It’s Amazing! Granted I’m only like 110 pages into Fellowship but Tolkien is an amazing story teller. I read the Hobbit a while back and since I work from home (the one benefit of my company having Covid hysteria) I get to read a lot more.
I remember Peter Jackson saying he wanted to tell Tolkien’s story. It’s too bad modern day adaptations don’t have that respect for source material. Wheel of Time comes to mind. That showrunner is more concerned with lgbt representation than actually adapting the story. And I have no hope for the new show based on the Simarillion (which I’ll read after I finish the trilogy).
I wonder if there are good audio book versions available.
There are. I used to be big into audio books years and years ago. I listened to LOTR on audio book and it was pretty good. I just remember lots and lots of singing. This was SO long ago the release I listened to probably predated Audible and was probably ripped from CD or tape. So I'm sure they've probably redone multiple versions in every English speaking country in much higher quality since then. There are also the BBC radio shows which I've heard are good but I've never listened to them.
Thanks, I'll take a look around to see what I can find.