Tolkien made that clear in the source material.

托尔金在原著中明确说了这一点。

The show will cover events that take place in the Second Age of Tolkien's world.

该剧将讲述托尔金第二纪元的故事。

Because Tolkien never wrote much about this period of his world's history.

因为托尔金从未写过太多关于这段世界历史的内容。

In fact, Tolkien famously disliked allegories, stating he rather prefers history, be it real or fictional.

托尔金恰恰出了名不喜欢寓言，他称自己更爱历史，真实和虚构的均喜欢。

The name comes from the small humanlike creatures that appear in books by English writer J.R.R Tolkien.

这个名字来自英国作家J·R·R·托尔金的书中出现的小型类人生物。

I struggled with Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings—three long books, and I gave up after one.

看托尔金的《魔戒》我看的很挣扎，三本大部头，看了一部之后就放弃了。

Let me start by just reminding you of the way that Tolkien tells this particular piece of the story.

我们先来看看在这个地方托尔金的故事是如何进展的。

The Tolkien Trust countersued for copyright infringement.

托尔金信托基金会以侵犯版权为由反诉。

Tolkien was an English World War One veteran.

托尔金是英国的第一次世界大战老兵。

It's safe to assume that " the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien's pen" is the Dark Lord Sauron.

我们可以肯定托尔金笔下最大的反派是黑暗魔王索伦。

Tolkien was, by temperament, a very different man from Lewis.

【temperament】从性情来说，托尔金和刘易斯是完全不同的人。

We wanted to show that our land, like Tolkien's Middle-earth, must be saved and protected.

我们想表明我们的土地， 就像托尔金的中土世界一样， 必须得到拯救和保护。

06 Grabowski: I like leaving ring bearers to Tolkien.

08: 06 Grabowski：我喜欢把戒指的持有者留给托尔金。

But in Tolkien's Middle-earth, there are other forces at play.

但托尔金笔下的中洲还有别的势力在起作用。

Since teenager wasn't really popularized until the late 1950s, Tolkien was probably just shortening" between" , or combining it with " twenties."

由于“teenager”一词直到20世纪50年代末才真正流行起来，托尔金可能只是把“between”这个词缩短了，或这是将其与“twenties”结合起来了。

If my name was Tolkien Shakespeare then you'd have had a hard time arguing not to take that name.

如果我的名字是 Tolkien Shakespeare，那么你很难反对不取那个名字。

But then I came across Tolkien's fantasy trilogy, " The Lord of the Rings, " and I fell in love.

但后来我遇到了托尔金的奇幻三部曲“指环王”，我坠入爱河。

Mr Thiel chairs Palantir and his Founders Fund was an early backer of Anduril (both names echo his love of J.R.R. Tolkien).

Thiel 先生是 Palantir 的主席，他的 Founders Fund 是 Anduril 的早期支持者（这两个名字都反映了他对 J.R.R. Tolkien 的热爱）。

A fun fact about the history of " tween" is that it may have come from JRR Tolkien who wrote The Lord of the Ring books.

关于“tween”历史的一个有趣的事实是，它可能出自《指环王》系列丛书的作者JRR·托尔金之手。

On top of that, he was able to use the specific qualities of cinema to not only adapt, but also expand on Tolkien's mythology.

他还运用了电影的某些特质，既对托尔金的神话作了改编，还作了扩展。