BBC LOTR Sound Recording Joy

May 16th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Gryffindor Common Room

By Matthew

I’ve just had a good experience.

When I was in my early teens a friend of mine who was a Tolkien fan told me about a Lord of the Rings series on the radio. He’d taped a few episodes and I loved listening to them. It was dramitised with great voice actors like Sir Michael Horden, John Le Messurier, Ian Holm and other voices that were familiar from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

I’d been keeping my eye out for it through all the LOTR hype and merchandising sorrounding the Peter Jackson movies and I did find it- 13 cd’s full, over 14 hours of story. The thing was was that it was priced at $200! I wasn’t going to pay that.

But yesterday I was looking in a bookshop’s bargain table and what did I find? You guessed it, a pile of about 20 copies of the “Collector’s Edition” of the cd set for $20. I am very happy now and have listened to the first two discs. I highly recommend this production for any fan of LOTR. Its a more engaging way of enjoying the story than the movies as all the action is happening in your mind. I’m all for that. Do yourself a favour.

If anyone wants me to get them a set if its still there I’ll do that too.

Here’s a link with some other people’s reviews.

Oh, and an important point- Sam doesn’t sound like a comic relief yokel.

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Tags: bbc·british·gandalf·lord of the rings·tolkien

10 responses so far ↓

1 Rollin Butler // May 16, 2008 at 9:10 pm

Travis, If they still have one, Please let me know and I will send the $ plus postage.
2 korg20000bc // May 16, 2008 at 10:10 pm

Rollin,
Actually the post is by me ie. Matthew or korg20000bc here in Australia, one of Travis’ Blogengamot.

If you’re still interested in me posting it to you from here say so and I’ll email you.

Matthew
3 Rollin Butler // May 16, 2008 at 10:45 pm

What would the exchange be? Do you take Pay Pal?
4 korg20000bc // May 16, 2008 at 11:30 pm

I’ve just emailed you.
5 Kees // May 18, 2008 at 6:58 am

Matthew,

would there be any change to have this shipped to the Netherlands. Do you know the S&H ? (and more inmprotant, would you be willing to take the effort?)

Cheers
Kees
6 Giveaway - BBC Radio Collection: The Lord of the Rings // Jun 1, 2008 at 11:22 am

[...] one’s really exciting: a dramatized BBC production of The Lord of the Rings. Matthew wrote about this a couple weeks ago. Here’s a wikipedia entry for the production, and here’s a link [...]
7 Victoria // Jun 1, 2008 at 10:30 pm

Ha, more Dutchies visiting the blog. Dutchies to take over the world !!!

But somewhat more seriously, I know you’re doing this so that people will sign up to The Hog’s Head twitter, but no fair ! I don’t want Twitter, so I’ll be missing out on the opportunity to be entered in the draw ! I’ve officially stated my protest (and might still have to sign up to be entered and will then just cancel my account afterward…)
8 Travis Prinzi // Jun 2, 2008 at 9:03 am

Haha! Well, it is a really great giveaway, so I reject your protest Go ahead and sign up, then don’t use it. It won’t hurt you too much, I imagine
9 Victoria // Jun 2, 2008 at 11:22 am

Well, the reason that I don’t want it is because there are so many interesting people using Twitter, that before I know it I will be hooked on another form of community outlet and will be squandering the hours that I should be spending writing on even more additive gizmo’s on the computer again…. Oh well, life is rough I suppose.
10 Travis Prinzi // Jun 2, 2008 at 2:48 pm

Twitter can definitely take over your time…but you can also sync it with other programs like IM or Facebook, so if you’re already using one of those, you can make it a bit easier.