BBC Adaption

Starr Polish · 03-10-2002, 12:40 AM

I am starting to listen to it right now...Gollum's voice is amazingly creepy and well done, even though Ican't always understand it...but the orc (?) voice at the beginning seems too proper to me.

Glorious Glorfindel · 03-10-2002, 08:06 AM

I LOVE the bbc tape version. its on every saturday on the radio in the UK, and it is fabuloso!
i agree, Gollum's voice is a bit strange and freaky, but Frodo is strange for me, because whenever i hear him(ian holms)i think that it is Bilbo from the film talking, not Frodo!
its really annoying as well as confusing!

sun-star · 03-10-2002, 04:56 PM

I agree it's a great adaptation - I really love the music, and Gandalf's voice. I didn't think they did the Choices of Master Samwise bit very well yesterday though. And the orcs are just weird!

Eruviel Greenleaf · 03-11-2002, 03:02 AM

I just finished listening to the whole thing today! (My friend-Tanoliel--gave me the tapes for Christmas) I really liked it, although there were a few wierd things, like some of the music, and Arwen's voice makes her sound like an old (human) lady. And the lack of Tom Bombadil! But the end was properly sad/bittersweet!

Vardasoroniel · 03-11-2002, 03:29 AM

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Originally posted by Starr Polish
I am starting to listen to it right now...Gollum's voice is amazingly creepy and well done, even though Ican't always understand it...but the orc (?) voice at the beginning seems too proper to me.

have you listened to the recordings by Bob Inglis? it is a complete reading of the books by a guy who does a wonderful job of telling the whole story orally - he changes his voice for each character, sings all the songs, makes it all quite thrilling!!!

i just finished listening to the chapters on treebeard and the ride of the rohirrim to the battle of helm's deep.

Glorious Glorfindel · 03-11-2002, 07:47 AM

wow!
do u know if and where u can get hold of them in the uk?
not the BBC adaptation ones, im getting those, u know the bob inglis ones
please?
thanx

Vardasoroniel · 03-11-2002, 12:59 PM

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Originally posted by Glorious Glorfindel
wow!
do u know if and where u can get hold of them in the uk?
not the BBC adaptation ones, im getting those, u know the bob inglis ones

where in the UK, i don't know. but their URL is:

http://www.recordedbooks.com

i know the fellow who does the reading travels in europe doing dramatizations of chaucer, shakespeare, dickens, tolkien - so i'm imagining that the discs would be available at one of your local, big, booksellers.

each of the books is @ 14 - 16 discs in length; & here in the US cost @ $45-$50 dollars for each set of recordings. there is also a recording of 'the hobbit' which i want to get - that is a delightful book to have read out loud to oneself, as it is patterened more like a children's story.

Eruviel Greenleaf · 03-11-2002, 01:15 PM

Wow, they look really nice-I wish I could get them! As for finding the BBC production, I have no idea where to find them. . .I could ask one of my friends, I think she bought them somewhere. . .but she's in Cuba right now. Or on her way there, at any rate. The ones I have were from tapes recorded from the radio when they did it in the US.

Glorious Glorfindel · 03-11-2002, 02:34 PM

well, u can get them online i think.
try these links
www.bbc.co.uk/

www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com, whichever one suits the country u live in (DUH)
just search 4 lord of the rings, and it should come up there.
oh yeah, almost 4 got-check out:
www.whsmiths.com - i think thats right, then jst search 4 lotr and it comes up sumwhere

aldesign · 03-11-2002, 06:39 PM

i saw an entire box set of the bbc version of cassete,
it was like 17 or so tapes
cost £150
HARSH!!!!!!!

andy

Nenya · 03-12-2002, 09:53 PM

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its on every saturday on the radio in the UK,

It is? When? What time? What station?

Oooh, you've got me all excited now...

sun-star · 03-13-2002, 03:30 PM

2:30pm, Radio 4

Khadrane · 03-14-2002, 09:01 PM

I just got it! (Sadly, I'm only borrowing it) Do they really leave Tom Baombadil out? WHY does everyone leave him out????? Oh well. It's really cool already, and I'm only done with the first tape.

Tanoliel · 03-15-2002, 05:16 PM

I absolutely ADORE the BBC tapes. My dad taped them off the radio when CBS broadcast them in America ages ago...since they're rebroadcasting in the UK, I'm gonna email National Public Radio and bug them to get it over to the west (heh...).
The orcs are a little funky...personally, I love the choices of master samwise, and I really lke how they do the "finding frodo" bit in the orc tower. I dunno what other people think, but personally I think William Nyhe (or however you spell his name, I can't think) sings really well! Anyone remember the gilgalad song? Heh...love the songs...I memorized that one.
Okay. I'll stop. This post is too long anyhow...I just really love em, cause they're what got me hooked on Tolkien in the first place!
-tano

Eruviel Greenleaf · 03-15-2002, 06:11 PM

Yes! I absolutely love Sam's song in the Tower in the BBC one! Tano, I thank you a million times over for those tapes. . .

Eruviel Greenleaf · 03-19-2002, 02:37 AM

My brother just started listening to them. He's usually kinda negative about all things LotR, simply because I like it so much, but he was being perfectly nice and willing to listen to me go on about it today. Maybe because he's sick. But anyway, he started listeing to the BBC production today, and he's already through at least episode 13, I think! And he really likes them, but we were both complaining about how Tammy Grimes pronoucing Moria "Mor-I-ah."

Tanoliel · 03-20-2002, 01:30 AM

Ergh, yes..."mor-I-a"

Aragorn's voice really bugged me at first, but now i'm used to it, since i listen to it every night!
-tano

GandalfTheWhite · 03-22-2002, 01:10 AM

i got the cds of it for my birthday and i think gollum is alsome! i also think the crys of the nazgul are eerie.

03-10-2002, 12:40 AM	#1
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	BBC Adaption I am starting to listen to it right now...Gollum's voice is amazingly creepy and well done, even though Ican't always understand it...but the orc (?) voice at the beginning seems too proper to me. __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

03-10-2002, 08:06 AM	#2
Glorious Glorfindel Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: im too doped up to remember Posts: 371	I LOVE the bbc tape version. its on every saturday on the radio in the UK, and it is fabuloso! i agree, Gollum's voice is a bit strange and freaky, but Frodo is strange for me, because whenever i hear him(ian holms)i think that it is Bilbo from the film talking, not Frodo! its really annoying as well as confusing! __________________ A Elbereth Gilthonial Silivren penna miriel o menal aglar elenath Na-chaered palan-diriel o galadhremmin ennorath Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, si nef aearon! add a drop of lavander to milk. leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing at it.

03-10-2002, 04:56 PM	#3
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I agree it's a great adaptation - I really love the music, and Gandalf's voice. I didn't think they did the Choices of Master Samwise bit very well yesterday though. And the orcs are just weird! __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

03-11-2002, 03:02 AM	#4
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	I just finished listening to the whole thing today! (My friend-Tanoliel--gave me the tapes for Christmas) I really liked it, although there were a few wierd things, like some of the music, and Arwen's voice makes her sound like an old (human) lady. And the lack of Tom Bombadil! But the end was properly sad/bittersweet! __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

03-11-2002, 07:47 AM	#6
Glorious Glorfindel Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: im too doped up to remember Posts: 371	wow! do u know if and where u can get hold of them in the uk? not the BBC adaptation ones, im getting those, u know the bob inglis ones please? thanx __________________ A Elbereth Gilthonial Silivren penna miriel o menal aglar elenath Na-chaered palan-diriel o galadhremmin ennorath Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, si nef aearon! add a drop of lavander to milk. leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing at it.

03-11-2002, 01:15 PM	#8
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	Wow, they look really nice-I wish I could get them! As for finding the BBC production, I have no idea where to find them. . .I could ask one of my friends, I think she bought them somewhere. . .but she's in Cuba right now. Or on her way there, at any rate. The ones I have were from tapes recorded from the radio when they did it in the US. __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

03-11-2002, 02:34 PM	#9
Glorious Glorfindel Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: im too doped up to remember Posts: 371	well, u can get them online i think. try these links www.bbc.co.uk/ www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com, whichever one suits the country u live in (DUH) just search 4 lord of the rings, and it should come up there. oh yeah, almost 4 got-check out: www.whsmiths.com - i think thats right, then jst search 4 lotr and it comes up sumwhere __________________ A Elbereth Gilthonial Silivren penna miriel o menal aglar elenath Na-chaered palan-diriel o galadhremmin ennorath Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, si nef aearon! add a drop of lavander to milk. leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing at it.

03-11-2002, 06:39 PM	#10
aldesign Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Uk Posts: 447	i saw an entire box set of the bbc version of cassete, it was like 17 or so tapes cost £150 HARSH!!!!!!! andy __________________ The funniest story on the net, made by entmoot fanatics, visit it @ FOTMB.com FRODO LIVES!! GET FREE AVATARS HERE!

03-13-2002, 03:30 PM	#12
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	2:30pm, Radio 4 __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

03-14-2002, 09:01 PM	#13
Khadrane Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Middle Earth (I wish) Posts: 670	I just got it! (Sadly, I'm only borrowing it) Do they really leave Tom Baombadil out? WHY does everyone leave him out????? Oh well. It's really cool already, and I'm only done with the first tape. __________________ Few know whither their road will take them till they come to its end. -Legolas FRODO LIVES! ABORTION IS HOMICIDE

03-15-2002, 05:16 PM	#14
Tanoliel Eccentric Chocolate Crow Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Emerald City--Seattle, WA Posts: 1,861	I absolutely ADORE the BBC tapes. My dad taped them off the radio when CBS broadcast them in America ages ago...since they're rebroadcasting in the UK, I'm gonna email National Public Radio and bug them to get it over to the west (heh...). The orcs are a little funky...personally, I love the choices of master samwise, and I really lke how they do the "finding frodo" bit in the orc tower. I dunno what other people think, but personally I think William Nyhe (or however you spell his name, I can't think) sings really well! Anyone remember the gilgalad song? Heh...love the songs...I memorized that one. Okay. I'll stop. This post is too long anyhow...I just really love em, cause they're what got me hooked on Tolkien in the first place! -tano __________________ Wisdom for Short Attention Spans...Ozy and Millie. It rocks. Food Of The Gods: 3,7-dihydro-3,7-dimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione Feed Me.... Another Online Dwelling Place... "All right, I confess. It is my intention to comandeer a ship, pick up a crew in Tortuga, to rape, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out." -Captain Jack Sparrow "The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify." -Amelia Peabody Emerson "Most people obey the orders of someone who is pointing a gun at their head." -A.P. Emerson

03-15-2002, 06:11 PM	#15
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	Yes! I absolutely love Sam's song in the Tower in the BBC one! Tano, I thank you a million times over for those tapes. . . __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

03-19-2002, 02:37 AM	#16
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	My brother just started listening to them. He's usually kinda negative about all things LotR, simply because I like it so much, but he was being perfectly nice and willing to listen to me go on about it today. Maybe because he's sick. But anyway, he started listeing to the BBC production today, and he's already through at least episode 13, I think! And he really likes them, but we were both complaining about how Tammy Grimes pronoucing Moria "Mor-I-ah." __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

03-20-2002, 01:30 AM	#17
Tanoliel Eccentric Chocolate Crow Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Emerald City--Seattle, WA Posts: 1,861	Ergh, yes..."mor-I-a" Aragorn's voice really bugged me at first, but now i'm used to it, since i listen to it every night! -tano __________________ Wisdom for Short Attention Spans...Ozy and Millie. It rocks. Food Of The Gods: 3,7-dihydro-3,7-dimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione Feed Me.... Another Online Dwelling Place... "All right, I confess. It is my intention to comandeer a ship, pick up a crew in Tortuga, to rape, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out." -Captain Jack Sparrow "The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify." -Amelia Peabody Emerson "Most people obey the orders of someone who is pointing a gun at their head." -A.P. Emerson

03-22-2002, 01:10 AM	#18
GandalfTheWhite Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 297	cds i got the cds of it for my birthday and i think gollum is alsome! i also think the crys of the nazgul are eerie. __________________ "Behold, I am not Gandalf the Grey, whom you betrayed. I am Gandalf the White, who has returned from death. You have no colour now, and I cast you from the order and from the Council." -Gandalf The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. "He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom." -Gandalf "A thing is about to happen which has not happened since the Elder Days: the Ents are going to wake up and find that they are strong." -Gandalf

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