Tolkien Audio Books

[thalmin]

Thanks, Mark.
I picked up the complete and unabridged versions of The Hobbit (10 discs), The Lord of the Rings trilogy (16, 14, & 16 discs), and the Silmarillion (17 discs). They are all available at Amazon. The first two are narrated by Rob Inglis, the Silmarrillion is by Martin Shaw. A map of Beleriand was included in the Silmarillion set.

 

[thalmin]

Rob Inglis does a great job narrating, just don't expect the voices he does to sound like the movies. A new track starts every 3 minutes, making it easy to return where you left off. BTW, The Return of the King includes the Appendices.
I haven't started listening to the Silmarillion yet.
I made the mistake of picking up an abridged version of the trilogy at first, I don't remember who narrated it.

 

[Krieg]

My grandmother has the record version of the Hobbit, that Tolkien read himself. I've not been able to find a copy.

I had a copy of that when I was a kid but unfortunately it seems to have disapeared over the intervening years. Would absolutely love to get my hands on it again.

Tolkien reading the lines of the One Ring gave me tingles.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I've heard the Tolkien-narrated version. It took me a second to get used to it, but then I loved it. I'd like to buy it, but really can't spend all my money now

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I had a copy of that when I was a kid but unfortunately it seems to have disapeared over the intervening years. Would absolutely love to get my hands on it again.

Tolkien reading the lines of the One Ring gave me tingles.

You can get them, right here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...1/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-2016630-0141442
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=sr_1_35/103-2016630-0141442?v=glance&s=books
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=sr_1_40/103-2016630-0141442?v=glance&s=books

The second and third are cassettes, and might be contained on the first, which is on CD.

 

[Desdichado]

Rob Inglis does a great job narrating, just don't expect the voices he does to sound like the movies.

Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I think the Inglis audiobooks are excellent. In fact, the last two times I "read" the Lord of the Rings, it was Inglis in the car as I commuted to and from work. Heck, I may go check them out of the public library and do it yet again, come to think of it...

 

[Krieg]

You can get them, right here:

I love you.

 

[thalmin]

Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I think the Inglis audiobooks are excellent. In fact, the last two times I "read" the Lord of the Rings, it was Inglis in the car as I commuted to and from work. Heck, I may go check them out of the public library and do it yet again, come to think of it...

This makes me kinda wish I lived further from work, so I could listen on the commute.
But only kinda.

BTW, I noticed on the Trilogy box

52 TOTAL HOURS of word-for-word listening

 

[nyrfherdr]

Yes. The Rob Inglis narrated books are excellent and take you on a long journey.
I commute a long way to work and back (2 hours total) and it would still take a couple of weeks to finish a single book. It was great though.

Rob Inglis got me hooked on the medium. I even listened to the appendices of Return of the King.
I now listen to lots of different 'books on tape'. some good. some bad.

If you can, get the Rob Inglis set. I can't recommend them highly enough.

Game ON!
Nyrfherdr

 

[Desdichado]

This makes me kinda wish I lived further from work, so I could listen on the commute.
But only kinda.

My commute is about 30-35 minutes one way. I find that that's just about the right amount of time to get work out of my head before I get home. Any more than that, and it'd be tedious and wasteful. I could take a bit less, but I actually don't mind the time. It's often the only time of the day that I can actually be by myself for a few minutes.