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Look who’s Tolkien

Karukoski is a self-proclaimed Tolkien nerd. He first read aged 12, and still watches Peter Jackson’s film trilogy every Christmas. (“The extended versions,” he is careful to point out.) So when the opportunity came to direct a film about J.R.R. Tolkien’s early

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