The Plans for the Second Barrow-Downs Audio Adaption!

[MatthewM]

Hello all!

I thought about posting this on the original "Would There Ever Be a Possibility?" thread, but decided to attract more views it would be nice to start a seperate thread.

Right now, The Ring Goes South Barrow-Downs community adaption is underway, with almost all of the roles cast. We will be recording, word for word, a dramatization of a few pages. I would like to announce our second production, which our head of the department Nogrod likes and has agreed upon.

Now, we are indeed in the infant stages of The Ring Goes South, but as is with many productions, people like myself get hasty (as Treebeard encourages us not to do) and start talking about, if the first project comes out well, making a second. Now as I thought about this I came up with what I think is a great idea.

After TRGS, I think it would be nice recording 3 1/2-4 pages (a rather short production) from At the Sign of the Prancing Pony. I have the perfect pages, too - I am not sure what edition everyone has, but I am talking about recording from a page or two in, when the sentence starts:

"It was dark, and white stars were shining..." and ending with Pippin's line of "Mind yourself! Don't get lost, and don't forget that it is safer indoors!"

It would be a great tribute to the beginning of the Hobbit's journey. Also, I was thinking that it would only be fair to let males play the Hobbits this time - seeing as how the girls will be playing Sam, Pip, and Merry in our first production. The narrator could surely be female. Since this wouldn't be a huge production, I don't really see why anybody would have a problem with it.

Each character has at least 2 lines of words, and the characters are as follows:

Frodo
Merry
Pippin
Sam
Nob
Butterbur
Gate-keeper

Nob could surely be played by a female, as well. So we could have 2 female roles- Narrator and Nob. But since not every male will be getting a part in TRGS, I think it would be nice to have the Hobbits voiced by males.

I have a love for Pippin, and I could do a good Pip. He only has a line and a half, so I would definitely be aiming for that role. The others could be discussed accordingly. I feel like Nogrod could make a great Butterbur or Gate-keeper, or maybe even Frodo. Any role he wants, really, he's the man!

Anyway, let me know what you think of this! Again, I know we haven't even truly began our first project (one thing at a time - I know) but I just wanted to share my thoughts with you. I think it would be great!

Then, if that all went well, we could branch out to something from say, RotK, in which there will be a ton of one liners for everybody to get involved.