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Lord of the Rings

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Category: Book

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Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars

22 reviews
Sales Rank: 739782

Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Fully dramatized; 10.5 hours on 9 CDs
Number Of Items: 9
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 6.3 x 5.7 x 4.3

ISBN: 1565115503
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781565115507
ASIN: 1565115503

Publication Date: October 1, 2001
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
The original American dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio.

From the wonderful landscapes of the Shire and Lothlorien, to the stark and sunless land of Mordor, the courageous Hobbits pursue their quest, bearing the awesome Ring of Sauron, the Dark Lord! This epic trilogy takes up where The Hobbit leaves off, tracing the legend of the One Ring, found by Bilbo in the Goblin's cave, to its final destruction in the Crack of Doom.

Packaged in attractive wooden gift box.

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This is NOT THE NPR broadcast version! December 18, 2009
E. Mirro Jr.
Quoting Amazon: "The original American dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio". NO IT ISN'T. This is a Highbridge book reading. The description is completely wrong.

2 out of 5 stars

Not at all what I expected September 3, 2009
Towani (NC USA)
For some reason, when I first looked at this product, I thought it was recorded in the 1990's. I was wrong though. After hearing the first disc, I googled it and it appears this is from 1979. It shows as the sound is, to me, poor, and the effects are weak.

I look forward to getting the BBC version recorded in the 80's as I hear it was a lot better production.

4 out of 5 stars

Overall the Better Edition June 17, 2009
Julia Freewoman (Eureka, CA USA)
I've listened to both version at this point the BBC and this version (Mind's Eye or American) and think that this version is overall the better version. One of my main complaints about the BBC version when I bought it after my tape version of the Mind's Eye wore out was the audio quality which can make it hard to hear.

When I recently found and bought this new packaged version I was very pleased the story while short appeared to follow the story as J.R.R. Tolkien wrote it much more faithfully than the BBC version. The voices are clear and reasonably distinct enough that after listening for awhile you have no problem knowing who is saying what. And most importantly the audio does not randomly go up and down in the in this version which it did in the BBC version which at least for me made the BBC version hard (and sometimes painful to follow).

Better version overall

2 out of 5 stars

Most serious Tolkien fans will find this disappointing. February 1, 2009
Jeff E. Dumas (El Dorado, AR)
I don't really like this production. To me the characters are all wrong. They way that elves are depicted seem very childish as opposed to being noble. Didn't like the portrayal of Bombadil either. Most of the characters are either over the top or come across as slow witted. If someone were first introduced to LOTR with this production he would be put off from reading the books and miss out on what a great work LOTR is.

3 out of 5 stars

I'll always have a soft spot for this program, but it could still have been done much better. September 22, 2008
Bryan J. Peterson (Twin Falls, Idaho United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I was first exposed to the wonderful world of Middle_Earth largely at the insistance of my fourth-grade teacher. She had both the American radiodramas of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings available for anyone to check out. Perhaps because I was only ten at the time, I enjoyed the acting and sound effects, which I must say were done better in the Hobbit than in the Lord of the Rings. This program was released a year or so before I was born, in 1979 if I remember right, and so it's understandable that they wouldn't be able to do as much with the story as they probably could nowadays.
First I'll start with the things I liked about it. The soundtrack for this paticular dramatization is composed of classical pieces that, though not specifically written for the program, fit in quite well, at least as far as I'm concerned. For peaceful moments inth estory you get pieceful music, then for the battles the music becomes more tense.
The cast is something of a mixed bag. I like them, but I've always felt that each actor had too many parts to work with, so several characters ended up sounding the same. I didn't know Gimley and Gloin were exactly the same person. Voiced by the same actor (Gail Chugg, the narrator), it would be easy to confuse them if Gloin had featured more prominently in Lord of the Rings. Also, the same actor who portrays Frodo also portrays Saruman.
One thing I didn't like nearly as much about this adaptation are the sound effects. While most of them are extremely realistic, horses' hooves, crackling fires, rushing streams and the like, the sword fight sounds weren't quite as good. And, as another reviewer mentions, the bizarre laser effects when Gandalf uses his magic tend to put one more in mind of a Sci-Fi drama like War of the Worlds than a fantasy.
Despite its flaws however, I'll always have a soft spot for both these Mind's Eye dramas, probably because they were my first real exposure to Tolkien's world. In fact if I hadn't misplaced them I would probably still dig them out and listen to them fairly often. The two stars are mainly subtracted for the rather scarce cast and some of the SFX. One thing I did really like were the wooden boxes that both The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings came in. Even a blind person like myself could feel the cool designs, probably writing, that were engraved into the wood. So while i'll admit that neither this program nor The Hobbit are as high quality as they could have been, I still enjoyed them enough to own them. I may have to reorder them at some point. Maybe when I have children and I decide to introduce them to the world of Middle Earth.

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