Tuesday, October 3, 2017

The Voice of Tolkien

He sounds like Gandalf. From Brain Pickings:
In the summer of 1952, sixty-year-old J.R.R. Tolkien (January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973) encountered a tape recorder for the first time, which resulted in some wonderful archival audio of the beloved author reading from The Hobbit. So enchanted was Tolkien with this novel technology that he proceeded to record himself reading much of his work over the years to come. (Read more.)
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