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Elf Lord
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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.
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Elven Warrior
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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! ![]() ![]()
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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!
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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!
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i just finished listening to the chapters on treebeard and the ride of the rohirrim to the battle of helm's deep.
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Elven Warrior
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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 ![]()
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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.
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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.
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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 ![]()
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i saw an entire box set of the bbc version of cassete,
it was like 17 or so tapes cost £150 HARSH!!!!!!! andy
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2:30pm, Radio 4
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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.
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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
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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. . .
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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."
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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
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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.
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