1 00:00:30,814 --> 00:00:35,814 Subtitles by explosiveskull Sync by GoldenBeard 2 00:00:43,743 --> 00:00:45,612 (Horse Neighs) 3 00:01:01,828 --> 00:01:03,696 (Horse Neighing) 4 00:01:28,088 --> 00:01:30,291 (Distant Gunfire) 5 00:01:47,841 --> 00:01:49,376 (Exhales Deeply) 6 00:01:52,044 --> 00:01:53,314 (Sniffles) 7 00:01:54,013 --> 00:01:55,714 (Indistinct Chatter) 8 00:01:56,249 --> 00:01:57,582 Sir? Where are you going? 9 00:01:57,584 --> 00:01:59,017 Up the line to find a friend. 10 00:01:59,019 --> 00:02:01,119 If I'm not back, you know where to send my things. 11 00:02:01,121 --> 00:02:02,489 - Well, wait... - (Explosions) 12 00:02:02,956 --> 00:02:04,056 Sir, wait! 13 00:02:04,358 --> 00:02:05,823 - Tolkien, sir! - (Explosions Continue) 14 00:02:05,825 --> 00:02:07,825 Sir, please don't do this. You need to rest. 15 00:02:07,827 --> 00:02:09,061 No, I'm fine. 16 00:02:09,296 --> 00:02:11,695 Go back to barracks and wait for me there. 17 00:02:11,697 --> 00:02:13,332 Sir, you really need to lay down. 18 00:02:13,566 --> 00:02:15,065 The doctor said that the fever might get worse. 19 00:02:15,067 --> 00:02:17,635 - I really don't think... - Look, Hodges, stay here. 20 00:02:17,637 --> 00:02:19,505 - That's an order. - (Missile Whizzes) 21 00:02:20,572 --> 00:02:23,074 SAM: Cover your face, sir! Keep down! 22 00:02:23,076 --> 00:02:24,778 (Explosions Continue) 23 00:02:33,821 --> 00:02:35,089 That water was cold. 24 00:02:37,124 --> 00:02:38,758 You need to keep yourself warm, sir. 25 00:02:39,525 --> 00:02:40,927 It's a long journey to the front. 26 00:02:42,296 --> 00:02:43,994 (Distant Explosions) 27 00:02:43,996 --> 00:02:45,065 (Sniffles) 28 00:02:45,698 --> 00:02:48,000 I don't think the night will treat us well, sir. 29 00:02:51,338 --> 00:02:53,406 (Tolkien Breathing Raggedly) 30 00:02:56,744 --> 00:02:58,544 (Birds Chirping) 31 00:03:03,483 --> 00:03:05,552 (Boys Yelling) 32 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:08,153 BOY 1: Fight, men! 33 00:03:08,155 --> 00:03:09,395 BOY 2: There's too many of them! 34 00:03:09,788 --> 00:03:11,689 BOY 1: We need reinforcements! 35 00:03:11,691 --> 00:03:13,660 - BOY 3: Take the banner! - (Yells) 36 00:03:15,595 --> 00:03:17,297 Young Tolkien: Yes, I have the banner! 37 00:03:17,898 --> 00:03:20,601 BOY 1: Stop them! He's getting away! 38 00:03:29,441 --> 00:03:30,843 BOY 4: Where's Tolkien? 39 00:03:32,345 --> 00:03:34,481 - Where is he? - BOY 3: Tolkien! 40 00:03:46,525 --> 00:03:47,658 Father Francis: Ah! 41 00:03:47,660 --> 00:03:49,527 I prayed for a strong pack mule 42 00:03:49,529 --> 00:03:51,329 to help carry boxes, and look, 43 00:03:51,331 --> 00:03:53,434 my prayers have been answered. 44 00:03:55,903 --> 00:03:56,903 Where are we going? 45 00:03:57,002 --> 00:03:58,770 Birmingham. I need you to go to your room and pack. 46 00:03:58,772 --> 00:04:01,439 - What? Why? - Because I said so. 47 00:04:01,441 --> 00:04:03,707 Because Father Francis has found us some rooms. 48 00:04:03,709 --> 00:04:05,044 He's been very generous. 49 00:04:05,244 --> 00:04:06,711 Find a box and collect your things. 50 00:04:06,713 --> 00:04:08,715 I don't want to go to Birmingham. 51 00:04:09,181 --> 00:04:10,784 Listen, both of you. 52 00:04:11,785 --> 00:04:12,886 We... 53 00:04:21,627 --> 00:04:23,096 Come here, Hilary. 54 00:04:26,765 --> 00:04:30,601 (Sighs) Boys, we are going to face some difficult times, 55 00:04:30,603 --> 00:04:33,474 and we are fortunate to have the church to support us. 56 00:04:34,341 --> 00:04:35,972 With your father gone... 57 00:04:35,974 --> 00:04:36,974 Ronald. 58 00:04:45,084 --> 00:04:46,587 (Panting) 59 00:04:48,589 --> 00:04:49,854 Mabel: Ronald! 60 00:04:49,856 --> 00:04:51,190 (Panting) 61 00:05:04,036 --> 00:05:06,974 "Ubi bene ibi patria." Remember that, my darling? 62 00:05:10,409 --> 00:05:11,777 Wherever you feel happy, 63 00:05:12,545 --> 00:05:13,580 that's your home. 64 00:05:14,147 --> 00:05:16,884 Mabel: We will find our place, sweetheart, we will. 65 00:05:18,952 --> 00:05:21,087 Lock all this all in your heart. 66 00:05:21,721 --> 00:05:24,691 Lock it tight, and it will be there forever, I promise. 67 00:05:36,836 --> 00:05:39,606 Mabel: Boys, listen to me. 68 00:05:41,707 --> 00:05:44,777 Do you know what impecunious circumstances are? 69 00:05:45,978 --> 00:05:47,445 Young Tolkien: They're what we're in? 70 00:05:47,447 --> 00:05:48,912 Mabel: When I was a little girl, 71 00:05:48,914 --> 00:05:51,149 all the new novels began like this. 72 00:05:51,584 --> 00:05:54,251 A family of good and brave people 73 00:05:54,253 --> 00:05:57,890 who suddenly find themselves in impecunious circumstances. 74 00:05:58,392 --> 00:05:59,492 How did they escape? 75 00:06:00,026 --> 00:06:03,228 By coming across some marvelous treasure. 76 00:06:03,695 --> 00:06:05,798 Or else by marrying well. 77 00:06:06,132 --> 00:06:07,333 I'm not marrying anyone. 78 00:06:07,767 --> 00:06:09,935 Well, it will have to be the treasure then, won't it? 79 00:06:10,202 --> 00:06:12,637 But, um, people don't find treasure, Mother. 80 00:06:12,639 --> 00:06:13,639 Not in real life. 81 00:06:14,106 --> 00:06:16,842 There's no fooling you, is there, John Ronald? 82 00:06:19,445 --> 00:06:21,248 Let's just say there's treasure... 83 00:06:21,815 --> 00:06:23,149 and there's treasure. 84 00:06:24,450 --> 00:06:25,851 And leave it at that. 85 00:06:35,527 --> 00:06:37,096 Let us begin, Ronald. 86 00:06:45,103 --> 00:06:49,539 The earth began to shake with the weight of the dragon 87 00:06:49,541 --> 00:06:52,344 as he crawled to the water, 88 00:06:52,712 --> 00:06:55,546 and a cloud of venom flew before him 89 00:06:55,548 --> 00:06:58,317 as he snorted and roared! 90 00:06:59,051 --> 00:07:00,185 But Sigurd waited 91 00:07:00,586 --> 00:07:03,123 till the dragon had crawled over the pit 92 00:07:04,190 --> 00:07:07,592 and then he thrust his sword under his left shoulder 93 00:07:07,594 --> 00:07:09,127 and right into his heart. 94 00:07:09,661 --> 00:07:12,762 The dragon lashed his tail till stones broke 95 00:07:12,764 --> 00:07:15,301 and trees crashed about him. 96 00:07:16,668 --> 00:07:19,204 And then he spoke, as he died, 97 00:07:19,805 --> 00:07:22,709 and said, "Whoever thou art 98 00:07:23,375 --> 00:07:24,911 that hast slain me, 99 00:07:26,245 --> 00:07:28,645 this gold shall be thy ruin 100 00:07:28,647 --> 00:07:31,217 and the ruin of all who own it." 101 00:07:31,584 --> 00:07:32,918 Sigurd said, 102 00:07:33,719 --> 00:07:35,118 "I would touch none of it, 103 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:38,123 if even by losing it, I should never die. 104 00:07:38,390 --> 00:07:39,623 But all men die 105 00:07:39,625 --> 00:07:44,330 and no brave man lets death frighten him from his desire." 106 00:07:45,865 --> 00:07:47,565 (Young Tolkien Speaks Unknown Language) 107 00:07:47,567 --> 00:07:48,765 Young Hilary: (IN English) Do you know 108 00:07:48,767 --> 00:07:49,799 how ridiculous you sound? 109 00:07:49,801 --> 00:07:50,969 Young Tolkien: Oh, really? 110 00:07:51,303 --> 00:07:52,770 I'm even funnier in Latin. 111 00:07:52,772 --> 00:07:54,473 (Young Tolkien Speaks Latin) 112 00:07:54,839 --> 00:07:56,440 (IN English) Do you know what that means? 113 00:07:56,442 --> 00:07:57,944 An insignificant wart. 114 00:07:58,178 --> 00:07:59,176 Young Hilary: No. 115 00:07:59,178 --> 00:08:02,115 I believe you now sound like a drunken peacock, 116 00:08:02,582 --> 00:08:03,817 you duffer. 117 00:08:05,116 --> 00:08:06,616 Hello, Mother. Did you get my stamps? 118 00:08:06,618 --> 00:08:07,887 Hello, Mother. 119 00:08:11,156 --> 00:08:12,925 Young Hilary: Where did you put them? 120 00:08:13,692 --> 00:08:15,462 (Breathes Shakily) 121 00:08:27,707 --> 00:08:29,409 (Sobbing Quietly) 122 00:08:41,988 --> 00:08:42,988 Sir? 123 00:08:43,824 --> 00:08:45,224 I'm going to have to keep going. 124 00:08:55,502 --> 00:08:57,436 SAM: Sir, gas. 125 00:09:00,739 --> 00:09:02,808 (Distant Explosions) 126 00:09:10,016 --> 00:09:11,752 (Tolkien Breathing Heavily) 127 00:09:12,319 --> 00:09:14,286 (Deep Growling) 128 00:09:18,925 --> 00:09:21,127 - (GAS Hissing) - (Continues Breathing Heavily) 129 00:09:25,431 --> 00:09:26,664 (Horse Whinnies) 130 00:09:26,666 --> 00:09:28,768 (Hooves Clopping) 131 00:09:32,070 --> 00:09:34,273 MRS. Faulkner: (Muffled) I'm intrigued to see the boys. 132 00:09:35,575 --> 00:09:36,943 (Door Opens) 133 00:09:38,545 --> 00:09:39,712 (Door Closes) 134 00:09:39,945 --> 00:09:41,213 (Exhales Sharply) 135 00:09:41,781 --> 00:09:43,784 Father Francis: Well, boys, I was right. 136 00:09:46,919 --> 00:09:48,288 She's an enormous beast, 137 00:09:48,621 --> 00:09:49,956 with great scaly feet 138 00:09:50,223 --> 00:09:53,260 and the most prominent pair of tusks I've ever seen. 139 00:09:53,693 --> 00:09:56,092 She's chewing, on what I can only assume 140 00:09:56,094 --> 00:09:57,895 is the femur of a small boy. 141 00:09:57,897 --> 00:09:59,398 (Sighs Deeply) 142 00:10:02,167 --> 00:10:04,203 On the other hand, there is cake. 143 00:10:08,608 --> 00:10:09,709 King Edward's? 144 00:10:10,075 --> 00:10:11,310 That's a very good school. 145 00:10:11,511 --> 00:10:14,247 Well, they're very bright boys, Mrs. Faulkner. 146 00:10:14,580 --> 00:10:15,648 Very diligent. 147 00:10:15,916 --> 00:10:18,082 After Africa, their mother home-schooled them, 148 00:10:18,084 --> 00:10:20,083 and they are now fluent in many languages. 149 00:10:20,085 --> 00:10:22,188 Yes, but I mean socially. 150 00:10:22,821 --> 00:10:24,322 You boys will be mixing 151 00:10:24,324 --> 00:10:27,591 with the cream of Birmingham's bonnes familles. 152 00:10:27,593 --> 00:10:30,329 And quite a change from Africa, I shouldn't wonder. 153 00:10:30,696 --> 00:10:32,395 They've been living in England 154 00:10:32,397 --> 00:10:34,630 far longer than they ever were in Bloemfontein. 155 00:10:34,632 --> 00:10:35,969 Isn't that right, boys? 156 00:10:36,235 --> 00:10:38,871 Yes, we hardly ever carry our spears anymore. 157 00:10:42,642 --> 00:10:44,375 Been difficult to place, have they? 158 00:10:44,377 --> 00:10:46,947 They've had one or two temporary homes. 159 00:10:47,347 --> 00:10:50,146 What they need, of course, is the civilizing influence 160 00:10:50,148 --> 00:10:53,885 of a stable and refined environment. 161 00:10:54,152 --> 00:10:55,886 Such as yours, Mrs. Faulkner. 162 00:10:55,888 --> 00:10:58,323 If I have a fault, it's that I am... 163 00:10:58,991 --> 00:11:00,924 too generous with my young lodgers. 164 00:11:00,926 --> 00:11:02,360 Too attached. 165 00:11:02,828 --> 00:11:04,898 Edith, another orphan, 166 00:11:05,799 --> 00:11:08,068 is like a child of my own. 167 00:11:19,813 --> 00:11:21,946 (Faint Creaking) 168 00:11:21,948 --> 00:11:24,017 (Wind Howling) 169 00:11:27,586 --> 00:11:29,455 (Creaking Continues) 170 00:11:49,776 --> 00:11:51,645 (Indistinct Chatter) 171 00:11:55,448 --> 00:11:58,018 - (Organ Playing) - (Boys Singing Hymn) 172 00:12:17,637 --> 00:12:19,104 Stand up, the new man. 173 00:12:20,806 --> 00:12:22,508 Tol-Kine. 174 00:12:25,344 --> 00:12:26,646 It's Keen, sir. 175 00:12:33,585 --> 00:12:34,387 What? 176 00:12:34,586 --> 00:12:37,589 It's pronounced Tolkeen, sir. Not Tol-Kine. 177 00:12:38,391 --> 00:12:39,391 Sorry. 178 00:12:41,526 --> 00:12:42,528 Sit down. 179 00:12:47,599 --> 00:12:49,834 As we are so sensitive 180 00:12:50,469 --> 00:12:52,269 about pronunciation this morning, 181 00:12:52,271 --> 00:12:53,971 perhaps you could all be so good 182 00:12:53,973 --> 00:12:55,642 as to take out our Chaucers. 183 00:12:56,541 --> 00:13:00,412 Mr. Tol-Keen can keep up as best he can. 184 00:13:01,781 --> 00:13:02,882 Mackintosh. Begin. 185 00:13:03,650 --> 00:13:05,452 (Reads THE Canterbury Tales IN Middle English) 186 00:13:07,052 --> 00:13:09,086 (MR. Heap Speaks Words IN Middle English) 187 00:13:09,088 --> 00:13:10,587 (Mackintosh Repeats Words) 188 00:13:10,589 --> 00:13:12,422 MR. Heap: Oh, for heaven's sake. Goodson-Thomas. 189 00:13:12,424 --> 00:13:15,161 (Goodson-Thomas Reads IN Middle English) 190 00:13:16,796 --> 00:13:18,198 MR. Heap: Wiseman. 191 00:13:19,765 --> 00:13:22,135 (Continues IN Middle English) 192 00:13:27,672 --> 00:13:30,075 MR. Heap: Mr. Tol-Keen. 193 00:13:37,882 --> 00:13:40,453 (Reciting IN Middle English) 194 00:13:54,633 --> 00:13:56,502 (Players Clamoring) 195 00:13:59,137 --> 00:14:00,672 (Overlapping Chatter) 196 00:14:02,041 --> 00:14:03,473 (Whistle Blows) 197 00:14:03,475 --> 00:14:04,810 (Clamoring) 198 00:14:16,922 --> 00:14:18,423 BOY: Pass to Tolkien. Out wide! 199 00:14:18,857 --> 00:14:20,193 (Young Robert Grunts) 200 00:14:21,694 --> 00:14:22,826 (Whistle Blows) 201 00:14:22,828 --> 00:14:24,531 (Indistinct Chatter) 202 00:14:29,669 --> 00:14:30,867 Young Robert: Moron! 203 00:14:30,869 --> 00:14:32,404 (ALL Clamoring) 204 00:14:36,908 --> 00:14:38,043 Don't speak. 205 00:14:38,276 --> 00:14:39,679 Don't say a single word. 206 00:14:40,046 --> 00:14:41,580 What if he asks me a question? 207 00:14:42,382 --> 00:14:43,449 He won't. 208 00:14:43,982 --> 00:14:45,552 He's not interested in you. 209 00:14:45,852 --> 00:14:46,951 (Knocks ON Door) 210 00:14:46,953 --> 00:14:48,755 - Headmaster: Come. - (Door Opens) 211 00:14:57,696 --> 00:15:00,331 Is it that you believe I have nothing better to do 212 00:15:00,333 --> 00:15:02,064 than arbitrate in your quarrels? 213 00:15:02,066 --> 00:15:04,102 No, sir. Absolutely not. 214 00:15:04,302 --> 00:15:05,904 Collegiate relationships 215 00:15:06,472 --> 00:15:07,752 are the cornerstone of learning. 216 00:15:08,206 --> 00:15:09,808 Isn't that what we say at King Edward's? 217 00:15:10,209 --> 00:15:11,375 Headmaster, with respect, 218 00:15:11,377 --> 00:15:13,478 Gilson and I were just playing rugby. 219 00:15:14,012 --> 00:15:16,248 A little forcefully, I admit, but... 220 00:15:28,194 --> 00:15:29,829 Men should be comrades. 221 00:15:30,028 --> 00:15:31,196 Wherever they come from. 222 00:15:31,930 --> 00:15:33,266 From the highest, 223 00:15:33,733 --> 00:15:34,800 to the lowest. 224 00:15:36,536 --> 00:15:39,470 - You and Master... - Tolkien. 225 00:15:39,472 --> 00:15:41,874 ...will demonstrate this to the rest of the school. 226 00:15:42,541 --> 00:15:44,774 You will do everything together 227 00:15:44,776 --> 00:15:45,942 for the rest of the term. 228 00:15:45,944 --> 00:15:47,613 - But, sir... - Everything. 229 00:15:50,016 --> 00:15:51,017 Yes, sir. 230 00:15:51,718 --> 00:15:53,116 Young Robert: He's made us liegemen. 231 00:15:53,118 --> 00:15:54,452 Young Tolkien: Isn't that a little excessive? 232 00:15:54,454 --> 00:15:56,053 Young Robert: It's an impossible standard. 233 00:15:56,055 --> 00:15:57,353 It's designed to humiliate me. 234 00:15:57,355 --> 00:16:00,057 - Doesn't it also humiliate me? - You're irrelevant. 235 00:16:00,059 --> 00:16:01,257 Why do you keep on saying that? 236 00:16:01,259 --> 00:16:02,525 - Because it's true. - No, listen. 237 00:16:02,527 --> 00:16:04,026 I may not come from a respectable background... 238 00:16:04,028 --> 00:16:05,096 It's not that, you idiot. 239 00:16:05,098 --> 00:16:06,862 You're irrelevant to the headmaster. 240 00:16:06,864 --> 00:16:08,164 - And you're not? - No. 241 00:16:08,166 --> 00:16:09,368 Oh, because you're special. 242 00:16:11,137 --> 00:16:12,472 Because I'm his son. 243 00:16:42,468 --> 00:16:44,671 (Muffled Piano Playing Soft Classical Music) 244 00:16:52,445 --> 00:16:54,379 (Piano Music Continues) 245 00:17:21,340 --> 00:17:22,780 - (Floorboard Creaks) - (Music Stops) 246 00:17:23,742 --> 00:17:25,709 MRS. Faulkner: Oh, please don't stop, Edith. 247 00:17:25,711 --> 00:17:27,613 (Resumes Playing) 248 00:17:37,155 --> 00:17:38,657 (Chuckles Softly) 249 00:17:40,825 --> 00:17:42,124 Young Robert: Christopher, darling. 250 00:17:42,126 --> 00:17:43,192 Young Christopher: Gilson. 251 00:17:43,194 --> 00:17:44,762 (Whispering) Christopher, sit still. 252 00:17:44,764 --> 00:17:47,063 - Gilson, don't be absurd. - Christopher. Sit down. 253 00:17:47,065 --> 00:17:48,666 - Stop! - Chris, sit down. 254 00:17:48,668 --> 00:17:50,332 We're in a library. Christopher, sit down. 255 00:17:50,334 --> 00:17:51,636 Young Christopher: What? 256 00:17:52,136 --> 00:17:53,839 (Footsteps Approaching) 257 00:18:04,482 --> 00:18:06,451 We're going to take some tea. 258 00:18:06,786 --> 00:18:08,185 - So? - So... 259 00:18:08,187 --> 00:18:10,420 I suppose as we're meant to be doing everything together... 260 00:18:10,422 --> 00:18:11,822 I'll stay where I am, thank you. 261 00:18:11,824 --> 00:18:12,925 Suit yourself. 262 00:18:17,896 --> 00:18:19,064 (Sighs) 263 00:18:23,835 --> 00:18:25,070 He didn't want to come. 264 00:18:27,405 --> 00:18:29,041 (Footsteps Approaching) 265 00:18:35,514 --> 00:18:37,649 Young Geoffrey: What Robert meant to say 266 00:18:37,848 --> 00:18:38,916 is that, 267 00:18:38,918 --> 00:18:41,487 with a little encouragement from his friends, 268 00:18:42,054 --> 00:18:43,120 he has now acknowledged 269 00:18:43,122 --> 00:18:44,321 that this punishment was his fault 270 00:18:44,323 --> 00:18:45,324 rather than yours, 271 00:18:45,892 --> 00:18:48,628 and he'd like to make amends, by inviting you to tea. 272 00:18:49,562 --> 00:18:51,460 You should be flattered, really. 273 00:18:51,462 --> 00:18:53,832 It was your cleverness that rattled him. 274 00:18:54,566 --> 00:18:55,698 It would rattle you too 275 00:18:55,700 --> 00:18:57,536 if only you had a father like Gilson. 276 00:18:57,803 --> 00:18:59,569 His marks only have to drop below 277 00:18:59,571 --> 00:19:01,007 one other boy in the year... 278 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:03,875 It's no excuse, but... 279 00:19:06,245 --> 00:19:07,346 Oh, come on. 280 00:19:07,645 --> 00:19:09,211 It's a lot more fun than sitting around 281 00:19:09,213 --> 00:19:10,313 with a load of old books. 282 00:19:10,315 --> 00:19:11,584 I like books. 283 00:19:12,218 --> 00:19:13,518 So do we. 284 00:19:16,521 --> 00:19:18,490 Geoffrey Bache Smith. 285 00:19:19,624 --> 00:19:21,693 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. 286 00:19:22,428 --> 00:19:23,892 Young Robert: Gentlemen. A thought. 287 00:19:23,894 --> 00:19:24,894 Tolkien. 288 00:19:25,030 --> 00:19:26,641 Young Robert: Imagine walking into Barrow's Stores, 289 00:19:26,665 --> 00:19:28,532 and finding me, guarding the door with a very big stick... 290 00:19:28,534 --> 00:19:29,568 Where is this going? 291 00:19:29,834 --> 00:19:31,534 And I said, there's no need to eat the cakes here. 292 00:19:31,536 --> 00:19:32,537 I've done it. 293 00:19:32,738 --> 00:19:34,704 In fact, I did it so much it made me sick... 294 00:19:34,706 --> 00:19:36,439 That is the nature of parental authority. 295 00:19:36,441 --> 00:19:38,374 "I've done it. I've decided it was bad. 296 00:19:38,376 --> 00:19:39,942 And now I'm going to stop you from doing it." 297 00:19:39,944 --> 00:19:41,879 - Cakes in this case being... - Everything. 298 00:19:41,881 --> 00:19:44,048 - Everything that's good. - Young Christopher: Right. 299 00:19:44,348 --> 00:19:46,217 Young Geoffrey: Tolkien, this is Barrow's. 300 00:19:46,219 --> 00:19:47,516 Young Christopher: Our kingdom, 301 00:19:47,518 --> 00:19:49,055 and the best tea in town. 302 00:19:50,623 --> 00:19:52,124 (Indistinct Chatter) 303 00:20:00,199 --> 00:20:02,466 - Waitress: Another pot of tea? - Young Christopher: Thank you. 304 00:20:02,468 --> 00:20:04,133 And what do you have that's under a shilling? 305 00:20:04,135 --> 00:20:05,135 And isn't toast. 306 00:20:05,270 --> 00:20:07,370 - Bath buns are four pence. - Good. A bath bun, please. 307 00:20:07,372 --> 00:20:09,605 - And three forks. - Young Geoffrey: Four. 308 00:20:09,607 --> 00:20:10,707 Young Robert: And what about the stick? 309 00:20:10,709 --> 00:20:11,807 Young Christopher: The stick? 310 00:20:11,809 --> 00:20:13,576 My father is a perfect example. 311 00:20:13,578 --> 00:20:15,411 He knows about music. He loves it. 312 00:20:15,413 --> 00:20:16,813 He spent the greater part of his youth 313 00:20:16,815 --> 00:20:18,180 studying and composing music. 314 00:20:18,182 --> 00:20:20,817 Christopher has had several musical pieces published. 315 00:20:20,819 --> 00:20:22,253 Young Christopher: Not several. One. 316 00:20:22,255 --> 00:20:23,352 Pass me the sugar. 317 00:20:23,354 --> 00:20:24,420 And yet when it comes to 318 00:20:24,422 --> 00:20:25,988 pursuing a life as a composer... 319 00:20:25,990 --> 00:20:28,492 No. "Musical dreams are a fantasy. 320 00:20:28,494 --> 00:20:30,593 You will do as I did. You will put them aside." 321 00:20:30,595 --> 00:20:32,497 And where does the stick come in? 322 00:20:32,998 --> 00:20:34,898 The stick was a metaphor. Move on from the stick. 323 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:37,035 Young Geoffrey: My mother's exactly the same. 324 00:20:37,268 --> 00:20:39,403 She values poetry. She loves it. 325 00:20:39,938 --> 00:20:42,642 She refuses to see it as a potential career. 326 00:20:43,275 --> 00:20:44,776 She sees me as... 327 00:20:45,110 --> 00:20:46,575 a lawyer or an accountant. 328 00:20:46,577 --> 00:20:48,711 Does she carry a stick? 329 00:20:48,713 --> 00:20:51,081 I'm gonna go outside and fetch a stick, how about that? 330 00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:52,083 Thank you. 331 00:20:52,317 --> 00:20:53,837 Well, at least your parents discuss it. 332 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:56,955 If I even mentioned becoming a painter, I'd be disowned. 333 00:20:57,421 --> 00:20:59,555 - No. I'd be decapitated. - There! 334 00:20:59,557 --> 00:21:00,892 That's the stick. 335 00:21:24,182 --> 00:21:26,486 I didn't even eat the cake that they ordered. 336 00:21:26,884 --> 00:21:27,952 Why not? 337 00:21:28,719 --> 00:21:30,519 I wasn't sure I had enough money. 338 00:21:30,521 --> 00:21:31,890 Young Edith: Oh. 339 00:21:32,556 --> 00:21:33,793 But this is sweet. 340 00:21:38,463 --> 00:21:39,731 What about you? 341 00:21:40,098 --> 00:21:41,765 (Chuckles) What about me? 342 00:21:41,767 --> 00:21:43,870 There must be something that you want? 343 00:21:45,071 --> 00:21:46,272 To get out of here. 344 00:21:47,206 --> 00:21:48,207 To be free. 345 00:21:49,507 --> 00:21:50,573 I would go somewhere 346 00:21:50,575 --> 00:21:52,877 where I wouldn't feel like a poor orphan 347 00:21:53,545 --> 00:21:56,278 and... everybody would be dressed 348 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,116 like kings and queens. 349 00:21:58,683 --> 00:22:00,252 I wouldn't be there to play piano. 350 00:22:01,353 --> 00:22:03,989 Or to carry Mrs. Faulkner's purse. 351 00:22:05,090 --> 00:22:07,927 I'd be... greeted and... 352 00:22:09,026 --> 00:22:10,228 appreciated. 353 00:22:11,029 --> 00:22:12,197 Welcomed. 354 00:22:13,098 --> 00:22:15,100 (Chuckles) Welcomed. 355 00:22:28,180 --> 00:22:29,882 (Gunfire IN Distance) 356 00:22:37,323 --> 00:22:38,554 (Coughing) 357 00:22:38,556 --> 00:22:40,058 Go back to barracks, Hodges. 358 00:22:42,995 --> 00:22:44,863 (Panting) 359 00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:50,937 Lieutenant Geoffrey Smith is a friend. 360 00:22:52,470 --> 00:22:54,739 His mother... 361 00:22:56,874 --> 00:22:58,243 His mother wrote to me. She... 362 00:22:59,344 --> 00:23:01,313 She hasn't heard from him in weeks. 363 00:23:01,947 --> 00:23:04,283 And he's not responded to my letters. 364 00:23:07,486 --> 00:23:08,955 I'm worried he might be... 365 00:23:12,723 --> 00:23:14,993 I need to know he's all right. 366 00:23:16,628 --> 00:23:18,597 It really has nothing to do with you. 367 00:23:19,230 --> 00:23:21,066 He must be a very good friend, is he, sir? 368 00:23:22,567 --> 00:23:23,835 He's the best. 369 00:23:26,371 --> 00:23:27,806 He'd do the same for me. 370 00:23:29,275 --> 00:23:30,810 (Gunfire Continues) 371 00:23:36,614 --> 00:23:37,880 Well, if we're halfway there, 372 00:23:37,882 --> 00:23:39,615 turning back won't take any longer 373 00:23:39,617 --> 00:23:40,751 than carrying on, will it? 374 00:23:40,753 --> 00:23:41,919 Hodges, please. 375 00:23:41,921 --> 00:23:43,820 Perfectly frank, sir, by the look on you, 376 00:23:43,822 --> 00:23:45,188 if I don't come along, 377 00:23:45,190 --> 00:23:46,055 you're not gonna find 378 00:23:46,057 --> 00:23:47,959 this Lieutenant Geoffrey Smith, anyway. 379 00:23:52,264 --> 00:23:54,367 Let me see if I can find some medicine for you, sir. 380 00:23:57,670 --> 00:23:59,337 (Breathing Heavily) 381 00:24:07,078 --> 00:24:09,044 Young Christopher: Geoffrey, are you trying 382 00:24:09,046 --> 00:24:10,650 to trap my bishop, you scoundrel? 383 00:24:13,719 --> 00:24:15,487 Gentlemen. A thought. 384 00:24:15,819 --> 00:24:16,986 You know what the trouble is 385 00:24:16,988 --> 00:24:18,655 with all these legends Tolkien reads? 386 00:24:18,657 --> 00:24:19,723 Enlighten me, Robbie. 387 00:24:19,725 --> 00:24:20,922 They don't have any women in them. 388 00:24:20,924 --> 00:24:22,692 I'm not talking about pale, 389 00:24:22,694 --> 00:24:24,628 shivering maidens sitting in towers. 390 00:24:24,630 --> 00:24:26,563 I'm talking about plump, red-blooded women. 391 00:24:26,565 --> 00:24:29,032 - Could you sit down, please? - The women of Southern Europe. 392 00:24:29,034 --> 00:24:31,435 Women with large flagons of wine on their heads. 393 00:24:31,437 --> 00:24:34,204 Robbie, are you incapable of sitting in silence? 394 00:24:34,206 --> 00:24:36,171 Like our waitress, just over there. 395 00:24:36,173 --> 00:24:37,640 Young Christopher: Oh, for God's sake. 396 00:24:37,642 --> 00:24:39,109 Robbie, if I lose this game 397 00:24:39,111 --> 00:24:40,511 because of your endless prattle... 398 00:24:40,513 --> 00:24:42,579 You will lose this game because of me. 399 00:24:42,581 --> 00:24:43,713 What are you reading now? 400 00:24:43,715 --> 00:24:45,482 I'm reading about the realm of the dead. 401 00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:47,117 - (Groans) - Or at least trying to. 402 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:48,150 See what I mean? 403 00:24:48,152 --> 00:24:51,123 Presided over by a giant woman, as it happens. 404 00:24:51,590 --> 00:24:54,959 Hel, a huge and ruthless goddess. 405 00:24:55,260 --> 00:24:56,927 Is that not red-blooded enough for you? 406 00:24:56,929 --> 00:24:58,464 It is our waitress. 407 00:24:59,265 --> 00:25:00,265 Hel? 408 00:25:00,399 --> 00:25:02,534 Yes, she rules over the realm of the dead. Helheimr. 409 00:25:02,767 --> 00:25:05,001 It's a place where warriors are sent 410 00:25:05,003 --> 00:25:06,902 if they die in the wrong way. 411 00:25:06,904 --> 00:25:09,173 - What's the wrong way? - Peacefully. 412 00:25:09,507 --> 00:25:11,443 Illness, old age. 413 00:25:11,709 --> 00:25:12,909 Anything other than battle. 414 00:25:12,911 --> 00:25:14,544 Now, that's an idea I can get behind. 415 00:25:14,546 --> 00:25:16,813 I'm sorry, you're getting behind dying in battle now? 416 00:25:16,815 --> 00:25:17,913 Not literally. 417 00:25:17,915 --> 00:25:20,251 I can die in any way the Fates choose, 418 00:25:20,552 --> 00:25:21,786 that's not up to me. 419 00:25:22,254 --> 00:25:25,523 But what is within my power is to decide how I live. 420 00:25:25,723 --> 00:25:28,792 Courageously or timidly. (Claps Hands) 421 00:25:28,794 --> 00:25:30,794 Helheimr! It should be our warning. Our challenge. 422 00:25:30,796 --> 00:25:31,796 Yes, I know. 423 00:25:32,030 --> 00:25:33,130 But you should learn how to pronounce it first. 424 00:25:33,132 --> 00:25:35,799 Come on. Challenge me. Set me a quest. 425 00:25:35,801 --> 00:25:37,633 I'll show you how to avoid Helheimr. 426 00:25:37,635 --> 00:25:39,535 I challenge you to... 427 00:25:39,537 --> 00:25:41,604 sit in silence for 25 minutes. 428 00:25:41,606 --> 00:25:42,706 Shut up, Geoffrey. 429 00:25:42,708 --> 00:25:43,805 I'm serious. 430 00:25:43,807 --> 00:25:45,007 Propose to the waitress. 431 00:25:45,009 --> 00:25:46,849 - Young Geoffrey: Christopher. - (Scoffs) What? 432 00:25:48,580 --> 00:25:49,879 An excellent idea. 433 00:25:49,881 --> 00:25:51,413 Robbie, don't you dare do anything of the kind. 434 00:25:51,415 --> 00:25:53,885 That's what I call a quest against Helheimr. 435 00:25:57,422 --> 00:25:58,857 Helheimr! 436 00:26:00,424 --> 00:26:04,328 Madam. My lady of the lake, the bearer of my dreams. 437 00:26:05,095 --> 00:26:06,765 Would you do me the greatest honor, 438 00:26:07,266 --> 00:26:10,002 sharing an infinite future with me... 439 00:26:20,813 --> 00:26:22,544 (Boys Laughing) 440 00:26:22,546 --> 00:26:23,949 We should form a club. 441 00:26:24,350 --> 00:26:26,149 - What? - A brotherhood. 442 00:26:26,151 --> 00:26:28,752 Aren't we already a club? A tea drinking club? 443 00:26:28,754 --> 00:26:29,755 A tea drinking club, 444 00:26:30,021 --> 00:26:31,655 sounds like something my stepmother would go to. 445 00:26:31,657 --> 00:26:32,691 The Tea Club. 446 00:26:33,092 --> 00:26:35,592 It doesn't sound any better just because you repeated it. 447 00:26:35,594 --> 00:26:36,692 The Birmingham Boys. 448 00:26:36,694 --> 00:26:38,362 That sounds like a circus act. 449 00:26:38,930 --> 00:26:41,432 The Boys of Barrow's Stores. 450 00:26:42,566 --> 00:26:43,902 Barrovians. 451 00:26:45,003 --> 00:26:47,969 The Tea Club and Barrovian Society. 452 00:26:47,971 --> 00:26:49,573 I think that's far too long. 453 00:26:49,575 --> 00:26:50,674 The T. C. B. S. 454 00:26:50,676 --> 00:26:52,074 The T. C. B. S. 455 00:26:52,076 --> 00:26:54,043 Are you sure that doesn't sound like a disease? 456 00:26:54,045 --> 00:26:55,445 No, listen, I don't care what it's called. 457 00:26:55,447 --> 00:26:57,447 As long as we pledge our loyalty to each other. 458 00:26:57,449 --> 00:26:58,449 Exactly. 459 00:26:58,484 --> 00:27:00,749 T. C. B. S. That's settled. Now what do we do? 460 00:27:00,751 --> 00:27:01,883 We change the world. 461 00:27:01,885 --> 00:27:03,386 Oh, good. Something simple. 462 00:27:03,388 --> 00:27:04,954 Through art, you clown. 463 00:27:04,956 --> 00:27:07,059 Through the power of art. 464 00:27:15,700 --> 00:27:16,700 Brothers, 465 00:27:17,568 --> 00:27:18,935 will you join your comrades 466 00:27:18,937 --> 00:27:20,840 in this act of changing the world? 467 00:27:28,513 --> 00:27:29,711 - We will. - We will. 468 00:27:29,713 --> 00:27:31,380 Helheimr! 469 00:27:31,382 --> 00:27:33,783 - Young Christopher: Helheimr! - Young Geoffrey: Helheimr! 470 00:27:33,785 --> 00:27:35,254 Young Robert: Helheimr! 471 00:27:58,308 --> 00:28:00,008 Young Tolkien: "Not for us, I reckon, 472 00:28:00,010 --> 00:28:01,110 to follow the wolves, 473 00:28:01,112 --> 00:28:02,278 to fight amongst each other 474 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,147 like the cubs the Fates rear ravenous..." 475 00:28:04,149 --> 00:28:05,380 Tolkien: "...the Norns came, 476 00:28:05,382 --> 00:28:07,017 to shape out fate for that kingling; 477 00:28:07,518 --> 00:28:09,919 they said he'd be the fighter most famed, 478 00:28:09,921 --> 00:28:12,089 and be reckoned the best of princelings. 479 00:28:12,524 --> 00:28:14,524 They twisted fast the strands of fate, 480 00:28:14,526 --> 00:28:17,263 unsettled the strongholds in Brálund..." 481 00:28:24,335 --> 00:28:25,503 (Knocks ON Door) 482 00:28:43,587 --> 00:28:44,587 This way, please. 483 00:28:44,722 --> 00:28:47,290 - (Soft String Music Playing) - (Woman Singing Aria) 484 00:28:47,292 --> 00:28:51,194 Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar 485 00:28:51,196 --> 00:28:53,963 Where are you now? 486 00:28:53,965 --> 00:28:58,603 Who lies beneath your spell? 487 00:28:59,136 --> 00:29:02,438 Whom do you lead on... 488 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:03,976 I don't have a hat. 489 00:29:04,741 --> 00:29:06,945 - What? - I don't have a hat. 490 00:29:08,078 --> 00:29:09,313 That's all right. 491 00:29:09,881 --> 00:29:11,583 They all look ridiculous, anyway. 492 00:29:13,450 --> 00:29:15,653 (Tolkien Speaking Unknown Language) 493 00:29:21,526 --> 00:29:22,526 What does it mean? 494 00:29:22,727 --> 00:29:24,361 Oh... It's nonsense. 495 00:29:24,363 --> 00:29:27,363 It's about an old man who's watching an unlucky frog 496 00:29:27,365 --> 00:29:29,864 who can't land softly, so he gets eaten by a dog. 497 00:29:29,866 --> 00:29:31,235 (Laughs) 498 00:29:31,937 --> 00:29:34,640 - And you invented that? - Yes. 499 00:29:35,641 --> 00:29:37,340 The entire language? 500 00:29:37,342 --> 00:29:39,811 Verb structures, vocabulary, everything. 501 00:29:40,245 --> 00:29:42,714 My next language will have a music to it. 502 00:29:42,948 --> 00:29:44,182 "Cellar door." 503 00:29:44,716 --> 00:29:45,717 Cellar door? 504 00:29:45,950 --> 00:29:48,584 That's the most musical word I can think of. 505 00:29:48,586 --> 00:29:49,517 "Cellar door." 506 00:29:49,519 --> 00:29:51,120 There's something about the fall of it. 507 00:29:51,122 --> 00:29:52,591 The rounding of the mouth. 508 00:29:52,924 --> 00:29:54,724 Cellar door. 509 00:29:54,726 --> 00:29:55,859 If you say it over and over, 510 00:29:55,861 --> 00:29:58,729 it starts to be something... magical. 511 00:29:59,063 --> 00:30:01,132 (Dramatically) Cellar door. 512 00:30:02,934 --> 00:30:04,335 (Toned Down) Cellar door. 513 00:30:05,937 --> 00:30:07,003 I think that's nonsense. 514 00:30:07,005 --> 00:30:08,638 I mean, it is if you say it like that. 515 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,177 A word isn't beautiful just because of its sound. 516 00:30:12,576 --> 00:30:13,575 Cellar door. 517 00:30:13,577 --> 00:30:16,748 It's the marriage of sound and meaning, 518 00:30:16,980 --> 00:30:18,916 the door to the cellar, 519 00:30:19,351 --> 00:30:20,949 a place where something magical 520 00:30:20,951 --> 00:30:22,986 and mysterious might happen. 521 00:30:22,988 --> 00:30:24,553 I'm sorry, have you just dismissed 522 00:30:24,555 --> 00:30:26,322 the basis of my entire language? 523 00:30:26,324 --> 00:30:27,657 Your language isn't worth anything 524 00:30:27,659 --> 00:30:29,525 unless you remember this important fact. 525 00:30:29,527 --> 00:30:31,563 - Oh, is that right? - It is, yes. 526 00:30:35,767 --> 00:30:37,036 Listen. 527 00:30:38,436 --> 00:30:39,237 Hand. 528 00:30:39,437 --> 00:30:41,604 That might be a beautiful word... 529 00:30:41,606 --> 00:30:42,705 Yes, it is. 530 00:30:42,707 --> 00:30:44,174 But it means so much more 531 00:30:44,176 --> 00:30:46,278 because of what we associate it with. 532 00:30:57,421 --> 00:30:58,489 Touch. 533 00:30:59,624 --> 00:31:02,294 Things aren't beautiful because of how they sound. 534 00:31:03,394 --> 00:31:05,430 They're beautiful because of what they mean. 535 00:31:14,672 --> 00:31:15,807 Tell me a story. 536 00:31:16,341 --> 00:31:17,239 What? 537 00:31:17,241 --> 00:31:19,377 The story of Cellar Door. 538 00:31:20,812 --> 00:31:21,811 No, I can't. 539 00:31:21,813 --> 00:31:22,514 Why not? 540 00:31:22,747 --> 00:31:24,080 When someone asks me to play the piano... 541 00:31:24,082 --> 00:31:25,982 That's a different thing altogether. 542 00:31:25,984 --> 00:31:27,385 Tell me a story. 543 00:31:27,951 --> 00:31:30,020 In any language you want. 544 00:31:30,421 --> 00:31:32,658 - Don't be ridiculous. - The legend... 545 00:31:33,459 --> 00:31:34,659 of Cellar Door. 546 00:31:34,892 --> 00:31:36,325 No, I'm not a performing monkey. 547 00:31:36,327 --> 00:31:38,328 (Sighs) It begins with the arrival 548 00:31:38,330 --> 00:31:40,332 of a proud and opinionated princess. 549 00:31:41,032 --> 00:31:42,230 Yes, you're right about that. 550 00:31:42,232 --> 00:31:43,701 She demands entertainment. 551 00:31:44,169 --> 00:31:46,671 Princess Cellardoor is bored. 552 00:31:47,005 --> 00:31:49,238 Bored of cakes and muffins 553 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:50,709 - and exquisite china... - No. 554 00:31:51,442 --> 00:31:53,211 She longs for another life. 555 00:31:53,978 --> 00:31:55,580 - It's not a name. - What? 556 00:31:55,846 --> 00:31:57,248 It's something else. 557 00:31:58,482 --> 00:32:01,252 Cellardoor. It's not a princess's name, it can't be. 558 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,422 Cellardoor... 559 00:32:05,623 --> 00:32:06,691 is a place. 560 00:32:08,594 --> 00:32:11,361 It's a place. An ancient place. 561 00:32:11,363 --> 00:32:13,398 Impossible to reach, except... 562 00:32:13,998 --> 00:32:15,799 by the most treacherous climb. 563 00:32:15,801 --> 00:32:17,436 It hangs... no... 564 00:32:18,370 --> 00:32:19,370 No? 565 00:32:19,403 --> 00:32:21,873 It's not a climb... It's not... 566 00:32:22,140 --> 00:32:23,441 Door... 567 00:32:25,509 --> 00:32:26,376 (Mumbles) 568 00:32:26,378 --> 00:32:28,410 ...road... path. It's a path. 569 00:32:28,412 --> 00:32:30,846 A path through a dense, dark forest. 570 00:32:30,848 --> 00:32:32,148 Oh, is it, now? 571 00:32:32,150 --> 00:32:33,314 And at the heart of Cellardoor, 572 00:32:33,316 --> 00:32:34,419 which is actually a shrine, 573 00:32:34,686 --> 00:32:36,953 there stands an extraordinary sight. 574 00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:40,357 (Gasps) Is it a proud and opinionated princess? 575 00:32:40,359 --> 00:32:43,793 It is a place which is revered by all who know of it. 576 00:32:43,795 --> 00:32:46,528 A sacred place, marked at its center by... 577 00:32:46,530 --> 00:32:47,598 By? 578 00:32:53,604 --> 00:32:54,672 By trees. 579 00:32:55,207 --> 00:32:56,341 Edith: Trees? 580 00:32:56,841 --> 00:32:58,807 Tolkien: One of the purest black like ebony, 581 00:32:58,809 --> 00:33:01,312 the other... white as bone. 582 00:33:02,479 --> 00:33:04,780 They each contain a deadly poison in their sap. 583 00:33:04,782 --> 00:33:07,819 But they have grown together over thousands of years. 584 00:33:08,253 --> 00:33:10,255 Leaning into each other, like... 585 00:33:11,021 --> 00:33:12,657 they were fighting, or... 586 00:33:14,926 --> 00:33:15,926 The roots... 587 00:33:16,026 --> 00:33:19,861 the branches of the two trees, reaching, twisting, 588 00:33:19,863 --> 00:33:21,230 gnarling around each other, 589 00:33:21,232 --> 00:33:23,969 have finally become a single knotted trunk. 590 00:33:25,436 --> 00:33:26,902 Their poisoned saps commingled 591 00:33:26,904 --> 00:33:28,838 to create a powerful, life-giving potion. 592 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,877 The water... of Cellardoor. 593 00:33:33,077 --> 00:33:34,445 What does it do? 594 00:33:35,146 --> 00:33:36,579 What does it do? 595 00:33:36,581 --> 00:33:37,783 Yes. 596 00:33:38,650 --> 00:33:39,751 What does it do? 597 00:33:40,918 --> 00:33:42,517 - To drink it... - Yes? 598 00:33:42,519 --> 00:33:44,655 The water of Cellardoor, to taste it, 599 00:33:45,422 --> 00:33:47,959 is to possess the power of sight. 600 00:33:50,261 --> 00:33:51,893 Sight beyond sight. 601 00:33:51,895 --> 00:33:53,697 Sight into the deepest, 602 00:33:54,265 --> 00:33:56,098 darkest parts of the human heart. 603 00:33:56,100 --> 00:33:58,333 It's a hungry, potent magic. 604 00:33:58,335 --> 00:34:01,839 A magic beyond anything anyone has ever felt before. 605 00:34:22,326 --> 00:34:23,995 (Both Snicker) 606 00:34:24,995 --> 00:34:26,296 What did you do that for? 607 00:34:26,730 --> 00:34:29,368 I was filled with the spirit of Cellardoor. 608 00:34:29,901 --> 00:34:31,502 Go on. Your turn. 609 00:34:31,969 --> 00:34:33,101 No. 610 00:34:33,103 --> 00:34:34,973 What's the worst that could happen? 611 00:35:12,310 --> 00:35:13,512 (Coins Jingling) 612 00:35:14,344 --> 00:35:15,980 Aren't you supposed to be studying? 613 00:35:16,214 --> 00:35:17,549 Oh, yes. Thank you. 614 00:35:33,732 --> 00:35:36,132 - They sound very exciting. - Yes. 615 00:35:36,134 --> 00:35:38,600 I mean, I'm not saying that everything everyone says 616 00:35:38,602 --> 00:35:39,902 is going to be absolutely fascinating. 617 00:35:39,904 --> 00:35:41,670 - Edith: It'll be fine. - Tolkien: Yes. 618 00:35:41,672 --> 00:35:43,608 Edith: I hope I've dressed up properly. 619 00:35:50,448 --> 00:35:51,982 - More tea? - Edith: Uh... 620 00:35:57,754 --> 00:35:59,756 So, what do you normally talk about? 621 00:36:00,123 --> 00:36:01,125 Christopher: Uh, we... 622 00:36:01,460 --> 00:36:04,426 We talk about all sorts of really interesting things. 623 00:36:04,428 --> 00:36:05,493 Really interesting. 624 00:36:05,495 --> 00:36:07,398 Interesting and fascinating, and... 625 00:36:07,866 --> 00:36:10,498 you know, that's when we're not trying to change the world. 626 00:36:10,500 --> 00:36:12,134 Geoffrey: When we're not trying to change the world, 627 00:36:12,136 --> 00:36:15,036 the thing we're focusing on most, Miss Bratt, is... 628 00:36:15,038 --> 00:36:16,774 Please. Edith. 629 00:36:17,741 --> 00:36:19,574 Is our university entrance. 630 00:36:19,576 --> 00:36:21,111 Are you all trying for Oxford? 631 00:36:21,578 --> 00:36:23,180 Well, Tolkien and I are. 632 00:36:23,381 --> 00:36:25,216 The other two are aiming for Cambridge. 633 00:36:25,450 --> 00:36:27,250 - Treacherous beasts. - Are you nervous? 634 00:36:27,252 --> 00:36:28,620 Robbie isn't. 635 00:36:28,852 --> 00:36:29,752 Oh. 636 00:36:29,754 --> 00:36:31,453 I don't believe in examinations. 637 00:36:31,455 --> 00:36:32,524 I write what I think. 638 00:36:32,756 --> 00:36:34,690 And if they want to give me a mark, it's up to them. 639 00:36:34,692 --> 00:36:36,324 What a revolutionary approach. 640 00:36:36,326 --> 00:36:37,366 Why, thank you. (Chuckles) 641 00:36:37,995 --> 00:36:41,265 I would love to hear you play the piano sometime, Miss... 642 00:36:41,565 --> 00:36:43,768 - Edith. - (Laughs) 643 00:36:43,968 --> 00:36:44,933 She plays marvelously. 644 00:36:44,935 --> 00:36:46,301 Edith: You're a composer yourself, 645 00:36:46,303 --> 00:36:47,370 isn't that right, Christopher? 646 00:36:47,372 --> 00:36:48,437 Yes. 647 00:36:48,439 --> 00:36:50,908 - No, he's been published. - Heavens. 648 00:36:51,542 --> 00:36:53,077 Which composers do you admire? 649 00:36:53,344 --> 00:36:55,777 - Um, I like the Romantics. - So do I. 650 00:36:55,779 --> 00:36:58,716 Beethoven. Brahms. Wagner. 651 00:36:58,982 --> 00:37:02,551 I appreciate Wagner. I'm not sure that I like him. 652 00:37:02,553 --> 00:37:03,752 You "appreciate" him? 653 00:37:03,754 --> 00:37:06,290 Yes. As an agent of emotion, I mean. 654 00:37:06,757 --> 00:37:09,223 The operas... They're somehow... 655 00:37:09,225 --> 00:37:10,494 I love Wagner's Rheingold. 656 00:37:10,861 --> 00:37:12,962 Robert: Christopher finds those too long. 657 00:37:12,964 --> 00:37:13,965 No, I don't. 658 00:37:14,265 --> 00:37:15,663 Robert: Well, nobody blames you. 659 00:37:15,665 --> 00:37:16,799 It shouldn't take six hours 660 00:37:16,801 --> 00:37:18,167 to tell a story about a magic ring. 661 00:37:18,169 --> 00:37:20,069 No, Gilson, you don't know what you're talking about. 662 00:37:20,071 --> 00:37:22,772 Of course, operas can be considered long and laborious 663 00:37:22,774 --> 00:37:25,440 but for my music, whatever the length, 664 00:37:25,442 --> 00:37:27,176 it is imperative that it has heart. 665 00:37:27,178 --> 00:37:28,109 A sensation of intoxication... 666 00:37:28,111 --> 00:37:30,446 - Look, I'm afraid we must go. - Already? 667 00:37:30,448 --> 00:37:32,348 Tolkien: Yes, Mrs. Faulkner will be worried. 668 00:37:32,350 --> 00:37:33,649 Oh, Tollers, there's so much tea left. 669 00:37:33,651 --> 00:37:34,817 No, but we have exams coming up 670 00:37:34,819 --> 00:37:36,185 and I, for one, have to study. 671 00:37:36,187 --> 00:37:37,522 I'm sorry. Goodbye, all. 672 00:37:38,223 --> 00:37:39,790 It was lovely meeting you. 673 00:37:40,223 --> 00:37:42,560 - Bye. - ALL: Goodbye, Edith. 674 00:37:44,227 --> 00:37:45,796 Tolkien: I'll fetch our coats. 675 00:37:47,431 --> 00:37:49,034 Edith: Are you ashamed of me? 676 00:37:49,466 --> 00:37:50,734 Tolkien: What? 677 00:37:51,402 --> 00:37:52,902 Edith: I can't think of another explanation. 678 00:37:52,904 --> 00:37:54,806 Tolkien: I don't know what you're talking about. 679 00:37:55,439 --> 00:37:57,575 You know how I spend my days, John. 680 00:37:57,975 --> 00:37:59,109 You've seen me. 681 00:37:59,444 --> 00:38:00,679 I'm a companion. 682 00:38:01,111 --> 00:38:02,279 A prisoner. 683 00:38:02,879 --> 00:38:06,250 There's no secret literary societies for me. 684 00:38:07,518 --> 00:38:08,919 No escape. 685 00:38:10,721 --> 00:38:13,324 I play piano for Mrs. Faulkner. 686 00:38:13,690 --> 00:38:16,660 Terrible, sentimental songs on the piano. 687 00:38:17,727 --> 00:38:19,563 I sit with her in the evening. 688 00:38:19,830 --> 00:38:22,033 Read with her. Sew with her. 689 00:38:22,232 --> 00:38:23,602 Listen to her. 690 00:38:24,669 --> 00:38:27,169 I have a passion for Wagner. 691 00:38:27,171 --> 00:38:30,873 I want to talk about him. To discuss. To debate. 692 00:38:30,875 --> 00:38:32,110 But you... 693 00:38:37,681 --> 00:38:39,584 (Footsteps Receding) 694 00:38:53,297 --> 00:38:54,832 (Distant Explosions) 695 00:39:04,674 --> 00:39:06,210 (Explosions Continue) 696 00:39:15,319 --> 00:39:17,122 (Deep Growling) 697 00:39:24,596 --> 00:39:26,698 (Distant, Heavy Thudding) 698 00:39:34,339 --> 00:39:36,007 (LOW Growling) 699 00:39:40,245 --> 00:39:41,645 (MEN Screaming) 700 00:39:42,781 --> 00:39:44,413 Officer: Take cover! 701 00:39:44,415 --> 00:39:45,951 (MEN Screaming) 702 00:39:47,417 --> 00:39:49,685 - (Gunfire) - (Screaming) 703 00:39:49,687 --> 00:39:51,056 SAM: Run, sir! 704 00:39:56,727 --> 00:39:58,129 Sir, I think we're safe. 705 00:40:00,998 --> 00:40:02,067 It's okay. 706 00:40:04,002 --> 00:40:05,003 (Panting) 707 00:40:10,942 --> 00:40:13,178 Sir. Let's stay here, sir. 708 00:40:13,743 --> 00:40:15,113 Let's stay here, sir. 709 00:40:19,750 --> 00:40:21,820 (Piano Playing Soft Classical Music) 710 00:40:45,343 --> 00:40:47,710 Haven't you anything a little more cheerful, dear? 711 00:40:47,712 --> 00:40:49,080 (Music Stops) 712 00:40:53,651 --> 00:40:55,020 (Sighs Softly) 713 00:40:57,488 --> 00:40:59,757 (Playing Jolly Music) 714 00:41:04,361 --> 00:41:05,527 Geoffrey: "Shapes in the mist 715 00:41:05,529 --> 00:41:07,399 It is long since I saw you 716 00:41:08,299 --> 00:41:11,102 Pale hands and faces, quiet eyes 717 00:41:11,435 --> 00:41:14,471 Crowned with a garland that dead hands wrought you 718 00:41:14,839 --> 00:41:17,075 Out of remembrance that never dies 719 00:41:18,609 --> 00:41:21,178 One among you is tall and supple 720 00:41:21,678 --> 00:41:23,981 Good to love and to fight beside 721 00:41:24,681 --> 00:41:26,817 Only the stain of a deadly quarrel 722 00:41:27,084 --> 00:41:29,988 Only that and the years divide" 723 00:41:31,622 --> 00:41:33,221 - It's dreadful. - It's superb. 724 00:41:33,223 --> 00:41:34,989 - Stop being such a moron. - It isn't finished. 725 00:41:34,991 --> 00:41:36,290 Robert: It's wonderful. 726 00:41:36,292 --> 00:41:39,263 It's Greek, in a way. The love of comrades. 727 00:41:39,663 --> 00:41:41,866 It's very emotive. You should be proud. 728 00:41:43,500 --> 00:41:45,069 Right. Who's next? 729 00:41:45,402 --> 00:41:46,404 Tollers? 730 00:41:46,669 --> 00:41:48,305 No, I haven't anything new. 731 00:41:49,373 --> 00:41:50,640 - Robert: Really? - Tolkien: Mmm. 732 00:41:50,642 --> 00:41:52,942 Robert: Well, if Tolkien is betraying 733 00:41:52,944 --> 00:41:54,911 the brotherhood with a blank, 734 00:41:54,913 --> 00:41:58,048 I'm going to show you something utterly degenerate. 735 00:41:58,314 --> 00:41:59,415 (Laughter) 736 00:41:59,417 --> 00:42:00,919 Geoffrey: This cannot be good. 737 00:42:01,618 --> 00:42:03,551 Christopher: Heavens above. 738 00:42:03,553 --> 00:42:05,453 Robert: Copied, unfortunately. 739 00:42:05,455 --> 00:42:07,257 And what I need is life models. 740 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:09,994 Not much chance of that, of course. 741 00:42:12,897 --> 00:42:14,596 Tolkien: I take it that's not one of yours. 742 00:42:14,598 --> 00:42:17,401 Robert: What, my father's aristocratic pretensions? 743 00:42:17,701 --> 00:42:19,801 Needless to say, he hasn't got a rifle, 744 00:42:19,803 --> 00:42:22,304 a stately home, or a pack of spaniels. 745 00:42:22,306 --> 00:42:23,205 (Christopher Laughs) 746 00:42:23,207 --> 00:42:24,647 Have you really not written anything? 747 00:42:24,942 --> 00:42:26,878 Not even inspired by Miss Bratt? 748 00:42:27,210 --> 00:42:29,913 Don't be an ass, Wiseman. Edith and I... 749 00:42:30,747 --> 00:42:31,782 share a lodging. 750 00:42:32,015 --> 00:42:33,582 So, her heart is still unclaimed? 751 00:42:33,584 --> 00:42:34,650 Thank you, Tolkien. Good to know. 752 00:42:34,652 --> 00:42:35,917 Robert: So, you've written nothing? 753 00:42:35,919 --> 00:42:39,222 I can't get into my stride. I feel... unfocused. 754 00:42:39,457 --> 00:42:41,617 Christopher: You know what I think that's a symptom of? 755 00:42:42,694 --> 00:42:43,759 Constipation? 756 00:42:43,761 --> 00:42:45,594 - (Laughs) - Ha-ha-ha. 757 00:42:45,596 --> 00:42:47,795 Love. Requited or otherwise. 758 00:42:47,797 --> 00:42:49,297 Yes. Thank you. 759 00:42:49,299 --> 00:42:50,266 What a wonderful insight 760 00:42:50,268 --> 00:42:52,203 into the human condition, Chris. 761 00:42:52,902 --> 00:42:55,205 It's a pity it doesn't find its way into your music. 762 00:42:56,940 --> 00:42:59,208 You know, I'm surprised you expect us to believe 763 00:42:59,210 --> 00:43:00,708 a single word you say, Tolkien. 764 00:43:00,710 --> 00:43:01,870 What's that supposed to mean? 765 00:43:02,111 --> 00:43:04,311 Christopher: You kept the delectable Miss Bratt from us. 766 00:43:04,415 --> 00:43:06,449 Who knows what else you might be concealing. 767 00:43:06,451 --> 00:43:07,518 Christopher. 768 00:43:08,051 --> 00:43:09,851 A wife, three children and a ranch in Argentina. 769 00:43:09,853 --> 00:43:10,986 Since you ask. 770 00:43:10,988 --> 00:43:12,754 God, I wish I had Tolkien's secret life, 771 00:43:12,756 --> 00:43:13,922 eh, Geoff? 772 00:43:13,924 --> 00:43:15,656 Tolkien: Can we please just play the game? 773 00:43:15,658 --> 00:43:17,528 (Door Opens AND Closes) 774 00:43:20,064 --> 00:43:21,498 I thought you said he was away? 775 00:43:21,832 --> 00:43:24,399 - Yes, he was. - (Footsteps Approaching) 776 00:43:24,401 --> 00:43:25,469 He is... 777 00:43:27,270 --> 00:43:30,440 Geoffrey, give me that quickly. Thank you. 778 00:43:32,142 --> 00:43:33,542 Robert: Where do I put these things? 779 00:43:33,544 --> 00:43:35,279 Geoffrey: (Whispering) Quickly. 780 00:43:35,879 --> 00:43:37,314 Robert: Shh! 781 00:43:37,814 --> 00:43:39,883 (Footsteps Grow Nearer) 782 00:43:43,254 --> 00:43:44,322 (Door Opens) 783 00:43:47,158 --> 00:43:49,360 - Sir. - Tolkien: Headmaster. 784 00:43:49,759 --> 00:43:50,761 What's this? 785 00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:52,761 You said I might have some friends here, sir. 786 00:43:52,763 --> 00:43:53,862 While you were away. 787 00:43:53,864 --> 00:43:55,266 Your aunt is better. 788 00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:57,935 I came home. 789 00:44:00,672 --> 00:44:02,605 I have work to do. Send them home now. 790 00:44:02,607 --> 00:44:04,839 I've promised the boys that they can stay the night, sir. 791 00:44:04,841 --> 00:44:07,344 Circumstances have changed, however. 792 00:44:07,745 --> 00:44:09,480 And now they will go home. 793 00:44:12,382 --> 00:44:13,917 (Footsteps Receding) 794 00:44:24,661 --> 00:44:26,029 Helheimr. 795 00:44:26,430 --> 00:44:27,498 Don't be ridiculous. 796 00:44:28,632 --> 00:44:29,933 Helheimr. 797 00:44:31,468 --> 00:44:32,970 Helheimr. 798 00:44:33,671 --> 00:44:37,075 If not now, then when? (Laughs) 799 00:44:49,786 --> 00:44:51,022 Robert: Sir? 800 00:44:53,424 --> 00:44:57,295 I prefer not to go back on my offer of hospitality, sir. 801 00:44:57,594 --> 00:44:59,363 I think it ungentlemanly. 802 00:44:59,564 --> 00:45:01,065 You think... 803 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,402 I'm sorry. What? 804 00:45:05,902 --> 00:45:08,171 Ungentlemanly, sir. 805 00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:11,308 Father, I think it rude. 806 00:45:12,142 --> 00:45:13,574 The boys are here to study. 807 00:45:13,576 --> 00:45:14,645 And play billiards. 808 00:45:15,546 --> 00:45:18,049 Yes, and play billiards. 809 00:45:19,450 --> 00:45:22,317 We've worked hard, sir. And these are my friends. 810 00:45:22,319 --> 00:45:24,989 And I have made them a promise, which... 811 00:45:26,424 --> 00:45:27,525 with respect, 812 00:45:28,426 --> 00:45:29,594 I would like to keep. 813 00:45:33,698 --> 00:45:35,033 Very well. 814 00:45:40,504 --> 00:45:42,674 - (Sighs IN Relief) - (Boys Snickering) 815 00:45:45,942 --> 00:45:48,710 Christopher: Gilson. You're a bloody hero. 816 00:45:48,712 --> 00:45:51,082 - Robert: (Whispers) Boys, stop. - Christopher: Bloody hero. 817 00:45:52,082 --> 00:45:54,451 - Helheimr. - (ALL Laugh) 818 00:46:01,591 --> 00:46:03,093 (Door Opens) 819 00:46:07,330 --> 00:46:08,964 There's a word in old German, 820 00:46:08,966 --> 00:46:10,634 it has no translation in English, 821 00:46:11,033 --> 00:46:13,234 but it means a gift offered fearfully 822 00:46:13,236 --> 00:46:14,672 in the wake of an argument. 823 00:46:14,872 --> 00:46:16,373 Drachenfutter. 824 00:46:21,879 --> 00:46:23,681 Literally, "Dragon Food." 825 00:46:31,922 --> 00:46:33,256 So now I'm a dragon? 826 00:46:34,725 --> 00:46:36,094 (Stammers) 827 00:46:38,895 --> 00:46:40,462 (Bell Tolling) 828 00:46:40,464 --> 00:46:42,632 Edith: Wagner wrote it in four acts. 829 00:46:42,866 --> 00:46:43,966 It starts with a ring, 830 00:46:43,968 --> 00:46:45,801 a magical ring which can rule the world 831 00:46:45,803 --> 00:46:47,569 and which is forged by a dwarf. 832 00:46:47,571 --> 00:46:48,772 It's Alberich. 833 00:46:49,172 --> 00:46:51,408 Well, I have picked up the odd bit of German mythology. 834 00:46:51,776 --> 00:46:53,442 But to harness the ring's power, 835 00:46:53,444 --> 00:46:55,009 you first have to renounce love. 836 00:46:55,011 --> 00:46:57,781 Oh. A very sensible exchange, in my opinion. 837 00:46:58,082 --> 00:47:00,551 Well, that's because you're a coldhearted Viking. 838 00:47:02,252 --> 00:47:03,755 Two, please. Upper gallery. 839 00:47:04,455 --> 00:47:06,391 Gallery and upper gallery full. 840 00:47:06,924 --> 00:47:07,991 Sorry, what? 841 00:47:08,357 --> 00:47:11,228 The gallery and upper gallery are full. I'm sorry. 842 00:47:13,096 --> 00:47:14,529 Nothing at all? 843 00:47:14,531 --> 00:47:16,767 That's what we mean by full, sir, yes. 844 00:47:17,167 --> 00:47:19,436 There is availability in the dress circle. 845 00:47:22,071 --> 00:47:23,507 The dress circle. 846 00:47:25,375 --> 00:47:27,377 But that's five shillings. 847 00:47:29,846 --> 00:47:31,413 And we do respectfully ask patrons 848 00:47:31,415 --> 00:47:33,817 to dress appropriately for that tier, sir. 849 00:47:37,488 --> 00:47:38,522 Come on. 850 00:47:41,625 --> 00:47:42,727 Edith. 851 00:47:43,993 --> 00:47:45,228 Follow me. 852 00:47:48,165 --> 00:47:50,067 - (Gate Creaks) - (Horse Neighs IN Distance) 853 00:47:55,540 --> 00:47:56,707 (Door Rattles) 854 00:48:12,022 --> 00:48:13,357 Sorry. 855 00:48:13,790 --> 00:48:14,792 It's fine. 856 00:48:18,728 --> 00:48:20,098 Humiliating. 857 00:48:20,997 --> 00:48:24,199 Counting out the pennies. It's shameful. 858 00:48:24,801 --> 00:48:26,169 (Sighs) 859 00:48:27,238 --> 00:48:29,107 I'm not going to live like that. 860 00:48:30,073 --> 00:48:31,307 And neither should you. 861 00:48:31,942 --> 00:48:33,074 They're just tickets. We can... 862 00:48:33,076 --> 00:48:34,243 It's not the tickets. 863 00:48:34,245 --> 00:48:36,380 It's about not losing the people you love. 864 00:48:37,281 --> 00:48:38,748 Looking after them. 865 00:48:41,151 --> 00:48:42,719 My mother, she... 866 00:48:44,254 --> 00:48:45,522 She was sick. 867 00:48:47,991 --> 00:48:49,459 I don't know what it was. 868 00:48:51,962 --> 00:48:53,631 But, maybe, if I could have paid... 869 00:48:54,196 --> 00:48:55,765 for a doctor, I... 870 00:48:55,998 --> 00:48:57,267 then... 871 00:49:01,437 --> 00:49:02,539 Sorry. 872 00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:04,808 This isn't going to work. 873 00:49:05,743 --> 00:49:07,341 It was a nice idea, though. 874 00:49:07,343 --> 00:49:09,546 (Audience Applauding IN Distance) 875 00:49:13,049 --> 00:49:15,252 (Muffled Orchestral Music Begins) 876 00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,256 - (Woman Singing IN German) - (LIP-Synching) 877 00:49:59,129 --> 00:50:01,332 (MAN Singing IN German) 878 00:50:17,714 --> 00:50:19,249 (Woman Singing) 879 00:51:53,009 --> 00:51:54,478 Master: You may begin. 880 00:51:54,977 --> 00:51:57,379 Oxford entrance. Paper 1. 881 00:51:57,381 --> 00:51:59,183 The time is nine o'clock, 882 00:51:59,482 --> 00:52:01,751 and you have three hours. 883 00:52:02,953 --> 00:52:04,322 Good luck. 884 00:52:09,593 --> 00:52:11,127 Tolkien: Look, I can take it again. 885 00:52:11,460 --> 00:52:13,627 I can take it again, and I can pass. 886 00:52:13,629 --> 00:52:15,198 To pass is not enough. 887 00:52:15,397 --> 00:52:16,800 You need a scholarship. 888 00:52:18,368 --> 00:52:19,736 I'm worried, Ronald. 889 00:52:20,603 --> 00:52:24,507 I'm sure Master Gilson has no need for a scholarship. 890 00:52:24,875 --> 00:52:26,375 As for Geoffrey Smith... 891 00:52:26,377 --> 00:52:27,808 This has nothing to do with my friends. 892 00:52:27,810 --> 00:52:30,680 We encourage each other, we push each other on. 893 00:52:34,084 --> 00:52:35,386 Your fellow lodger. 894 00:52:35,986 --> 00:52:37,020 Miss Bratt. 895 00:52:38,189 --> 00:52:40,390 No, Edith has nothing to do with my failing that exam. 896 00:52:40,656 --> 00:52:44,027 You were seen coming out of her room. At night. 897 00:52:44,261 --> 00:52:45,329 We talked. 898 00:52:45,629 --> 00:52:46,862 We talk to each other. 899 00:52:46,864 --> 00:52:48,663 - Oh. So, it's true. - Yes, of course it's true. 900 00:52:48,665 --> 00:52:49,964 - It doesn't... - The night before the exam, 901 00:52:49,966 --> 00:52:51,866 you accompanied her to the concert hall. 902 00:52:51,868 --> 00:52:54,404 That, also, has nothing to do with this? 903 00:52:54,870 --> 00:52:57,407 (Sighs) She's not even Catholic, Ronald. 904 00:52:59,910 --> 00:53:01,045 Your mother 905 00:53:01,877 --> 00:53:03,013 made a sacrifice. 906 00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:05,446 She knew she was dying 907 00:53:05,448 --> 00:53:08,985 and she trusted your future and education to me. 908 00:53:09,553 --> 00:53:11,522 I intend to honor that. 909 00:53:12,622 --> 00:53:14,823 The time has come for you to choose 910 00:53:14,825 --> 00:53:17,495 whether or not you will follow in her example. 911 00:53:18,227 --> 00:53:20,194 I don't think I understand. 912 00:53:20,196 --> 00:53:21,362 I must ask you 913 00:53:21,364 --> 00:53:22,864 to have nothing more to do with Miss Bratt. 914 00:53:22,866 --> 00:53:25,732 That's ridiculous. That's completely unfair. 915 00:53:25,734 --> 00:53:28,037 - Nevertheless. - No. No, I... 916 00:53:28,439 --> 00:53:29,603 I can't. I won't. 917 00:53:29,605 --> 00:53:31,306 I am your legal guardian... 918 00:53:31,308 --> 00:53:32,841 Yes, but you don't understand. 919 00:53:32,843 --> 00:53:35,178 - Oh, I understand perfectly. - No. Father. (Sighs) 920 00:53:36,846 --> 00:53:37,948 I love her. 921 00:53:42,018 --> 00:53:43,187 I wish... 922 00:53:44,053 --> 00:53:45,687 Ronald, I wish you could enjoy 923 00:53:45,689 --> 00:53:47,623 the same luxuries other boys do. 924 00:53:47,625 --> 00:53:50,391 - I wish... - No, you're jealous. 925 00:53:50,393 --> 00:53:52,027 You don't want that at all. You're jealous. 926 00:53:52,029 --> 00:53:53,728 You say that but you don't mean it. You're a priest. 927 00:53:53,730 --> 00:53:55,429 You don't know anything about love. How could you? 928 00:53:55,431 --> 00:53:56,832 - Listen to me. - You want me to be alone. 929 00:53:56,834 --> 00:53:58,565 You want me to live alone like you and have nothing. 930 00:53:58,567 --> 00:53:59,868 I won't. I won't live like that. 931 00:53:59,870 --> 00:54:02,603 If after the age of 21, you still feel the same way, 932 00:54:02,605 --> 00:54:05,609 you are, of course, free to do as you please. 933 00:54:07,377 --> 00:54:08,778 Until that time, 934 00:54:09,178 --> 00:54:10,844 you have a duty to fulfill. 935 00:54:10,846 --> 00:54:13,049 And you will fulfill it, Ronald. 936 00:54:13,984 --> 00:54:16,620 So, help me God, you will fulfill it. 937 00:54:25,629 --> 00:54:27,096 Tolkien: I can't fail it again. 938 00:54:27,797 --> 00:54:30,037 And you know what will happen if I don't get into Oxford. 939 00:54:34,404 --> 00:54:35,469 I could become a priest, 940 00:54:35,471 --> 00:54:36,737 but I don't think a life of celibacy 941 00:54:36,739 --> 00:54:38,508 is what either of us had in mind. 942 00:54:41,877 --> 00:54:42,912 Edith? 943 00:54:48,917 --> 00:54:51,185 Edith, it's just until I reach my majority. 944 00:54:51,187 --> 00:54:52,723 Oh, for God's sake, Ronald. 945 00:54:53,056 --> 00:54:54,525 Don't be so dramatic. 946 00:54:56,593 --> 00:54:57,893 It doesn't matter. 947 00:54:57,895 --> 00:54:59,726 No, don't say that. Of course, it matters. 948 00:54:59,728 --> 00:55:01,765 I don't know why you're taking it so hard. 949 00:55:01,964 --> 00:55:05,035 Things are just returning to normal, that's all. 950 00:55:05,268 --> 00:55:06,435 To reality. 951 00:55:06,437 --> 00:55:09,270 No, I won't give up on our future. (Sighs) 952 00:55:09,272 --> 00:55:10,274 That's why I'm... 953 00:55:11,808 --> 00:55:13,544 I refuse to give up on that. 954 00:55:16,980 --> 00:55:18,248 Of course, you will. 955 00:55:19,850 --> 00:55:21,719 More quickly than you think. 956 00:55:25,455 --> 00:55:27,087 - So will I. - No, that's not true. 957 00:55:27,089 --> 00:55:28,625 Edith, please. Look... 958 00:55:31,328 --> 00:55:32,362 I let myself believe 959 00:55:32,629 --> 00:55:34,698 that there were happy endings for people like us. 960 00:55:35,431 --> 00:55:36,700 But there aren't. 961 00:55:36,933 --> 00:55:37,933 There can't be. 962 00:55:41,538 --> 00:55:43,306 But you get your happy ending. 963 00:55:45,776 --> 00:55:47,710 Hope you enjoy Oxford. 964 00:55:48,477 --> 00:55:50,547 No. Edith. 965 00:55:52,549 --> 00:55:54,151 (Footsteps Receding) 966 00:56:15,404 --> 00:56:16,739 I need your help. 967 00:56:17,140 --> 00:56:18,509 I need to rest, Sam. 968 00:56:18,908 --> 00:56:20,910 You have to find Geoffrey. 969 00:56:21,477 --> 00:56:22,676 Sir, I'm not leaving you here. 970 00:56:22,678 --> 00:56:25,145 - Sam. - I'm not leaving you here. 971 00:56:25,147 --> 00:56:27,549 Sam. It's an order. 972 00:56:27,984 --> 00:56:31,154 Find Geoffrey and tell him not to lose hope. 973 00:56:33,390 --> 00:56:35,725 Tell him that the T.C.B.S., we... 974 00:56:38,761 --> 00:56:40,163 Just keep him alive. 975 00:57:00,384 --> 00:57:02,252 (Faintly) Thank you, Sam. 976 00:57:07,223 --> 00:57:09,556 - Rose: Is it a dragon? - It's a dragon. It's a dragon. 977 00:57:09,558 --> 00:57:10,792 Christopher: For goodness' sake. 978 00:57:10,794 --> 00:57:13,094 I was wondering, did I mention before... 979 00:57:13,096 --> 00:57:14,763 The set of the play is very much inspired 980 00:57:14,765 --> 00:57:16,031 by the architecture of Trinity. 981 00:57:16,033 --> 00:57:16,864 Sorry, chaps. 982 00:57:16,866 --> 00:57:19,168 - But what's it about? - Well... 983 00:57:19,368 --> 00:57:22,270 - And so, you're the poet? - No, uh, that's Geoffrey. 984 00:57:22,272 --> 00:57:24,808 I think you Oxford men should be upping the game. No? 985 00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:26,774 - Where are we off to next? - Yes, do tell. 986 00:57:26,776 --> 00:57:28,942 Yes, where shall we...? Sorry, excuse me. 987 00:57:28,944 --> 00:57:30,080 Um... 988 00:57:30,913 --> 00:57:31,915 Right. 989 00:57:32,582 --> 00:57:34,350 (Bell Tolling) 990 00:57:37,152 --> 00:57:38,987 Robert: Stealing a bus? That's your plan? 991 00:57:38,989 --> 00:57:41,522 - Geoffrey: Gilson! Quiet! - Christopher: Hurry up! 992 00:57:41,524 --> 00:57:42,593 Geoffrey: Shh! 993 00:57:42,859 --> 00:57:45,091 I think that particular match it was the Oxford men 994 00:57:45,093 --> 00:57:47,027 - versus the Cambridge boys. - (Laughter) 995 00:57:47,029 --> 00:57:49,698 Robert: Oh, come on, the referee was blind. 996 00:57:49,700 --> 00:57:51,098 Christopher: I hereby declare 997 00:57:51,100 --> 00:57:53,734 the third Oxford council of the T.C.B.S. 998 00:57:53,736 --> 00:57:55,671 well and truly open. 999 00:57:55,904 --> 00:57:57,004 And would like to welcome 1000 00:57:57,006 --> 00:57:58,640 our damsels from the Eagle and Child 1001 00:57:58,642 --> 00:57:59,775 as honorary guests. 1002 00:57:59,777 --> 00:58:01,808 May all our meetings take place 1003 00:58:01,810 --> 00:58:02,879 on an abandoned omnibus. 1004 00:58:03,113 --> 00:58:04,712 I think the word "abandoned" might be stretching it. 1005 00:58:04,714 --> 00:58:05,913 - Maybe a bit. - (Laughter) 1006 00:58:05,915 --> 00:58:07,584 Mary: What is the T.C.B.? 1007 00:58:08,018 --> 00:58:09,886 - Robert: Oh, the T.C.B.S. - Oh. 1008 00:58:10,687 --> 00:58:13,223 I don't think you like me, Mr. Burglar. 1009 00:58:13,756 --> 00:58:15,957 - Sorry, I was just... - I apologize for my friend. 1010 00:58:15,959 --> 00:58:17,926 - He's pining for someone. - What? 1011 00:58:17,928 --> 00:58:19,861 Christopher: He's pining for the delectable Miss Bratt. 1012 00:58:19,863 --> 00:58:20,929 Robert: Take no notice of him. 1013 00:58:20,931 --> 00:58:22,129 Who's the delectable Miss Bratt? 1014 00:58:22,131 --> 00:58:23,663 - She's no one. - Oh, is she, Tollers? 1015 00:58:23,665 --> 00:58:24,766 The way you've been moping around 1016 00:58:24,768 --> 00:58:25,944 for the past couple of months. 1017 00:58:25,968 --> 00:58:27,467 It's not very nice to talk about another lady 1018 00:58:27,469 --> 00:58:28,471 when you're with someone. 1019 00:58:28,739 --> 00:58:30,516 No, you're absolutely right. I apologize, Myrtle. 1020 00:58:30,540 --> 00:58:32,105 - It's Beryl. - (Laughter) 1021 00:58:32,107 --> 00:58:34,542 See? See? Sitting in the arms of a beautiful girl 1022 00:58:34,544 --> 00:58:35,975 and he can't even remember her name. 1023 00:58:35,977 --> 00:58:37,312 I'm sorry if my difficulties 1024 00:58:37,314 --> 00:58:38,812 are getting in the way of your diversions. 1025 00:58:38,814 --> 00:58:40,380 Ah, you made a decision, Tolkien. 1026 00:58:40,382 --> 00:58:41,584 Nobody forced you into it. 1027 00:58:41,884 --> 00:58:43,317 - What? - Christopher: Edith or Oxford. 1028 00:58:43,319 --> 00:58:45,020 You chose Oxford, and here you are! 1029 00:58:45,022 --> 00:58:47,087 Sat on a commandeered bus with three beautiful girls 1030 00:58:47,089 --> 00:58:48,922 and your best friends. For God's sake, enjoy yourself! 1031 00:58:48,924 --> 00:58:50,725 - Nobody forced me? - Christopher: Oh, yes... 1032 00:58:50,727 --> 00:58:52,025 The priest. Your benefactor. 1033 00:58:52,027 --> 00:58:53,387 Chris, this is getting out of hand. 1034 00:58:53,495 --> 00:58:55,161 - Don't talk about things you... - Thank you. This was wonderful. 1035 00:58:55,163 --> 00:58:56,596 You let her go. You didn't want her 1036 00:58:56,598 --> 00:58:57,911 - more than you wanted Oxford. - No. 1037 00:58:57,935 --> 00:58:59,533 - I didn't have a choice. - Does that make you a rotter? 1038 00:58:59,535 --> 00:59:00,734 Does that make you something else? 1039 00:59:00,736 --> 00:59:02,704 - What's the matter with you? - Just shut up! 1040 00:59:02,904 --> 00:59:04,438 Oh, for God's sake, Tollers. 1041 00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:06,810 - (Christopher Groans) - Tolkien: Chris. Sorry, Chris. 1042 00:59:08,143 --> 00:59:10,312 - Bloody hell, Tollers. - Are you all right? 1043 00:59:10,747 --> 00:59:11,846 For an intellectual, 1044 00:59:11,848 --> 00:59:13,515 you've quite an impressive right hook. 1045 00:59:13,517 --> 00:59:15,183 - Hit me back. Please. - No. 1046 00:59:15,185 --> 00:59:16,887 Hit me back right now. Please, Chris. 1047 00:59:17,087 --> 00:59:18,919 - Forget it. Forget it. - Tolkien: Chris, please. 1048 00:59:18,921 --> 00:59:20,223 Christopher: It's fine. 1049 00:59:22,326 --> 00:59:24,461 No, that was horrible of me. I'm sorry. 1050 00:59:27,964 --> 00:59:31,335 Robert: What you need to understand, Tolkien, you... 1051 00:59:31,902 --> 00:59:33,569 poor lawless orphan, 1052 00:59:34,069 --> 00:59:36,073 is that we are your brothers. 1053 00:59:36,707 --> 00:59:37,839 Through everything. 1054 00:59:37,841 --> 00:59:39,777 Yes, absolutely. 1055 00:59:40,143 --> 00:59:41,176 Exactly. 1056 00:59:41,178 --> 00:59:44,080 Robert: This is more than... just a friendship. 1057 00:59:44,547 --> 00:59:45,949 It's an alliance. 1058 00:59:46,649 --> 00:59:49,118 An invincible alliance. 1059 00:59:49,785 --> 00:59:50,786 Helheimr! 1060 00:59:51,020 --> 00:59:53,721 - ALL: Helheimr. - Tolkien: Still Helheimr. 1061 00:59:53,723 --> 00:59:55,690 Every time he gets it wrong. 1062 00:59:55,692 --> 00:59:56,757 Geoffrey: Right, I need a drink. 1063 00:59:56,759 --> 00:59:57,891 Christopher: Where did the girls go? 1064 00:59:57,893 --> 00:59:59,796 Geoffrey: (Whispers) Shh. Get down. 1065 01:00:01,297 --> 01:00:03,200 Constable: Hold the door, George. 1066 01:00:07,969 --> 01:00:09,973 They let you out in one piece. 1067 01:00:10,906 --> 01:00:13,376 They're speaking to the rector in the morning. 1068 01:00:14,777 --> 01:00:15,779 What about you? 1069 01:00:16,046 --> 01:00:18,645 Well, Gilson and Wiseman, the Cambridge swines, 1070 01:00:18,647 --> 01:00:20,015 have been let go already. 1071 01:00:20,415 --> 01:00:21,815 I wasn't quite so lucky. 1072 01:00:21,817 --> 01:00:22,884 Looks like I'll be joining you 1073 01:00:22,886 --> 01:00:24,486 in the rector's office tomorrow. 1074 01:00:24,488 --> 01:00:26,056 Death by lecture. 1075 01:00:26,489 --> 01:00:27,422 I'm sorry, Geoff. 1076 01:00:27,424 --> 01:00:29,626 - No, it's not your fault. - No, it is. 1077 01:00:30,058 --> 01:00:31,859 If it wasn't for me, you'd be in the arms 1078 01:00:31,861 --> 01:00:33,762 of the delightful Mary by now. 1079 01:00:34,062 --> 01:00:36,330 Geoffrey: Please. The moment I showed any interest, 1080 01:00:36,332 --> 01:00:38,201 she started talking about her sweetheart. 1081 01:00:38,502 --> 01:00:40,871 Tolkien: I was doing all right until Wiseman ruined it. 1082 01:00:47,444 --> 01:00:49,313 (Bell Tolling) 1083 01:01:11,368 --> 01:01:12,902 (Indistinct Chatter) 1084 01:01:14,603 --> 01:01:16,806 Geoffrey: The rector was honestly writing to my mother. 1085 01:01:17,239 --> 01:01:19,599 Do you think I stand a chance of becoming a poet after this? 1086 01:01:20,176 --> 01:01:23,243 She's going to lose her mind. So, that's that. 1087 01:01:23,245 --> 01:01:25,814 Robert: Oh, Geoffrey's only lost his career. 1088 01:01:26,149 --> 01:01:27,917 What did you get, Tolkien? 1089 01:01:29,618 --> 01:01:32,154 - I got sent down. - (ALL Laugh) 1090 01:01:33,156 --> 01:01:34,688 (Stammers) Are you joking, Tollers? 1091 01:01:34,690 --> 01:01:35,924 They can't send you down for that. 1092 01:01:35,926 --> 01:01:37,290 For a bloody picnic on a bus. 1093 01:01:37,292 --> 01:01:38,961 The bus was the least of it. 1094 01:01:40,062 --> 01:01:41,497 I haven't achieved the grades. 1095 01:01:41,696 --> 01:01:42,830 According to the rector, 1096 01:01:42,832 --> 01:01:44,297 I have no flair for the Greats, 1097 01:01:44,299 --> 01:01:47,469 and only a passing interest in the ancient Greeks. 1098 01:01:47,471 --> 01:01:48,915 So, they won't endorse my scholarship. 1099 01:01:48,939 --> 01:01:50,779 Yes, but that doesn't mean you have to go down. 1100 01:01:50,806 --> 01:01:53,473 No, of course not. How stupid of me. 1101 01:01:53,475 --> 01:01:55,442 Yes, when Mama gets back from Monte Carlo, 1102 01:01:55,444 --> 01:01:56,944 I'll ask her to write another check. 1103 01:01:56,946 --> 01:01:58,148 (Scoffs) 1104 01:01:59,783 --> 01:02:01,084 What are you going to do? 1105 01:02:02,051 --> 01:02:03,884 They'll endorse my scholarship until the end of term. 1106 01:02:03,886 --> 01:02:06,022 After that, I have to finance my own studies. 1107 01:02:06,221 --> 01:02:07,754 Which is, of course, impossible, 1108 01:02:07,756 --> 01:02:09,558 so, get a job, I suppose. 1109 01:02:11,993 --> 01:02:13,062 Well, doing what? 1110 01:02:14,464 --> 01:02:17,600 I will go back to Birmingham and work in a bakery. 1111 01:02:18,100 --> 01:02:21,736 Or I will make shoes for rich dimwits like you 1112 01:02:21,738 --> 01:02:23,018 who come in waving their wallets. 1113 01:02:23,339 --> 01:02:25,408 I could do with a new pair of Oxfords, anyway. 1114 01:02:26,042 --> 01:02:27,708 (Both Chuckle) 1115 01:02:27,710 --> 01:02:28,779 But, in all seriousness, 1116 01:02:28,978 --> 01:02:31,281 you've always had more flair than any of us. 1117 01:02:32,181 --> 01:02:33,216 And... 1118 01:02:33,917 --> 01:02:34,918 I'll be honest, 1119 01:02:35,218 --> 01:02:36,520 I sometimes hated you for it. 1120 01:02:38,455 --> 01:02:39,154 But, out of us all, 1121 01:02:39,455 --> 01:02:41,491 you're the last person who should be sent down. 1122 01:02:43,993 --> 01:02:46,194 Geoffrey: So, tomorrow is our last game. 1123 01:02:46,196 --> 01:02:48,062 Robert: We're gonna really miss thrashing you, chaps. 1124 01:02:48,064 --> 01:02:49,230 Geoffrey: Please. 1125 01:02:49,232 --> 01:02:51,134 (Indistinct Shouting) 1126 01:02:59,776 --> 01:03:01,542 Player: Wiseman, stop him! 1127 01:03:01,544 --> 01:03:02,578 (Shouting Continues) 1128 01:03:07,716 --> 01:03:09,986 - (Grunting) - (Blowing Whistle) 1129 01:03:10,486 --> 01:03:11,518 (Crowd Cheers) 1130 01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:13,189 - Well done, Tolkien. - Thank you. 1131 01:03:13,823 --> 01:03:16,024 - (Laughing) - Good game, boys. 1132 01:03:16,225 --> 01:03:18,826 - That was a beautiful run. - Well played, you big oaf. 1133 01:03:18,828 --> 01:03:20,228 You weren't a total fool, Tollers. 1134 01:03:20,230 --> 01:03:21,962 Geoffrey: Sorry, what was the score, Wiseman? 1135 01:03:21,964 --> 01:03:23,366 (Laughter) 1136 01:03:24,167 --> 01:03:25,569 Well played, lads. 1137 01:03:26,703 --> 01:03:27,969 Hello, Mother. 1138 01:03:27,971 --> 01:03:29,851 - Well played, Geoffrey. - Thank you for coming. 1139 01:03:30,205 --> 01:03:31,571 Are we still on for dinner later? 1140 01:03:31,573 --> 01:03:33,075 Yes. Seven o'clock. 1141 01:03:33,276 --> 01:03:35,178 And your father will be there. 1142 01:03:37,013 --> 01:03:38,547 (Indistinct Chatter) 1143 01:03:42,685 --> 01:03:43,953 Tolkien: Excuse me, Mrs. Smith. 1144 01:03:44,654 --> 01:03:47,056 I wondered if I might have a brief word. 1145 01:03:48,290 --> 01:03:49,290 Well? 1146 01:03:49,526 --> 01:03:52,527 It's about Geoffrey and, um, this business with the rector. 1147 01:03:52,529 --> 01:03:54,094 It's been the most dreadful misunderstanding. 1148 01:03:54,096 --> 01:03:56,176 I'd prefer not to talk about that, if you don't mind. 1149 01:03:57,466 --> 01:03:59,567 I'm responsible for everything that happened that night 1150 01:03:59,569 --> 01:04:01,804 and I assure you I've been thoroughly punished. 1151 01:04:02,038 --> 01:04:03,203 I'm trying to say, please don't 1152 01:04:03,205 --> 01:04:04,371 make things harder on Geoffrey. 1153 01:04:04,373 --> 01:04:07,074 He's one of the most diligent people I know. 1154 01:04:07,076 --> 01:04:08,076 And the kindest. 1155 01:04:08,210 --> 01:04:09,576 He tries so hard to make you proud of him. 1156 01:04:09,578 --> 01:04:10,978 And he has such exceptional talents. 1157 01:04:11,047 --> 01:04:12,413 I know I'm speaking out of line... 1158 01:04:12,415 --> 01:04:14,315 - And you were responsible? - Yes. 1159 01:04:14,317 --> 01:04:17,118 Yes, and I've been sent down. 1160 01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:19,489 So, you needn't worry about my influence anymore. 1161 01:04:20,656 --> 01:04:21,825 And, um... 1162 01:04:22,959 --> 01:04:26,627 What... What talents are you referring to? 1163 01:04:26,629 --> 01:04:27,728 He's a poet. 1164 01:04:27,730 --> 01:04:30,163 He's had his work published in college magazines. 1165 01:04:30,165 --> 01:04:32,102 He'd kill me for telling you this. But he's good. 1166 01:04:32,935 --> 01:04:34,303 Good afternoon to you. 1167 01:04:42,846 --> 01:04:44,081 Porter: Mr. Tolkien? 1168 01:04:45,214 --> 01:04:47,417 - This is for you. - Thank you. 1169 01:04:59,828 --> 01:05:01,698 (Liquid Sloshing IN Bottle) 1170 01:05:03,866 --> 01:05:06,670 (Speaking Unknown Language) 1171 01:05:28,158 --> 01:05:30,123 Professor: Students off the grass! 1172 01:05:30,125 --> 01:05:32,393 Have you any idea what time it is? 1173 01:05:32,395 --> 01:05:33,460 (Speaks Unknown Language) 1174 01:05:33,462 --> 01:05:35,198 (IN English) You silly old sod! 1175 01:05:35,497 --> 01:05:38,031 I say, Wright, is he one of yours? 1176 01:05:38,033 --> 01:05:39,669 I don't believe he is. 1177 01:05:40,435 --> 01:05:42,536 (Speaking Unknown Language) 1178 01:05:42,538 --> 01:05:44,373 (IN English) You silly old... 1179 01:05:45,241 --> 01:05:46,910 Professor: Get off the lawn! 1180 01:05:58,254 --> 01:06:00,156 Hail Earendel, 1181 01:06:02,959 --> 01:06:05,761 brightest of angels sent unto men. 1182 01:06:13,002 --> 01:06:14,871 (Speaking Unknown Language) 1183 01:07:01,183 --> 01:07:03,786 Geoffrey: Ronald. Ronald, get up. 1184 01:07:04,419 --> 01:07:06,920 Get up. It's me. Wake up. 1185 01:07:06,922 --> 01:07:07,989 Yes, I'm awake. 1186 01:07:07,991 --> 01:07:09,355 You've woken up the whole college. 1187 01:07:09,357 --> 01:07:10,690 They can't send me down twice, can they? 1188 01:07:10,692 --> 01:07:12,661 - Pull yourself together. - Can they? 1189 01:07:12,962 --> 01:07:15,263 Geoff! Geoff, sit down. 1190 01:07:15,265 --> 01:07:17,397 Have a drink. Wonderful malt. 1191 01:07:17,399 --> 01:07:19,768 I don't want a drink. Pull yourself together, John. 1192 01:07:20,368 --> 01:07:21,904 (Geoffrey Panting) 1193 01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:25,275 (Sighs) 1194 01:07:27,509 --> 01:07:29,743 Would you like to come to a wedding? 1195 01:07:29,745 --> 01:07:30,880 What? 1196 01:07:31,279 --> 01:07:33,547 - Very beautiful, English... - John... 1197 01:07:33,549 --> 01:07:35,652 - ...summer wedding. - You're not making any sense. 1198 01:07:36,718 --> 01:07:37,720 Edith. 1199 01:07:38,221 --> 01:07:39,556 Congratulations. 1200 01:07:41,089 --> 01:07:42,658 Yes, she wrote to me. She's... 1201 01:07:43,225 --> 01:07:44,493 She's engaged. 1202 01:07:45,093 --> 01:07:46,328 She's getting married. 1203 01:07:47,263 --> 01:07:48,598 Oh, John, that's... 1204 01:07:49,332 --> 01:07:50,866 That's awfully bad luck. 1205 01:07:52,502 --> 01:07:54,467 (Voice Quivering) I'm sorry. I'm in a bit of a mess. 1206 01:07:54,469 --> 01:07:56,937 - No, that's okay. Hey, hey... - Sorry, Geoff. 1207 01:07:56,939 --> 01:07:58,605 It's okay. It's okay. 1208 01:07:58,607 --> 01:08:00,610 - That's okay. - (Sobbing) 1209 01:08:03,846 --> 01:08:05,415 I've got you. 1210 01:08:07,951 --> 01:08:08,952 I've got you. 1211 01:08:09,886 --> 01:08:11,688 Referee: Fencers salute! 1212 01:08:16,459 --> 01:08:18,892 - How are you feeling? - (Foils Clashing) 1213 01:08:18,894 --> 01:08:20,729 Oh, absolutely fantastic. 1214 01:08:21,897 --> 01:08:23,099 Delightful. 1215 01:08:23,666 --> 01:08:26,068 And what a marvelous idea this was, thank you. 1216 01:08:30,674 --> 01:08:31,940 To love someone, 1217 01:08:32,908 --> 01:08:37,145 who, for whatever reason, cannot return your feelings 1218 01:08:37,346 --> 01:08:39,381 is painful. 1219 01:08:41,617 --> 01:08:43,419 But if you listen to the poets, 1220 01:08:45,354 --> 01:08:48,892 perhaps there's a kind of beauty to that love. 1221 01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:51,928 It burns. 1222 01:08:52,595 --> 01:08:53,561 Bright. 1223 01:08:53,563 --> 01:08:57,434 And it's never tainted by reality or by... 1224 01:08:58,033 --> 01:08:59,035 overuse. 1225 01:09:00,970 --> 01:09:02,735 It's as clear and fierce today 1226 01:09:02,737 --> 01:09:04,637 as it was the very first day it began. 1227 01:09:04,639 --> 01:09:06,575 And there's beauty to that, 1228 01:09:08,077 --> 01:09:09,379 I think. 1229 01:09:11,746 --> 01:09:13,682 At least, that's what I cling to, anyway. 1230 01:09:21,756 --> 01:09:23,492 (Master Speaking Indistinctly) 1231 01:09:26,929 --> 01:09:28,098 Wright: Hails! 1232 01:09:29,832 --> 01:09:31,000 Uh... Hails! 1233 01:09:31,700 --> 01:09:34,334 (Continues Speaking Ancient Gothic) 1234 01:09:34,336 --> 01:09:36,605 (Under Breath) Another gobbledygook speaker. 1235 01:09:41,777 --> 01:09:45,581 (IN English) How are you, uh, finding the Gothic Primer? 1236 01:09:46,114 --> 01:09:49,350 Yes. Not bad. The preface is pretty well written. 1237 01:09:49,352 --> 01:09:51,785 There's not much of the language itself. 1238 01:09:51,787 --> 01:09:53,856 - Ah, a pity about that. - Yes. 1239 01:09:54,657 --> 01:09:58,491 - Last night in the quad... - God. You were there. 1240 01:09:58,493 --> 01:10:01,264 ...I heard a language I was unfamiliar with. 1241 01:10:01,596 --> 01:10:03,129 Well, of course, the greater part 1242 01:10:03,131 --> 01:10:04,865 of Oxfordshire heard it too, 1243 01:10:04,867 --> 01:10:07,470 right up to the Chiltern Hills. 1244 01:10:08,537 --> 01:10:10,039 I was very drunk. 1245 01:10:10,473 --> 01:10:11,940 I don't doubt it. 1246 01:10:15,310 --> 01:10:17,179 It was utter nonsense. 1247 01:10:17,746 --> 01:10:19,614 A language I invented for the fairies. 1248 01:10:20,081 --> 01:10:23,751 I thought perhaps I heard some Finnish. 1249 01:10:24,220 --> 01:10:26,188 - Yes. I stole a good deal. - Ah. 1250 01:10:26,522 --> 01:10:28,655 - Not stole. - No. 1251 01:10:28,657 --> 01:10:30,894 Languages never steal. 1252 01:10:31,493 --> 01:10:33,761 - Right. - Influenced. 1253 01:10:34,529 --> 01:10:37,000 Sorry, I didn't catch your name. I'm... 1254 01:10:39,902 --> 01:10:43,573 I'm Tolkien. Ronald. Exeter College. 1255 01:10:45,340 --> 01:10:46,608 (Sighs) 1256 01:11:09,465 --> 01:11:10,700 Excuse me. 1257 01:11:18,974 --> 01:11:21,009 A child points, 1258 01:11:22,411 --> 01:11:23,980 and is taught a word. 1259 01:11:25,147 --> 01:11:26,181 Tree. 1260 01:11:26,448 --> 01:11:29,350 Later, he learns to distinguish this tree 1261 01:11:29,352 --> 01:11:30,618 from all the others. 1262 01:11:30,620 --> 01:11:32,956 He learns its particular name. 1263 01:11:33,688 --> 01:11:35,390 He plays under the tree. 1264 01:11:35,590 --> 01:11:37,359 He dances around it. 1265 01:11:38,059 --> 01:11:42,831 Stands beneath its branches, for shade or shelter. 1266 01:11:43,599 --> 01:11:46,636 He kisses under it, he sleeps under it, 1267 01:11:47,135 --> 01:11:48,837 he weds under it. 1268 01:11:49,538 --> 01:11:52,642 He marches past it on his way to war, 1269 01:11:53,675 --> 01:11:57,279 and limps back past it on his journey home. 1270 01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:02,084 A king is said to have hidden in this tree. 1271 01:12:02,684 --> 01:12:07,389 A spirit may dwell within its bark. 1272 01:12:07,822 --> 01:12:09,255 Its distinctive leaves 1273 01:12:09,257 --> 01:12:12,825 are carved onto the tombs and monuments of his landlords. 1274 01:12:12,827 --> 01:12:15,995 Its wood might have built the galleons 1275 01:12:15,997 --> 01:12:18,999 that saved his ancestors from invasion. 1276 01:12:19,001 --> 01:12:20,703 And all this, 1277 01:12:21,403 --> 01:12:23,736 the general and the specific, 1278 01:12:23,738 --> 01:12:25,172 the national and the personal, 1279 01:12:25,174 --> 01:12:26,743 all this, 1280 01:12:27,343 --> 01:12:28,745 he knows, 1281 01:12:29,144 --> 01:12:30,612 and feels, 1282 01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:34,082 and summons, somehow, however faintly, 1283 01:12:34,384 --> 01:12:38,288 with the utterance of a single sound. 1284 01:12:41,224 --> 01:12:42,292 Oak. 1285 01:12:44,792 --> 01:12:47,494 Saxon word. Proto-Germanic. 1286 01:12:47,496 --> 01:12:49,933 Cognates in Old Norse. Eik. 1287 01:12:50,666 --> 01:12:53,232 Language is never nonsense. 1288 01:12:53,234 --> 01:12:55,336 Language is meaning. 1289 01:12:55,636 --> 01:12:58,674 History. Layer upon layer upon layer. 1290 01:12:59,474 --> 01:13:02,911 And a word without meaning is what? 1291 01:13:03,612 --> 01:13:05,047 Merely a sound. 1292 01:13:06,047 --> 01:13:07,884 Someone else once said that to me. 1293 01:13:08,117 --> 01:13:11,054 With a good deal more economy, I shouldn't wonder. 1294 01:13:11,420 --> 01:13:12,585 (Chuckles) 1295 01:13:12,587 --> 01:13:15,254 There are one or two original Gothic texts 1296 01:13:15,256 --> 01:13:16,356 in the library. 1297 01:13:16,358 --> 01:13:17,427 You should take a look. 1298 01:13:17,626 --> 01:13:19,860 But I can't just walk in and ask for the originals. 1299 01:13:19,862 --> 01:13:21,931 Tell them Professor Wright sent you. 1300 01:13:38,915 --> 01:13:40,547 Christopher: He wouldn't have cared. 1301 01:13:40,549 --> 01:13:41,681 That's not the point. 1302 01:13:41,683 --> 01:13:42,915 He's probably the greatest philologist, 1303 01:13:42,917 --> 01:13:44,450 certainly of the Gothic language. 1304 01:13:44,452 --> 01:13:45,852 He might have even been flattered. 1305 01:13:45,854 --> 01:13:47,023 Of course, he was flattered. 1306 01:13:47,290 --> 01:13:49,610 Nobody's taken that book out of the library in 1,500 years. 1307 01:13:49,791 --> 01:13:51,592 Well, actually, I had it out last week. 1308 01:13:51,594 --> 01:13:52,793 Robert: Oh. How did you find it? 1309 01:13:52,795 --> 01:13:54,106 I don't want to spoil it for Tollers. 1310 01:13:54,130 --> 01:13:55,762 He won't finish it. He doesn't even know who wrote it. 1311 01:13:55,764 --> 01:13:57,799 Please. Will you all just shut up? It's not funny. 1312 01:13:58,134 --> 01:13:59,535 Listen, Tolkien, 1313 01:13:59,734 --> 01:14:01,670 you absolute clown. 1314 01:14:02,004 --> 01:14:03,872 This is your chance, can't you see? 1315 01:14:04,072 --> 01:14:06,740 Your Gothic professor is encouraging you to defect. 1316 01:14:06,742 --> 01:14:07,775 What are you talking about? 1317 01:14:07,777 --> 01:14:09,444 He's enticing you into his class. 1318 01:14:09,912 --> 01:14:11,477 - (ALL Shushing) - Sorry. 1319 01:14:11,479 --> 01:14:12,479 (Whispers) He's right. 1320 01:14:12,881 --> 01:14:15,214 But I can't just breeze into the philology department. 1321 01:14:15,216 --> 01:14:16,216 Why not? 1322 01:14:16,285 --> 01:14:18,084 Because I don't have a scholarship, for a start. 1323 01:14:18,086 --> 01:14:19,819 So, are you telling me that the philology department 1324 01:14:19,821 --> 01:14:21,254 don't give out scholarships? 1325 01:14:21,256 --> 01:14:24,993 Yes, for someone who happens to be a genius with languages. 1326 01:14:26,094 --> 01:14:28,831 - Robert: Moron. - (Christopher Laughs) 1327 01:14:29,732 --> 01:14:30,897 Professor! 1328 01:14:30,899 --> 01:14:32,732 - Excuse me, Professor Wright. - Yes. 1329 01:14:32,734 --> 01:14:34,670 I've been thinking about the oak. 1330 01:14:34,970 --> 01:14:36,268 Uh, the symbolism of it. 1331 01:14:36,270 --> 01:14:39,271 The guardian tree, the harbinger of change. 1332 01:14:39,273 --> 01:14:42,610 How fascinating. Are you a student of arboriculture? 1333 01:14:42,612 --> 01:14:46,346 No. I'm studying Greats. But I would like... 1334 01:14:46,348 --> 01:14:47,448 That's why I stopped you, 1335 01:14:47,450 --> 01:14:48,748 I'd like to change to your class. 1336 01:14:48,750 --> 01:14:50,817 - To study philology. - To my class? 1337 01:14:50,819 --> 01:14:54,754 Yes. I'm Tolkien. Ronald Tolkien. 1338 01:14:54,756 --> 01:14:56,923 I stood outside your window and shouted obscenities 1339 01:14:56,925 --> 01:14:58,759 in a kind of bastardized Finnish. 1340 01:14:58,961 --> 01:15:00,963 And you consider that a recommendation? 1341 01:15:01,397 --> 01:15:02,695 I know this is irregular, 1342 01:15:02,697 --> 01:15:05,065 but I've realized my true passion, 1343 01:15:05,067 --> 01:15:07,270 the thing I've been working on my entire life... 1344 01:15:09,371 --> 01:15:10,803 Can I speak candidly, sir? 1345 01:15:10,805 --> 01:15:13,742 You cannot conceive how much I would welcome it. 1346 01:15:14,410 --> 01:15:15,508 - I need a scholarship. - (Sighs) 1347 01:15:15,510 --> 01:15:18,813 I need a scholarship to study philology. With you. 1348 01:15:19,281 --> 01:15:20,914 And there are no lengths I wouldn't go to, 1349 01:15:20,916 --> 01:15:22,582 to prove that I'm a worthy candidate. 1350 01:15:22,584 --> 01:15:23,786 - No lengths? - Yes. 1351 01:15:24,019 --> 01:15:25,755 (Speaking OLD English) 1352 01:15:29,358 --> 01:15:30,426 No. 1353 01:15:31,193 --> 01:15:32,295 - No? - No. 1354 01:15:32,495 --> 01:15:34,962 No, because if I left you alone to work in peace, 1355 01:15:34,964 --> 01:15:36,695 then I wouldn't get the privilege 1356 01:15:36,697 --> 01:15:37,797 of learning from you, 1357 01:15:37,799 --> 01:15:39,332 and that would defeat the purpose 1358 01:15:39,334 --> 01:15:42,839 of this entire, frankly, quite terrifying, interlude. 1359 01:15:45,273 --> 01:15:46,272 - Tolkien. - Yes, sir. 1360 01:15:46,274 --> 01:15:48,142 - German origin. - I think so, sir. 1361 01:15:48,144 --> 01:15:50,143 From the Anglo-Saxon, perhaps. 1362 01:15:50,145 --> 01:15:52,415 - Exactly. - Tollkühn. 1363 01:15:53,148 --> 01:15:54,448 I'm assuming you don't need me 1364 01:15:54,450 --> 01:15:57,086 to translate that particular word for you. 1365 01:15:58,287 --> 01:15:59,355 Foolhardy. 1366 01:15:59,988 --> 01:16:01,120 Professor Wright... 1367 01:16:01,122 --> 01:16:03,390 My class is full, Mr. Tolkien. 1368 01:16:03,392 --> 01:16:07,127 Full with students who can translate Old English, 1369 01:16:07,129 --> 01:16:09,329 at least as quickly and skillfully as you, 1370 01:16:09,331 --> 01:16:12,900 and they've already had two terms to establish themselves. 1371 01:16:12,902 --> 01:16:14,403 Good afternoon. 1372 01:16:14,670 --> 01:16:16,005 Helheimr. 1373 01:16:16,471 --> 01:16:17,806 Professor. 1374 01:16:19,041 --> 01:16:22,075 Since childhood, I have been fascinated with language. 1375 01:16:22,077 --> 01:16:24,311 Obsessed with it. I've invented my own. 1376 01:16:24,313 --> 01:16:26,482 Full, complete languages. Look. 1377 01:16:26,915 --> 01:16:29,452 This is, it's... everything. 1378 01:16:30,118 --> 01:16:34,122 From the Breost-hord. My heart. 1379 01:16:34,555 --> 01:16:36,091 The treasure of the breast. 1380 01:16:37,526 --> 01:16:38,725 And the drawings? 1381 01:16:38,727 --> 01:16:41,163 I made stories. Legends. 1382 01:16:42,130 --> 01:16:43,829 After all, what is language for? 1383 01:16:43,831 --> 01:16:45,999 It's not just the naming of things, is it? 1384 01:16:46,001 --> 01:16:49,137 It's the lifeblood of a culture, a people. 1385 01:16:49,504 --> 01:16:52,007 - Yes. Exactly. - Exactly. 1386 01:16:56,577 --> 01:16:58,378 Could you write 5,000 words 1387 01:16:58,380 --> 01:17:02,117 on the influence of Norse elements in Gawain? 1388 01:17:02,416 --> 01:17:05,453 Yes, absolutely. When would you like it by? 1389 01:17:05,720 --> 01:17:07,055 Wright: This evening. 1390 01:17:11,594 --> 01:17:12,929 This evening. 1391 01:17:38,620 --> 01:17:41,457 (Reading Beowulf IN OLD English) 1392 01:18:03,545 --> 01:18:05,180 Middle Earth. 1393 01:18:10,318 --> 01:18:11,653 (Horse Neighing) 1394 01:18:13,089 --> 01:18:16,359 "Both of these brothers marshaled the warriors 1395 01:18:18,225 --> 01:18:20,660 They bid their dear kinsman through words 1396 01:18:20,662 --> 01:18:23,564 that they had to endure there in time of need 1397 01:18:24,166 --> 01:18:26,702 make use of their weapons without weakening" 1398 01:18:27,368 --> 01:18:31,973 The way you follow the rhythms of the poetry, 1399 01:18:32,940 --> 01:18:34,408 your sensitivity to it. 1400 01:18:34,410 --> 01:18:36,511 I have to tell you, Mr. Tolkien, 1401 01:18:37,278 --> 01:18:39,681 I've never come across anything like it. 1402 01:18:40,782 --> 01:18:42,051 Never. 1403 01:18:44,653 --> 01:18:46,388 "Byrthwold spoke out..." 1404 01:18:46,721 --> 01:18:50,056 "Byrthwold spoke out, brandished his shield..." 1405 01:18:50,058 --> 01:18:54,263 War! War! England's at war! 1406 01:18:54,563 --> 01:18:56,998 Germany's invaded Belgium! 1407 01:18:59,768 --> 01:19:01,636 (People Clamoring) 1408 01:19:07,108 --> 01:19:10,145 "He instructed the warriors most boldly of all: 1409 01:19:13,715 --> 01:19:15,584 Courage must be the harder 1410 01:19:17,353 --> 01:19:18,587 heart the keener 1411 01:19:19,420 --> 01:19:23,058 spirits the greater, as our strength wanes 1412 01:19:24,660 --> 01:19:27,328 Here lies our lord, entirely cut to pieces 1413 01:19:27,795 --> 01:19:30,298 a good man in the dirt" 1414 01:19:51,252 --> 01:19:53,456 - (Peppy Jazz Music Playing) - (Indistinct Chatter) 1415 01:20:07,568 --> 01:20:10,138 (Piano Playing Soft Classical Music) 1416 01:20:21,916 --> 01:20:22,981 (Stops Playing) 1417 01:20:22,983 --> 01:20:24,652 Tolkien: Here you go, Chris. 1418 01:20:28,857 --> 01:20:31,223 Ladies and gentlemen, Robert Gilson. 1419 01:20:31,225 --> 01:20:32,428 Christopher: Gilson! 1420 01:20:33,162 --> 01:20:34,660 Aren't you going to ask me to dance? 1421 01:20:34,662 --> 01:20:35,662 Did you lose a bet? 1422 01:20:35,863 --> 01:20:38,030 Robert: I've had three envious glances already, actually. 1423 01:20:38,032 --> 01:20:39,533 People must have mistaken you for the Kaiser. 1424 01:20:39,535 --> 01:20:41,433 What is this? A war or a tea dance? 1425 01:20:41,435 --> 01:20:43,837 - First-class mustache, Gilson. - Why, thank you. 1426 01:20:43,839 --> 01:20:46,475 - You need a drink, young man. - Robert: On the ball. 1427 01:20:48,175 --> 01:20:50,442 Geoffrey: I think we're all here, Tolkien. 1428 01:20:50,444 --> 01:20:51,447 Yes. 1429 01:20:52,747 --> 01:20:54,215 Shall we make a toast? 1430 01:20:54,950 --> 01:20:57,752 To all the future T.C.B.S. meetings. 1431 01:20:58,586 --> 01:20:59,721 All across Europe. 1432 01:21:04,559 --> 01:21:05,761 Cheers, gentlemen. 1433 01:21:07,461 --> 01:21:10,198 - Gentlemen! May I? - I don't see why not. 1434 01:21:10,898 --> 01:21:12,401 Robert: Eyes front, Tolkien. 1435 01:21:19,174 --> 01:21:21,310 Photographer: And watch the birdie! 1436 01:21:21,943 --> 01:21:23,843 ALL: Helheimr! 1437 01:21:23,845 --> 01:21:24,879 (Camera Flash Pops) 1438 01:21:25,412 --> 01:21:27,280 Robert: I've just written a play where a French waitress 1439 01:21:27,282 --> 01:21:28,914 falls madly in love with an English hero. 1440 01:21:28,916 --> 01:21:30,016 Tolkien: You'll have to shave 1441 01:21:30,018 --> 01:21:31,498 if you want to play a French waitress. 1442 01:21:31,787 --> 01:21:32,985 Robert: Cheers. Never too many. 1443 01:21:32,987 --> 01:21:34,154 One more? 1444 01:21:34,156 --> 01:21:35,454 Robert: All bets Wiseman goes to sleep first. 1445 01:21:35,456 --> 01:21:36,789 Geoffrey: I'll take that bet. Scotch? 1446 01:21:36,791 --> 01:21:37,923 Robert: Easy money. 1447 01:21:37,925 --> 01:21:39,461 (Indistinct Chatter) 1448 01:21:45,267 --> 01:21:46,469 Good luck, Ronald. 1449 01:21:48,938 --> 01:21:50,239 I'll take that. 1450 01:21:51,773 --> 01:21:53,242 I'll try and hold the ship. 1451 01:21:59,814 --> 01:22:02,384 - Edith: How's your brother? - Tolkien: He's fine. 1452 01:22:02,716 --> 01:22:04,120 He's in France already. 1453 01:22:05,554 --> 01:22:07,790 How about you? How's your music? 1454 01:22:08,122 --> 01:22:09,657 Edith: I teach piano. 1455 01:22:10,291 --> 01:22:11,861 Small girls, mostly. 1456 01:22:12,661 --> 01:22:14,296 Not very good. 1457 01:22:15,229 --> 01:22:16,531 And you're engaged. 1458 01:22:18,666 --> 01:22:19,834 He's very kind. 1459 01:22:21,001 --> 01:22:22,435 Very considerate. 1460 01:22:22,437 --> 01:22:23,602 A good person, really. 1461 01:22:23,604 --> 01:22:25,538 There is something I have to say... 1462 01:22:25,540 --> 01:22:26,440 Ronald. 1463 01:22:26,442 --> 01:22:28,307 I made the biggest mistake of my life 1464 01:22:28,309 --> 01:22:30,477 and there hasn't been a day, a moment... 1465 01:22:30,479 --> 01:22:32,347 I've never stopped thinking about you. 1466 01:22:32,880 --> 01:22:37,116 You are the most remarkable spirit I have ever met. 1467 01:22:37,118 --> 01:22:40,456 You have courage and resourcefulness, talent, 1468 01:22:41,189 --> 01:22:42,457 you're proud, 1469 01:22:42,925 --> 01:22:44,490 maddeningly, wonderfully, so; 1470 01:22:44,492 --> 01:22:47,694 and you are cunning and vibrant 1471 01:22:47,696 --> 01:22:49,398 and completely alive. 1472 01:22:51,433 --> 01:22:53,769 You deserve every happiness you find. 1473 01:22:57,104 --> 01:22:58,706 No. No, you don't. 1474 01:22:59,507 --> 01:23:01,544 You don't deserve happiness, that's not what I... 1475 01:23:05,746 --> 01:23:06,848 What I mean is... 1476 01:23:08,215 --> 01:23:09,884 You deserve much more. 1477 01:23:11,786 --> 01:23:13,255 You deserve magic. 1478 01:23:28,170 --> 01:23:29,705 (Indistinct Chatter) 1479 01:23:34,742 --> 01:23:35,777 Is it that one? 1480 01:23:37,444 --> 01:23:38,813 Tolkien: It's the Ascanius. 1481 01:23:39,648 --> 01:23:42,384 Sounds like something out of one of your stories. 1482 01:23:44,086 --> 01:23:47,990 Yes. "Pity the poor citizens of the kingdom of Ascanius." 1483 01:23:48,322 --> 01:23:49,757 Why shall we pity them? 1484 01:23:50,559 --> 01:23:52,261 For their terrible history. 1485 01:23:53,362 --> 01:23:54,596 For their shame. 1486 01:23:55,898 --> 01:23:56,931 Their regrets. 1487 01:24:00,202 --> 01:24:02,071 They should forgive themselves. 1488 01:24:02,337 --> 01:24:03,572 They can't. 1489 01:24:05,639 --> 01:24:07,941 MAN: Lancashires on the Ascanius! 1490 01:24:07,943 --> 01:24:08,943 I'd better... 1491 01:24:11,045 --> 01:24:12,714 This has been so nice. 1492 01:24:16,452 --> 01:24:17,586 Goodbye, little one. 1493 01:24:51,019 --> 01:24:52,021 Edith. 1494 01:24:58,292 --> 01:25:00,392 - I love you. - I love you. 1495 01:25:00,394 --> 01:25:02,598 - I love you so much. - I know. (Chuckles) 1496 01:25:03,398 --> 01:25:05,130 There's nothing I could do about it. 1497 01:25:05,132 --> 01:25:07,303 I know. I can't either. 1498 01:25:08,103 --> 01:25:09,471 (Both Laugh) 1499 01:25:10,238 --> 01:25:11,773 (MAN Shouting IN Distance) 1500 01:25:13,075 --> 01:25:14,309 I have to go. 1501 01:25:16,010 --> 01:25:17,578 - Stay alive. - Yes. 1502 01:25:18,346 --> 01:25:19,848 And come back to me. 1503 01:25:21,116 --> 01:25:23,719 Stay alive and come back to me. 1504 01:25:57,185 --> 01:25:59,485 (Footsteps Sloshing) 1505 01:25:59,487 --> 01:26:02,224 SAM: Sir, I found them. Get up! 1506 01:26:02,491 --> 01:26:04,826 - I found the 19th Lancashires. - Geoff. 1507 01:26:05,093 --> 01:26:06,191 You have to get up, sir. 1508 01:26:06,193 --> 01:26:07,393 (Distant Explosions) 1509 01:26:07,395 --> 01:26:09,495 Let's find your friend. We're almost there. 1510 01:26:09,497 --> 01:26:11,966 - (Panting) - (Explosions Continue) 1511 01:26:12,768 --> 01:26:14,066 Officer: Fire! 1512 01:26:14,068 --> 01:26:15,167 Soldier: Get up the ladder! 1513 01:26:15,169 --> 01:26:17,538 - (Gunfire) - (MEN Shouting) 1514 01:26:17,840 --> 01:26:19,007 (Screaming) 1515 01:26:19,640 --> 01:26:21,509 Officer: Attach your bayonets! 1516 01:26:22,210 --> 01:26:23,342 Private: I can't do it. 1517 01:26:23,344 --> 01:26:24,843 Sergeant: Come on, Private. Come on! 1518 01:26:24,845 --> 01:26:26,114 Geoffrey! 1519 01:26:27,314 --> 01:26:28,548 Officer: This way! Quickly! 1520 01:26:28,550 --> 01:26:30,717 Soldier: Right, you Lancashires! 1521 01:26:30,719 --> 01:26:31,584 Geoffrey! 1522 01:26:31,586 --> 01:26:33,655 - (Whistle Blowing) - (MEN Clamoring) 1523 01:26:34,089 --> 01:26:35,355 Where's Geoffrey Bache Smith? 1524 01:26:35,357 --> 01:26:36,923 Lieutenant Geoffrey Bache Smith? 1525 01:26:36,925 --> 01:26:39,025 Bache Smith isn't here. He's already gone over the top. 1526 01:26:39,027 --> 01:26:40,692 - No! - Yes. Sorry. 1527 01:26:40,694 --> 01:26:42,829 - (Shouting Continues) - (Panting) 1528 01:26:42,831 --> 01:26:43,695 Geoffrey! 1529 01:26:43,697 --> 01:26:44,996 Officer: Don't stop for wounded. 1530 01:26:44,998 --> 01:26:45,998 Geoffrey! 1531 01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:47,933 - Sir, what are you doing? Wait! - Tolkien: Don't follow me. 1532 01:26:47,935 --> 01:26:50,136 Officer: Up the ladder, Lancashires! 1533 01:26:50,138 --> 01:26:51,407 Geoff! 1534 01:26:52,206 --> 01:26:53,472 Geoffrey! 1535 01:26:53,474 --> 01:26:55,877 - (Explosions) - (MEN Shouting) 1536 01:26:56,978 --> 01:26:58,043 (Screaming) 1537 01:26:58,045 --> 01:26:59,212 - (Gunfire) - (MEN Groaning) 1538 01:26:59,214 --> 01:27:00,748 Soldier: Don't slow down! 1539 01:27:03,151 --> 01:27:04,486 Geoff! 1540 01:27:04,952 --> 01:27:06,218 Geoffrey: Ronald! 1541 01:27:06,220 --> 01:27:07,923 - Geoff! - (Explosion) 1542 01:27:10,125 --> 01:27:11,493 Geoff! 1543 01:27:13,995 --> 01:27:15,061 Geoff! 1544 01:27:15,063 --> 01:27:16,665 Geoffrey: Ronald! 1545 01:27:17,131 --> 01:27:18,500 Geoffrey! 1546 01:27:19,501 --> 01:27:20,566 (Explosions) 1547 01:27:20,568 --> 01:27:22,638 Geoffrey: Ronald! 1548 01:27:26,741 --> 01:27:27,743 Geoff! 1549 01:27:31,379 --> 01:27:32,581 What? 1550 01:27:33,147 --> 01:27:34,149 Geoffrey: Ronald! 1551 01:27:36,050 --> 01:27:37,182 Geoff! 1552 01:27:37,184 --> 01:27:38,687 Geoffrey: Ronald! 1553 01:27:40,087 --> 01:27:41,456 Ronald! 1554 01:27:44,158 --> 01:27:45,227 Geoff! 1555 01:27:47,895 --> 01:27:49,096 Geoffrey! 1556 01:28:08,015 --> 01:28:09,718 (Cavalry Yelling) 1557 01:28:34,542 --> 01:28:35,909 Soldier: Gas! 1558 01:28:35,911 --> 01:28:37,779 (MEN Shouting) 1559 01:28:40,447 --> 01:28:42,017 Soldier: Get that bloody mask on! 1560 01:28:44,819 --> 01:28:46,255 Gas! 1561 01:28:48,724 --> 01:28:50,792 (Breathing Heavily) 1562 01:28:59,533 --> 01:29:01,737 - (Gunfire) - (MEN Shouting) 1563 01:29:10,612 --> 01:29:12,681 (Gasping) 1564 01:29:22,189 --> 01:29:23,257 (Exhales Heavily) 1565 01:29:51,886 --> 01:29:53,589 (Growling) 1566 01:29:56,623 --> 01:29:58,827 (Eerie, Indistinct Whispering) 1567 01:30:08,236 --> 01:30:09,837 (Deep Growling) 1568 01:30:12,239 --> 01:30:14,242 (Echoing Voices Yelling) 1569 01:30:44,205 --> 01:30:45,806 Edith: (Softly) Hello. 1570 01:30:49,478 --> 01:30:51,013 Don't try to sit up. 1571 01:30:58,252 --> 01:31:00,554 You've been asleep for a very long time. 1572 01:31:00,921 --> 01:31:04,058 You've had trench fever, but you're all right. 1573 01:31:05,126 --> 01:31:06,294 You're home. 1574 01:31:09,897 --> 01:31:11,700 (Weakly) I tried to find him. 1575 01:31:14,135 --> 01:31:15,203 Who? 1576 01:31:15,470 --> 01:31:16,872 Geoffrey, I... 1577 01:31:18,239 --> 01:31:19,741 I heard him... 1578 01:31:21,309 --> 01:31:22,444 I could hear him. 1579 01:31:26,380 --> 01:31:29,084 Geoffrey is... is dead. 1580 01:31:30,283 --> 01:31:32,219 He died weeks ago. 1581 01:31:32,519 --> 01:31:33,754 What? 1582 01:31:35,322 --> 01:31:36,422 No. 1583 01:31:36,424 --> 01:31:37,993 Robert Gilson, he was... 1584 01:31:38,658 --> 01:31:40,094 he was hit. 1585 01:31:42,663 --> 01:31:43,864 He's also dead. 1586 01:31:46,835 --> 01:31:48,270 Robbie and Geoffrey. 1587 01:31:49,636 --> 01:31:50,938 I'm sorry. 1588 01:31:51,906 --> 01:31:53,742 Ron, I'm so sorry. 1589 01:31:57,644 --> 01:32:00,447 But you're fine. You're home. Every... 1590 01:32:01,081 --> 01:32:03,884 Everything's going to be fine. I promise. 1591 01:32:12,327 --> 01:32:14,493 Father Francis: I spend my every afternoon 1592 01:32:14,495 --> 01:32:17,465 with mothers, widows. 1593 01:32:18,899 --> 01:32:20,367 What can I say to them? 1594 01:32:22,504 --> 01:32:26,140 Your sons have died in the war to end all wars. 1595 01:32:27,575 --> 01:32:28,977 Tolkien: What do you say? 1596 01:32:30,810 --> 01:32:32,412 Words are useless. 1597 01:32:32,712 --> 01:32:34,349 Modern words, anyway. 1598 01:32:36,785 --> 01:32:38,252 I speak the liturgy. 1599 01:32:40,220 --> 01:32:44,091 There's a comfort, I think, in distance. 1600 01:32:44,626 --> 01:32:45,927 Ancient things. 1601 01:32:49,697 --> 01:32:51,699 Throughout the whole of your illness, 1602 01:32:52,166 --> 01:32:54,803 Miss Bratt never left your bedside. 1603 01:32:56,504 --> 01:32:57,939 Not once. 1604 01:33:01,075 --> 01:33:02,978 You were right to pursue her. 1605 01:33:07,614 --> 01:33:08,983 Thank you. 1606 01:33:10,984 --> 01:33:14,822 Oh. This arrived for you via... 1607 01:33:15,322 --> 01:33:16,991 a very circuitous route. 1608 01:33:19,359 --> 01:33:22,496 He wrote it, I believe, during his last days. 1609 01:33:39,014 --> 01:33:40,648 Geoffrey: My dear John Ronald, 1610 01:33:41,648 --> 01:33:45,150 It is my chief consolation that if I am scuppered tonight 1611 01:33:45,152 --> 01:33:48,454 there will still be left a great member of the T.C.B.S. 1612 01:33:48,456 --> 01:33:51,826 to voice what I dreamed and what we all agreed upon. 1613 01:33:52,260 --> 01:33:54,593 That the death of one of its members cannot, 1614 01:33:54,595 --> 01:33:55,694 I am determined, 1615 01:33:55,696 --> 01:33:58,132 dissolve the T.C.B.S. 1616 01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:03,168 Death can make us loathsome and helpless as individuals, 1617 01:34:03,170 --> 01:34:05,973 but it cannot put an end to the immortal four! 1618 01:34:06,541 --> 01:34:08,676 May God bless you, my dear John Ronald, 1619 01:34:09,109 --> 01:34:11,843 and may you say the things I have tried to say 1620 01:34:11,845 --> 01:34:14,281 long after I am not there to say them. 1621 01:34:44,179 --> 01:34:46,081 (Bell Tolling IN Distance) 1622 01:34:52,621 --> 01:34:54,089 (Bird Chirping) 1623 01:35:00,361 --> 01:35:01,893 Student 1: Good evening, Professor Tolkien. 1624 01:35:01,895 --> 01:35:03,128 - Student 2: Evening, sir. - Tolkien: Ah. 1625 01:35:03,130 --> 01:35:04,466 (Greets IN Anglo-Saxon) 1626 01:35:37,497 --> 01:35:40,201 (Bell Tolling AND DOG Barking IN Distance) 1627 01:35:42,937 --> 01:35:44,506 What are you doing out here? 1628 01:36:01,488 --> 01:36:04,125 We had a jam pudding today with the children. 1629 01:36:05,393 --> 01:36:06,627 Michael's request. 1630 01:36:08,394 --> 01:36:10,998 He and John put a tray outside your study. 1631 01:36:11,832 --> 01:36:13,300 I hope you had some. 1632 01:36:13,801 --> 01:36:15,336 I'm sorry, I... 1633 01:36:18,473 --> 01:36:19,506 I'm sorry. 1634 01:36:22,209 --> 01:36:23,909 Edith, it was a very difficult day. 1635 01:36:23,911 --> 01:36:25,346 Nothing I'm writing... 1636 01:36:27,047 --> 01:36:28,446 You used to write for pleasure. 1637 01:36:28,448 --> 01:36:29,315 I know, it's... 1638 01:36:29,317 --> 01:36:31,618 - It was a passion. - I know it's... 1639 01:36:33,587 --> 01:36:34,656 pointless. 1640 01:36:45,666 --> 01:36:46,598 I wish you would decide 1641 01:36:46,600 --> 01:36:48,267 what it is you want from it, Ronald, 1642 01:36:48,269 --> 01:36:50,138 or abandon it entirely. 1643 01:36:59,380 --> 01:37:00,547 (Sighs) 1644 01:37:36,917 --> 01:37:38,486 MRS. Smith: Mr. Tolkien? 1645 01:37:40,087 --> 01:37:41,422 Tolkien: Mrs. Smith. 1646 01:37:42,756 --> 01:37:44,826 It's wonderful to see you. Thank you for coming. 1647 01:37:47,295 --> 01:37:49,663 Robert Gilson was the... 1648 01:37:50,697 --> 01:37:52,999 son of the headmaster at King Edward's. 1649 01:37:53,201 --> 01:37:54,569 Yes, that's right. 1650 01:37:54,969 --> 01:37:56,671 I remember the stepmother, I think. 1651 01:37:57,170 --> 01:37:59,473 And Christopher Wiseman? 1652 01:37:59,808 --> 01:38:01,109 He survived. 1653 01:38:03,178 --> 01:38:04,746 Although I'm sorry to say he's... 1654 01:38:06,581 --> 01:38:09,451 Some of us who came through have other sorts of scars. 1655 01:38:15,055 --> 01:38:17,257 My sister lost three sons. 1656 01:38:18,125 --> 01:38:19,394 I lost two. 1657 01:38:20,795 --> 01:38:22,363 All in the same week. 1658 01:38:24,165 --> 01:38:25,500 I'm sorry. 1659 01:38:31,672 --> 01:38:33,474 And this is where you sat. 1660 01:38:34,975 --> 01:38:36,176 Tolkien: Yes. 1661 01:38:37,778 --> 01:38:39,214 It's very cozy. 1662 01:38:41,983 --> 01:38:44,119 Thank you for bringing me here. 1663 01:38:45,653 --> 01:38:47,288 I can imagine, I can... 1664 01:38:49,056 --> 01:38:50,457 see you here. 1665 01:38:51,091 --> 01:38:52,292 All of you. 1666 01:38:52,926 --> 01:38:54,394 I can picture it. 1667 01:38:55,261 --> 01:38:57,331 It must have been a wonderfully happy time. 1668 01:39:02,001 --> 01:39:03,571 This is where Geoffrey sat. 1669 01:39:13,212 --> 01:39:16,183 I was wondering, with your permission, 1670 01:39:17,350 --> 01:39:18,917 perhaps I might try to get 1671 01:39:18,919 --> 01:39:20,755 a volume of his poems published. 1672 01:39:22,657 --> 01:39:24,159 His poems? 1673 01:39:25,858 --> 01:39:27,327 I think he was... 1674 01:39:27,862 --> 01:39:28,862 really very talented. 1675 01:39:28,929 --> 01:39:31,031 I would like to bring him to people's attention. 1676 01:39:31,331 --> 01:39:33,667 I thought, perhaps, I could write the foreword myself. 1677 01:39:35,068 --> 01:39:36,703 I don't know, I... 1678 01:39:38,538 --> 01:39:40,505 I'm inclined to say no, Mr. Tolkien. 1679 01:39:40,507 --> 01:39:43,611 He was really very good. I think it's important. 1680 01:39:46,546 --> 01:39:48,648 I used to be fond of poetry. 1681 01:39:49,582 --> 01:39:52,353 I sometimes wondered if that was where Geoffrey... 1682 01:39:57,625 --> 01:40:01,395 I'm sorry, I can't see what possible good it would do. 1683 01:40:02,462 --> 01:40:04,262 It would do the most extraordinary good. 1684 01:40:04,264 --> 01:40:05,632 Please believe me. 1685 01:40:09,170 --> 01:40:10,738 I never knew Geoffrey 1686 01:40:12,238 --> 01:40:13,875 as much as I would have liked. 1687 01:40:17,010 --> 01:40:18,412 Was he happy? 1688 01:40:19,246 --> 01:40:21,281 Please, tell me. 1689 01:40:24,652 --> 01:40:25,853 Did he know love? 1690 01:40:32,126 --> 01:40:33,561 I was an orphan 1691 01:40:34,028 --> 01:40:35,530 when I came to King Edward's. 1692 01:40:37,197 --> 01:40:38,865 And even at the beginning, even... 1693 01:40:40,166 --> 01:40:41,736 before we were friends, 1694 01:40:43,837 --> 01:40:44,973 Geoffrey was gentle. 1695 01:40:47,707 --> 01:40:48,809 Kind. 1696 01:40:50,810 --> 01:40:53,078 (Voice Quivers) He was, I think, of anyone I ever met, 1697 01:40:53,080 --> 01:40:54,482 the person... 1698 01:40:56,149 --> 01:40:58,018 He was the person who most embodied 1699 01:40:58,352 --> 01:40:59,953 what it means to love. 1700 01:41:03,157 --> 01:41:04,525 And to be loved. 1701 01:41:05,126 --> 01:41:06,494 Truly that's... 1702 01:41:11,197 --> 01:41:13,300 That's why this is so important. Please... 1703 01:41:14,234 --> 01:41:16,002 forgive me, but you ask... 1704 01:41:16,737 --> 01:41:19,741 what good it could do, and the... poets, 1705 01:41:21,943 --> 01:41:22,977 the writers... 1706 01:41:24,245 --> 01:41:26,046 or what our art could do. 1707 01:41:29,817 --> 01:41:31,484 I cannot think of anything more necessary. 1708 01:41:31,486 --> 01:41:33,451 Especially at a time like this. 1709 01:41:33,453 --> 01:41:34,788 Especially now. 1710 01:41:48,536 --> 01:41:49,971 (MRS. Smith Sniffles) 1711 01:41:55,309 --> 01:41:57,612 A foreword would be lovely. 1712 01:42:00,880 --> 01:42:02,082 Thank you. 1713 01:42:19,733 --> 01:42:22,402 Hilary: Remember how mother made us kiss the trees? 1714 01:42:23,437 --> 01:42:24,971 And listen to them talk. 1715 01:42:25,605 --> 01:42:27,442 What dark magic was that? 1716 01:42:27,875 --> 01:42:29,542 Come on, you savages. 1717 01:42:29,776 --> 01:42:30,776 Come on. 1718 01:42:30,877 --> 01:42:32,477 Who wants to speak to the trees? 1719 01:42:32,479 --> 01:42:34,082 Michael: Hey, wait for me. 1720 01:42:36,250 --> 01:42:37,583 Little Christopher: What are you thinking? 1721 01:42:37,585 --> 01:42:38,816 What's your name? 1722 01:42:38,818 --> 01:42:40,955 John: We're not scary. Don't be worried. 1723 01:42:41,688 --> 01:42:43,422 Children, I need your help. 1724 01:42:43,424 --> 01:42:44,655 Will you do something for me? 1725 01:42:44,657 --> 01:42:46,124 Michael: Is it homework? 1726 01:42:46,126 --> 01:42:47,426 Uh, no, not if I get it right. 1727 01:42:47,428 --> 01:42:48,927 I want you to listen to a story. 1728 01:42:48,929 --> 01:42:49,860 Michael: What story? 1729 01:42:49,862 --> 01:42:51,396 Little Christopher: Is it a good story? 1730 01:42:51,398 --> 01:42:52,530 Tolkien: I hope so. 1731 01:42:52,532 --> 01:42:53,901 Michael: Is it long? 1732 01:42:54,134 --> 01:42:55,433 Tolkien: Extremely long. 1733 01:42:55,435 --> 01:42:57,037 Has it been started? 1734 01:42:58,139 --> 01:42:59,507 Yes, I think... 1735 01:43:00,541 --> 01:43:03,408 I think, up here, yes, I think it has. 1736 01:43:03,410 --> 01:43:04,812 What's it about? 1737 01:43:05,278 --> 01:43:07,714 It's about journeys. Adventures. 1738 01:43:08,314 --> 01:43:09,817 Magic, of course. 1739 01:43:10,917 --> 01:43:11,917 Treasure. 1740 01:43:12,853 --> 01:43:13,955 And love. 1741 01:43:17,325 --> 01:43:18,723 It's about all kinds of things, really. 1742 01:43:18,725 --> 01:43:20,493 It's hard to say. I suppose... 1743 01:43:21,495 --> 01:43:23,962 I suppose it's about quests, to a certain extent. 1744 01:43:23,964 --> 01:43:26,466 The journeys we take to prove ourselves. 1745 01:43:26,934 --> 01:43:28,436 About courage. 1746 01:43:39,479 --> 01:43:40,848 (Quietly) Fellowship. 1747 01:43:44,919 --> 01:43:46,487 It's about fellowship. 1748 01:43:50,357 --> 01:43:51,893 Friendship. 1749 01:43:56,063 --> 01:43:58,562 - Little people just like you. - I'm not little! 1750 01:43:58,564 --> 01:44:00,731 No. Little in stature. 1751 01:44:00,733 --> 01:44:02,133 Not little in spirit. 1752 01:44:02,135 --> 01:44:03,201 (Children Yelling) 1753 01:44:03,203 --> 01:44:04,483 Tolkien: It's about wizards, too. 1754 01:44:04,572 --> 01:44:06,003 - Little Christopher: Wizards? - Tolkien: Wizards, yes. 1755 01:44:06,005 --> 01:44:10,075 And mountains, and dragons, and journeys... 1756 01:44:10,077 --> 01:44:11,977 Edith: Christopher, if you break your neck wearing those, 1757 01:44:11,979 --> 01:44:14,749 I will not be taking you to the hospital. 1758 01:45:04,130 --> 01:45:05,165 Hobbit. 1759 01:46:16,180 --> 01:46:21,180 Subtitles by explosiveskull Sync by GoldenBeard