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Odysseus819 · 02-08-2001, 10:14 AM

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The BBC dramatization was of LotR, not the Silm. There is an audio books reading of Silm (read by Martin Shaw) which is also excellent, I actually got the casette tapes of that right at my public library (and duped the tapes). That is an unabridged reading of the full text. The BBC thing is a dramatization, heavily abridged, with a different person doing each voice. On napster it's in 9 parts, each a little less than an hour. Anyway it's very good. E.g. the opening scene is Gollum in Mordor being tortured by a servant of Sauron, a scene that is hinted at in LotR but not portrayed. P.s. there are also audio book versions of the whole trilogy, also read by Martin Shaw, they were at my public library also. Great to listen to in the car, although the fireplace idea sounds good too.

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Odysseus819 Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 699	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Animated Skeleton Posts: 27</TD><TD><img src=http://images.ofoto.com/photos49/1/10/71/9/47/0/47097110103_0_SM.jpg?v=1 WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=60></TD></TR></TABLE> Re: - The BBC dramatization was of LotR, not the Silm. There is an audio books reading of Silm (read by Martin Shaw) which is also excellent, I actually got the casette tapes of that right at my public library (and duped the tapes). That is an unabridged reading of the full text. The BBC thing is a dramatization, heavily abridged, with a different person doing each voice. On napster it's in 9 parts, each a little less than an hour. Anyway it's very good. E.g. the opening scene is Gollum in Mordor being tortured by a servant of Sauron, a scene that is hinted at in LotR but not portrayed. P.s. there are also audio book versions of the whole trilogy, also read by Martin Shaw, they were at my public library also. Great to listen to in the car, although the fireplace idea sounds good too. </p>