Id recommend the Silmarillion as an audiobook, eith the musical score, & actor's voice, afew times; at least in my experience, having had trouble getting into the book. I still re-listen to it regularly, the (Martin?) Shaw narration, is amazing. ive tried listening to other narrators, but they dont do it the justice he does, & i believe he was coached by Tolkien on proper pronunciation of names & locations.
I just finished the hobbit and the trilogy audiobooks. Listened over the course of the summer during when I had the chance. I would highly recommend listening to them narrated by Andy Serkis. He did such an amazing job
You know your Tolkien onions my friend, well done,Subbed. One for you in the future may be.. Saruman, The Scouring Of The Shire: What did 'Sharkey' do that so corrupted the Shire during the time the Hobbits met him on the road, (thinking nothing of it) to the point where he at last reveals himself to Frodo? Lovely style & great stuff.
It came out in 2014, and is pretty much what you'd expect - a translation of Beowulf, but also contains a lot of commentary on it, which is exciting as Beowulf was one of the things that Tolkien taught as a professor at Oxford, it's sort of like being in one of his classes, though without him striding into the room and screaming lines from the book. it also has really good notes from Christopher on the parts where the translation from Old Enlgish was up to interpretation. Tolkien's translation work is very good, he also did a fantastic version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Then did Eru “create” evil? Eru literally tells Morgoth that all his evil is just part of the song and its original theme and intent. This makes some Christian apologists for LOTR squirm.
One could do mental gymnastics, but it seems to me that if a deity created "everything" that includes the bad things. At the least, Tolkien gave it a purpose.
Id recommend the Silmarillion as an audiobook, eith the musical score, & actor's voice, afew times; at least in my experience, having had trouble getting into the book.
I still re-listen to it regularly, the (Martin?) Shaw narration, is amazing. ive tried listening to other narrators, but they dont do it the justice he does, & i believe he was coached by Tolkien on proper pronunciation of names & locations.
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I just finished the hobbit and the trilogy audiobooks. Listened over the course of the summer during when I had the chance. I would highly recommend listening to them narrated by Andy Serkis. He did such an amazing job
I'm not really much for audiobooks but I've only heard good things about Serkis' take on The L.R. and The Silmarillion.
You know your Tolkien onions my friend, well done,Subbed.
One for you in the future may be..
Saruman, The Scouring Of The Shire: What did 'Sharkey' do that so corrupted the Shire during the time the Hobbits met him on the road, (thinking nothing of it) to the point where he at last reveals himself to Frodo?
Lovely style & great stuff.
Tell me more about this Beowulf translation, please ;)
It came out in 2014, and is pretty much what you'd expect - a translation of Beowulf, but also contains a lot of commentary on it, which is exciting as Beowulf was one of the things that Tolkien taught as a professor at Oxford, it's sort of like being in one of his classes, though without him striding into the room and screaming lines from the book. it also has really good notes from Christopher on the parts where the translation from Old Enlgish was up to interpretation. Tolkien's translation work is very good, he also did a fantastic version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
I would be pretty mad if I got named.... Sue.... How do you do?
Am I right that the hobbits also belong to the secondborn of Iluvatar, which makes them a type of men?
Pretty much, they are an offshoot of men, our "cousins" as Tolkien puts it.
Then did Eru “create” evil? Eru literally tells Morgoth that all his evil is just part of the song and its original theme and intent. This makes some Christian apologists for LOTR squirm.
One could do mental gymnastics, but it seems to me that if a deity created "everything" that includes the bad things. At the least, Tolkien gave it a purpose.