Hello! Just dropping back by to say that I devoured the BBC radio dramatization of Fellowship and have now got The Two Towers cued up and ready for listening beginning tomorrow.
The writers did a fine job of adapting a narrator-heavy story to the radio drama format, and it moves along so compellingly that one can forgive the odd, "Oh no, the water is rising! I'm afraid I'll drown!" dialogue choices.
What's more, I'm struck by how similar the voices of Gandalf, Frodo and Sam in particular are to those of Ian McKellan, Elijah Wood and Sean Astin. I couldn't help wondering whether the Americans, at least, studied this production for clues.
In any case, the compare-and-contrast exercise between the radio production and the movies that I so recently re-watched is all kinds of fun, and I'm enjoying re-imagining the visuals as I once imagined them while reading the books as a kid.
So thank you for the lovely recommendation.
PS: Tom Bombadil is, apparently, just expendable from a dramatic point of view, isn't he?
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Date: 2011-03-29 02:56 am (UTC)The writers did a fine job of adapting a narrator-heavy story to the radio drama format, and it moves along so compellingly that one can forgive the odd, "Oh no, the water is rising! I'm afraid I'll drown!" dialogue choices.
What's more, I'm struck by how similar the voices of Gandalf, Frodo and Sam in particular are to those of Ian McKellan, Elijah Wood and Sean Astin. I couldn't help wondering whether the Americans, at least, studied this production for clues.
In any case, the compare-and-contrast exercise between the radio production and the movies that I so recently re-watched is all kinds of fun, and I'm enjoying re-imagining the visuals as I once imagined them while reading the books as a kid.
So thank you for the lovely recommendation.
PS: Tom Bombadil is, apparently, just expendable from a dramatic point of view, isn't he?