A faultless rendition of what is, for so many people, a book they return to over and over again, throughout their lives. The producers of the trilogy could not have chosen a better narrator. He listens to them constantly, and has no problem with the complex language, and subtle emotions. My autistic teenager has always struggled with reading, so having these on audiobook has been an absolute boon, to him. Hence joining Audible, and making LOTR my main goal for the first year of membership! I'd have joined Audible to buy these books, alone. iTunes refused to restore the books for me - upsetting as it was my largest single investment in any audiobook. So when my computer crashed, I lost the lot, as my back up disks were also damaged in the intervening years, meaning I could only retrieve a section of the book. I originally bought the trilogy on i-Tunes, not realising they don't have a cloud for audiobooks. I guess you'll just have to buy the first volume to decide what your own response is.)Īs someone else says, it seems an impertinence to review these books - they have to be the most loved novels of the 20thC, across the world. Interestingly there were no 'in-between' reviews, either 'superb' or 'awful'. Thank you, Mr Inglis.! (Out of curiosity I checked listener reviews of this production on Amazon's website and was astonished to find that some thought it dreadful. 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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