Another biopic about J.R.R. Tolkien will focus on his formative years before WWI

Ever since Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogies blew up at the box office, there’s been a desire to replicate that success by adapting more from Tolkien, including his own life story. Deadline reports that Finnish director Dome Karukoski (Tom of Finland) has signed on to direct Tolkien, which will focus on the titular author “as he finds friendship, love, and artistic inspiration among a fellow group of outcasts at school prior to the outbreak of World