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This re-read was just as wonderful this time around.
January 2024
I absolutely love J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, and I also highly recommend the audio version narrated by Andy Serkis (who voices Gollum in the Peter Jackson movies).
The Hobbit is a book that I introduced to my kids when they were young. And one we enjoyed repeatedly as they grew up. It has shaped our love of fantasy and our family culture. It’s a story of adventure and self-discovery. As we have lived our own adventures, it’s a story that our family has returned to over and over, the ...more
I absolutely love J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, and I also highly recommend the audio version narrated by Andy Serkis (who voices Gollum in the Peter Jackson movies).
The Hobbit is a book that I introduced to my kids when they were young. And one we enjoyed repeatedly as they grew up. It has shaped our love of fantasy and our family culture. It’s a story of adventure and self-discovery. As we have lived our own adventures, it’s a story that our family has returned to over and over, the ...more
A better story-telling voice than LOTR. Ultimately, a better novel.
Rob Inglis Audiobooks's 2011:
I started these as a combination of reading another favorite series of Stephanie's and challenging myself to read one of the few series in my teens that I voted "too boring to continue" (in the middle of Two Towers), yet it is something so well known, considered canon/classic.
My favorite part of listening to this one:
Listening to Rob Inglis sing, and listening to Rob Inglis sing in every single type of race and kind of voice. I own that I would really listen to th ...more
I started these as a combination of reading another favorite series of Stephanie's and challenging myself to read one of the few series in my teens that I voted "too boring to continue" (in the middle of Two Towers), yet it is something so well known, considered canon/classic.
My favorite part of listening to this one:
Listening to Rob Inglis sing, and listening to Rob Inglis sing in every single type of race and kind of voice. I own that I would really listen to th ...more
As my first taste of Tolkien, I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought.
The key to Tolkien is similar to reading Milton - keep moving. If you can let yourself get lost in the story (and maybe skim a little when he's describing every blade of grass), you're in for a real treat. :) ...more
The key to Tolkien is similar to reading Milton - keep moving. If you can let yourself get lost in the story (and maybe skim a little when he's describing every blade of grass), you're in for a real treat. :) ...more
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