The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers: A Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisation (Señor de los Anillos) (Lord of the Rings, #2)

by J. R. R. Tolkien

Ian Holm (Narrator), Michael Hordern (Narrator), Robert Stephens (Narrator), Full Cast (Narrator), Bill Nighy (Narrator), Peter Woodthorpe (Narrator), John McAndrew (Narrator), David Collings (Narrator), Douglas Livingstone (Narrator), and Richard O'Callaghan (Narrator)

The second instalment of Tolkien's epic tale, adapted from the original BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Having fled the Shire in their escape from Sauron's Dark Riders, Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring have journeyed to Rivendell and beyond. Their mission is to reach the Mountain of Fire in Mordor, where the Ruling Ring can be destroyed, but already their campaign is in jeopardy. Gandalf has fallen into an abyss, and Boromir has fatally succumbed to the power of the Ring. The others are besieged by an army of orcs - save for Frodo and Sam, whose journey down the River Anduin is being watched by a dark and shadowy figure... Widely regarded as a broadcasting classic, the BBC Radio dramatisation of 'The Lord of the Rings' stars Ian Holm, Michael Hordern, Robert Stephens, John Le Mesurier and Peter Woodthorpe.


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• ISBN10: 1405646209
• ISBN13: 9781405646208
• Publish Date: 3 September 2007 (first published 11 November 1954)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House
• Imprint: BBC Digital Audio
• Edition: Unabridged edition
• Format: Audiobook (MP3)
• Duration: 4 hours and 29 minutes
• Language: English

Reviews

The Lord of the Rings is not The Hobbit. If you have tried The Hobbit and didn't love it, you're probably not going to like The Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit is the epitome of the perfect fantasy tale. The kind you want to sit around a campfire and hear told with dramatic exaggeration. It has a dragon and dwarves, a wizard and one lone hobbit who turns out to be the bravest of them all.

But The Lord of the Rings is not The Hobbit. The Lord of the Rings is The Hobbit's meticulous, older and more serious brother who is going to sit you down and tell you an epic tale of adventure that spans four ages with maps, appendices and side trips delving into the history of many people and a world of places. If you don't like the base elements of The Hobbit, you're going to hate Lord of the Rings because The Lord of the Rings is just a long drawn out, denser version.

J.R.R. Tolkien has not just written a story. He's written an entire world of stories. He pretty much spent a lifetime writing and bringing to life Middle Earth and it's freaking incredible.

Is it perfect? No. But any criticisms don't detract from the highly imaginative work this is - or from my enjoyment of it.

5 stars. It's a classic.