Latest TOLKIEN Trailer Here is the latest TOLKIEN trailer! The film, directed by Dome Karukoski, stars Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Genevieve O’Reilly, and Mimi Keene. TOLKIEN will be released in theaters on May 10. Tolkien explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. This takes him into the outbreak of World War I, which threatens to tear the “fellowship” apart. All of these experiences would inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-Earth novels.