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Here, together for the first time in one audio collection, are J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpieces The lord of the rings trilogy and its prequel, The hobbit. These are original, fully dramatized, American productions as heard on National Public Radio.

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Main Authors: Tolkien, J. R. R., 1892-1973, (John Ronald Reuel) (Author), Mayes, Bernard (Adapter)
Other Authors: Lewis, Robert, 1909-1997, Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : HighBridge, [2012]
Edition:Unabridged.
Series:Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. Lord of the rings ; 0-3.
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. Middle-Earth universe.
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Middle Earth (Imaginary place) > Fiction.
Baggins, Frodo > Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Audiobooks.
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Summary:Here, together for the first time in one audio collection, are J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpieces The lord of the rings trilogy and its prequel, The hobbit. These are original, fully dramatized, American productions as heard on National Public Radio.
Item Description:Compact disc.
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Release date supplied by publisher.
Recordings originally produced, p1979/1994.
Physical Description:13 audio discs (14 hour, 45 minutes) digital 4 3/4 in.
Production Credits:The hobbit adapted and directed by Bob Lewis ; The fellowship of the ring, The two towers, and The return of the king adapted by Bernard Mayes.
ISBN:9781622311453
1622311450
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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