I bought and downloaded all 3 (three) BBC radio dramatizations of Lord of the Rings with Ian Holm as Frodo so I could listen to them at work but now
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It’s new (to me) LOTR material
I am not ready.
I am not feeling Gollum’s voice. Andy Serkis is a tough act to live up to but the narrator of the audiobook did a really good job too.
But Ian Holm as Frodo and Bill Nighy as Sam sound adorable so far.
DAVID COLLINGS AS LEGOLAS?????????? EXCUSE ME??????????????????
Yeah…I haven’t gotten to him yet. I’ll let you know how that goes. I’m having a really hard time wrapping my head around Robert Stephens as Aragorn? What.
I can’t recognize Bill Nighy’s voice at all. I’m trying to imagine his Sam voice coming out of Davey Jones’s mouth and it is just not happening. He’s the sweetest thing though.
Ian Holm sounds like himself. Like his Bilbo voice from the movies but a lot younger.
Idk, it’s easy for me to imagine Robert Stephens as Aragorn, but yeah, maybe his voice is a bit too sweet.
I wonder if Bill Nighy’s voice changed a lot. I mean, it’s hard enough to imagine him being younger than 50 anyway.
Also, I like the idea of John Le Mesurier playing Bilbo, he was very sweet in Dad’s Army.
Ian Holm is just a hobbit, that’s it
Robert Stephens is the villain in The Box of Delights adaptation done by the BBC which we watched every year as a kid (I highly recommend it!) so when I would listen to the BBC LotR when I was younger I just couldn’t trust Aragorn at all!
I haven’t listened to the whole thing since around the time of the movies. Imo Ian Holm is the best Frodo and probably the best there will ever be (though I really do like Elijah Wood as well) – the scene when they finally get to Mount Doom haunts me *to this day*. He’s just so good. I’m glad he got to do his little scary as fuck moment in the movies. The adaptation as a whole I’m not that fond of, mainly because the music is not to my taste *at all*, other than Sam’s little songs, which are lovely. The Bill Nighy (credited as “William” back then!) is a really great Sam. But I prefer the radio version of The Hobbit, probably because I listened to that much more as a child, so it’s “my” version. The music is better too! But also LotR is just a lot of work in audio form – I’ve never really been able to concentrate on audio books since my teens, and have only recently got the concentration to listen to podcasts, even.
Excuse me but Peter Woodthorpe’s Gollum is fucking great.
He hasn’t quite won me over yet sorry. That being sad I’m stupidly easy to win over so idk I’ll probably end up liking him more when I get to Two Towers. I’ll say this, the scene where he’s being tortured by Sauron is chilling as hell. I’m listening to it at work and I had to stop what I was doing, it was so unnerving to me.
I bought and downloaded all 3 (three) BBC radio dramatizations of Lord of the Rings with Ian Holm as Frodo so I could listen to them at work but now
Friends
Comrades
It’s new (to me) LOTR material
I am not ready.
I am not feeling Gollum’s voice. Andy Serkis is a tough act to live up to but the narrator of the audiobook did a really good job too.
But Ian Holm as Frodo and Bill Nighy as Sam sound adorable so far.
DAVID COLLINGS AS LEGOLAS?????????? EXCUSE ME??????????????????
Yeah…I haven’t gotten to him yet. I’ll let you know how that goes. I’m having a really hard time wrapping my head around Robert Stephens as Aragorn? What.
I can’t recognize Bill Nighy’s voice at all. I’m trying to imagine his Sam voice coming out of Davey Jones’s mouth and it is just not happening. He’s the sweetest thing though.
Ian Holm sounds like himself. Like his Bilbo voice from the movies but a lot younger.
Idk, it’s easy for me to imagine Robert Stephens as Aragorn, but yeah, maybe his voice is a bit too sweet.
I wonder if Bill Nighy’s voice changed a lot. I mean, it’s hard enough to imagine him being younger than 50 anyway.
Also, I like the idea of John Le Mesurier playing Bilbo, he was very sweet in Dad’s Army.
Ian Holm is just a hobbit, that’s it
Robert Stephens is the villain in The Box of Delights adaptation done by the BBC which we watched every year as a kid (I highly recommend it!) so when I would listen to the BBC LotR when I was younger I just couldn’t trust Aragorn at all!
I haven’t listened to the whole thing since around the time of the movies. Imo Ian Holm is the best Frodo and probably the best there will ever be (though I really do like Elijah Wood as well) – the scene when they finally get to Mount Doom haunts me *to this day*. He’s just so good. I’m glad he got to do his little scary as fuck moment in the movies. The adaptation as a whole I’m not that fond of, mainly because the music is not to my taste *at all*, other than Sam’s little songs, which are lovely. The Bill Nighy (credited as “William” back then!) is a really great Sam. But I prefer the radio version of The Hobbit, probably because I listened to that much more as a child, so it’s “my” version. The music is better too! But also LotR is just a lot of work in audio form – I’ve never really been able to concentrate on audio books since my teens, and have only recently got the concentration to listen to podcasts, even.
Robert Stephens is definitely growing on me as Strider.
If you’re not into the songs (and I don’t blame you – the story grinds to a halt whenever there is one) you probably wouldn’t like the unabridged audiobook I listened to. The poor narrator goes through every. Single. One. In their entirety and tbh he can’t sing that well and the melodies are all atonal and go on forever so I ended up skipping through most of them. Sam’s song about Gilgalad was awesome. Bill Nighy’s singing voice is so charming and the melody was nice, so I’d be up for more of that.
I am loving Ian Holm as Frodo. I had a massive crush on Elijah Wood as a kid so I wasn’t sure how I’d feel about it but he’s great. He and Bill Nighy manage to convey so much chemistry and care with just their voices it’s amazing. I love the scene with Farmer Maggot where Frodo doesn’t want to go because of their history and Sam tells him not to worry, he’ll keep Frodo safe and Frodo thanks him under his breath and seems genuinely comforted by it. It was so sweet.
I bought and downloaded all 3 (three) BBC radio dramatizations of Lord of the Rings with Ian Holm as Frodo so I could listen to them at work but now
Friends
Comrades
It’s new (to me) LOTR material
I am not ready.
I am not feeling Gollum’s voice. Andy Serkis is a tough act to live up to but the narrator of the audiobook did a really good job too.
But Ian Holm as Frodo and Bill Nighy as Sam sound adorable so far.
DAVID COLLINGS AS LEGOLAS?????????? EXCUSE ME??????????????????
Yeah…I haven’t gotten to him yet. I’ll let you know how that goes. I’m having a really hard time wrapping my head around Robert Stephens as Aragorn? What.
I can’t recognize Bill Nighy’s voice at all. I’m trying to imagine his Sam voice coming out of Davey Jones’s mouth and it is just not happening. He’s the sweetest thing though.
Ian Holm sounds like himself. Like his Bilbo voice from the movies but a lot younger.
Idk, it’s easy for me to imagine Robert Stephens as Aragorn, but yeah, maybe his voice is a bit too sweet.
I wonder if Bill Nighy’s voice changed a lot. I mean, it’s hard enough to imagine him being younger than 50 anyway.
Also, I like the idea of John Le Mesurier playing Bilbo, he was very sweet in Dad’s Army.
Ian Holm is just a hobbit, that’s it
It’s hard for me to imagine the guy from My Family and Galavant as the King imo Gondor but maybe he’ll disappear into the role like Bill Nighy is going. I can’t wait to see (hear?) what David Collings does with Legolas. I’m trying to imagine him the way Legolas looks in the movie with the hair and the image is kinda hilarious.
I bought and downloaded all 3 (three) BBC radio dramatizations of Lord of the Rings with Ian Holm as Frodo so I could listen to them at work but now
Friends
Comrades
It’s new (to me) LOTR material
I am not ready.
I am not feeling Gollum’s voice. Andy Serkis is a tough act to live up to but the narrator of the audiobook did a really good job too.
But Ian Holm as Frodo and Bill Nighy as Sam sound adorable so far.
DAVID COLLINGS AS LEGOLAS?????????? EXCUSE ME??????????????????
Yeah…I haven’t gotten to him yet. I’ll let you know how that goes. I’m having a really hard time wrapping my head around Robert Stephens as Aragorn? What.
I can’t recognize Bill Nighy’s voice at all. I’m trying to imagine his Sam voice coming out of Davey Jones’s mouth and it is just not happening. He’s the sweetest thing though.
Ian Holm sounds like himself. Like his Bilbo voice from the movies but a lot younger.
me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit
mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters
me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU
The Paradox Machine 