Tolkien (2019)

Lily Collins: Edith Bratt

Photos 

Quotes 

• Edith Bratt : Things aren't beautiful because of how they sound. They're beautiful because of what they mean.

• Edith Bratt : I love Wagner's Rheingold.

  Robert Gilson : Christopher finds those too long.

  Christopher Wiseman : No, I don't.

  Robert Gilson : Well, nobody blames you. It shouldn't take six hours to tell a story about a magic ring.

• Edith Bratt : Hand. That might be a beautiful word.

  J.R.R. Tolkien : Yes, it is.

  Edith Bratt : But it means so much more because of what we associate it with. Touch.

• Edith Bratt : A word isn't beautiful just because of its sound. "Cellar door." It's the marriage of sound and meaning, the door to the cellar, a place where something magical and mysterious might happen.

• Edith Bratt : I have a passion for Wagner! I *want* to talk about him. To discuss. To debate!

• J.R.R. Tolkien : There's a word in old German, it has no translation in English; but, it means a gift offered fearfully in the wake of an argument. Drachenfutter. Literally, "Dragon Food."

  Edith Bratt : So now I'm a dragon?

• Edith Bratt : Wagner wrote it in four acts. It starts with a ring, a magical ring which can rule the world and which is forged by a dwarf.

  J.R.R. Tolkien : It's Alberich. Well, I have picked up the odd bit of German mythology.

  Edith Bratt : But to harness the ring's power, you first have to renounce love.

  J.R.R. Tolkien : Oh. A very sensible exchange, in my opinion.

  Edith Bratt : Well, that's because you're a coldhearted Viking.

• Edith Bratt : I let myself believe that there were happy endings for people like us. But there aren't. There can't be.

• Robert Gilson : I don't believe in examinations. I write what I think. And if they want to give me a mark, it's up to them.

  Edith Bratt : What a revolutionary approach.

• Edith Bratt : I don't have a hat.

  J.R.R. Tolkien : It's all right. They all look ridiculous anyway.

• Edith Bratt : Oh, for God's sake, Ronald. Don't be so dramatic. It doesn't matter.

  J.R.R. Tolkien : No, don't say that. Of course, it matters.

  Edith Bratt : I don't know why you're taking it so hard. Things are just returning - to normal, that's all. To reality.