The
Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit 13 CD Boxed set
American production Broadcast on NPR.
Brand New (still shrink wrapped):
Fully dramatized 14.75 Hours 13 CDsOur beautifully slipcased collection includes The Hobbit, Tolkien's magical prelude to Lord of the Rings, and all three volumes of the trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
• The complete saga has never before been available on audio in a single collection
• The slipcase features original cover art by John Howe, a leading Tolkien illustrator and Conceptual Artist on Peter Jackson's film version of the trilogy.
• Each title in the set features John Howe artwork
While working on the films (all three movies were made concurrently, with the same cast and director), artist John Howe helped translate his passion for Tolkien's work into three-dimensional sets. His vivid artwork perfectly captures the cultures, creatures, buildings and landscapes that make
Hobbiton, Rivendell and Modor come to life on the big screen. To countless fans, Howe, illustrator of Tolkien books and a wide range of Tolkien products, is the ultimate Middle-earth artist. It's his vision we wanted for our new trilogy.
The audios are the acclaimed American productions broadcast on National Public Radio--fully dramatized, complete with music and sound effects, and digitally remastered.
Fully dramatized; 14¾ hours on 13 CDs
About the Author J R R Tolkien:
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) is best known as the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon language at Oxford from 1925 to 1945, and of English language and literature, also at Oxford, from 1945 to 1959. He was a strongly committed Roman Catholic. Tolkien was a close friend of C. S. Lewis, with whom he shared membership in the literary discussion group the Inklings.
In addition to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's published fiction includes The Silmarillion and other posthumously published books about what he called a legendarium, a fictional mythology of the remote past of Earth, called Arda, and Middle-earth (from middangeard, the lands inhabitable by Men) in particular. Most of these works were compiled from Tolkien's notes by his son Christopher Tolkien. The enduring popularity and influence of Tolkien's works have established him as the "father of the modern high fantasy genre". Tolkien's other published fiction includes adaptations of stories originally told to his children and not directly related to the
legendarium.
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