
J.R.R. Tolkien
A Life Inspired
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David Glass
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Wyatt North
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford. His research on Beowulf is still considered a standard in the field. Tolkien, however, unlike most Oxford dons, stepped out of his role as professor to create popular literature. Tolkien's best-known writings were The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, in which he created a fully realized world known as Middle-earth, vaguely identifiable as Northern Europe in a pre-history that never was. To bring his world to life, he produced detailed geography and cartography as well as a legendary background. He peopled the world with diverse types of inhabitants and created spoken and written languages for them. By doing this, he essentially created modern fantasy literature and a standard for subsequent writers to chase and miss. A British poll at the end of the 20th century named The Lord of the Rings the most important English-language work of that century. During his lifetime, Tolkien did not appreciate people focusing on him rather than on his writings. He felt that his writings were more worthy of attention. With apologies to the late gentleman, he is now due some notice.
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Would you try another book from Wyatt North and/or David Glass?
For the life of me, I cannot understand why the producers chose this narrator, and then stuck with him throughout production. Nasal, high pitched, using an odd rhythm and accenting all the wrong places in the flow of the story. Terrible reading. I have 400 some audio books and I'm never had to just abandon a book like this because of the narrator. How hard could it have been to get a good one? Or even a less bad one?Would you be willing to try another one of David Glass’s performances?
No, no, no, no, no. Don't understand how he got into the business.Was J.R.R. Tolkien worth the listening time?
No, because of the narration. I will read the book instead as I am a huge Tolkien fan.A great story marred by an awful narration
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Insight into a Genius Mind
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The narration was tolerable at 1.25
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Informational
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So interesting...
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I’ve been pronouncing “Tolkien” wrong all these years.
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but why are the last few chapters on Pope Francis?
it says Tolkien so I bought it. Not much to it.
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Good in formation......BUT.......
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It would have been better if the author put more perspective on Tolkien and his times. This work comes across as "just the facts" without much pointed out as to why the facts are of interest.
college level report on Tolkien
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