Literary Recording of the Day – J.R.R. Tolkien reads from The Hobbit (1952) by rarebooksleuth

books · @rarebooksleuth · Aug 13 '18

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Literary Recording of the Day – J.R.R. Tolkien reads from The Hobbit (1952)

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!): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VOdv2RE4jg

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@aresbon · Aug 13 '18

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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@edaugusts · Aug 13 '18

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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@rarebooksleuth · Aug 13 '18

HAHA!

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@matthewdavid · Aug 13 '18

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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