Tolkien (2019)
Guillermo Bedward: Hilary Tolkien (Young)
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Quotes
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Mabel Tolkien : Boys, listen to me. Do you know what impecunious circumstances are?
J.R.R. Tolkien (Young) : They're what we're in?
Mabel Tolkien : When I was a little girl, all the new novels began like this: a family of good and brave people who suddenly find themselves in impecunious circumstances...
J.R.R. Tolkien (Young) : How did they escape?
Mabel Tolkien : By coming across some marvelous treasure. Or else, by marrying well.
Hilary Tolkien (Young) : I'm not marrying anyone!
Mabel Tolkien : Well, it'll have to be the treasure then - won't it?
J.R.R. Tolkien (Young) : But, um, people don't find treasure, mother. Not in real life.
Mabel Tolkien : There's no fooling you, is there, John Ronald? Let's just say there's treasure, and there's *treasure* - and leave it at that.
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Hilary Tolkien (Young) : I believe you now sound like a drunken peacock, you duffer.