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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was born on the 3rd January, 1892.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He and his brother Hilary, experienced
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a difficult childhood; when Tolkien was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just four, they lost their father, Arthur,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to rheumatic fever.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a widow with low income, his mother
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mabel, home school the brothers and played
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a vital role in their early education and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,development.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tolkien was a smart young boy, with a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fascination and thirst for languages.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tolkien sat the entrance exam for King
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Edward's School, Birmingham and passed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the Autumn of 1900, for a fee of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12 pounds a year, Tolkien would be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,educated in an environment that would help
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fulfil his academic potential.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[John Garth] Going to King Edward's was vitally
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,important to Tolkien; he was an
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exceptionally talented boy. King Edward's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,offered him a vast amount of scope and also
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the company of other boys who were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,similarly talented.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which was probably quite hard for Tolkien
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to find.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Simon Stacey] Not only did he play rugby but
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was a leading light in the debating society
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the literary society; he was the life and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,soul really and he missed the school a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,great deal, I think, when he finally had
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to leave.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[VO] At the age of just 11, Tolkien and his
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brother Hilary, lose their mother, Mabel,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to diabetes. Grief stricken, he plunges
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,himself into school life more energetically
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than before. Academically he excels, but
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 1905, meets his intellectual rival,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christopher Wiseman.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[John Garth] Tolkien met his greatest friend
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at King Edward's, Christopher Wiseman on
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rugby pitch. A musician, a mathematician;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,quite different from Tolkien.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They developed such a strong bond on the rugby
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,field that they called themselves;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Great Twin Brethren", which was a phrase
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from "Lays of Ancient Rome" by Lord
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Macauley.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Simon Stacey] They also were friendly rivals
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the school, both being very academic
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,boys. Wiseman had a formidable intellect
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was interested in a lot of the things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Tolkien was getting interested in;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,languages, I think he was looking at
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Egyptian and was looking at hieroglyphics.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[John Garth] Tolkien and Wiseman must have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helped define each other through their
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,teenage years because they would argue;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would argue strongly about all their
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beliefs in life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Simon Stacey] Wiseman was a very talented
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,musician; Tolkien was supposed to be tone
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deaf but that didn't stop them getting on!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[VO] Tolkien also befriends, son of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,headmaster, Rob Gilson. Tolkien, Wiseman
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Gilson, form a strong bond which will
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,last throughout their school years and beyond.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Outside of King Edward's, Tolkien's life is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about to change, yet again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[John Garth] Tolkien was living in lodgings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with his brother, Hilary, and when he was 16
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he met fellow lodger, Edith Bratt, who was 19
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the time. And she was a beautiful young
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,girl; talented pianist and also an orphan.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the two of them bonded on their shared
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sadnesses but also on their hopes and dreams.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The difficulty for Ronald, as she called him,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Edith, was that he was a Roman Catholic
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she was an Anglican.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[VO] Tolkien's Guardian, Father Francis Morgan,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a Catholic Priest, feels this is major
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,divide; and also believes that Edith will
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,distract Tolkien from his attempts to get
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into Oxford University.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[John Garth] Father Francis Morgan, forbade
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them from seeing each other, or even from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,communicating. He was thrown back upon his
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,friendships at King Edward's and it was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this final phase of his time here, that he
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,began to flourish and make the place his
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,own; he and his friends ruled the roost.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[VO] Making the most of his final year at
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,King Edward's and the friendships he has
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,formed, Tolkien and his peers create an
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,informal society.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These young intellectuals gather in the school
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,library and do what they are forbidden to do:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brew tea. Outside of school hours, they meet
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a cafe at Barrow's Stores in Birmingham
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so, self-mockingly, they call themselves
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the "Tea Club and Barrovean Society"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the TCBS for short.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(nostalgic music)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[John Garth] The core of the TCBS was probably
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tolkien and Wiseman and the others
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gravitated around them. There was Robert
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Quilter Gilson, the son of the headmaster
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here; Rob was a cultured and sociable chap,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was perhaps the social glue of the group;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he would welcome anyone and find common
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cause with them. A gentle artistic fellow
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who loved to sketch.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Simon Stacey] He was a gifted artist and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had ambitions to be an architect.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a late arrival, Geoffrey Bache Smith,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was fascinated by mythology, Celtic
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mythology; so this gave him common ground
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Tolkien; it was another of Tolkien's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,passions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Simon Stacey] Smith was quite an accomplished
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and advanced poet who recommended contemporary
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,poetry to Tolkien. When he started writing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,poetry, Tolkien was to a certain extent,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inspired by Smith and the wider group.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was really the beginnings of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tolkien as a writer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[John Garth] From the beginnings which were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mostly about fun, later on, during the war years,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this developed into a fellowship from which
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,each of them drew tremendous strength and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comfort.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[VO] Later that year, Tolkien's time at
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,King Edward's comes to an end and he begins
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his first term at Oxford, having successfully
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gained entrance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the eve of his 21st birthday, and his
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,independence from Father Francis Morgan,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tolkien writes to Edith and less than a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,week later, they are re-united.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Edith is engaged to marry another man,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but despite almost certain ridicule,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she agrees to break the engagement to be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with her Ronald.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the next few months, a growing sense of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trouble brews across Europe and on the 28th
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of June, 1914, everything changes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(gun shot sound)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(solemn music)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gavrillo Princip is arrested for the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A diplomatic crisis ensues and within weeks,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Europe's major powers are at war.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Germany invades Belgium and Britain declares
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,war on Germany. Parliament issues a call
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to arms from the British public.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Paul Golightly] There isn't a rush to the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,colours straight away. It becomes much more
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,obvious that people are willing to join
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up when atrocity stories start to emerge,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you get a much more concerted rush
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to join.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[John Garth] There was an air of excitement
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the war, there was a naive sense that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this would allow young men to fulfil their
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,potential in a way that wasn't possible in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,peace time. There was a tremendous sense
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of patriotism and a sense of duty towards
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever England, or Britain, stood for.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Paul Golightly] They are attracted to the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,idea of a settling of accounts with the Germans,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or at least some of them will be. On the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whole, they thought they were going to give
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Germans a bloody nose.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[John Garth] "The Germans has been dastardly"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and needed to dealt with and shown their place.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Paul Golightly] Men join up