By Trotter
The Lord of the Rings & the Hobbit Collection [BBC Audiobooks]
4 Oct, 2011
2011-10-4 10:43:09 AM UTC
2011-10-4 10:43:09 AM UTC
Does anyone have any idea why this is so expensive (£90 from amazon.co.uk)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lord-Rings-Ho ... collsguid-21&linkCode=osi
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lord-Rings-Ho ... collsguid-21&linkCode=osi
It is also available for a quarter of the price on eBay, which is ok for both recordings. The BBC Lord of the Rings radio series is excellent,
The Hobbit not so good.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lord-Rings- ... ks_GL&hash=item415deb28c6
The Hobbit not so good.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lord-Rings- ... ks_GL&hash=item415deb28c6
Or for a 25th of that again!
Lord of the rings Inc the Hobbit 19 cd's audio book.
Brand new sealed
No reserve
100% positive feedback
Get yourself an amazing audio book and feel like your part of the action.
"feel like your part of the action" - which of your parts is that?
I suppose one could always do a torrent search as well - but then you wouldn't have the nice box
I suppose one could always do a torrent search as well - but then you wouldn't have the nice box
I noticed that you can download the BBC's Lord of the Rings series from the AudioGo website for £6.99. If you have not listened to this then you need to.
http://www.audiogo.com/uk/the-lord-of ... y-j-r-r-tolkien-gid-21757
http://www.audiogo.com/uk/the-lord-of ... y-j-r-r-tolkien-gid-21757
Trotter wrote:
I noticed that you can download the BBC's Lord of the Rings series from the AudioGo website for £6.99. If you have not listened to this then you need to.
http://www.audiogo.com/uk/the-lord-of ... y-j-r-r-tolkien-gid-21757
Bargain. For anyone who hasn't listened to it, it really is a VERY good adaptation. In fact, I might have to have a re-listen.
I'm interested in purchasing CDs of the BBC Tolkien productions. This (2011) set has 19 CDs (5 Hobbit, 14 LoTR). The 2009 J.R.R. Tolkien Collection includes Tales from the Perilous Realm and J.R.R. Tolkien: An Audio Portrait. It has a total of 21 discs - with 4 each for The Hobbit and each book of the trilogy and an additional 5 for Tales and the Portrait. Does the newer set have more (Hobbit and LotR) content with its 3 additional discs (19 vs. 16)? From what I can glean from Amazon, the individually sold sets are as follows:
Tales: 3 discs
Audio Portrait: 2 discs
Hobbit: 5 discs (contains "bonus author interview")
LotR: 12 discs (one of which is music)
These seem to correlate with the 2009 set with the exception of the extra Hobbit disc (is this simply the bonus interview? - is this the same extra disc as the 2011 set?).
Can anyone sort this out for me?
Tales: 3 discs
Audio Portrait: 2 discs
Hobbit: 5 discs (contains "bonus author interview")
LotR: 12 discs (one of which is music)
These seem to correlate with the 2009 set with the exception of the extra Hobbit disc (is this simply the bonus interview? - is this the same extra disc as the 2011 set?).
Can anyone sort this out for me?
Karl wrote:
I'm interested in purchasing CDs of the BBC Tolkien productions. This (2011) set has 19 CDs (5 Hobbit, 14 LoTR). The 2009 J.R.R. Tolkien Collection includes Tales from the Perilous Realm and J.R.R. Tolkien: An Audio Portrait. It has a total of 21 discs - with 4 each for The Hobbit and each book of the trilogy and an additional 5 for Tales and the Portrait. Does the newer set have more (Hobbit and LotR) content with its 3 additional discs (19 vs. 16)? From what I can glean from Amazon, the individually sold sets are as follows:
Tales: 3 discs
Audio Portrait: 2 discs
Hobbit: 5 discs (contains "bonus author interview")
LotR: 12 discs (one of which is music)
These seem to correlate with the 2009 set with the exception of the extra Hobbit disc (is this simply the bonus interview? - is this the same extra disc as the 2011 set?).
Can anyone sort this out for me?
I don't think the newer sets have any additional content for "The Lord of the Rings". The original LoTR set is 14 CDs (13 hours dramatisation + 1 Music CD). I bought one of the first batch of CDs when they first came out on CD as a numbered limited edition. They have been re-released plenty of times since, but I think the content has always remained identical and only the packaging has changed.
Not sure about "The Hobbit". That is only 8 half hour episodes (i.e. 4 CDs), and not sure what the extra disc is. I'd be very surprised if the extra disc is anything other than the "bonus author interview", though, given the dramatisation was done back in '67, and there is only one extra CD in total (19 rather than 18).
I would think that Tales from the Perilous Realm would run to 2 discs, as it was two cassettes when I got it. That would take you up to the 21 discs in the complete set that you mention.
The BBC LoTR is absolutely fantastic. Best adaptation of anything, ever, in any medium. The Hobbit is not so good, but still worth a listen - some of the voices are very poor and the pronunciation of some of the names makes me want to punch the actors :) Still worth a listen, though, as some of the actors do a very acceptable job (e.g. Thorin).