Tolkien (2019)

Colm Meaney: Father Francis

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• Father Francis : I spend my every afternoon with mothers, widows. What can I say to them? Your sons have died in the war to end all wars.

  J.R.R. Tolkien : What do you say?

  Father Francis : Words are useless. Modern words, anyway. I speak the liturgy. There's a comfort, I think, in distance. Ancient things.

• Father Francis : Well, boys, I was right. She's an enormous beast, with great scaly feet and the most prominent pair of tusks I've ever seen. She's chewing, on what I can only assume is the femur of a small boy. On the other hand, there is cake.