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Includes bonus music and a Middle-Earth map!
Unabridged on 12 CDs
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4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Lord of the Rings: The Complete Trilogy (Audio CD)
The page says that it's unabridged. It's NOT. It is abridged. Heavily. Amazon, if you are reading this, please change your page to reflect reality.I haven't actually bought this, but was confused by the contradictory information (it says both abridged and unabridged) so this is NOT a review, but more of an FYI.
5.0 out of 5 stars
BBC Audio Lord of the Rings,
By J D "J D" (Mississauga, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Lord of the Rings: The Complete Trilogy (Audio CD)
I heard this audio version on CBC years ago and have wanted to get it ever since. I am delighted to have found it.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Uneven, but overall successful adaptation of a classic,
By "scotthanning" (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Lord of the Rings (Audio CD)
The best part of the BBC production is Ian Holm as the voice of Frodo. It's fascinating to listen to him in this 1981 performance and recall his work as Bilbo in the recent movie. However, the overall production, while excellent at times, is far from perfect. Some of the performances are disappointing, especially the completely flat and affectless voice of Galadriel. At times, it's hard to tell which character is speaking because some of the actors don't have very distinctive voices. In addition, the sound effects are often cheesy and low-budget. Huge, intense, deadly battles are reduced to a couple of metallic clinks that don't sound remotely dangerous. Finally, the choice to put some of Tolkien's poems to music makes me very glad that Peter Jackson elected NOT to do so in the movies. Sung in slow, operatic fashion, they come off as pretentious twaddle, almost like self-parodies in the style of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."Even with these negatives, I am pleased overall with the BBC production, and consider it a worthwhile purchase. Until the films of The Two Towers and Return of the King are released in 2002 and 2003 respectively, this CD collection is the most successful dramatization of these books available in any format.
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