I haven’t visited again hobbit adventure After some time, I’ve felt the familiar fascination shared by many readers to return to Tolkien’s fairy tale novels themselves. This was my first introduction to Tolkien, and it was the perfect book for young readers ready to dive into moral complexity and a fully realized fictional world.
Is there a better guide than this? hobbit adventure than Tolkien himself, read (above) 1937 work?In this 1952 two-part recording (Part 2 below), the venerable visionary and scholar reads his works recorded on tape for the first time.
Tolkien begins with a passage describing a creature called Gollum. When I hear this description again, I am struck by how different he is from what I imagined him to be when I first read the book. gollum hobbit adventure It somehow looks wilder and more monstrous than many later visual interpretations. This is a minor point, not a criticism, but perhaps a comment on how necessary it is to return to the sources of rich mythological worlds like Tolkien’s, even if or especially when they are so well realized in other media. After all, no one knows Middle-earth better than its creator.
These readings were part of a much longer recording session, during which Tolkien also read (and sung!) the book extensively. lord of the rings. A YouTube user has collected the radio broadcast of the entire session in several parts. It’s definitely worth your time to listen to the end. It’s also worth knowing a proper background to the recording. The text accompanying the YouTube video is:
When Tolkien visited a friend in August 1952 to pick up the manuscript for The Lord of the Rings, he was shown a tape recorder. Having never seen one before, he asked how it worked and was delighted to hear his voice recorded and his voice played for the first time. Then a friend asked him to read The Hobbit, and Tolkien did it in this wonderful take.
Note: An earlier version of this post appeared on the site in 2012.
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