THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Fully dramatized by Mind's Eye
National Public Radio in 1979
128K
This LOTR trilogy includes:
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The US National Public Radio broadcast a radio dramatization of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. It was produced by The Mind's Eye and has since been made available by several different companies.
It is sometimes confused with the later BBC production in 1981, but is distinguished by the fact that the most widely circulated US edition comes in a wooden box, whether on compact discs or cassette tapes. The Mind's Eye cast for The Hobbit (a separate production) recorded their tracks separately (unlike the BBC production which, like most British radio serials, assembled the cast to record their dialogue together) but the adaptation for The Lord of the Rings was recorded en group and received much praise as being better than the Mind's Eye productions ("a masterpiece" (The Courier), "spirited production, stirring music" (Washington Post), "The best available" (Booklist).
The cast includes Ray Reinhardt (Bilbo), James Arrington (Frodo), Pat Franklyn (Merry), Mac McCaddon (Pippin), Lou Bliss (Sam), Bernard Mayes (Gandalf), Gail Chugg (Narrator), Bernard Mayes (Tom Bombadil), and Tom Luce (Strider/Aragorn). Additionally, Franklyn, McCaddon, Chugg, Reinhardt, Bob Lewis, John Vickery, Erik Bauersfeld and Carl Hague were credited for "additional voices".
The radio script of The Lord of the Rings was written by Bernard Mayes, was an abridged version of the book, and emphasized dialogue over description. The broadcasts totaled more than 11 hours. The budget was small and production time was limited. The cast were local theater players, and the production used stock music and homemade sound effects. The script of The Lord Of The Rings is notable for including the Tom Bombadil scenes, unlike most other adaptations of the book.
Radio drama was a rarity in the United States at that time, and this production was popular at the time of its broadcast. It was later overshadowed by the BBC radio dramatization. The Mind's Eye also produced a six-hour adaptation of The Hobbit.
The Mind's Eye adaptation has also been identified with Soundelux, and, most recently, with Highbridge. The name changes correspond to the companies which owned the rights at different times.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy NPR LINK
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Anybody else having problems with these? I have downloaded both 4 times but each time the decompression fails to open the zip files ;-(
William............I didn't have any trouble. I did have to type in the password that Rick provided in his description. Also, I happen to have WinRar on my system. Hope that helps.
Thanks for that, Tom - I am using a Mac so that might have something to do with it. No probs with The Hobbit - I will have to put my thinking cap on to see if there is a way round it. Cheers, W.
Good luck William! I have never had my hands on a Mac. I don't have any idea what software would be available to open a rar file. There must be a way and Lord of the Rings is well worth having.
Sorted, Tom - easy when you know how .....
Mac users will need to right click (or hold down the control key) when clicking on the download symbol. That way the complete file is downloaded. I also used Stuffit Expander (with the PassWord) to decompress the 2 files. All worked OK - this might be helpful to other Mac users (surely I can't be alone in this!).
I am glad you sorted it out. win rar is the accepted compression vehicle for Usenet where I get a great deal of my material. I only used a password because I had had trouble with these two and being deleted by my storage so I had to take extra measures to keep them from being deleted. I apologize for the inconvenience. --------------------------------- R
It wasn't that much trouble to use the password Rick; well worth the effort to have this made available. Thanks again for everything you do.
ditto ;-)
Thanks Rick, It's amazing all you do!
You're welcome Tom, I am disabled and was in a profession that helped others. I enjoy helping others and we do have quite a few members that are disabled or retired and cannot buy literature or dramatisations with the price of them being what they are so this is what I do now to help others. With my hobby of collecting and listening the next step was sharing. I shared so much I got asked to be administrator of the site. It keeps my mind active now that my body can't be active without increased pain. The pain I have 24/7 is enough. LOL Anyways, enjoy, that is what it is here for. ----------------------------------------------------------------- R
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