![]() ![]() He never lost my interest, seeming to command a completely convincing and extensive repertoire of character voices which managed to carry the narrative along with complete authority. Given that, his rendition is a delight, a tour de force in fact. In a sense, Inglis is in competition with the BBC radio dramatisation (which I thought excellent and still return to)and more recently the three-film version (which I thought equally brilliant). Other long stories have been ruined for me by a monotonous or weak reading. ![]() What impressed me most, after buying and listening to the complete work (over 52 hours) was the mastery of the reader, Rob Inglis. Those are purely subjective responses though others may well enjoy those very aspects. In such a sweeping and varied epic there will inevitably be elements you respond to less than others for me these would include characters such as Tom Bombadil, many of the songs, the master-servant relationship between some of the Hobbits and the rather stilted, pseudo-Biblical prose style of some of the later sections of The Return of the King. If you admire it without reservation you're possibly unusual. It's unlikely you'd consider buying the whole set if you don't already know and enjoy the story. Reviewing these books (the whole trilogy, not just the first volume), a classic work of the twentieth century, would be an impertinence I think. ![]()
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