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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.