![]() ![]() Please become my patron at to help this blog survive and thrive. ![]() Post navigation ← Previous post Next post → Also, in the early drafts of LoTR, ‘Trotter’ (later Strider) was to have been one of these roving hobbits. Such as not having Bilbo briefly note some itinerant hobbits when he and Thorin make their way out of the Shire via Breeland (though the existence of roving hobbits who choose to be itinerant is later revealed in LoTR, when Merry inserts his brief history of Breeland… “Some, doubtless, were no better than tramps, ready to dig a hole in any bank and stay only as long as it suited them.”). The text used by Bluefax is the modern edition, which subtly aligns the 1937 original of the Gollum sequence with the plot of the 1950s The Lord of the Rings, and also makes other small changes. But the central chapters on Mirkwood and its spiders may have some reaching for their Lovecraft, for light relief. I don’t refer to that strange anti-Tolkien phobia, which seems to involve a horror of encountering fey singing elves. There’s a certain amount of horror to be found here, and indeed children’s book reviewers warned of it on publication. To encompass the ‘untold tales’ to be found in the cracks of The Hobbit as well as The Lord of the Rings. With a good unabridged audiobook to hand for repeated listening, I may now expand my The Cracks of Doom book to a third edition. Which is where the music comes from, but be warned that the Hobbit movies are otherwise the worst possible introduction to Middle-earth. Also the soundtrack album for the disappointing and overblown The Hobbit movies. My understand is that to legally download this you need to first own the retail book and the retail audiobook. But the voicework is very good, it’s a great listen and is overall a fine audiowork and precursor to hearing Dragash’s LoTR. The Hobbit (Audiobook) by Bluefax is not quite up to the vocal standards of master-mimic Phil Dragash, who had earlier accomplished the same thing with an unabridged The Lord of the Rings. Full-cast (one man, young, British) + audio FX + music. I’ve been pleased to discover a new free ten-hour unabridged audio version of Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Here’s something which may brighten a dull Monday. ![]()
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