alt Hacker NewsJRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)
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My favorite recent LotR media:
There is a Lord of the Rings MMO (like World of Warcraft) and a guy made a video recording a walk from the Shire to Mordor. Like you can just walk from the Shire to Mordor in the game. And it's almost 10 hours long in real world time to do that! But on top of that the whole journey is narrated by the Lord of the Rings audio book, with the relevant parts of the journey.
Incredibly relaxing
It is so amazing how Lord of the Rings persists in this world as a work of fantasy.
I used to visit a french LotR forum with comments dating back to the early 2000s until now. Nostalgic and surreal.
This is so good. You can tell that Andy Serkis based his gollum voice off of this.
People who don't like "On The Road" should listen to Jack read it in his own voice.
Of course he didn't live to see the Peter Jackson movies but I think I've heard his son didn't like them
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I wonder what Tolkien would say of so much of the symbolism from his novels being used to bootstrap a horrible dystopian control grid? Would he approve or disapprove? The way that orcs are dehumanized you have to wonder.
This is the most magnificent audio version ever recorded of The Hobbit - by Nicol Williamson in the early 1970's.
Zip file with mp3 in it:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b2aPKgVVguOKMOOqWskaliOviYr...
Best enjoyed on a rainy afternoon in an armchair with a cup of tea.