Middle Earth links

[lost_spook]

Since a lot of my flist seem to have listened to the R4 LOTR adaptation, or, um, have now been inspired to do so, I thought the following might be of interest: (You know, if anyone ever feels the need to defriend me for my unreasonable tendency to gush about obscure British productions that are at least 30 years old, I will understand

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[persiflage_1]

I haven't listened to an ep yet - but will later...

I didn't listen to one earlier 'cos I was watching the first two eps of Midnight is a Place courtesy of LoveFilm!

[lost_spook]

Cool. I have been through the Battle of Helm's Deep today. (♥ ♥ ♥ Sorry - I was dreading an audio battle of noise... and they managed to get round the problem in a simple but effective way - or I thought it was. ♥)

My Googling has made me learn that you and I are listening to very slightly different versions! I think you have the 13 episode broadcast version? And I have the 2001 edition with Prologues/Epilogues by Ian Holm, and re-edited to match the books, which means a) I have 11 discs of story (& 1 of music) and b) they start and end at different places, and from Two Towers, some of it is in a different order. But otherwise the same. I'm just noting this in case our conversations start getting confusing, because I've no idea how much or how little my edition has been re-ordered!! :-)

Oh, gosh. Heh. You haven't?! I dread to ask what you think!! :lol:

I was just going to reply to your other comment just now to ask if your laptop was okay yet - and not too horribly dear if so? :-/

[persiflage_1]

I heard the Battle of Helm's Deep yesterday... I'm now listening to Gandalf and Theoden & co visiting Orthanc...

Oh right. I could've borrowed that version, but it would've cost me 3 times as much (£4.50 instead of £1.50)

Um, not much happened in MiaP as yet (watched the first two eps).

Haven't heard anything about the laptop as yet...

[lost_spook]

I was just listening to that, too. :-)

Well, we only had this version & it was free hire for teen SW. But people seem to think the episode format is better, anyway. Either way, it's the same thing in essentials; you were indeed wise to save your pennies!!

Ohh, dear - will keep my fingers crossed for you.

[john_amend_all]

Yes, the thread you found is archived; this link gets you the formatted version.

[lost_spook]

Thanks!

[jjpor]

I'm going to have to track this one down too, aren't I...? :)

[lost_spook]

Yes. It is your doom.

[jjpor]

And yep, not only Chuck Heston, but Chuck Heston as Cardinal Richelieu, for double the power...!

[lost_spook]

Quite! (And, as ever, am impressed by your familiarity with all the famous people. No Mr hestons for you; it's Chuck! :-p)

[ravenskyewalker]

Defriend you over your love for 30-year-old British productions?? Not a chance. ;-)

Interestingly, and frustratingly, my checked-out copy of the LotR audio doesn't have much information. It has the simplest outside cover imaginable, with no extra information outside or inside. Even the online library info's a bit bare, just noting that it stars Ian Holm and features a cast of 25. No other names listed! But it's the correct version, and has 13 CDs.

Oh dear, the animated Bakshi version. Do not want. I saw that way back in the day (1978?), and it seemed to glory in the "pornography of violence," to the point that I was unsettled and my parents regretted having gone to see it. Yes, it's a dark, violent story, but it can be done with style, and Bakshi had none. *shudder*

Hah, the quote about the stars who had no idea what they were doing reminds me of accounts I've read of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" radio show, and perhaps the televised version -- some had no clue what they were doing, but it was a job, so... ;-)

[lost_spook]

Defriend you over your love for 30-year-old British productions?? Not a chance.

Damn, I'll have to think of something else... :lol: Aw, thanks. :-D

Oh, that's odd. Still, with it being a library thing, there could easily have been a little booklet-y thing that went missing. The link above has lots of fun info, if you're interested.

Hah, I was going to say, I saw that once, when I was young, and didn't remember it being violent - and then realised that I saw it on TV, so it probably wasn't! As far as I can see, the main interesting thing about it, is that the BBC got Peter Woodthorpe (Gollum) and Michael Graham Cox (Boromir) to reprise their roles for the Radio version.

[ravenskyewalker]

You mean the Bakshi version wasn't violent? I remember being pretty creeped-out (but then, I was probably 11-12 when I saw it) by the way it seemed to glory in killing characters in some detail, with lots of animated blood. My parents had a "Yuck, sorry you saw that" reaction to it, unless I'm hallucinating the whole thing. (Could the version you saw have been edited some?)

OTOH, there was an animated "Watership Down" that was dark and violent, but quite well done, and I was okay with seeing that one. Hmm.

[lost_spook]

Heh, yes, that's what I meant - I caught part of it on TV on a Saturday afternoon. If it had been gory or violent, it'd have been edited to death, so I wouldn't know! And I must have been about 9 or 10 or something, so I don't remember much, except seeing the bit with Moria and being curious about what was going on. Something looked a bit interesting there... :-D

... But Watership Down scared me to death! :lol: That opening with all the dark rabbits!! I don't think I ever looked at a rabbit in the same way again. (Rabbits are Evil. *nod*)