{"id":127486,"date":"2015-08-09T20:52:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T20:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/09\/tolkien-reading-the-hobbit.html"},"modified":"2015-08-09T20:52:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T20:52:49","slug":"tolkien-reading-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/09\/tolkien-reading-the-hobbit.html","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien reading "The Hobbit""},"content":{"rendered":"

Here's a 1952 reading by J R R Tolkien of Bilbo and Gollumn riddling each other in The Hobbit,<\/i> recorded by a friend with a portable tape recorder. It's sort of fascinating hearing the voices and rhythms Tolkien chose for his own creation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n
\n
\n<\/a>
\nTolkien Reads from The Hobbit in Rare Archival Audio from His First Encounter with a Tape Recorder<\/a><\/span>
\n“He was Gollum — as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes.”<\/p>\n

J.R.R. Tolkien (January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973) firm\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here's a 1952 reading by J R R Tolkien of Bilbo and Gollumn riddling each other in The Hobbit, recorded by a friend with a portable tape recorder. It's sort of fascinating hearing the voices and rhythms Tolkien chose for his own creation. Tolkien Reads from The Hobbit in Rare Archival Audio from His First … Continue reading “Tolkien reading "The Hobbit"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135958,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/20\/lovely-tolkienesque-maps.html","url_meta":{"origin":127486,"position":0},"title":"Lovely, Tolkienesque maps","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-Mar-18 9:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"This cartographer is doing maps of the UK's national parks in the style of Tolkien' maps in Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, etc. He'll also do custom work. A Cartographer Is Mapping All of the UK\u2019s National Parks, J.R.R. Tolkien-Style Yeah, we think parks are pretty magical, too.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tolkienesque-peak-district-map.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":135364,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/16\/now-getting-lord-rings-tv-series.html","url_meta":{"origin":127486,"position":1},"title":"Why are we now getting a “Lord of the Rings” TV series?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Nov-17 3:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because Christopher Tolkien, at 93, has retired from his role as the (very, very strict) gatekeeper of J R R Tolkien's literary estate. I'm torn on this, because Christopher has been notoriously restrictive of any use of his father's stories, to the point of their being choked off to just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/luthiel-and-beren.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":128437,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/25\/a-map-of-middle-earth-annotated-by-tolkien.html","url_meta":{"origin":127486,"position":2},"title":"A map of Middle-earth, annotated by Tolkien","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 25-Oct-15 9:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is very cool.(Word has it that Christopher Tolkien will be issuing a trilogy of atlases based on it.) Tolkien's annotated map of Middle-earth discovered inside copy of Lord of the Rings Map goes on sale in Oxford for \u00a360,000 after being found at Blackwell\u2019s Rare Books inside novel belonging\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132508,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/04\/hobbitses.html","url_meta":{"origin":127486,"position":3},"title":"Hobbitses","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Jan-17 10:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A lovely collection of illustrations from global editions of The Hobbit.One item of note: nobody drew Gollum looking anything like the twistd Hobbit-ish creature Tolkien described him as in Lord of the Rings. Vintage Illustrations for Tolkien\u2019s The Hobbit from Around the World A visual voyage there and back again.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12718,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/19\/fanboy_hates_lawsuits.html","url_meta":{"origin":127486,"position":4},"title":"Fanboy Hates Lawsuits","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 19-Feb-08 11:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"Hrm.\u00a0 The Tolkien Trust is suing New Line Cinema, claiming a 1969 contract gives them 7.5% of the gross of any Tolkien movies, and where's the extra $150MM that New...","rel":"","context":"In "Lord of the Rings \/ Hobbit"","block_context":{"text":"Lord of the Rings \/ Hobbit","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/lord-of-the-rings"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27699,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/in-a-university-in-the-uk-there-lived-a-don-who-wrote-about-hobbits.html","url_meta":{"origin":127486,"position":5},"title":"In a University in the UK, there lived a Don (who wrote about Hobbits)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-May-12 10:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Charming BBC show from 1968 interviewing J.R.R. Tolkien and discussing his Middle-Earth tales. Chit-chatting with Tolkien is a lot of fun (especially to hear him speaking Elvish and the Dark Tongue), but even moreso are the man-on-the-Oxford-street discussions about the works -- lots of Oxonian scholars nattering on about lit-crit,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}