I just came across this trailer for the new Tolkien biopic, and I have to say it has me intrigued. Dramatising the life of a fairly dry, conservative Oxford academic is always going to be a challenge; I  just hope they do it justice. Mind you, with rumours rife on the internet of a new amazon series set in the second age of Middle-Earth, I have to wonder what Tolkien would have made of his life’s story and work being adapted, used and popularised like this.