Tolkien prediction that happily failed
At The Imaginative Conservative, Joseph Pearce offered an apology to the creators of new film, Tolkien. A few weeks ago, Pearce had written that he feared the movie would distort the reality of JRR Tolkien’s life.
Pearce predicted that the “heroism” of Tolkien’s mother, who converted to Catholicism at great personal cost, would be “airbrushed out of the picture altogether, as will any other positive portrayals of Catholicism”. He feared that Tolkien’s mentor Fr Francis Morgan would be portrayed as having “a sordid homoerotic attraction to the young Tolkien”.
