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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
00:18:16,547 --> 00:18:18,147
- Stop!
- Chris, sit down.

254
00:18:18,149 --> 00:18:19,811
We're in a library.
Christopher, sit down.

255
00:18:19,813 --> 00:18:21,114
YOUNG CHRISTOPHER:
What?

256
00:18:21,613 --> 00:18:23,314
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

257
00:18:33,947 --> 00:18:35,914
We're going to take some tea.

258
00:18:36,248 --> 00:18:37,646
- So?
- So...

259
00:18:37,648 --> 00:18:39,879
I suppose as we're meant to be
doing everything together...

260
00:18:39,881 --> 00:18:41,279
I'll stay where I am,
thank you.

261
00:18:41,281 --> 00:18:42,381
Suit yourself.

262
00:18:47,347 --> 00:18:48,514
(SIGHS)

263
00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:54,514
He didn't want to come.

264
00:18:56,847 --> 00:18:58,481
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

265
00:19:04,948 --> 00:19:07,081
YOUNG GEOFFREY:
What Robert meant to say

266
00:19:07,279 --> 00:19:08,346
is that,

267
00:19:08,348 --> 00:19:10,915
with a little encouragement
from his friends,

268
00:19:11,481 --> 00:19:12,546
he has now acknowledged

269
00:19:12,548 --> 00:19:13,746
that this punishment
was his fault

270
00:19:13,748 --> 00:19:14,748
rather than yours,

271
00:19:15,315 --> 00:19:18,049
and he'd like to make amends,
by inviting you to tea.

272
00:19:18,982 --> 00:19:20,878
You should be flattered,
really.

273
00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,247
It was your cleverness
that rattled him.

274
00:19:23,981 --> 00:19:25,112
It would rattle you too

275
00:19:25,114 --> 00:19:26,948
if only you had
a father like Gilson.

276
00:19:27,214 --> 00:19:28,979
His marks
only have to drop below

277
00:19:28,981 --> 00:19:30,415
one other boy in the year...

278
00:19:31,447 --> 00:19:33,280
It's no excuse, but...

279
00:19:35,648 --> 00:19:36,748
Oh, come on.

280
00:19:37,047 --> 00:19:38,611
It's a lot more fun
than sitting around

281
00:19:38,613 --> 00:19:39,712
with a load of old books.

282
00:19:39,714 --> 00:19:40,982
I like books.

283
00:19:41,615 --> 00:19:42,914
So do we.

284
00:19:45,914 --> 00:19:47,881
Geoffrey Bache Smith.

285
00:19:49,014 --> 00:19:51,081
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

286
00:19:51,815 --> 00:19:53,277
YOUNG ROBERT:
Gentlemen. A thought.

287
00:19:53,279 --> 00:19:53,882
Tolkien.

288
00:19:54,414 --> 00:19:55,647
YOUNG ROBERT: Imagine walking
into Barrow's Stores,

289
00:19:56,048 --> 00:19:57,913
and finding me, guarding the
door with a very big stick...

290
00:19:57,915 --> 00:19:58,948
Where is this going?

291
00:19:59,213 --> 00:20:00,912
And I said, there's no need
to eat the cakes here.

292
00:20:00,914 --> 00:20:01,914
I've done it.

293
00:20:02,114 --> 00:20:04,078
In fact, I did it so much
it made me sick...

294
00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:05,812
That is the nature
of parental authority.

295
00:20:05,814 --> 00:20:07,745
"I've done it.
I've decided it was bad.

296
00:20:07,747 --> 00:20:09,311
And now I'm going to stop you
from doing it."

297
00:20:09,313 --> 00:20:11,246
- Cakes in this case being...
- Everything.

298
00:20:11,248 --> 00:20:13,413
- Everything that's good.
- YOUNG CHRISTOPHER: Right.

299
00:20:13,713 --> 00:20:15,580
YOUNG GEOFFREY:
Tolkien, this is Barrow's.

300
00:20:15,582 --> 00:20:16,878
YOUNG CHRISTOPHER:
Our kingdom,

301
00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:18,415
and the best tea in town.

302
00:20:19,982 --> 00:20:21,481
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

303
00:20:29,548 --> 00:20:31,813
- WAITRESS: Another pot of tea?
- YOUNG CHRISTOPHER: Thank you.

304
00:20:31,815 --> 00:20:33,478
And what do you have
that's under a shilling?

305
00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:34,313
And isn't toast.

306
00:20:34,614 --> 00:20:36,712
- Bath buns are four pence.
- Good. A bath bun, please.

307
00:20:36,714 --> 00:20:38,945
- And three forks.
- YOUNG GEOFFREY: Four.

308
00:20:38,947 --> 00:20:40,045
YOUNG ROBERT:
And what about the stick?

309
00:20:40,047 --> 00:20:41,144
YOUNG CHRISTOPHER: The stick?

310
00:20:41,146 --> 00:20:42,912
My father
is a perfect example.

311
00:20:42,914 --> 00:20:44,745
He knows about music.
He loves it.

312
00:20:44,747 --> 00:20:46,145
He spent the greater part
of his youth

313
00:20:46,147 --> 00:20:47,511
studying and composing music.

314
00:20:47,513 --> 00:20:50,145
Christopher has had several
musical pieces published.

315
00:20:50,147 --> 00:20:51,580
YOUNG CHRISTOPHER:
Not several. One.

316
00:20:51,582 --> 00:20:52,678
Pass me the sugar.

317
00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:53,745
And yet when it comes to

318
00:20:53,747 --> 00:20:55,311
pursuing a life
as a composer...

319
00:20:55,313 --> 00:20:57,813
No. "Musical dreams
are a fantasy.

320
00:20:57,815 --> 00:20:59,912
You will do as I did.
You will put them aside."

321
00:20:59,914 --> 00:21:01,814
And where does
the stick come in?

322
00:21:02,314 --> 00:21:04,212
The stick was a metaphor.
Move on from the stick.

323
00:21:04,214 --> 00:21:06,347
YOUNG GEOFFREY:
My mother's exactly the same.

324
00:21:06,580 --> 00:21:08,713
She values poetry.
She loves it.

325
00:21:09,247 --> 00:21:11,949
She refuses to see it
as a potential career.

326
00:21:12,581 --> 00:21:14,080
She sees me as...

327
00:21:14,414 --> 00:21:15,878
a lawyer or an accountant.

328
00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,011
Does she carry a stick?

329
00:21:18,013 --> 00:21:20,379
I'm gonna go outside and fetch
a stick, how about that?

330
00:21:20,381 --> 00:21:21,348
Thank you.

331
00:21:21,614 --> 00:21:22,947
Well, at least
your parents discuss it.

332
00:21:23,414 --> 00:21:26,247
If I even mentioned becoming
a painter, I'd be disowned.

333
00:21:26,713 --> 00:21:28,845
- No. I'd be decapitated.
- There!

334
00:21:28,847 --> 00:21:30,180
That's the stick.

335
00:21:53,447 --> 00:21:55,749
I didn't even eat the cake
that they ordered.

336
00:21:56,146 --> 00:21:57,213
Why not?

337
00:21:57,979 --> 00:21:59,778
I wasn't sure
I had enough money.

338
00:21:59,780 --> 00:22:01,147
YOUNG EDITH: Oh.

339
00:22:01,813 --> 00:22:03,048
But this is sweet.

340
00:22:07,714 --> 00:22:08,980
What about you?

341
00:22:09,347 --> 00:22:11,012
(CHUCKLES) What about me?

342
00:22:11,014 --> 00:22:13,115
There must be something
that you want?

343
00:22:14,315 --> 00:22:15,515
To get out of here.

344
00:22:16,448 --> 00:22:17,448
To be free.

345
00:22:18,747 --> 00:22:19,812
I would go somewhere

346
00:22:19,814 --> 00:22:22,113
where I wouldn't
feel like a poor orphan

347
00:22:22,781 --> 00:22:25,511
and... everybody
would be dressed

348
00:22:25,513 --> 00:22:27,347
like kings and queens.

349
00:22:27,914 --> 00:22:29,481
I wouldn't be there
to play piano.

350
00:22:30,581 --> 00:22:33,214
Or to carry
Mrs. Faulkner's purse.

351
00:22:34,314 --> 00:22:37,148
I'd be... greeted and...

352
00:22:38,246 --> 00:22:39,447
appreciated.

353
00:22:40,247 --> 00:22:41,414
Welcomed.

354
00:22:42,314 --> 00:22:44,314
(CHUCKLES) Welcomed.

355
00:22:57,381 --> 00:22:59,081
(GUNFIRE IN DISTANCE)

356
00:23:06,515 --> 00:23:07,745
(COUGHING)

357
00:23:07,747 --> 00:23:09,247
Go back to barracks, Hodges.

358
00:23:12,181 --> 00:23:14,047
(PANTING)

359
00:23:16,882 --> 00:23:20,115
Lieutenant Geoffrey Smith
is a friend.

360
00:23:21,647 --> 00:23:23,913
His mother...

361
00:23:26,046 --> 00:23:27,414
His mother wrote to me. She...

362
00:23:28,514 --> 00:23:30,481
She hasn't heard
from him in weeks.

363
00:23:31,114 --> 00:23:33,448
And he's not responded
to my letters.

364
00:23:36,648 --> 00:23:38,115
I'm worried he might be...

365
00:23:41,879 --> 00:23:44,147
I need to know he's all right.

366
00:23:45,781 --> 00:23:47,748
It really has
nothing to do with you.

367
00:23:48,380 --> 00:23:50,214
He must be a very good friend,
is he, sir?

368
00:23:51,714 --> 00:23:52,980
He's the best.

369
00:23:55,514 --> 00:23:56,947
He'd do the same for me.

370
00:23:58,415 --> 00:23:59,948
(GUNFIRE CONTINUES)

371
00:24:05,747 --> 00:24:07,011
Well, if we're halfway there,

372
00:24:07,013 --> 00:24:08,745
turning back
won't take any longer

373
00:24:08,747 --> 00:24:09,879
than carrying on, will it?

374
00:24:09,881 --> 00:24:11,046
Hodges, please.

375
00:24:11,048 --> 00:24:12,945
Perfectly frank, sir,
by the look on you,

376
00:24:12,947 --> 00:24:14,312
if I don't come along,

377
00:24:14,314 --> 00:24:15,178
you're not gonna find

378
00:24:15,180 --> 00:24:17,080
this Lieutenant
Geoffrey Smith, anyway.

379
00:24:21,381 --> 00:24:23,482
Let me see if I can find
some medicine for you, sir.

380
00:24:26,782 --> 00:24:28,447
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

381
00:24:36,180 --> 00:24:38,144
YOUNG CHRISTOPHER:
Geoffrey, are you trying

382
00:24:38,146 --> 00:24:39,749
to trap my bishop,
you scoundrel?

383
00:24:42,814 --> 00:24:44,581
Gentlemen. A thought.

384
00:24:44,912 --> 00:24:46,078
You know what the trouble is

385
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:47,746
with all these legends
Tolkien reads?

386
00:24:47,748 --> 00:24:48,812
Enlighten me, Robbie.

387
00:24:48,814 --> 00:24:50,010
They don't have
any women in them.

388
00:24:50,012 --> 00:24:51,779
I'm not talking about pale,

389
00:24:51,781 --> 00:24:53,713
shivering maidens
sitting in towers.

390
00:24:53,715 --> 00:24:55,646
I'm talking about
plump, red-blooded women.

391
00:24:55,648 --> 00:24:58,112
- Could you sit down, please?
- The women of Southern Europe.

392
00:24:58,114 --> 00:25:00,513
Women with large flagons
of wine on their heads.

393
00:25:00,515 --> 00:25:03,279
Robbie, are you incapable
of sitting in silence?

394
00:25:03,281 --> 00:25:05,244
Like our waitress,
just over there.

395
00:25:05,246 --> 00:25:06,712
YOUNG CHRISTOPHER:
Oh, for God's sake.

396
00:25:06,714 --> 00:25:08,179
Robbie, if I lose this game

397
00:25:08,181 --> 00:25:09,580
because of
your endless prattle...

398
00:25:09,582 --> 00:25:11,646
You will lose this game
because of me.

399
00:25:11,648 --> 00:25:12,778
What are you reading now?

400
00:25:12,780 --> 00:25:14,546
I'm reading about
the realm of the dead.

401
00:25:14,548 --> 00:25:16,179
- (GROANS)
- Or at least trying to.

402
00:25:16,181 --> 00:25:17,211
See what I mean?

403
00:25:17,213 --> 00:25:20,181
Presided over by
a giant woman, as it happens.

404
00:25:20,648 --> 00:25:24,013
Hel, a huge
and ruthless goddess.

405
00:25:24,314 --> 00:25:25,979
Is that not red-blooded enough
for you?

406
00:25:25,981 --> 00:25:27,515
It is our waitress.

407
00:25:28,315 --> 00:25:29,114
Hel?

408
00:25:29,448 --> 00:25:31,581
Yes, she rules over the realm
of the dead. Helheimr.

409
00:25:31,813 --> 00:25:34,045
It's a place
where warriors are sent

410
00:25:34,047 --> 00:25:35,944
if they die in the wrong way.

411
00:25:35,946 --> 00:25:38,213
- What's the wrong way?
- Peacefully.

412
00:25:38,547 --> 00:25:40,481
Illness, old age.

413
00:25:40,746 --> 00:25:41,945
Anything other than battle.

414
00:25:41,947 --> 00:25:43,579
Now, that's an idea
I can get behind.

415
00:25:43,581 --> 00:25:45,845
I'm sorry, you're getting
behind dying in battle now?

416
00:25:45,847 --> 00:25:46,944
Not literally.

417
00:25:46,946 --> 00:25:49,280
I can die in any way
the Fates choose,

418
00:25:49,581 --> 00:25:50,813
that's not up to me.

419
00:25:51,281 --> 00:25:54,547
But what is within my power
is to decide how I live.

420
00:25:54,746 --> 00:25:57,812
Courageously or timidly.
(CLAPS HANDS)

421
00:25:57,814 --> 00:25:59,812
Helheimr! It should be
our warning. Our challenge.

422
00:25:59,814 --> 00:26:00,746
Yes, I know.

423
00:26:01,047 --> 00:26:02,146
But you should learn
how to pronounce it first.

424
00:26:02,148 --> 00:26:04,812
Come on. Challenge me.
Set me a quest.

425
00:26:04,814 --> 00:26:06,645
I'll show you
how to avoid Helheimr.

426
00:26:06,647 --> 00:26:08,545
I challenge you to...

427
00:26:08,547 --> 00:26:10,612
sit in silence for 25 minutes.

428
00:26:10,614 --> 00:26:11,712
Shut up, Geoffrey.

429
00:26:11,714 --> 00:26:12,810
I'm serious.

430
00:26:12,812 --> 00:26:14,011
Propose to the waitress.

431
00:26:14,013 --> 00:26:15,813
- YOUNG GEOFFREY: Christopher.
- (SCOFFS) What?

432
00:26:17,581 --> 00:26:18,878
An excellent idea.

433
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:20,411
Robbie, don't you dare
do anything of the kind.

434
00:26:20,413 --> 00:26:22,880
That's what I call
a quest against Helheimr.

435
00:26:26,414 --> 00:26:27,847
Helheimr!

436
00:26:29,413 --> 00:26:33,313
Madam. My lady of the lake,
the bearer of my dreams.

437
00:26:34,079 --> 00:26:35,747
Would you do me
the greatest honor,

438
00:26:36,248 --> 00:26:38,981
sharing an infinite future
with me...

439
00:26:49,781 --> 00:26:51,511
(BOYS LAUGHING)

440
00:26:51,513 --> 00:26:52,914
We should form a club.

441
00:26:53,315 --> 00:26:55,112
- What?
- A brotherhood.

442
00:26:55,114 --> 00:26:57,712
Aren't we already a club?
A tea drinking club?

443
00:26:57,714 --> 00:26:58,714
A tea drinking club,

444
00:26:58,980 --> 00:27:00,613
sounds like something
my stepmother would go to.

445
00:27:00,615 --> 00:27:01,648
The Tea Club.

446
00:27:02,048 --> 00:27:04,546
It doesn't sound any better
just because you repeated it.

447
00:27:04,548 --> 00:27:05,645
The Birmingham Boys.

448
00:27:05,647 --> 00:27:07,313
That sounds like a circus act.

449
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,380
The Boys of Barrow's Stores.

450
00:27:11,513 --> 00:27:12,847
Barrovians.

451
00:27:13,947 --> 00:27:16,910
The Tea Club
and Barrovian Society.

452
00:27:16,912 --> 00:27:18,513
I think that's far too long.

453
00:27:18,515 --> 00:27:19,613
The T. C. B. S.

454
00:27:19,615 --> 00:27:21,011
The T. C. B. S.

455
00:27:21,013 --> 00:27:22,978
Are you sure that doesn't
sound like a disease?

456
00:27:22,980 --> 00:27:24,379
No, listen, I don't care
what it's called.

457
00:27:24,381 --> 00:27:26,379
As long as we pledge
our loyalty to each other.

458
00:27:26,381 --> 00:27:27,180
Exactly.

459
00:27:27,415 --> 00:27:29,677
T. C. B. S. That's settled.
Now what do we do?

460
00:27:29,679 --> 00:27:30,810
We change the world.

461
00:27:30,812 --> 00:27:32,312
Oh, good. Something simple.

462
00:27:32,314 --> 00:27:33,878
Through art, you clown.

463
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:35,981
Through the power of art.

464
00:27:44,614 --> 00:27:45,515
Brothers,

465
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:47,845
will you join your comrades

466
00:27:47,847 --> 00:27:49,748
in this act
of changing the world?

467
00:27:57,414 --> 00:27:58,610
- We will.
- We will.

468
00:27:58,612 --> 00:28:00,278
Helheimr!

469
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,678
- YOUNG CHRISTOPHER: Helheimr!
- YOUNG GEOFFREY: Helheimr!

470
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,148
YOUNG ROBERT: Helheimr!

471
00:28:27,179 --> 00:28:28,877
YOUNG TOLKIEN:
<i>"Not for us, I reckon,</i>

472
00:28:28,879 --> 00:28:29,978
to follow the wolves,

473
00:28:29,980 --> 00:28:31,145
to fight amongst each other

474
00:28:31,147 --> 00:28:33,012
like the cubs
the Fates rear ravenous..."

475
00:28:33,014 --> 00:28:34,244
TOLKIEN: <i>"...the Norns came,</i>

476
00:28:34,246 --> 00:28:35,879
<i>to shape out fate
for that kingling;</i>

477
00:28:36,380 --> 00:28:38,778
they said he'd be the fighter
most famed,

478
00:28:38,780 --> 00:28:40,946
and be reckoned
the best of princelings.

479
00:28:41,381 --> 00:28:43,379
They twisted fast
the strands of fate,

480
00:28:43,381 --> 00:28:46,115
unsettled the strongholds
in Brálund..."

481
00:28:53,180 --> 00:28:54,347
(KNOCKS ON DOOR)

482
00:29:12,413 --> 00:29:13,347
This way, please.

483
00:29:13,546 --> 00:29:16,112
- (SOFT STRING MUSIC PLAYING)
- (WOMAN SINGING ARIA)

484
00:29:16,114 --> 00:29:20,012
<i>Pale hands I loved
beside the Shalimar</i>

485
00:29:20,014 --> 00:29:22,778
<i>Where are you now?</i>

486
00:29:22,780 --> 00:29:27,414
<i>Who lies beneath your spell?</i>

487
00:29:27,946 --> 00:29:31,245
<i>Whom do you lead on...</i>

488
00:29:31,247 --> 00:29:32,781
I don't have a hat.

489
00:29:33,545 --> 00:29:35,747
- What?
- I don't have a hat.

490
00:29:36,879 --> 00:29:38,113
That's all right.

491
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,381
They all look ridiculous,
anyway.

492
00:29:42,246 --> 00:29:44,447
(TOLKIEN SPEAKING
UNKNOWN LANGUAGE)

493
00:29:50,314 --> 00:29:51,313
What does it mean?

494
00:29:51,513 --> 00:29:53,146
Oh... It's nonsense.

495
00:29:53,148 --> 00:29:56,145
It's about an old man
who's watching an unlucky frog

496
00:29:56,147 --> 00:29:58,643
who can't land softly,
so he gets eaten by a dog.

497
00:29:58,645 --> 00:30:00,013
(LAUGHS)

498
00:30:00,714 --> 00:30:03,415
- And you invented that?
- Yes.

499
00:30:04,415 --> 00:30:06,112
The entire language?

500
00:30:06,114 --> 00:30:08,580
Verb structures,
vocabulary, everything.

501
00:30:09,014 --> 00:30:11,480
My next language
will have a music to it.

502
00:30:11,714 --> 00:30:12,947
"Cellar door."

503
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:14,480
Cellar door?

504
00:30:14,713 --> 00:30:17,345
That's the most musical word
I can think of.

505
00:30:17,347 --> 00:30:18,277
"Cellar door."

506
00:30:18,279 --> 00:30:19,878
There's something
about the fall of it.

507
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:21,348
The rounding of the mouth.

508
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:23,478
Cellar door.

509
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:24,612
If you say it over and over,

510
00:30:24,614 --> 00:30:27,479
it starts to be
something... magical.

511
00:30:27,813 --> 00:30:29,880
(DRAMATICALLY) Cellar door.

512
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:33,080
(TONED DOWN) Cellar door.

513
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:35,745
I think that's nonsense.

514
00:30:35,747 --> 00:30:37,379
I mean, it is
if you say it like that.

515
00:30:37,381 --> 00:30:40,914
A word isn't beautiful
just because of its sound.

516
00:30:41,313 --> 00:30:42,311
Cellar door.

517
00:30:42,313 --> 00:30:45,480
It's the marriage
of sound and meaning,

518
00:30:45,712 --> 00:30:47,646
the door to the cellar,

519
00:30:48,081 --> 00:30:49,677
a place where
something magical

520
00:30:49,679 --> 00:30:51,712
and mysterious might happen.

521
00:30:51,714 --> 00:30:53,278
I'm sorry,
have you just dismissed

522
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,045
the basis
of my entire language?

523
00:30:55,047 --> 00:30:56,379
Your language
isn't worth anything

524
00:30:56,381 --> 00:30:58,245
unless you remember
this important fact.

525
00:30:58,247 --> 00:31:00,281
- Oh, is that right?
- It is, yes.

526
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:05,748
Listen.

527
00:31:07,147 --> 00:31:07,947
Hand.

528
00:31:08,147 --> 00:31:10,312
That might be
a beautiful word...

529
00:31:10,314 --> 00:31:11,411
Yes, it is.

530
00:31:11,413 --> 00:31:12,879
But it means so much more

531
00:31:12,881 --> 00:31:14,981
because of what
we associate it with.

532
00:31:26,113 --> 00:31:27,180
Touch.

533
00:31:28,314 --> 00:31:30,981
Things aren't beautiful
because of how they sound.

534
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,114
They're beautiful
because of what they mean.

535
00:31:43,347 --> 00:31:44,480
Tell me a story.

536
00:31:45,014 --> 00:31:45,911
What?

537
00:31:45,913 --> 00:31:48,047
The story of Cellar Door.

538
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:50,478
No, I can't.

539
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:51,181
Why not?

540
00:31:51,413 --> 00:31:52,745
When someone asks me
to play the piano...

541
00:31:52,747 --> 00:31:54,645
That's a different thing
altogether.

542
00:31:54,647 --> 00:31:56,047
Tell me a story.

543
00:31:56,612 --> 00:31:58,679
In any language you want.

544
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,315
- Don't be ridiculous.
- The legend...

545
00:32:02,115 --> 00:32:03,314
of Cellar Door.

546
00:32:03,546 --> 00:32:04,978
No, I'm not
a performing monkey.

547
00:32:04,980 --> 00:32:06,979
(SIGHS)
It begins with the arrival

548
00:32:06,981 --> 00:32:08,981
of a proud
and opinionated princess.

549
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:10,877
Yes, you're right about that.

550
00:32:10,879 --> 00:32:12,346
She demands entertainment.

551
00:32:12,814 --> 00:32:15,314
Princess Cellardoor is bored.

552
00:32:15,647 --> 00:32:17,878
Bored of cakes and muffins

553
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,347
- and exquisite china...
- No.

554
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:21,847
She longs for another life.

555
00:32:22,613 --> 00:32:24,214
- It's not a name.
- What?

556
00:32:24,479 --> 00:32:25,880
It's something else.

557
00:32:27,113 --> 00:32:29,880
Cellardoor. It's not a
princess's name, it can't be.

558
00:32:31,346 --> 00:32:33,047
Cellardoor...

559
00:32:34,247 --> 00:32:35,314
is a place.

560
00:32:37,215 --> 00:32:39,979
It's a place.
An ancient place.

561
00:32:39,981 --> 00:32:42,014
Impossible to reach, except...

562
00:32:42,613 --> 00:32:44,412
by the most treacherous climb.

563
00:32:44,414 --> 00:32:46,048
It hangs... no...

564
00:32:46,981 --> 00:32:47,780
No?

565
00:32:48,013 --> 00:32:50,480
It's not a climb... It's not...

566
00:32:50,747 --> 00:32:52,047
Door...

567
00:32:54,113 --> 00:32:54,979
(MUMBLES)

568
00:32:54,981 --> 00:32:57,011
...road... path. It's a path.

569
00:32:57,013 --> 00:32:59,444
A path through a dense,
dark forest.

570
00:32:59,446 --> 00:33:00,745
Oh, is it, now?

571
00:33:00,747 --> 00:33:01,910
And at the heart
of Cellardoor,

572
00:33:01,912 --> 00:33:03,014
which is actually a shrine,

573
00:33:03,281 --> 00:33:05,545
there stands
an extraordinary sight.

574
00:33:05,547 --> 00:33:08,946
(GASPS) Is it a proud
and opinionated princess?

575
00:33:08,948 --> 00:33:12,378
It is a place which is revered
by all who know of it.

576
00:33:12,380 --> 00:33:15,111
A sacred place,
marked at its center by...

577
00:33:15,113 --> 00:33:16,180
By?

578
00:33:22,180 --> 00:33:23,247
By trees.

579
00:33:23,781 --> 00:33:24,914
EDITH: <i>Trees?</i>

580
00:33:25,413 --> 00:33:27,377
TOLKIEN: <i>One of
the purest black like ebony,</i>

581
00:33:27,379 --> 00:33:29,880
<i>the other... white as bone.</i>

582
00:33:31,046 --> 00:33:33,344
<i>They each contain
a deadly poison in their sap.</i>

583
00:33:33,346 --> 00:33:36,380
But they have grown together
over thousands of years.

584
00:33:36,814 --> 00:33:38,814
Leaning into each other, like...

585
00:33:39,579 --> 00:33:41,214
they were fighting, or...

586
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:44,380
The roots...

587
00:33:44,579 --> 00:33:48,410
the branches of the two trees,
reaching, twisting,

588
00:33:48,412 --> 00:33:49,778
gnarling around each other,

589
00:33:49,780 --> 00:33:52,514
have finally become
a single knotted trunk.

590
00:33:53,980 --> 00:33:55,444
Their poisoned saps commingled

591
00:33:55,446 --> 00:33:57,378
to create a powerful,
life-giving potion.

592
00:33:57,380 --> 00:34:00,414
The water... of Cellardoor.

593
00:34:01,613 --> 00:34:02,980
What does it do?

594
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,112
What does it do?

595
00:34:05,114 --> 00:34:06,314
Yes.

596
00:34:07,181 --> 00:34:08,280
What does it do?

597
00:34:09,446 --> 00:34:11,044
- To drink it...
- Yes?

598
00:34:11,046 --> 00:34:13,180
The water of Cellardoor,
to taste it,

599
00:34:13,946 --> 00:34:16,480
is to possess
the power of sight.

600
00:34:18,780 --> 00:34:20,410
Sight beyond sight.

601
00:34:20,412 --> 00:34:22,213
Sight into the deepest,

602
00:34:22,780 --> 00:34:24,611
darkest parts
of the human heart.

603
00:34:24,613 --> 00:34:26,844
It's a hungry, potent magic.

604
00:34:26,846 --> 00:34:30,346
A magic beyond anything
anyone has ever felt before.

605
00:34:50,813 --> 00:34:52,480
(BOTH SNICKER)

606
00:34:53,479 --> 00:34:54,779
What did you do that for?

607
00:34:55,212 --> 00:34:57,848
I was filled with the spirit
of Cellardoor.

608
00:34:58,380 --> 00:34:59,980
Go on. Your turn.

609
00:35:00,446 --> 00:35:01,577
No.

610
00:35:01,579 --> 00:35:03,447
What's the worst
that could happen?

611
00:35:40,747 --> 00:35:41,948
(COINS JINGLING)

612
00:35:42,779 --> 00:35:44,413
Aren't you supposed
to be studying?

613
00:35:44,647 --> 00:35:45,981
Oh, yes. Thank you.

614
00:36:02,147 --> 00:36:04,545
- They sound very exciting.
- Yes.

615
00:36:04,547 --> 00:36:07,011
I mean, I'm not saying
that everything everyone says

616
00:36:07,013 --> 00:36:08,311
is going to be
absolutely fascinating.

617
00:36:08,313 --> 00:36:10,078
- EDITH: It'll be fine.
- TOLKIEN: Yes.

618
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,014
EDITH: I hope
I've dressed up properly.

619
00:36:18,847 --> 00:36:20,379
- More tea?
- EDITH: Uh...

620
00:36:26,145 --> 00:36:28,145
So, what do you
normally talk about?

621
00:36:28,512 --> 00:36:29,513
CHRISTOPHER: Uh, we...

622
00:36:29,848 --> 00:36:32,811
We talk about all sorts
of really interesting things.

623
00:36:32,813 --> 00:36:33,877
Really interesting.

624
00:36:33,879 --> 00:36:35,780
Interesting
and fascinating, and...

625
00:36:36,247 --> 00:36:38,877
you know, that's when we're not
trying to change the world.

626
00:36:38,879 --> 00:36:40,511
GEOFFREY: When we're not
trying to change the world,

627
00:36:40,513 --> 00:36:43,410
the thing we're focusing
on most, Miss Bratt, is...

628
00:36:43,412 --> 00:36:45,146
Please. Edith.

629
00:36:46,112 --> 00:36:47,944
Is our university entrance.

630
00:36:47,946 --> 00:36:49,479
Are you all trying for Oxford?

631
00:36:49,946 --> 00:36:51,546
Well, Tolkien and I are.

632
00:36:51,747 --> 00:36:53,580
The other two are aiming
for Cambridge.

633
00:36:53,814 --> 00:36:55,612
- Treacherous beasts.
- Are you nervous?

634
00:36:55,614 --> 00:36:56,981
Robbie isn't.

635
00:36:57,212 --> 00:36:58,111
Oh.

636
00:36:58,113 --> 00:36:59,811
I don't believe
in examinations.

637
00:36:59,813 --> 00:37:00,881
I write what I think.

638
00:37:01,112 --> 00:37:03,045
And if they want to give me
a mark, it's up to them.

639
00:37:03,047 --> 00:37:04,677
What a revolutionary approach.

640
00:37:04,679 --> 00:37:05,680
Why, thank you. (CHUCKLES)

641
00:37:06,346 --> 00:37:09,613
I would love to hear you play
the piano sometime, Miss...

642
00:37:09,913 --> 00:37:12,113
- Edith.
- (LAUGHS)

643
00:37:12,313 --> 00:37:13,277
She plays marvelously.

644
00:37:13,279 --> 00:37:14,644
EDITH:
You're a composer yourself,

645
00:37:14,646 --> 00:37:15,712
isn't that right, Christopher?

646
00:37:15,714 --> 00:37:16,778
Yes.

647
00:37:16,780 --> 00:37:19,246
- No, he's been published.
- Heavens.

648
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:21,413
Which composers do you admire?

649
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,110
- Um, I like the Romantics.
- So do I.

650
00:37:24,112 --> 00:37:27,046
Beethoven. Brahms. Wagner.

651
00:37:27,312 --> 00:37:30,878
I appreciate Wagner.
I'm not sure that I like him.

652
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,077
You "appreciate" him?

653
00:37:32,079 --> 00:37:34,613
Yes. As an agent of emotion,
I mean.

654
00:37:35,079 --> 00:37:37,543
The operas...
They're somehow...

655
00:37:37,545 --> 00:37:38,813
I love Wagner's <i>Rheingold.</i>

656
00:37:39,179 --> 00:37:41,278
ROBERT: Christopher
finds those too long.

657
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:42,280
No, I don't.

658
00:37:42,580 --> 00:37:43,977
ROBERT:
Well, nobody blames you.

659
00:37:43,979 --> 00:37:45,111
It shouldn't take six hours

660
00:37:45,113 --> 00:37:46,478
to tell a story
about a magic ring.

661
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,378
No, Gilson, you don't know
what you're talking about.

662
00:37:48,380 --> 00:37:51,078
Of course, operas can be
considered long and laborious

663
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,744
but for my music,
whatever the length,

664
00:37:53,746 --> 00:37:55,478
it is imperative
that it has heart.

665
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:56,410
A sensation of intoxication...

666
00:37:56,412 --> 00:37:58,745
- Look, I'm afraid we must go.
- Already?

667
00:37:58,747 --> 00:38:00,645
TOLKIEN: Yes, Mrs. Faulkner
will be worried.

668
00:38:00,647 --> 00:38:01,945
Oh, Tollers,
there's so much tea left.

669
00:38:01,947 --> 00:38:03,111
No, but we have
exams coming up

670
00:38:03,113 --> 00:38:04,478
and I, for one, have to study.

671
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:05,814
I'm sorry. Goodbye, all.

672
00:38:06,514 --> 00:38:08,079
It was lovely meeting you.

673
00:38:08,512 --> 00:38:10,847
- Bye.
- ALL: Goodbye, Edith.

674
00:38:12,512 --> 00:38:14,079
TOLKIEN: I'll fetch our coats.

675
00:38:15,713 --> 00:38:17,314
EDITH: Are you ashamed of me?

676
00:38:17,746 --> 00:38:19,012
TOLKIEN: What?

677
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,178
EDITH: I can't think
of another explanation.

678
00:38:21,180 --> 00:38:23,080
TOLKIEN: I don't know
what you're talking about.

679
00:38:23,713 --> 00:38:25,847
You know
how I spend my days, John.

680
00:38:26,246 --> 00:38:27,379
You've seen me.

681
00:38:27,714 --> 00:38:28,948
I'm a companion.

682
00:38:29,379 --> 00:38:30,546
A prisoner.

683
00:38:31,145 --> 00:38:34,513
There's no secret
literary societies for me.

684
00:38:35,780 --> 00:38:37,179
No escape.

685
00:38:38,979 --> 00:38:41,580
I play piano
for Mrs. Faulkner.

686
00:38:41,946 --> 00:38:44,913
Terrible, sentimental songs
on the piano.

687
00:38:45,978 --> 00:38:47,813
I sit with her in the evening.

688
00:38:48,079 --> 00:38:50,280
Read with her. Sew with her.

689
00:38:50,479 --> 00:38:51,848
Listen to her.

690
00:38:52,914 --> 00:38:55,411
I have a passion for Wagner.

691
00:38:55,413 --> 00:38:59,111
I want to talk about him.
To discuss. To debate.

692
00:38:59,113 --> 00:39:00,347
But you...

693
00:39:05,913 --> 00:39:07,814
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

694
00:39:21,513 --> 00:39:23,046
(DISTANT EXPLOSIONS)

695
00:39:32,879 --> 00:39:34,413
(EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE)

696
00:39:43,513 --> 00:39:45,314
(DEEP GROWLING)

697
00:39:52,781 --> 00:39:54,881
(DISTANT, HEAVY THUDDING)

698
00:40:02,514 --> 00:40:04,180
(LOW GROWLING)

699
00:40:08,414 --> 00:40:09,813
(MEN SCREAMING)

700
00:40:10,947 --> 00:40:12,578
OFFICER: Take cover!

701
00:40:12,580 --> 00:40:14,114
(MEN SCREAMING)

702
00:40:15,579 --> 00:40:17,845
- (GUNFIRE)
- (SCREAMING)

703
00:40:17,847 --> 00:40:19,214
SAM: Run, sir!

704
00:40:24,879 --> 00:40:26,280
Sir, I think we're safe.

705
00:40:29,146 --> 00:40:30,214
It's okay.

706
00:40:32,147 --> 00:40:33,147
(PANTING)

707
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:41,314
Sir. Let's stay here, sir.

708
00:40:41,878 --> 00:40:43,247
Let's stay here, sir.

709
00:40:47,879 --> 00:40:49,947
(PIANO PLAYING
SOFT CLASSICAL MUSIC)

710
00:41:13,447 --> 00:41:15,811
Haven't you anything
a little more cheerful, dear?

711
00:41:15,813 --> 00:41:17,180
(MUSIC STOPS)

712
00:41:21,747 --> 00:41:23,114
(SIGHS SOFTLY)

713
00:41:25,580 --> 00:41:27,846
(PLAYING JOLLY MUSIC)

714
00:41:32,446 --> 00:41:33,611
GEOFFREY: <i>"Shapes in the mist</i>

715
00:41:33,613 --> 00:41:35,481
It is long since I saw you

716
00:41:36,380 --> 00:41:39,180
Pale hands and faces, quiet eyes

717
00:41:39,513 --> 00:41:42,546
Crowned with a garland
that dead hands wrought you

718
00:41:42,913 --> 00:41:45,147
Out of remembrance
that never dies

719
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,246
One among you
is tall and supple

720
00:41:49,746 --> 00:41:52,046
Good to love
and to fight beside

721
00:41:52,746 --> 00:41:54,879
Only the stain
of a deadly quarrel

722
00:41:55,146 --> 00:41:58,047
Only that
and the years divide"

723
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,277
- It's dreadful.
- It's superb.

724
00:42:01,279 --> 00:42:03,043
- Stop being such a moron.
- It isn't finished.

725
00:42:03,045 --> 00:42:04,343
ROBERT: It's wonderful.

726
00:42:04,345 --> 00:42:07,313
It's Greek, in a way.
The love of comrades.

727
00:42:07,713 --> 00:42:09,913
It's very emotive.
You should be proud.

728
00:42:11,546 --> 00:42:13,113
Right. Who's next?

729
00:42:13,446 --> 00:42:14,447
Tollers?

730
00:42:14,712 --> 00:42:16,346
No, I haven't anything new.

731
00:42:17,413 --> 00:42:18,679
- ROBERT: Really?
- TOLKIEN: Mmm.

732
00:42:18,681 --> 00:42:20,978
ROBERT: Well,
if Tolkien is betraying

733
00:42:20,980 --> 00:42:22,945
the brotherhood with a blank,

734
00:42:22,947 --> 00:42:26,079
I'm going to show you
something utterly degenerate.

735
00:42:26,345 --> 00:42:27,445
(LAUGHTER)

736
00:42:27,447 --> 00:42:28,947
GEOFFREY: This cannot be good.

737
00:42:29,646 --> 00:42:31,577
CHRISTOPHER: Heavens above.

738
00:42:31,579 --> 00:42:33,477
ROBERT: Copied, unfortunately.

739
00:42:33,479 --> 00:42:35,279
And what I need
is life models.

740
00:42:36,581 --> 00:42:38,013
Not much chance of that,
of course.

741
00:42:40,913 --> 00:42:42,611
TOLKIEN: I take it
that's not one of yours.

742
00:42:42,613 --> 00:42:45,413
ROBERT: What, my father's
aristocratic pretensions?

743
00:42:45,712 --> 00:42:47,810
Needless to say,
he hasn't got a rifle,

744
00:42:47,812 --> 00:42:50,311
a stately home,
or a pack of spaniels.

745
00:42:50,313 --> 00:42:51,211
(CHRISTOPHER LAUGHS)

746
00:42:51,213 --> 00:42:52,647
Have you really
not written anything?

747
00:42:52,946 --> 00:42:54,880
Not even inspired
by Miss Bratt?

748
00:42:55,212 --> 00:42:57,912
Don't be an ass, Wiseman.
Edith and I...

749
00:42:58,745 --> 00:42:59,779
share a lodging.

750
00:43:00,012 --> 00:43:01,578
So, her heart
is still unclaimed?

751
00:43:01,580 --> 00:43:02,645
Thank you, Tolkien.
Good to know.

752
00:43:02,647 --> 00:43:03,910
ROBERT:
So, you've written nothing?

753
00:43:03,912 --> 00:43:07,212
I can't get into my stride.
I feel... unfocused.

754
00:43:07,447 --> 00:43:09,481
CHRISTOPHER: You know what
I think that's a symptom of?

755
00:43:10,681 --> 00:43:11,744
Constipation?

756
00:43:11,746 --> 00:43:13,578
- (LAUGHS)
- Ha-ha-ha.

757
00:43:13,580 --> 00:43:15,776
Love.
Requited or otherwise.

758
00:43:15,778 --> 00:43:17,277
Yes. Thank you.

759
00:43:17,279 --> 00:43:18,245
What a wonderful insight

760
00:43:18,247 --> 00:43:20,180
into the human condition,
Chris.

761
00:43:20,878 --> 00:43:23,179
It's a pity it doesn't find
its way into your music.

762
00:43:24,912 --> 00:43:27,178
You know, I'm surprised
you expect us to believe

763
00:43:27,180 --> 00:43:28,676
a single word you say,
Tolkien.

764
00:43:28,678 --> 00:43:29,712
What's that supposed to mean?

765
00:43:30,078 --> 00:43:31,878
CHRISTOPHER: You kept the
delectable Miss Bratt from us.

766
00:43:32,380 --> 00:43:34,412
Who knows what else
you might be concealing.

767
00:43:34,414 --> 00:43:35,480
Christopher.

768
00:43:36,012 --> 00:43:37,810
A wife, three children
and a ranch in Argentina.

769
00:43:37,812 --> 00:43:38,944
Since you ask.

770
00:43:38,946 --> 00:43:40,710
God, I wish
I had Tolkien's secret life,

771
00:43:40,712 --> 00:43:41,877
eh, Geoff?

772
00:43:41,879 --> 00:43:43,610
TOLKIEN: Can we please
just play the game?

773
00:43:43,612 --> 00:43:45,480
(DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)

774
00:43:48,013 --> 00:43:49,446
I thought you said
he was away?

775
00:43:49,779 --> 00:43:52,344
- Yes, he was.
- (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

776
00:43:52,346 --> 00:43:53,413
He is...

777
00:43:55,212 --> 00:43:58,379
Geoffrey, give me
that quickly. Thank you.

778
00:44:00,079 --> 00:44:01,478
ROBERT: Where do I put
these things?

779
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,213
GEOFFREY: (WHISPERING)
Quickly.

780
00:44:03,812 --> 00:44:05,246
ROBERT: Shh!

781
00:44:05,745 --> 00:44:07,812
(FOOTSTEPS GROW NEARER)

782
00:44:11,180 --> 00:44:12,247
(DOOR OPENS)

783
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,280
- Sir.
- TOLKIEN: Headmaster.

784
00:44:17,678 --> 00:44:18,679
What's this?

785
00:44:18,878 --> 00:44:20,677
You said I might have
some friends here, sir.

786
00:44:20,679 --> 00:44:21,777
While you were away.

787
00:44:21,779 --> 00:44:23,180
Your aunt is better.

788
00:44:24,513 --> 00:44:25,846
I came home.

789
00:44:28,581 --> 00:44:30,512
I have work to do.
Send them home now.

790
00:44:30,514 --> 00:44:32,743
I've promised the boys that
they can stay the night, sir.

791
00:44:32,745 --> 00:44:35,246
Circumstances
have changed, however.

792
00:44:35,646 --> 00:44:37,380
And now they will go home.

793
00:44:40,279 --> 00:44:41,812
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

794
00:44:52,546 --> 00:44:53,912
Helheimr.

795
00:44:54,313 --> 00:44:55,380
Don't be ridiculous.

796
00:44:56,513 --> 00:44:57,812
Helheimr.

797
00:44:59,346 --> 00:45:00,846
Helheimr.

798
00:45:01,547 --> 00:45:04,947
If not now, then when?
(LAUGHS)

799
00:45:17,645 --> 00:45:18,880
ROBERT: Sir?

800
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:25,147
I prefer not to go back on
my offer of hospitality, sir.

801
00:45:25,446 --> 00:45:27,213
I think it ungentlemanly.

802
00:45:27,414 --> 00:45:28,913
You think...

803
00:45:30,846 --> 00:45:33,246
I'm sorry. What?

804
00:45:33,745 --> 00:45:36,012
Ungentlemanly, sir.

805
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,146
Father, I think it rude.

806
00:45:39,979 --> 00:45:41,410
The boys are here to study.

807
00:45:41,412 --> 00:45:42,480
And play billiards.

808
00:45:43,380 --> 00:45:45,880
Yes, and play billiards.

809
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,144
We've worked hard, sir.
And these are my friends.

810
00:45:50,146 --> 00:45:52,813
And I have made them
a promise, which...

811
00:45:54,247 --> 00:45:55,347
with respect,

812
00:45:56,247 --> 00:45:57,414
I would like to keep.

813
00:46:01,514 --> 00:46:02,847
Very well.

814
00:46:08,313 --> 00:46:10,481
- (SIGHS IN RELIEF)
- (BOYS SNICKERING)

815
00:46:13,745 --> 00:46:16,510
CHRISTOPHER: Gilson.
You're a bloody hero.

816
00:46:16,512 --> 00:46:17,577
- ROBERT: (WHISPERS) Boys, stop.
- CHRISTOPHER: Bloody hero.

817
00:46:17,579 --> 00:46:19,946
- Helheimr.
- (ALL LAUGH)

818
00:46:27,079 --> 00:46:28,579
(DOOR OPENS)

819
00:46:32,812 --> 00:46:34,444
There's a word in old German,

820
00:46:34,446 --> 00:46:36,113
it has no translation
in English,

821
00:46:36,511 --> 00:46:38,710
but it means
a gift offered fearfully

822
00:46:38,712 --> 00:46:40,147
in the wake of an argument.

823
00:46:40,346 --> 00:46:41,846
<i>Drachenfutter.</i>

824
00:46:47,346 --> 00:46:49,147
Literally, "Dragon Food."

825
00:46:57,379 --> 00:46:58,712
So now I'm a dragon?

826
00:47:00,179 --> 00:47:01,547
(STAMMERS)

827
00:47:04,345 --> 00:47:05,911
(BELL TOLLING)

828
00:47:05,913 --> 00:47:08,079
EDITH: <i>Wagner wrote it
in four acts.</i>

829
00:47:08,312 --> 00:47:09,411
<i>It starts with a ring,</i>

830
00:47:09,413 --> 00:47:11,244
a magical ring
which can rule the world

831
00:47:11,246 --> 00:47:13,011
and which is forged
by a dwarf.

832
00:47:13,013 --> 00:47:14,212
It's Alberich.

833
00:47:14,612 --> 00:47:16,846
Well, I have picked up the odd
bit of German mythology.

834
00:47:17,213 --> 00:47:18,878
But to harness
the ring's power,

835
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:20,443
you first have to
renounce love.

836
00:47:20,445 --> 00:47:23,212
Oh. A very sensible exchange,
in my opinion.

837
00:47:23,513 --> 00:47:25,980
Well, that's because
you're a coldhearted Viking.

838
00:47:27,679 --> 00:47:29,180
Two, please. Upper gallery.

839
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:31,814
Gallery
and upper gallery full.

840
00:47:32,346 --> 00:47:33,412
Sorry, what?

841
00:47:33,778 --> 00:47:36,646
The gallery and upper gallery
are full. I'm sorry.

842
00:47:38,512 --> 00:47:39,944
Nothing at all?

843
00:47:39,946 --> 00:47:42,179
That's what we mean
by full, sir, yes.

844
00:47:42,579 --> 00:47:44,846
There is availability
in the dress circle.

845
00:47:47,478 --> 00:47:48,913
The dress circle.

846
00:47:50,779 --> 00:47:52,779
But that's five shillings.

847
00:47:55,245 --> 00:47:56,811
And we do
respectfully ask patrons

848
00:47:56,813 --> 00:47:59,212
to dress appropriately
for that tier, sir.

849
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:03,913
Come on.

850
00:48:07,013 --> 00:48:08,113
Edith.

851
00:48:09,378 --> 00:48:10,612
Follow me.

852
00:48:13,546 --> 00:48:15,446
- (GATE CREAKS)
- (HORSE NEIGHS IN DISTANCE)

853
00:48:20,914 --> 00:48:22,079
(DOOR RATTLES)

854
00:48:37,379 --> 00:48:38,713
Sorry.

855
00:48:39,145 --> 00:48:40,146
It's fine.

856
00:48:44,078 --> 00:48:45,447
Humiliating.

857
00:48:46,345 --> 00:48:49,544
Counting out the pennies.
It's shameful.

858
00:48:50,145 --> 00:48:51,512
(SIGHS)

859
00:48:52,580 --> 00:48:54,447
I'm not going
to live like that.

860
00:48:55,412 --> 00:48:56,645
And neither should you.

861
00:48:57,279 --> 00:48:58,410
They're just tickets.
We can...

862
00:48:58,412 --> 00:48:59,578
It's not the tickets.

863
00:48:59,580 --> 00:49:01,713
It's about not losing
the people you love.

864
00:49:02,613 --> 00:49:04,078
Looking after them.

865
00:49:06,479 --> 00:49:08,045
My mother, she...

866
00:49:09,579 --> 00:49:10,846
She was sick.

867
00:49:13,312 --> 00:49:14,779
I don't know what it was.

868
00:49:17,279 --> 00:49:18,947
But, maybe,
if I could have paid...

869
00:49:19,511 --> 00:49:21,078
for a doctor, I...

870
00:49:21,311 --> 00:49:22,579
then...

871
00:49:26,745 --> 00:49:27,846
Sorry.

872
00:49:28,746 --> 00:49:30,112
This isn't going to work.

873
00:49:31,046 --> 00:49:32,643
It was a nice idea, though.

874
00:49:32,645 --> 00:49:34,846
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING
IN DISTANCE)

875
00:49:38,345 --> 00:49:40,546
(MUFFLED ORCHESTRAL
MUSIC BEGINS)

876
00:50:15,779 --> 00:50:18,512
- (WOMAN SINGING IN GERMAN)
- (LIP-SYNCHING)

877
00:50:24,379 --> 00:50:26,580
(MAN SINGING IN GERMAN)

878
00:50:42,945 --> 00:50:44,479
(WOMAN SINGING)

879
00:52:18,145 --> 00:52:19,613
MASTER: <i>You may begin.</i>

880
00:52:20,111 --> 00:52:22,511
Oxford entrance. Paper 1.

881
00:52:22,513 --> 00:52:24,313
The time is nine o'clock,

882
00:52:24,612 --> 00:52:26,878
and you have three hours.

883
00:52:28,079 --> 00:52:29,447
Good luck.

884
00:52:34,713 --> 00:52:36,245
TOLKIEN:
<i>Look, I can take it again.</i>

885
00:52:36,578 --> 00:52:38,743
I can take it again,
and I can pass.

886
00:52:38,745 --> 00:52:40,312
To pass is not enough.

887
00:52:40,511 --> 00:52:41,912
You need a scholarship.

888
00:52:43,479 --> 00:52:44,845
I'm worried, Ronald.

889
00:52:45,712 --> 00:52:49,612
I'm sure Master Gilson
has no need for a scholarship.

890
00:52:49,979 --> 00:52:51,478
As for Geoffrey Smith...

891
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:52,909
This has nothing to do
with my friends.

892
00:52:52,911 --> 00:52:55,779
We encourage each other,
we push each other on.

893
00:52:59,179 --> 00:53:00,480
Your fellow lodger.

894
00:53:01,079 --> 00:53:02,112
Miss Bratt.

895
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:05,479
No, Edith has nothing to do
with my failing that exam.

896
00:53:05,745 --> 00:53:09,112
You were seen coming out
of her room. At night.

897
00:53:09,346 --> 00:53:10,413
We talked.

898
00:53:10,713 --> 00:53:11,944
We talk to each other.

899
00:53:11,946 --> 00:53:13,744
- Oh. So, it's true.
- Yes, of course it's true.

900
00:53:13,746 --> 00:53:15,043
- It doesn't...
- The night before the exam,

901
00:53:15,045 --> 00:53:16,943
you accompanied her
to the concert hall.

902
00:53:16,945 --> 00:53:19,479
That, also,
has nothing to do with this?

903
00:53:19,944 --> 00:53:22,479
(SIGHS) She's not even
Catholic, Ronald.

904
00:53:24,979 --> 00:53:26,113
Your mother

905
00:53:26,944 --> 00:53:28,079
made a sacrifice.

906
00:53:29,145 --> 00:53:30,510
She knew she was dying

907
00:53:30,512 --> 00:53:34,045
and she trusted your future
and education to me.

908
00:53:34,613 --> 00:53:36,580
I intend to honor that.

909
00:53:37,679 --> 00:53:39,877
The time has come
for you to choose

910
00:53:39,879 --> 00:53:42,547
whether or not you will follow
in her example.

911
00:53:43,278 --> 00:53:45,243
I don't think I understand.

912
00:53:45,245 --> 00:53:46,410
I must ask you

913
00:53:46,412 --> 00:53:47,910
to have nothing more
to do with Miss Bratt.

914
00:53:47,912 --> 00:53:50,775
That's ridiculous.
That's completely unfair.

915
00:53:50,777 --> 00:53:53,078
- Nevertheless.
- No. No, I...

916
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:54,643
I can't. I won't.

917
00:53:54,645 --> 00:53:56,344
I am your legal guardian...

918
00:53:56,346 --> 00:53:57,877
Yes, but you don't understand.

919
00:53:57,879 --> 00:54:00,212
- Oh, I understand perfectly.
- No. Father. (SIGHS)

920
00:54:01,878 --> 00:54:02,979
I love her.

921
00:54:07,045 --> 00:54:08,213
I wish...

922
00:54:09,078 --> 00:54:10,711
Ronald, I wish you could enjoy

923
00:54:10,713 --> 00:54:12,645
the same luxuries
other boys do.

924
00:54:12,647 --> 00:54:15,410
- I wish...
- No, you're jealous.

925
00:54:15,412 --> 00:54:17,044
You don't want that at all.
You're jealous.

926
00:54:17,046 --> 00:54:18,743
You say that but you don't
mean it. You're a priest.

927
00:54:18,745 --> 00:54:20,443
You don't know anything
about love. How could you?

928
00:54:20,445 --> 00:54:21,844
- Listen to me.
- You want me to be alone.

929
00:54:21,846 --> 00:54:23,576
You want me to live alone
like you and have nothing.

930
00:54:23,578 --> 00:54:24,877
I won't.
I won't live like that.

931
00:54:24,879 --> 00:54:27,610
If after the age of 21,
you still feel the same way,

932
00:54:27,612 --> 00:54:30,613
you are, of course,
free to do as you please.

933
00:54:32,379 --> 00:54:33,778
Until that time,

934
00:54:34,178 --> 00:54:35,842
you have a duty to fulfill.

935
00:54:35,844 --> 00:54:38,045
And you will fulfill it,
Ronald.

936
00:54:38,979 --> 00:54:41,613
So, help me God,
you will fulfill it.

937
00:54:50,613 --> 00:54:52,078
TOLKIEN:
<i>I can't fail it again.</i>

938
00:54:52,778 --> 00:54:54,979
And you know what will happen
if I don't get into Oxford.

939
00:54:59,379 --> 00:55:00,443
I could become a priest,

940
00:55:00,445 --> 00:55:01,709
but I don't think
a life of celibacy

941
00:55:01,711 --> 00:55:03,479
is what either of us
had in mind.

942
00:55:06,844 --> 00:55:07,878
Edith?

943
00:55:13,877 --> 00:55:16,143
Edith, it's just until
I reach my majority.

944
00:55:16,145 --> 00:55:17,679
Oh, for God's sake, Ronald.

945
00:55:18,012 --> 00:55:19,480
Don't be so dramatic.

946
00:55:21,546 --> 00:55:22,844
It doesn't matter.

947
00:55:22,846 --> 00:55:24,675
No, don't say that.
Of course, it matters.

948
00:55:24,677 --> 00:55:26,712
I don't know why
you're taking it so hard.

949
00:55:26,911 --> 00:55:29,979
Things are just returning
to normal, that's all.

950
00:55:30,212 --> 00:55:31,378
To reality.

951
00:55:31,380 --> 00:55:34,210
No, I won't give up
on our future. (SIGHS)

952
00:55:34,212 --> 00:55:35,213
That's why I'm...

953
00:55:36,745 --> 00:55:38,480
I refuse to give up on that.

954
00:55:41,912 --> 00:55:43,179
Of course, you will.

955
00:55:44,779 --> 00:55:46,646
More quickly than you think.

956
00:55:50,379 --> 00:55:52,009
- So will I.
- No, that's not true.

957
00:55:52,011 --> 00:55:53,546
Edith, please. Look...

958
00:55:56,246 --> 00:55:57,279
I let myself believe

959
00:55:57,546 --> 00:55:59,613
that there were happy endings
for people like us.

960
00:56:00,345 --> 00:56:01,613
But there aren't.

961
00:56:01,845 --> 00:56:02,779
There can't be.

962
00:56:06,446 --> 00:56:08,212
But you get your happy ending.

963
00:56:10,679 --> 00:56:12,611
Hope you enjoy Oxford.

964
00:56:13,378 --> 00:56:15,446
No. Edith.

965
00:56:17,446 --> 00:56:19,046
(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

966
00:56:40,278 --> 00:56:41,611
I need your help.

967
00:56:42,012 --> 00:56:43,380
I need to rest, Sam.

968
00:56:43,778 --> 00:56:45,778
You have to find Geoffrey.

969
00:56:46,345 --> 00:56:47,543
Sir, I'm not leaving you here.

970
00:56:47,545 --> 00:56:50,009
- Sam.
- I'm not leaving you here.

971
00:56:50,011 --> 00:56:52,411
Sam. It's an order.

972
00:56:52,845 --> 00:56:56,012
Find Geoffrey
and tell him not to lose hope.

973
00:56:58,246 --> 00:57:00,578
Tell him that
the T.C.B.S., we...

974
00:57:03,611 --> 00:57:05,012
Just keep him alive.

975
00:57:25,213 --> 00:57:27,079
(FAINTLY) Thank you, Sam.

976
00:57:32,045 --> 00:57:34,376
- ROSE: Is it a dragon?
- It's a dragon. It's a dragon.

977
00:57:34,378 --> 00:57:35,610
CHRISTOPHER:
For goodness' sake.

978
00:57:35,612 --> 00:57:37,910
I was wondering,
did I mention before...

979
00:57:37,912 --> 00:57:39,577
The set of the play is
very much inspired

980
00:57:39,579 --> 00:57:40,844
by the architecture
of Trinity.

981
00:57:40,846 --> 00:57:41,676
Sorry, chaps.

982
00:57:41,678 --> 00:57:43,978
- But what's it about?
- Well...

983
00:57:44,178 --> 00:57:47,077
- And so, you're the poet?
- No, uh, that's Geoffrey.

984
00:57:47,079 --> 00:57:49,612
I think you Oxford men
should be upping the game. No?

985
00:57:49,844 --> 00:57:51,576
- Where are we off to next?
- Yes, do tell.

986
00:57:51,578 --> 00:57:53,742
Yes, where shall we...?
Sorry, excuse me.

987
00:57:53,744 --> 00:57:54,879
Um...

988
00:57:55,711 --> 00:57:56,712
Right.

989
00:57:57,379 --> 00:57:59,145
(BELL TOLLING)

990
00:58:01,944 --> 00:58:03,777
ROBERT: Stealing a bus?
That's your plan?

991
00:58:03,779 --> 00:58:06,310
- GEOFFREY: Gilson! Quiet!
- CHRISTOPHER: Hurry up!

992
00:58:06,312 --> 00:58:07,380
GEOFFREY: Shh!

993
00:58:07,645 --> 00:58:09,875
I think that particular match
it was the Oxford men

994
00:58:09,877 --> 00:58:11,809
- versus the Cambridge boys.
- (LAUGHTER)

995
00:58:11,811 --> 00:58:14,478
ROBERT: Oh, come on,
the referee was blind.

996
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:15,876
CHRISTOPHER: I hereby declare

997
00:58:15,878 --> 00:58:18,509
the third Oxford council
of the T.C.B.S.

998
00:58:18,511 --> 00:58:20,445
well and truly open.

999
00:58:20,677 --> 00:58:21,776
And would like to welcome

1000
00:58:21,778 --> 00:58:23,411
our damsels
from the Eagle and Child

1001
00:58:23,413 --> 00:58:24,544
as honorary guests.

1002
00:58:24,546 --> 00:58:26,575
May all our meetings
take place

1003
00:58:26,577 --> 00:58:27,645
on an abandoned omnibus.

1004
00:58:27,879 --> 00:58:29,476
I think the word "abandoned"
might be stretching it.

1005
00:58:29,478 --> 00:58:30,676
- Maybe a bit.
- (LAUGHTER)

1006
00:58:30,678 --> 00:58:32,346
MARY: What is the T.C.B.?

1007
00:58:32,779 --> 00:58:34,645
- ROBERT: Oh, the T.C.B.S.
- Oh.

1008
00:58:35,446 --> 00:58:37,979
I don't think you like me,
Mr. Burglar.

1009
00:58:38,511 --> 00:58:40,710
- Sorry, I was just...
- I apologize for my friend.

1010
00:58:40,712 --> 00:58:42,677
- He's pining for someone.
- What?

1011
00:58:42,679 --> 00:58:44,610
CHRISTOPHER: He's pining
for the delectable Miss Bratt.

1012
00:58:44,612 --> 00:58:45,677
ROBERT: Take no notice of him.

1013
00:58:45,679 --> 00:58:46,876
Who's the delectable
Miss Bratt?

1014
00:58:46,878 --> 00:58:48,409
- She's no one.
- Oh, is she, Tollers?

1015
00:58:48,411 --> 00:58:49,510
The way you've been
moping around

1016
00:58:49,512 --> 00:58:50,512
for the past couple of months.

1017
00:58:50,711 --> 00:58:52,209
It's not very nice
to talk about another lady

1018
00:58:52,211 --> 00:58:53,212
when you're with someone.

1019
00:58:53,479 --> 00:58:55,013
No, you're absolutely right.
I apologize, Myrtle.

1020
00:58:55,279 --> 00:58:56,842
- It's Beryl.
- (LAUGHTER)

1021
00:58:56,844 --> 00:58:59,277
See? See? Sitting in the arms
of a beautiful girl

1022
00:58:59,279 --> 00:59:00,708
and he can't even
remember her name.

1023
00:59:00,710 --> 00:59:02,044
I'm sorry if my difficulties

1024
00:59:02,046 --> 00:59:03,542
are getting in the way
of your diversions.

1025
00:59:03,544 --> 00:59:05,109
Ah, you made a decision,
Tolkien.

1026
00:59:05,111 --> 00:59:06,312
Nobody forced you into it.

1027
00:59:06,611 --> 00:59:08,043
- What?
- CHRISTOPHER: Edith or Oxford.

1028
00:59:08,045 --> 00:59:09,744
You chose Oxford,
and here you are!

1029
00:59:09,746 --> 00:59:11,809
Sat on a commandeered bus
with three beautiful girls

1030
00:59:11,811 --> 00:59:13,642
and your best friends. For
God's sake, enjoy yourself!

1031
00:59:13,644 --> 00:59:15,443
- Nobody forced me?
- CHRISTOPHER: Oh, yes...

1032
00:59:15,445 --> 00:59:16,742
The priest. Your benefactor.

1033
00:59:16,744 --> 00:59:17,812
Chris, this is
getting out of hand.

1034
00:59:18,211 --> 00:59:19,875
- Don't talk about things you...
- Thank you. This was wonderful.

1035
00:59:19,877 --> 00:59:21,309
You let her go.
You didn't want her

1036
00:59:21,311 --> 00:59:22,279
- more than you wanted Oxford.
- No.

1037
00:59:22,646 --> 00:59:24,243
- I didn't have a choice.
- Does that make you a rotter?

1038
00:59:24,245 --> 00:59:25,442
Does that make you
something else?

1039
00:59:25,444 --> 00:59:27,410
- What's the matter with you?
- Just shut up!

1040
00:59:27,610 --> 00:59:29,143
Oh, for God's sake, Tollers.

1041
00:59:29,145 --> 00:59:31,512
- (CHRISTOPHER GROANS)
- TOLKIEN: Chris. Sorry, Chris.

1042
00:59:32,844 --> 00:59:35,011
- Bloody hell, Tollers.
- Are you all right?

1043
00:59:35,445 --> 00:59:36,543
For an intellectual,

1044
00:59:36,545 --> 00:59:38,211
you've quite
an impressive right hook.

1045
00:59:38,213 --> 00:59:39,877
- Hit me back. Please.
- No.

1046
00:59:39,879 --> 00:59:41,579
Hit me back right now.
Please, Chris.

1047
00:59:41,779 --> 00:59:43,609
- Forget it. Forget it.
- TOLKIEN: Chris, please.

1048
00:59:43,611 --> 00:59:44,912
CHRISTOPHER: It's fine.

1049
00:59:47,013 --> 00:59:49,146
No, that was horrible of me.
I'm sorry.

1050
00:59:52,645 --> 00:59:56,013
ROBERT: What you need
to understand, Tolkien, you...

1051
00:59:56,579 --> 00:59:58,245
poor lawless orphan,

1052
00:59:58,744 --> 01:00:00,746
is that we are your brothers.

1053
01:00:01,379 --> 01:00:02,510
Through everything.

1054
01:00:02,512 --> 01:00:04,446
Yes, absolutely.

1055
01:00:04,812 --> 01:00:05,844
Exactly.

1056
01:00:05,846 --> 01:00:08,745
ROBERT: This is more than...
just a friendship.

1057
01:00:09,212 --> 01:00:10,612
It's an alliance.

1058
01:00:11,312 --> 01:00:13,778
An invincible alliance.

1059
01:00:14,444 --> 01:00:15,444
Helheimr!

1060
01:00:15,678 --> 01:00:18,376
- ALL: Helheimr.
- TOLKIEN: Still Helheimr.

1061
01:00:18,378 --> 01:00:20,344
Every time he gets it wrong.

1062
01:00:20,346 --> 01:00:21,409
GEOFFREY:
Right, I need a drink.

1063
01:00:21,411 --> 01:00:22,542
CHRISTOPHER:
Where did the girls go?

1064
01:00:22,544 --> 01:00:24,445
GEOFFREY: (WHISPERS)
Shh. Get down.

1065
01:00:25,945 --> 01:00:27,846
CONSTABLE:
Hold the door, George.

1066
01:00:32,610 --> 01:00:34,612
They let you out in one piece.

1067
01:00:35,544 --> 01:00:38,012
They're speaking to the rector
in the morning.

1068
01:00:39,411 --> 01:00:40,412
What about you?

1069
01:00:40,679 --> 01:00:43,276
Well, Gilson and Wiseman,
the Cambridge swines,

1070
01:00:43,278 --> 01:00:44,644
have been let go already.

1071
01:00:45,044 --> 01:00:46,442
I wasn't quite so lucky.

1072
01:00:46,444 --> 01:00:47,510
Looks like I'll be joining you

1073
01:00:47,512 --> 01:00:49,111
in the rector's office
tomorrow.

1074
01:00:49,113 --> 01:00:50,679
Death by lecture.

1075
01:00:51,112 --> 01:00:52,044
I'm sorry, Geoff.

1076
01:00:52,046 --> 01:00:54,246
- No, it's not your fault.
- No, it is.

1077
01:00:54,677 --> 01:00:56,476
If it wasn't for me,
you'd be in the arms

1078
01:00:56,478 --> 01:00:58,377
of the delightful Mary by now.

1079
01:00:58,677 --> 01:01:00,943
GEOFFREY: Please. The moment
I showed any interest,

1080
01:01:00,945 --> 01:01:02,812
she started talking about
her sweetheart.

1081
01:01:03,113 --> 01:01:05,479
TOLKIEN: I was doing all right
until Wiseman ruined it.

1082
01:01:12,046 --> 01:01:13,913
(BELL TOLLING)

1083
01:01:35,946 --> 01:01:37,478
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1084
01:01:39,178 --> 01:01:41,378
GEOFFREY: The rector was
honestly writing to my mother.

1085
01:01:41,811 --> 01:01:43,978
Do you think I stand a chance
of becoming a poet after this?

1086
01:01:44,745 --> 01:01:47,809
She's going to lose her mind.
So, that's that.

1087
01:01:47,811 --> 01:01:50,377
ROBERT: Oh, Geoffrey's
only lost his career.

1088
01:01:50,712 --> 01:01:52,478
What did you get, Tolkien?

1089
01:01:54,178 --> 01:01:56,711
- I got sent down.
- (ALL LAUGH)

1090
01:01:57,712 --> 01:01:59,243
(STAMMERS)
Are you joking, Tollers?

1091
01:01:59,245 --> 01:02:00,477
They can't
send you down for that.

1092
01:02:00,479 --> 01:02:01,842
For a bloody picnic on a bus.

1093
01:02:01,844 --> 01:02:03,511
The bus was the least of it.

1094
01:02:04,611 --> 01:02:06,045
I haven't achieved the grades.

1095
01:02:06,244 --> 01:02:07,376
According to the rector,

1096
01:02:07,378 --> 01:02:08,842
I have no flair
for the Greats,

1097
01:02:08,844 --> 01:02:12,011
and only a passing interest
in the ancient Greeks.

1098
01:02:12,013 --> 01:02:13,213
So, they won't endorse
my scholarship.

1099
01:02:13,479 --> 01:02:15,144
Yes, but that doesn't mean
you have to go down.

1100
01:02:15,344 --> 01:02:18,009
No, of course not.
How stupid of me.

1101
01:02:18,011 --> 01:02:19,976
Yes, when Mama gets back
from Monte Carlo,

1102
01:02:19,978 --> 01:02:21,476
I'll ask her
to write another check.

1103
01:02:21,478 --> 01:02:22,679
(SCOFFS)

1104
01:02:24,312 --> 01:02:25,612
What are you going to do?

1105
01:02:26,578 --> 01:02:28,409
They'll endorse my scholarship
until the end of term.

1106
01:02:28,411 --> 01:02:30,545
After that, I have to finance
my own studies.

1107
01:02:30,744 --> 01:02:32,275
Which is, of course,
impossible,

1108
01:02:32,277 --> 01:02:34,078
so, get a job, I suppose.

1109
01:02:36,510 --> 01:02:37,578
Well, doing what?

1110
01:02:38,979 --> 01:02:42,112
I will go back to Birmingham
and work in a bakery.

1111
01:02:42,611 --> 01:02:46,243
Or I will make shoes
for rich dimwits like you

1112
01:02:46,245 --> 01:02:47,445
who come in
waving their wallets.

1113
01:02:47,845 --> 01:02:49,912
I could do with a new pair
of Oxfords, anyway.

1114
01:02:50,545 --> 01:02:52,209
(BOTH CHUCKLE)

1115
01:02:52,211 --> 01:02:53,279
But, in all seriousness,

1116
01:02:53,478 --> 01:02:55,779
you've always had more flair
than any of us.

1117
01:02:56,678 --> 01:02:57,712
And...

1118
01:02:58,412 --> 01:02:59,412
I'll be honest,

1119
01:02:59,712 --> 01:03:01,013
I sometimes hated you for it.

1120
01:03:02,946 --> 01:03:03,644
But, out of us all,

1121
01:03:03,945 --> 01:03:05,979
you're the last person
who should be sent down.

1122
01:03:08,478 --> 01:03:10,677
GEOFFREY:
So, tomorrow is our last game.

1123
01:03:10,679 --> 01:03:12,543
ROBERT: We're gonna really
miss thrashing you, chaps.

1124
01:03:12,545 --> 01:03:13,710
GEOFFREY: Please.

1125
01:03:13,712 --> 01:03:15,612
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

1126
01:03:24,245 --> 01:03:26,010
PLAYER: Wiseman, stop him!

1127
01:03:26,012 --> 01:03:27,045
(SHOUTING CONTINUES)

1128
01:03:32,177 --> 01:03:34,445
- (GRUNTING)
- (BLOWING WHISTLE)

1129
01:03:34,945 --> 01:03:35,976
(CROWD CHEERS)

1130
01:03:35,978 --> 01:03:37,645
- Well done, Tolkien.
- Thank you.

1131
01:03:38,278 --> 01:03:40,477
- (LAUGHING)
- Good game, boys.

1132
01:03:40,678 --> 01:03:43,276
- That was a beautiful run.
- Well played, you big oaf.

1133
01:03:43,278 --> 01:03:44,677
You weren't a total fool,
Tollers.

1134
01:03:44,679 --> 01:03:46,409
GEOFFREY: Sorry, what was
the score, Wiseman?

1135
01:03:46,411 --> 01:03:47,812
(LAUGHTER)

1136
01:03:48,612 --> 01:03:50,013
Well played, lads.

1137
01:03:51,145 --> 01:03:52,410
Hello, Mother.

1138
01:03:52,412 --> 01:03:54,112
- Well played, Geoffrey.
- Thank you for coming.

1139
01:03:54,644 --> 01:03:56,009
Are we still on
for dinner later?

1140
01:03:56,011 --> 01:03:57,511
Yes. Seven o'clock.

1141
01:03:57,712 --> 01:03:59,612
And your father will be there.

1142
01:04:01,445 --> 01:04:02,978
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1143
01:04:07,112 --> 01:04:08,378
TOLKIEN:
Excuse me, Mrs. Smith.

1144
01:04:09,079 --> 01:04:11,478
I wondered if I might
have a brief word.

1145
01:04:12,711 --> 01:04:13,611
Well?

1146
01:04:13,946 --> 01:04:16,944
It's about Geoffrey and, um,
this business with the rector.

1147
01:04:16,946 --> 01:04:18,509
It's been the most dreadful
misunderstanding.

1148
01:04:18,511 --> 01:04:20,511
I'd prefer not to talk about
that, if you don't mind.

1149
01:04:21,878 --> 01:04:23,977
I'm responsible for everything
that happened that night

1150
01:04:23,979 --> 01:04:26,211
and I assure you
I've been thoroughly punished.

1151
01:04:26,445 --> 01:04:27,609
I'm trying to say,
please don't

1152
01:04:27,611 --> 01:04:28,776
make things harder
on Geoffrey.

1153
01:04:28,778 --> 01:04:31,476
He's one of the most
diligent people I know.

1154
01:04:31,478 --> 01:04:32,411
And the kindest.

1155
01:04:32,611 --> 01:04:33,976
He tries so hard
to make you proud of him.

1156
01:04:33,978 --> 01:04:35,244
And he has such
exceptional talents.

1157
01:04:35,445 --> 01:04:36,810
I know
I'm speaking out of line...

1158
01:04:36,812 --> 01:04:38,710
- And you were responsible?
- Yes.

1159
01:04:38,712 --> 01:04:41,510
Yes, and I've been sent down.

1160
01:04:41,512 --> 01:04:43,879
So, you needn't worry about
my influence anymore.

1161
01:04:45,045 --> 01:04:46,212
And, um...

1162
01:04:47,345 --> 01:04:51,010
What... What talents
are you referring to?

1163
01:04:51,012 --> 01:04:52,109
He's a poet.

1164
01:04:52,111 --> 01:04:54,542
He's had his work published
in college magazines.

1165
01:04:54,544 --> 01:04:56,479
He'd kill me for telling
you this. But he's good.

1166
01:04:57,311 --> 01:04:58,678
Good afternoon to you.

1167
01:05:07,212 --> 01:05:08,446
PORTER: Mr. Tolkien?

1168
01:05:09,578 --> 01:05:11,779
- This is for you.
- Thank you.

1169
01:05:24,177 --> 01:05:26,046
(LIQUID SLOSHING IN BOTTLE)

1170
01:05:28,211 --> 01:05:31,013
(SPEAKING UNKNOWN LANGUAGE)

1171
01:05:52,479 --> 01:05:54,442
PROFESSOR:
Students off the grass!

1172
01:05:54,444 --> 01:05:56,710
Have you any idea
what time it is?

1173
01:05:56,712 --> 01:05:57,776
(SPEAKS UNKNOWN LANGUAGE)

1174
01:05:57,778 --> 01:05:59,512
(IN ENGLISH)
You silly old sod!

1175
01:05:59,811 --> 01:06:02,342
I say, Wright,
is he one of yours?

1176
01:06:02,344 --> 01:06:03,979
I don't believe he is.

1177
01:06:04,744 --> 01:06:06,843
(SPEAKING UNKNOWN LANGUAGE)

1178
01:06:06,845 --> 01:06:08,678
(IN ENGLISH) You silly old...

1179
01:06:09,545 --> 01:06:11,212
PROFESSOR: Get off the lawn!

1180
01:06:22,545 --> 01:06:24,445
Hail Earendel,

1181
01:06:27,245 --> 01:06:30,044
brightest of angels
sent unto men.

1182
01:06:37,278 --> 01:06:39,145
(SPEAKING UNKNOWN LANGUAGE)

1183
01:07:25,411 --> 01:07:28,011
GEOFFREY: Ronald.
Ronald, get up.

1184
01:07:28,644 --> 01:07:31,142
Get up. It's me. Wake up.

1185
01:07:31,144 --> 01:07:32,210
Yes, I'm awake.

1186
01:07:32,212 --> 01:07:33,575
You've woken up
the whole college.

1187
01:07:33,577 --> 01:07:34,909
They can't send me down twice,
can they?

1188
01:07:34,911 --> 01:07:36,878
- Pull yourself together.
- Can they?

1189
01:07:37,178 --> 01:07:39,477
Geoff! Geoff, sit down.

1190
01:07:39,479 --> 01:07:41,609
Have a drink. Wonderful malt.

1191
01:07:41,611 --> 01:07:43,977
I don't want a drink.
Pull yourself together, John.

1192
01:07:44,577 --> 01:07:46,111
(GEOFFREY PANTING)

1193
01:07:48,245 --> 01:07:49,479
(SIGHS)

1194
01:07:51,711 --> 01:07:53,942
Would you like to come
to a wedding?

1195
01:07:53,944 --> 01:07:55,078
What?

1196
01:07:55,477 --> 01:07:57,743
- Very beautiful, English...
- John...

1197
01:07:57,745 --> 01:07:59,846
- ...summer wedding.
- You're not making any sense.

1198
01:08:00,910 --> 01:08:01,911
Edith.

1199
01:08:02,412 --> 01:08:03,746
Congratulations.

1200
01:08:05,277 --> 01:08:06,845
Yes, she wrote to me. She's...

1201
01:08:07,411 --> 01:08:08,678
She's engaged.

1202
01:08:09,277 --> 01:08:10,511
She's getting married.

1203
01:08:11,445 --> 01:08:12,779
Oh, John, that's...

1204
01:08:13,512 --> 01:08:15,044
That's awfully bad luck.

1205
01:08:16,679 --> 01:08:18,642
(VOICE QUIVERING) I'm sorry.
I'm in a bit of a mess.

1206
01:08:18,644 --> 01:08:21,109
- No, that's okay. Hey, hey...
- Sorry, Geoff.

1207
01:08:21,111 --> 01:08:22,776
It's okay. It's okay.

1208
01:08:22,778 --> 01:08:24,779
- That's okay.
- (SOBBING)

1209
01:08:28,011 --> 01:08:29,579
I've got you.

1210
01:08:32,112 --> 01:08:33,112
I've got you.

1211
01:08:34,045 --> 01:08:35,846
REFEREE: Fencers salute!

1212
01:08:40,612 --> 01:08:43,042
- How are you feeling?
- (FOILS CLASHING)

1213
01:08:43,044 --> 01:08:44,877
Oh, absolutely fantastic.

1214
01:08:46,044 --> 01:08:47,245
Delightful.

1215
01:08:47,812 --> 01:08:50,211
And what a marvelous idea
this was, thank you.

1216
01:08:54,813 --> 01:08:56,077
To love someone,

1217
01:08:57,044 --> 01:09:01,277
who, for whatever reason,
cannot return your feelings

1218
01:09:01,478 --> 01:09:03,511
is painful.

1219
01:09:05,745 --> 01:09:07,545
But if you listen
to the poets,

1220
01:09:09,478 --> 01:09:13,012
perhaps there's a kind
of beauty to that love.

1221
01:09:14,878 --> 01:09:16,045
It burns.

1222
01:09:16,712 --> 01:09:17,677
Bright.

1223
01:09:17,679 --> 01:09:21,546
And it's never tainted
by reality or by...

1224
01:09:22,144 --> 01:09:23,145
overuse.

1225
01:09:25,078 --> 01:09:26,841
It's as clear and fierce today

1226
01:09:26,843 --> 01:09:28,742
as it was
the very first day it began.

1227
01:09:28,744 --> 01:09:30,678
And there's beauty to that,

1228
01:09:32,178 --> 01:09:33,479
I think.

1229
01:09:35,843 --> 01:09:37,778
At least, that's what
I cling to, anyway.

1230
01:09:45,843 --> 01:09:47,578
(MASTER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

1231
01:09:51,011 --> 01:09:52,179
WRIGHT: <i>Hails!</i>

1232
01:09:53,911 --> 01:09:55,078
Uh... <i>Hails!</i>

1233
01:09:55,778 --> 01:09:58,409
(CONTINUES SPEAKING
ANCIENT GOTHIC)

1234
01:09:58,411 --> 01:10:00,678
(UNDER BREATH)
Another gobbledygook speaker.

1235
01:10:05,844 --> 01:10:09,645
(IN ENGLISH) How are you, uh,
finding the Gothic Primer?

1236
01:10:10,177 --> 01:10:13,410
Yes. Not bad. The preface
is pretty well written.

1237
01:10:13,412 --> 01:10:15,842
There's not much
of the language itself.

1238
01:10:15,844 --> 01:10:17,911
- Ah, a pity about that.
- Yes.

1239
01:10:18,712 --> 01:10:22,542
- Last night in the quad...
- God. You were there.

1240
01:10:22,544 --> 01:10:25,312
...I heard a language
I was unfamiliar with.

1241
01:10:25,644 --> 01:10:27,175
Well, of course,
the greater part

1242
01:10:27,177 --> 01:10:28,909
of Oxfordshire heard it too,

1243
01:10:28,911 --> 01:10:31,512
right up to
the Chiltern Hills.

1244
01:10:32,578 --> 01:10:34,078
I was very drunk.

1245
01:10:34,512 --> 01:10:35,977
I don't doubt it.

1246
01:10:39,344 --> 01:10:41,211
It was utter nonsense.

1247
01:10:41,777 --> 01:10:43,644
A language I invented
for the fairies.

1248
01:10:44,110 --> 01:10:47,776
I thought perhaps
I heard some Finnish.

1249
01:10:48,245 --> 01:10:50,211
- Yes. I stole a good deal.
- Ah.

1250
01:10:50,545 --> 01:10:52,676
- Not stole.
- No.

1251
01:10:52,678 --> 01:10:54,912
Languages never steal.

1252
01:10:55,511 --> 01:10:57,776
- Right.
- Influenced.

1253
01:10:58,544 --> 01:11:01,012
Sorry, I didn't
catch your name. I'm...

1254
01:11:03,911 --> 01:11:07,579
I'm Tolkien. Ronald.
Exeter College.

1255
01:11:09,344 --> 01:11:10,611
(SIGHS)

1256
01:11:33,445 --> 01:11:34,679
Excuse me.

1257
01:12:13,019 --> 01:12:15,052
A child points,

1258
01:12:16,453 --> 01:12:18,020
and is taught a word.

1259
01:12:19,186 --> 01:12:20,219
Tree.

1260
01:12:20,486 --> 01:12:23,385
Later, he learns
to distinguish this tree

1261
01:12:23,387 --> 01:12:24,652
from all the others.

1262
01:12:24,654 --> 01:12:26,987
He learns its particular name.

1263
01:12:27,719 --> 01:12:29,419
He plays under the tree.

1264
01:12:29,619 --> 01:12:31,386
He dances around it.

1265
01:12:32,085 --> 01:12:36,852
Stands beneath its branches,
for shade or shelter.

1266
01:12:37,620 --> 01:12:40,654
He kisses under it,
he sleeps under it,

1267
01:12:41,152 --> 01:12:42,852
he weds under it.

1268
01:12:43,553 --> 01:12:46,654
He marches past it
on his way to war,

1269
01:12:47,686 --> 01:12:51,286
and limps back past it
on his journey home.

1270
01:12:52,485 --> 01:12:56,086
A king is said to have
hidden in this tree.

1271
01:12:56,686 --> 01:13:01,386
A spirit may dwell
within its bark.

1272
01:13:01,818 --> 01:13:03,250
Its distinctive leaves

1273
01:13:03,252 --> 01:13:06,816
are carved onto the tombs and
monuments of his landlords.

1274
01:13:06,818 --> 01:13:09,983
Its wood might have built
the galleons

1275
01:13:09,985 --> 01:13:12,984
that saved his ancestors
from invasion.

1276
01:13:12,986 --> 01:13:14,686
And all this,

1277
01:13:15,386 --> 01:13:17,716
the general and the specific,

1278
01:13:17,718 --> 01:13:19,151
the national and the personal,

1279
01:13:19,153 --> 01:13:20,720
all this,

1280
01:13:21,320 --> 01:13:22,720
he knows,

1281
01:13:23,119 --> 01:13:24,586
and feels,

1282
01:13:25,053 --> 01:13:28,052
and summons, somehow,
however faintly,

1283
01:13:28,354 --> 01:13:32,254
with the utterance
of a single sound.

1284
01:13:35,187 --> 01:13:36,254
Oak.

1285
01:13:38,751 --> 01:13:41,451
Saxon word. Proto-Germanic.

1286
01:13:41,453 --> 01:13:43,887
Cognates in Old Norse. <i>Eik.</i>

1287
01:13:44,620 --> 01:13:47,183
Language is never nonsense.

1288
01:13:47,185 --> 01:13:49,285
Language is meaning.

1289
01:13:49,585 --> 01:13:52,620
History.
Layer upon layer upon layer.

1290
01:13:53,419 --> 01:13:56,852
And a word without meaning
is what?

1291
01:13:57,553 --> 01:13:58,986
Merely a sound.

1292
01:13:59,985 --> 01:14:01,820
Someone else
once said that to me.

1293
01:14:02,053 --> 01:14:04,987
With a good deal more economy,
I shouldn't wonder.

1294
01:14:05,353 --> 01:14:06,517
(CHUCKLES)

1295
01:14:06,519 --> 01:14:09,183
There are one or two
original Gothic texts

1296
01:14:09,185 --> 01:14:10,284
in the library.

1297
01:14:10,286 --> 01:14:11,354
You should take a look.

1298
01:14:11,553 --> 01:14:13,784
But I can't just walk in
and ask for the originals.

1299
01:14:13,786 --> 01:14:15,853
Tell them Professor Wright
sent you.

1300
01:14:32,820 --> 01:14:34,451
CHRISTOPHER:
<i>He wouldn't have cared.</i>

1301
01:14:34,453 --> 01:14:35,584
That's not the point.

1302
01:14:35,586 --> 01:14:36,816
He's probably
the greatest philologist,

1303
01:14:36,818 --> 01:14:38,350
certainly
of the Gothic language.

1304
01:14:38,352 --> 01:14:39,750
He might have
even been flattered.

1305
01:14:39,752 --> 01:14:40,920
Of course, he was flattered.

1306
01:14:41,187 --> 01:14:43,486
Nobody's taken that book out
of the library in 1,500 years.

1307
01:14:43,685 --> 01:14:45,485
Well, actually,
I had it out last week.

1308
01:14:45,487 --> 01:14:46,684
ROBERT: Oh.
How did you find it?

1309
01:14:46,686 --> 01:14:47,785
I don't want to spoil it
for Tollers.

1310
01:14:48,020 --> 01:14:49,650
He won't finish it. He doesn't
even know who wrote it.

1311
01:14:49,652 --> 01:14:51,685
Please. Will you all just
shut up? It's not funny.

1312
01:14:52,020 --> 01:14:53,420
Listen, Tolkien,

1313
01:14:53,618 --> 01:14:55,553
you absolute clown.

1314
01:14:55,886 --> 01:14:57,752
This is your chance,
can't you see?

1315
01:14:57,952 --> 01:15:00,617
Your Gothic professor
is encouraging you to defect.

1316
01:15:00,619 --> 01:15:01,651
What are you talking about?

1317
01:15:01,653 --> 01:15:03,319
He's enticing you
into his class.

1318
01:15:03,786 --> 01:15:05,350
- (ALL SHUSHING)
- Sorry.

1319
01:15:05,352 --> 01:15:06,319
(WHISPERS) He's right.

1320
01:15:06,752 --> 01:15:09,083
But I can't just breeze
into the philology department.

1321
01:15:09,085 --> 01:15:09,785
Why not?

1322
01:15:10,153 --> 01:15:11,950
Because I don't have
a scholarship, for a start.

1323
01:15:11,952 --> 01:15:13,683
So, are you telling me
that the philology department

1324
01:15:13,685 --> 01:15:15,117
don't give out scholarships?

1325
01:15:15,119 --> 01:15:18,852
Yes, for someone who happens
to be a genius with languages.

1326
01:15:19,952 --> 01:15:22,686
- ROBERT: Moron.
- (CHRISTOPHER LAUGHS)

1327
01:15:23,586 --> 01:15:24,750
Professor!

1328
01:15:24,752 --> 01:15:26,583
- Excuse me, Professor Wright.
- Yes.

1329
01:15:26,585 --> 01:15:28,520
I've been thinking
about the oak.

1330
01:15:28,819 --> 01:15:30,116
Uh, the symbolism of it.

1331
01:15:30,118 --> 01:15:33,116
The guardian tree,
the harbinger of change.

1332
01:15:33,118 --> 01:15:36,452
How fascinating. Are you
a student of arboriculture?

1333
01:15:36,454 --> 01:15:40,184
No. I'm studying Greats.
But I would like...

1334
01:15:40,186 --> 01:15:41,285
That's why I stopped you,

1335
01:15:41,287 --> 01:15:42,583
I'd like to change
to your class.

1336
01:15:42,585 --> 01:15:44,650
- To study philology.
- To my class?

1337
01:15:44,652 --> 01:15:48,583
Yes. I'm Tolkien.
Ronald Tolkien.

1338
01:15:48,585 --> 01:15:50,750
I stood outside your window
and shouted obscenities

1339
01:15:50,752 --> 01:15:52,584
in a kind of
bastardized Finnish.

1340
01:15:52,786 --> 01:15:54,786
And you consider
that a recommendation?

1341
01:15:55,220 --> 01:15:56,517
I know this is irregular,

1342
01:15:56,519 --> 01:15:58,884
but I've realized
my true passion,

1343
01:15:58,886 --> 01:16:01,087
the thing I've been working on
my entire life...

1344
01:16:03,186 --> 01:16:04,616
Can I speak candidly, sir?

1345
01:16:04,618 --> 01:16:07,552
You cannot conceive
how much I would welcome it.

1346
01:16:08,220 --> 01:16:09,317
- I need a scholarship.
- (SIGHS)

1347
01:16:09,319 --> 01:16:12,618
I need a scholarship
to study philology. With you.

1348
01:16:13,086 --> 01:16:14,717
And there are no lengths
I wouldn't go to,

1349
01:16:14,719 --> 01:16:16,384
to prove that
I'm a worthy candidate.

1350
01:16:16,386 --> 01:16:17,586
- No lengths?
- Yes.

1351
01:16:17,819 --> 01:16:19,553
(SPEAKING OLD ENGLISH)

1352
01:16:23,153 --> 01:16:24,220
No.

1353
01:16:24,986 --> 01:16:26,087
- No?
- No.

1354
01:16:26,287 --> 01:16:28,751
No, because if I left you
alone to work in peace,

1355
01:16:28,753 --> 01:16:30,483
then I wouldn't
get the privilege

1356
01:16:30,485 --> 01:16:31,583
of learning from you,

1357
01:16:31,585 --> 01:16:33,117
and that would defeat
the purpose

1358
01:16:33,119 --> 01:16:36,620
of this entire, frankly,
quite terrifying, interlude.

1359
01:16:39,052 --> 01:16:40,050
- Tolkien.
- Yes, sir.

1360
01:16:40,052 --> 01:16:41,918
- German origin.
- I think so, sir.

1361
01:16:41,920 --> 01:16:43,917
From the Anglo-Saxon, perhaps.

1362
01:16:43,919 --> 01:16:46,187
- Exactly.
- <i>Tollkühn.</i>

1363
01:16:46,919 --> 01:16:48,218
I'm assuming you don't need me

1364
01:16:48,220 --> 01:16:50,853
to translate
that particular word for you.

1365
01:16:52,053 --> 01:16:53,120
Foolhardy.

1366
01:16:53,752 --> 01:16:54,883
Professor Wright...

1367
01:16:54,885 --> 01:16:57,151
My class is full, Mr. Tolkien.

1368
01:16:57,153 --> 01:17:00,884
Full with students who can
translate Old English,

1369
01:17:00,886 --> 01:17:03,084
at least as quickly
and skillfully as you,

1370
01:17:03,086 --> 01:17:06,651
and they've already had two
terms to establish themselves.

1371
01:17:06,653 --> 01:17:08,153
Good afternoon.

1372
01:17:08,420 --> 01:17:09,753
Helheimr.

1373
01:17:10,219 --> 01:17:11,552
Professor.

1374
01:17:12,786 --> 01:17:15,817
Since childhood, I have
been fascinated with language.

1375
01:17:15,819 --> 01:17:18,051
Obsessed with it.
I've invented my own.

1376
01:17:18,053 --> 01:17:20,220
Full, complete languages.
Look.

1377
01:17:20,652 --> 01:17:23,187
This is, it's... everything.

1378
01:17:23,852 --> 01:17:27,852
From the <i>Breost-hord.</i>
My heart.

1379
01:17:28,285 --> 01:17:29,819
The treasure of the breast.

1380
01:17:31,253 --> 01:17:32,450
And the drawings?

1381
01:17:32,452 --> 01:17:34,886
I made stories. Legends.

1382
01:17:35,852 --> 01:17:37,549
After all,
what is language for?

1383
01:17:37,551 --> 01:17:39,717
It's not just the naming
of things, is it?

1384
01:17:39,719 --> 01:17:42,852
It's the lifeblood
of a culture, a people.

1385
01:17:43,219 --> 01:17:45,719
- Yes. Exactly.
- Exactly.

1386
01:17:50,285 --> 01:17:52,084
Could you write 5,000 words

1387
01:17:52,086 --> 01:17:55,819
on the influence
of Norse elements in <i>Gawain?</i>

1388
01:17:56,118 --> 01:17:59,152
Yes, absolutely.
When would you like it by?

1389
01:17:59,418 --> 01:18:00,752
WRIGHT: This evening.

1390
01:18:05,287 --> 01:18:06,620
This evening.

1391
01:18:32,286 --> 01:18:35,120
(READING <i>BEOWULF</i>
IN OLD ENGLISH)

1392
01:18:57,186 --> 01:18:58,819
Middle Earth.

1393
01:19:03,952 --> 01:19:05,286
(HORSE NEIGHING)

1394
01:19:06,720 --> 01:19:09,987
<i>"Both of these brothers
marshaled the warriors</i>

1395
01:19:11,851 --> 01:19:14,284
<i>They bid their dear kinsman
through words</i>

1396
01:19:14,286 --> 01:19:17,185
<i>that they had to endure there
in time of need</i>

1397
01:19:17,786 --> 01:19:20,319
<i>make use of their weapons
without weakening"</i>

1398
01:19:20,985 --> 01:19:25,585
The way you follow
the rhythms of the poetry,

1399
01:19:26,551 --> 01:19:28,018
your sensitivity to it.

1400
01:19:28,020 --> 01:19:30,119
I have to tell you,
Mr. Tolkien,

1401
01:19:30,885 --> 01:19:33,286
I've never come across
anything like it.

1402
01:19:34,385 --> 01:19:35,653
Never.

1403
01:19:38,253 --> 01:19:39,986
"Byrthwold spoke out..."

1404
01:19:40,318 --> 01:19:43,650
"Byrthwold spoke out,
brandished his shield..."

1405
01:19:43,652 --> 01:19:47,853
War! War! England's at war!

1406
01:19:48,153 --> 01:19:50,585
Germany's invaded Belgium!

1407
01:19:53,352 --> 01:19:55,219
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

1408
01:20:00,685 --> 01:20:03,719
"He instructed the warriors
most boldly of all:

1409
01:20:07,285 --> 01:20:09,153
Courage must be the harder

1410
01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:12,153
heart the keener

1411
01:20:12,985 --> 01:20:16,619
<i>spirits the greater,
as our strength wanes</i>

1412
01:20:18,220 --> 01:20:20,885
<i>Here lies our lord,
entirely cut to pieces</i>

1413
01:20:21,351 --> 01:20:23,852
<i>a good man in the dirt"</i>

1414
01:20:44,785 --> 01:20:46,987
- (PEPPY JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1415
01:21:01,085 --> 01:21:03,652
(PIANO PLAYING
SOFT CLASSICAL MUSIC)

1416
01:21:15,418 --> 01:21:16,482
(STOPS PLAYING)

1417
01:21:16,484 --> 01:21:18,152
TOLKIEN: Here you go, Chris.

1418
01:21:22,352 --> 01:21:24,716
Ladies and gentlemen,
Robert Gilson.

1419
01:21:24,718 --> 01:21:25,920
CHRISTOPHER: Gilson!

1420
01:21:26,653 --> 01:21:28,150
Aren't you going to ask me
to dance?

1421
01:21:28,152 --> 01:21:29,085
Did you lose a bet?

1422
01:21:29,351 --> 01:21:31,516
ROBERT: I've had three envious
glances already, actually.

1423
01:21:31,518 --> 01:21:33,018
People must have mistaken you
for the Kaiser.

1424
01:21:33,020 --> 01:21:34,916
What is this?
A war or a tea dance?

1425
01:21:34,918 --> 01:21:37,317
- First-class mustache, Gilson.
- Why, thank you.

1426
01:21:37,319 --> 01:21:39,953
- You need a drink, young man.
- ROBERT: On the ball.

1427
01:21:41,651 --> 01:21:43,916
GEOFFREY: I think
we're all here, Tolkien.

1428
01:21:43,918 --> 01:21:44,920
Yes.

1429
01:21:46,218 --> 01:21:47,685
Shall we make a toast?

1430
01:21:48,419 --> 01:21:51,218
To all the future
T.C.B.S. meetings.

1431
01:21:52,052 --> 01:21:53,185
All across Europe.

1432
01:21:58,019 --> 01:21:59,219
Cheers, gentlemen.

1433
01:22:00,918 --> 01:22:03,652
- Gentlemen! May I?
- I don't see why not.

1434
01:22:04,351 --> 01:22:05,853
ROBERT: Eyes front, Tolkien.

1435
01:22:12,619 --> 01:22:14,753
PHOTOGRAPHER:
And watch the birdie!

1436
01:22:15,385 --> 01:22:17,283
ALL: Helheimr!

1437
01:22:17,285 --> 01:22:18,318
(CAMERA FLASH POPS)

1438
01:22:18,851 --> 01:22:20,717
ROBERT: I've just written a
play where a French waitress

1439
01:22:20,719 --> 01:22:22,349
falls madly in love
with an English hero.

1440
01:22:22,351 --> 01:22:23,450
TOLKIEN: You'll have to shave

1441
01:22:23,452 --> 01:22:24,853
if you want to play
a French waitress.

1442
01:22:25,219 --> 01:22:26,416
ROBERT: Cheers.
Never too many.

1443
01:22:26,418 --> 01:22:27,584
One more?

1444
01:22:27,586 --> 01:22:28,883
ROBERT: All bets
Wiseman goes to sleep first.

1445
01:22:28,885 --> 01:22:30,216
GEOFFREY:
I'll take that bet. Scotch?

1446
01:22:30,218 --> 01:22:31,349
ROBERT: Easy money.

1447
01:22:31,351 --> 01:22:32,886
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1448
01:22:38,686 --> 01:22:39,887
Good luck, Ronald.

1449
01:22:42,353 --> 01:22:43,653
I'll take that.

1450
01:22:45,185 --> 01:22:46,653
I'll try and hold the ship.

1451
01:22:53,218 --> 01:22:55,786
- EDITH: How's your brother?
- TOLKIEN: He's fine.

1452
01:22:56,117 --> 01:22:57,520
He's in France already.

1453
01:22:58,953 --> 01:23:01,186
How about you?
How's your music?

1454
01:23:01,518 --> 01:23:03,052
EDITH: I teach piano.

1455
01:23:03,685 --> 01:23:05,253
Small girls, mostly.

1456
01:23:06,053 --> 01:23:07,686
Not very good.

1457
01:23:08,618 --> 01:23:09,919
And you're engaged.

1458
01:23:12,052 --> 01:23:13,218
He's very kind.

1459
01:23:14,384 --> 01:23:15,817
Very considerate.

1460
01:23:15,819 --> 01:23:16,983
A good person, really.

1461
01:23:16,985 --> 01:23:18,917
There is something
I have to say...

1462
01:23:18,919 --> 01:23:19,818
Ronald.

1463
01:23:19,820 --> 01:23:21,683
I made the biggest mistake
of my life

1464
01:23:21,685 --> 01:23:23,851
and there hasn't been a day,
a moment...

1465
01:23:23,853 --> 01:23:25,719
I've never stopped
thinking about you.

1466
01:23:26,251 --> 01:23:30,483
You are the most remarkable
spirit I have ever met.

1467
01:23:30,485 --> 01:23:33,820
You have courage
and resourcefulness, talent,

1468
01:23:34,552 --> 01:23:35,819
you're proud,

1469
01:23:36,286 --> 01:23:37,850
maddeningly, wonderfully, so;

1470
01:23:37,852 --> 01:23:41,051
and you are
cunning and vibrant

1471
01:23:41,053 --> 01:23:42,753
and completely alive.

1472
01:23:44,786 --> 01:23:47,119
You deserve
every happiness you find.

1473
01:23:50,451 --> 01:23:52,051
No. No, you don't.

1474
01:23:52,852 --> 01:23:54,887
You don't deserve happiness,
that's not what I...

1475
01:23:59,084 --> 01:24:00,185
What I mean is...

1476
01:24:01,551 --> 01:24:03,218
You deserve much more.

1477
01:24:05,118 --> 01:24:06,586
You deserve magic.

1478
01:24:21,486 --> 01:24:23,019
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1479
01:24:28,051 --> 01:24:29,085
Is it that one?

1480
01:24:30,751 --> 01:24:32,118
TOLKIEN: It's the <i>Ascanius.</i>

1481
01:24:32,953 --> 01:24:35,686
Sounds like something
out of one of your stories.

1482
01:24:37,386 --> 01:24:41,286
Yes. "Pity the poor citizens
of the kingdom of Ascanius."

1483
01:24:41,618 --> 01:24:43,051
Why shall we pity them?

1484
01:24:43,853 --> 01:24:45,553
For their terrible history.

1485
01:24:46,653 --> 01:24:47,886
For their shame.

1486
01:24:49,186 --> 01:24:50,218
Their regrets.

1487
01:24:53,486 --> 01:24:55,353
They should
forgive themselves.

1488
01:24:55,619 --> 01:24:56,853
They can't.

1489
01:24:58,918 --> 01:25:01,217
MAN: Lancashires
on the <i>Ascanius!</i>

1490
01:25:01,219 --> 01:25:02,186
I'd better...

1491
01:25:04,318 --> 01:25:05,985
This has been so nice.

1492
01:25:09,720 --> 01:25:10,853
Goodbye, little one.

1493
01:25:44,252 --> 01:25:45,253
Edith.

1494
01:25:51,518 --> 01:25:53,616
- I love you.
- I love you.

1495
01:25:53,618 --> 01:25:55,820
- I love you so much.
- I know. (CHUCKLES)

1496
01:25:56,619 --> 01:25:58,349
There's nothing
I could do about it.

1497
01:25:58,351 --> 01:26:00,520
I know. I can't either.

1498
01:26:01,319 --> 01:26:02,686
(BOTH LAUGH)

1499
01:26:03,452 --> 01:26:04,985
(MAN SHOUTING IN DISTANCE)

1500
01:26:06,286 --> 01:26:07,519
I have to go.

1501
01:26:09,218 --> 01:26:10,785
- Stay alive.
- Yes.

1502
01:26:11,552 --> 01:26:13,052
And come back to me.

1503
01:26:14,319 --> 01:26:16,919
Stay alive
and come back to me.

1504
01:26:50,352 --> 01:26:52,650
(FOOTSTEPS SLOSHING)

1505
01:26:52,652 --> 01:26:55,386
SAM: Sir, I found them.
Get up!

1506
01:26:55,653 --> 01:26:57,985
- I found the 19th Lancashires.
- Geoff.

1507
01:26:58,252 --> 01:26:59,349
You have to get up, sir.

1508
01:26:59,351 --> 01:27:00,550
(DISTANT EXPLOSIONS)

1509
01:27:00,552 --> 01:27:02,650
Let's find your friend.
We're almost there.

1510
01:27:02,652 --> 01:27:05,118
- (PANTING)
- (EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE)

1511
01:27:05,919 --> 01:27:07,216
OFFICER: Fire!

1512
01:27:07,218 --> 01:27:08,316
SOLDIER: Get up the ladder!

1513
01:27:08,318 --> 01:27:10,685
- (GUNFIRE)
- (MEN SHOUTING)

1514
01:27:10,986 --> 01:27:12,152
(SCREAMING)

1515
01:27:12,785 --> 01:27:14,652
OFFICER: Attach your bayonets!

1516
01:27:15,352 --> 01:27:16,483
PRIVATE: I can't do it.

1517
01:27:16,485 --> 01:27:17,982
SERGEANT: Come on, Private.
Come on!

1518
01:27:17,984 --> 01:27:19,252
Geoffrey!

1519
01:27:20,451 --> 01:27:21,684
OFFICER: This way! Quickly!

1520
01:27:21,686 --> 01:27:23,850
SOLDIER:
Right, you Lancashires!

1521
01:27:23,852 --> 01:27:24,717
Geoffrey!

1522
01:27:24,719 --> 01:27:26,786
- (WHISTLE BLOWING)
- (MEN CLAMORING)

1523
01:27:27,219 --> 01:27:28,484
Where's Geoffrey Bache Smith?

1524
01:27:28,486 --> 01:27:30,050
Lieutenant
Geoffrey Bache Smith?

1525
01:27:30,052 --> 01:27:32,150
Bache Smith isn't here.
He's already gone over the top.

1526
01:27:32,152 --> 01:27:33,816
- No!
- Yes. Sorry.

1527
01:27:33,818 --> 01:27:35,950
- (SHOUTING CONTINUES)
- (PANTING)

1528
01:27:35,952 --> 01:27:36,816
Geoffrey!

1529
01:27:36,818 --> 01:27:38,115
OFFICER: Don't stop for wounded.

1530
01:27:38,117 --> 01:27:38,918
Geoffrey!

1531
01:27:39,318 --> 01:27:41,049
- Sir, what are you doing? Wait!
- TOLKIEN: Don't follow me.

1532
01:27:41,051 --> 01:27:43,250
OFFICER: Up the ladder,
Lancashires!

1533
01:27:43,252 --> 01:27:44,520
Geoff!

1534
01:27:45,318 --> 01:27:46,583
Geoffrey!

1535
01:27:46,585 --> 01:27:48,985
- (EXPLOSIONS)
- (MEN SHOUTING)

1536
01:27:50,085 --> 01:27:51,149
(SCREAMING)

1537
01:27:51,151 --> 01:27:52,317
- (GUNFIRE)
- (MEN GROANING)

1538
01:27:52,319 --> 01:27:53,851
SOLDIER: Don't slow down!

1539
01:27:56,252 --> 01:27:57,586
Geoff!

1540
01:27:58,051 --> 01:27:59,316
GEOFFREY: Ronald!

1541
01:27:59,318 --> 01:28:01,019
- Geoff!
- (EXPLOSION)

1542
01:28:03,219 --> 01:28:04,586
Geoff!

1543
01:28:07,085 --> 01:28:08,150
Geoff!

1544
01:28:08,152 --> 01:28:09,753
GEOFFREY: Ronald!

1545
01:28:10,218 --> 01:28:11,586
Geoffrey!

1546
01:28:12,586 --> 01:28:13,650
(EXPLOSIONS)

1547
01:28:13,652 --> 01:28:15,720
GEOFFREY: Ronald!

1548
01:28:19,818 --> 01:28:20,819
Geoff!

1549
01:28:24,452 --> 01:28:25,653
What?

1550
01:28:26,218 --> 01:28:27,219
GEOFFREY: Ronald!

1551
01:28:29,118 --> 01:28:30,249
Geoff!

1552
01:28:30,251 --> 01:28:31,753
GEOFFREY: Ronald!

1553
01:28:33,151 --> 01:28:34,519
Ronald!

1554
01:28:37,218 --> 01:28:38,286
Geoff!

1555
01:28:40,951 --> 01:28:42,151
Geoffrey!

1556
01:29:01,051 --> 01:29:02,752
(CAVALRY YELLING)

1557
01:29:27,552 --> 01:29:28,917
SOLDIER: Gas!

1558
01:29:28,919 --> 01:29:30,785
(MEN SHOUTING)

1559
01:29:33,451 --> 01:29:35,019
SOLDIER:
Get that bloody mask on!

1560
01:29:37,818 --> 01:29:39,253
Gas!

1561
01:29:41,719 --> 01:29:43,785
(BREATHING HEAVILY)

1562
01:29:52,518 --> 01:29:54,719
- (GUNFIRE)
- (MEN SHOUTING)

1563
01:30:03,586 --> 01:30:05,653
(GASPING)

1564
01:30:15,151 --> 01:30:16,218
(EXHALES HEAVILY)

1565
01:30:44,818 --> 01:30:46,520
(GROWLING)

1566
01:30:49,551 --> 01:30:51,752
(EERIE, INDISTINCT WHISPERING)

1567
01:31:01,152 --> 01:31:02,751
(DEEP GROWLING)

1568
01:31:05,151 --> 01:31:07,152
(ECHOING VOICES YELLING)

1569
01:31:37,085 --> 01:31:38,684
EDITH: (SOFTLY) Hello.

1570
01:31:42,353 --> 01:31:43,886
Don't try to sit up.

1571
01:31:51,118 --> 01:31:53,418
You've been asleep
for a very long time.

1572
01:31:53,784 --> 01:31:56,918
You've had trench fever,
but you're all right.

1573
01:31:57,985 --> 01:31:59,152
You're home.

1574
01:32:02,751 --> 01:32:04,553
(WEAKLY) I tried to find him.

1575
01:32:06,985 --> 01:32:08,052
Who?

1576
01:32:08,319 --> 01:32:09,719
Geoffrey, I...

1577
01:32:11,085 --> 01:32:12,585
I heard him...

1578
01:32:14,152 --> 01:32:15,286
I could hear him.

1579
01:32:19,218 --> 01:32:21,919
Geoffrey is... is dead.

1580
01:32:23,117 --> 01:32:25,051
He died weeks ago.

1581
01:32:25,351 --> 01:32:26,584
What?

1582
01:32:28,151 --> 01:32:29,250
No.

1583
01:32:29,252 --> 01:32:30,819
Robert Gilson, he was...

1584
01:32:31,484 --> 01:32:32,918
he was hit.

1585
01:32:35,485 --> 01:32:36,684
He's also dead.

1586
01:32:39,652 --> 01:32:41,086
Robbie and Geoffrey.

1587
01:32:42,451 --> 01:32:43,751
I'm sorry.

1588
01:32:44,718 --> 01:32:46,552
Ron, I'm so sorry.

1589
01:32:50,451 --> 01:32:53,251
But you're fine. You're home.
Every...

1590
01:32:53,884 --> 01:32:56,684
Everything's going to be fine.
I promise.

1591
01:33:05,119 --> 01:33:07,283
FATHER FRANCIS:
I spend my every afternoon

1592
01:33:07,285 --> 01:33:10,252
with mothers, widows.

1593
01:33:11,684 --> 01:33:13,151
What can I say to them?

1594
01:33:15,286 --> 01:33:18,918
Your sons have died
in the war to end all wars.

1595
01:33:20,352 --> 01:33:21,752
TOLKIEN: What do you say?

1596
01:33:23,583 --> 01:33:25,184
Words are useless.

1597
01:33:25,483 --> 01:33:27,175
Modern words, anyway.

1598
01:33:27,177 --> 01:33:28,643
I speak the liturgy.

1599
01:33:30,609 --> 01:33:34,476
There's a comfort, I think,
in distance.

1600
01:33:35,011 --> 01:33:36,310
Ancient things.

1601
01:33:40,077 --> 01:33:42,077
Throughout the whole
of your illness,

1602
01:33:42,543 --> 01:33:45,177
Miss Bratt
never left your bedside.

1603
01:33:46,877 --> 01:33:48,310
Not once.

1604
01:33:51,443 --> 01:33:53,344
You were right to pursue her.

1605
01:33:57,976 --> 01:33:59,343
Thank you.

1606
01:34:01,342 --> 01:34:05,176
Oh. This arrived for you via...

1607
01:34:05,676 --> 01:34:07,343
a very circuitous route.

1608
01:34:09,709 --> 01:34:12,843
He wrote it, I believe,
during his last days.

1609
01:34:29,344 --> 01:34:30,977
GEOFFREY:
<i>My dear John Ronald,</i>

1610
01:34:31,976 --> 01:34:35,474
<i>It is my chief consolation
that if I am scuppered tonight</i>

1611
01:34:35,476 --> 01:34:38,775
<i>there will still be left
a great member of the T.C.B.S.</i>

1612
01:34:38,777 --> 01:34:42,143
<i>to voice what I dreamed
and what we all agreed upon.</i>

1613
01:34:42,577 --> 01:34:44,908
<i>That the death
of one of its members cannot,</i>

1614
01:34:44,910 --> 01:34:46,008
<i>I am determined,</i>

1615
01:34:46,010 --> 01:34:48,443
<i>dissolve the T.C.B.S.</i>

1616
01:34:49,310 --> 01:34:53,474
<i>Death can make us loathsome
and helpless as individuals,</i>

1617
01:34:53,476 --> 01:34:56,276
<i>but it cannot put an end
to the immortal four!</i>

1618
01:34:56,844 --> 01:34:58,977
<i>May God bless you,
my dear John Ronald,</i>

1619
01:34:59,409 --> 01:35:02,140
<i>and may you say the things
I have tried to say</i>

1620
01:35:02,142 --> 01:35:04,576
<i>long after I am not there
to say them.</i>

1621
01:35:34,444 --> 01:35:36,344
(BELL TOLLING IN DISTANCE)

1622
01:35:42,878 --> 01:35:44,344
(BIRD CHIRPING)

1623
01:35:50,610 --> 01:35:52,140
STUDENT 1: Good evening,
Professor Tolkien.

1624
01:35:52,142 --> 01:35:53,374
- STUDENT 2: Evening, sir.
- TOLKIEN: Ah.

1625
01:35:53,376 --> 01:35:54,711
(GREETS IN ANGLO-SAXON)

1626
01:36:27,709 --> 01:36:30,410
(BELL TOLLING AND DOG BARKING
IN DISTANCE)

1627
01:36:33,143 --> 01:36:34,711
What are you doing out here?

1628
01:36:51,676 --> 01:36:54,310
We had a jam pudding today
with the children.

1629
01:36:55,577 --> 01:36:56,810
Michael's request.

1630
01:36:58,575 --> 01:37:01,176
He and John put a tray
outside your study.

1631
01:37:02,009 --> 01:37:03,476
I hope you had some.

1632
01:37:03,976 --> 01:37:05,510
I'm sorry, I...

1633
01:37:08,644 --> 01:37:09,676
I'm sorry.

1634
01:37:12,376 --> 01:37:14,074
Edith, it was
a very difficult day.

1635
01:37:14,076 --> 01:37:15,510
Nothing I'm writing...

1636
01:37:17,209 --> 01:37:18,607
You used to
write for pleasure.

1637
01:37:18,609 --> 01:37:19,475
I know, it's...

1638
01:37:19,477 --> 01:37:21,776
- It was a passion.
- I know it's...

1639
01:37:23,743 --> 01:37:24,811
pointless.

1640
01:37:35,810 --> 01:37:36,741
I wish you would decide

1641
01:37:36,743 --> 01:37:38,408
what it is
you want from it, Ronald,

1642
01:37:38,410 --> 01:37:40,277
or abandon it entirely.

1643
01:37:49,510 --> 01:37:50,676
(SIGHS)

1644
01:38:27,009 --> 01:38:28,577
MRS. SMITH: Mr. Tolkien?

1645
01:38:30,176 --> 01:38:31,510
TOLKIEN: Mrs. Smith.

1646
01:38:32,842 --> 01:38:34,910
It's wonderful to see you.
Thank you for coming.

1647
01:38:37,377 --> 01:38:39,743
Robert Gilson was the...

1648
01:38:40,776 --> 01:38:43,075
son of the headmaster
at King Edward's.

1649
01:38:43,277 --> 01:38:44,644
Yes, that's right.

1650
01:38:45,043 --> 01:38:46,744
I remember the stepmother,
I think.

1651
01:38:47,242 --> 01:38:49,543
And Christopher Wiseman?

1652
01:38:49,877 --> 01:38:51,177
He survived.

1653
01:38:53,244 --> 01:38:54,810
Although I'm sorry
to say he's...

1654
01:38:56,644 --> 01:38:59,511
Some of us who came through
have other sorts of scars.

1655
01:39:05,109 --> 01:39:07,309
My sister lost three sons.

1656
01:39:08,176 --> 01:39:09,444
I lost two.

1657
01:39:10,843 --> 01:39:12,410
All in the same week.

1658
01:39:14,210 --> 01:39:15,544
I'm sorry.

1659
01:39:21,710 --> 01:39:23,510
And this is where you sat.

1660
01:39:25,009 --> 01:39:26,209
TOLKIEN: <i>Yes.</i>

1661
01:39:27,809 --> 01:39:29,244
It's very cozy.

1662
01:39:32,010 --> 01:39:34,144
Thank you
for bringing me here.

1663
01:39:35,677 --> 01:39:37,310
I can imagine, I can...

1664
01:39:39,076 --> 01:39:40,476
see you here.

1665
01:39:41,109 --> 01:39:42,309
<i>All of you.</i>

1666
01:39:42,942 --> 01:39:44,409
<i>I can picture it.</i>

1667
01:39:45,275 --> 01:39:47,343
It must have been
a wonderfully happy time.

1668
01:39:52,008 --> 01:39:53,577
This is where Geoffrey sat.

1669
01:40:03,208 --> 01:40:06,176
I was wondering,
with your permission,

1670
01:40:07,342 --> 01:40:08,907
perhaps I might try to get

1671
01:40:08,909 --> 01:40:10,743
a volume
of his poems published.

1672
01:40:12,644 --> 01:40:14,144
His poems?

1673
01:40:15,841 --> 01:40:17,309
I think he was...

1674
01:40:17,843 --> 01:40:18,710
really very talented.

1675
01:40:18,909 --> 01:40:21,009
I would like to bring him
to people's attention.

1676
01:40:21,309 --> 01:40:23,643
I thought, perhaps, I could
write the foreword myself.

1677
01:40:25,042 --> 01:40:26,675
I don't know, I...

1678
01:40:28,509 --> 01:40:30,474
I'm inclined to say no,
Mr. Tolkien.

1679
01:40:30,476 --> 01:40:33,577
He was really very good.
I think it's important.

1680
01:40:36,509 --> 01:40:38,609
I used to be fond of poetry.

1681
01:40:39,542 --> 01:40:42,310
I sometimes wondered
if that was where Geoffrey...

1682
01:40:47,577 --> 01:40:51,343
I'm sorry, I can't see what
possible good it would do.

1683
01:40:52,409 --> 01:40:54,207
It would do the most
extraordinary good.

1684
01:40:54,209 --> 01:40:55,576
Please believe me.

1685
01:40:59,110 --> 01:41:00,676
I never knew Geoffrey

1686
01:41:02,175 --> 01:41:03,810
as much as I would have liked.

1687
01:41:06,942 --> 01:41:08,343
Was he happy?

1688
01:41:09,176 --> 01:41:11,209
Please, tell me.

1689
01:41:14,577 --> 01:41:15,776
Did he know love?

1690
01:41:22,043 --> 01:41:23,477
I was an orphan

1691
01:41:23,943 --> 01:41:25,444
when I came to King Edward's.

1692
01:41:27,109 --> 01:41:28,775
And even at the beginning,
even...

1693
01:41:30,075 --> 01:41:31,643
before we were friends,

1694
01:41:33,742 --> 01:41:34,877
Geoffrey was gentle.

1695
01:41:37,608 --> 01:41:38,709
Kind.

1696
01:41:40,708 --> 01:41:42,974
(VOICE QUIVERS) He was,
I think, of anyone I ever met,

1697
01:41:42,976 --> 01:41:44,377
the person...

1698
01:41:46,042 --> 01:41:47,909
He was the person
who most embodied

1699
01:41:48,243 --> 01:41:49,842
what it means to love.

1700
01:41:53,043 --> 01:41:54,410
And to be loved.

1701
01:41:55,010 --> 01:41:56,377
Truly that's...

1702
01:42:01,075 --> 01:42:03,176
That's why
this is so important. Please...

1703
01:42:04,109 --> 01:42:05,875
forgive me, but you ask...

1704
01:42:06,609 --> 01:42:09,610
what good it could do,
and the... poets,

1705
01:42:11,810 --> 01:42:12,843
the writers...

1706
01:42:14,110 --> 01:42:15,909
or what our art could do.

1707
01:42:19,676 --> 01:42:21,342
I cannot think of anything
more necessary.

1708
01:42:21,344 --> 01:42:23,307
Especially
at a time like this.

1709
01:42:23,309 --> 01:42:24,642
Especially now.

1710
01:42:38,377 --> 01:42:39,810
(MRS. SMITH SNIFFLES)

1711
01:42:45,143 --> 01:42:47,444
A foreword would be lovely.

1712
01:42:50,708 --> 01:42:51,909
Thank you.

1713
01:43:09,542 --> 01:43:12,209
HILARY: Remember how mother
made us kiss the trees?

1714
01:43:13,243 --> 01:43:14,775
And listen to them talk.

1715
01:43:15,409 --> 01:43:17,244
What dark magic was that?

1716
01:43:17,676 --> 01:43:19,342
Come on, you savages.

1717
01:43:19,575 --> 01:43:20,443
Come on.

1718
01:43:20,675 --> 01:43:22,274
Who wants to speak
to the trees?

1719
01:43:22,276 --> 01:43:23,877
MICHAEL: Hey, wait for me.

1720
01:43:26,043 --> 01:43:27,375
LITTLE CHRISTOPHER:
What are you thinking?

1721
01:43:27,377 --> 01:43:28,606
What's your name?

1722
01:43:28,608 --> 01:43:30,743
JOHN: We're not scary.
Don't be worried.

1723
01:43:31,476 --> 01:43:33,208
Children, I need your help.

1724
01:43:33,210 --> 01:43:34,440
Will you do something for me?

1725
01:43:34,442 --> 01:43:35,907
MICHAEL: Is it homework?

1726
01:43:35,909 --> 01:43:37,208
Uh, no, not if I get it right.

1727
01:43:37,210 --> 01:43:38,707
I want you to listen
to a story.

1728
01:43:38,709 --> 01:43:39,639
MICHAEL: What story?

1729
01:43:39,641 --> 01:43:41,174
LITTLE CHRISTOPHER:
Is it a good story?

1730
01:43:41,176 --> 01:43:42,307
TOLKIEN: I hope so.

1731
01:43:42,309 --> 01:43:43,676
MICHAEL: Is it long?

1732
01:43:43,909 --> 01:43:45,207
TOLKIEN: Extremely long.

1733
01:43:45,209 --> 01:43:46,809
Has it been started?

1734
01:43:47,910 --> 01:43:49,277
Yes, I think...

1735
01:43:50,310 --> 01:43:53,174
I think, up here, yes,
I think it has.

1736
01:43:53,176 --> 01:43:54,576
What's it about?

1737
01:43:55,042 --> 01:43:57,475
It's about journeys.
Adventures.

1738
01:43:58,075 --> 01:43:59,576
Magic, of course.

1739
01:44:00,675 --> 01:44:01,575
Treasure.

1740
01:44:02,609 --> 01:44:03,710
And love.

1741
01:44:07,077 --> 01:44:08,473
It's about
all kinds of things, really.

1742
01:44:08,475 --> 01:44:10,242
It's hard to say. I suppose...

1743
01:44:11,243 --> 01:44:13,707
I suppose it's about quests,
to a certain extent.

1744
01:44:13,709 --> 01:44:16,209
The journeys we take
to prove ourselves.

1745
01:44:16,676 --> 01:44:18,177
About courage.

1746
01:44:29,209 --> 01:44:30,576
(QUIETLY) Fellowship.

1747
01:44:34,643 --> 01:44:36,210
It's about fellowship.

1748
01:44:40,076 --> 01:44:41,610
Friendship.

1749
01:44:45,776 --> 01:44:48,273
- Little people just like you.
- I'm not little!

1750
01:44:48,275 --> 01:44:50,439
No. Little in stature.

1751
01:44:50,441 --> 01:44:51,840
Not little in spirit.

1752
01:44:51,842 --> 01:44:52,907
(CHILDREN YELLING)

1753
01:44:52,909 --> 01:44:53,942
TOLKIEN:
<i>It's about wizards, too.</i>

1754
01:44:54,277 --> 01:44:55,706
- LITTLE CHRISTOPHER: <i>Wizards?</i>
- TOLKIEN: <i>Wizards, yes.</i>

1755
01:44:55,708 --> 01:44:59,774
<i>And mountains,
and dragons, and journeys...</i>

1756
01:44:59,776 --> 01:45:01,674
EDITH: Christopher, if you
break your neck wearing those,

1757
01:45:01,676 --> 01:45:04,443
I will not be taking you
to the hospital.

1758
01:45:53,775 --> 01:45:54,809
Hobbit.

1759
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