PWJ: S3E41 – Bonus – The Tolkien Movie

Today we kick off “Tolkien Month”! My fiancée and I discuss the 2019 movie about Tolkien’s life.

S3E41: “The Tolkien Movie” (Download)

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Time Stamps

00:00 – Entering “The Eagle and Child”
00:11 – Welcome
00:46 – Drink-of-the-week
01:28 – Quote-of-the-week
02:25 – Listener Toast
04:17 – Marie’s Tasting Notes
05:57 – Engagement Talk
13:13 – “Tolkien” movie (Pros)
21:00 – “Tolkien” movie (Cons)
29:00 – Actors and Characters
43:35 – Movie Rating
45:39 – “Last Call” Bell
45:45 – Poem
46:43 – Closing Remarks

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After Show Skype Session

Show Notes

• Drink-of-the-week was Monkey Shoulder, a gift from my fiancée on my birthday in April.

• The quote-of-the week came from The Lord of the Rings:

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

• I toasted all of the listeners:

 I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve…

Bilbo-inspired toast

Marie then offered her own tasting notes.

• We chatted about our engagement for a while and how it is has been a very strange time in history to try and organize a wedding. We spoke about our Marriage Preparation and the two books our Pastor asked us to read:

One Flesh: Salvation through Marriage in the Orthodox Church by Lawrence R. Farley
Money Before Marriage: A Financial Workbook for Engaged Couples by Larry Burkett

• We then discussed the 2019 movie,”Tolkien”:

• We started by discussing the things we liked about the movie. One of the things I really appreciated was the soundtrack:

Afterwards, we addressed the things we didn’t like so much.

• Next, we discussed each of the actors and their characters in turn. During this discussion, the question was raised about the physical appearance of Tolkien when he was younger:

…and this is what he looked like as a young adult in The Great War:

• As we were offering our final thoughts, I mentioned one of our favourite movies, “The Castle”:

• I ended with a poem which Tolkien wrote for Edith:

Lo! Young we are and yet have stood like planted hearts in the great Sun of Love so long (as two fair trees in woodland or in open dale stand utterly entwined and breathe the airs and suck the very light together) that we have become as one, deep rooted in the soil of Life and tangled in the sweet growth.

Poem by Tolkien for Edith