1038
00:59:00,535 --> 00:59:01,734
Does that make you
something else?

1039
00:59:01,736 --> 00:59:03,704
- What's the matter with you?
- Just shut up!

1040
00:59:03,904 --> 00:59:05,438
Oh, for God's sake, Tollers.

1041
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:07,810
- (CHRISTOPHER GROANS)
- TOLKIEN: Chris. Sorry, Chris.

1042
00:59:09,143 --> 00:59:11,312
- Bloody hell, Tollers.
- Are you all right?

1043
00:59:11,747 --> 00:59:12,846
For an intellectual,

1044
00:59:12,848 --> 00:59:14,515
you've quite
an impressive right hook.

1045
00:59:14,517 --> 00:59:16,183
- Hit me back. Please.
- No.

1046
00:59:16,185 --> 00:59:17,887
Hit me back right now.
Please, Chris.

1047
00:59:18,087 --> 00:59:19,919
- Forget it. Forget it.
- TOLKIEN: Chris, please.

1048
00:59:19,921 --> 00:59:21,223
CHRISTOPHER: It's fine.

1049
00:59:23,326 --> 00:59:25,461
No, that was horrible of me.
I'm sorry.

1050
00:59:28,964 --> 00:59:32,335
ROBERT: What you need
to understand, Tolkien, you...

1051
00:59:32,902 --> 00:59:34,569
poor lawless orphan,

1052
00:59:35,069 --> 00:59:37,073
is that we are your brothers.

1053
00:59:37,707 --> 00:59:38,839
Through everything.

1054
00:59:38,841 --> 00:59:40,777
Yes, absolutely.

1055
00:59:41,143 --> 00:59:42,176
Exactly.

1056
00:59:42,178 --> 00:59:45,080
ROBERT: This is more than...
just a friendship.

1057
00:59:45,547 --> 00:59:46,949
It's an alliance.

1058
00:59:47,649 --> 00:59:50,118
An invincible alliance.

1059
00:59:50,785 --> 00:59:51,786
Helheimr!

1060
00:59:52,020 --> 00:59:54,721
- ALL: Helheimr.
- TOLKIEN: Still Helheimr.

1061
00:59:54,723 --> 00:59:56,690
Every time he gets it wrong.

1062
00:59:56,692 --> 00:59:57,757
GEOFFREY:
Right, I need a drink.

1063
00:59:57,759 --> 00:59:58,891
CHRISTOPHER:
Where did the girls go?

1064
00:59:58,893 --> 01:00:00,796
GEOFFREY: (WHISPERS)
Shh. Get down.

1065
01:00:02,297 --> 01:00:04,200
CONSTABLE:
Hold the door, George.

1066
01:00:08,969 --> 01:00:10,973
They let you out in one piece.

1067
01:00:11,906 --> 01:00:14,376
They're speaking to the rector
in the morning.

1068
01:00:15,777 --> 01:00:16,779
What about you?

1069
01:00:17,046 --> 01:00:19,645
Well, Gilson and Wiseman,
the Cambridge swines,

1070
01:00:19,647 --> 01:00:21,015
have been let go already.

1071
01:00:21,415 --> 01:00:22,815
I wasn't quite so lucky.

1072
01:00:22,817 --> 01:00:23,884
Looks like I'll be joining you

1073
01:00:23,886 --> 01:00:25,486
in the rector's office
tomorrow.

1074
01:00:25,488 --> 01:00:27,056
Death by lecture.

1075
01:00:27,489 --> 01:00:28,422
I'm sorry, Geoff.

1076
01:00:28,424 --> 01:00:30,626
- No, it's not your fault.
- No, it is.

1077
01:00:31,058 --> 01:00:32,859
If it wasn't for me,
you'd be in the arms

1078
01:00:32,861 --> 01:00:34,762
of the delightful Mary by now.

1079
01:00:35,062 --> 01:00:37,330
GEOFFREY: Please. The moment
I showed any interest,

1080
01:00:37,332 --> 01:00:39,201
she started talking about
her sweetheart.

1081
01:00:39,502 --> 01:00:41,871
TOLKIEN: I was doing all right
until Wiseman ruined it.

1082
01:00:48,444 --> 01:00:50,313
(BELL TOLLING)

1083
01:01:12,368 --> 01:01:13,902
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1084
01:01:15,603 --> 01:01:17,806
GEOFFREY: The rector was
honestly writing to my mother.

1085
01:01:18,239 --> 01:01:20,408
Do you think I stand a chance
of becoming a poet after this?

1086
01:01:21,176 --> 01:01:24,243
She's going to lose her mind.
So, that's that.

1087
01:01:24,245 --> 01:01:26,814
ROBERT: Oh, Geoffrey's
only lost his career.

1088
01:01:27,149 --> 01:01:28,917
What did you get, Tolkien?

1089
01:01:30,618 --> 01:01:33,154
- I got sent down.
- (ALL LAUGH)

1090
01:01:34,156 --> 01:01:35,688
(STAMMERS)
Are you joking, Tollers?

1091
01:01:35,690 --> 01:01:36,924
They can't
send you down for that.

1092
01:01:36,926 --> 01:01:38,290
For a bloody picnic on a bus.

1093
01:01:38,292 --> 01:01:39,961
The bus was the least of it.

1094
01:01:41,062 --> 01:01:42,497
I haven't achieved the grades.

1095
01:01:42,696 --> 01:01:43,830
According to the rector,

1096
01:01:43,832 --> 01:01:45,297
I have no flair
for the Greats,

1097
01:01:45,299 --> 01:01:48,469
and only a passing interest
in the ancient Greeks.

1098
01:01:48,471 --> 01:01:49,672
So, they won't endorse
my scholarship.

1099
01:01:49,939 --> 01:01:51,605
Yes, but that doesn't mean
you have to go down.

1100
01:01:51,806 --> 01:01:54,473
No, of course not.
How stupid of me.

1101
01:01:54,475 --> 01:01:56,442
Yes, when Mama gets back
from Monte Carlo,

1102
01:01:56,444 --> 01:01:57,944
I'll ask her
to write another check.

1103
01:01:57,946 --> 01:01:59,148
(SCOFFS)

1104
01:02:00,783 --> 01:02:02,084
What are you going to do?

1105
01:02:03,051 --> 01:02:04,884
They'll endorse my scholarship
until the end of term.

1106
01:02:04,886 --> 01:02:07,022
After that, I have to finance
my own studies.

1107
01:02:07,221 --> 01:02:08,754
Which is, of course,
impossible,

1108
01:02:08,756 --> 01:02:10,558
so, get a job, I suppose.

1109
01:02:12,993 --> 01:02:14,062
Well, doing what?

1110
01:02:15,464 --> 01:02:18,600
I will go back to Birmingham
and work in a bakery.

1111
01:02:19,100 --> 01:02:22,736
Or I will make shoes
for rich dimwits like you

1112
01:02:22,738 --> 01:02:23,939
who come in
waving their wallets.

1113
01:02:24,339 --> 01:02:26,408
I could do with a new pair
of Oxfords, anyway.

1114
01:02:27,042 --> 01:02:28,708
(BOTH CHUCKLE)

1115
01:02:28,710 --> 01:02:29,779
But, in all seriousness,

1116
01:02:29,978 --> 01:02:32,281
you've always had more flair
than any of us.

1117
01:02:33,181 --> 01:02:34,216
And...

1118
01:02:34,917 --> 01:02:35,918
I'll be honest,

1119
01:02:36,218 --> 01:02:37,520
I sometimes hated you for it.

1120
01:02:39,455 --> 01:02:40,154
But, out of us all,

1121
01:02:40,455 --> 01:02:42,491
you're the last person
who should be sent down.

1122
01:02:44,993 --> 01:02:47,194
GEOFFREY:
So, tomorrow is our last game.

1123
01:02:47,196 --> 01:02:49,062
ROBERT: We're gonna really
miss thrashing you, chaps.

1124
01:02:49,064 --> 01:02:50,230
GEOFFREY: Please.

1125
01:02:50,232 --> 01:02:52,134
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

1126
01:03:00,776 --> 01:03:02,542
PLAYER: Wiseman, stop him!

1127
01:03:02,544 --> 01:03:03,578
(SHOUTING CONTINUES)

1128
01:03:08,716 --> 01:03:10,986
- (GRUNTING)
- (BLOWING WHISTLE)

1129
01:03:11,486 --> 01:03:12,518
(CROWD CHEERS)

1130
01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:14,189
- Well done, Tolkien.
- Thank you.

1131
01:03:14,823 --> 01:03:17,024
- (LAUGHING)
- Good game, boys.

1132
01:03:17,225 --> 01:03:19,826
- That was a beautiful run.
- Well played, you big oaf.

1133
01:03:19,828 --> 01:03:21,228
You weren't a total fool,
Tollers.

1134
01:03:21,230 --> 01:03:22,962
GEOFFREY: Sorry, what was
the score, Wiseman?

1135
01:03:22,964 --> 01:03:24,366
(LAUGHTER)

1136
01:03:25,167 --> 01:03:26,569
Well played, lads.

1137
01:03:27,703 --> 01:03:28,969
Hello, Mother.

1138
01:03:28,971 --> 01:03:30,672
- Well played, Geoffrey.
- Thank you for coming.

1139
01:03:31,205 --> 01:03:32,571
Are we still on
for dinner later?

1140
01:03:32,573 --> 01:03:34,075
Yes. Seven o'clock.

1141
01:03:34,276 --> 01:03:36,178
And your father will be there.

1142
01:03:38,013 --> 01:03:39,547
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1143
01:03:43,685 --> 01:03:44,953
TOLKIEN:
Excuse me, Mrs. Smith.

1144
01:03:45,654 --> 01:03:48,056
I wondered if I might
have a brief word.

1145
01:03:49,290 --> 01:03:50,191
Well?

1146
01:03:50,526 --> 01:03:53,527
It's about Geoffrey and, um,
this business with the rector.

1147
01:03:53,529 --> 01:03:55,094
It's been the most dreadful
misunderstanding.

1148
01:03:55,096 --> 01:03:57,098
I'd prefer not to talk about
that, if you don't mind.

1149
01:03:58,466 --> 01:04:00,567
I'm responsible for everything
that happened that night

1150
01:04:00,569 --> 01:04:02,804
and I assure you
I've been thoroughly punished.

1151
01:04:03,038 --> 01:04:04,203
I'm trying to say,
please don't

1152
01:04:04,205 --> 01:04:05,371
make things harder
on Geoffrey.

1153
01:04:05,373 --> 01:04:08,074
He's one of the most
diligent people I know.

1154
01:04:08,076 --> 01:04:09,010
And the kindest.

1155
01:04:09,210 --> 01:04:10,576
He tries so hard
to make you proud of him.

1156
01:04:10,578 --> 01:04:11,846
And he has such
exceptional talents.

1157
01:04:12,047 --> 01:04:13,413
I know
I'm speaking out of line...

1158
01:04:13,415 --> 01:04:15,315
- And you were responsible?
- Yes.

1159
01:04:15,317 --> 01:04:18,118
Yes, and I've been sent down.

1160
01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:20,489
So, you needn't worry about
my influence anymore.

1161
01:04:21,656 --> 01:04:22,825
And, um...

1162
01:04:23,959 --> 01:04:27,627
What... What talents
are you referring to?

1163
01:04:27,629 --> 01:04:28,728
He's a poet.

1164
01:04:28,730 --> 01:04:31,163
He's had his work published
in college magazines.

1165
01:04:31,165 --> 01:04:33,102
He'd kill me for telling
you this. But he's good.

1166
01:04:33,935 --> 01:04:35,303
Good afternoon to you.

1167
01:04:43,846 --> 01:04:45,081
PORTER: Mr. Tolkien?

1168
01:04:46,214 --> 01:04:48,417
- This is for you.
- Thank you.

1169
01:05:00,828 --> 01:05:02,698
(LIQUID SLOSHING IN BOTTLE)

1170
01:05:04,866 --> 01:05:07,670
(SPEAKING UNKNOWN LANGUAGE)

1171
01:05:29,158 --> 01:05:31,123
PROFESSOR:
Students off the grass!

1172
01:05:31,125 --> 01:05:33,393
Have you any idea
what time it is?

1173
01:05:33,395 --> 01:05:34,460
(SPEAKS UNKNOWN LANGUAGE)

1174
01:05:34,462 --> 01:05:36,198
(IN ENGLISH)
You silly old sod!

1175
01:05:36,497 --> 01:05:39,031
I say, Wright,
is he one of yours?

1176
01:05:39,033 --> 01:05:40,669
I don't believe he is.

1177
01:05:41,435 --> 01:05:43,536
(SPEAKING UNKNOWN LANGUAGE)

1178
01:05:43,538 --> 01:05:45,373
(IN ENGLISH) You silly old...

1179
01:05:46,241 --> 01:05:47,910
PROFESSOR: Get off the lawn!

1180
01:05:59,254 --> 01:06:01,156
Hail Earendel,

1181
01:06:03,959 --> 01:06:06,761
brightest of angels
sent unto men.

1182
01:06:14,002 --> 01:06:15,871
(SPEAKING UNKNOWN LANGUAGE)

1183
01:07:02,183 --> 01:07:04,786
GEOFFREY: Ronald.
Ronald, get up.

1184
01:07:05,419 --> 01:07:07,920
Get up. It's me. Wake up.

1185
01:07:07,922 --> 01:07:08,989
Yes, I'm awake.

1186
01:07:08,991 --> 01:07:10,355
You've woken up
the whole college.

1187
01:07:10,357 --> 01:07:11,690
They can't send me down twice,
can they?

1188
01:07:11,692 --> 01:07:13,661
- Pull yourself together.
- Can they?

1189
01:07:13,962 --> 01:07:16,263
Geoff! Geoff, sit down.

1190
01:07:16,265 --> 01:07:18,397
Have a drink. Wonderful malt.

1191
01:07:18,399 --> 01:07:20,768
I don't want a drink.
Pull yourself together, John.

1192
01:07:21,368 --> 01:07:22,904
(GEOFFREY PANTING)

1193
01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:26,275
(SIGHS)

1194
01:07:28,509 --> 01:07:30,743
Would you like to come
to a wedding?

1195
01:07:30,745 --> 01:07:31,880
What?

1196
01:07:32,279 --> 01:07:34,547
- Very beautiful, English...
- John...

1197
01:07:34,549 --> 01:07:36,652
- ...summer wedding.
- You're not making any sense.

1198
01:07:37,718 --> 01:07:38,720
Edith.

1199
01:07:39,221 --> 01:07:40,556
Congratulations.

1200
01:07:42,089 --> 01:07:43,658
Yes, she wrote to me. She's...

1201
01:07:44,225 --> 01:07:45,493
She's engaged.

1202
01:07:46,093 --> 01:07:47,328
She's getting married.

1203
01:07:48,263 --> 01:07:49,598
Oh, John, that's...

1204
01:07:50,332 --> 01:07:51,866
That's awfully bad luck.

1205
01:07:53,502 --> 01:07:55,467
(VOICE QUIVERING) I'm sorry.
I'm in a bit of a mess.

1206
01:07:55,469 --> 01:07:57,937
- No, that's okay. Hey, hey...
- Sorry, Geoff.

1207
01:07:57,939 --> 01:07:59,605
It's okay. It's okay.

1208
01:07:59,607 --> 01:08:01,610
- That's okay.
- (SOBBING)

1209
01:08:04,846 --> 01:08:06,415
I've got you.

1210
01:08:08,951 --> 01:08:09,952
I've got you.

1211
01:08:10,886 --> 01:08:12,688
REFEREE: Fencers salute!

1212
01:08:17,459 --> 01:08:19,892
- How are you feeling?
- (FOILS CLASHING)

1213
01:08:19,894 --> 01:08:21,729
Oh, absolutely fantastic.

1214
01:08:22,897 --> 01:08:24,099
Delightful.

1215
01:08:24,666 --> 01:08:27,068
And what a marvelous idea
this was, thank you.

1216
01:08:31,674 --> 01:08:32,940
To love someone,

1217
01:08:33,908 --> 01:08:38,145
who, for whatever reason,
cannot return your feelings

1218
01:08:38,346 --> 01:08:40,381
is painful.

1219
01:08:42,617 --> 01:08:44,419
But if you listen
to the poets,

1220
01:08:46,354 --> 01:08:49,892
perhaps there's a kind
of beauty to that love.

1221
01:08:51,760 --> 01:08:52,928
It burns.

1222
01:08:53,595 --> 01:08:54,561
Bright.

1223
01:08:54,563 --> 01:08:58,434
And it's never tainted
by reality or by...

1224
01:08:59,033 --> 01:09:00,035
overuse.

1225
01:09:01,970 --> 01:09:03,735
It's as clear and fierce today

1226
01:09:03,737 --> 01:09:05,637
as it was
the very first day it began.

1227
01:09:05,639 --> 01:09:07,575
And there's beauty to that,

1228
01:09:09,077 --> 01:09:10,379
I think.

1229
01:09:12,746 --> 01:09:14,682
At least, that's what
I cling to, anyway.

1230
01:09:22,756 --> 01:09:24,492
(MASTER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

1231
01:09:27,929 --> 01:09:29,098
WRIGHT: <i>Hails!</i>

1232
01:09:30,832 --> 01:09:32,000
Uh... <i>Hails!</i>

1233
01:09:32,700 --> 01:09:35,334
(CONTINUES SPEAKING
ANCIENT GOTHIC)

1234
01:09:35,336 --> 01:09:37,605
(UNDER BREATH)
Another gobbledygook speaker.

1235
01:09:42,777 --> 01:09:46,581
(IN ENGLISH) How are you, uh,
finding the Gothic Primer?

1236
01:09:47,114 --> 01:09:50,350
Yes. Not bad. The preface
is pretty well written.

1237
01:09:50,352 --> 01:09:52,785
There's not much
of the language itself.

1238
01:09:52,787 --> 01:09:54,856
- Ah, a pity about that.
- Yes.

1239
01:09:55,657 --> 01:09:59,491
- Last night in the quad...
- God. You were there.

1240
01:09:59,493 --> 01:10:02,264
...I heard a language
I was unfamiliar with.

1241
01:10:02,596 --> 01:10:04,129
Well, of course,
the greater part

1242
01:10:04,131 --> 01:10:05,865
of Oxfordshire heard it too,

1243
01:10:05,867 --> 01:10:08,470
right up to
the Chiltern Hills.

1244
01:10:09,537 --> 01:10:11,039
I was very drunk.

1245
01:10:11,473 --> 01:10:12,940
I don't doubt it.

1246
01:10:16,310 --> 01:10:18,179
It was utter nonsense.

1247
01:10:18,746 --> 01:10:20,614
A language I invented
for the fairies.

1248
01:10:21,081 --> 01:10:24,751
I thought perhaps
I heard some Finnish.

1249
01:10:25,220 --> 01:10:27,188
- Yes. I stole a good deal.
- Ah.

1250
01:10:27,522 --> 01:10:29,655
- Not stole.
- No.

1251
01:10:29,657 --> 01:10:31,894
Languages never steal.

1252
01:10:32,493 --> 01:10:34,761
- Right.
- Influenced.

1253
01:10:35,529 --> 01:10:38,000
Sorry, I didn't
catch your name. I'm...

1254
01:10:40,902 --> 01:10:44,573
I'm Tolkien. Ronald.
Exeter College.

1255
01:10:46,340 --> 01:10:47,608
(SIGHS)

1256
01:11:10,465 --> 01:11:11,700
Excuse me.

1257
01:11:19,974 --> 01:11:22,009
A child points,

1258
01:11:23,411 --> 01:11:24,980
and is taught a word.

1259
01:11:26,147 --> 01:11:27,181
Tree.

1260
01:11:27,448 --> 01:11:30,350
Later, he learns
to distinguish this tree

1261
01:11:30,352 --> 01:11:31,618
from all the others.

1262
01:11:31,620 --> 01:11:33,956
He learns its particular name.

1263
01:11:34,688 --> 01:11:36,390
He plays under the tree.

1264
01:11:36,590 --> 01:11:38,359
He dances around it.

1265
01:11:39,059 --> 01:11:43,831
Stands beneath its branches,
for shade or shelter.

1266
01:11:44,599 --> 01:11:47,636
He kisses under it,
he sleeps under it,

1267
01:11:48,135 --> 01:11:49,837
he weds under it.

1268
01:11:50,538 --> 01:11:53,642
He marches past it
on his way to war,

1269
01:11:54,675 --> 01:11:58,279
and limps back past it
on his journey home.

1270
01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:03,084
A king is said to have
hidden in this tree.

1271
01:12:03,684 --> 01:12:08,389
A spirit may dwell
within its bark.

1272
01:12:08,822 --> 01:12:10,255
Its distinctive leaves

1273
01:12:10,257 --> 01:12:13,825
are carved onto the tombs and
monuments of his landlords.

1274
01:12:13,827 --> 01:12:16,995
Its wood might have built
the galleons

1275
01:12:16,997 --> 01:12:19,999
that saved his ancestors
from invasion.

1276
01:12:20,001 --> 01:12:21,703
And all this,

1277
01:12:22,403 --> 01:12:24,736
the general and the specific,

1278
01:12:24,738 --> 01:12:26,172
the national and the personal,

1279
01:12:26,174 --> 01:12:27,743
all this,

1280
01:12:28,343 --> 01:12:29,745
he knows,

1281
01:12:30,144 --> 01:12:31,612
and feels,

1282
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:35,082
and summons, somehow,
however faintly,

1283
01:12:35,384 --> 01:12:39,288
with the utterance
of a single sound.

1284
01:12:42,224 --> 01:12:43,292
Oak.

1285
01:12:45,792 --> 01:12:48,494
Saxon word. Proto-Germanic.

1286
01:12:48,496 --> 01:12:50,933
Cognates in Old Norse. <i>Eik.</i>

1287
01:12:51,666 --> 01:12:54,232
Language is never nonsense.

1288
01:12:54,234 --> 01:12:56,336
Language is meaning.

1289
01:12:56,636 --> 01:12:59,674
History.
Layer upon layer upon layer.

1290
01:13:00,474 --> 01:13:03,911
And a word without meaning
is what?

1291
01:13:04,612 --> 01:13:06,047
Merely a sound.

1292
01:13:07,047 --> 01:13:08,884
Someone else
once said that to me.

1293
01:13:09,117 --> 01:13:12,054
With a good deal more economy,
I shouldn't wonder.

1294
01:13:12,420 --> 01:13:13,585
(CHUCKLES)

1295
01:13:13,587 --> 01:13:16,254
There are one or two
original Gothic texts

1296
01:13:16,256 --> 01:13:17,356
in the library.

1297
01:13:17,358 --> 01:13:18,427
You should take a look.

1298
01:13:18,626 --> 01:13:20,860
But I can't just walk in
and ask for the originals.

1299
01:13:20,862 --> 01:13:22,931
Tell them Professor Wright
sent you.

1300
01:13:39,915 --> 01:13:41,547
CHRISTOPHER:
<i>He wouldn't have cared.</i>

1301
01:13:41,549 --> 01:13:42,681
That's not the point.

1302
01:13:42,683 --> 01:13:43,915
He's probably
the greatest philologist,

1303
01:13:43,917 --> 01:13:45,450
certainly
of the Gothic language.

1304
01:13:45,452 --> 01:13:46,852
He might have
even been flattered.

1305
01:13:46,854 --> 01:13:48,023
Of course, he was flattered.

1306
01:13:48,290 --> 01:13:50,591
Nobody's taken that book out
of the library in 1,500 years.

1307
01:13:50,791 --> 01:13:52,592
Well, actually,
I had it out last week.

1308
01:13:52,594 --> 01:13:53,793
ROBERT: Oh.
How did you find it?

1309
01:13:53,795 --> 01:13:54,895
I don't want to spoil it
for Tollers.

1310
01:13:55,130 --> 01:13:56,762
He won't finish it. He doesn't
even know who wrote it.

1311
01:13:56,764 --> 01:13:58,799
Please. Will you all just
shut up? It's not funny.

1312
01:13:59,134 --> 01:14:00,535
Listen, Tolkien,

1313
01:14:00,734 --> 01:14:02,670
you absolute clown.

1314
01:14:03,004 --> 01:14:04,872
This is your chance,
can't you see?

1315
01:14:05,072 --> 01:14:07,740
Your Gothic professor
is encouraging you to defect.

1316
01:14:07,742 --> 01:14:08,775
What are you talking about?

1317
01:14:08,777 --> 01:14:10,444
He's enticing you
into his class.

1318
01:14:10,912 --> 01:14:12,477
- (ALL SHUSHING)
- Sorry.

1319
01:14:12,479 --> 01:14:13,447
(WHISPERS) He's right.

1320
01:14:13,881 --> 01:14:16,214
But I can't just breeze
into the philology department.

1321
01:14:16,216 --> 01:14:16,917
Why not?

1322
01:14:17,285 --> 01:14:19,084
Because I don't have
a scholarship, for a start.

1323
01:14:19,086 --> 01:14:20,819
So, are you telling me
that the philology department

1324
01:14:20,821 --> 01:14:22,254
don't give out scholarships?

1325
01:14:22,256 --> 01:14:25,993
Yes, for someone who happens
to be a genius with languages.

1326
01:14:27,094 --> 01:14:29,831
- ROBERT: Moron.
- (CHRISTOPHER LAUGHS)

1327
01:14:30,732 --> 01:14:31,897
Professor!

1328
01:14:31,899 --> 01:14:33,732
- Excuse me, Professor Wright.
- Yes.

1329
01:14:33,734 --> 01:14:35,670
I've been thinking
about the oak.

1330
01:14:35,970 --> 01:14:37,268
Uh, the symbolism of it.

1331
01:14:37,270 --> 01:14:40,271
The guardian tree,
the harbinger of change.

1332
01:14:40,273 --> 01:14:43,610
How fascinating. Are you
a student of arboriculture?

1333
01:14:43,612 --> 01:14:47,346
No. I'm studying Greats.
But I would like...

1334
01:14:47,348 --> 01:14:48,448
That's why I stopped you,

1335
01:14:48,450 --> 01:14:49,748
I'd like to change
to your class.

1336
01:14:49,750 --> 01:14:51,817
- To study philology.
- To my class?

1337
01:14:51,819 --> 01:14:55,754
Yes. I'm Tolkien.
Ronald Tolkien.

1338
01:14:55,756 --> 01:14:57,923
I stood outside your window
and shouted obscenities

1339
01:14:57,925 --> 01:14:59,759
in a kind of
bastardized Finnish.

1340
01:14:59,961 --> 01:15:01,963
And you consider
that a recommendation?

1341
01:15:02,397 --> 01:15:03,695
I know this is irregular,

1342
01:15:03,697 --> 01:15:06,065
but I've realized
my true passion,

1343
01:15:06,067 --> 01:15:08,270
the thing I've been working on
my entire life...

1344
01:15:10,371 --> 01:15:11,803
Can I speak candidly, sir?

1345
01:15:11,805 --> 01:15:14,742
You cannot conceive
how much I would welcome it.

1346
01:15:15,410 --> 01:15:16,508
- I need a scholarship.
- (SIGHS)

1347
01:15:16,510 --> 01:15:19,813
I need a scholarship
to study philology. With you.

1348
01:15:20,281 --> 01:15:21,914
And there are no lengths
I wouldn't go to,

1349
01:15:21,916 --> 01:15:23,582
to prove that
I'm a worthy candidate.

1350
01:15:23,584 --> 01:15:24,786
- No lengths?
- Yes.

1351
01:15:25,019 --> 01:15:26,755
(SPEAKING OLD ENGLISH)

1352
01:15:30,358 --> 01:15:31,426
No.

1353
01:15:32,193 --> 01:15:33,295
- No?
- No.

1354
01:15:33,495 --> 01:15:35,962
No, because if I left you
alone to work in peace,

1355
01:15:35,964 --> 01:15:37,695
then I wouldn't
get the privilege

1356
01:15:37,697 --> 01:15:38,797
of learning from you,

1357
01:15:38,799 --> 01:15:40,332
and that would defeat
the purpose

1358
01:15:40,334 --> 01:15:43,839
of this entire, frankly,
quite terrifying, interlude.

1359
01:15:46,273 --> 01:15:47,272
- Tolkien.
- Yes, sir.

1360
01:15:47,274 --> 01:15:49,142
- German origin.
- I think so, sir.

1361
01:15:49,144 --> 01:15:51,143
From the Anglo-Saxon, perhaps.

1362
01:15:51,145 --> 01:15:53,415
- Exactly.
- <i>Tollkühn.</i>

1363
01:15:54,148 --> 01:15:55,448
I'm assuming you don't need me

1364
01:15:55,450 --> 01:15:58,086
to translate
that particular word for you.

1365
01:15:59,287 --> 01:16:00,355
Foolhardy.

1366
01:16:00,988 --> 01:16:02,120
Professor Wright...

1367
01:16:02,122 --> 01:16:04,390
My class is full, Mr. Tolkien.

1368
01:16:04,392 --> 01:16:08,127
Full with students who can
translate Old English,

1369
01:16:08,129 --> 01:16:10,329
at least as quickly
and skillfully as you,

1370
01:16:10,331 --> 01:16:13,900
and they've already had two
terms to establish themselves.

1371
01:16:13,902 --> 01:16:15,403
Good afternoon.

1372
01:16:15,670 --> 01:16:17,005
Helheimr.

1373
01:16:17,471 --> 01:16:18,806
Professor.

1374
01:16:20,041 --> 01:16:23,075
Since childhood, I have
been fascinated with language.

1375
01:16:23,077 --> 01:16:25,311
Obsessed with it.
I've invented my own.

1376
01:16:25,313 --> 01:16:27,482
Full, complete languages.
Look.

1377
01:16:27,915 --> 01:16:30,452
This is, it's... everything.

1378
01:16:31,118 --> 01:16:35,122
From the <i>Breost-hord.</i>
My heart.

1379
01:16:35,555 --> 01:16:37,091
The treasure of the breast.

1380
01:16:38,526 --> 01:16:39,725
And the drawings?

1381
01:16:39,727 --> 01:16:42,163
I made stories. Legends.

1382
01:16:43,130 --> 01:16:44,829
After all,
what is language for?

1383
01:16:44,831 --> 01:16:46,999
It's not just the naming
of things, is it?

1384
01:16:47,001 --> 01:16:50,137
It's the lifeblood
of a culture, a people.

1385
01:16:50,504 --> 01:16:53,007
- Yes. Exactly.
- Exactly.

1386
01:16:57,577 --> 01:16:59,378
Could you write 5,000 words

1387
01:16:59,380 --> 01:17:03,117
on the influence
of Norse elements in <i>Gawain?</i>

1388
01:17:03,416 --> 01:17:06,453
Yes, absolutely.
When would you like it by?

1389
01:17:06,720 --> 01:17:08,055
WRIGHT: This evening.

1390
01:17:12,594 --> 01:17:13,929
This evening.

1391
01:17:39,620 --> 01:17:42,457
(READING <i>BEOWULF</i>
IN OLD ENGLISH)

1392
01:18:04,545 --> 01:18:06,180
Middle Earth.

1393
01:18:11,318 --> 01:18:12,653
(HORSE NEIGHING)

1394
01:18:14,089 --> 01:18:17,359
<i>"Both of these brothers
marshaled the warriors</i>

1395
01:18:19,225 --> 01:18:21,660
<i>They bid their dear kinsman
through words</i>

1396
01:18:21,662 --> 01:18:24,564
<i>that they had to endure there
in time of need</i>

1397
01:18:25,166 --> 01:18:27,702
<i>make use of their weapons
without weakening"</i>

1398
01:18:28,368 --> 01:18:32,973
The way you follow
the rhythms of the poetry,

1399
01:18:33,940 --> 01:18:35,408
your sensitivity to it.

1400
01:18:35,410 --> 01:18:37,511
I have to tell you,
Mr. Tolkien,

1401
01:18:38,278 --> 01:18:40,681
I've never come across
anything like it.

1402
01:18:41,782 --> 01:18:43,051
Never.

1403
01:18:45,653 --> 01:18:47,388
"Byrthwold spoke out..."

1404
01:18:47,721 --> 01:18:51,056
"Byrthwold spoke out,
brandished his shield..."

1405
01:18:51,058 --> 01:18:55,263
War! War! England's at war!

1406
01:18:55,563 --> 01:18:57,998
Germany's invaded Belgium!

1407
01:19:00,768 --> 01:19:02,636
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

1408
01:19:08,108 --> 01:19:11,145
"He instructed the warriors
most boldly of all:

1409
01:19:14,715 --> 01:19:16,584
Courage must be the harder

1410
01:19:18,353 --> 01:19:19,587
heart the keener

1411
01:19:20,420 --> 01:19:24,058
<i>spirits the greater,
as our strength wanes</i>

1412
01:19:25,660 --> 01:19:28,328
<i>Here lies our lord,
entirely cut to pieces</i>

1413
01:19:28,795 --> 01:19:31,298
<i>a good man in the dirt"</i>

1414
01:19:52,252 --> 01:19:54,456
- (PEPPY JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1415
01:20:08,568 --> 01:20:11,138
(PIANO PLAYING
SOFT CLASSICAL MUSIC)

1416
01:20:22,916 --> 01:20:23,981
(STOPS PLAYING)

1417
01:20:23,983 --> 01:20:25,652
TOLKIEN: Here you go, Chris.

1418
01:20:29,857 --> 01:20:32,223
Ladies and gentlemen,
Robert Gilson.

1419
01:20:32,225 --> 01:20:33,428
CHRISTOPHER: Gilson!

1420
01:20:34,162 --> 01:20:35,660
Aren't you going to ask me
to dance?

1421
01:20:35,662 --> 01:20:36,596
Did you lose a bet?

1422
01:20:36,863 --> 01:20:39,030
ROBERT: I've had three envious
glances already, actually.

1423
01:20:39,032 --> 01:20:40,533
People must have mistaken you
for the Kaiser.

1424
01:20:40,535 --> 01:20:42,433
What is this?
A war or a tea dance?

1425
01:20:42,435 --> 01:20:44,837
- First-class mustache, Gilson.
- Why, thank you.

1426
01:20:44,839 --> 01:20:47,475
- You need a drink, young man.
- ROBERT: On the ball.

1427
01:20:49,175 --> 01:20:51,442
GEOFFREY: I think
we're all here, Tolkien.

1428
01:20:51,444 --> 01:20:52,447
Yes.

1429
01:20:53,747 --> 01:20:55,215
Shall we make a toast?

1430
01:20:55,950 --> 01:20:58,752
To all the future
T.C.B.S. meetings.

1431
01:20:59,586 --> 01:21:00,721
All across Europe.

1432
01:21:05,559 --> 01:21:06,761
Cheers, gentlemen.

1433
01:21:08,461 --> 01:21:11,198
- Gentlemen! May I?
- I don't see why not.

1434
01:21:11,898 --> 01:21:13,401
ROBERT: Eyes front, Tolkien.

1435
01:21:20,174 --> 01:21:22,310
PHOTOGRAPHER:
And watch the birdie!

1436
01:21:22,943 --> 01:21:24,843
ALL: Helheimr!

1437
01:21:24,845 --> 01:21:25,879
(CAMERA FLASH POPS)

1438
01:21:26,412 --> 01:21:28,280
ROBERT: I've just written a
play where a French waitress

1439
01:21:28,282 --> 01:21:29,914
falls madly in love
with an English hero.

1440
01:21:29,916 --> 01:21:31,016
TOLKIEN: You'll have to shave

1441
01:21:31,018 --> 01:21:32,420
if you want to play
a French waitress.

1442
01:21:32,787 --> 01:21:33,985
ROBERT: Cheers.
Never too many.

1443
01:21:33,987 --> 01:21:35,154
One more?

1444
01:21:35,156 --> 01:21:36,454
ROBERT: All bets
Wiseman goes to sleep first.

1445
01:21:36,456 --> 01:21:37,789
GEOFFREY:
I'll take that bet. Scotch?

1446
01:21:37,791 --> 01:21:38,923
ROBERT: Easy money.

1447
01:21:38,925 --> 01:21:40,461
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1448
01:21:46,267 --> 01:21:47,469
Good luck, Ronald.

1449
01:21:49,938 --> 01:21:51,239
I'll take that.

1450
01:21:52,773 --> 01:21:54,242
I'll try and hold the ship.

1451
01:22:00,814 --> 01:22:03,384
- EDITH: How's your brother?
- TOLKIEN: He's fine.

1452
01:22:03,716 --> 01:22:05,120
He's in France already.

1453
01:22:06,554 --> 01:22:08,790
How about you?
How's your music?

1454
01:22:09,122 --> 01:22:10,657
EDITH: I teach piano.

1455
01:22:11,291 --> 01:22:12,861
Small girls, mostly.

1456
01:22:13,661 --> 01:22:15,296
Not very good.

1457
01:22:16,229 --> 01:22:17,531
And you're engaged.

1458
01:22:19,666 --> 01:22:20,834
He's very kind.

1459
01:22:22,001 --> 01:22:23,435
Very considerate.

1460
01:22:23,437 --> 01:22:24,602
A good person, really.

1461
01:22:24,604 --> 01:22:26,538
There is something
I have to say...

1462
01:22:26,540 --> 01:22:27,440
Ronald.

1463
01:22:27,442 --> 01:22:29,307
I made the biggest mistake
of my life

1464
01:22:29,309 --> 01:22:31,477
and there hasn't been a day,
a moment...

1465
01:22:31,479 --> 01:22:33,347
I've never stopped
thinking about you.

1466
01:22:33,880 --> 01:22:38,116
You are the most remarkable
spirit I have ever met.

1467
01:22:38,118 --> 01:22:41,456
You have courage
and resourcefulness, talent,

1468
01:22:42,189 --> 01:22:43,457
you're proud,

1469
01:22:43,925 --> 01:22:45,490
maddeningly, wonderfully, so;

1470
01:22:45,492 --> 01:22:48,694
and you are
cunning and vibrant

1471
01:22:48,696 --> 01:22:50,398
and completely alive.

1472
01:22:52,433 --> 01:22:54,769
You deserve
every happiness you find.

1473
01:22:58,104 --> 01:22:59,706
No. No, you don't.

1474
01:23:00,507 --> 01:23:02,544
You don't deserve happiness,
that's not what I...

1475
01:23:06,746 --> 01:23:07,848
What I mean is...

1476
01:23:09,215 --> 01:23:10,884
You deserve much more.

1477
01:23:12,786 --> 01:23:14,255
You deserve magic.

1478
01:23:29,170 --> 01:23:30,705
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1479
01:23:35,742 --> 01:23:36,777
Is it that one?

1480
01:23:38,444 --> 01:23:39,813
TOLKIEN: It's the <i>Ascanius.</i>

1481
01:23:40,648 --> 01:23:43,384
Sounds like something
out of one of your stories.

1482
01:23:45,086 --> 01:23:48,990
Yes. "Pity the poor citizens
of the kingdom of Ascanius."

1483
01:23:49,322 --> 01:23:50,757
Why shall we pity them?

1484
01:23:51,559 --> 01:23:53,261
For their terrible history.

1485
01:23:54,362 --> 01:23:55,596
For their shame.

1486
01:23:56,898 --> 01:23:57,931
Their regrets.

1487
01:24:01,202 --> 01:24:03,071
They should
forgive themselves.

1488
01:24:03,337 --> 01:24:04,572
They can't.

1489
01:24:06,639 --> 01:24:08,941
MAN: Lancashires
on the <i>Ascanius!</i>

1490
01:24:08,943 --> 01:24:09,911
I'd better...

1491
01:24:12,045 --> 01:24:13,714
This has been so nice.

1492
01:24:17,452 --> 01:24:18,586
Goodbye, little one.

1493
01:24:52,019 --> 01:24:53,021
Edith.

1494
01:24:59,292 --> 01:25:01,392
- I love you.
- I love you.

1495
01:25:01,394 --> 01:25:03,598
- I love you so much.
- I know. (CHUCKLES)

1496
01:25:04,398 --> 01:25:06,130
There's nothing
I could do about it.

1497
01:25:06,132 --> 01:25:08,303
I know. I can't either.

1498
01:25:09,103 --> 01:25:10,471
(BOTH LAUGH)

1499
01:25:11,238 --> 01:25:12,773
(MAN SHOUTING IN DISTANCE)

1500
01:25:14,075 --> 01:25:15,309
I have to go.

1501
01:25:17,010 --> 01:25:18,578
- Stay alive.
- Yes.

1502
01:25:19,346 --> 01:25:20,848
And come back to me.

1503
01:25:22,116 --> 01:25:24,719
Stay alive
and come back to me.

1504
01:25:58,185 --> 01:26:00,485
(FOOTSTEPS SLOSHING)

1505
01:26:00,487 --> 01:26:03,224
SAM: Sir, I found them.
Get up!

1506
01:26:03,491 --> 01:26:05,826
- I found the 19th Lancashires.
- Geoff.

1507
01:26:06,093 --> 01:26:07,191
You have to get up, sir.

1508
01:26:07,193 --> 01:26:08,393
(DISTANT EXPLOSIONS)

1509
01:26:08,395 --> 01:26:10,495
Let's find your friend.
We're almost there.

1510
01:26:10,497 --> 01:26:12,966
- (PANTING)
- (EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE)

1511
01:26:13,768 --> 01:26:15,066
OFFICER: Fire!

1512
01:26:15,068 --> 01:26:16,167
SOLDIER: Get up the ladder!

1513
01:26:16,169 --> 01:26:18,538
- (GUNFIRE)
- (MEN SHOUTING)

1514
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:20,007
(SCREAMING)

1515
01:26:20,640 --> 01:26:22,509
OFFICER: Attach your bayonets!

1516
01:26:23,210 --> 01:26:24,342
PRIVATE: I can't do it.

1517
01:26:24,344 --> 01:26:25,843
SERGEANT: Come on, Private.
Come on!

1518
01:26:25,845 --> 01:26:27,114
Geoffrey!

1519
01:26:28,314 --> 01:26:29,548
OFFICER: This way! Quickly!

1520
01:26:29,550 --> 01:26:31,717
SOLDIER:
Right, you Lancashires!

1521
01:26:31,719 --> 01:26:32,584
Geoffrey!

1522
01:26:32,586 --> 01:26:34,655
- (WHISTLE BLOWING)
- (MEN CLAMORING)

1523
01:26:35,089 --> 01:26:36,355
Where's Geoffrey Bache Smith?

1524
01:26:36,357 --> 01:26:37,923
Lieutenant
Geoffrey Bache Smith?

1525
01:26:37,925 --> 01:26:40,025
Bache Smith isn't here.
He's already gone over the top.

1526
01:26:40,027 --> 01:26:41,692
- No!
- Yes. Sorry.

1527
01:26:41,694 --> 01:26:43,829
- (SHOUTING CONTINUES)
- (PANTING)

1528
01:26:43,831 --> 01:26:44,695
Geoffrey!

1529
01:26:44,697 --> 01:26:45,996
OFFICER: Don't stop for wounded.

1530
01:26:45,998 --> 01:26:46,800
Geoffrey!

1531
01:26:47,200 --> 01:26:48,933
- Sir, what are you doing? Wait!
- TOLKIEN: Don't follow me.

1532
01:26:48,935 --> 01:26:51,136
OFFICER: Up the ladder,
Lancashires!

1533
01:26:51,138 --> 01:26:52,407
Geoff!

1534
01:26:53,206 --> 01:26:54,472
Geoffrey!

1535
01:26:54,474 --> 01:26:56,877
- (EXPLOSIONS)
- (MEN SHOUTING)

1536
01:26:57,978 --> 01:26:59,043
(SCREAMING)

1537
01:26:59,045 --> 01:27:00,212
- (GUNFIRE)
- (MEN GROANING)

1538
01:27:00,214 --> 01:27:01,748
SOLDIER: Don't slow down!

1539
01:27:04,151 --> 01:27:05,486
Geoff!

1540
01:27:05,952 --> 01:27:07,218
GEOFFREY: Ronald!

1541
01:27:07,220 --> 01:27:08,923
- Geoff!
- (EXPLOSION)

1542
01:27:11,125 --> 01:27:12,493
Geoff!

1543
01:27:14,995 --> 01:27:16,061
Geoff!

1544
01:27:16,063 --> 01:27:17,665
GEOFFREY: Ronald!

1545
01:27:18,131 --> 01:27:19,500
Geoffrey!

1546
01:27:20,501 --> 01:27:21,566
(EXPLOSIONS)

1547
01:27:21,568 --> 01:27:23,638
GEOFFREY: Ronald!

1548
01:27:27,741 --> 01:27:28,743
Geoff!

1549
01:27:32,379 --> 01:27:33,581
What?

1550
01:27:34,147 --> 01:27:35,149
GEOFFREY: Ronald!

1551
01:27:37,050 --> 01:27:38,182
Geoff!

1552
01:27:38,184 --> 01:27:39,687
GEOFFREY: Ronald!

1553
01:27:41,087 --> 01:27:42,456
Ronald!

1554
01:27:45,158 --> 01:27:46,227
Geoff!

1555
01:27:48,895 --> 01:27:50,096
Geoffrey!

1556
01:28:09,015 --> 01:28:10,718
(CAVALRY YELLING)

1557
01:28:35,542 --> 01:28:36,909
SOLDIER: Gas!

1558
01:28:36,911 --> 01:28:38,779
(MEN SHOUTING)

1559
01:28:41,447 --> 01:28:43,017
SOLDIER:
Get that bloody mask on!

1560
01:28:45,819 --> 01:28:47,255
Gas!

1561
01:28:49,724 --> 01:28:51,792
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

1562
01:29:00,533 --> 01:29:02,737
- (GUNFIRE)
- (MEN SHOUTING)

1563
01:29:11,612 --> 01:29:13,681
(GASPING)

1564
01:29:23,189 --> 01:29:24,257
(EXHALES HEAVILY)

1565
01:29:52,886 --> 01:29:54,589
(GROWLING)

1566
01:29:57,623 --> 01:29:59,827
(EERIE, INDISTINCT WHISPERING)

1567
01:30:09,236 --> 01:30:10,837
(DEEP GROWLING)

1568
01:30:13,239 --> 01:30:15,242
(ECHOING VOICES YELLING)

1569
01:30:45,205 --> 01:30:46,806
EDITH: (SOFTLY) Hello.

1570
01:30:50,478 --> 01:30:52,013
Don't try to sit up.

1571
01:30:59,252 --> 01:31:01,554
You've been asleep
for a very long time.

1572
01:31:01,921 --> 01:31:05,058
You've had trench fever,
but you're all right.

1573
01:31:06,126 --> 01:31:07,294
You're home.

1574
01:31:10,897 --> 01:31:12,700
(WEAKLY) I tried to find him.

1575
01:31:15,135 --> 01:31:16,203
Who?

1576
01:31:16,470 --> 01:31:17,872
Geoffrey, I...

1577
01:31:19,239 --> 01:31:20,741
I heard him...

1578
01:31:22,309 --> 01:31:23,444
I could hear him.

1579
01:31:27,380 --> 01:31:30,084
Geoffrey is... is dead.

1580
01:31:31,283 --> 01:31:33,219
He died weeks ago.

1581
01:31:33,519 --> 01:31:34,754
What?

1582
01:31:36,322 --> 01:31:37,422
No.

1583
01:31:37,424 --> 01:31:38,993
Robert Gilson, he was...

1584
01:31:39,658 --> 01:31:41,094
he was hit.

1585
01:31:43,663 --> 01:31:44,864
He's also dead.

1586
01:31:47,835 --> 01:31:49,270
Robbie and Geoffrey.

1587
01:31:50,636 --> 01:31:51,938
I'm sorry.

1588
01:31:52,906 --> 01:31:54,742
Ron, I'm so sorry.

1589
01:31:58,644 --> 01:32:01,447
But you're fine. You're home.
Every...

1590
01:32:02,081 --> 01:32:04,884
Everything's going to be fine.
I promise.

1591
01:32:13,327 --> 01:32:15,493
FATHER FRANCIS:
I spend my every afternoon

1592
01:32:15,495 --> 01:32:18,465
with mothers, widows.

1593
01:32:19,899 --> 01:32:21,367
What can I say to them?

1594
01:32:23,504 --> 01:32:27,140
Your sons have died
in the war to end all wars.

1595
01:32:28,575 --> 01:32:29,977
TOLKIEN: What do you say?

1596
01:32:31,810 --> 01:32:33,412
Words are useless.

1597
01:32:33,712 --> 01:32:35,349
Modern words, anyway.

1598
01:32:37,785 --> 01:32:39,252
I speak the liturgy.

1599
01:32:41,220 --> 01:32:45,091
There's a comfort, I think,
in distance.

1600
01:32:45,626 --> 01:32:46,927
Ancient things.

1601
01:32:50,697 --> 01:32:52,699
Throughout the whole
of your illness,

1602
01:32:53,166 --> 01:32:55,803
Miss Bratt
never left your bedside.

1603
01:32:57,504 --> 01:32:58,939
Not once.

1604
01:33:02,075 --> 01:33:03,978
You were right to pursue her.

1605
01:33:08,614 --> 01:33:09,983
Thank you.

1606
01:33:11,984 --> 01:33:15,822
Oh. This arrived for you via...

1607
01:33:16,322 --> 01:33:17,991
a very circuitous route.

1608
01:33:20,359 --> 01:33:23,496
He wrote it, I believe,
during his last days.

1609
01:33:40,014 --> 01:33:41,648
GEOFFREY:
<i>My dear John Ronald,</i>

1610
01:33:42,648 --> 01:33:46,150
<i>It is my chief consolation
that if I am scuppered tonight</i>

1611
01:33:46,152 --> 01:33:49,454
<i>there will still be left
a great member of the T.C.B.S.</i>

1612
01:33:49,456 --> 01:33:52,826
<i>to voice what I dreamed
and what we all agreed upon.</i>

1613
01:33:53,260 --> 01:33:55,593
<i>That the death
of one of its members cannot,</i>

1614
01:33:55,595 --> 01:33:56,694
<i>I am determined,</i>

1615
01:33:56,696 --> 01:33:59,132
<i>dissolve the T.C.B.S.</i>

1616
01:34:00,000 --> 01:34:04,168
<i>Death can make us loathsome
and helpless as individuals,</i>

1617
01:34:04,170 --> 01:34:06,973
<i>but it cannot put an end
to the immortal four!</i>

1618
01:34:07,541 --> 01:34:09,676
<i>May God bless you,
my dear John Ronald,</i>

1619
01:34:10,109 --> 01:34:12,843
<i>and may you say the things
I have tried to say</i>

1620
01:34:12,845 --> 01:34:15,281
<i>long after I am not there
to say them.</i>

1621
01:34:45,179 --> 01:34:47,081
(BELL TOLLING IN DISTANCE)

1622
01:34:53,621 --> 01:34:55,089
(BIRD CHIRPING)

1623
01:35:01,361 --> 01:35:02,893
STUDENT 1: Good evening,
Professor Tolkien.

1624
01:35:02,895 --> 01:35:04,128
- STUDENT 2: Evening, sir.
- TOLKIEN: Ah.

1625
01:35:04,130 --> 01:35:05,466
(GREETS IN ANGLO-SAXON)

1626
01:35:38,497 --> 01:35:41,201
(BELL TOLLING AND DOG BARKING
IN DISTANCE)

1627
01:35:43,937 --> 01:35:45,506
What are you doing out here?

1628
01:36:02,488 --> 01:36:05,125
We had a jam pudding today
with the children.

1629
01:36:06,393 --> 01:36:07,627
Michael's request.

1630
01:36:09,394 --> 01:36:11,998
He and John put a tray
outside your study.

1631
01:36:12,832 --> 01:36:14,300
I hope you had some.

1632
01:36:14,801 --> 01:36:16,336
I'm sorry, I...

1633
01:36:19,473 --> 01:36:20,506
I'm sorry.

1634
01:36:23,209 --> 01:36:24,909
Edith, it was
a very difficult day.

1635
01:36:24,911 --> 01:36:26,346
Nothing I'm writing...

1636
01:36:28,047 --> 01:36:29,446
You used to
write for pleasure.

1637
01:36:29,448 --> 01:36:30,315
I know, it's...

1638
01:36:30,317 --> 01:36:32,618
- It was a passion.
- I know it's...

1639
01:36:34,587 --> 01:36:35,656
pointless.

1640
01:36:46,666 --> 01:36:47,598
I wish you would decide

1641
01:36:47,600 --> 01:36:49,267
what it is
you want from it, Ronald,

1642
01:36:49,269 --> 01:36:51,138
or abandon it entirely.

1643
01:37:00,380 --> 01:37:01,547
(SIGHS)

1644
01:37:37,917 --> 01:37:39,486
MRS. SMITH: Mr. Tolkien?

1645
01:37:41,087 --> 01:37:42,422
TOLKIEN: Mrs. Smith.

1646
01:37:43,756 --> 01:37:45,826
It's wonderful to see you.
Thank you for coming.

1647
01:37:48,295 --> 01:37:50,663
Robert Gilson was the...

1648
01:37:51,697 --> 01:37:53,999
son of the headmaster
at King Edward's.

1649
01:37:54,201 --> 01:37:55,569
Yes, that's right.

1650
01:37:55,969 --> 01:37:57,671
I remember the stepmother,
I think.

1651
01:37:58,170 --> 01:38:00,473
And Christopher Wiseman?

1652
01:38:00,808 --> 01:38:02,109
He survived.

1653
01:38:04,178 --> 01:38:05,746
Although I'm sorry
to say he's...

1654
01:38:07,581 --> 01:38:10,451
Some of us who came through
have other sorts of scars.

1655
01:38:16,055 --> 01:38:18,257
My sister lost three sons.

1656
01:38:19,125 --> 01:38:20,394
I lost two.

1657
01:38:21,795 --> 01:38:23,363
All in the same week.

1658
01:38:25,165 --> 01:38:26,500
I'm sorry.

1659
01:38:32,672 --> 01:38:34,474
And this is where you sat.

1660
01:38:35,975 --> 01:38:37,176
TOLKIEN: <i>Yes.</i>

1661
01:38:38,778 --> 01:38:40,214
It's very cozy.

1662
01:38:42,983 --> 01:38:45,119
Thank you
for bringing me here.

1663
01:38:46,653 --> 01:38:48,288
I can imagine, I can...

1664
01:38:50,056 --> 01:38:51,457
see you here.

1665
01:38:52,091 --> 01:38:53,292
<i>All of you.</i>

1666
01:38:53,926 --> 01:38:55,394
<i>I can picture it.</i>

1667
01:38:56,261 --> 01:38:58,331
It must have been
a wonderfully happy time.

1668
01:39:03,001 --> 01:39:04,571
This is where Geoffrey sat.

1669
01:39:14,212 --> 01:39:17,183
I was wondering,
with your permission,

1670
01:39:18,350 --> 01:39:19,917
perhaps I might try to get

1671
01:39:19,919 --> 01:39:21,755
a volume
of his poems published.

1672
01:39:23,657 --> 01:39:25,159
His poems?

1673
01:39:26,858 --> 01:39:28,327
I think he was...

1674
01:39:28,862 --> 01:39:29,730
really very talented.

1675
01:39:29,929 --> 01:39:32,031
I would like to bring him
to people's attention.

1676
01:39:32,331 --> 01:39:34,667
I thought, perhaps, I could
write the foreword myself.

1677
01:39:36,068 --> 01:39:37,703
I don't know, I...

1678
01:39:39,538 --> 01:39:41,505
I'm inclined to say no,
Mr. Tolkien.

1679
01:39:41,507 --> 01:39:44,611
He was really very good.
I think it's important.

1680
01:39:47,546 --> 01:39:49,648
I used to be fond of poetry.

1681
01:39:50,582 --> 01:39:53,353
I sometimes wondered
if that was where Geoffrey...

1682
01:39:58,625 --> 01:40:02,395
I'm sorry, I can't see what
possible good it would do.

1683
01:40:03,462 --> 01:40:05,262
It would do the most
extraordinary good.

1684
01:40:05,264 --> 01:40:06,632
Please believe me.

1685
01:40:10,170 --> 01:40:11,738
I never knew Geoffrey

1686
01:40:13,238 --> 01:40:14,875
as much as I would have liked.

1687
01:40:18,010 --> 01:40:19,412
Was he happy?

1688
01:40:20,246 --> 01:40:22,281
Please, tell me.

1689
01:40:25,652 --> 01:40:26,853
Did he know love?

1690
01:40:33,126 --> 01:40:34,561
I was an orphan

1691
01:40:35,028 --> 01:40:36,530
when I came to King Edward's.

1692
01:40:38,197 --> 01:40:39,865
And even at the beginning,
even...

1693
01:40:41,166 --> 01:40:42,736
before we were friends,

1694
01:40:44,837 --> 01:40:45,973
Geoffrey was gentle.

1695
01:40:48,707 --> 01:40:49,809
Kind.

1696
01:40:51,810 --> 01:40:54,078
(VOICE QUIVERS) He was,
I think, of anyone I ever met,

1697
01:40:54,080 --> 01:40:55,482
the person...

1698
01:40:57,149 --> 01:40:59,018
He was the person
who most embodied

1699
01:40:59,352 --> 01:41:00,953
what it means to love.

1700
01:41:04,157 --> 01:41:05,525
And to be loved.

1701
01:41:06,126 --> 01:41:07,494
Truly that's...

1702
01:41:12,197 --> 01:41:14,300
That's why
this is so important. Please...

1703
01:41:15,234 --> 01:41:17,002
forgive me, but you ask...

1704
01:41:17,737 --> 01:41:20,741
what good it could do,
and the... poets,

1705
01:41:22,943 --> 01:41:23,977
the writers...

1706
01:41:25,245 --> 01:41:27,046
or what our art could do.

1707
01:41:30,817 --> 01:41:32,484
I cannot think of anything
more necessary.

1708
01:41:32,486 --> 01:41:34,451
Especially
at a time like this.

1709
01:41:34,453 --> 01:41:35,788
Especially now.

1710
01:41:49,536 --> 01:41:50,971
(MRS. SMITH SNIFFLES)

1711
01:41:56,309 --> 01:41:58,612
A foreword would be lovely.

1712
01:42:01,880 --> 01:42:03,082
Thank you.

1713
01:42:20,733 --> 01:42:23,402
HILARY: Remember how mother
made us kiss the trees?

1714
01:42:24,437 --> 01:42:25,971
And listen to them talk.

1715
01:42:26,605 --> 01:42:28,442
What dark magic was that?

1716
01:42:28,875 --> 01:42:30,542
Come on, you savages.

1717
01:42:30,776 --> 01:42:31,644
Come on.

1718
01:42:31,877 --> 01:42:33,477
Who wants to speak
to the trees?

1719
01:42:33,479 --> 01:42:35,082
MICHAEL: Hey, wait for me.

1720
01:42:37,250 --> 01:42:38,583
LITTLE CHRISTOPHER:
What are you thinking?

1721
01:42:38,585 --> 01:42:39,816
What's your name?

1722
01:42:39,818 --> 01:42:41,955
JOHN: We're not scary.
Don't be worried.

1723
01:42:42,688 --> 01:42:44,422
Children, I need your help.

1724
01:42:44,424 --> 01:42:45,655
Will you do something for me?

1725
01:42:45,657 --> 01:42:47,124
MICHAEL: Is it homework?

1726
01:42:47,126 --> 01:42:48,426
Uh, no, not if I get it right.

1727
01:42:48,428 --> 01:42:49,927
I want you to listen
to a story.

1728
01:42:49,929 --> 01:42:50,860
MICHAEL: What story?

1729
01:42:50,862 --> 01:42:52,396
LITTLE CHRISTOPHER:
Is it a good story?

1730
01:42:52,398 --> 01:42:53,530
TOLKIEN: I hope so.

1731
01:42:53,532 --> 01:42:54,901
MICHAEL: Is it long?

1732
01:42:55,134 --> 01:42:56,433
TOLKIEN: Extremely long.

1733
01:42:56,435 --> 01:42:58,037
Has it been started?

1734
01:42:59,139 --> 01:43:00,507
Yes, I think...

1735
01:43:01,541 --> 01:43:04,408
I think, up here, yes,
I think it has.

1736
01:43:04,410 --> 01:43:05,812
What's it about?

1737
01:43:06,278 --> 01:43:08,714
It's about journeys.
Adventures.

1738
01:43:09,314 --> 01:43:10,817
Magic, of course.

1739
01:43:11,917 --> 01:43:12,818
Treasure.

1740
01:43:13,853 --> 01:43:14,955
And love.

1741
01:43:18,325 --> 01:43:19,723
It's about
all kinds of things, really.

1742
01:43:19,725 --> 01:43:21,493
It's hard to say. I suppose...

1743
01:43:22,495 --> 01:43:24,962
I suppose it's about quests,
to a certain extent.

1744
01:43:24,964 --> 01:43:27,466
The journeys we take
to prove ourselves.

1745
01:43:27,934 --> 01:43:29,436
About courage.

1746
01:43:40,479 --> 01:43:41,848
(QUIETLY) Fellowship.

1747
01:43:45,919 --> 01:43:47,487
It's about fellowship.

1748
01:43:51,357 --> 01:43:52,893
Friendship.

1749
01:43:57,063 --> 01:43:59,562
- Little people just like you.
- I'm not little!

1750
01:43:59,564 --> 01:44:01,731
No. Little in stature.

1751
01:44:01,733 --> 01:44:03,133
Not little in spirit.

1752
01:44:03,135 --> 01:44:04,201
(CHILDREN YELLING)

1753
01:44:04,203 --> 01:44:05,237
TOLKIEN:
<i>It's about wizards, too.</i>

1754
01:44:05,572 --> 01:44:07,003
- LITTLE CHRISTOPHER: <i>Wizards?</i>
- TOLKIEN: <i>Wizards, yes.</i>

1755
01:44:07,005 --> 01:44:11,075
<i>And mountains,
and dragons, and journeys...</i>

1756
01:44:11,077 --> 01:44:12,977
EDITH: Christopher, if you
break your neck wearing those,

1757
01:44:12,979 --> 01:44:15,749
I will not be taking you
to the hospital.

1758
01:45:05,130 --> 01:45:06,165
Hobbit.

1759
01:46:17,180 --> 01:46:22,180
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