The Hobbit
by J.R.R.Tolkien
Fully dramatized by Mind's Eye
National Public Radio: 1979
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Seventy-five years ago, J.R.R Tolkien wrote a book for his children called The Hobbit. It isn't just a landmark piece of fantasy literature; it's a movement — a work that's inspired everyone from director Peter Jackson to the band Led Zeppelin to Leonard Nimoy (who recorded his own homage to the book in the late 1960s — "").
Yet though it's widely celebrated, The Hobbit's always kind of existed in the shadow of Tolkien's other great work, The Lord of the Rings.
Tolkien fans tend to fall in love with The Hobbit as children, then move on to The Lord of the Rings and never come back. NPR and Mind's Eye dramatized "The Hobbit" by JRR Tolkien as a Prelude to The Lord Of The Rings They then broadcast both to a Radio starved U.S. in 1979 and the imaginations of an entire country were allowed to go to Middle Earth.
Sit back and listen as Bilbo Baggins, a gentle hobbit who loves the comforts of home, reluctantly joins a company of dwarves on a journey to recover plundered gold from a fierce dragon. It's a tale of high adventure and astonishing courage—and a magical prelude to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Bilbo Baggins, a gentle hobbit who loves the comforts of home, reluctantly joins a company of dwarves on a journey to recover plundered gold from a fierce dragon. It's a tale of high adventure and astonishing courage—and a magical prelude to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Bilbo Baggins, a gentle hobbit who loves the comforts of home, reluctantly joins a company of dwarves on a journey to recover plundered gold from a fierce dragon. It's a tale of high adventure and astonishing courage—and a magical prelude to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Listen now to the original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio in 1979.
Author Bio
J. R. R. TOLKIEN was a writer and university professor. In addition to The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's published fiction includes The Silmarillion, and other posthumously published books, which taken together is a connected body of work about an imagined—and much-beloved by readers—world called Middle Earth.
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Thank You!
Thank you Rick, you bring much joy to a disabled old man.
There are alot worse things we could do. LOL ----------------------------------- R
Thank you, Rik!!!
& here I was thinking "La, la, la, somebody reading the Hobbit. Well that might be worth listening to if it's done well. La, la--FULLY DRAMATISED?!!???" *GRAB* THANK YOU!!!