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The return of the king

A BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of the third book in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Brian Sibley's famous 1981 adaptation, starring Ian Holm and Michael Hordern, has been divided into three corresponding parts, with newly-recorded beginning and end narration by Ian Holm (who...

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Main Author: Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973.
Other Authors: Inglis, Rob. (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language: English
Published: London : AudioGO Ltd, 2007.
Edition: Unabridged.
Series: Lord of the rings ; 3.
Middle-Earth universe.
Subjects:
Fantasy fiction, English.
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Summary: A BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of the third book in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Brian Sibley's famous 1981 adaptation, starring Ian Holm and Michael Hordern, has been divided into three corresponding parts, with newly-recorded beginning and end narration by Ian Holm (who plays Frodo in this and Bilbo in the feature films).
Item Description: Unabridged.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (3 audio files) : digital
Playing Time: 03::1:0:
Format: Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 89577 KB).
Audience: Text Difficulty 9 - Text Difficulty 12
ISBN: 9781405646215
Author Notes: A writer of fantasies, Tolkien, a professor of language and literature at Oxford University, was always intrigued by early English and the imaginative use of language. In his greatest story, the trilogy The Lord of the Rings (1954--56), Tolkien invented a language with vocabulary, grammar, syntax, even poetry of its own. Though readers have created various possible allegorical interpretations, Tolkien has said: "It is not about anything but itself. (Certainly it has no allegorical intentions, general, particular or topical, moral, religious or political.)" In The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962), Tolkien tells the story of the "master of wood, water, and hill," a jolly teller of tales and singer of songs, one of the multitude of characters in his romance, saga, epic, or fairy tales about his country of the Hobbits.

Tolkien was also a formidable medieval scholar, as evidenced by his work, Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics (1936) and his edition of Anciene Wisse: English Text of the Anciene Riwle.

Among his works published posthumously, are The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún and The Fall of Arthur, which was edited by his son, Christopher.

In 2013, his title, The\Hobbit (Movie Tie-In) made The New York Times Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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