This is just awesome. Tolkien's work has a great oratory quality to it, so to hear the man himself read it is a delightful treat. So here he is around 1952 reading Riddles in the Dark, Chapter 5 from The Hobbit (listen to him read Gollum's voice!):
Literary Recording of the Day – J.R.R. Tolkien reads from The Hobbit (1952)
7 years ago by rarebooksleuth (63)
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I was reading Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings this evening to my children. We've been reading it for months now, a little bit at a time.
We read The Hobbit before we started Lord Of The Rings.
Thanks for sharing this!
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Tolkien could be said to be one of the best writers of the last century. In my opinion, a genius to build an incredible universe, feats like his can be seen in Homer or Proust, for example.
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Tolkien's powerful voice reminds me a bit of Ezra Pound's, but for the fact Tolkien makes a LOT more sense than a world-renowned but totally unintelligible aesthete like Pound!
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HAHA!
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