{"id":1065,"date":"2008-02-29T08:31:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T12:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/tolkien-trilogy\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T08:31:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T12:31:05","slug":"tolkien-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/29\/tolkien-trilogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So for like, ever, I&#8217;ve had these Lord of the Rings tapes in my house. I thought that the tapes were <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Lord_of_the_Rings\">The Lord of the Rings<\/a> trilogy in audiobook form. The tapes belong to my brother. <\/p>\n<p>Having never read the books (but seen the movies), I thought I&#8217;d like to read the books finally. I started listening to them last week and realized that they couldn&#8217;t possibly be the entire books on tape, because there are only four tapes per book. I&#8217;ve never read the books but I think they&#8217;re quite a bit longer. <\/p>\n<p>So it turns out that this series is a Mind&#8217;s Eye production of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_%281979_radio_series%29\">radio adaptation<\/a> of the books, produced for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/\">public radio<\/a> back in 1979. It reminds me of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_%28radio_series%29\">Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy radio production<\/a> from the BBC ages ago. It&#8217;s got a cast of characters each performing their different parts, with background effects and a bit of a soundtrack. It&#8217;s amazing there&#8217;s even an article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\">Wikipedia<\/a> about it, but I guess that shouldn&#8217;t surprise me, the intersection of two geeky worlds. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the serial is unbelievably hokey. I stopped after two tapes. Actually, the fidelity is so bad that I can&#8217;t hear the low sounds if I&#8217;m on the highway, so that didn&#8217;t help matters. But really not very entertaining to me. At least not from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sf-worlds.com\/lord-of-the-rings\/the-lord-of-the-rings-minds-eye-1979.html\">modern perspective<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It looks like the tape (and CD) version is still out there <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us%3AIE-SearchBox&#038;q=lord+of+the+rings+soundelux&#038;btnG=Search\">for sale<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/lotr.jpg' alt='LOTR Tapes' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So for like, ever, I&#8217;ve had these Lord of the Rings tapes in my house. I thought that the tapes were The Lord of the Rings trilogy in audiobook form. The tapes belong to my brother. Having never read the books (but seen the movies), I thought I&#8217;d like to read the books finally. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}